EVE General Discussion

Isn't this a little, oooh....Last summer, OP?

No-one's forcing you to click that travesty that NEx button in station-services, now are they.

Well, you can buy aur w/o a plex now, but it still is direct cash injection into CCP (completely bypassing the game).



Indeed, Isk is ingame and has to have existed ingame for someone to offer it for your plex. What one could argue about, is that you still influence the distribution of Isk ingame by out-of-game means using legal RMT. However, it's the only thing that can more or less curb the illegal RMT's. Plus, the average income of CCP is still the same with PLEX as it would've been without, provided, of course, people would still have paid for as many accounts as they do now.



Once they are created in game, they exist there just like PLEX - they can be given, traded, destroyed (unless you are wearing them), and they influence the cash flow exactly the same way the PLEX does. AUR is not really in the game, you see, as it cannot be traded, as far as I know, so it's just an intermediate *something* between RL cash (or a PLEX) and a certain item that can exist ingame. It has a price, which is fixed, when you compare it to RL cash, just like PLEX does, although you can get it through PLEX at market price. Still, in that case PLEX is removed, but no Isk is added or removed from the game. It just changes hands. Once the item is inside Tranquility, it affects the way some character looks, and nothing else, hence, 'vanity'. One could say that trading PLEX has more consequence, as it gives someone else some more game time, while trading a peice of virtual cloth gives nothing.



So how are NEX clothes different? They come into game just like PLEX does. They have some certain Isk value attached to them. They can be traded, moved, destroyed. They cannot be sold back to CCP for Isk, just to other players who may or may not buy them. Plus, for all one cares, they have no impact whatsoever on the overheated MWD speed of someone's Cynabal.

EDIT: As far as good or goblin goes, imo, I couldn't care less about that NEX stuff as long as it is just vanity. In fact, helped me play the market a bit during that major screwup with Ishukones :)

But the real thing that troubles me is that they said 'no' to Incarna. Not because I am absolutely in for it, but because it showed they can abandon something they were working on for a long long time. Let's hope they don't decide to do it to EvE some day.

In fact, flame me as much as you like, I think CCP should forget about new ships (well, maybe a couple new T2 dessies with different roles are ok), and go work on rebalancing what we have, and not like 'getting to BC's sometime next year perhaps'. Get rid of 'neutral rep' mechanic, for crying out loud, and do something with OGB's - maybe even add station modules that give OGB's, but not perfect ones, and if you wanted better ones, you must keep a booster outside the field, something in that style.

In the mean time, programmers and artists can go about their own business doing whatever they need to get WiS rolling, because the most screaming issues about FiS are either about imbalance (no need for programmers or artists there), or about lag, and it takes network or server programming, and there is already a great team doing that. Until then, all this avatar business does feel like a fifth leg on a camel, and not even a healthy one.

Although, this paragraph will probably get considered a 'troll', but why do I care...

Since the OP has no content I'm going to lock it. Please post responsibly in future - ISD Type40.