Player Features and Ideas Discussion

You keep repeating the same thing over and over again -" everyone knows it's bad and aimed to extort real money, but, I like it". If you weren't so stubborn you'd realize nobody else likes it, because it's so extremely bad. Either refine your idea or drop it. Repeating yourself won't help you. Don't act like like a moron, you like to label everyone around.

I also have to mention, that a very rough glance at the numbers looks like these ships might actually pay for themselves within a year or so, assuming an average of 4 hours mining per day. That would actually result in fairly large fleets of these things hanging around mining in high-sec.

Now, if these ships stayed in space when logged off, were forbidden from ever existing in a NPC corp, and could not drop corp to avoid war-decs, then I might actually find these amusing.

So the TL;DR is you want a titan?

Why not just allow users to buy gold stars that appear next to their name in local? What would they do? Nothing.

Well, the thing is, if you include the part were you quit after acquiring your titan, this already exists.

You can buy a titan, using Chribba as an intermediary to avoid getting scammed. Then you just jump to a marginally safe system with your cyno alt and log off.

Now you have your status symbol and as long as you don't log on again, you can keep it. Also since you were going to quit anyway, sacrificing that character on the altar of idiocy wouldn't bother you, right?

Problem solved, you can close the thread now.

Titans were 105 billion for the hull alone as of 6 months ago. Any titan without 6+ bill in modules on it doesn't deserve to live. And titan characters can run another 25+ billion.

Sure, it would be ungankable. But do you really think- You know what, this idea is just so bad I'm not going to explain it.

Again. Other MMOs (like the one with 20x more subscribers than EVE) are full of completely useless status symbols. The mining titan can at least mine. The missioning supercarrier can at least complete a mission faster than any subcap. They still don't worth their price due to their limitations (they can't jump out, so you can only mine local belts that will go empty fast or mission when you get one in your system). On the other hand a WoW mount that you have to grind for months give absolutely no benefit over the basic mount. Yet people farm it like crazy and then idle in crowded areas to show off.

Are they stupid? Yes they are. But they are clearly having fun, because they are grinding for their next mount. The only reason why mining titan owners would quit is that they have the most epic mount in EVE and can't upgrade. CCP could keep them even longer by giving them further upgrades, making their mining titan even more epic. Like for 100B worth of materials + old titan you get one in a different color and +5% mining yield, +10% EHP, +10% damage.

In case you're not trolling: such titan is aimed at people not interested in things like meta or nullsec, so there would be no rise to power. As Gevlon says, it's sole purpose is to milk them for real money before they quit. And please note, there are other players than null ones trashing the idea.

Does the WoW mount permanently gimp the character at PVP?
Does the WoW mount permanently gimp the character at PVE?
Does the WoW mount encumber movement?
Does the WoW mount prevent access to many basic game features for that character?
Does the WoW mount openly try to make people stop playing the game?
Does the WoW mount ever, at any point, prevent, hinder, or disable any part of any gameplay function?
Does the WoW mount bestow the immovable status of "idiot" among the player population at large?

Why are you comparing two wholly unrelated things?

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Because you don't understand people or the concept of fun, and ergo can't understand why the WoW mount is considered a fun thing to have, and can't see the difference between a vanity item (like, say, anything in the NeX store) and an openly, self admittedly, player hostile, anti-fun game mechanic. Other people don't live in your world where the only meaning to video games is making a pretend number of money get larger is the only aim - most people play to have fun. Mounts are just vanity items. No, anyone buying a vanity item isn't stupid.

Vanity items are already in EvE. Your idea is a thinly veiled attempt to get an ungankable ship into the game, so you can prance about and blog how "the Goons can't gank me!" even though we don't try, because feeding an attention whore is a net-loss in any scenario.

Obviously not, but still, many would feel like they are working for some powerful ship. These players would quit disappointed, but hey, he was warned that these ships are PvP incapable so it's just them being dumb.