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The PLEX Vault would make more sense to me in a wallet tab (next to shares maybe) than in inventory. Transporting it safely still runs against the grain though.

I would imagine it's more to do with having a cross character bay which all characters on an account can access (something btw players have been asking for years to have). If it removes the plex tanking of ships, I'm ok with it. It's a hilarious aspect of the game which we all like to point at laugh at, but really doesn't make or break anything in the game. Is plex safer now? sure. Does it impact anyone's gameplay though? not really.

why not plex 9000?

Glad the screenshots already show that adding a month of game time will cost 500 plex in one go instead of having to activate a plex for 1/500 of a month and then do this 500 times before ragequitting the game.

Btw, would be nice if it was possible to activate multiple months worth of account time in one go.

Idea is good, but 500 PLEX for 30 days is not very straightforward math-wise. You need to give a single unit of PLEX an equivalency in time that is easy to use. One hour of game time = 1 PLEX sounds like the best option.

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FYI: It would be extremely foolish of CCP to allow players to purchase game time in increments smaller than 30 days. It'd take about a week before the first out-of-game, API-backed application arises to monitor your subscription levels and only prompt you to use a PLEX for every hour and change of actual log-in time you need. I'd probably write the application myself.

Doing this would utterly devastate CCP's bottom line.

First post, woot! This is a fairly dramatic universe change, but I'm more concerned with how easily real-life policy decisions could effect in-game currency. My greatest concern being that now the number of PLEX for game-time is poised for easier fluctuation based on CCP's whims.

For current thinking it would be insane for 30 days of game time to suddenly cost 1.5 or 2 PLEX, and that's a hard change to bring about, but going from 500 to 550 "units of plex" for the same amount of game time may be easier to swallow. Remember, these are likely the same monetization folks who were involved in deciding that it was a good idea to sell Skill Extractors at 999 Aurum, but only sell Aurum in blocks of 900. The idea being that you need two buy two blocks of Aurum and could never fully use up the excess.

I love EVE and (most of) the community who play and develop in it, and while my desire is to be hopeful that this change is a positive one, my gut reaction is that this is a change directed toward CCP's bottom line and not for the betterment of the playing experience.

IMO the PLEX system is almost flawless as it stands today, the Aurum system (no disrespect to those who worked on it) is total garbage almost solely due to the Aurum exchange rate on items. It feels like you are trying to sweep a series of bad decisions (Aurum) under the rug at the expense of the PLEX mechanic, and would argue that, with such an intrinsic game element, whatever the result, good or bad, "as goes PLEX, so goes EVE".

TLDR; I love that it's like no biggie to evaporate anyone's Aurum who paid RL dollars on two blocks to have 800 Aur left over after buying a 1000 Aur Skill Extractor. #SecondDecadeCollectorsEdition60DayTimeCodeScrewed.

Interesting, every bit of market data hints more than strongly at a CSM leak prior to this devblog. It was already weird, yet now it's clear.