EVE General Discussion

So incursion runners have, on average, 7 alt accounts?
Wow.

I don't know what this thread is about, but trying to understand it makes me itch and I think I can smell colors now.

For one, employees cost more than just their paycheck, so $7k a month doesn't sound particularly odd. It might even be a bit too low. Hell, I cost my employer more than that, and I'm not extremely well paid.

For another, do the maths: ~350k accounts support ~500 employees → 700 accounts per employee (and your error on the subscription income can be countered by them having other sources of cash).

Want to cost one of them their job? Close 700 accounts. Want to do it with 100 incursion runners? Each needs 7 accounts. Oh, and no, you can't switch off any features.

What value has been lost?

To spell it out. Eve is payed by subscriptions. So what ever feature they develop serves (commercial side) to attract (or keep) subscriptions. Incursions have been (by own account) a successful feature, adding subscriptions to the game.

High sector incursions only available 20% of the time, means people mainly doing them are less likely to buy extra game time. So this feature lost value.

Ps. your 700 account per employer number is basically valid, assumed they distribute it evenly and not keep some more for the management (heard of people doing that). Than assuming that they only get 1000$ per person was an insult (guess you didn't get it, but since we are spelling it out here)

All highsec incursions are being run by 1 person

…and you get that number from where? Oh, and as long as the people keep playing (and they will), no value in your model is lost. Since there is no real reason for them to quit, they won't. If they quit just because they're running into competition, then they would have quit at some point anyway, so they didn't really add anything to begin with.
So basically, you were just spouting inane nonsense. Well, that much was clear.

My sincerest thanks to all those involved in causing players like OPer to leave EVE and give me hope that there's still a bit of Sandbox left in EVE. Thank you!

You were playing a game ill-suited to your gentle temperament. Give my warm regards to your fellow gamers in SW:TOR.

Dont be such a gimp. No one is 'turning off' features, some PLAYERS are merely completing incursions the way they are meant to be completed.

You dont see a bunch of gimps demanding ccp stop letting players 'turn off' their sovereignty features by exploding their stuff do you?

The problem here isnt that players are exploding the supercarriers at the end of incursions (as intended) the problem is that the feature is being manipulated by other players so it keeps feeding isk (not intended) and then bleating like children when someone else stops them from doing so using totally legitimate tactics and mechanics.