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Kyros Emerson
Amarr Roving Guns Inc. RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2011.05.27 20:38:00 -
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Edited by: Kyros Emerson on 27/05/2011 20:54:57 Edited by: Kyros Emerson on 27/05/2011 20:39:42 http://www.eveonline.com/devblog.asp?a=blog&bid=913
Ok... Why not skip the whole PLEX stage and allow us to directly convert set amounts of our ISK into Aurums per month? Dont remove it, because some people Will want to take that shortcut, but this way the plex market wont get blown out of proportion because you wont have to Buy Plex in order to get a poster of the Avatar you blew up last month on your captains quarters wall. Or Spandex to hug your perfectly sculpted toned and tanned calf muscles. A lot of new players will want this customizability but PLEX are #@%#ing expencive for a newbie.
Make the conversion skill based, idk Training Currency Conversion Level 1, Rank 1 under Trade, not trainable on trial accounts, allows you to get a 1% yield of Isk to Aurums conversion, Total of 5% at level 5. So when you convert 10 million isk you get 500,000 Aurums at level 5. Enough to have your corp logo sewn on your breast pocket or ironed onto your bare skin because you dont have enough Aurums to buy a uniform perhaps.
Then add a skill that bumps up the total amount of isk you can convert per month. Bulk Currency Conversion level 1, Rank 2, under Currency Conversion. Level 1 allows 50 million isk per month to be converted into Aurums, up to a total of 250million isk per month at level 5 (25 million Aurums). Enough to add that Discoball and mood lighting, A picture of your favorite goat and Cowboy boots with chrome spurs, and a Pirate flag yo ho ho and a bottle o' rum.
ALSO: PLEX = [PILOT LICENSE EXTENSION], NOT PLEXAITAC, [PILOT LICENSE EXTENSION AND ISK TO AURUM CONVERTER] Make them purchasable out of game but as a seperate item with a seperate purpose. Remember how they threw POS into the sovereignty mechanic even though that was not what they were designed for? Kyro out
Edit: You may also find that if the PLEX market becomes inflated, then you may be in danger of loosing those pilots who rely on purchasing PLEX with isk for their game time, due to real world inflation.
Edit: OR perhaps you want to get paid for your labor to create these 'unique' items. Allow us to buy standard items with our isk, such as corp logo iron-ons, and use the new currency purely for the unique items. Do Not Use PLEX for this. Just create the ability to directly purchase the Aurums with real money in varying quantities. For inspiration, look to the way World Of Tanks runs its Premium account mechanic. That is hugely successful. You pay cold hard cash for a second ingame currency called GOLD, and you can choose what amounts you want to buy. That gold is then used to purchase special ingame items that you cannot buy with the regular SILVER currency.
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Marchocias
Snatch Victory
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Posted - 2011.05.27 20:45:00 -
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CCP want the Aurums to be bought, because someone has to pay for the vanity items to be created. ---- I belong to Silent Ninja (Hopefully that should cover it). |
Kyros Emerson
Amarr Roving Guns Inc. RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2011.05.27 20:47:00 -
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Originally by: Kyros Emerson
Make them purchasable out of game but as a seperate item with a seperate purpose.
*Cough*
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Yanshee
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Posted - 2011.05.28 03:36:00 -
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You are seemingly missing the point that higher PLEX prices in game are better for CCP...
Yes, it's bad for those play to pay types, such as myself, but what makes you think they give a damn (or have even thought through the economics...)?
PLEX price rises:
1) More people are tempted to buy GTC to convert to PLEX and sell for ISK cos now you get 400-500mil... 2) Fewer people are able to support a play to pay subscription so opt for the odd GTC (or return to DD) to ease the terrible grinding...
If it so happens that demand for PLEX withers too much then the price will drop and the whole cycle starts again.
Costly PLEX is GOOD FOR CCP and the people who are bothered about the rise DON'T PAY CCP FOR THE GAME.
Why should they listen to us?
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Zombie Jeebus
Amarr Alt Holdings llc
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Posted - 2011.05.28 04:16:00 -
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Edited by: Zombie Jeebus on 28/05/2011 04:17:43 Since your post seems to revolve around the perceived issue of not wanting to buy plex to be able to buy the new goodies, perhaps you should read the dev blog a bit closer...
Quote: Where can I get some Aurum? Aurum is created by breaking up a PLEX. Each PLEX gives you a bunch of Aurum that you can spend in the virtual goods store. If you don't want to spend Aurum on these vanity items, you can always wait for someone else to do so and then buy it off them for ISK. Oh yeah, I should have probably mentioned that earlier. Items bought in the virtual goods store will be transferrable between characters, just like PLEX is today.
The items will be resold on the market for normal isk. This eliminates the need Aurum unless you just absolutely can't find what you want for sale yet.
This is not the alt you are looking for. |
Ardamalis
Caldari Deep Core Mining Inc.
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Posted - 2011.05.28 07:01:00 -
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You could just buy Aurum from another player directly with your isk you know. |
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