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Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2012.05.09 20:08:00 -
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Regarding R&D agent changes to make sure I understand:
1. The RP/day rates for datacores that currently cost 50RP staying the same, effectively halving the amount that can be obtained in a given period of time.
2. RP for other types with different multipliers will end up the same due to their multipliers being removed
If those are correct, does this mean that RP for an x3 modifier datacore can be used to purchase 3(+10k isk/core) after the change for every 2 you would be able to purchase now? Or are the amounts of already accumulated RP going to be altered to account for this? |
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
132
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Posted - 2012.05.10 02:23:00 -
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Popsikle wrote:Rhaile Vhindiscar wrote:"You want to do research, fine? The best way is to go kill people." I can see how that would play out to a potential scientist. So, are you really telling industrialist to join fw or just creating an interdependence without any real justification?
Overhaul datacore mining some other way. Get datacores out of FW. It doesn't make sense fluff wise or mechanic wise. You just got done telling people you're not going to let them shoot npcs to build things (drone nerf)...then you tell them you are going to make them shoot npcs to build things (fw overhaul). All you did was change the position in the production chain.
Actually its more like: "You want to do research, fine but you will need to do experiments on the fringes of empire. The factions don't want explosions in safe space or anything. By the way the stations with the services you need come under attack regularly so you will need to learn how to fight and protect your work. Welcome to the fringes."
Your explanation makes sense if R&D wass just moved to lowsec, but not when you get rewarded with datacores for shooting people and have no prerequisite of learning about the field you are researching. |
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
132
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Posted - 2012.05.10 02:53:00 -
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Popsikle wrote:Tyberius Franklin wrote:Popsikle wrote:Rhaile Vhindiscar wrote:"You want to do research, fine? The best way is to go kill people." I can see how that would play out to a potential scientist. So, are you really telling industrialist to join fw or just creating an interdependence without any real justification?
Overhaul datacore mining some other way. Get datacores out of FW. It doesn't make sense fluff wise or mechanic wise. You just got done telling people you're not going to let them shoot npcs to build things (drone nerf)...then you tell them you are going to make them shoot npcs to build things (fw overhaul). All you did was change the position in the production chain.
Actually its more like: "You want to do research, fine but you will need to do experiments on the fringes of empire. The factions don't want explosions in safe space or anything. By the way the stations with the services you need come under attack regularly so you will need to learn how to fight and protect your work. Welcome to the fringes." Your explanation makes sense if R&D wass just moved to lowsec, but not when you get rewarded with datacores for shooting people and have no prerequisite of learning about the field you are researching. No, your misreading the blog (or I am). They are removing the multiplier for rp's. You will still be able to do research and get datacores, but you will also be able to get them as rewards in the LP store. So if datacores are your thing, your research agents are important, but so would be factional warfare because it controls the price and availability of datacores.
You didn't miss anything as far as the content, but missed the point of the post being that Rhaile doesn't think datacores should be tied to FW creating a "shoot people for science" mechanic. While true R&D as we know it is for the most part being maintained it doesn't change the fact that those with no relation to research skills or R&D corps/agents will soon be able to science with their guns. |
Tyberius Franklin
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
132
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Posted - 2012.05.10 03:49:00 -
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MotherMoon wrote:Liang Nuren wrote:I must be missing what the driver for conflict is? It seemed like rewarding the winning side so heavily simply ensures that the best profit will be had by having everyone join the same faction... what am I missing?
-Liang Your missing the datacores. If your whole teams LP rewards go down and the LP cost of LP goes up. then those datacores are going to spike in price. So joining the losing side will be stupidly profitable. Becuase each kill you get and LP reward you manage to find will be wroth more than the other sides datacores.
Being that I haven't played much in the markets I must ask, is it really expected that higher costs will lead to greater profits when demand remains the same? |
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