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A Soporific
Old Man Johnson's Bakery Delivery Service
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Posted - 2012.07.31 14:29:00 -
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At the end of the day Security Status is merely a measure of past activity. Do you do piracy over other parts of Eve? That's essentially all the number is. By providing an easy way out of it you render the number functionally meaningless. Given that it's a number with massive significance, rendering it arbitrary is a bad thing.
Now, I wouldn't mind having a method for moving up or down the scale faster with a significant investment of time, effort, resources, and cash. Still, if the concept "easy" applies then it'd still be inherently dangerous to the system as a whole. |
A Soporific
Old Man Johnson's Bakery Delivery Service
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Posted - 2012.07.31 21:41:00 -
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There is a difference between using isk to shortcut grind and breaking the mechanic altogether. There are plenty of high sec methods to get money that need to have a substantial penalty to keep in check. Security Status plays that role now. This would remove that role from Security Status and would call the function of Security Status into question altogether. It's SUPPOSED to be hard to change Security Status because it's SUPPOSED to be an aggregate of your long-term habits. Offering an easy out is a bad idea because it allows manipulation of that long term average to the point of meaninglessness.
I agree that most things should be buyable with ISK. There are some things that would not work that way. This is one of them. |
A Soporific
Old Man Johnson's Bakery Delivery Service
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Posted - 2012.08.08 13:46:00 -
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Money is only time if everyone is maximizing profit at all times. They aren't. Low sec doesn't profit maximize, and PVP features far too much risk and is far less consistant than required for profit maximization.
Bascially IF YOU GRIND then time and money is the same thing. But the saying "Time is money" simply points out that time is a necessary resource required for acquiring revenue and that time wasted is time that could have been spent making money.
The fact of the matter is that we are against not because we don't want more was to change security status. We just want the money to come from doing something specific to earn it, as opposed to being lootd from the cargoholds of ganked freighters. When you fund something that tells people "I'm not a pirate, honest" with piracy, then it defeats the purpose and nature of the thing. |
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