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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.27 13:33:00 -
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Please take a look at the goods available on Duality. We put some PLEX in the redeeming system to use to test the store and experience the goods.
The free clothing and accessories in the character creator are for choosing your character's default appearance. If you get podded, your new clone will awaken with this outfit. We don't intend to keep offering the full free clothing line each time you step into the character creator. Eventually you will see just the one free set and whatever clothing you have acquired.
One kind of thing that did not make it in to this test build is a re-skin of a current, common ship. It is not enhanced in any way except cosmetic.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.27 13:46:00 -
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Aurum can be handed to another player just like ISK.
Whichever free clothes you pick will be _your_ default set, Mynxee. We won't take away someone's chosen.
We have no problem with cross dressing, but it takes as much tuning work as making a new clothing item. The male and female bodies are different enough to create clipping issues and such. So we opted for more clothes but no cross dressing. Resource constraints.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.27 13:51:00 -
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 Originally by: GIGAR
Will it be possible to convert AUR into PLEX?
When I get out of this meeting I will get an artists to make a chart to show how it works.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.27 13:58:00 -
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Originally by: Ruby Khann
Will everything buyable with Aurum (that name... seriously?) be available at initial character creation, or will there be obvious "I paid RL money for this" items?
There is no overlap between those groups of goods. It will be visible and obvious what has been purchased or acquired - more so when public spaces are opened up.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.27 14:37:00 -
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Originally by: Ruby Khann
So you're putting content behind a paywall, exactly like you said you wouldn't do.
If there is something you want, you can buy it in the marketplace for ISK or in the store for Aurum. I don't think it is behind as much of a wall as you think. But this will make more sense once you see it.
The difference is that the seller in the store is an NPC but the seller in the marketplace is another character.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.27 15:59:00 -
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Originally by: Gogela
2 questions:
1) So if your cloths are lost when you are podded, is there any way to recover cloths from frozen bodies? ('do they drop' would be another way to ask that) There should be. I want to wear only the bloody rags of my victims.
2) If I install a stripper pole and stripper and a fish tank, are they waiting for me in my captains quarters in every station I dock, or just the one they were installed at?
 CCP?
The items in your cargo hold get treated all the same. That could drop and be looted by another player. Or they could be lost.
But if you are wearing them and the ship gets destroyed and you get podded, you will lose what you are wearing and there is no chance of looting. In other words, we are copying the experience of flying with implants. Also, jump clones may come in handy again.
We don't have the furnishings for captain's quarters yet. Let's save that for the future. It's its own full subject.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.27 16:03:00 -
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Originally by: MotherMoon
Edited by: MotherMoon on 27/05/2011 15:45:28
Originally by: CCP GingerDude
Originally by: Versuvius Marii
I'd say why not just make these items buyable with isk, but we all know you're pushing people to spend RL isk on PLEX. And thus, microtransactions finally make it to Eve.
You'll be able to buy these items on the regular market with ISK, provided someone is willing to sell it to you.
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sigh ok please for the love of god reply to what I am going to ask.
I take isk, and convert it to plex. I convert plex to Atrum*whatever it's called*
Now I buy a jacket for 10 Atrum which is equal to about 200,000 isk
Now I go to the market and I try to sell it for say... 300,000 isk
why would anyone buy it when they could buy it from your store for 200,000 isk?
maybe I'm missing some little genius design plan here...
Not every player values ISK the same. Some are rich. Some are working hard each week to earn enough to pay for their accounts. Some are buying PLEX to fund their ISK needs.
If you offer folks something for X Aurum or Y ISK, you will get folks who find each attractive.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.27 16:44:00 -
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Originally by: Razin
Will the custom paint job be listed in the killmail?
In effect, we trade your original ship for a new one. Yes, it is functionally identical, but it will have a new name, new descriptive text, a new item ID, a new market ID, and a new appearance.
So, yes.
And if you go to sell it in the marketplace, it will show up in the system under a different listing.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.27 16:47:00 -
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Originally by: Liu Ellens
That's nice and all - But I've got a more pressing topic to be covered:
How do you pronounce that? Espececially the short form? Can you say it like a word or are letters needed (ay-you-arr)?
"or um"
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.27 18:13:00 -
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Originally by: Ruby Khann
Asking both these questions again, hoping for a reply.
1. When I created my character I chose an outfit. Will I always have instant access to this outfit wherever I go? Will I lose it when podded and have to shell out gold for it?
Always available. No cost for the free one.
Originally by: Ruby Khann
2. Does the new "vision" for waking up in a fresh medical clone increase the time it takes to get back out into space?
I don't believe so but I'm not working on that team and can't speak to that one.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.27 18:17:00 -
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Originally by: Mynxee
Originally by: CCP Zinfandel
Also, jump clones may come in handy again
 They're pretty handy right now. Like...in null sec for fast moving around. Or for having a variety of implant setups for different ships.
Yeah, I said that wrong.
Also, we are actively discussing elements of this thread to see where we need to tweak things. But some of this feedback will be even more valuable once folks have had a chance to experience it on Duality in person.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.28 13:29:00 -
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Originally by: Miilla
Edited by: Miilla on 28/05/2011 12:39:26
So, we can undock with not only PLEX but AURUM in our cargo to be ganked?
No. There is no physical object for Aurum. It's like ISK. It's just a number in a wallet.
Originally by: Miilla
So not all station stores have the same items? Hence the need to move AURUM / PLEX about?
As of today, all stores have the same goods in stock. That may change some day but there is no plan for that at the moment.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.28 13:33:00 -
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Originally by: Terh Rumnatarn
Originally by: Ruby Khann
So you're putting content behind a paywall, exactly like you said you wouldn't do.
This. Sad
It's also completely false.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.28 14:33:00 -
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Originally by: HyperZerg
Originally by: CCP Zinfandel
Originally by: Terh Rumnatarn
Originally by: Ruby Khann
So you're putting content behind a paywall, exactly like you said you wouldn't do.
This. Sad
It's also completely false.
What is false ?
That you put stuff behind a paywall?
That you never said it?
Or that it isn't sad ?
EvE became great that you DON'T have to pay for expansions and new stuff all the time. Now you get greedy and risk the game. Sure you can do it, it's your game. If you tell us it's not about the money you can seed it for ISK or let us build the cloth. Else, it's just a lie.
Btw, I'll go from 3 to 2 accounts to get the "money" for the new features you provides us with.
Let me use an example. CCP released a new ship BPO not that long ago: the Noctis. You needed in game money to participate. You could get that in game money from either buying a PLEX or earning money in game. It would be unfair to describe this as releasing new content behind a pay wall.
If CCP releases pair of leather boots, and you need in game money to participate, you could get that in game money from either buying a PLEX or earning money in game. I believe it is likewise unfair to describe this as releasing new content behind a pay wall.
But please check it out on Duality and let me know if I'm describing this unfairly. The marketplace is not filled with goods for sale on the test servers like it will be on live server, but it should still give you a decent idea how it would work.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.28 14:55:00 -
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Originally by: Dawnmist
CCP should focus their "control" to amount of ISK in game instead and introduce whole new range of npc taxes, fees and other sinks. Bounty system and insurance should be both taken down and transferred to player corp driven business models.
This would reduce the speed of "new is generation" and help keeping the inflation down.
This new "shop" is PLEX sink and some kind of ISK sink in one combined pagage. The downside is that most likely more and more isk is still generated to game and only real effect what we will see is plex prices rocketing to whole new level. You can't build them in factories.
What comes to these visual accessories... It would really be better that players could buy AUR only with real world cash. This would actually be better isk sink and introduce new floating price bridge between AUR and PLEX as long accessories can still be sold with ISK inside the game market.
Please think it over... there is still time to change it.
-dawn
I think I know what you are worried about and you might be right and we might have to do what you describe. Your concerns are valid and reasonable.
I can't remember Dr. Eyjo's dev name but his team is watching carefully. If he says we are threatening the EVE economy, we will stop everything and make adjustments.
ISK faucets and sinks, PLEX faucets and sinks are a constant source of discussion here - including weekends and middle-of-the-night email threads. We want to move carefully at all times.
While mentioning PLEX faucets: we are not happy with current PLEX purchase experience and are making adjustments to this also. It should be considerably better soon.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.28 15:11:00 -
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Originally by: Morphisat
Originally by: CCP Zinfandel
Let me use an example. CCP released a new ship BPO not that long ago: the Noctis. You needed in game money to participate. You could get that in game money from either buying a PLEX or earning money in game. It would be unfair to describe this as releasing new content behind a pay wall.
If CCP releases pair of leather boots, and you need in game money to participate, you could get that in game money from either buying a PLEX or earning money in game. I believe it is likewise unfair to describe this as releasing new content behind a pay wall.
You sir don't even understand your own game. Someone somewhere had to pay real cash to get said leather boots. The Noctis bpo on the other hand is an in game item 
This is true. But there is another nuance at work here. We aren't just starting this whole thing today. Rather, there are large piles of PLEX and ISK already in the game. The "pay real cash" part you are describing happened long ago.
Yes, people continue to buy more but that is generally either by people who prefer to manage their subscription payments that way or people who prefer to get in-game currency this way.
We would like to offer some items for sale to tempt some of those sitting on piles of cash to spend them.
And the concern that PLEX prices will rise, affecting everyone's ability to use PLEX for subscription time is a known, valid concern. We are actively monitoring this. I'm not allowed to talk about any of the steps we are taking there. I do not want to see PLEX prices rise.
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CCP Zinfandel
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Posted - 2011.05.28 15:41:00 -
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Hey Miilla,
We need to do development work on the character creator in order to be able to offer the bloodline respec service you want. We'd been hoping to offer something and the only things preventing us right now are technical issues. I'm very much with you on this. But I think I'm straying a little off topic here.
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