Originally by: Kristina Vanszar

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Need some winning price sponsors, who is interrested.

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Originally by: MarcusVorenius via TWITTER

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New #eveonline capsuleer initiative: 'MONOCLEGEDDON' http://bit.ly/iuCbqz | #tweetfleet #dust514 #wod

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Originally by: MarcusVorenius via TWITTER

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@Chribba Show Niko your ISK - New #eveonline capsuleer initiative: 'MONOCLEGEDDON' http://bit.ly/iuCbqz | #tweetfleet

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Originally by: Bad Messenger

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Originally by: Saint Lazarus

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Originally by: Bad Messenger

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Do you know also why people are rioting?

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They're idiots?

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Sort of yes. But main reason is that they believe illegal RMT guys propaganda. Those guys want that NeX store will go away so PLEX price stays low, and they can make more $ by selling isk illegal ways.

All those leaks and false news are funded by illegal isk sellers.

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Originally by: Bad Messenger

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Why are you mad? Are you selling isk?

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Originally by: Mobius Reynolds

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Edited by: Mobius Reynolds on 27/06/2011 18:36:03
Some people want to add vanity customizations to their characters. This has been proven time and time again in various other games...(most notably with hats...). The point of a sandbox game is to play the way you want to. Also...hope people have read this already:

Originally by: CCP Zinfandel

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For those who missed it before, let's go back over this in better detail. The detail is interesting for many.

Team Stonehenge is making the store (Noble Exchange) and is making it in stages. It's fairly simple and straightforward at present but will be getting more sophisticated over time. Right now it can only sell one kind of thing at a time (no bundles) and can only accept one payment at a time (Aurum.)

It can't do trade-in's.
It can't do BPCs.
It can't sell anything that requires a user interface to use.
It can't highlight an item on sale (they will look like the non sale items.)
It can't sort/filter and only show you one kind of item.
But it will get better.

Other folks are making cool ship art. Other folks are making clothing, etc. One of the cool ships was the Ishukone Watch Scorpion battleship which we brought to the CSM. They got to see a little better view of it than just a screen shot posted in a video broadcast and they thought it looked pretty cool. One of them will likely chime in about it or you'll see it in their meeting minutes which I know they are working on.

So I presented our dilemma to them.
EVE players need to be in control of the EVE economy as much as possible. That's not just a marketing claim, that's what we really believe.

And if we sell a battleship in a store, that transgresses this important principle.

"Shall I hold this until the store properly supports BPCs or a Scorpion trade-in? Or shall I start selling it now for 3-4 months and then change how we sell it later?"

The CSM had one big question:
-Is there any difference between the Ishukone Watch Scorpions sold whole and the ones sold in trade in?
(The answer is no.)

They said yes, you want players in control. You want players buying Scorpions from industrialist players. Absolutely. But in this case this is not likely to hurt the EVE economy because initially people will only buy these ships as a collectible and for fun. This will not affect their purchase of Scorpions for actual fleet warfare. They will still buy as many Scorps - this would just be on extra out of their bling money.

So they recommended we go ahead and begin our learning curve and get the fun ship into circulation.

Now, behind the scenes, we will be monitoring to make sure that Scorpion sales don't crash and that the economy does not suffer. If it does, we can turn off the availability of the ship in minutes. We'll just point out that the Ishukone Watch only made a limited number of ships to sell to capsuleers and that supply has now run out.

If we need to go even slower, we can and will.

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