TheExtruder
Oberon Incorporated
Morsus Mihi
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Posted - 2011.10.29 03:12:00 -
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CCP Dropbear wrote:Cearain wrote:We would actually need some numbers to determine if this is the case. As far as I know we're still looking into gathering some numbers (meaning a request was filed with our awesome Research and Statistics crew, and I should follow it up!). The plan wasn't to look at LP though, but at the larger picture of overall mission and incursion completion rates. One goal behind Incursion was to get people out of their solo PvE mission runner mindset and into a group, dealing with more PvP-like scenarios (logistics, for one). Ideally, Incursions should compete with missions for income, mostly because they teach a player so much more than standalone missions ever can, and draw them into PvP much more effectively. Tl;dr moral of the story is that the popularity and consequent economic impact of Incursions, if they're at the same time really moving people out of missions, is probably ultimately a better system than missions as the sole and primary income stream.
Keep in mind also that most of us make tons of raw isk income, many of us dont even look into selling that concord LP, you only do it if you are really tight on money (which is not often when you do incursions regularly)
If you are going to nerf concord LP, which i think you should, then simply make the 'exchange rate' into other LP slightly lower, like 0.7 instead of the current 0.8 but please be gentle with nerfind incursions, it certainly is a fragile matter considering that there are many many people who fly poor ships and join poor fleets, those are the guys who need the most lovin... the rich get richer, thats how its always been, only thing you can do is make sure that the market economy stays balanced by simply nerfind the exchange rate from concord LP into other kinds of LP
Personally i am up to about 8 million concord LP which I never have bothered to sell yet, its a time consuming thing. And it bothers me a little to know that probably the most profit I can get from that concord LP is if buy/sell from the Concord LP store as opposed to other LP stores. concord LP is about 2k/LP-3.5k/LP, other LP stores can mostly give you 1k/LP... so converting my concord LP into other wouldnt be very profitable, in fact not nearly as profitable as selling concord stuff
Oh another important matter is that alot of mission runners who have bad standing with amarr, sadly cant even try out doing incursions because they didnt know that accepting certain missions wont let you fly into other races space, having occasional incursion spawns in minni or gallente space doesnt really help much for newcomers to invest in incursions or even try them (people like investing into careers more often than to simply try something out, because once they get bored doing something, they go after the next best career they find). You guys need to either change that 'standings thing' or inform people not to accept those missions unless they want to be blocked from flying into amarr space (which is like 99% of all space lol) |