Maduin Shi
Breakwater Testing Inc
Aegis Requiem
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Posted - 2014.05.02 18:47:00 -
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Fozzie, why don't you just come out and say y'all at CCP want POS owners and cap ship pilots to fuel their activities with PLEX? I mean lets just cut to the meat here with isotope consumption. Lets just charge a fraction of a PLEX to run a tower or a jump capable ship. Because its already heading in that direction with all the industry costs going up and POS usage going UP (w/ no standings requirements, bonused mfg and research arrays, and better refining arrays than NPC stations) after the summer patch.
POS usage is NOT gonna go down, imo. Every corp is gonna be running a large hisec dickstar POS out in the sticks to do all their industry/research/copying/refining on the cheap and spread the fuel costs across all these activities. There's way more small corps out there that are gonna put up a POS after the patch - it will far outweigh the drop in research POS's. Plus there's considerably more prime real-estate opening up for anchoring.
I can't believe you're gonna put in this dramatic increase to isotope consumption without waiting to see how the market adjusts to the summer patch, based on forward-looking speculation that is complete derp guesswork at this point since there are so many changes, literally nobody knows how the player base will react. But I can tell you, most folks aren't buying the line that its to offset a drop in POS usage after the patch. So what is this about really? I see all the costs going up for all industry and reprocessing, and the nerf to ice spawns and the dramatic rise in POS fuel costs that resulted. I saw the stealth nerf to mining yields with the most heavily used barges (retriever/macks) taking a yield hit, and the other barges getting token buffs that don't come close to offsetting. Now this. I mean, JF's and Rorq haulers are getting totally *****d on. You literally cannot justify the ISK vs. risk equation of living in low or null without being able to jump freight your goods at reasonable cost.
So what's the end goal to all this, just come out with it. Is it to make the gameplay so expensive that we have to buy PLEX to maintain current lifestyles? I mean why is it that all the really big, far reaching changes lately have been resulting in massive cost-of-living increases? WTF is up with that?
You're gonna have to at least exclude JF's and Rorqs to placate the masses. Bare minimum. |