Anshio Tamark
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Posted - 2011.11.20 10:15:00 -
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Terminal Insanity wrote:- Interactive Channels for CQ, pay isk for cool channels like live batttle feeds, or access to external station cameras
- Advertising Fees - Allow Corps or alliances to post ads on the CQ Screens, and Billboards. Regional / Constellation / System transmission fees depending on local bids for air time. Not just recruit ads, but sell/buy ads, Mercenary Requests, etc. Basically whatever they desire.
- Larger tax for Jump Cloning, and Jump Clone Installation. 100k is nothing. And we're currently charged 0 isk for jumping. Shouldnt we need to pay Usage Based Billing bandwidth fees depending on our level training?
- Agent Introduction Fees (Pay your current agent to introduce you to one of her limited contacts, would make agent system interesting too)
- Insurance - Remove it entirely
- Concord Fees - You pay your monthly concord protection fee, at your protection level, depending on the response time / alpha / ecm options you like... If you want concord. Newbs get free concord protection up to certain SP level.
- Spy Agents - Beef up agent's ability to track people, to also find out their privately held certificates, Recent Transactions (some limits maybe), Implants or Boosters, all additional information costing more then the basic location info.
- Gate Usage Fees - Fees depending on concord /Security oft he system. nullsec set by sov holder up to a maximum limit
- Portrait Re-customization Fees - charge us isk for re-customization/update of our portrait.
- Dock Fees as Standard - Make docking fees standard, not just an optional SOV thing.
- Map Features as Optional - Make the various Star Map stats a subscription based service, so we need to subscribe to Sov Package to get updates about sov changes, or subscribe to Statistics Package to get intel about cynos and number of jumps. This of course would require the Star Map to become more integrated and easier to take advantage of
What I see is a bunch of ways to make sure new players don't want to pay for a full account. I can accept a couple of them, but that's it. Gates should be free to use. Docking should be free as it is right now (don't know, nor want to bother with learning about SOV, as I don't plan on ever going there anyway).
Now, for the couple of them that I can actually accept, player-posted CQ-ads would be cool, if nothing else, just a fancy way for players to advertise with whatever they want.
I can also agree that Clone Jumping should cost a bit of ISK, not necessarily 10mil each time you jump, but a 100k ISK would still be a reasonable fee. There's no way they'd let us use such a service for free in real life anyway, so why should it be free in EVE? The Jump Clone maintenance-crew also needs food... And on that note, perhaps increasing the fee for installing a Jump Clone a bit for every Jump Clone you have would make sense too.
As for Portrait Re-customization, make it cost ISK. Seriously. Make sure it's not cheap or free. Right now, anyone can do it without even having a reason. I don't think you can just go get free plastic surgery at your local hospital without having a proper reason at all. Make it cost something.
All in all, you have a couple of good suggestions, and a couple of suggestions that are just horrible. If Docking suddenly costs ISK, what do you do when you run have no ISK and are in a ship with no weapons? Same goes for the gates. |