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Aliventi
Southern Cross Empire Flying Dangerous
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Posted - 2014.07.09 07:06:00 -
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Allow LP to be bought, sold, traded, manipulated, scammed with, etc on the open market. LP is just another form of currency that instead of adding isk to the game it acts as an isk sink. People get hung up on the fact it is call "Loyalty Points." Like an NPC cares what you do with the points. It is a reward. If you choose to sell that reward for isk on the open market then you should have the option to.
Once this is implemented it will act as sorts of an NPC stock exchange. Hear a new NPC corp is going to get an LP store buff? Buy buy buy their LP! Hear Minmatar FW is going to go on a crushing offensive of Amarr FW? Better sell your Minmatar LP and buy the Amarr LP because one is about to be come a lot more common and the other a lot more rare. Think of all the great market PvP we will get. |
Aliventi
Southern Cross Empire Flying Dangerous
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Posted - 2014.07.09 20:00:00 -
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Nolak Ataru wrote:Well if you continually run L4s for Amarr, they're going to appreciate your efforts.
If Joe Ibis, some guy who runs L4s for Minmatar and is -10 with Amarr, comes along and you give him your LP, in a real world, the Amarr would probably stop giving you missions or, in an extreme instance, convict you of treason.
So no. Leave LP alone.
Jint Hikaru wrote:They are called Loyalty Points for a reason. The NPC Corp is rewarding the pilot for his/her 'Loyalty'. Simple as that.
Why would a corporation go tot he trouble of keeping records of your loyalty standing and offering specific items based on this, if you are going to sell them to a person who that Corp hates.
So, I say, No to this idea.
Corraidhin Farsaidh wrote:I siad no the last several times this came up and still say no for the usual reasons. It's loyalty reward from a corp to an individual. Not a loyalty reward to someone they never even heard of who happens to know someone they have. An LP market would be no different that me finding a buyer for the LP, buying the items they told me to buy, and contracting the items to them for isk. It would only make a transaction like that far simpler and less time consuming. No matter what the LP will end up in the hands of those that did not grind the LP. And it would be no different then them just buying the module off the market. If LP were actually a reward for "loyalty" anything you bought with LP would be account bound so only the person who earned the LP would ever benefit from it. So quit giving me BS RP reasons why LP is a reward for "loyalty" because those that benfit the most from the LP never ground out the LP to begin with. |
Aliventi
Southern Cross Empire Flying Dangerous
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Posted - 2014.07.09 21:18:00 -
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Grenn Putubi wrote: Doing it without having to travel to a station owned by the NPC corp would make it even more exploitable by having players never even have to travel to spend their LP, just transfer it to an LP bank alt you keep at an appropriate station Which is why I am a huge advocate of putting each type of LP on the market. It is taxed just like buying and selling an item is. (Woo! more isk sink!) The market will agree to the value of the LP. LP is susceptible to the same market forces as anything else. It will rise and fall as things change. If it falls too much you will likely see massive LP buys that turn into items that are again sold on market. If it rises too much then you will see an uptick in LP production. Free markets win again. |
Aliventi
Southern Cross Empire Flying Dangerous
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Posted - 2014.07.10 19:47:00 -
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I would love to see this happen. |
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