KBLUEJACK54
Mercurialis Inc.
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2014.07.30 14:30:00 -
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Been a few days now since Crius appeared, aptly named to some maybe but over all seem to have gone in smoothly just like CCP planned it would, some would say well what did you expect, most sneaky knife attacks have that result, others are over joyed with the over sized blingy busy and easy to miss stuff industry UI all of which could have been served equally well buy adding a simple mouse over to the original screen containing all the bling information you need to build stuff in EVE, but what do I know I am just the end user, my view is they should take away that guys crayons and put him to work on something useful, like emptying the bins.
However I digress slightly, only slightly though, My biggest gripe on this one is the way they have introduced this Refine thing and it seems to be the one that I hear the most about from my members currently, who by the way are currently sitting on there ore's wondering what direction to take next as although the figures in general match up to Pre Crius, the perception is that now they can actually see the amounts CCP is carving off the top, and they are not insignificant, they are in some way not getting the full value for there 'Time' invested in mining ore.
I guess a round up of last nights conversation might go some way to explaining this point of view, long standing member who mines for Corp in the main and puts in a lot of time doing it, strolled into station for the first time and having right clicked his pile of Veld was shocked to realise that out of the amount he was trying to refine he was in fact loosing a total of 93 million units of Trit outright and off the top, naturally the convo's started to flow on this one.
His perception was that having accrued a pile of Veld he would have expected 415 units of trit per unit of veld but in reality he was actually being offered 318, an off the top loss of 97 trit per unit of veld which he felt was unacceptable for two reasons.
First off CCP did not make it clear that they were now going to include the actual ore skill, not the refining skills here, in the refine calculation so he was loosing 2% there having all his toons including his refine toon to lvl 4 on all ore's.
And secondly that having invested in the 4% refine implant he could clearly see that the station he normally refined in was going to give him a maximum refine percentage of 74% and even if he trained his refine toon to max on all skills this in his view was not going to change significantly and his looses were unacceptable.
Now this guy is no dummy, he is industry to the core and has been for years, but this gave him the idea in his mind that out of each nine hours mining he had in fact mined for three hours for utterly nothing, not the actually figures here but the perception that having put in all that time CCP was now screwing him over.
Well after over two hours discussion covering all the figures currently in force sadly that perception still remained in his mind and I see today he has sold off his fleet and dropped his corp roles on his toons ready I assume to leave Corp followed shortly afterwards by leaving EVE which after eight years playing is a sad testament to CCP's handling of this issue.
My view, To much to fast and badly implemented leaving players confused and upset with the perception that they have no real worth for the time invested and have lost a lot in this process, Way to go Dev's you really pulled a number on this guy for sure.
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