Morgan North
The Wild Bunch
Electus Matari
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Posted - 2011.12.10 09:26:00 -
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I think the only issue with NEX shop is the high costs, real-money wise for purely destroyable models.
I am, for instance, not abject to the notion of paying with NeX for costum paintjobs on ships. But they should be extremely cheap, and also available from LP stores (Also extremly cheap, since its just a costum paintjob). By doing this, you can actually keep a steady, albeit low, income via PpLEX, and leave the folks who get these via LP (every single carebear), freed of monetary obligations.
But even if the costum paint jobs were NeX exclusive, if they were unsurmountably cheap (Say a whole folder with 1 to 20 AURUM cost per skin), people would be activly inclined to buy these (Cheap mans they don't feel the loss), and once they got blown up, simply replace it. If you use a model that results in a 1 to 3 months PLEX expenditure in AURUM, you get more money overall, and people will hardly complain since its really "1 to 20 aurum, i can afford that, and if i can't, I can buy it off the market anyways".
Of course, in order to "buy it off the market" you'd have to buy a PLEX, convert it into AURUM, and go back to your NeX store for the shiny-guristas camouflage painjob for your phantasm. Either way, what this would produce would be a either income source (for money, since people would pay AURUM) or a ISK sink (for people who buy a PLEX with ISK), where you would essentially allow people to get whatever they wanted and fit it to their ships.
Further, if you allowed each single-starting player a very small amount of AURUM (say, 100 to 2000 AURUM), you could get them hooked on buying stupid paintjobs. Then they'd either grow up to see it as a waste of AURUM (But would buy it once they felt confident they weren't being blown up), or would stop altogheter (But then again, such low AURUM costs make it very worthwhile for that particular ship... Oh how i detest my turd-deimos.)
My view is that these things, if applied to easilly destroyable ships, should be cheap, and produce little to no feeling of loss. Costum paintjobs shouldn't trully be available to sell on the market (You can say that these are station-produced and lost once the shi is repackaged), but by using a very low AURUM costs for the associated skin, you always promote the idea of "its only 1 to 20 aurum... why not? Camouflage in space!"
If you had these availbe via LP, even at a high LP cost, you'd just see them on the market and allow people free isk-access if also purchaseable via NeX. So its either market only/LP only, or NeX only, low costs in my view. |