ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
Snuffed Out
8598
   |
Posted - 2015.09.07 19:20:34 -
[1] - Quote
Jessica Pixel wrote:I just found out that I have to pay 30 bucks to train an alt character per month? I pay 20 bucks a month just to play this game and now i have to pay 20 more to play a second and 3 slot. I have never in all my time of paying MMOs seen such greed by the developers.
Show me another MMO which...
- allows you to train / gain skillpoints when you are not playing with that character.
- allows you to train / gain skillpoints on multiple characters at the same time.
Jessica Pixel wrote:When I purchased an account i saw three slot with four fractions and I figure great i can try out the different factions but with out being able to train skill on alts it kills the game for me. I see charging people to pay more to play an alt as a scam. I would like to hear reason in this.
1. Playing as a different faction's character doesn't really affect much beyond...
--- the style / appearance of a character
--- where you start
--- you starting skills
Any character can train up any skills, use any ships / weapons (once those skills have been trained), and can fly anywhere in the game (provided your standings are either neutral or "good"... which they start out as for all characters) without suffering any penalty or losing out on "race specific" bonuses.
2. Because only limited number of skills are needed to perform certain activities (e.g. harvesting, building, hauling, "playing" on the market) many people like to briefly train up "alt characters" for mundane activities that require them to do or go places they don't want their "main character" to do or go.
For example: I have three characters on this account.
- Fluffers here is my main and is more or less constantly training.
- Then I have another character whose "job" is to sit in a station and manipulate market orders (took only 1 month to train up).
- And then I have another character who job is to build stuff and haul (took 3 months to train up).
- I keep all of them separate from each other because Fluffers here is a DIRTY DIRTY pirate and is not welcome in high-sec space anymore... and I don't want my other characters to be "tainted" in their dealings with others by being associated with a character is a self-styled mass murderer.
Jessica Pixel wrote:Plex is what, the instruction manual for this game is bigger than a university library. My guess is Plex is a time consumption method that once paid for you have to start earning it again to payf or it again and no real game time comes in right? if so your right this game is not for me.
History lesson:
Once upon a time, Real Money Training used to be a problem here in EVE. Inflation was a problem (bigger than it is today) and prices for items fluctuated and often cratered due to the massive amount of harvesting and "firesales" that were happening to facilitate RMT.
Then the DEVs got an idea. Why not offer up an 30-day gametime token in-game that could be bought with real money? It could be sold like any other item on the in-game market and players would decide how much 30 days of gametime was worth to them using in-game currency.
This token (henceforth known as PLEX) had extremely positive results.
- it offered players who earned stupid amounts of in-game currency a way to essentially play for "free"
- it offered a way for players who wanted quick cash a legitimate way to get fast in-game currency without the risk of being banned
- it did not add any additional in-game currency to the game (see: a player pays for the [potential] subscription of another in exchange for in-game currency)
- it actually removed some in-game currency from the game through in-game market fees and taxes (cutting inflation down a bit)
- it kept money in the company's pockets
New services have been added to PLEX as the years have gone on. Before, you could only train up one character at a time (see: you had to pause one character's training to start training on another).
How did you Veterans start?
The Skillpoint System and You
|
ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
Snuffed Out
8599
|
Posted - 2015.09.07 22:22:20 -
[2] - Quote
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:Zihao wrote:I also buy things without reading what they are or how they work. I actually do do that all the time. I have an engraving tool,dremil,4 neon halogen lights and two airsoft rifles and a set of ceramic knives to my name for no appreciable reason, all of which have done nothing more than give me increasingly creative and stupid ways in which to injure myself.
....
I have a $200 tablet that I bought a few years ago and never used. I can't be bothered to learn never figured out how use Microsoft's mobile UI.
It now serves as a rather decent paperweight for my many important papers and documents (wasn't "paper" supposed to be phased out by today's digital age? What happened???).
How did you Veterans start?
The Skillpoint System and You
|