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Aralyn Cormallen
Wildly Inappropriate
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.10.15 18:05:18 -
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Massive no.
What's the point of the skill system at all once this is in? Might as well drop a bomb on the whole thing and let us fly whatever. And this scheme wont benefit a single newbie as the price of these boosters will be skyrocketed by people who can afford to pay any price. |
Aralyn Cormallen
Wildly Inappropriate
Goonswarm Federation
1298
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Posted - 2015.10.16 07:44:08 -
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Skinzee wrote:Teckos Pech wrote: A single PLEX can take a new player up to 5 million SP or so and leave them with 300-400 million ISK in their wallet. Please explain where you got this information from? There has not been given a price for the SP transfer and i'm sure as hell its going to cost ALOT more than PLEX to get as the SP is actually created from another player and then sold... not like a PLEX where you can buy it straight from CCP... AND... to get from Brand new character to 5million SP.. you would need NINE (9) of them... then higher SP you go, the less SP you actually get from the SP transfer... I would imagine the SP transfers would cost around the same as x2 PLEX... So to boost a character from 0-5mil SP would be Wait for it.... 18 BILLION ISK... EIGHTEEN BILLION!!.... for 5M SP?... Would you pay that? seriously? Thats Equivalent to around -ú220...
Yeah, I think the numbers being bandied around are hilariously optimistic. As you say, I can't imagine the sp-creation-widget being less than half a PLEX to a PLEX in real money, and naturally, yet again, a new use for PLEX/Aurum will again spike the price of PLEX on the market, so the current price is going to be a distant memory. Oh, and you need one for every half million sp. Plus, multi-Trillionaires will be buying the packets off the market like they are going out of fashion, both because they can afford to eat the diminished returns, and because this will immediately be the new speculators wet dream.
Anyone who thinks a newbie is going to be able to get a sniff of one of these packets is floating in their own unicorn-and-rainbows dreamworld. Still "Skill packets are too expensive" will make a change from "PLEX are too expensive" posts 
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Aralyn Cormallen
Wildly Inappropriate
Goonswarm Federation
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Posted - 2015.10.16 11:26:39 -
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EVE Search wrote:
Top 50 posters in thread Posts (% of total)
Querns 128 (8,0%)
Teckos Pech 60 (3,8%)
Tyberius Franklin 51 (3,2%)
Don ZOLA 40 (2,5%)
Alavaria Fera 28 (1,8%)
Divine Entervention 26 (1,6%)
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I am mildly amused how much the "for" crowd is feeling the need to pad the thread out in order to make opinion seem split.
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Aralyn Cormallen
Wildly Inappropriate
Goonswarm Federation
1305
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Posted - 2015.10.16 12:38:22 -
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Moac Tor wrote:Alavaria Fera wrote:
Yeah, as the liquidation has a trivial cost.... what's the cost again, did they tell us yet?
Logical deduction will tell you that this will clearly be affordable if this is meant to be designed to help new players.
You are familiar with CCP's microtransaction price policy right? My bet is on it being 1/2 - full PLEX per widget just to create the packet, and I reckon I'm underpricing. Trivial price... yeah  |
Aralyn Cormallen
Wildly Inappropriate
Goonswarm Federation
1305
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Posted - 2015.10.16 12:53:41 -
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Alavaria Fera wrote:Aralyn Cormallen wrote:Moac Tor wrote:Alavaria Fera wrote:
Yeah, as the liquidation has a trivial cost.... what's the cost again, did they tell us yet?
Logical deduction will tell you that this will clearly be affordable if this is meant to be designed to help new players. You are familiar with CCP's microtransaction price policy right? My bet is on it being 1/2 - full PLEX per widget just to create the packet, and I reckon I'm underpricing. Trivial price... yeah Well putting it as AUR does allow them to ... ah what is it... "tweak knobs" as it were... but then again doing that might be too painful, increasing or decreasing the cost huh?
You are also familiar with CCP's stellar history in swift and agile knob twisting right? It only took 11 months til the first sqeaky turn of the jump fatigue knob after all. Light-speed :whoosh: 
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Aralyn Cormallen
Wildly Inappropriate
Goonswarm Federation
1305
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Posted - 2015.10.16 15:30:56 -
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Sibyyl wrote:
Jenn, it's good for all players not just new ones. Now I can customize my skills however I want without arbitrary restrictions on backing them out.
It's not even remotely good for new ones - new players aren't going to be buying these packets; they wont be able to, since the price will be dictated by what some Trillionaire is willing to pay to level up his next Titan pilot instantly, or what some speculator imagines the price point will go up to. Any new player joining the game already has to decide whether to ride the game as it is or buy PLEX to soften the isk-need at the beginning. But under this system that newbie now has to buy even more PLEX to get one of these packets too, or be left behind by those that can.
Its an issue of perspective - some posters here think having a "pay to catch up" option will lure in more players, while people like me think a "pay or fall behind" as catastrophic for luring those same new players.
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