Leo Apocrypha
Senescence
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Posted - 2017.03.16 23:43:46 -
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I'm not exactly against this but I do have a few concerns. It seems like you're trying to do a few things with this change, make plex and aurum simpler and easier to understand for new players, while also making plex more accessible. I think this is a good idea and opportunity to fix a few things but I see a few problems with the current plan.
1. "Pilots License Extension" doesn't make sense anymore after the addition of alpha clones because they can fly around as much as they want for free. If anything PLEX should be changed to Aurum, which can then be used to buy SKINs, apparel, clone re-sculptures, and something named along the lines of "Omega Clone Ticket" to make the terminology simple and easy to understand. (Get rid of the Multiple Character Training item) Imagine for example, the sentence "You have to use 500 Pilots License Extensions to get 1 month of Omega Clone Training" I think most new players and even us non-new players are just like "...wat." Now add to that "You use Pilots License Extensions to buy clothes, or skill extractors, or ship SKINs." Again, wat.
2. My other concern is the effect this will have on market, currently PLEX is the top of the market (as I understand it) meaning the goal of most traders is to accumulate enough ISK that they can play a substantial role in the PLEX market. While I like the idea of making this market accessible earlier on, and effectively making Skill Injectors the new top of the market as far as Price/Volume ratio goes, I'm worried this will make the PLEX market feel more like buying ammo or something. Where people are short selling the price into oblivion because there's so many people on market, I don't think we would see people putting up orders of 500 very often and actually getting them sold except for when someone buys up the market. Then for the consumer you're getting half of what you need at one price, 1/6th at another price, and the rest at even another price. This would make it hard to keep track of how much you're spending, especially for SP farmers. Plus the price would be inflated by those buying it for other reasons than using it for game time/SP. These two effects might offset each other, I'm not really sure, but I think the ISK to SP ratio would definitely get more turbulent.
Also, just pointing out another issue with passive income balance, but one that I think you're already aware of. If people were able to buy smaller amounts of game time than 30 days, this would unbalance PI as people could just make a million alpha PI clones and PLEX them for like a day or week to bring up all their PI materials and sell it.
3. This is more just a comment, I do like the idea of making PLEX or whatever it will be called safer. Why? Because the same idiots that would lose that PLEX trying to move it and then quit game would instead lose the money to a scam (like I did) or by buying a ship and getting blown up A.K.A. content. |