I think Nex right now is indeed fail, but I do think its a perfect platform for such things as +6 and +7 learning implants.

So what you are saying is that you would favor having P2W items in the NeX.

Pay to win?

Hardly. Pay to sit in a station in more fear than people now do when wearing improved.

On top of that. WTF is the difference between an implant being bought with arum and put on the market compared to how it is now? Getting it as a reward or a drop and being put on the market. Either way it's simply popped into existence through no effort on the part of the player. Implants are not manufactured.

You picked the wrong example, Doc.

Mr Epeen

WTF is the difference between an implant being bought with arum and put on the market compared to how it is now? Getting it as a reward or a drop and being put on the market. Either way it's simply popped into existence through no effort on the part of the player. Implants are not manufactured.

They are manufactured by running the missions, getting the drops, collecting the LP. They do not GÇ£simply pop into existenceGÇ¥ GÇö they do require effort. The difference between this and plonking down some cash and having something appear out of nowhere is immense.

You're not this clueless.
You can stop acting it now.

AFKing level 4's is less effort than logging into acct management and jumping through the hoops required to make a CC purchase.

Why did the NeX fail? Well, let's seeGǪ

1. It had no clearly defined purpose, and the one purpose it was superficially supposed to have (act as an MT store) was not fulfilled simple because it completely broke the fundamental design principles for such a store. MT stores work wonderfully because you remove pricing from the decision-making processGǪ the NeX does the exact opposite and therefore fails as an MT store.

2. It just introduced another currency that is completely unnecessary for what it does. It just piles on dead code. AUR was meant to be a more granular PLEX, but that granularity turned out not to be all that necessary.

3. It did not create a market due to its pricing structure and due to the mechanics surrounding the purchases, all of which does the exact opposite of what CCP claimed it would do GÇö as such it completely fails to integrate into the core gameplay. The idea was that people would buy NeX items and use them or resell them, but the market valuation of the stuff (and, once again, the pricing structure) ensured that this would not happen because the items were not worth as much as CCP wanted them to be worth.

4. It further enhanced an already existing perception that CCP were wasting developer time. The failure to create a store that would pay for itself; the failure to reuse existing code; the rush to get the thing out and the ensuing failure to integrate it into the game properly all pointed to this perception being right on the money.

5. It is far less capable of doing what it's supposed to do than the other market interfaces that already exist. Again, it just needlessly and uselessly piles on dead code that serves no purpose, and in the process, it threatened to break the industrial cycle that the game is built around.

6. CCP failed to do any expectations management whatsoever. They did not explain the purpose of the store. They did not explain the pricing structure of the store. They hinted at new gameplay and new professions, but failed to deliver. They did not test the store or gather any feedback, and instead did the early-alpha-stage testing in the live environment.

Plenty. Chief among which is that it doesn't integrate properly with the game and robs it of gameplay content.

The NeX failed because it serves no purpose that is not already covered (multiple times) by far better, far more mature, far more integrated features. The game does not need it. No addition to the game needs it. Trying to revive it is like trying to relapse into a bout of malaria.

If CCP fucks up ship paint jobs by making them part of NEX then they have learned NOTHING in the last year.

You're just being silly here.

Yeah. I am.

Just trying out the not so new trend in here of blurting irrational statements as if they were fact. Yup... the thread has degenerated that badly. People are so fearful of change in here that they just make **** up and boldly state it as if it's the majority opinion.

BTW, Tipps, I thought you blocked me?