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Fyrr Deerdan
Caldari
Envoy Corps
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Posted - 2008.10.18 19:02:00 -
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Hmm you pay, you get. That's some sort of basic principle where I live.
Good decision CCP. I always thought it was a weird feature. IMO it should never have been this way.
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Fyrr Deerdan
Caldari
Envoy Corps
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Posted - 2008.10.18 19:07:00 -
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 Originally by: Fwuffy Wabbit
Scenario 1:
Player sets long skill training, and lets account expire due to boredom or RL issues. Character gains fresh new skill. Player is eager to try out fresh new skill but can't until they pay for more account time.
Scenario 2:
Player sets long skill training, and lets account expire due to boredom or RL issues. Character training is halted. Player has no incentive to pay for more account time.
Scenario 3:
Player sets long skill training, and keeps account paid up due to not having RL issues. Character training carries on as normal and player has fun running missions, taking down enemy POSs and other interesting activites like mining veldspar.
Most people are on #3, occasionally moving to #1 and then back to #3, above.
Now, people will end up at scenario 2, and CCP will no longer get their subscription money, unless they pull something wildly amazing and innovative out of the bag.
That's quite a bit more complicated then that, really, but thanks for breaking it down.
CCP hasn't built a successful business, one of the most solid MMOs out there, in last 5 yrs+ without thinking through decisions like these. They have a lot more data to take a decision about this than you do and when they took that decision, what they hit is the fringe player who don't really play the game, not the core player who logs in every week.
I know about ten people in real-life who've played or are still playing EVE at this point. Not one of them ended up on scenario 1. They were either playing or not playing and when they came back it wasn't because they had trained a skill from 4 to 5, but to play with friends.
Once again, I think its a good decision by CCP.
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Fyrr Deerdan
Caldari
Envoy Corps
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Posted - 2008.10.18 19:08:00 -
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Originally by: NereSky
Originally by: NereSky
Originally by: Delos Korelian
Originally by: Jinx Barker
... ever since the "old" guard of the developers left active EVE online roles CCP customer service, CCP customer attunes, and general CCP attitude toward its player base has gone to shit.
Aint that the truth
Qft
Too bad that the original sentence was so badly constructed, it might have meant something =P
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Fyrr Deerdan
Caldari
Envoy Corps
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Posted - 2008.10.18 22:58:00 -
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Originally by: rofflesausage
They should have banned the plethora of Macrominers before they even thought about touching this. The number of macrominers I've seen reported and nothing done about is shocking 
If they failed to fix something, does it mean they have to stop trying fixing the rest ? That's a dangerous way of looking globally at a system that you're trying to improve.
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