iudex
Caldari
State Protectorate
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Posted - 2008.10.27 04:42:00 -
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Current Situation
The reward of level 5 missions currently consists of loyalty points mainly.
For example i did the missions "Oust the Claimjumpers" and "Stray Gallente Carrier" today, the first one gave
- ~7 million isk in direkt rewards
- tags worth 12 million (npc prices)
- loot worth ~6 millions (minerals value after reprocessing)
- 62.509 lp
from the second one i looted only the carrier (didn't kill many of the few BS), which gave only a 5 million insignia, loot&salvage value of the carrier was below 1 million, direct rewards ~7 million, 68.258 lp.
As comparison we can take a Gurista Extravaganze level 4 for example, which gives only 8.5k lp (in highsec, more in lowsec), 4-5m in rewards, but lots of loot, a chance for a faction item in bonus room and ~20 million isk in bounties.
This shows that the reward of level 5 missions is mainly based on loyalty points, in contrast to other missions.
Problem
Since the introduction of the LP store, there was a constant loss in value of LPs, at least in empire corporation stores. Latest checks for faction ammo in Jita showed that they are now lower than 800 isk/lp for items with a high trading volume (e.g. most common faction ammo types).
There are some nieche items that can yield much more isk/lp than that, but that are exceptions, not eligible for cashing in high ammounts of LPs that one gets with level 5 mission running (in my example above over 130k in about 4 hours). The trend seems to be a continuous decrease in value, and there is no bottom within sight.
While level 4 missions still have the bounties and the proportionally high ammount of loot/salvage with their lps, level 5 missions suffer much more from the devaluation of LPs.
Proposal
If there is no plan to stabilize the LP price in near future (e.g. with lp store items that can be sold to NPCs for isk, that you had at the beginning and that guaranteed a price of 1000 isk/lp back then), the reward of level 5 missions should be uncoupled from LPs, or at least LPs should play a minor role. This would stop the trend that level 5 missions are on their way to become obsolete again, with the falling LP prices.
There are many ways how level 5 missions could be rewarded, direkt isk, items, special items, whatever, i'm sure you can find something interesting; but the current solution is about to render level 5 missions useless within the next few months, compared to level 3/4 missions, if there won't be changes or additions to the LP system.
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Faction Standings: Serpentis +7.60 // Angel Cartel +7.31 // Minmatar Republic -8.56 // Gallente Federation -9.71
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