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Haakelen
Gallente
Federation of Freedom Fighters
Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2009.01.06 17:11:00 -
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 Originally by: Omnoms
with isk selling and micropayment / item selling it would be easy for CCP to force a lot of the isk / item sellers out of business. for the item sellers the product they are selling actually costs them money and effort to obtain. CCP can indeed just spawn an item at will. That means CCP can seriously undercut all the competition.
Once you've spawned a load of best in game items and unbalanced combat for a short period, then you can make up T3 or even better items just like blizzard do which in turn devalues everything you just put into the market. This limits any long term damage form having too many estamels modified blah blah blah in game. Make a new better officer and devalue everything else slowly.
This would force the majority of the isk sellers out of business reasonably quickly, and make CCP some money..
I can't see too many downsides to my idea.
It would make the game completely ****ing dull, homogeneous, and pointless?
This strategy might not be intolerably horrible in a carebearish grindy game where you throw away characters and start over when things change, but this would completely tool Eve. What incentive would newbies have to specialize under circumstances like that?
And what of the people who think RMT is for twits? They're rewarded with having to re-grind ISK to re-buy every module every few months because last patch's microtransaction noob toy was too popular and had to be replaced.
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Haakelen
Gallente
Federation of Freedom Fighters
Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2009.01.08 11:04:00 -
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Edited by: Haakelen on 08/01/2009 11:04:39
It'd be amusing that, if CCP introduced direct ISK sales, they balanced it by matched removal of ISK faucets. So and so trillion introduced, a suitable number of high-end L4s, complexes, and faction/officer spawns disappear that month/time period  .
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Haakelen
Gallente
Federation of Freedom Fighters
Executive Outcomes
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Posted - 2009.01.08 11:33:00 -
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Originally by: Tnam
These psuedo macro characters kind of screw up a lot of 0.0 space and actually provide ISK income to the alliances who are in effect harboring them (by allowing them to anchor giant cans on POS shields and suchlike).
There's certainly organizations in 0.0 that harbor macroers. However, there's plenty who don't, and actively try to get rid of them. Which is fairly difficult, cloaking Ravens are a *****. And ever tried to shoot an anchored GSC? They have the HP of a small POS.
It would be nice to see CCP do something about the macro accounts, but it seems they're either unwilling or incapable of it. |
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