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Devroush Dreddit Test Alliance Please Ignore	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:16:00 - [181] PLEX price in Jita already at 420 million isk. Nice way to destroy the PLEX market CCP.
Florestan Bronstein 24th Imperial Crusade	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:17:00 - [182] Originally by: CCP Incognito The Aurum can be converted to plex by selling stuff you bought with Aurum for Isk, and using the Isk to buy Plex. The Aurum are a new currency and will be stored in your wallet like Isk is. incoming API breakage...
Warde Guildencrantz	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:18:00 - [183] I really don't want to worry about losing millions of ISK extra because a ship I customized to look different had furnishings on it that costed a billion ISK. I can understand character appearance items costing real money, but ship appearance modification (if implemented in the future) should not cost anything, because ships already cost enough. Either that, or you buy the furnishing once and you have it forever, even if you lose a ship with that furnishing.
TheLostPenguin	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:19:00 - [184] Random character bling has been pitched as a microtransaction thing for a while now, at present the only existing mechanic to do that would be to use PLEX. Now, do you want the CHEAPEST of these items to cost 1 PLEX (and have the corresponding ISK resale value when placed on open market ingame), or would it be better all round if things can be bought for part of a PLEX? Aurum is basicly pennies/cents to a PLEXs whole pound/dollar so small items can be purchased individually for a reasonable(ish, depending on how pricing is balanced in the end) amount each, whilst also preserving the mechanic of those items having a RL money cost somewhere down the line to warrant CCP being bothered to make it. (As an aside I don't really like this route at all personally, but doing Au at least gets around the previously mentioned failsauce of slightly diff haircuts costing a whole PLEX each) One thing I would like clarified is about eventually only having one "free" set of clothing and everything else being paid-for, you've said we wont lose our existing choice of free cloths/etc when that time comes (and that time better be damn well signposted in advance) but what about new chars created after that? Will they get the same choice as at current of free clothes/etc to dress their char with initially or will new chars end up starting with a generic vault-tec jumpsuit and have to pay for anything else? Also will new chars get a couple of free "makeovers" using only the default free stuff before they get locked into having only the one set of "default" clothes to use and havinmg to pay for any further changes? I can see it being so easy to rush through char creation and get something you're not happy with, getting stung for microtransactions on day 2 seems a little harsh Whatever you do (bar generic jumpsuits for newbies) you'll need to make it VERY clear to new players what options they do/don't have with regards to redoing their image later, at the initial creation stage. TBH what's wrong with letting us frrely swap about with the existing (hideously limited) free stuff indefnitely, personally I don't see allowing that as likely to affect the market for luxory stuff much if at all, if people are willing to pay they will, if they aren't they wont no matter how hard you push them.
Daedalus II Helios Research	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:20:00 - [185] Originally by: Makko Gray Originally by: Cosmar I don't understand why you keep PLEX around. Couldn't you sell AUR directly on your website and then have say 1 Month of gameplay cost 100 or 500 AUR or w/e to activate ? This! I'd much rather buy the Aurum and combined to buy a Plex from the virtual good store than have to buy the plex and break it into Aurum. You could then cater for smaller payments. Exactly what I suggested but I missed that Cosmar suggested it earlier Do it like this instead!
ORCACommander	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:21:00 - [186] this would have been a great way to create an isk sink instead of creating a new currency.
Huan CK Gallente Garoun Investment Bank	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:24:00 - [187] Isk for Plex, Plex for Aurum.. WTF? Guys, seriously. 1) Either this is the first step in many to come to implement an item store (yes, this is a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad idea) 2) Or this makes absolutely no sense at all, since you can still buy the vanity items with isk. Therefore just trash the new currency and go for isk straight away. Doesn't make sense, its unneccessary, and points to #1 (which is a bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad idea)
Valerie Valate Amarr Church of The Crimson Saviour	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:25:00 - [188] I'm not sure on the details here. Let me see if I have this right: So I create a character, and choose from the clothes available in the char creator. That outfit becomes that character's "Default" outfit, yes? And if they clone-jump, or are podded, they will have that "default" outfit available, wherever, yes ? In addition, that character can purchase various clothes (e.g. party dresses for special occasions ), and those may be destroyed if the character is podded while wearing them, yes ? And in character recustomisation, you will only be able to choose from outfits you own at that station, yes ?
Aero Frost Amarr Enlightened Industries SpaceMonkey's Alliance	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:25:00 - [189] This Vanity items are going to be really expensive. You need to spend a large amount of Isk or even real money to get them. I rather spend my Isk on a new kick-ass ship or maybe play time. So I don't think I'll buy any of those vanity items soon.
Silpher Jita Trade Services	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:26:00 - [190] If this isn't some late April 1st joke, I have actually lost some respect for CCP for the first time in my 5 years of playing. This is the most upsetting feature CCP has ever released. THIS IS EMBARRASSING! Does this mean that player made clothing stores are out? Or did they just take the best designs from that, call them vanity items and decide to just sell them for real money? This is really upsetting, CCP. I thought you were above this. I really believed that CCP was going to stand by the philosophy that "15$ a month pays for everything." I saw an interview during an alliance tournament several years ago that was pretty explicit about that. Incarna was going to be one of my favorite expansions in Eve since Titans. Now, I don't know. This is a BIG step towards Blizzard-dom. A company has to be profitable, but CCP always seemed satisfied with their profits and principled in their philosophy. This will be the downfall of CCP and the principled progression they adhered to. It is a sad day in New Eden..
CCP Hammer	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:26:00 - [191] Originally by: Katrishar Again, I think this system sounds awesome. Quick question though.... When we go down to just having 1 "noob ship" style default outfit after being podded, will there be the other character customization screen outfit choices available for "cheap?" In general will you have cheap and expensive clothes? I vote for this. Short answer is yes. This first pass is simply a tracer bullet to gauge response. The future vision is that after being podded you will wake up in a clone bay in a medical gown. Then you will get your free orange noobie overalls (or whatever we come up with) but there will be all sorts of inexpensive stuff on offer to change into or maybe you weren't wearing your favorite stuff anyway and you can just put that one.
Alexeph Stoekai Stoekai Corp	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:27:00 - [192] Funniest thead in ages. Keep up the good work, CCP!
Deviana Sevidon Gallente Panta-Rhei Butterfly Effect Alliance	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:29:00 - [193] To be honest, I might be tempted if I can purchase a slaver hound who will wait in my CQ whenever I dock.
Avraham Avinu Children of Noah	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:29:00 - [194] More money for CCP will probably equate to a better EVE Online. So many MMO's fail or get bought out by cannibalistic corp machine and I don't want that to happen to my favorite game because of a poor business model(monthly sub only) or a backwards thinking player-base. If micro-transactions allows people the option to get what they want and for those that don't want to spend USD but rather ISK, then I'm all for that. We can always buy PLEX with ISK on the open market, which is a major reason I'm for this micro-transaction schema. I just hope the exchange rate to the new currency isn't too low.
Iurnan Mileghere Singularity Foundation	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:29:00 - [195] Originally by: CCP Incognito Originally by: Bienator II The main question here is: will i be able to take your monocle if i pod you? :) No, clothing is destroyed when you get podded, but if you had a stack on monocle's in your cargo hold they will drop like normal. This is awesome news but probably should have been in the dev blog. (Entirely possible I missed it, I guess.)
MotherMoon Huang Yinglong	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:31:00 - [196] Edited by: MotherMoon on 27/05/2011 15:31:33 "revise our strategy" Slaps CCP no, no you **ing won't. don't you dare go past vanity items. also I assume this change means you will never let players make our own items and sell them. thanks a ton ccp. you could of made real life cash for blue prints of monocles. Then there could of been markets, and cash investment in making isk in game. but no, you have to go with the **ing standard. And then no less make sure that you tell us your going to change your start down the line. WHATS THE POINT IF I CAN STILL BUY VANITY ITEMS FOR ISK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 seriously this makes no sense at ALL!
Gnulpie Minmatar Miner Tech	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:31:00 - [197] Originally by: Daedalus II Originally by: Makko Gray Originally by: Cosmar I don't understand why you keep PLEX around. Couldn't you sell AUR directly on your website and then have say 1 Month of gameplay cost 100 or 500 AUR or w/e to activate ? This! I'd much rather buy the Aurum and combined to buy a Plex from the virtual good store than have to buy the plex and break it into Aurum. You could then cater for smaller payments. Exactly what I suggested but I missed that Cosmar suggested it earlier Do it like this instead! Easy to understand. CCP wants to able to fine-tune the costs of vanity items. This can easily be done by changing the conversion rate PLEX<->AUR. If you see for example that the conversion rate is too low or too high, then you can easily change it. There are other ways, of course, but none of them are as easy and transparent.
Baram d'Orrin	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:31:00 - [198] Edited by: Baram d''Orrin on 27/05/2011 15:31:35 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham's_law tl;dr: Having dual independent currencies and linking them like this is a big nono, especially if you are going to "monitor" it. May Empress have mercy on you.
Avraham Avinu Children of Noah	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:32:00 - [199] PLEX prices on the open market are now sky-rocketing, BTW
Axon Atom	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:33:00 - [200] Wait, in ship customization will cost money too? But ony like... the special kind right.... noral corp logos and base color choices better be free ccp!
Soden Rah Gallente EVE University Ivy League	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:33:00 - [201] Originally by: CCP Incognito Originally by: Bienator II The main question here is: will i be able to take your monocle if i pod you? :) No, clothing is destroyed when you get podded, but if you had a stack on monocle's in your cargo hold they will drop like normal. I am sorry but this is really dumb. In my pod I am NAKED, why is my new clothing (which currently costs the same as a frigate ???) destroyed when I am poded. Oh to make me pay more real money to buy more... Not doing this outside test server. I already pay for this game, I am not going to pay extra for new content.
BondGamer GoonWaffe Goonswarm Federation	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:33:00 - [202] PLEX price is now up to 450 million. That is 55 million Isk in one day. How are those controls working out CCP?
Mica Swanhaven	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:35:00 - [203] Originally by: CCP Hammer Originally by: Katrishar Again, I think this system sounds awesome. Quick question though.... When we go down to just having 1 "noob ship" style default outfit after being podded, will there be the other character customization screen outfit choices available for "cheap?" In general will you have cheap and expensive clothes? I vote for this. Short answer is yes. This first pass is simply a tracer bullet to gauge response. The future vision is that after being podded you will wake up in a clone bay in a medical gown. Then you will get your free orange noobie overalls (or whatever we come up with) but there will be all sorts of inexpensive stuff on offer to change into or maybe you weren't wearing your favorite stuff anyway and you can just put that one. So you can lose the stuff you buy? why? we don't wear clothes on our pod............................................................................ ........................................ ............................................ .......................................... ............................................... ............................................... .................................................... ..................................................... .................................................... ...................... and for that matter why can't I reverse engineer a T-shirt and sell it to other people in say... a store? I thought CCP weren't for NPC markets?
Ruby Khann	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:35:00 - [204] Originally by: CCP Hammer Originally by: Katrishar Again, I think this system sounds awesome. Quick question though.... When we go down to just having 1 "noob ship" style default outfit after being podded, will there be the other character customization screen outfit choices available for "cheap?" In general will you have cheap and expensive clothes? I vote for this. Short answer is yes. This first pass is simply a tracer bullet to gauge response. The future vision is that after being podded you will wake up in a clone bay in a medical gown. Then you will get your free orange noobie overalls (or whatever we come up with) but there will be all sorts of inexpensive stuff on offer to change into or maybe you weren't wearing your favorite stuff anyway and you can just put that one. Will I always have access to my current clothes, or do they disappear when I die? Will the new vision for what happens when I'm podded increase the time it takes me to get back into space?
Azahni Zahr'dor Amarr	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:37:00 - [205] So if ships are able to be insured because they can be destroyed then wouldn't it make sense to have paint jobs and clothing insurable as well? Another ISK sink as well.
CCP Hammer	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:38:00 - [206] Originally by: Sigvald Gottschalk Edited by: Sigvald Gottschalk on 27/05/2011 14:40:56 Originally by: Morar Santee CCP has answered it: the items are to raise money. That raised money could be used to develop the ideas you mention. However, I happen to think that walking in stations is a better idea, and may incorporate your suggestions anyway. The money is actually being used for their shooter and their Twilight game, not EVE. This made me LOL.
MotherMoon Huang Yinglong	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:39:00 - [207] Originally by: DeBingJos Why the new currency if I can buy a PLEX with isk and then convert to PLEX to the new currency? this why not just isk to the new currency?
TheLostPenguin	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:39:00 - [208] Originally by: Mynxee Originally by: CCP Zinfandel Eventually you will see just the one free set and whatever clothing you have acquired. Sounds like you're planning to remove many of the existing free options at that time, then? What happens if I'm already wearing something you decide to remove? Originally by: CCP Zinfandel Whichever free clothes you pick will be _your_ default set, Mynxee. We won't take away someone's chosen. then suddenly Originally by: CCP Hammer The future vision is that after being podded you will wake up in a clone bay in a medical gown. Then you will get your free orange noobie overalls (or whatever we come up with) but there will be all sorts of inexpensive stuff on offer to change into or maybe you weren't wearing your favorite stuff anyway and you can just put that one. Which is it guys? Do we at some point get locked down to the set of free stuff we had at that time being our recurring "default" outfit, or do we lose access to what we have now and get thrown all the way to generoville? Clarification would be nice since you're contradicting each other here...
Naomi Wildfire Amarr Spricer Raiden.	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:42:00 - [209] Originally by: Devroush PLEX price in Jita already at 450 million isk. Nice way to destroy the PLEX market CCP. fixed I told everyone its coming but nobody wanted to listen, you'll see its only the beginning. CCP opened the way to implement a Micropayment currency and it wont stop with limited issue clothes. So, now that EVE goes the final route to be a micropayment game, will it be free of monthly fees too?
Daedalus II Helios Research	Posted - 2011.05.27 15:43:00 - [210] Edited by: Daedalus II on 27/05/2011 15:44:00 Originally by: Gnulpie Originally by: Daedalus II Originally by: Makko Gray Originally by: Cosmar I don't understand why you keep PLEX around. Couldn't you sell AUR directly on your website and then have say 1 Month of gameplay cost 100 or 500 AUR or w/e to activate ? This! I'd much rather buy the Aurum and combined to buy a Plex from the virtual good store than have to buy the plex and break it into Aurum. You could then cater for smaller payments. Exactly what I suggested but I missed that Cosmar suggested it earlier Do it like this instead! Easy to understand. CCP wants to able to fine-tune the costs of vanity items. This can easily be done by changing the conversion rate PLEX<->AUR. If you see for example that the conversion rate is too low or too high, then you can easily change it. There are other ways, of course, but none of them are as easy and transparent. I don't want to sound like a jerk, but not that easy to understand apparently. Let's look at two cases; 1) We want to buy a shirt for 15 AUR 2) We want to buy a PLEX For discussions sake say that the PLEX -> AUR conversion factor is 200. With CCPs method of PLEX for AUR: 1) Buy PLEX for real money -> Get 200 AUR -> buy shirt -> 185 AUR left 2) Buy PLEX for real money With our suggestion: 1) Buy 15 AUR for real money -> buy shirt 2) Buy 200 AUR for real money -> buy PLEX Personally I think method number two is more logical. Not to mention that PLEX prices wouldn't be affected, which is a very important part.

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