New packs are for sale in the Eve Online store and one of them has me scratching my head a little bit.
For $49.99 you can get the Blazing Phoenix Pack.
The bit I’m confused about is the first part where it says “CAPITAL SHIPS SKILL BOOK-
Take the first step on your path to flying EVE’s largest and most breathtaking ships with the Capital Ships Skill Book, worth hundreds of millions of ISK in-game.”
Ok, so which skill books? Just your faction? All Factions? Carrier? Dread? Both? Does this include the skill book for the Precursor dreadnought?
Depending on the answer it wildly changes whether it’s worth it or not.
Unless you are JUST talking about the skill book “Capital Ships” (450m isk)
I was scratching my head over this one as well. Unless I’m missing a bunch of other skillbooks from the pack, the math simply doesn’t make any sense.
Perhaps it’s thematic that the devs at CCP are ‘spaced-out’ and unable to do the math for their own game, but I don’t imagine it’s helping their sales any.
I know you’re joking, but this would actually help CCP fight against RMTers since players would be more likely to purchase directly from CCP for these instead of giving money to RMTers (and thus supporting botters).
I mean, that’s basically what PLEX is for. You’re buying it from CCP and likely selling it for ISK.
Packs too are a way to directly purchase things in game with real world $$$. I’m not totally against this, I just question the value of some of their offers.
As a for instance $50.00 for every capital ship skill book (Dread, carrier) in the game (perhaps minus precurser dread) does actually math out (when purchasing with PLEX instead).
And the way it is phrased in the deal “Skill Books (Plural) for EVE’s biggest ships (Plural)” makes it sound like it could be for more than one ship Skill Book.
Skill books plural refers to the Capital Ships skill book and the Fighter skill books,
CCP showed they were competent enough to explicitly list out Fighters, Light Fighters, and Heavy Fighters. But they did not list out Carriers, Dreads, or FAXes.
Not really, RMTers would just lower their price and bot even more heavily to even out the difference.
Although I’m joking theyre clearly conditioning us for this to be an eventuality.
Buying PLEX is buying ISK earned in game by a player.
Buying extractors is selling skill points earned in game.
Selling skill points, skill books, and in game items completely avoids the player driven economy. It’s just straight up pay 2 win, and once this pack is successful it’ll get worse… And worse.
My biggest complaint really is that it’s not very specifically spelled out what exactly you get.
It would be nice to have an item break down outside of just a description that could be taken a number of different ways. depending on how you interpret it.
If I run 1 bot a day to make 100 items to sell for 10 dollars
And you make those 100 items only worth 5 dollars.
Then I’ll just run 2 bots a day.
So now you make it worth 1 dollar. Ok I’ll run 10 bots
(And with the new UI update running tons of bots is even easier since the client uses fewer resources)
Selling SP
Selling ships (to do)