I am still amazed at how many people cant or wont read. simply amazing.
first, I am a proponent of the black out you silly Bears.
Second I have no issues making isk during the black out.
My concern is the amount of time it takes without intel mechanics besides d scan and a prober.
I wish I could sit all day in my mothers basement but really not sure to say about that.
I am stating that I see many small groups flocking to the larger, I see many faces quietly disappearing when I speak, same answers, Not Enough Time. There should be consideration for the average casual player.
So for those of you who have never been anywhere but your little safe space in nullsec. Sorry but if you cant hack it in Nullsec in your small groups move to lowsec or back to high⌠or go move into a Wormhole. But I can tell you now if you cant handle it in null you wont be able to hack it in WH space.
Dear CCP,
Hi. Itâs me again, Kerono. No, Iâm not writing to apologize for my last letter. I said what I said, and Iâm standing by it. I still think skill extractors and injectors are a terrible idea, and I still think you really should have just stuck to cosmetics like you said you would, rather than giving people shortcuts to the shinies⌠Look, Iâm not going to re-hash that today. Actually, Iâm here to tell you that I like where youâre taking things with this whole âEra of Chaosâ thing you have going on. Iâve heard you guys talking about making EVE cruel, which even just hearing you say those words warms my heart, wherever that cold, black piece of generic-but-not-really station fuel is. I suspect I left it somewhere out in the ass end of Anoikis⌠Hm. Questions for later.
Clearly youâve been listening to either your gut, or that little spark of your grimdark soul that I just knew was still in that increasingly fluff-corrupted heart somewhere. Maybe a little bit of both. With that whole blackout thing, you really poked a hole in the status quo, and I donât quite have the words to tell you how unbelievably proud I am that you had the megacyte-plated balls to take that step. Seriously, the amount of salt youâve managed to extract with that single action is enough to build a good few titans, I think. What youâre doing is working.
So now comes the part where I tell you that this is only the first step on the road to redemption. Yes, despite this, youâve a long way to go, Iâm sorry to say. There are many problems yet left to fix. You seem to have identified a good few of them, and at the very least put yourself in the right mindset to discover and fix the rest. If I could help you fix them, I would, but Iâm afraid I canât offer solutions for all of them right now. Regardless, the main purpose of this letter is to tell you that youâve done a good job, and you should keep up the good work. Youâre heading in the right direction. Donât lose your momentum. Seriously, donât. Please. Continue to let the grimdark flow from you, and everyone will thank you for it.
Write me back.
Yours truly,
Kerono
Yes, please.
Micro-transactions are the reasons people can come home from work and relax to games like playing EveOnline without turning the game into a second job.
Though the skill extractors and injectors are also a part of player to player interaction.
Scenario,
Someone joins a Wormhole corp, they are new to WHS, they need some extra skills that they are yet train. Itâs Friday night and there is news of a fleet forming and pilots are logging into Corp chat.
This new Corp member wants to get straight in but they need Cloaking example⌠So here the small Micro-transaction helps said player perform the task that is needed to make their night fun and relaxing.
There could be other ways of applying skills to a pilot quickly but the current method seems to be working well.
Yes to âEra of Chaos
No to âskill extractors and injectors being removed or changedâ
Iâm pretty sure the fine people at CCP will read and seriously consider your mail⌠just like the last one.
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yes? less and less online people i hope you all will enjoy your worth notheing stacks of plexes ha ha.
Probably help if you actually sent your letters to CCP
Always interesting to hear players complain about skill injectors, when weâve had the ability to buy time cards and sell them for ISK while also being able to buy characters with said ISK for way long before skill injectors got introduced to the game.
You donât think there is a strong link between the ability to buy ISK for real cash and majority of the player population not having an issue with it?
So, they remove skill injectors. I can still buy ISK and still buy that Cap pilot on Day 1.
Thereâs a big difference between buying skilled characters back then verses using skill injectors now. The difference is that back then time was invested into the character to get those skills verses now skill injectors bypass the time investment which makes it a pay to win action.
which makes it a pay to win action.
So, I come to the game for the first time ever. Buy a bunch of time cards for real life cash. Then sell those cards on the forums for ISK. Then take the ISK and buy a 2003 pilot that has 100M SP.
How is that not pay to win?
I think you mean buy PLEX from CCP and then sell it in-game for ISK to then buy the character from the forums Character Bazaar.
Anyway, that character isnât new, time was invested into training up those skills whereas skill injectors bypasses that time investment.
When CCP first implemented Skill Injectors, a player created a brand new character and in less than a week had every single skill in the game trained up with Skill Injectors. That my friend is pay to win.
I think you mean buy PLEX from CCP and then sell it in-game for ISK to then buy the character from the forums Character Bazaar.
No. I mean buy time cards. This was before we had PLEX. Sorry, PLEX was just a replacement for that later on. We have ALWAYS had in-game buying of power for MANY years homie. I know you may be new to the game and all, but there is no difference except having more control of the SP you are buying for real life cash.
lol, new?
I started playing this game in June 2008.
Anyway, the difference was that time was invested by players for that character to train up those skills. Skill Injectors bypass that time investment allowing a newly created character to become a Cap pilot within a few days, thatâs pay to win
Well OP what could they say.
Iâd say youâre flogging a dead horse, if it hadnât already left the stable (with regards to skill injectors and extractors). Although above 50 million sp, theyâre not really worth using.
As for Blackout, I think itâs the wrong thing to do, there are players that like PvP but donât want to be looking over their shoulder every minute that theyâre online especially if they play a lot of hours. But time will tell should be interesting to see what happens to player numbers over the next few months. Although if people leave with the way this game is being messed about with I doubt many will return. Because how can you have any certainty in your investment in the game.
So how does someone using a so called pay to win method effect anyone in a negative way?
Or is this just a whine about how its unfair that one person takes the time to train everything for years. Vs. someone that can afford to buy plex or whatever to boost there a bit quicker?
What good does it do to complain anyway? Micro transactions are here to stay in games now. I dont see it changing anytime soon.
Dude, youâre reading way too much into what I posted. Either that or youâre just not fully comprehending what I wrote.
Lmao at him calling you new. I guess he havenât heard of The Plan either.
i had to chuckle when i saw he called DMC new. lol.
Yeah, funny thing is that when CCP first implemented Micro-Transactions, they swore on a stack of Bibles that it would only be for Vanity Items.
Sooo, can someone please explain to me how Skill Extractors / Injectors can be classified as a Vanity Item?
Also when Skill Extractors / Injectors were first discussed, they were presented as a tool for players to move points around on their characters from unwanted / unused skills to more important usable skills. All very good and generally accepted by the community.
Of course CCP realized they could make a lot more money on selling Skill Extractors / Injectors if they were implemented as a Trade Commodity on the open market. So once again, Greed Is Good jumped out which opened the door to another form of in-game passive ISK generation - Alt SP Farming.
Now I must have missed a Dev Blog stating otherwise cause last I remember CCP was against passive ISK generation.
Anyway, the implementation of Skill Extractors / Injectors as a Trade Commodity almost makes using the Character Bazaar obsolete, another aspect of bypassing the player driven market like the recently implemented âSkillbooks On Demandâ option.