If someone wants the $20 grapes, shouldn’t they be allowed to get the $20 grapes without also having to use a single checkout line at the far end of the supermarket? I think it would be in CCP’s better interest to allow someone to spend more if they so desire (esp. if they know up front all of the price options and make that decision anyway).
Sometimes it’s more about the flexibility to spend money when the person decides they want to and less about the total amount of money being spent.
EDIT: Probably a better solution for bots: Make alpha accounts unable to send ISK directly to any other player, or limit it to 750k ISK / day or something. Any new player genuinely trying out the game will have no need to give away their ISK, and it would probably save them from scams also.
Of course they can ! Like I said on a previous post, it’s just a matter of giving the NPCs a decent AI. Let’s make them really nasty in nullsec/hisec/whatever and the bots will be doomed.
NPCs are so predictable that making a bot script to farm is pretty easy.
It would be really great to have more challenging NPCs using all sorts of ewar and even drones. Of course the bounty and loot would have to be fair.
These are some delicious $120 grapes I bought, except as I was shopping around snacking on these wonderful grapes some kid went ahead and ripped them from my hands and ran out the store when I wasn’t even close to half finished the bag. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
New VNI max DPS configuration 550-600 depending on skill, reps ~250hp/s with proper rigs, ancil, and standard repper. No drugs, no plants
Current VNI 774dps with 2 ion blasters and 5 ogre2’s, reps 209hp/s with the same tank configuration.
It is not even a contest
UPDATE
[Vexor Navy Issue, *Rat King II]
Medium Ancillary Armor Repairer
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Drone Damage Amplifier II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Damage Control II
Medium Armor Repairer II
50MN Cold-Gas Enduring Microwarpdrive
Stasis Webifier II
Medium Capacitor Booster II
Warp Scrambler II
Heavy Ion Blaster II
Small Energy Nosferatu II
Heavy Ion Blaster II
Heavy Ion Blaster II
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Auxiliary Nano Pump I
Medium Nanobot Accelerator I
Hobgoblin II x1
Hammerhead II x2
Ogre II x2
Null M x2500
Nanite Repair Paste x274
Void M x3360
Navy Cap Booster 800 x1
is the new vni fit, reps 287 hp/s does 687dps with everything heated. Cap life with boosters, and nos going with prop off is a super useful 39s. Can be pushed to 45s if you heat your cap booster and nos.
That’s STILL not enough cap to run your ancil out of paste (6 cycles in both scenarios, you almost get a 7th though for cooking everything). God forbid you have to prop to someone. It’s also 100dps shy of it’s old self, which it trades for 78 hp/s in reps that it can’t keep running.
This is my response to CCP about the recent changes they are making to the game…THEY SUCK!! You guys can not deny that on my client it tells me the number of people playing the game and after blackout that number decreased by 10k and now it has decreased down to like 12k average from 28k-32k every time I would log in to now maximum 18k on the weekends. If that is not enough proof that you guys are intentionally sabotaging the game so it will die nothing is.
They’re still more deserving than a lot of other game companies… (cough) I mean better value than a lot of other grocery stores… if that makes you feel any better.
CCP simply if you want more Alpha Conversions, then you just need to get rid of PLEX and make all the players PAY for there accounts. Taking away more things to do from Alphas will just make them leave the game not convert.
P.S. This would solve your botting problem instantly.
no more t2 drones for alphas!!! this is total bull.s.h.it and has nothing to do with botting! and has everything to do with nerfing free players abilities!! you have reduced every skill that alphas use to make isk just to get people to pay!! botters just plex and can keep botting so its not about botters!! you used the same bs excuse to put lvl 4 missions behind a paywall!! because alphas wouldn’t be able to do them anymore!!