Everyone’s treating Paragon as just a vanity system, but has anyone stopped to consider what CCP is asking us to trade in for EverMarks?
They’re not random junk. They’re functional ships and modules, often the very ones that are overproduced or heavily used in meta fits.
This isn’t just about SKINs. It’s a soft sink designed to reduce supply in the economy — to prop up prices, adjust market flows, and rebalance overused assets without patch notes or nerfs.
It’s smart, subtle, and very CCP. But let’s not pretend it’s purely cosmetic. When you’re turning Catalysts into lipstick, you’re also slowly changing the battlefield.
CCP added these barge turn-in points in reaction to the outcry that CCP was selling mining barges for real money. Those barges were spawned into existence out of thin air, which compete with and undermine the player economy of mining ore and building mining barges to sell to other players.
It requires no genius to see the connection there.
It’s sad though, because now the mining barge business is even more fcked up with both ships spawned into thin air anywhere in the game through packs sold for real money, and an ever present NPC buy order which both interfere with the economy of player-created demand and supply.
What kind of LLM nonsense is that? Is this supposed to be a joke or is your LLM confusing game cosmetics with human cosmetics?
“Turning Catalysts into lipstick” = Trying to rebrand or soften the image of something that’s inherently hostile and destructive (like ganking ships/players).
“Slowly changing the battlefield” = These cosmetic or cultural changes (tone, messaging, branding, or even mechanical shifts) end up having ripple effects that alter how players perceive and interact with the game’s PvP dynamics.
