Getting free money from the daily goals and opportunities thing, like 500,000 ISK (500k) for each one, really ruins the game for me.
Would be nice if the free money thing from daily goals and opportunities, like manufacture a item or earn 50 LP for any corporation, was removed, so its only skill points.
And re-direct that 500k per goal ISK to low level activities, maybe in the form of npc wreck drops, since 500k is kind of nothing to alot of players, and the players that do feel rich from that 500k are probably doing low level, low income activities.
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To understand where i am coming from, i only fly tech 1 frigates in high sec, and do combat anomalies in high sec. 500k isk (500,000) is like the cost of my entire ship! For free!
Others might like free money, but it ruins the game for me, so would be nice to re-direct that free money into loot from actual activities that you work to get, such as combat anomalies or exploration.
Also, no, i am not poor. I got a few lucky drops from high sec combat anomalies and escalations from those, and after selling to JitaRun, i now have around 500 mil isk…
That 500K ISK, along with 500 EverMarks, is actually paid on each completed goal… Completing all 5 goals gives a maximum of 2,500,000 ISK and 2,500 EverMarks…
As for the 10k Skill Points, that’s an extra reward for completing 2 goals before Downtime, after DT the Daily Goals are reset… On top of those rewards are also 4 Milestones with specific rewards for Alpha accounts as well as additional rewards for Omega accounts…
I’d go further and not only remove the ISK reward but remove this entire fourth-wall breaking dark pattern.
Delete the daily goals.
It has no place in this universe or player economy, is no part of the core gameplay and only exists as a cheap widespread gaming trick to boost engagement by making players feel bad for not playing a day.
‘But I get free stuff from it!’ is exactly why people keep falling for this awful practice and why it plagues modern games.
I like the ‘Free’ SP as it means I can train alts without needing to pause training on my main, but really I should just be buying Injectors, or dual training time, or pausing the main. It’s a distraction from actually playing the game and is clearly a cynical plot to buff apparent player numbers.