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Posted - 2014.02.12 00:16:00 -
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Arkena Wyrnspire wrote:Thor Odinson42 wrote:
It's really hard to believe how much PC is ignored with the amount of ISK it generates. I wonder what's the time spent by CCP on BPOs and their impact on the economy vs the time spent on PC.
According to CPM Hans, the isk generation of BPOs makes PC isk generation look like abject poverty.
I generally trust Hans, but I really want to see those numbers and how they were derived before I'm willing to accept that particular statement. I'm not math genius and I clearly don't have CCP or CPM level access, but based on what I do have access to I simply cannot see how that adds up within the current game state.
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+1 OP, I'm all for "adapt or die" but some things are just lopsided and need to be refined, this case seems like one of them.
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Posted - 2014.02.13 03:55:00 -
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Killar-12 wrote:Thor Odinson42 wrote:Arkena Wyrnspire wrote:Thor Odinson42 wrote:
It's really hard to believe how much PC is ignored with the amount of ISK it generates. I wonder what's the time spent by CCP on BPOs and their impact on the economy vs the time spent on PC.
According to CPM Hans, the isk generation of BPOs makes PC isk generation look like abject poverty. Then why aren't there a bunch of BPO billionaires out there? I know one guy. I know quite a few PC billionaires. there's hundreds of BPO millionares though, hell I've got corp members who have hundreds of thousands Billionares I know 15-20 some scammers, some BPO billionares others like NF, AE and FA and Nyain guys who are from PC...
The other thing to keep in mind is that BPOs have been around from the start, while PC most certainly has not.
The players who are flush with ISK from PC have gathered that wealth in a much shorter time frame than the ISK saved up by players using BPOs. The PC ISK is also more passive (yes you have to fight for PC sometimes, but other times you don't while you always have to fight to gain any ISK advantage from a BPO) and didn't require a micro transaction expenditure of real life money (which all debate about whether or not CCP "can" change a purchase after it's been made completely aside it will have negative ramifications for current and potential player impressions if they set such a precedent).
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EVE participation in PC is currently bottle-necked. Last I checked it requires the pilot to be within the alliance they want to support (no merc contracts for players from EVE), it requires the pilot to be in place to provide the support at go time (location effects a lot in EVE, the player will have to travel through potentially hostile space spending time and risking ISK just to arrive on time for the fight) and the benefits cannot be shared (no EVE bonuses for Corps or players outside of an alliance, so unlike 0.0 Sec where deals can be made PC requires a direct membership only focus, which limits the EVE players who would consider participation).
The list goes on, and admittedly there are some workarounds, but the short story here is that the current weakness of the EVE-Dust link makes this mechanic something of an imbalance. EVE and Dust should absolutely share New Eden, but with the match defining effect of an immediate OB and the huge ISK income of PC the current mechanic isn't sharing, it is to an extent making Dust dependent on EVE and that's not helpful for the continued expansion of Dust 514 into a real asset within the New Eden universe/IP.
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