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Soraya Xel
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Posted - 2014.09.09 16:26:00 -
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The thing to bear in mind with an idea like this, is that you'd either have some dude at CCP having to set the prices on every item in the game every week (a full-time job), or they'd have to develop an entirely new method for updating the price on items in the backend.
Either way, it's a much larger investment than it may seem.
I love the idea, but my immediate thought on viewing it, is that there are smaller time investment projects than can reap far better rewards for the players than this.
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Soraya Xel
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Posted - 2014.09.25 22:02:00 -
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I will restate this, and also point out that continually making new threads linking to this is spam.
Soraya Xel wrote:The thing to bear in mind with an idea like this, is that you'd either have some dude at CCP having to set the prices on every item in the game every week (a full-time job), or they'd have to develop an entirely new method for updating the price on items in the backend.
Either way, it's a much larger investment than it may seem.
I love the idea, but my immediate thought on viewing it, is that there are smaller time investment projects than can reap far better rewards for the players than this.
CPM1 Elect. Thanks for all your support. [email protected] for ideas, thoughts, and feedback.
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Soraya Xel
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Posted - 2014.09.25 22:22:00 -
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Every idea does not get a CCP response. Continuing to spam the forums does not change that fact. o_O
Yes, it would require a script. A script that would add more overhead to the downtime process, and probably be bug-prone, and cause significant issues. The cost of developing the script would be high for the return on investment, and it would also enable additional whining as people pitched fits about their fits being expensive, and income not being high enough to compensate.
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Soraya Xel
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Posted - 2014.09.26 16:53:00 -
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I want to say I recall bringing up the idea, and it was not thought of as practical.
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Soraya Xel
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Posted - 2014.09.26 17:29:00 -
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I explained in an earlier post in the thread why it would be a lot of work. But the reason "I want to say" and not "I did", is I can't find a conversation log that says I brought it up with the devs, because it's a lot of chat to search through. But I think I did, because I recall doing so.
Personally, I think they could accomplish much more useful improvements to the game with a lot less work than this. It's not to say it's a bad idea, but just to say there are better ones, and CCP has to prioritize.
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Soraya Xel
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Posted - 2014.09.26 17:48:00 -
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The problem is where you believe the sum total of this is >50 lines of code and ~20 minutes of dev time. ;)
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Soraya Xel
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Posted - 2014.09.26 18:54:00 -
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Yes. Really.
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Soraya Xel
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Posted - 2014.09.26 19:34:00 -
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Well, for one, there's a somewhat bad track record of weird screw ups during events that require scripts, like reward distribution or SP cap modification being done wrong.
But I mean, there's QA, it adds yet another thing to weekly downtime maintenance, designing the pricing system, ensuring it doesn't price certain things out of usable existence, etc. You also risk people considering it cash-grabby since the AUR prices won't move. (Suddenly, the best way to buy popular fits becomes AUR.) You're also talking about a system that needs to be tied into EVE's market system, which is where our market resides, so it probably has to be run by people in Iceland too.
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