After the warbarge feature was released I gotta say I like the features of what it can potentially provide so far. It was pointed out that naturally people may if they wish pay using Aurum in order to potentially speed up the progression of upgrading the Warbarge. Many people chastised CCP for making this feature something they could make money on. I'm just kinda wondering is it really so bad? I mean if you don't wanna buy parts to upgrade the Warbarge it's just going to take a really long time? I've heard others mention that they feel this is turning the game into pay to win which I get but doesn't EVE provide boosts similar to this that you can purchase? Curious on people's thoughts.

[poor captain's log] day 4: Only another 34 components need to upgrade this hunk of scrap, some day I will get around to installing that Experimental Laboratory but not today [/poor captain's log]

I don't really mind about the slow advancement for not paying AUR, it would be nice to have more components in salvage but its early day. (this view may change as upgrade cost rocket)

No Eve does not provide similar boosts that can be purchased for cash. In Eve you can use implants that increase certain aspects but these are lost if your clone is destroyed and they are EXPENSIVE. A set of top level implants will cost you more than a PLEX (1 month of game time) and can be lost at any given gate camp.

The real problem with the warbarge is the speed of skilling it up naturally versus the speed of using AUR. A person can spend enough AUR to go directly to level 5 in everything if their wallet allows. Imagine if when Dust started you were able to just instantly buy proto everything instead of having to use boosters and still grind.This is exactly what is going on with the warbarge and people are mad because they realize passively they will probably never even see a 5% damage bonus while people blowing AUR are getting damage bonuses, free ISK, experimental weapons, and officer weapons.

Just wait until the proposed PC system is released and then we will see what real pay to win looks like. Too bad everyone that dumps thousands of dollars as a corp into their corp warbarge will still have to fight in lag filled matches. Good Game CCP.

I'm not an eve player but thanks for clarifying some of how it works.

I have already received 50 WBCs in salvage twice. It was a nice surprise but you quickly realize that with the upgrade costs this does nothing for you.