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el OPERATOR
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Posted - 2015.05.25 20:26:00 -
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A lot of very interesting ideas and possibilities here, are there/when will there be some actual numbers available so we can see the actual design beyond the core conceptual aspect?
alias lycan wrote:CCP Rattati wrote:Jadek Menaheim wrote:Has there been discussion in the Think Tank on the kinds of items can be purchased with District Kredits? Just that they cannot be more powerful than normal items. They need to be exclusive, and different. SKINs are an obvious first step, and I am open to suggestions. If this is the case then i see no reason to use DK's new paint jobs dont interest me
This imo is an extremley valid sentiment and one I'm in agreement with. All previous announcements about the "BMKs/now DKs" implied a whole new, seperate class of suits, equipment (and hopefully vehicles). SKINs alone really arent any sort of incentive let alone replacement for the isk that was removed from PC payouts.
If we're still without actual elements/items that DK will purchase at this current juncture (post PC payout devaulation pending currency replacement) then I suggest that DKs be usable immediately as isk in the main store as well as usable as a universal currency in the LP store. Repricing etc need not occur, provided the DK payout ratio is better than FW payout ratios ie. such and such is 100 LP or 100 DK. DK Benefit being the ability to shop any of the factional stores without having to fight the factional matches. Of course this is a placeholder for an ACTUAL DK store and its implements being generated and released.
DK also being able to be used to purchase WB components could be a small benefit to DKs.
Open-Beta Vet.
Egbinger Original.
DUST514 is WARFARE, not WAR-FAIR
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el OPERATOR
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Posted - 2015.05.25 20:37:00 -
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I guess the real core question insofar as DKs go as currency is where exactly are they to be relative to the other existing currencies? Is our economy 1/3 isk 1/3 LP 1/3 DKs? Or is it to be 1/2 isk, 1/25 LP 1/25 DK? Or is it to be 3/4 DK, 1/50 isk, 1/50 LP? What exactly is that balance being geared towards? Once that question is answered, then we can look to those individual currencies and see how their relative "buying power" works in alignment with their proposed position in the ratio.
I'd like a 100% isk-based economy, isk buys everything, with LP and now DKs being some ratioed value relative to isk, 10 isk= 7 LP or 3 DKs for example.
But this would mean opening the factional store and (if it debuts) the DK store to purchases being tenderable solely on isk alone, since it would allow main store puchasing solely on LP or DK alone as well.
Open-Beta Vet.
Egbinger Original.
DUST514 is WARFARE, not WAR-FAIR
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el OPERATOR
Capital Acquisitions LLC
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Posted - 2015.05.26 18:14:00 -
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I suggested DKs being applied to the LP store as a placeholder since thus far, despite the current and proposed changes to PC payouts, there's been zero info released as to the specifics of what DKs are for. As a placeholder the LP store access works but is entirely intended as a temporary, short term, solution so that DKs can be introduced as more than something that equals nothing.
Anyone curious about the current PC payout structure and its rewards is encouraged to go to Dust Charts and scroll back a few weeks to when the payouts were changed. The utter cliff that PC activity dropped off of is the payout structure and what it has inspired.
****** up part is that the structure was changed to stop farmers from wantonly farming isk off districts to pubstomp while never actually being PC active. Instead, farmers now just farm differently and the previously PC active individuals /corps have little to no reason to PC payout-wise since payout-wise whatever the new scheme is supposed to be it isn't ready yet BUT the nerf part is done.
See you all in the lag! o7
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Egbinger Original.
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el OPERATOR
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Posted - 2015.05.26 18:28:00 -
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el OPERATOR wrote: The real core question insofar as DKs go as currency is where exactly are they to be relative to the other existing currencies? Is our economy 1/3 isk 1/3 LP 1/3 DKs? Or is it to be 1/2 isk, 1/25 LP 1/25 DK? Or is it to be 3/4 DK, 1/50 isk, 1/50 LP? What exactly is that balance being geared towards? Once that question is answered, then we can look to those individual currencies and see how their relative "buying power" works in alignment with their proposed position in the ratio.
Open-Beta Vet.
Egbinger Original.
DUST514 is WARFARE, not WAR-FAIR
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el OPERATOR
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Posted - 2015.05.26 18:34:00 -
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And I absolutely hate the idea of "selling" SP. That idea is way to much of a handout to altfarmers wrapped as a "gift" to newbies for my liking. Newbies now have immensely more opportunies to make significantly more SP faster than any of us old vets. The idea whether or not that they should earn it on their own themselves shouldn't even be a question. Or possible change.
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Egbinger Original.
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