Have CCP priced the majority out of a decent fit?

Hey, no worries, you can still pay for a decent fit to motivate you to train those skills - just buy using AUR.

Even Proto guns for tanks have been released with an AUR price tag, and not a very highone compared to infantry gear I might add.
This will have to reignite the old debate about pay to win. In short, the AUR guns use less resources, and have equal or better stats than their regular counterparts from what I've seen, and cost about half if not a third the SP to get.
On a tank, the AUR guns can mean freeing up valuable resources, and being able to fit an extra damage mod, or other modules the tank would never be able to field otherwise, making it far more durable, and deadly.

We really need to have some form of fitting tool, so e can see what is really going to happen. If it turns out (as I suspect) that an AUR fitted tank will have significant overall performance over their ISK only counterparts, things need to be changed.


I see only one solution really, and that is that there is an ISK price on AUR items as well as an AUR price on ISK items, with a set AUR/ISK conversion rate for the NPC market. The Player market can then go in and undercut that NPC market, both ways.

Then the AUR Items should be no more than "Faction" items in EVE. Items that may be awarded after the round if a player gets killed with them, and later perhaps rewarded in storyline NPC missions.

no the price it right what you dont know that once eve gets hook up too dust pll from eve will trow billions in too dust i play eve i have 8 billion alone so price is good


p.s. soon too be 6 billion as soon as that hapens

Not complaing, but how is that even fair? To be able to give yourself unlimited funds and not earn them in game.

I suppose that's why SP points matter

It will be interesting to seen how this plays out.

Not complaing, but how is that even fair? To be able to give yourself unlimited funds and not earn them in game.

I suppose that's why SP points matter

It will be interesting to seen how this plays out.

hmmmm it wont work like this (ie direct money transfers).......

Otherwise everyone on dust who always plays EVE will have ridiculous advantage,,, although i'm sure there'll be an offshore island bank account way of getting some funds through

Hey, no worries, you can still pay for a decent fit to motivate you to train those skills - just buy using AUR.

Pay to win?

that kind of seems the logic here. Make the isk items so pricey that using aur for loadouts seems a better option. It's the inevitable scam of f2p games. Sure it may be free, but they'll make your experience so inconvenient and limited that you'll cave and just give them real cash for a better experience.

This is alot like EVE in that people typically can fly stuff much bigger than they usually do, and only pull out the best stuff when the reward is likely to be worth it.

I think a bigger issue is the suits don't have built in bonuses like ships do in EVE. If you use a T1 suit and have dropsuit 5, so what? Those skills are useless unless you have a protosuit. If there were bonuses for suits, your T1 suit would be better than a scrubs T1 suit.

no the price it right what you dont know that once eve gets hook up too dust pll from eve will trow billions in too dust i play eve i have 8 billion alone so price is good


p.s. soon too be 6 billion as soon as that hapens

This is alot like EVE in that people typically can fly stuff much bigger than they usually do, and only pull out the best stuff when the reward is likely to be worth it.

Pay to win?