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Posted - 2012.10.21 06:10:00 -
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I'll fully admit that I had done so as well, fairly early today. And it was before the Dev post saying it was unintended. Though I doubt I transferred anywhere near the amount many others did. Though, I've only spent about 3mil - 4mil, and didn't spend it on anything other than restocking what I already had, and buying a few skill books I'd been struggling to grind for. The hard reality is, even in the previous build, once i hit 5mil or so isk, I had no problem maintaining that. No intention of participating in the tourney. And had been holding out on joining a corp until I could actually recruit myself into my own EVE corp and make myself a director.
But, I can understand their decision to reset or rollback wallets if that's what it comes to.
Some issues that I see though. This would definitely unbalance things for the tournament, though less than some people think. In a fps, money will always technically be secondary to actual player skill and ability. I can't count how many times I get mowed down by random spawn gun with a militia AR due to dumb luck, regardless of what I was using. The lack of isk rewards have made HAV's for the most part non existent until fairly recently, thus giving me nothing to worthwhile to fire my forge guns at. That coupled with the previous WP farming problems. Due to lack of ISK, everyone except those in the corps like STB, and the others that formed right off the bat have not been able to compete or use much more than BPO suits/mods. And a great amount of the ISK some of those corps had, came from the Previously temp patched WP farming issues. Which I'm going to say likely imbalanced the economy just as much, if not more than this has.
On the other hand, this gives an opportunity to see how peoples spending habits change or would change due to influx of ISK from EVE once the game moves to TQ. The other issue is, you can't balance economics, without there being a real economy. We aren't going to know how much things will cost in reality, until A: we can buy and sell loot mods and weapons(where we know what kind of value people put on things). B: Dust basic and meta 1 mods are able to be manufactured, at which point we know resource cost to build, which would determine true base prices for mods and suits.. You have to remember anything about meta 1 and basic mods in EVE, are loot items. Some more common than others. |
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Posted - 2012.10.21 18:02:00 -
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Knightshade Belladonna wrote:"unintended behavior" "hindering testing of a market"
Did aur sales suddenly go to zero for the last 3 days?
Doubt it, I've still been spending Aurum like normal to keep my weapons stocked. Blindfire, blastwave, and farsight. Still takes time to build up SP to use the higher level weapons. |