trollsroyce wrote:When open market finally arrives, we will hop in excitement on it just to find the game funded and ran by Russian oligarchs from that point onwards.
Paying cash for gear makes it impossible to create an economy parallel to that of EVE online. How would that game play, if nullsec pilots could just replace their battleship with NPC injected aurum ones? Dust PC at its core is no different. It's a game of isk ultimately. Using p2w gear will buy your alliance clone packs and infrastructure upgrades. That gear is not player made; it just pops out of thin air.
I conclude thus, that due to this choise, dust economy will remain limited and shallow. Economic warfare will be largely aurum based. To simplify it and make the ground even, I suggest bringing out the last word in PC: Genolution 'P-2W' clone pack, at 40000 AUR (25% discount).
Your whole argument here is basically that an eve pilot can't replace their ships with an aur one or in effect buy a new one using only real money and that since someone can buy gear in dust for aur (using real money) that is pay to win for dust but not eve .
You are completely incorrect. I today can buy a plex in eve using real money no different than buying aur and I then can convert that plex into ISK (going rate is about 500 mill ISK for that plex I paid real money for). So other than the extra step of converting the plex to isk (which takes a couple minutes) I am not seeing ANY difference to a player paying real money for aurum for gear in dust.
You say nullsec pilots can't replace their ships using real money yet it happens every day Not just with ships but also there are plenty of modules and equipment etc in eve that is not player manufactured. Yes there are also ships that are not player manufactured in eve even if very few but they do exist and have been many things over the years that are/were npc manufactured. The eve economy has not suffered because of this no different than the dust economy will not suffer either once we do have a open market in dust.
Your argument only holds true if we don't get the dust market or at minimum the ability to trade items. Player trade alone is enough to balance things. Once we have that dust market or trade there is in effect no tangible difference for dust aur items and eve plex converted to isk.