Buying ISK would be the equivalent of buying power.

No go.

Also: The UVT is in place because the voice chat is handled by a third party. The UVT profits go to maintaining it.

Yeah isk booster will be in the pay to win category so sorry but no

No. If you want ISK from payment, you just need to wait until the secondary player-controlled market opens up and allow you to sell UVTs to other players for ISK. Please keep in mind that ISK earned this way will vary according to the strict New Eden laws of Supply & Demand.

My comment has everything to do with this discussion. Let me point it out.

1. The New Eden economy has never seen any cash-bought item that can boost a player's income like you recommended.

2. Player income, as it stands, is based on the dynamic and somewhat chaotic market forces of the economy. Dumb players lose ISK while smart players gain ISK. It's a no brainer.

3. UVTs are expected to become a very hot commodity in New Eden which will enable players who don't have cash to get a UVT for ISK by simply buying one from a player who already has one and willing to sell it after purchasing it with AUR. It's just like how PLEX works in Eve Online.

4. There are already enough players that I know of who have stockpiled a large sum of UVTs for the reason mentioned in #3.

Why would anyone need to boost ISK gains? Just don't run stuff you can't afford to lose.

No, on the contrary, everyone would buy it. It's not useless, it's too good.

And why would you want to get rid of UVTs? Just because you don't have a use for them doesn't mean others don't.

There are two separate issues at play here.

Free voice communication I am totally for.

Replacing it with ISK booster is yet to be proven as worthwhile on its own merits, isolated from the UVT discussion.

Dust may not have those things market wise, but Eve Online does and it is a beast of an economy that took 10 years to perfect. At the moment, the Dust and Eve economies are isolated. But once the two economies start to merge and ISK finally flows between the two, CCP has already confirmed that ISK transfers between a Dust and Eve account will see heavy taxes imposed. Therefore, it will be pointless to try to flood a Dust player with 100 million ISK if a good chunk of that ISK simply gets destroyed by the tax system along the way.

No, I have not forgotten about PC. In fact, PC is the very reason I am against your idea of an ISK booster because what's the point of having such a booster if your income will be increased via other sources anyways in the near future?



By the way, don't assume that corps will get super rich like that. There will be way to keep the ISK flow under control. CCP Diagoras will make sure of that.

I get what you mean and I have explained in as much detail as I could as to why we have UVTs and why replacing it with an ISK booster may not be a good idea. Unfortunately, your responses to my response are coming across as a bit... um... how do I say this nicely? Less friendly? I tried to be friendly with you but it seems you're the one who just doesn't want to accept anything but your way only. I'm trying to point out flaws here to help you understand.

Of course, none of my ideas or suggestions are perfect, but at least I accept that and I'm willing to accept constructive criticism. I'm giving you constructive criticism which is good. Be glad I'm not replying to you as a troll.

While UVTs may not be liked by everyone, I'm still ok with them. If CCP can find some other way to pay for the costs, then I'm for it. However, ISK boosters doesn't seem to be a good alternative. If I am to compromise with Recon, I would probably agree with removing UVTs but have them replaced with items that doesn't run the risk of potentially harming an economy. Either that, or increase the price of another already-existing AUR item.

Hmm. I'm surprised I haven't received a response by now. We've already talked so much so quick.

I like the idea of vanity items paid for by aurum to replace the UVT third party costs. For example player/CCP designed dropsuits and vehicles. Individuals buy unique dropsuits that only they can use and corps buy suits etc only members of the corps can use. If you leave that corp then you instantly loose access to the corp suit/vehicle colour scheme. By vanity I mean that the only thing that changes is the colour and nothing else. You could have vanity items from militia to proto.

CCP can charge substantially more for these items than they do for UVTs and this would hopefully cover the costs of third party costs and avoids the risk of introducing an Isk booster.

My concerns would be how time consuming would it be to introduce these new colour schemes and what stress would it put on the servers tracking these unique suits during battle.

But it would be fun having my own unique suit and think of the fun you could have tracking and killing specific individuals because you know the colour scheme of their unique dropsuit/vehicle.