Also note that your clothes get destroyed (http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1517440&page=2#44) when you get podded.
Also note that your clothes get destroyed (http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1517440&page=2#44) when you get podded.
This part made me WTF hard. I can understand that CCP wants destructibility in order for them to have a functional market. But there's no way a pod has storage space for clothing. Make it on ship destruction, that's where you'd keep your wardrobe anyways.
Oh, also the apparent decimation of what's currently available for clothing. Lame and space-gappy though the current selection is, that's just a dick move.
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2: Can clothes be left behind in our stations if we don't want them lost on podding? I mean, we're not exactly wearing that fine silk jacket into the pod...
Yea works for me realism wise, when you're going to a party you put your nice shirt and pants on, when you're going to blast people in the face you get naked and put on warpaint.
Yea works for me realism wise, when you're going to a party you put your nice shirt and pants on, when you're going to blast people in the face you get naked and put on warpaint.
FTFY.
Even a capsuleers clothes are more valuable than most planets annual GDP.
I am completely fine with microtransactions for cosmetics. If they start microtransactions for things that actually affect in-space gameplay there will be mouth-foaming rage, though/
QuoteWe're going to start selling vanity items for a new currency called Aurum (which is created from PLEX). We hope you enjoy it but, if you don't, you're in no way forced to take part in it. This will launch within the next couple of months.
Fucking hypocrites.
Nope. This has been coming for a while.
Again: just use the free customization before you go to a party or a meeting, then change back. I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that your flight clothes and your social clothes will differ. :)
QuoteWe're going to start selling vanity items for a new currency called Aurum (which is created from PLEX). We hope you enjoy it but, if you don't, you're in no way forced to take part in it. This will launch within the next couple of months.
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Nope. This has been coming for a while.
I perfectly knew it was coming and have already been voicing against it here and there. Not everyone does that, to begin with, it is just the actual fashionable thing for video games editors with microstransactions and DLC, and all the like. I can't stand that. Even if it is just for cosmetic purposes. Question of ethics for me. You do not develop only for a part of your players. If you don't want to play in a battleship for example, sure, you are not forced to to it. But if you want, you do not have to use microstransactions though. It is the same thing for me here. If I want to use a pair of clothes, I pay for it in isk or whatever is the ingame currency, but not with a currency tied to any microtransaction related to RL stuff. In my opinion it is utter bullshit. Second life, anyone ?
I think it would make more sense if you lost your clothes when you lost your ship, even if you saved your pod ... but probably difficult to implement?
I think it would make more sense if your entire wardrobe over your extremely extended life time cost at most a few hundred ISK as was not something that you even thought about after getting podded.
There's something a bit strange in the arguments that people don't want micro-transactions for in-game benefit. While I most certainly agree that I don't want some uber t4 missiles to be available for real money, but to some extent this has already been possible. The introduction of PLEX has made it possible to buy real advantage in-game with real money. Yet that has not caused a shitstorm of epic proportions.
So you can still buy anything with ISK, it doesn't provide a game-mechanical advantage in any way, and you can completely ignore it all if you prefer.
I fail to see an issue. At worst, this is like the RP-type items in game that do nothing mechanically but find their way into hangars (e.g. exotic dancers / janitors / marines, etc.)
I have a somewhat different attitude to in-game inequalities, I think because my early gaming experiences were in MMOs that both had absolutely zero real money interaction with the internal economy and were grind-based advancement games. Real life financial constraints provided an absolute barrier to any participation for some, with no options to buy subscription time for in game currency; while for those of us fortunate enough to afford the entry fee for the 'level playing field' , the crucial currency became time - the more time you had to spend, the more you had and the more you advanced in game. I view the possibility of the time rich and cash poor paying for everything, including playtime, with in game currency to be much more equitable; I also view the possibility for those who are time poor to not be continually disadvantaged in game because of their real life circumstances to be more equitable.
[spoiler](http://i.imgur.com/h12oo.png)[/spoiler]Haha... I see you happy :psyccp:
OMG OMG OMG!
I have a somewhat different attitude to in-game inequalities, I think because my early gaming experiences were in MMOs that both had absolutely zero real money interaction with the internal economy and were grind-based advancement games. Real life financial constraints provided an absolute barrier to any participation for some, with no options to buy subscription time for in game currency; while for those of us fortunate enough to afford the entry fee for the 'level playing field' , the crucial currency became time - the more time you had to spend, the more you had and the more you advanced in game. I view the possibility of the time rich and cash poor paying for everything, including playtime, with in game currency to be much more equitable; I also view the possibility for those who are time poor to not be continually disadvantaged in game because of their real life circumstances to be more equitable.
The free clothing and accessories in the character creator are for choosing your character's default appearance. If you get podded, your new clone will awaken with this outfit. We don't intend to keep offering the full free clothing line each time you step into the character creator. Eventually you will see just the one free set and whatever clothing you have acquired.
[spoiler](http://i.imgur.com/h12oo.png)[/spoiler]
OMG OMG OMG!
Well, you can buy the stuff for ISK on the market. Nothing ever compels you to use PLEX or aurum, even if you want the stuff.
has no real credibility or realism, no justification either PF wise.
[spoiler](http://i.imgur.com/h12oo.png)[/spoiler]
OMG OMG OMG!
I did a double take from the current item names, "ShirtMilF" or summat.
Now for business stuff! \o/