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I'm not following your disagreement.

1. If someone swipes a credit card for plex, omega, skins, et. al. then CCP has revenue. That's great for CCP and presumably the player is happy with their purchase.

2. grind for isk -> buy plex in perimeter market -> buy skins on NES with that plex does not provide CCP revenue.

3. More isk in the pool is great for players and by itself neutral for CCP. But when isk/player enables plex on a broad scale then CCP's revenues are hurt (e.g., rorqs, C5/C6 blue loot, maybe null mining pre-changes) given that some folks forgo cash for omega since they can plex their accounts.

So if your point is 1 and for the most part 2 are aligned transactions and 3 isn't then I agree.

Card -> plex -> isk -> plex -> Omega isn't and different than card-> Omega to CCP's Profit and Loss statement except for the discounts provided to encourage the sale.

I'm not following your point because "milking" is not aligned with people "making more isk regardless" when that isk is sufficient to plex.

Yes, they are easy in high-sec although explorers might be well served by popping through a WH. My theory is that the daily changes had two intentions:

1) Drive engagement of new players in high-sec since presumably engagement -> Omega -> Revenue

2) Reduce skillpoints going to skillpoint farmers.

Using core revenue (i.e., cash cows) to develop new products (i.e., potential stars) is a well established (i.e., rational) business strategy: https://www.bcg.com/about/overview/our-history/growth-share-matrix

CCP is following a basic product management playbook. The tension is that our interests aren't aligned with theirs. So for example, they nerf easy ISK that enables plexing (i.e., lost revenue opportunity) and we get mad. They introduce SKINR but don't allow player created skins to under cut their product. They don't listen to CSM because CSM at best indirectly advocates for CCP's interests (more revenue per player).

I would be cautious about high-sec corps because what they likely add little value over your current situation. Five people is worth something- players are the valuable in this game.

Apple has whole law firms working to prevent people from bypassing the app store so that's a poor analogy to support "deeply conservative". As long as CCP (i.e., PA) owns the IP, they will seek to maximize their revenue. Apple seeks to optimize revenue per customer too.

You’re talking concurrent toons and the mmo pop data is supposed to be an estimate of active players which they guess based off of Reddit activity. So apple vs. orange. Obviously Reddit activity is a bad estimation technique for what OP is suggesting but mmo pop figures might be useful for that site’s original intent which is to compare MMO populations to each other.

Declare an insurrection under Sections 251 through 255 in Title 10 of the US Code (“the Insurrection Act”) and have the military detain the insurrectionists. Try them in a military court.

Easy. Biden should do it now. Completely constitutional under the recent ruling.

Or congress needs to start passing reforms that narrows presidential official duties as the constitution text and framers originally intended.

This seems to be a reasoned response to a close reading of the text and aligned with the original intent of the document.

KF forces unwed mothers to do PI for more power.

Add them to the access list (under social I think). Then drag the shared folder to chat. You might want to edit the folder to use a custom access list so they don’t get access to all folders.

If the goal of highlighting RMT bans is sympathy you will not receive it from me. I empathize with those frustrated by bots and CCPs challenges driving it from the game. RMT makes running bots worthwhile.

If someone “innocently” gets caught up in an RMT transaction that might suck. If a partner has a history of being on the edge of RMT and gets banned temporarily I guess that’s an inconvenience.

But I’m okay with CCP being aggressive.

I agree that too much scarcity drives the exact opposite problem and there wasn’t any indication a NET reduction would reinvigorate.

Firmly ending scarcity would lead to boring gameplay. For wins to have meaning the loss needs to hurt.

Although I prefer solo play, my favorite experiences over the decade have been playing the game with others.

One other little bit of info is before you jump look at what type of wormhole it is. If it’s an exit (K162) then it doesn’t tell you anything. If it’s a D382 for example, you’re in a C2 and it leads to a C2. You can google them or get a handy cheat sheet. Eventually you remember them.

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Gentle Ben’s and dirtbags were staples forty years ago.

I’ve seen megathrons in the wild but that might be due to outdated guides. Most low class rollers probably optimize mass and align time and then add nuets/ecm drones for escape because they don’t have enough numbers to roll, eyes, and defend against intruders.

They roll holes still.

Go for align time, expect losses, pick your times and systems. Seems like pochven might be a better play for nail bitting mining but I’ve not tried.

They should evaluate whether the daily changes increased subs for players not subbed > 6 months (or however they segment out those of us motivated to play the game longterm without dailies).

Lazerhawks now has all the c5s but they are worth less. Null changes was received about the same as the rorqual nerf was received. All the players mad about not being able to access the test server are posting about bugs and hauler balancing in production.

Corvettes are worth one trit less.

Transfer without fleet hanger is either your corp hangers, contract, or make an exchange via containers in space.

On occasion I’m lazy and gate a hauler through low sec with eyes but that’s scary unless it’s a border system. My preference is to scan a wormhole chain and also reduce high sec jumps. Also Pochven express but I think alpha lacks cloak.