Let's Talk: Scientific Data

[sindroms]

Well, that's really the thing to note here.
PVE events originally were aimed for players with the biggest toys in order to have justification to put them to good use. For example, many of the earlier events took place in Kusari to give the KNS some love.
The first reiteration of these events were death traps for snubs and it was there mostly by design. However, you could partake in them as long as you had at least a gunboat with a sturdy enough armor so it did not single out players who didn't have a few bil kicking around. In the end these players could gain access to cosmetics and have more unique things to enjoy for their trouble. It was an ''endgame'' reward for having large ships in various regions of the mod universe.

The changes were put in mostly due to situations where certain factions could not participate properly, or where players simply could not fly caps effectively and felt left out, so the bar for entry to obtain these items was slowly being lowered. The bar hit the ground level only with the introduction of scidata in the form of events that required no PVE at all. But the initial mistake is still there.

Players are hoarding scidata for the hope of the next tiers being available or for new ''shinier and better'' goodies being added. After all, nobody wants to spend their data on a base model, only to have TITAN ships available tomorrow.
No.
The easiest way to fix this is to lock down all current rewards to the current data. This will signal players that only the current existing rewards will be using this data and there is no need to hoard and wait for something better.
Then introduce a Tier II scientific data for all future rewards that are outside the current norm.

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