Thorian Baalnorn
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Posted - 2009.02.24 10:48:00 -
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Edited by: Thorian Baalnorn on 24/02/2009 10:49:51
 Originally by: Eleana Tomelac
Originally by: Bevil Smyth
Edited by: Bevil Smyth on 24/02/2009 10:04:22
I totally agree that rather than making these ships cheaper, they should buff them to being worth the price.
The guy (Eleana) posting above me is on the right track imho.
Anyway, There's nothing you can make cheaper, that's why I didn't even speak of it, MS already exist, people paid big billions for them, so you can't reduce the price, you can only boost up the ship to the price.
So, to make clearer the goal of that list :
Motherships should be an edge to people having them, still they are not titans and don't have jump portals, but they have a clone bay and should have really big ship maintenance bay so they jump in, in advance to any other possible support, 20 pilots jumpclone to the mothership, grab like 8 BS and 12 other smaller ships (HIC, HAC, AF, RS, Inty, Dictor and such, so you have an idea of the full maintenance bay size), then you have a fleet ready to go. Currently, the mothership is too small for that. Keep in mind that using the mothership this way would still be a huge risk for it to be deployed this way, but think about the edge it is to drop a mothership to defend something really critical.
When I think mothership, I remember the motherships in V (or independance day that copied it) that fly over cities and deploy tons of fighting capability.
For the current price tag, I think they should be able to do it, and anyway, dropping a lone mothership and jumpcloning the pilots in is high stakes.
To make a ship cheaper =require less materials to build it. cheaper to build= more get built=more competetion= lower prices further
Example: If indy corp A wants to build a cap ship and a mom requires not alot more parts than a carrier but sells for more , corp A would possibly build the mom for bigger profit margin.
Corp B also sees this but corp A finishes their first. Corp B wants a quick turn around so they drop the price over corp A by 5% Corp C also has a mom being built. they get theirs on the market before corp B sells theirs and they need the isk for other projects they lower their even further by another 5%. Corp A mined all their own minerals and dont want to be last in line to collect a check. So they go 5% lower... this continues until one corp sets their at a price no one will drop below or someone buys a ship and take a corp out of equation...welcome to economics
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