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Posted - 2009.07.01 20:49:00 -
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 Originally by: Nyphur
Originally by: Fon Revedhort
Originally by: Nyphur
The only problem is with people who bought the rigs for the full price before the patch and will be annoyed that they could have waited and bought a cheaper version after the patch that would do the same job.
After this news announcement with over a month of warning, I think anyone buying an expensive rig for a small ship knows full well what they're getting in for.
But it is a serious problem.
This effectively stoles my isk, since the ship is worth its price plus the rigs, and rigs are all of a sudden getting halved or even quartered in price (or whatever).
That's a total crap.
I've bolded the eroneous part. The ship COST you the value of the ship and rigs but that's not what it's worth because there is no way for you to get that value back. As rigs can't be removed, they're only worth the bonus to your ship. They have no resaleability and thus no resale value. As long as that bonus doesn't change, your ship will be functionally identical in every way, shape and form before and after the change.
You have a month to lose your expensive ship in PvP or sell it to someone who will. That should be plenty of time to solve the issue if you're really bothered about the isk you spent on those rigs. Or is it that you just want CCP to magically fix it so you can keep using your overpriced ship and then sell the rigs when the patch hits? You can't have your cake and eat it too.
I've bought and sold rigged ships through contracts several times. They are worth more than their unrigged counterparts on the market. So, the earlier comment is not erroneous. Cheaper rigs will devalue existing rigged ships if the bonuses are held constant.
Personally, I don't see why they wouldnĘt simply make the small and medium sized rigs cheaper to make with smaller bonuses, without bothering to restrict them by class size. If you want to put a 5% Cap control circuit on a battleship, go ahead. If you want to put a 15 million ISK "large" rig on your Rifter (just like you can now), go ahead. The advantage to small and medium rigs need only be that they are more cost-appropriate for the cheaper ships. Effectively, it would be more like meta levels for rigs, rather than class sizes.
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