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Posted - 2009.07.18 08:07:00 -
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 Originally by: Xiao LoPan
Originally by: Space Pinata
Edited by: Space Pinata on 18/07/2009 00:32:21
if CONCORD says you're a criminal, the insurance company doesn't necessarily agree.
no insurance provider in any realm of reality or unreality will ever disagree with being told not to pay.
I'm totally against this change, but I absolutely love this point 
Honestly, don't know why I read this thread since most of the people posting in it clearly didn't and made the same 3 or 4 points over and over again.
But! Here I am. I agree with the point that was made (or at least implied) earlier on in the thread, the bigger picture point that high sec is a pretty safe and sterile place to be, and making it even safer is both unnecessary and bad for the game as a whole. I find this pointless dancing back and forth across the line between arguments from mechanics and arguments from story/world consistency, well, I said it already, pointless.
I like that hi-sec is relatively safe, because sometimes I just want to chill out whilst playing around in my internet spaceships. But, it doesn't need to be safer.
And yes, this mechanic would make it safer, by making suicide-ganking less common. Whether or not that is the 'intention' of the shift is completely irrelevant. Drastically increasing the barrier to entry of the activity while decreasing its profitability will cause it to happen less often. Duh.
I think suicide ganking just to grief people is pretty dumb to be honest, and would be unlikely to engage in the activity myself (I'm not counting anything out completely though  ). But I believe that the general trend in this game towards making eve a safer, more boring place to live is a bad one.
There are a lot of things about this game that I don't like or agree with, but I understand and respect that most of those things in one way or another contribute to the core design principles that make eve as a whole a game I really enjoy. Hi-sec suicide gankers are poopyface meanyheads. But I respect their right to be poopyface meanyheads, and see no reason to further abridge that right.
Finally I feel it is worth reinforcing the point that eve is anarcho-capitalistic bat-**** crazy land where sure why the hell wouldn't the cops pay out insurance and blow people up. In fact, if insurance were realistic in this game in that it were profitable, they'd be thrilled to do it to sell more insurance. Meaning that the problem is with insurance in the game in general not making sense, not in this particular type of situation.
Well, that was a rambling, meandering post for which I now profusely apologize 
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