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Noctoz
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Posted - 2003.08.31 16:49:00 -
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I see lots of complaing about people loosing months of work due to one mistake or people that will not go into combat because they fear to loose their ship. This should not be so.
We have insurance that can help the situation but for those that can't be on a lot it's not a sollution.
Insuring a BB is expensive.
I think the system should be changed so that insurance works like clones. YOu have it until you loose your ship. Realistic? No, but this is a game and the first priority should be to make it fun.
TO take it to a further level you could even make it so you don't loose your ship just equipment. This might be to go to extremes though. Maybe a free level of insurance whould be good though so that you don't loose everything even if you are caught unprepared.
Please critize this suggestion or come up with ways to improve it. Any improvment to this aspect of the game will make me happy.
I want large fleet battles. I want to go into combat without the feeling that in 5 minutes I might have lost weeks of work and will be forced to go do endless rat hunting or mining again just to get back to where I were.
And don't way you shoudl safe up money to afford to loose a battleship. For some people, maybe even including me, this is fully possible but for most even getting the money for a battleship is a HUGE goal. Shouls people get Battleships jsut to be able to mine and rat hunt in them. NO!
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NoctoZ
Black Reign
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Noctoz
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Posted - 2003.08.31 17:01:00 -
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newsflash. I do not enjoy ruining anyones game experience. I just want to be apirate and the includes blowing up people ship if they don't give me their goods and money.
Also I want to have fights with the people that coe and hunts us but currently it will never happen. Why? Because huge battles like that is a HUGE risk of loosing your ship so the only one seeking out battle is the side with most ships. Of course sometimes there will be a fight but it could happen much more often.
Realize that the cost of equipment and a new clone alone is LOTS of isk.
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NoctoZ
Black Reign
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Noctoz
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Posted - 2003.08.31 17:07:00 -
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Majin.
For people in a huge corp replacing a BB is easy but for people that work for them themselves it's a nother story. And as most ships are lost outside empire space I don't think there shoudl be no replacement there. I agree thought there needs to be some way to keep the shipmaking market alive. Maybe by giveing you isk instead of a new ships as is the situation right now. There need to be a system in place though that makes sure you can't abuse the system to gain isk.
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NoctoZ
Black Reign
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Noctoz
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Posted - 2003.08.31 18:49:00 -
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Playing it safe many players will never see combat in a battleship even if they want to.
the amonth of money it takes to afford to loose a battleship with the current system is unbearable for meny.
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NoctoZ
Black Reign
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Noctoz
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Posted - 2003.08.31 20:15:00 -
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As said before this is not primarily a problem for me or for m0o. I have access to BPs for every single item in the game and can get everything except some of the really rare goodies really cheap.
Assuming this is the situation for everyone though is to forget alot of players that don't play under those circumstances.
And even if you can buy things cheap and normally afford insurance everyone have weeks when real life takes up alot of time.
Should you then be forced to sit in station because you can't afford to pay insurance?
Even 1/10th of the cost is quite a bit of money you know for quite a few people.
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NoctoZ
Black Reign
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Noctoz
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Posted - 2003.09.01 13:48:00 -
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What are you on Davian? We have never lost any battleships to frigattes.
Anyway... this is not the point. As several people have mentioned already the ship is not the thing that is hardest to replace if you really are a combat pilot. It's all the equpiment that have take months to collect.
I'm not flying around in a BS uninsured and I make sure to have a buffer of money but to actually require people to save up twice the cost of a BB before they can use it is harch.
It's easy for those already rich to say that the system is perfect and that you should get lots and lots of money but it's not easy for everyone.
Counting from day one when I begun playing it whould take me ALOT of time to afford one.
I agree with what some area saying that everyone should not be flying BBs but anyone who are seriously after PvP combat will need them. A blackbird can actually beat a BB and a much more skilled pilot in any of the top level cruisers can beat an ill equiped one as well but most of the time a cruiser facing a BB is spacedust 1 minute later.
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