Fester Addams
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Posted - 2003.10.06 00:14:00 -
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Ok, a bunch of people want there to be a toll on the super highways.
Fair enough however like most people agree if there is to be a toll it has to be large enough for people to actually care.
Lets say they put the toll at 5k, noone not even the newbies will care, sure its isk but noone travels enough to make such a charge anything to bother about.
Lets say its 50k, this will not affect 90% of the player population one bit, Im not wealthy like many other players but I would cough upp the 50k for the convenience of it being one jump rather than 10, the last 10% however will be devastated, the newbies, untill you can get a cruiser 50k is alot of cash, why block them out.
Then its the fantasy numbers, 500k, 5M and so on... why would there be such a charge, its not reasonable.
So in short, IF and I do say if a toll is implemented it will become an anoyance but nothing of real importance to all but the new players and why punish them?
My guess is there will be no tolls.
Naturaly if you look at some of the posts you can see alternate motives.
Easiest one to spot is pirates wanting the highway systems shut down as then people would have to fly past a number of less secure systems and thus become potential targets for their piracy...
It is understandable that they are frustrated that the actions of a few of them has created the situation we have today with high restrictions on their activityhowever I cant see why I should have to spend 4-5hrs or more going the scenic route when the game has already had superhighways implemented just to satisfy their bloodlust.
As for the idea with 0.0 space between the "empires", Im all for that IF the 0.0 systems are not chokepoints like the EvE universe is created now. Now if you locate a strategicly well placed system then you can be sure it has the lowest security rating there is (with the exeption of the superhighways).
Then we have the argument that the superhighways are killing the market, this is false, the market is flawed on the lowest level, the superhighways do very little to worsen that situation and most of us know this.
so what have we, implement a toll to make life alot harder for the players that are harming noone in favor of players who vocaly state that the object of their game is to attack other players... Im sorry pirates you have no case.
My guess is there will be no toll on account of the new players.
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