Matthew
Caldari
BloodStar Technologies
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Posted - 2006.09.05 15:29:00 -
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 Originally by: DefJam101
It's not about being fair to make sure you don't "exploit the reimbursement system" it's about going over the top to make sur eeveryone is having a good enjoyment of the game.
I'm sure people contacting the GM's would enjoy the game much more if they gave out free faction battleships for every petition, so lets have them do that. After all, we have to go over the top to make sure everyone is enjoying the game 
Originally by: DefJam101
So some guy gets his Ferox back after you blew it up? Oh boy, it's the end of the world, I can't enjoy the game until he has no ISK left.
One guy with one ferox isn't the problem. But it wouldn't just be one guy with one ferox, it would be thousands of guys with thousands of feroxes, battleships, HACs, Carriers, Dreads....If that happened on a large scale, it would be incredibly damaging to the game. Economics is a big part of Eve, and destroyed suff is a big driver of the economy and economic warfare. If the reimbursement system started being abused, the consequences would spread through the entire game.
Originally by: DefJam101
EVE is a PvP based game, not a grief based one, if nubs want their ship back give them back, even if you do have to wait a month.
And because the nubs get their ships back every time they come up with a good lie, they then have no need to buy new ships. So demand for ships falls, demand for minerals falls - thus nerfing everyone using those elements of the game.
Not to mention that if the reinbursements petitions turned into the "free ship dispenser", the queue would get a lot longer than a month.
The sad truth is that people do lie. The more they stand to gain, and the more they think they can get away with it, the more they tend to lie. If the GM's worked on the assumption that the player was telling the truth, they would be ruthlessly abused by the liars, and the consequences for the game as a whole would be devastating.
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