Xi Xing
Gallente
Paxton Industries
Paxton Federation
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Posted - 2007.05.09 15:50:00 -
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OK, there's a lot of moaning about titans and how disastrous it will be when there are fifty bla bla bla. I have had a small idea which i think might be worth sharing/discussing. It doesn't only apply to titans, it applies to all ships in varying amounts.
The benefits would be:
- Newbies are relatively unaffected
- It becomes very expensive to own multiple capitals and supercapitals, putting a practical cap on their numbers
The idea is based on the fact that each ship in Eve is a one-time investment. I can buy a little run about like an Incursus - i can insure it if I want, but apart from that.. I now own it and (assuming it doesn't meet a fiery death at the end of a missile) it will last forever at no cost.
How ridiculous is that?
Compare it to any real situation and you will see that it's preposterous. My car (which, without waving my epeen, is german and pretty solidly built) will develop several faults over its lifetime, and has plenty of consumables which need replacing. In effect, it costs me money to own it.
Compare it to an Airline, who spend tend of thousands on each aircraft, continually ensuring that every aspect of every plane is checked and tested and in perfect condition.
Yet in Eve, once you have bought your thousand-ton, multiple staff, military grade space ship.... it requires no extra upkeep. It just works forever for free.
Scale this up to capital ships and it becomes truly laughable... you are telling me that my Erebus requires zero maintenance at all? It's a machine the size of a small city!
I suggest an sliding scale of upkeep "maintenance fees" which must be paid in ISK, in order to be allowed to undock in your ship. By sliding scale, I mean something like the following:
it costs 1,000 ISK a week to maintain a frigate
a destroyer is 2,500 ISK/week
a cruiser is 10,000 ISK/week
a battlecruiser is 200,000 ISK/wk
a battlship is 750,000 ISK/wk
a capital ship is 25,000,000 ISK/wk
a titan is 1 bil ISK/wk.
Now, i just made those numbers up and have no idea what the ramifications of those would be. So don't get all "750k ISK a week is too much you suck"
if you choose not to pay the weekly maintenance fee then it just gets saved up, so next week you have to pay 2 weeks worth. It will stack, up to a set level which would probably half of the ship's value. Beyond that, it just costs half the ship's value to get spaceworthy again.
Bear in mind that for a battlecruiser that might cost 25 million, a payment of 200,000 isk a week will take 50 weeks - almost a year - to reach that 'half-value' cap.
I am in serious danger of going into tl;dr territory here so I will end with a question:
What do you think?
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