DigitalCommunist
Obsidian Core
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Posted - 2008.03.29 02:16:00 -
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The topic says it all. I have always found this incredibly stupid and offensive, and have spoken against it in the past.
I guess what prompts me to repeat myself once again is the game design chat recording. Hearing certain devs blame the playerbase for using them in ways they were not designed is rather facetious.
The players are using capitals exactly as they were designed. But half the problem with "Capitals Online", is that they've proliferated faster than they can be destroyed. Made possible with large thanks to the idiotic mechanic of Insurance.
Remove insurance from capitals. Remove it.
Just erase it and pretend it never existed. It doesn't even require you to change your ways, I promise!
1. No basic insurance for capitals.
Basic insurance is a safety net for actual newbies to EVE. Even though most capital pilots suck at the game and can be called newbies, they're not new to it. They know how to play and what the consequences are, they just suck. Basic insurance was only put in to help new players get over the steep early learning curve, and nothing more. It is not there to make authentic losers feel less like losers. It just isn't.
Let me repeat how utterly, insanely demented paying out hundreds of millions, or billions of ISK is. With no justifiable reason, the 40% basic insurance rule is pumping the economy with ISK, and contributing to the inflation we've wrestled with for years. Every dread lost generates the same isk as ten battleships lost. A capital slugfest is damaging the economy more than weeks of major fleet battles.
2. Remove standard insurance from capitals.
About the only thing stopping Supercapitals from being a complete and utter joke, is not being able to dock and insure them fully. T2 fitted dreads in massive blobs can be lost day and night without really affecting people's ability to replace them, only their willpower to keep flying. Nearly all of the hurt in a badly executed capital fight is in the morale hit. Your entire alliance gets worried when it can't win with the biggest force they have.
Why does the quintessential flagship class of EVE pander to people whose psyche gets shattered by softcore cable ****? There is no nicer way of saying this, but if you think removing insurance from Capitals is too rough and not in line with the spirit of EVE, you are playing the wrong game.
Please remove insurance from capital ships. The pain is only temporary if you lube up right.
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