Al Kickaurazz
Amarr
Ministry of War
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Posted - 2008.07.24 10:01:00 -
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 Originally by: Ushatuhkwa Kaeshe
Edited by: Ushatuhkwa Kaeshe on 22/07/2008 19:05:06
Edited by: Ushatuhkwa Kaeshe on 22/07/2008 19:04:51
Originally by: Roy Batty68
The excuses have been... somewhat lame imo.
Not really, think of it in terms of prime fiction, and look at it in perspective, even with triple the subscription rates.
Let's say we come to the day where there are 5 million people on the server.
5 million capsuleers
Each inhabited planet in Eve has over 500 million people, and there are over 5,000 solar systems that are inhabited. Let's go with High capsuleer numbers, to low population. So let's assume only one planet on each solar system is sparesly populated.
You have then, say five million capsuleers, for a population of 2,500,000,000,000 (that's 2.5 trillion people inhabiting the eve cluster) - so that would make for 0.00019999999999999998% of the population being capsuleers.
To put this in perspective, the 8,000 isk you started as a newbie was the remainder of a 10,000 isk family fortune inheritance that was enough to put you through school, and get you a basic frigate.
To say that capsuleers are Gods among men would be an understatement. We can buy and sell scores of mercenaries with the equivalent price of two capacitor boosters. Why in the world would we stoop so low to want to carry a gun and go shooting people in the face? The poorest of us can make any station manager tremble in fear of making us unhappy and having to report to his superiors that a capsuleer was unhappy with his service.
Even low-sec stations would consider being visited by a capsuleer enough to kick everyone out of the bar and put more security than God around to make sure that their capsuleer doesn't get their boots dirty. On the off chance that you decided to tip them 3,000 isk.
To be honest i think it would be great idea. Even gods among men get tired of sitting in a pod.
If you for instance do something like the "Sleeve" system in Richard Morgans Sci-fi books about Kovacs Linkage (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies), you can explain the reason for not dying when you are out of a pod, and also sort of explain the reason/need for the "gods among men" capsuleers to actually get their hands dirty once in a while.
Even if youre richer than God it doesnt mean you dont WANT to pick up a gun and shoot someone instead of having the unsatisfying experience of just watching your hirelings do it..  Besides, its risk free for you anyways since you can just "resleeve" and even get special combat clone bodies to jump into for the fun.
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Al Kickaurazz
Amarr
Ministry of War
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Posted - 2008.07.24 10:03:00 -
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Originally by: Carniflex
On a long level 4 missionrunning day I kill a somewhere above million people in pretty explocions. It would be highly ineffective to kill them one by one. Not to mention I can afford and army to fight for me.
I do like however concept of FPS. That discussion has already been done in some lenght in features forum tho. One of the better ones I saw was that pod pilots use cyborgs they control thru their pod interface to kill stuff. Cyborgs would be tough and could survive several hits, when cyborgs arrive regular bodyguards go for the rocket launchers to be able to hurt it. Cyborgs would be expencive. Like a ship or so.
So you never do anything for fun? Its highly ineffective, but maybe its more fun.. As long as it RP-wise is risk free for your capsuleer, maybe he wants some ineffective up close and personal fun once in a while you know.
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