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Dirk Magnum
Royal Hiigaran Navy
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Posted - 2008.10.05 20:13:00 -
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Looking at the big picture converting a once-unique ship into a PvE grind reward isn't that big of a deal, but it is one more way of watering down this game IMO. It'd be fine if every once in a great while CCP handed out some highest-tier battleships to individuals who actually accomplish something meaningful in FW... which in the current FW system is impossible because there's nothing that comes close to approaching the dynamics of nullsec sovereignty rewards.
 Originally by: Sokratesz
Yuh and how long does it take one to accumulate 1 million LP in empire Oo Even in 0.0 with over double the LP rewards it takes weeks and weeks of grinding
Given the number of 500k LP faction battleships currently in service I really don't think that the price of a million LPs for an even better ship would dissuade anyone from grinding for it. The only obstacle to using them is that they require racial battleship 5 IIRC, but dedicated mission runners most likely already have that skill.
Originally by: Wet Ferret
I just hope, if it does happen, that it doesn't end being just a big, stupid grind. Plus PvE'ers will probably want them to run missions with and that might cause a big mess ALA World of Arenacraft. 
It would take an inconceivably huge amount of naivety to think that this wouldn't happen.
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Dirk Magnum
Royal Hiigaran Navy
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Posted - 2008.10.05 22:32:00 -
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To be fair, not everyone would be fitting Entity's Estamel-equipped State Raven setup. With lower-end faction and deadspace stuff, the kind of thing rich people might risk in PvP, these ships would still be highly killable. I mean, if a relatively small gang can outgank a Dread's protection they can certainly out-gank a highest-tier Battleship.
I still think it's a bad idea to put these into open circulation via LP stores though, even at a million LPs. Keeping them limited to unique RP-related events, or rewarding someone for some fantastic or unique accomplishment in-game, would be fine. It'd just be sad to one day see people starting whine threads containing screenshots of four dozen State Ravens on scanner in a mission hub.
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Dirk Magnum
Royal Hiigaran Navy
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Posted - 2008.10.05 22:46:00 -
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Originally by: SystemaX1
But i doudt the state raven will be actually in a LP store especially for 1 mil lp because ive heard a state raven costs more than a titan..
That's just speculation, based on the fact that there's only one in the game.
The second that they hit the LP stores their price would plummet to under ten billion most likely, and then over time it'd drop even further. A lot of people probably have a million LPs saved up already in case their faction ship and faction modules get destroyed in a mission or whatever. I'm guessing the first highest-tier ship to appear on contracts would do so within hours of their being introduced... basically the amount of time it takes to manufacture one from a BPC.
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Dirk Magnum
Royal Hiigaran Navy
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Posted - 2008.10.06 04:05:00 -
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Until FW serves a real purpose in this game, screw FW rewards. No highest-tier BSs. No higher than faction but lower than highest tier ship compromise either.
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Dirk Magnum
Royal Hiigaran Navy
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Posted - 2008.10.07 03:03:00 -
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Originally by: Nucular Fissikist
Just make more RP events that give these things out. =(
A ship or so a year would be pretty balanced, I think. Beats "There is only one Federate Mega in the game and you will never ever EVER get your hands on it because the owner is not selling his no matter how many hundreds of billions you offer him.", anyway. =¦
This.
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