I love it how people cry rape when you take away 200K from them, but at the same time are easily willing to pay up to 15 million credits per bounty board kill. Hell, yesterday I got payed 25 million to shoot a transport. Talk about inflation. Are those 200K really going to rob you blind?
Also if some of you can't be arsed to trade, it takes one average anti-fighter mission to earn 500K, maybe up to 1.5 million before gunboats begin appearing. It takes you roughly 5-10 min in a fighter to complete said mission, less if it's "assassinate target". If you have a fancy gunboat, battleship, etc it'll be even easier and you could go even for something as big as anti-gunboat/cruiser mission. You could also trade, oh and did I mention you can just get your rear hired by someone to escort, protect, etc? Now comes the "but I only fly X faction that only pews". I wonder how said faction sustains itself inRP when all it does is lose ships in fights. Think of something, be creative.
Just be honest and tell me how many of you don't have a few millions laying around that you'll probably never use? Or do you buy ships every day and spend your millions all the time? And if so doesn't that mean you trade actively to start with?
EDIT: Also given the fact I'm sure FlHook can tell in which system you are I'm sure Connecticut can be no pay zone so you can train all you want without losing a dime.
(04-20-2014, 11:12 AM)Snake Wrote: So back to topic, I've been thinking that those Escape pods would even have an RP content, there are Captain Escaped Pods and So on (Maybe it was calle Cruiser Captain and Battleship Captain) how about giving each the oppurtunity even in RP when he destroys it and takes the escaped pod, inRP then he could take a picture and post on forums (of course with approval of the player) that he's been captured or in prison. Yeah Escaped pods ain't a bad idea and you'd have to rebuy it all the time u die, it should be something like the ID restriction, you have to buy an ID in order to fly or else you'll get sanction, same could be done with Escape Pod, you have to buy one. Or dunno what you guys have been thinking about this.
Well I was thinking that Escape Pods should be like scanners if you don't have it you can't take off. So no sanction needed here.
But of course I would prefer if devs repair our server first.
Ah.... where are those days when we were flying(playing) without LAG and server didn't crash.
Lords will rule their land as they see fit, and the serfs shall merely beg.
(04-20-2014, 12:01 PM)Murcielago Wrote: But of course I would prefer if devs repair our server first.
Ah.... where are those days when we were flying(playing) without LAG and server didn't crash.
Hell yeah those days... Are over imo but hey the guard Idea ain't bad imo, make Guard IFF realy hard to achieve! Yeah actually thats a nice idea you've got there. Make it REALY hard to achieve the Guard IFF in order to buy the ships and make the Cap Ships (Battleships and above) only able to buy in Guard Systems and it should be realy hard to achieve the guard rep, I remember there were times when disco had this Guard thing, it was hard to achieve it. The Guard idea actually sounds nice, so indies wouldn't be able to buy a Cap Ship very easily. Also imagine the Shops, the prices would be for sure higher so you'd have a harder time in purchasing the Cap Ships, also it would pump again the interest in doing missions like in old times, I remember doing many MANY missions for achieving Guard Rep D: That was so hilarious. You need Guard full green to purchase a cap ship as example and it should be hard to achieve. You can let the Cruisers as it is though, I think Cruisers can be acceptable for indies but Cap Ships above should have this Guard thingie.
(04-20-2014, 11:35 AM)Bloodl1ke Wrote: I love it how people cry rape when you take away 200K from them, but at the same time are easily willing to pay up to 15 million credits per bounty board kill. Hell, yesterday I got payed 25 million to shoot a transport. Talk about inflation. Are those 200K really going to rob you blind?
I don't think anyone's been complaining about losing 200k (but I may have missed that). With the current cost of ammo, restocking a fighter takes some 600k (mines, CDs, CMs, regens). So adding another 200k has no significance.
On the other hand, a gunboat or a transport currently has lower operating cost than a fighter which is ridiculous. So the hypothetical death penalty should be proportional to the ship/equipment cost.
The problem is adding a death penalty big enough to make players spend their piles of cash and feel the need to earn money would be atrocious for players who don't have said piles of cash and don't like powertrading all day. If you can solve this issue, then good.
So far, I like the idea when you get <100% health on equipment after ship loss. Mostly because the penalty correlates directly with the equipment cost.
(04-20-2014, 11:35 AM)evanz Wrote: How about reactivating guard systems and then making all reps to each guard system be hostile, and only caps get sold in those guard systems, from cruiser to biggest battleship
e.g.
if your BAF, you BAF is normal full green, but your BAF GUARD red, UNTIL you've proven your dedication and rule abiding to BAF and r.p. rank climbing.
Then by in game/forum r.p., your rep to BAF GUARD gets risen to full green, only by agreement of BAF high commanders
and only then can you buy those ships
same would go for other factions
only problem i see is it would kind of muck up the ship sale threads
(04-20-2014, 11:35 AM)Bloodl1ke Wrote: I love it how people cry rape when you take away 200K from them, but at the same time are easily willing to pay up to 15 million credits per bounty board kill. Hell, yesterday I got payed 25 million to shoot a transport. Talk about inflation. Are those 200K really going to rob you blind?
You see a lot of times that some player factions are stronger then others.
So like RM is almost always winning from LN(S) (at least in the past) (sorry guys).
But then the development should be that the winning factions should gain more terretory.
Like Rheinland getting Bering, or Minnesota or whatever.
Or same in Omicrons if Hessians or Corsairs win most fights.
That would be real fun and kind of interactive, i guess that would get it going.