Weird idea of making Disco a lil more realistic

[Thyrzul]

Adding some penalty on death, like proposed in the OP won't make people who do not trade (like me) to suddenly start trading. The reason is we already have more than enough money. Actually, the only moneysink for me is buying new ships every once in a while. Whether I have to pay 0.5M (ammo) or 1M (ammo + penalty) is utterly insignificant.

The people who are going to be affected are new players who don't have much money. And they are already actively trading to buy bigger transports or shiny caps.

If the penalty system is set right, your and all of us vet's "more than enough money" won't last that long to make the penalties look insignificant. The idea is to have penalties given according to the size/class of the ship, the bigger it is the more it will cost to repair. That also means there were examples of no penalty in the case of very small ships. And if the new players are actively trading to get bigger ships, they shouldn't be afraid too much of the significance of these penalties.

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