Re: Possible Player Wipe

[Badger]

I understand a lot of players will feel cheated by small compensation or worse, none at all, but think of it like this- For one day, we'll all be on a level playing field, no-one running stockpiles of hundreds of codenamed weapons or thousands of units of cargo in untouchable Large Trains. A player wipe pretty much favours nobody, so we should all be affected just the same, regardless of whether you've built up 20 characters or just two.

Warning: Rant ahead.
On the issue of trains and my general dislike of them- I like the idea of reducing the shield classes on Large Trains, they need to be more vulnerable. That the first thing anybody's going to do is get their Train back and trade their way back to glory saddens me. Here's a little story for you about my first character on this server. I played it like I'd play on a vanilla server, only it took a lot longer to do the same things (ie: earn enough to buy a Dragon). Regardless I fought on, and eventually earned my first millions by doing loads of missions in Theta.

But I didn't care that it took ages compared to vanilla, it was a challenge. I had great fun blasting up the increased difficulty NPC's and dodging for my life when I ran into hostile Battleships, making pocket-money in deadly missions which sometimes barely covered the repair costs of my fighter. This was what set apart Discovery from everything else for me. In vanilla I could have a ship capable of killing the best ship on the server in over an hour. When I started Discovery, I couldn't even hope to beat a player Battleship without putting weeks into it.

So now that fighter is a neutral trader character, hoarding more money than I could possibly ever need. If I want a brand new vhf character, I can transfer everything I want in no time at all, or do a couple of trade runs and get even more. It's hollow. The time, effort and downright fun I had building that first character is gone, because you can effortlessly trade your way to the same rewards in a fraction of the time.

That's why I want trains (and all large traders in fact) nerfed somehow, there's so much more to Discovery, we all seem to forget.

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Evil The Badger - Blood Dragon
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