Upcomming 4.85 confusion. Which ships we need to re-buy?

[sovereign]

I think most capships are getting a larger powercore, not a nerf. And I seriously doubt the increase will be so drastic that you won't be able to fire your guns if you don't upgrade.

You still won't be competitive, and that's what matters.



I've got an idea that doesn't involve hassle for the admin team *gasp*. Rather simple too. Based on the understanding that powercores will be a buyable, mountable item next mod, just make it so that the old, obsolete, effectively useless ones we'll have from this version aren't sold anywhere, and the dealers buy them back for the same price as the new ones are bought for. Voila, cap owners don't have to shell out cash for a ship they already paid for by trading for a month (re-buying fighters takes 30 mins of trading, re-buying a bship is a week or two of trading at minimum (unless you have absolutely no life), if anyone is that much of an arsehole to demand them to do that they can go hang), admins don't have to do squat, and everyone stays competitive.


By the way, it's not "new gear", its what the old gear should have been. Not an "upgrade" even if the stats go up- it's a downgrade if you don't pay huge amounts of money. No offense, but Hoodlum's post seems unfairly hostile. Owning a capital ship does not make you the devil or anything... plus, if you want to see them squirm, they have to get Guard IDs anyway. Seriously... updating the mod and callously demanding that all cap drivers are non-competitive unless they trade for another few weeks is sure way to get people to leave. Do you want that?

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