Retreat!

[Unseelie]

The problem is the rules. Retreating is death for your charcter. If you retreat, you're expected to log off, leave system, etc. So its basically the same end as being blown up, which (nearly) no one actually consider's their charcter's death...so after they get blown up, they RP running away, in a lifeboat.

I've a train (3k version) which I pay lane and gate taxes, and station fees. I expect any destuction of the ship would kill nearly half the crew (there's 40 some people in crew, all fammilial, a handful of whom are children. active crew is 8 people at all times.) Its a vastly different, and I think, more realistic, experience. They're just barely staying solvent, only because sometimes they throw in a high -high- profit route, which helps them pay off their debts from other routes. Pirates are a threat to the existance of their ship, and their entire family. They're not messed around with, etc.

Even though I play that way occasionally, and I wish the game were more like it, I cannot say I expect the change. It is, quite frankly, far to hard.

Permadeath gets my vote.

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