shipsales - and RP

[Jinx]

its obvious that "shipsales" have increase from zero to quite a lot recently. - i find that slightly alarming in some cases.

here are a few thoughts i got about it. - selling a ship is not just a piece of equipment you re selling, but also a background, a RP and all the circumstances around it. i m slightly concerned that soon we re not only selling weapons anymore - but entire RP stories, well prepared and ready to be used with the least bit of brain activity.

its a bit like characters that are prepared, equipped and sold on popular mmorpgs like WoW. - while the original idea of the game is to create a char and "guide" that character from a weak nobody up to a hero with great popularity - many a players take the shortcut and simply buy a char that is high level and equipped.

they don t see that the actual FUN of the game is to work on the char themselves.

but there are two kinds of ship deals. - there are the ones that are inRP - and those that are ooRP.

inRP is a shipsale that only does logical shipdeals - which EXcludes many factions and ships. - a military captain cannot sell his ship. - he cannot even hand it down to someone else. - a pirate or independent captain however CAN sell his ship. - but a pirate can only really sell / hand it down to logical people - like his own kin, sometimes only within his own family.

i do know that the "sirius exchange" is not really ** roleplayed ** as such. - but it gives me a little itch to see military ships sold and purchased. - cause its not inRP at all. - one is not bidding on a rheinland battleship. meanwhile - i am aware that of course - a player doesn t want to loose so much money selling his ship, when there is a chance to get more. - but recently there are just quite a lot of those deals.

originally - we also had in mind that by fixing a reputation, one gets a feeling of the faction one wishes to roleplay. - so if you want to fly a corsair cruiser, you have to become a corsair guard. - in the process of becoming - you get a feeling for it, mostly, cause you simply spend a good time in gamma.

but by buying a cruiser PLUS fixed reputation - you get the whole deal without any idea what you re about to get... .


that is for those that offer and those that buy those ships to think about it for a minute.

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