discovery pvp

[Lump Lorry]

Now, I think it is a good idea, but am turned off to the fact that you would need to re-build your character.

/quote. For instance... immagine... you spend a month (or even more) traiding in order to buy you new wonderfull capship. Finally you are flying your fully equipped Osiris and after a while... maybe just few hours... you get shoot down and you loose your ship and all the equipment installed on it. At this point you have to start from scrach... it might be very frustrating... some players would probably leave the server after something like that.

Maybe set it up so you only start from scratch if you are under a certain rank? or maybe instead of 100K, you start with 100 million and make cash by destroying other players and able to re-build if you are destroyed.

Maybe you could just start with an amount of cash equivalent to the selling value of your ship and equipment. Hence you would just need to go and buy a new one. Incidentally this system would strongly increase the "bargaining power" of corsairs... since in case a trader would be shoot down, he would loose not only the cargo but also his ship.

This idea has potential. Ignore the immature children. :sleep:

I agree, completely. The idea just need to be refinded a bit.

For any pure PvP game to truly succeed, there needs to be some kind of reward for winning. However, this reward cannot come in the form of overpowered weapons or ships otherwise old players will be unfairly advantaged and no one will want to play. Also, PvP requires a strictly regulated environment that ensures fair play. This is impossible in open space. Discovery is about more than just shooting and killing. Restricting it as such limits player options and in my opinion wouldn't be very popular. As most have already pointed out, the player base is simply too small. To further limit the game to PvP only means that you won't have enough players for any sustained gaming experience.

Hmm... this is likely to be true for a "pure" PvP server... the real point I guess is that you don't really need disco if you r looking only for a "pure PvP" experience: the orginal Freelancer is good enough for that; this is probably the reason why the disco pvp server was a failure (as many has already said)

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Lump Lorry
on behalf of the Lorry Family
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(Reunion 4.85 chars)
-- The new Lorry Family --
Lump Lorry free trader. chief of the Lorrys | [RM] Hg. M(anfred) Von Lorryhofen Rheinwer's Obergefreiter
[HF] Cesare Lorry Hellfire Legion member | Kuger - Jack "Deep" Hole Kruger Minerals worker

(Former chars on Disco 4.82) -- The old Lorry Family --
Lump Lorry freelancer trader. chief of the Lorrys | Manta Lorry freelancer pilot | [HF] Cesare Lorry
fighter pilot, HF member | sso|Ace Wolverine Lorry bounty hunter | [RM] M(anfred) Von Lorryhofen
Rheinland Military pilot | [AEGIS] GB 303 Ticonderoga AEGIS artificial intelligence gunboat | (secret
member) In charge of keeping the family's secrets