Should be easy enough to play a ship builder. You make ships on accounts ingame then offer them for sale on forums. Ships built for sale = RP + ingame money.
Would be cool, I bet fully set up mining ships would keep getting sold like fresh bread.
' Wrote:Should be easy enough to play a ship builder. You make ships on accounts ingame then offer them for sale on forums. Ships built for sale = RP + ingame money.
Would be cool, I bet fully set up mining ships would keep getting sold like fresh bread.
That could work... but perhaps sell ships on the Open Market, or ingame. Otherwise... it wouldn't be much different from ordinary ship sales.
Possibly the one problem with setting up ships is that if you want all the top-tier equipment you usually need to travel a bit first, which to me breaks the image of a ship fresh off the construction line.
Perhaps I don't get the initial question by Thomas Logan but to me this question is obsolete.
In fact there are a lot of discussions or questions rising up lately which sadly reveals a lack of the understanding of roleplay.
Which is primary based on imagination than on rules or written ingame stuff.
We bend our lore, to have reason for trading. That included USI system as an information gatherer on the most profitable shipments, etc.
I don't see Ageira's SF in lore too :P
And you know what? I don't see Hackers pirating IC ships in vanilla too! :laugh:
Though, wait few days more, and you will see more to forum RP.
If admins would give guarantees to be returned some portion of loan, that would change a lot. Insurance will be more easily controlable, since money won't go out of IC's hand, but rather into our hands.
Also, RE: lore - IC don't get 5% from HFuel sales by GMG, nor the X percentages from Renzu ship sales. I demand you to comply with lore and fill our pockets while we would grow fat with forum RP. k? :cool:
' Wrote:Should be easy enough to play a ship builder. You make ships on accounts ingame then offer them for sale on forums. Ships built for sale = RP + ingame money.
Would be cool, I bet fully set up mining ships would keep getting sold like fresh bread.
Except that usually people expect ships purchased from other people to be *cheaper* than what they could spend to get it themselves. Not much room for money to be made there.
1) Take a trip down to Detroit Munitions. See those NPC Starflyers with Ageira tags? That's the Security Force. All we've done is given them a name.
2) IC doesn't even have ships in vanilla.
To the OP: apologies for derailing.
Gosh. I just joked, dude. On both parts. Take a chill pill.
At any point, Insurance services is en route. Though it will be quite hard to implement it, but I hope you will find it more lore-bound than Shipping business.
' Wrote:See if you can come up with an offer we would accept. I doubt it though.
We could always try blackmail.
' Wrote:Interspace Commerce doesn't either trade. They only insure. And loan.
That means, it should be kept for Forum RP only.
' Wrote:You wont find me disagreeing with that. Though it would be rather mean to do it because there is already a player faction.
Insert a game mechanic requiring everyone to have ship insurance or lose their ship on death, and hell yeah.
But we've tried to sell insurance in the past, both on the forum, and in-game.
I've actually been tooling around quite a lot in the IC|Central.Insurance|L, and you know what? Even [USI] refused to buy any, told me they didnt need it. In the four months since char creation with probably five days of play time, not a single person, lolwut, indie, official, pro-rper, has ever bought insurance. Not. One.
In fact, the only person i've ever seen try to buy insurance was Elven, and that got abandoned.
There is no Interspace Commerce forum RP beyond what we create, no way to roleplay an insurance company if nobody buys, no way to fulfill the time requirements without trading.
Besides, it's established in lore that Interspace does occassionally ship extremely high value cargo.
gone four years, first day back: Zoners still getting shot in Theta :|
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