That sounds like a whole lot of nothing if im honest.
Re-structure buying ships based on rank
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That sounds like a whole lot of nothing if im honest.
That 'whole lot of nothing' is the game, from quite a few people's perspectives.
If I wanted a single-player game where nothing anyone else did could matter, I would have chosen a single-player game.
uh huh
Unless your proposal includes precluding NPCs in the same fashion, it would be nothing except blatant discrimination against players; this is not to say that Frontier doesn't do that anyway, but this would be even more blatant than usual. It also still wouldn't address power creep in the implementation of Engineering.
Unless your proposal includes some sort of balancing action against existent players, this would be a blatant discrimination against new players because they would not have the same freedoms as earlier players. Note, I did not say the limitation in terms of revenue, I said freedoms, as in, older players would not be, or have come up, under the same restrictions.
As to whether or not you have reset your save, yes, it is relevant in terms of you not being under the restrictions you want to impose. You had opportunities that you want removed from new players.
Bluntly, you want a good old boy system imposed that would give you (me as well, but I am against it) preferential treatment because you wouldn't be under the restrictions requested.
Lol, what? He outright stated he was fully willing to reset his save, and had in fact already done it twice before.
So stop attacking his character and making up excuses. It's a good idea, credits come far too easily these days.
If you aren't willing to acknowledge any perspective other than your own, you might benefit from omitting the "what's it to you" questions.
If im honest im not interested in a debate on the merits of what I said I stand by it.
Toddles.
Your opinion is wrong, however. You cannot ignore the impact of poor design decisions in a game, and claiming you can is willfully ignorant at best, and actively spamming at worst. Either way, you're not contributing to the discussion.
You've made it abundantly clear that you aren't interested in the merits of what anyone has to say either. So why ask for elaborations on it? Was the question that prompted my original response to you rhetorical? These questions are not.
Discrimination? What the heck are you talking about? Are you trying to have some weird political activist debate about rights and freedoms on a video game?
Older players had to spend far more time/effort accumulating the same items. Should they be given "retroactive back-pay" to be fair for all the missions they ran?
I recognize its really hard to make changes to an economy, even if its in a video game. Balancing an economy is very difficult to ensure it doesn't run-away & fall apart. Thats why many games just give-up and simply re-introduce a new currency for new items and phase-out the old items. Usually making old items obsolete by making the new items massively OP relative to the old items. This is probably what will happen in ED in a couple years. Or sooner.
Check out early XXI century guns prices vs cheap cars prices from the same period.
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I can buy sidearms from police auctions for considerably less than the $300 dollars I sold my last car for!
This is where I presume you live in USA
This is where I presume you live in USA
Yes, put I'm pretty sure you could drop me off almost anywhere where the capacity to smelt iron has been discovered and I could find, make, or have made a usable firearm...they are very simple machines. Sure, you can spend a lot on a gun, but you can spend a lot on anything.
I don't really consider the Sidewinder the equivalent of a cheap car either. The SRV Scarab is probably the equivalent of a very high-end car. A Sidewinder is a cheap starship...the modern equivalent of a 'cheap' jet ($2m) or oceangoing submersible.
CMDRs, simply by virtue of having private spacecraft, which IIRC is quite uncommon in the Elite setting, have to be fabulously wealthy compared to most people.
Comparing brand new low-end consumer available items:
New Vehicle: 2021 Chevrolet Spark LS: $14,395
New AR15: easily under $1,000 USD
Edit: Googled some prices (USD):
Ruger AR-556: $652.99
American Tactical Imports AR-15: $599
Sig Saur M400: $800
Smith & Wesson: $800
New Vehicle: 2021 Chevrolet Spark LS: $14,395
New AR15: easily under $1,000 USD
Edit: Googled some prices (USD):
Ruger AR-556: $652.99
American Tactical Imports AR-15: $599
Sig Saur M400: $800
Smith & Wesson: $800
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Pilots Federation might have something to do with this.
No idea what the Pilots Federation gets out of this arrangement - but a simple guess would be... Galaxy domination from the shadows?
Wouldn't be unexpected since they get the monopoly on the UC data we sell, they have monopoly with Galnet and apparently they can afford to give us huge discounts on ships and on insurance.
And they can topple governments using cohorts of "independent" pilots (mercenaries actually) gently steered in the right direction with the help of the above mentioned Galnet.
New Cirrus Vision-Jet: $2000000
They've got a lot to do with it and their domination is less shadowy and more flagrant.
How ever our CMDR windup in that top ~0.001% (private spacecraft operators), it seems silly to me that individual example of commodities that cart around in bulk at the price of 4-5 figures a tonne would cost us ten times that for a single individual 5kg sample.
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You're being fancy with your high end jets.
Used Cessna
https://www.globalair.com/aircraft-for-sale/Cessna-172