Loads would. From the kids that want it bought for them to the nostalgia types who have money to waste. You cant see the profitablility in charging a full game price for what is very little work? Look at mechwarrior online and tell me its not easy money. Of course they had a much wider range of mechs to take advantage of than elite has ships.
"Loads would" is an assumption you make, you have no idea if it is true or not, and the moment profit enters such things how would it not have the potential to become unbalanced?
And mech warriors online is not a great example, last I played it, which yes now is years ago, it was pay to win.
Im reluctant to corret people evertime cause if my post count gets too high people make sometihng of it. But you guys arnt even reading the thread before replying. Its not pay to win. It wont powercreep, cant power creep by design. Its a sensible way for FD to buff ships without screwing the balance elsewhere. Locked builds is a mechanic to say manufacturer default modules are better but they come hardwired in. If you say the money is an issue, ok. But i wsnt going to suggest they did this for free cause development doesnt seem to move all that fast.
Starcitizen doesnt even come into this. It doesnt interest me, it looks nice and its got further than i expected but i still think the people behind it are having a laugh.
You say it is not, and it won't power creep, but you are not providing any evidence why this would not happen? your word does not make it so, and given the enormous amount of games that have introduced similar mechanics and end up leaning towards pay to win, I am sure you can understand why people are very apprehensive.
More variety in ships more ship types, are definitely a plus, the only way I see something potentially being ok, and that is 'potential' it still has gone bad in other games, would be something that people could earn in game, and people could pay to skip ahead. They would not be more powerful mechanic wise, they would simply get earlier unlocks.
But again this would need to be implemented correctly and very carefully.