Hello Commanders!
There's a little too much unnecessary heat in this thread, which is also making it hard to extract juicy feedback.
As far as this specific change, I'm frankly not interested *at the moment* about player versus environment. It's a valid discussion for sure, but not useful right now. The ship rebuy penalty *right now* aims at making player versus player encounters a little fairer by increasing the potential cost for the aggressor.
The whole point of these kinds of changes are to make Open fairer and more enticing for everyone. This change is a tiny part of that.
Everyone faces the same rules when it comes to player versus environment, and I would suggest that all folk take part in this type of game play, so I don't really buy the outrage about "PvErs" cheating. You're all "PvErs". Yes, even you playing in Open exclusively - unless you can prove that every single credit you made was against another human Commander
So, describing how the mechanics might be exploited = awesome. Describing how folk might adjust their style (for better or worse) = awesome. But complaining that it's one "group" of players cheating = not very helpful right now.
It's also worth pointing out again that this is one of several changes that will be coming through. We have the Pilot's Federation active as well, which works in combination with the ship rebuy penalty. We've also got karma and a few other updates further down the line. Individually, none of these changes will be the uber fix. But taken together they may well have some real effect.
