Insurance Equality for all players !

[Zplintz]

Yikes, I wonder how badly the community is going to clash when backers get the free ship out of the last 5... I predict much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

I expect they will buy one or more of them if they want them like any other ship.

At the end of the day, they wouldn't even be playing this game if FD hadn't tempted backers to pledge enough to make the game a success.

 

[Dakron Nova]

Wow just read this all the way through, took an hour.

Just two points Which I dont think have been covered.(I backed at Beta)

1. I've said before get rid of insurance, it will make CMDRs consider the consequences of their decisions and actions more carefully.

2. Life isnt fair, suck it up and man up.

 

[Aewarin Jameson]

1. I've said before get rid of insurance, it will make CMDRs consider the consequences of their decisions and actions more carefully.

A superb idea which I like

 

[Fyrd Judge]

I would like Insurance to go down gradually over time, depending on how long you can keep your ship/s from being destroyed and when you lose one, your insurance should be set back to the fixed level you joined Elite with. Then have a set waiting time before they can come back down again.

 

[Jorlin]

Since the gamma test the insurance bonus did save me so much money!

Oh, wait. The exact savings are 0cr.

 

[Ganjanoof]

Wow just read this all the way through, took an hour.

Just two points Which I dont think have been covered.(I backed at Beta)

1. I've said before get rid of insurance, it will make CMDRs consider the consequences of their decisions and actions more carefully.

2. Life isnt fair, suck it up and man up.

Hey there Beta backer,

Nothing personal but as I won't take an hour to read all the very pages of this thread :

1. Well it's a game, not life
2. Well it's a game, not life. Funny thing is the OP (P for poll) goes about the game's rules maybe not being fair.

As the majority of pollers I don't care. This is a non-problem and I should delete my post. Will I get refund then ?

Greetings Commander.

CMDR Ganjanoof

 

[p.opus]

It was a perk given to alpha and beta testers to make their ships easier to replace during the testing process. Part of "testing" is to make sure that if you hit x, you get destroyed. So asking testers to purposely destroy or imperil ships is a completely reasonable request and replacing them at discounted insurance is not only reasonable but is expected.

Now that the game is out SHOULD it be changed to make life fair for everyone. Maybe.. But in all honesty, a 2.5% rebuy or 5% rebuy makes no difference unless you use it, and since the game is now out of alpha and beta, I'm pretty sure those pilots who received the discount are not using it. I myself have died a couple of time, always had insurance and the 5% buy back was painful enough to make me pause before doing that again. And as one said, now that it has been given, it's tough to take back.

Like others here, my gut feeling is....suck it up buttercup.....

 

[Dakron Nova]

Hey there Beta backer,

Nothing personal but as I won't take an hour to read all the very pages of this thread :

1. Well it's a game, not life
2. Well it's a game, not life. Funny thing is the OP (P for poll) goes about the game's rules maybe not being fair.

As the majority of pollers I don't care. This is a non-problem and I should delete my post. Will I get refund then ?

Greetings Commander.

CMDR Ganjanoof

For the pedantic I wish to rephase my second point.

2. Space isnt fair, tough tribbles.

 

[Quineloe]

If you can afford a combat Anaconda 10 million is chicken feed.

No, that's half of it. So it's 20 million. And that is never "chicken feed". Even with an Anaconda, that's 3 hours of trading. It's a pretty big sting if you PVP a lot and die every now and then.



Or let's take an FDL. rebuy 3 million credits. Nowhere near the Anaconda value, but just as much time spent grinding it back because trading is not an option for this ship. Maybe more, maybe less, we'll see in 1.3 what FD gives us for bounty farming in high intensity RES.