Noooooooo to insurance boni! Please consider suggestion inside

[Thylacine]

Gosh FD, what are you doing?!

50% off on insurance for alpha backers, 25% off for beta backers - what is this nonesense?!

Now tell me how you plan to balance the game, will it be easy mode for pre-orderers or extra hard mode for people that buy at launch? This is the same stupid mistake that Star Citizen already did, why would you give life-long boni on pre-orders? I don't want to have this advantage, I want us all to be the same.

For the love of god, if you somehow can, please make insurance the same for everyone. For example, implement a mission in the game that gives reduced insurance (-50%/-25% for beta backers) as a reward (like a rescue mission of a member of an insurance company) so that at least ultimately we all play to the same rules again. Alpha backers just would have this reward from the beginning and get some money for the same mission.

Think about it.

 

[foxpur]

Where did you get that 50% for Alpha one?

 

[blacky75]

... I want us all to be the same....

Now this is the time where you get your gun and shoot yourself a bullt in your head.

why?

We are all different, and never be the same...

*sad*

 

[Thylacine]

Where did you get that 50% for Alpha one?

I remember this from an announcement long time ago. This is really unbalanced, because insurance costs are high in this game.

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We are all different, and never be the same...

It's a game, the rules should be the same for everyone

 

[LunarJetman]

I agree that this does not seem like the best idea. People should never have a disadvantage just because they did not pre-order.

 

[foxpur]

To be honest it won't affect that much. I can generally recover funds of a lost ship in 2 - 3 cargo runs. Maybe 30 min of game time on a bad day.

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I agree that this does not seem like the best idea. People should never have a disadvantage just because they did not pre-order.

Since it was the beta we are talking, not pre-order. The beta paid more to be here and help... this is the payback for spending a bit more.

 

[Darkmater]

Please don't ruin the bonus of early adoption. I want my 25% off.

Thanks,

 

[JeffRyan]

I wonder how many Beta backers now feel about their 25 percent... I remember the roasting we Alphas got for our 50 percent. I'm sure some won't like (some Alphas didn't like it either)...

 

[LunarJetman]

To be honest it won't affect that much. I can generally recover funds of a lost ship in 2 - 3 cargo runs. Maybe 30 min of game time on a bad day.

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Since it was the beta we are talking, not pre-order. The beta paid more to be here and help... this is the payback for spending a bit more.

The payback for spending more was being able to play earlier than those that did not pay more. This is just an arbitrary addition. As a Beta backer I can say with certainty that I don't want this.

 

[foxpur]

I don't mind it, too small to affect much, we die less anyway because we are practiced so for a good pilot you'll never see it

 

[Yaffle]

Trying to keep the insurance discussion in one place, so please head here - https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=58793 to continue.

(Merging would make an awful mess).