Premium Ammo for sale at stations- Debate Suggestion

[Jaylem]

In this Suggestion I wish to see how people react to the idea of having Premium ammo available in stores. rather than me just throwing the idea out there, it is good to look at both sides of the coin.

Pro side-

-Gives players an upfront advantage (perfect for Combat zones and bounty hunting straight from the station.

-Doesn't consume sometimes VERY rare materials.

-moves the concept of Premium munitions as being a more commonplace item.


Balancing-

- Will need to be significantly more expensive (300%+) to justify it's boosted effectiveness.

-May need to be restricted to certain locations (ammunition dealers??) to prevent mass galactic spam.

-Only available for Horizons players


Against side-


-Would make Synthesis almost redundant.

-Could pose to be more a Cancer then a cure ( Imagine Gankers using it all the time)

-Sucks to be a Non-Horizons player.


Just some points (equal for both sides) .

Debate rules: Have fun, and please no name calling, insults, belittling remarks and so on. keep it friendly please!

Debate away!

 

[YinYin]

You need to rephrase that so it doesn't start off as if you wanted to buy that like cosmetics on the frontier store.

I think the down sides far outweigh any positives.

edit: and it's already starting - rip thread

 

[Soopyyy]

How much are frontier paying you to float this idea?

 

[Tornlin]

I think if we remove the need for synthesis on this why not FSD drives or anything else?

Credits are VERY easy to come by in game and killing a handful of ships would pay for dozens of reloads. Having the synthetis requirement removes everyone from having this very easily and would essentially lead to everyone getting a damage boost because for the extra money everyone is going to pay for it.

What I personally think needs to be reworked is the way gathering material is handled that leads to synthesis. Having to spend X hours of completely non-fun gameplay for a damage boost is silly. Handing everyone that damage boost for credits is equally silly.

 

[racer1]

Personally i think it would be better to remove premium ammo from the game.

Allowing it to be purchasable with in game credits would be better than the current situation IMO.

 

[Non Grata]

I think your first two downsides speak for themselves.

 

[torbach]

Personally i think it would be better to remove premium ammo from the game..

agree

premium is similar to potting or consumable buffs in all sorts of other games

perhaps 'if' content in Elite progresses to a point where it's obviously falling to the same pitfals it can be addressed..... but imo it should be handled sooner

 

[metatheurgist]

Premium Ammo shouldn't even exist, unless they want to add "Premium Lasers Crystals" to synthesis.

 

[Jaylem]

You need to rephrase that so it doesn't start off as if you wanted to buy that like cosmetics on the frontier store.

I think the down sides far outweigh any positives.

edit: and it's already starting - rip thread

Ah, yes I see what you mean. I will change that. I meant for sale at station services

And to throw a curveball into the fold, To those who wish to remove it, what about the Thargoid Content? some of those ships require premium ammo to solo in small ships

otherwise this thread is working perfectly, it is very interesting to see

I guess I'd better throw my own opinion in as well, For regular weapons, should be removed as they can already be engineered to be crazy powerful. internals such as jump range can stay. and any/all Thargoid related weapons receive a more balanced conversion system ( It's actually really cheap at the moment, but I still sweat every time I see the 10 focus crystals for premium Gauss)

so to get to the main topic, It's a no from me for regular weapons (unless it was integrated in a balanced manor), yes for Thargoid weapons to be sold at stations.

[Edit]- second curveball, what if premium Ammo dealt less damage to player vessels?

 

[Robert Maynard]

And to throw a curveball into the fold, To those who wish to remove it, what about the Thargoid Content? some of those ships require premium ammo to solo in small ships

If that's the main concern, sell it in stations by all means - after removing any "premium" effects on NPCs, CMDRs.