Ricer ships/People buying big ships without thinking for a moment

[AluminumAlloy]

Let's think of it as someone that buys a brand new muscle car, but instead they buy it with a cheap little inline-4 engine instead of the powerful V8 engine that the car was meant to have. Iv'e seen a rather higher-than-expected amount of players buying ships in a similar way; buying a brand new large-sized ship that takes up your entire balance, then adding a few useless upgrades to use up the remaining dollars in your pocket from the old ship you sold and not affording to install the slightest-bigger power plant.

I mean, come on already! If you're going to buy a ricer ship and use up all your money, you probably should think twice because you won't be able to afford insurance claims and there's so much to install on a brand new ship before exiting the station, you have to keep a good eye on the mass and all that. So please, make sure you will still have a good amount of something-million credits in your balance after purchasing your new ship.

 

[DNA-Decay]

Is "ricer" some sort of Trailer Park Boys reference?

 

[Abomination]

<-- Guilty!

And why? Because it's not the engine, the airco, the cd player or the comfort of the chair that matters.. it's the SIZE!

 

[Deleted member 110222]

#SmallShipMasterRace

 

[hs0003]

Ohh good old times of jumping from one trade ship to the next, flying for hours without insurance with every upgrade and barely enough credits for the commodities needed to earn more money.

 

[Father Cool]

It comes from the modified car scene where modifications are made to cars to make them 'look' like they have performance rather than actually having it. I used to be in the 'scene' many moons ago. My car had performance enhancing mods however many of my pals had non performance mods. This came to a nice apex when one of my pals was running a timed 0-60 down a quarter mile stretch at one of our shows and he didn't actually make 60mph before he ran out of road. Funny as hell!!

Edit: Ninja'd sort of, my reply is to clear up 'Ricer'

 

[Alex Brentnall]

Hmm, although certain people (don't look at me like that) buy ships fully upgraded and almost never experience them any other way. Some middle ground is needed me-thinks... You are correct though.

 

[AluminumAlloy]

Is "ricer" some sort of Trailer Park Boys reference?

If you drive by a high school, you should see some ricers parked around. You can identify them as 1990's imports/hatchbacks with big exhausts and sporty wheels. And they sound like chainsaws.

That's a ricer car.

 

[Sugarat]

That's a ricer car.

Was LC 350's with shortened baffles when I was a kid.. how times change

 

[Derath]

omg I haven't heard anything described as a ricer for so long LOL kinda makes me feel old

 

[Asp Explorer]

Got to love "custom" builds made with completely off-the-shelf parts

 

[Marra Morgan]

Compensating for something?

 

[Alex Brentnall]

If you drive by a high school, you should see some ricers parked around. You can identify them as 1990's imports/hatchbacks with big exhausts and sporty wheels. And they sound like chainsaws.
That's a ricer car.

I guess the UK equivalent would be the guys in 1.0L cars that start shaking themselves to pieces when they hit 90mph but are lowered and have aftermarket exhausts etc that are probably worth more than the car...

Those people always annoyed me, for me if you own a terrible car the absolute last thing I'd do is make it louder and draw attention to it.

 

[Phosphora]

Was I wrong to put that A8 power plant in my Hauler?

Cheers, Phos.

 

[JohnnyTwoKettles]

Rice Burner. Ha ha, that's what we call them. I have a Reliant Robin with a 475 V8.

Just joking. It's a 360.

 

[Tuub t Tute]

Isn't the origin of "ricer" from "rice rocket"? A pejorative used to describe Japanese import cars which would race against good old 'Murcan muscle? The oh so funny idea being that fast cars from Japan must be powered by rice...

 

[Archvillain]

I disagree - it's much better to buy the ship bare-bones, slap on a few things, then you get to enjoy the process over the following weeks of gradually upgrading it into your kickass dream-ship.

If the ship is already maxed out the day you bought it, you've never really learned to fly that ship; you can only manage it when you are sheltered from your shortcomings by top-of-the-line engines, shields, etc.

It feels great to use a ship to finally earn enough to get that module that you so desperately wish it had, and then you'll really feel (and enjoy) the difference. Whereas if it was maxed out to begin with, you can't appreciate something you never had to do without. You just take that spec for granted instead, and you end up wishing you could upgrade a module to get more out of it.

(Real world cars are not analogous. High-performance built-in at the factory - performance that every part of the car was engineered for, from the ground up - that's better than trying to shoehorn more performance onto a car later on. In Elite it's the opposite)

 

[Draxxen]

Ricer

Not to be confused with "Rice Boiler / Rice Cooker", which was used about Japanese motorcycles back in the days...
at least where I come from

 

[Slack]

Everyone around the age of 18 knows that ground effects, big spoilers, rims, tinted windows, stickers not only make go faster, but allow you to look the coolest. [big grin]

 

[Lheim]

To be fair, nowhere does it say that a D-rated 150 million credit ship is going to be worse than an A-kitted 6 million credit ship. And it doesn't exactly warn you that that size 8 power plant is going to cost as much as the ship itself.