Salt Mining Question.

If my Mercedes is AMG tuned and gets crashed, I expect my insurance to pay me a new AMG-tuned Mercedes, not a vanilla one and tell me "go tune it yourself". I don't see any inconsistency here.

I think you might find most insurance policies specifically exclude non-standard modifications.

As to the OP. I hate the "get rich quick" components of the game but taking that out would be a Siberian Salt Mine
 
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I think anything related to ship destruction is the big one. Just getting a big portion of your ship value paid for you as long as you can pay the rest with some sort of 'insurance' handwave. But move that insurance rate 1% in either direction and the community will explode faster than the gadget device...

Anything related to Frontier striking back against the various exploits in the game, past and present. Bonus points for people who are so deluded that they think ''It's in the game, which means Frontier programmed it in there, which means frontier intended for it to be there, which means that it is no exploit''.

Anything to do with the Solo/PG/Open divide. There are so many salt veins here, and to make things clear, they go in all directions.

Frontier doing something to fix the crazy political situation in the galaxy and angering all the BGS players who find 100% of their enjoyment in the game from painting a part of the map with their minor faction.

Nope, it's actually you in the SRV.
Telepresence was introduced with the Fighters - using the turret utilises a "neural link" system though. But from the release of SRV's, it's always been the case that you are actually in the SRV.
My current theory is that you are in the SRV, until proven otherwise by having it explode. In that case, you were a hologram all along, but in all cases where you return safely to the ship, you truly were there ;)

I think you might find mist insurance policies specifically exclude non-standard modifications.
I think this person is being sarcastic!
 
My current theory is that you are in the SRV, until proven otherwise by having it explode. In that case, you were a hologram all along, but in all cases where you return safely to the ship, you truly were there ;)

You get thrown out of the SRV and get picked up by your ship (off screen instantly, like when you get destroyed in your ship, eject in the escape pod, and the automatic FSD jumps you immediately back to a safe starport where the insurance company have refitted your new ship)
 
If my Mercedes is AMG tuned and gets crashed, I expect my insurance to pay me a new AMG-tuned Mercedes, not a vanilla one and tell me "go tune it yourself". I don't see any inconsistency here.

In this case, you had 'stock' ship before and did the tuning yourself first time round, it feels that insurance should only cover 'stock' items. I've seen plenty of insurance clauses where modify something could invalidate the insurance. There you go, how about if you engineer a module the insurance doesn't cover it, so you have to pay full price for the replacement module.
 
Is there something in the game that doesn't seem to make sense to you but you know that it would cause an Mount Everest level of salt if they tried to fix it?

The absence of an economy based on plausible market forces.

The absence of a demographic simulation.

Crime and punishment.

Immortal CMDRs.

Lack of persistent NPCs.

The lack of persistent CMDRs.

The prevalence of indestructible objects.

Stations that have no timed docking queues.

NPC crew that can't die.

Arbitrary velocity caps.

Pretty much anything and everything that's required to depict a vaguely believable setting would cause some segment of the player base to throw a fit, and if most of them were addressed, the game would have about a hundred players total.

It's called "holo-me" for a reason. That's a holographic projection of you.

They pulled the life support module out of SLFs to reinforce this inane telepresence deal, but it's still present and functional for SRVs.

A far more rational explanation is that the SRV is equipped with the same ejection/microjump systems as our ships.
 
That there is no time delay on how information travels across the galaxy or even systems. Imagine having timed delays in chats, depending on where you are and how far the origin of the message is away. Or how news get distributed weeks after the fact, especially when coming out of Colonia.

Or how your ship explodes somewhere in the black and you are instantly back at a station instead of sitting for months in your pod waiting for someone to find you.
 
when you enter your SRV, you appear to stand up from your ship's seat and then sit down in your SRV. It has a seat and it has controls. When other players see you in your SRV, they see you. It's like you're really actually there.
I figured that the "blacking out" there was the same experience as me sticking my VR HMD on while a game is still on the black screen as it loads.
 
-The mayhem and incessant killing. Where do all the ressources and lifes come from?

-Magic Engineer upgrades

-1300 years into the future and we got crap databases and information systems

-is 1300 years enough to populate the bubble?
 
The finest ironic salt being regards Open only Powerplay, from people who never played it but seem to slip on icy, slippery slopes......

BTW, don't go easy on Tim and Bruce tomorrow. Juice them like oranges for info ahead of VirtualLaveCon.
 
Hi Folks,

We hit on something last Lave Radio episode and wondered if we can pick your brains.Someone made the observation that 'What if, when you are killed then you can use insurance to get your ship back as normal but you don't get your engineer modules back. You have to rebuild your ship back up!' (Don't panic, that's not what I'm asking here). We had a laugh because we were imagining the salt and outrage if that was ever put in. However, when you think about it lore wise, Engineered modules are supposed to custom tweaks beyond the specifications of the standard so the 3D printers or the replacement parts you get shouldn't be able to replicate those changes?

So here's the question we're asking;- Is there something in the game that doesn't seem to make sense to you but you know that it would cause an Mount Everest level of salt if they tried to fix it?

Cheers

P.S. This question is brought to you by the Southern Continent On Lave which is suffering its harshest ever winter. We need the salt to keep the roads clear. :p
Lave Radio episode in question.

This question can be much hotter if you ask yourself why you can reproduce it with a re-buy, so paying with credits, but you can't pay with credits a duplicate of the same modification on another module (same type, grade and size), so that once you upgrade a FSD6A to 5G with experimental effect, you can`t simply buy another FSD6A and pay for the very same mod to be used on another ship.
 
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