Hi,
guess we can agree that the old system (hangars, pilot line, hours of waiting) was a complete failure. It just didn't work as intended and created a load of anger. Well, a few earned themselves a golden nose, but most ppl just saw it as a nuisance.
Hangar owners get refunded now, for sitting around. Did people that invested money into the taming system get refunded? Did people that invested into the beauty system get refunded? Did tailors get refunded when suddenly any colonist got stuffed with caps and shades and other "cloth stuff"? Did colorers get refunded when suddenly their stash got devaluated? Did people got refunded whose once valuable UL gear lost a lot of its value die to the invention of similar, cheap L gear?
I'd say, make an end of this, MA!
Stop paying more to the hangar owners, they have received enough now. Have them wait for a new meaning of their virtual property like all the other participants that got screwed!
And kill this stupid fees. A planet should prosper because of what it has to offer, not because of "Berlin walls" armed with high fees between the planets, prohibiting the participants to have a look of how life is elsewhere!
There should be fees for TP transportation between planets, yes. They are necessary to keep the different economies apart, to allow each planet to develop an economy of its own. They create the job of an "interplanetary trader", when done correctly with planet specific resources, BP's and items.
But they should not be prohibitive as they are now (80 PED PC - RT and back), and they should not be payed in PED at the TP. Make tickets available in the TT, one way, round trip, to the different planets. Give the planet partners the possibility to buy them, and distribute them of their own! TP would only work with a correct ticket carried.
So a planet partner could make a thread in his forum, where there's a question to answer. First 100 that gave the correct answer & a correct EU participant name would find a free one-way ticket in their backpack
Since we'll have quite some planets owned by the same company, and maybe planet partners cooperating, there could be tickets in loot. For sure, Planet A can only have tickets in Planet B's loot if Planet B agrees ...
For the hangar owners I'd have another idea:
Give them interstellar space ships instead, one or more, dependent of what they paid for their hangar. Make a few small asteroids, sell them to the planet partners - so any planet could buy a few of them. Make these asteroids about 4 - 5x as large as a large LA, with one safe zone in it. Make 'em PvP, and make 'em carry unique resources. Let these asteroids be only reachable with the interstellar space ships.
If possible, add a few space pirates (mobs), and let them ships fight (and loot) each other ...
Maybe add some mobs that resemble a high skilled PK to spice things up. So teams of Ubers would have a playground there, protecting their miner from the mobs and the PK's?
Such interstellar space ships (and their turrets, armor, boosters, whatever) would be L, and because of being made of the unique resources of these asteroids would have an immense MU. From each planet you could only reach the connected asteroids, but would to have to travel a certain time in a "common empty space" where space pirate npcs and thug participants would wait for you.
Sounds like fun, right?
What would we get?
- A new playground for our bored Ubers
- A way for Planet Partners to advertise their planet inside the EU.
- Cheaper travels for participants, and more possibilities to have a look on other planets.
- More fun, enjoyment and entertainment for all, as well as better profit for MA.
As we all know, unhappy people are reluctant to spent money for the thing that made them unhappy. A newcomer that signed for Planet X might find that this planet doesn't suit her needs at all, but might enjoy the game itself. She will not deposit to pay 40 PED to check out Planet Y that might maybe perfectly suit her desires, she will just leave. And tell all of her friends that EU isn't worth it, and that they better should stay clear of it.
When she'd find a cheap way to visit other places, maybe she'd actually find Planet Y where she'd be happy, and would stay, and would deposit? And would tell all her friends what a wonderful game this is?
Have fun!
PS: For sure my above ideas is a very rough design. There'll be failures. But maybe you'll understand the idea behind.
