Granny Rowan
Old Alpha
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2011
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- England
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- Natural Born Killers
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- Granny Rowan Render
re space loots and lootable avatars in space pvp.
I like the idea of some ammo cost being returned on death of a ship.. makes friendly duels affordable, and would doubtless increase space activity and thereby MA's overall income.
But the looting of individuals is what has created the great divide in opinion and the 'hatred' of piracy. A simple solution would be to keep it as lootable pvp but limit the risk, to say 10% or 20% of carried lootables.
This would encourage smugglers to take the risk, (and yes I know I should want them to use warp service instead) and thus increase pirate activity. A more regular chance of smaller loots rather than a rare large hit might actually be more profitable for pirates, less likely to bankrupt the foolhardy, and take a lot of the sting out of that first time killed in space, for the new player.
Oh and can we please have the weapon range of all space going vessels made the same. It is ridiculous that the slower moving privateers can be shot down by quads that are completely out of gun range.
I like the idea of some ammo cost being returned on death of a ship.. makes friendly duels affordable, and would doubtless increase space activity and thereby MA's overall income.
But the looting of individuals is what has created the great divide in opinion and the 'hatred' of piracy. A simple solution would be to keep it as lootable pvp but limit the risk, to say 10% or 20% of carried lootables.
This would encourage smugglers to take the risk, (and yes I know I should want them to use warp service instead) and thus increase pirate activity. A more regular chance of smaller loots rather than a rare large hit might actually be more profitable for pirates, less likely to bankrupt the foolhardy, and take a lot of the sting out of that first time killed in space, for the new player.
Oh and can we please have the weapon range of all space going vessels made the same. It is ridiculous that the slower moving privateers can be shot down by quads that are completely out of gun range.