Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think insurance didn't get looked at back when Frigs had their tiericide. For instance, platinum insurance on a Condor costs 12,282.90 and pays 40,943. But a Merlin insures for 110,143.50 and pays 367,145.

At the moment in Hek a Condor costs 395k and a Merlin costs 384k. That's about right, the class is tiericided so the ships should cost about the same. However after insurance pays out the Condor costs 365k and the Merlin only costs 127k.

In my corp we do a lot of frig pvp so we churn through frigs very fast and know with 99.9% certainty that platinum insurance is worth doing. We usually get our frigs blown up same night. Many other organisations use large amounts of frigates - E Uni, RvB, Brave Newbies, Test etc.

I know it's not exactly big money but the after insurance payout cost of frigs that used to be tier 1 shouldn't be triple the cost of other frigs in the same category.

Remove insurance.

I wonder how long it will be until CCP decides it's time to roll those "Extra materials" into the base minerals. They're really messing things up.

One potential solution: after one year of having everything rolled into "Extra Materials," begin rolling 1/12 of those Extras back into the normal material cost. It would take two full years, then, for things to lose their "Extra Materials" that are required, making the return on the investment of these ships and mods somewhat low.

Of course, there will always be people who pump out 10,000 ships to get a 450k ISK return on them two years later, amounting to an average of 187.5 million ISK per month return over those 24 months, but these sorts are the anomalies, and really, they would get roughly the same amount selling them shortly after the changes in the first place, as their money would come in significantly sooner.