EVE General Discussion

Paying to jump through NPC stargates: Its a terrible idea because it would give a reason not to travel, to camp gates more, new players not having the isk to make it to that null sec to pew so they dont. In general make people have one less reason to roam around New Eden. I mean really does it have to be spelled?

Cashing in ships with insurance at a calculated time or just replacing them or just grinding them down to minerals isn't a sink. Its still just shuffling isk or more faucet work with insurance. A proper sink needs isk eventually get sucked up by a npc. Keeping ships around to constantly be repaired in a meaningful way would push isk out. If damage was limited to parts you could live with slowly degrading for a good while, it wouldn't be as invasive. Like Heat damage addition, or warp speed penalty. like 6.0AU to 5.9 AU within a week or so. To a max of 10% damage, so 5.4 AU. Those freighters will be repairing all the damn time.
This with a added repair in the right mouse menu in inventory to quickly repair items than the current messy repair UI would decrease the hassle.
Same with visual cues that your current piloted ship is suffering damage would be the highlight of your current ship could change from green to yellow to red.
And decay should only ever happen to ships you're currently using.

Repair/maintenance costs in games where real money can be used to buy items is always a bit touchy.

From a coding POV, one additional ship field and the inclusion of the value at repair time is easy enough. Checking the condition of ship etc. is a good habit anyway. This might promote development of a better repair UI too.

I'm not suggesting that the degradation should occur at any speed that would be noticeable in real time. So visual cues would be moot.

And on not using ships means no bills. Not so sure. Depreciation shouldn't be something you can pick and choose. If you own 100 ships you need to pay 100 bills. The biggest sinks should be occuring to the richest players imo.

Moot point. Real money (RM) can be used to buy whatever ship whenever.

SP's are the only real limiter and even that's circumventable with RM - i.e. char bazaar.

We are not discussing something in-game, we are discussing adding a cost not already in game that can devalue something you bought with real money. Something that does not occur now. people generally disapprove of something that takes away value.

I am not disagreeing with the OP. I have had the same thoughts and it makes sense. But I also know that I would buy less Plex if I had to repair what I bought with it. It would seem like renting not owning.

It get's sticky when we starting saying "what I bought with real money" regardless of what it was spent on. Starts the process of "I bought this ship in a PvP game" for real money and you have right to asplode it.

We pay to play with real money. And while playing we accumulate wealth and buy ships etc. Does that now fall under the same auspice? I hope not.

(Gawd, we could end up with litigators sueing VR char Joe Bloggs because RL person George Trenbath paid RM for his ship and VR Joe blew it up. A slippery, slippery slope.)

There must be a less annoying way to scoop some ISK out of the game. Someone go find it before something like this gets implemented.

So, all ships to be sold by contract then?

Well, unless you want to leave a hole for repackaging.

Or reselling only by contract.

Because once a ship is repackaged, it's exactly the same as all others (or they wouldn't stack)