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here's a novel idea! v. ship changes
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Marcus Harikari
#1 - 2011-12-01 14:52:12 UTC
What if ships introduced could never be changed? I mean the existing ships. Like if you buy a ship, it's going to stay the same as long as it's alive. If CCP wants to change mechanics, they can change all new ships produced, but existing ships stay the same? Would be more realistic and give very high values to ships that have survived for a long time. Also, would nudge CCP towards first releasing less powerful ships and perhaps slowly making them more powerful/specialized with each new update. Kind of like cars in the real world.
Xtover
Cold Moon Destruction.
#2 - 2011-12-01 14:56:55 UTC
Marcus Harikari wrote:
What if ships introduced could never be changed? I mean the existing ships. Like if you buy a ship, it's going to stay the same as long as it's alive. If CCP wants to change mechanics, they can change all new ships produced, but existing ships stay the same? Would be more realistic and give very high values to ships that have survived for a long time. Also, would nudge CCP towards first releasing less powerful ships and perhaps slowly making them more powerful/specialized with each new update. Kind of like cars in the real world.



huh?

You mean not allowing you to change mods?

terrible idea.
Rixiu
PonyTek
#3 - 2011-12-01 15:04:49 UTC
Marcus Harikari wrote:
What if ships introduced could never be changed? I mean the existing ships. Like if you buy a ship, it's going to stay the same as long as it's alive. If CCP wants to change mechanics, they can change all new ships produced, but existing ships stay the same? Would be more realistic and give very high values to ships that have survived for a long time. Also, would nudge CCP towards first releasing less powerful ships and perhaps slowly making them more powerful/specialized with each new update. Kind of like cars in the real world.


While "lol-realistic" it would be technically impossible to do as in the long run there would be tons of different versions of each ship. Just thinking about how a database would handle such things makes my head hurt not to mention how we the players would tell them apart.
Minta Contha
Emergent Entity
#4 - 2011-12-01 15:07:50 UTC
Not only that, but the owners of the old ship BPO's could keep cranking them out. It would be silly to make a blueprint suddenly start making different versions of a ship all by itself.

My cooking is like my lovemaking - fast, greasy, and unsatisfying.
Renan Ruivo
Forcas armadas
Brave Collective
#5 - 2011-12-01 16:02:32 UTC
Bad idea. Why? Would take too much resources, too much planning and its not that interesting to begin with.

Incarna bad.

The world is a community of idiots doing a series of things until it explodes and we all die.
Nex apparatu5
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#6 - 2011-12-01 16:08:13 UTC  |  Edited by: Nex apparatu5
That would be a terrible idea. Just think of caps. A titan/mom fleet would be unstoppable. Clear out the enemy subcaps with your AOE doomsdays from your old titans, Kill everything else with your targeted doomsdays (can still target subcaps!) and fighter bombers. Don't worry, any supers that your enemy builds will have 20% less EHP than yours due to the nerf!