EVE General Discussion

I've played games that had this mechanic, and all I can say about it is that it becomes an annoyance more than anything else for pretty much every single player.

*Thinks about glorious mission runner tears when the durability runs out on his faction fit marauder mid mission.*

*Thinks about even more glorious tears when freighter breaks down with all of people's assets inside.*

*Thinks about miners tears when their barge implodes with no outside interference.*


This is a great idea.

...OR there could be introduced into the game a way to embargo/sanction an alliance into the ground. Perhaps once you have alliance wide average standings of 8.0 with an empire, you could impose restrictions on market transactions for your competitors.
Naturally everyone would try to go for Caldari so Jita would be ruined for their reds, but it would also make it crucial that null alliance members run missions in empire space. Man that would be crazy.

Isn't the whole concept redundant anyway because of nanites and ****?

Old idea that pops up from time to time.

It generally isn't received well because such a concept penalizes those of us who who...

- prepare ahead of time (PvPers and corp managers set up numerous pre-fit ships for "grab and go" situations).
- actually survive the rigors/risks of space.


Plus...

- it is just annoying as hell to have to constantly repair every time you do anything.
- it makes deep space operations (wormhole living, endless scouting tasks, Black-Ops, nomadic lifestyle) extremely hard, if not impossible.
- younger, poorer players would be more adversely affected by this than older, richer players.

In a world you don't care that you ship explodes, wear/tear doesn't exist since you just replace it. You also have ammo costs, drone replacements, and time itself to fix "wear" when a cycle on a repper for what ever layer of buffer you are replacing, skill points itself is a type of wear out on patience.....no we don't need things to spontaneously break, just need players to get bigger balls and stop fearing CONCORD if they are living in highsec cause the only they can afford to replace is a destroyer in a wolf pack to a shitfit freighter with 3x cargo expander (CCP needs to remove those lows, reduce cargo capacity to 250k m3, increase hull hitpoints and force freighter pilots to make more trips)...maybe that one player would be willing to lose a cruiser or BC when it becomes harder to kill cattle in a fleet gank for lesser rewards.

I've had ships in use for YEARS. That would have been great.

Still .... uh... wonder if we'll get a paint barn or something. I don't want to be rolling in a hoopty. Even the new Phoon is still dragging a muffler.

and...what if we had to buy fuel?

Maintenance costs only make any sense for supers really.

I assume everything else gets routine maintenance during those long periods of time when it's docked up and switched off. Supers cant dock and at a guess are always on in some capacity. I guess as a result they would require constant checks and fixes that other smaller ships wouldn't.

Anyway, it would be annoying and not make much sense for most ships. Even for supers it would probably still be pointless, I guess it might have some effect on super proliferation, maybe.

we already need fuel for capital ships to move around and it sucks. At least to jump to cynos, but that would be so annoying to have to keep oyur ship fueled.

I like to think that our ships have a bunch of solar panels on them and we don't need another energy source or something like that