So I get massively pinged, redundancy left and right and what not.
31 Votes have placed from 1000+ active players…
It’s not that representative. But at least the 70/30 ratio was more or less met.
Two things now.
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My own personal opinion is that it’s a gameplay aspect everyone should obviously know of. Call it role play or immersion. If someone spent 100 hours on a ship blueprint it does not mean it’s invincible and can never get captured. Lags/bugs/disconnects is a “fair” condition for everyone. And since we have the Garage feature, it can be seen as Black Market and it is quite a lucrative business. Especially if we have the Bounty Hunter Board, where you can take always revenge with some counter-role-play.
In no other PvP game I saw a server owner needed “to hold the hand” (symbolic meaning of take care of every gameplay aspect Eleon didn’t care in the first place) of players that much as they have to do in Empyrion — or maybe it’s just me. -
However, while I lay down a fundament for many players and sometimes it’s needed to play Dictator, it has big influence on the Community. Be it the chat behavior, the faction policies of infiltration or overall relevance in PvP. I respect if the majority in the minority does not like this common theme around Black Market.
Nevertheless, as often said, I will NOT babysit the Garage 24/7 now, nor scroll endless of “look this was my ship!” nor “he got for SURE my blueprint over there!” messages!
It’s your part now, to make legit and valid suggestions, how this policing of selling ships should look like without any form of the above scenarios!
A rewording of the current 2.1.2 Rule is simple but a rule which does not get enforced is no rule and enforcing the rule seem for me exactly the scenarios mentioned above.
The only logic enforcement of that request is: @Jascha will remove the feature to sell player ships all together! Only the ts:buy command will be available for regular players. That would also impact certain Supporter, who bought the “NPC Trader” Package, which wanted to sell their own ships.
Otherwise: show me an alternative please.
Edit: But then again: if we remove that chatbot sell feature, some can go ahead and sell the ships anyway “under the hand”. It’s a never ending issue.