Ever notice how Piracy in Freelancer is..

[Mao]

You know, if we actually didn't have this respawn thing, traders would be much more afraid. I mean, if they'd die, they loose their ship (it's transformed into something smaller...such as starflea). I'd totally be for that. We could have insurance companies then, escorts would be more used, no more silent traders, no more AFKing in space (I'm looking at you reav!!), no more "killz me, iz cheeper" , probably less UAU8 spam, more retreating instead of "pvp? 1v1? kk pew pew" and it would take longer to get to 'endgame' part where you just powertrade so you could buy every capital ship in game. More of it, it would probably discourage lolwuts from lolwutting around.

I mean, those ships are not that expensive to buy a new one after killing.

I think it would solve your problem:)

THIS IS A GREAT IDEA. A player that was killed, stays dead and must make a new character. This would make the game more... realistic should we say? But we will loose many players that can't fight very well because it will become annoying to start over again and again and again... But the idea is AWESOME!

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