The Economy of Loss

[Govedo13]

To add;

Adding much death penalty at all, be it losing money or otherwise, really wouldn't be great, either.

I'm a lowly newbie getting by as a attempted indie-bounty hunter. I am barely getting by, as my ship doesn't have codes, nor can I afford a bunch of nukes or other bread and butter "tough guy" weapons. I get trounced a lot.

So if I lost money (I addition to ammo etc) I would be really below the other well established people. Furthermore... Lots of people seem quite capable of making millions easily, while others are not. What would the penalty be? To high and the new fish can't do anything. To low and it only effects the new fish.

Additionally, it would make military players kind of rely on having alternate characters to get by. I don't imagine they're well established sources of money... And they'd be fighting a lot on principle.

Joining the server without any PvP skills and without any good funding to equip normal fighter/bomber you have bad chance to do it good as hunter, however you still can make 30-40m per hour with trading ship.
One bomber costs 30m max, one fighter 20-25m, set of the best guns cost 100m. So you would need to trade 10 hours to get your equipped trader ship and to equip hunter bomber/fighter. So tell me after this 10 hours you got the ships and let say 30-40m to buy ammo. Then it is kinda too easy.

I remember once when one Rogue killed me because I had no money to pay to him- it was like 3-4 years ago. I needed to sell the turrets of my mammoth to buy cargo- exactly at that point I was scared to die because I just was not able to afford it, but after a couple of runs it was not problem anymore. Traders should fear the pirates- pirates should fear the lawfuls.

Look at McNeo post- he explain it rather well- also adding more dmg would make people to think twice before go out to dock and restock and re-engage- it would be costly.

So in general it is a way too easy to make credits and keep them in discovery universe. Since 2 years ago you could sell and buy ships- so you does not need to loose anything if you decide to change your RP too.

If you are willing to play as bounty hunter in Liberty drop me PM. Sometimes I fly around the place and I could help you with the basics. I hope you get my point.

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Official faction players that are often accused of elitism, never deploy them and have those weird, immersion killing "fair fight/dueling" suicidal hobbies. (yes, i've seen enough of those lolduels, where house military with overwhelming force on the field willingly loses a pilot in a duel. ffs.)