but exclusiveness and riches come from comparisons. - when you have 1 million $ - and everyone has only 1 thousand, - you are rich. - but when you have 1 million and everyone else has the same, you re average. ( even if your standard of living hasn t decreased )
when all the IND is flying show-off ships, their "exclusiveness" goes down severely. - they are not perceived as "grand" or "status symbols of someone filthy rich". - they may become a symbol of the IND, but thats it.
the point is....
if the IND was a NPC faction with plenty of NPCs, - these could all fly average ships... and when every PLAYER was flying an exclusive one, they would be set apart from the common employees.
but the IND and the IC itself has no NPCs as such. - so whenever we see an IND or IC ship - its a player - in a fancy ship. - the novelty wears off.... the exclusiveness, too.
even making an ornate ship out of massive gold doesn t mean you re rich - when everyone else is flying one, too. ( everyone else = everyone in your organization )
anyway - lets put it down to different approaches to "show off"
Zelo Wrote:You'll notice every faction that has it's own ID has ships,
OBJECTION!
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I agree with that.
But, at any rate, making them so exepensive that only people with more money than god, can buy them, isnt that kinda the same as making them exclusive?
' Wrote:I am going to submit my vessel as a civil line, possible with my frigate group.
Have a good day everyone,
Okies... Perhaps I was a bit confused. Zigeris, were you not working on the Larger ship? Not sure why you have decided to remove yourself from this effort, as I thought your last draft was magnificent. Perhaps this has nothing to do with design, in which case, I will simply embrace you and thank you for your participation and hope to see more of you, in whatever capacity you choose. I very much like your design, think it is FTW.
' Wrote:Thats really neat Boss, I like it, any idea on the textures yet?
Golden everything, I think was the idea. I'm gonna need to poke a few dozen people to teach me texturing though D:
Zealot Wrote:Just go play the game and have fun dammit.
Treewyrm Wrote:all in all the conclusion is that disco doesn't need antagonist factions, it doesn't need phantoms, it doesn't need nomads, it doesn't need coalition and it doesn't need many other things, no AIs, the game is hijacked by morons to confuse the game with their dickwaving generic competition games mixed up with troll-of-the-day.
Golden everything? Like, everything everything? That sounds kind of weird. I don't speak for the rest of the IND, but I wouldn't want to fly a ship that's entirely gold. Lots of gold, sure. All gold, mneh...
My preference on textures is goldish, somewhat like a Kusari texture, especally with the ship not only being IND but being designed and built by the good folks at Renzu corp.
Ah. Okay. I was thinking about something else, then. Like a ship that looks like it's actually made entirely from 24 carat gold. Kusari-type texture would be lovely.