Maken Tosch
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Posted - 2015.08.04 03:09:00 -
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Talos Vagheitan wrote:
- Full player trading
- Full racial versions of items IE: If every race had their own shield extenders, armor plates, etc.
- Equal amounts of weapons for each race
- Until full racial weapon sets are implemented this idea could even simply be limited to dropsuits
- etc.[/i]
I like your idea, but I see a few problems.
Let's look at what I just quoted.
Since most players prefer the Eve Online version of the market were you have buy/sell orders established and even actual item exchange contracts, establishing full player trading takes time unless you are referring to flipping the switch on all FW items in the game under the current trade system. Brokers will still be in business, but we are still talking about operating on a very rudimentary trade system.
In regards to having full racial version such as a Republic Shield Extender for one faction and an Imperial Shield Extender for the other, this creates a problem. This will just add redundant data to the server and the server is already having to deal with Odin knows how much data already in addition to that of Eve Online's data. Someone came up with an alternative to this by recommending CCP to allow players to convert LP from one faction to another with a set tax on that conversion. If I have 50,000 LP with the Gallente but like to purchase Caldari gear for some of my fits, I would convert (with taxes imposed) some of my LP to the Caldari suit and finally get that Rail Rifle I wanted to try out. I forgot who it was that came up with this idea.
Then there is the issue of the vehicles. There is no Amarr or Minmatar tank model available. So that alone already throws racial parity in FW out the window and causes further problems for those players who want to use the best vehicles in a pub or PC match but can't fight for a faction they already hate. Try forcing a Gallentean to grind for the Caldari for a Caldari HAV. It's not gonna happen.
I don't fully understand what you mean by equal amounts of weapons, but I like to point out the vehicles once again for not having racial parity. Then there are the unusual weapons such as the Nova Knives which are used by the Minmatar with the help of the Ishukone Corporation. Nova Knives have NO racial variant of their own AT ALL. Just like the HMG, they are the only weapons of their class to be exclusively designed by one race. That and none of the non-Minmatar races have any bonuses to their suits suitable for the knives. Only the Minmatar Scout has that bonus.
You are right to assume that until we get racial parity for all weapons, we will only be limited to the suits for this idea of yours. But again, this still has problems even for the suits. I fight for the Minmatar very often because of the Scout Mk.0's ability to be extremely fast but there are times where I need to depend on the Scout Ak.0 (Amarr) instead for its endurance if I have to travel long distances without any regard to speed while utilizing the EWAR bonus it has. I don't want to be forced to fight for the Amarr for that suit especially when that will hurt my standing with the Minmatar.
EDIT: On my last point, even with brokers helping with selling LP items for ISK, we are still talking about expanding trade in a rudimentary trade system which most players have issues with.
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