and why the fuck not?

Signed, with a definite high cost.

Thats not an all or nothing.

It's either free to blow up any aug on any ship you have (confirmation password), or you cannot and must pay 30 bucks.

I don't think this change would affect the aug economy at all. As several people have mentioned, the ability to blow just one aug would prompt them to change their setup more often, which means they would be buying / building more augs than if they just left their setup alone.

I think the people who fit into that category would probably balance out the people who would have been willing to blow all three (or four) augs to change setups but end up only blowing one due to the change.

I say implement it with no restrictions.

remove aug reset missions, remove reboot modules, and do not put this in, augs are Permanent Upgrades. If you want to aug your lion differently, build a new lion.

/endgrumpyoldmanrant

Poll says 89%, so...

/signed

but it needs this







its wasteful to force people to abandon all the augs on their ship just because they want to change one, it forces them to deal with the "FUCK, I JUST WASTED BILLIONS IN AUGS" feeling that leads to "WHY DO I PLAY THIS GAME ALL I DO HERE IS LOSE MONEY"

not wasteful in the augs, but wasteful in the players... as in they QUIT out of frustration from crap like this that is pretty much the same as forcing them to burn their own money, (not technically money, but they definetly worked for it, and destroying something you worked hard for is a really shitty feeling. definetly not what i'd call "fun")


so thanks for bringing up the point that utterly destroys all arguments against this being implemented for all tech levels (the economy will function better with more players anyway... SS's problem isnt lack of market participation, it is the lack of players and squeezing the players who are already here in order to stimulate the market will only damage it more...)

and if you're still not satisfied



if anyone here still doesnt think its a good idea to implement this for all tech levels, then chances are nothing will ever convince you

the poorer end of the playerbase, the one actually at risk from economic bullshit which could make them quit, are the ones which need to be considered

frankly i dont give a flying fuck if this means trevor can change his augs for a little cheaper, i care about having a functional economy and enough new players that SS wont wither and die

No, augs are not meant to be hot-switched. The difference is that this way players will have to pay to replace augs. The closest you'll get to this is OLs that are essentially hot-switchable augmenters.

Having things like Excomms cost much more than they currently do does *not* mean the SS economy is doing better than before. Why does everyone seem to think that cutting supply equals stimulating the economy?

I agree with anliv.

The ability to remove a single aug would have next to no effect on the ecconomy as people would simply be more inclined to expreiment with aug setups.
Currently top end aug setups are so difficult to build and so expensive there is little incentive to innovate. As Nuromishi hinted it is easier to build a new ship than to get new augs.
Further Shawn yes most drops are junk but the AI bases are more than happy to recycle all that useless junk and convert it into nice shiny credits.