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Visorak
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Main: Radia
Level: 1101 Class:
Speed Demon
Joined: Wed Oct 10, 2007 6:04 pm Location: q3dm17
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Re: Free to Play
Battlecruiser23 wrote: Planning ahead means I have no life, Radia? A Video Game should require less effort than a job.
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Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:51 am |
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Madridista
Joined: Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:03 pm
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Re: Free to Play
Visorak wrote: Battlecruiser23 wrote: Planning ahead means I have no life, Radia? A Video Game should require less effort than a job.In your opinion. Some people like intense depth and the effort it takes to reach end-game levels (and stay there) in games. If you don't want to optimise your real life commitments to allow maximum time for an SS event (such as reset or team Oly runs), that is fine. You can still have plenty of fun in SS without being "full-time". Also plenty of "offline" games where you can save and play whenever you want.
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shawn_mccall
Team:
Main: shawn - mccall
Level: 2411 Class:
Fleet Commander
Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:53 am
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Re: Free to Play
Madridista wrote: Cygnus wrote: You obviously have no idea what you're talking about, and are not even bothering to try to understand our perspective.
I'm out. Well re-reading what you said above shawn, I think a week is agreeable. I might be trigger happy on the flame button when shawn is around I feel loved.
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andezrhode wrote: goett wrote: All oly ships look way to geometrically conservative for my tastes. thats because most graphic designers are squares
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Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:14 pm |
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Russell
Team:
Main: Llessur
Level: 2808 Class:
Engineer
Joined: Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:26 pm Location: Feilding, New Zealand
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Re: Free to Play
With reference to the proposal to disable bases on unsubbed accounts, I think it would cause a loss of income to SS.
I have never used unsubbed bases to date.
1/ An account must be subbed to build a base and an account must be subbed to store base gear. That means an account must be subbed for 2/3 months of a uni.
2/ If for some reason a players account goes unsubbed and he comes back to find his bases in ruins he is much more likely to say stuff it, and leave
On balance it seems to me that it is better to get 2/3 of a sub than nothing.
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Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:43 pm |
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Battlecruiser23
over 9000!
Team:
Main: Ghost Commander
Level: 1138 Class:
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Joined: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:36 pm
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Re: Free to Play
Base items for rats/nukes should stay up if an account is unsubbed.
The reason why trade bays will go offline probably is because of terraforming. Terraforming allows you to have multiple colonies pumping, even with no CA, and still make money off of them.
30 colonies on 100% suit can make the owner 500b per uni. The cost to TF all those cols is maybe 50b. So each uni, with some accounts, I could make 450b profit? Kinda stupid, huh.
As for gear, 30 andaman base sets can be stored on one account. A pair of SS's can do it. Even if you had to get 2 new SS's...450b will easily cover the expense.
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Wed Nov 30, 2011 1:57 pm |
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anilv
Member
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Main: enkelin
Level: 3002 Class:
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Joined: Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:28 pm
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Re: Free to Play
How do you propose to feed a base that relies on space oat / ration imports?
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Wed Nov 30, 2011 2:00 pm |
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Battlecruiser23
over 9000!
Team:
Main: Ghost Commander
Level: 1138 Class:
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Joined: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:36 pm
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Re: Free to Play
anilv wrote: How do you propose to feed a base that relies on space oat / ration imports? Unless the base is owned by a really low level, I seriously doubt the base will run out of rats before a termite attack destroys it.
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Wed Nov 30, 2011 2:15 pm |
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shawn_mccall
Team:
Main: shawn - mccall
Level: 2411 Class:
Fleet Commander
Joined: Sun Jan 06, 2008 12:53 am
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Re: Free to Play
Churchill, I like your new avatar.
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Neba wrote: BLACK PEOPLE DON'T GET RICE
andezrhode wrote: goett wrote: All oly ships look way to geometrically conservative for my tastes. thats because most graphic designers are squares
goett wrote: Fired bullets taste like candy.
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Wed Nov 30, 2011 9:41 pm |
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playerboy345
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Level: 2035 Class:
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Joined: Sat Jul 04, 2009 10:25 am Location: The Netherlands
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Re: Free to Play
shawn_mccall wrote: Churchill, I like your new avatar.
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JeffL wrote: because we can and it looks really cool
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Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:24 am |
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Utumno
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Level: 20 Class:
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Joined: Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:53 pm Location: South-Western Germany
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Re: Free to Play
JeffL wrote: And in addition, we plan on stopping all extraction and building and such for bases belonging to unsubbed p2p, so people can't just sub at the beginning of the uni and then manage the base with other chars. There are (briefly) a few benefits of having a base: - profit (colonies or extraction) - defense - building - owning galaxy withount necessarily defending it against players (mainly connectors) Except the last point it is easy to stop the usefullness of a base without touching it's survivability (vs. AI); I don't see (without further thinking about it) an easy solution for the last point. I also think it doesn't really matter. Going for the solution as you described above to let the bases basically die once you're unsubbed is an idea that'll make a few people play even less and in that case they'd probably not sub at all.
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Thu Dec 01, 2011 5:59 am |
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Griffin
Team:
Main: Stabberz
Level: 2153 Class:
Gunner
Joined: Sat Mar 03, 2007 10:55 am
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Re: Free to Play
Actually, people only subbing once for an entire uni directly encourages not subbing. The idea that players should not have to pay any money yet still get the benefits of a person who keeps the account subbed is a terrible business model and it ruins the economy of the game.
TL;DR, don't be a bunch of butthurt candy-asses who are sad about not being able to exploit a game.
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Thu Dec 01, 2011 10:40 pm |
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playerboy345
Team:
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Level: 2035 Class:
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Re: Free to Play
Griffin wrote: Actually, people only subbing once for an entire uni directly encourages not subbing. The idea that players should not have to pay any money yet still get the benefits of a person who keeps the account subbed is a terrible business model and it ruins the economy of the game.
TL;DR, don't be a bunch of butthurt candy-asses who are sad about not being able to exploit a game. You don't play shut up.
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JeffL wrote: because we can and it looks really cool
The Voomy One wrote: Quote: Runescape, Allows you to change your name every 30 days. Runescape sucks so it doesnt count
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Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:13 am |
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Battlecruiser23
over 9000!
Team:
Main: Ghost Commander
Level: 1138 Class:
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Joined: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:36 pm
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Re: Free to Play
playerboy345 wrote: Griffin wrote: Actually, people only subbing once for an entire uni directly encourages not subbing. The idea that players should not have to pay any money yet still get the benefits of a person who keeps the account subbed is a terrible business model and it ruins the economy of the game.
TL;DR, don't be a bunch of butthurt candy-asses who are sad about not being able to exploit a game. You don't play shut up. He may not play, but his point is valid.
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Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:15 am |
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playerboy345
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Re: Free to Play
Battlecruiser23 wrote: playerboy345 wrote: Griffin wrote: Actually, people only subbing once for an entire uni directly encourages not subbing. The idea that players should not have to pay any money yet still get the benefits of a person who keeps the account subbed is a terrible business model and it ruins the economy of the game.
TL;DR, don't be a bunch of butthurt candy-asses who are sad about not being able to exploit a game. You don't play shut up. He may not play, but his point is valid. Never said his point wasn't valid.
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JeffL wrote: because we can and it looks really cool
The Voomy One wrote: Quote: Runescape, Allows you to change your name every 30 days. Runescape sucks so it doesnt count
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Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:30 am |
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Battlecruiser23
over 9000!
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Level: 1138 Class:
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Joined: Sat Dec 09, 2006 10:36 pm
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Re: Free to Play
Can we get back on the topic of f2p?
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