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Enjoy the game, but it's really missing some type of penalty.
It really reduces the thrill knowing my ship can blow up and I respawn a few kilometers away. Or my entire away team goes down, and we all just jump back up.
I would've really preferred a system where if the party wipes out, you have to restart the episode.
At least add repair costs, or bridge officer death, something!
There definitely needs to be some kind of death penalty!! Please.
It really reduces the thrill knowing my ship can blow up and I respawn a few kilometers away. Or my entire away team goes down, and we all just jump back up.
I would've really preferred a system where if the party wipes out, you have to restart the episode.
At least add repair costs, or bridge officer death, something!
There definitely needs to be some kind of death penalty!! Please.
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If you die x number of times, delete ship and buy a new one.
Do whatever ya like, just dont expect other people to want the same penalities you do. Because at the end of the day, the game is about fun, and almost any penalty you come up with is simply 'waiting room' mentality.
The people who are against a death penalty have no idea what we are asking for. They ignorantly keep saying they don't want things like lost XP, lost ships, lost items/credits. Those are severe penalties that are not what most pro-death penalty people are asking for. Simply having crew numbers permanently die and need replacement would be a strong enough DP for me. There must be something.
Amen the eleventy billion we have just aren't unique enough.:rolleyes:
Where's the fun in that? If you cannot lose, who cares if you win?
Loss cannot be seen only in death penalty.
/shout Can anyone help me? My ship is in the system Guk and camped by 10 MOBs. Plus, space is really causing some shrinkage problems.
What the hell makes people like you always think that you are speaking for all of us??? Shoo, go away!!
He is speaking for myself, and many others. Most of you anti-death penalty people probably wont be playing this game for more than a few months, so why do you care anyway?
PS. no where in the OPs post did he say he was speaking for anyone else besides himself.
And how did you arrive to this conclusion?
Isn't it obvious?
My penalty idea? Respawn at Sol. No items lost.
People who enjoy easy-mode games usually don't play them for very long.
And thats where you are wrong. You assume too much.
Yes, we need some sort of death penalty. Some reason not to just charge in willy nilly and rely on respawn as our saving grace.
I dont really enjoy being tortured for my mistakes. I guess some people enjoy being held to some grueling standard and then punished when they dont measure up but for me.....
The penality is loss of time. It is not much of a loss I grant you but it is enough for me to not want to die. That is all that is really necessary.
The loss of hours worth of xp.
The de-leveling and unable to wear your gear because you're no longer the appropriate level.
The loss of random equipement.
15 minute debuffs.
Massive repair costs.
Combination of all of the above.
Yeah, no thanks. I'll pass. I've suffered through all of the various DPs that have been thrown at me, and it's refreshing to not get horrifically hammered due to death. The brief wait time , minor energy debuff and mob reset is sufficient for me. No rage or frustration makes for a relax evening of fun.
If people want a harsher DP, why not just self-inflict? Come, step up. You're asking for a DP, set by example and start self inflicting.
I played EQ and did many a corpse run. It got old real quick and was VERY time consuming. that penalty sucked.
Erm, I have yet to play an MMO where you can lose.
Death Penalties are Time Sinks and used to add play time to game progression. With a death penalty, you either die and slow things down by having to re earn exp, re start a mission or quest, spend time going back to replenish your crew, or even just do less damage for a limited amount of time. Assuming you attempt not to die, you are in essence taking extra time to be careful, which also extends your play time and slows down the game.
No matter how you cut it, what you are asking for is to slow the game down and make it take longer to play through the content. If that really is what you want, then by all means I support your right to be able to want it. But let's just make sure we are talking about the same thing here.
The pro death penalty people have many ways to impose a DP on themselves if they wish right now. The game doesn't have to do it for you.
However, if they put in an annoying DP, the rest of us are forced to deal with it, no way around.
So if you want a DP, delete an item, delete your character, delete your ship, do whatever you think is fair.
Don't force your frustrating DP on those of us happy with the way things are.