Insurance

[Yugi]

I think there should be another way for people to "not die" when they are killed, like with insurance. I think a single-use item or device such as an emergency teleporter would be a good prospect for such a device.

[Burzmali]

How about an escape pod? You eject and have to pilot your way back to a friendly station.

[Yugi]

Yeah, but how would you be able to retain your ship and equipment that way? If you did that, wouldn't you have to start with a new ship, much like the starting ones?
Or, possibly, a certain amount of your credits can be taken and your ship is replaced with as much as you can afford? You would of course be able to choose which stuff to replace.

[marr]

From where, just maybe, you could pick up a different class of ship. Hey, we can dream.. 8)

Personally, I don't really see the need to retain your ship and equipment. We already have more money and loot stashes than we know what to do with in most successful plays, if it could be used to equip a new ride after a resounding defeat there'd be a lot more purpose to all the hoarding.

[OddBob]

You mean, like the RESSURECT Domina power?

[Yugi]

Yeah, something like that, only existant.

[hookoa]

Lets look at the cost of insurance here. It's 10k credits. (looking at the code, it seems to go up to 100,000 credits? I'm sure somone will correct me.) That covers the cost of cloning you, Fixing up a new ship for you, and replacing your inventory, don't it?

First of all, If you have a hanzo blaster, akan 60, rasiermesser, and plasma shield generator with some of the more advanced armors, your ship will cost a lot more than 100k to repair. I digress.

It'd be fun to have an escape pod. I can see two fun ways to implement them, or maybe two variations of escape pod.

Escape pod 1: This pod is stored in your cargo hold. It weighs about 30 tons. When your ship blows up, if there's a wreck left, you can go to your cargo hold and jettison yourself (in your snazzy escape pod) at the push of a button. Personally I'd wait until whatever blew you up leaves the area.
This pod will allow you to take light weight ROMs and crystals etc with you. Unfortunately, since it's not an immediate ejection, you die if there's no wreck.

With your escape pod, you can run to the nearest Taikon Industries to order a new ship and supplies.

Escape pod 2: This pod replaces your cockpit and doesn't take up cargo hold or add weight to your ship. It'd eject you even if your ship is blown to smithereens. Unfortunately, the quickness of escape disallows bringing anything with you.

[Burzmali]

I figure your credits are tied to your (virtual) ID that lets everyone know when to arrest you and such.

Personally, I agree hookoa on this. You either have an automated eject, saving maybe your most valuable 100 kg of equipment, or a manual eject (available any time) with a higher limit.

Either way, the pod should have enough fuel to get you to a CW station within a system or two, no weapons or shields, the manueverablity of a hornet.

I may be the minority, but when I play, I play for keep. No ressurection, no "insurance", and no save scumming. Heck, I don't even use GoC after they are identified.

[Yugi]

I quite often (not always) play without resurrecting, I just thought it would be useful for others.

[Czert]

I agree with two types of eject pods.
1. generic - have all ships - this consist of simply piloting space (with computer - ROMs, Cubes etc. instaled), but nothing more - no shield, no wepons, only engines and (limited) fuel. Not needed cargo space.
2. purchased EP - different versions with different cargo space reguirement (replace standard EP) - and new EP can have wide variety of unarmed EP with unlimited fuel (instaled solar panels) to small "battleship".

And if you eject, you simply fly to nearest statin to buy new ship (in certains stations only one weak type, on ships dealers (or bazar) "unlimited". And you simply continue with new ship and can try attempt to "loot" your lost ship first.
Of course, if you buy new ship you can launch saving attemp to aqure you lost ship.*
Or (cheapest) you can pay "salvaging party" (on all stations) to tow your ship to station, but with (medium) chance with returning with looted ship and salvaging party destroyed (depending of place with lost ship).
And for insurance - you pay fixed amount of credist (firs time for creating your clone) and you "monthly" pay certain minimum tax (needed to keep you clone alive) and floating ammount based on value of your ship.
(in long time period will be better to have "combat" EP and for saved credits buy new ship).
* this gives me interesin idea - if you have ship, you can buy another you can keep two(or more) ships, but you need find wingman for yours new/old ship. And in wors case, you can dock with EP in ship of your wingmen and take command of his ship.(but Rama dislikes this ).

[Yugi]

Yeah, good ideas Czert!
Though the monthly payment would not be monthly. It would be a payment sort of every two minutes, or something like that. Porbably about 5% every five minutes, or something like that.
I REALLY like the idea of having a salvaging party!

And if you eject, you simply fly to nearest statin to buy new ship (in certains stations only one weak type, on ships dealers (or bazar) "unlimited". And you simply continue with new ship and can try attempt to "loot" your lost ship first.

This would allow another way to swap ships in-game.

[F50]

I always play no-resurect nowadays, but I still use (slightly overpowered in .96a) insurance. I think that this would be a great idea to implement. Only one gripe, if your ship does leave a wreak and the wreak is destroyed (say, by a dreadnought) while you are in the escape pod in the wreak, the escape pod should auto-eject even if it does not eject on (otherwise) leathal impact.

[Czert]

This would allow another way to swap ships in-game.

But this sound simmiliar to me as "ejecting kamikaze".