Death Penalty: Too Low?

Thu Mar 13, 2003 11:35 pm by Lunaphobe

My ideal death system:

I think a player should have to pay the resale value of their ship every time they die, or some percentage of the ship's cost. If they don't have enough, they go to zero credits and the ship starts out with hull damage (got it from a used ship salesman, junk yard, whatever). This is an incentive to stay alive, but the price of death also increases as you improve your ship, like higher taxes for the upper class.

Would be great if the remainder of the resale value were a loan that had to be paid in a certain amount of game time, or the bounty hunters come after you and kill you again

But I'm almost sure this is outside the range of .ini and .dll haxing.

Fri Mar 14, 2003 12:26 am by freighter fighter

sound good if it where multiplay only

Fri Mar 14, 2003 1:11 am by Lunaphobe

Of course it's multiplayer only. In single player the death penalty is death. There is no respawn.

Fri Mar 14, 2003 5:42 pm by Artic

the loan is a good idea, especially the bounty hunters, if they could be players it would be even better.

Fri Mar 14, 2003 6:17 pm by HumbleHawk

This won't be popular i'm sure but:

Dead is Dead. You die, you start over.

At very minimum, You should be rescued by a "medical" ship and taken to the nearest base... where you can BUY yourself a new ship with the credits you have saved up (Credits are obviously not phyical in this game, but an electronic thing.)

Fri Mar 14, 2003 8:53 pm by Norfleet

Humblehawk, the one minor caveat with the nearest-base thing is that many times, the nearest base doesn't even sell a ship.

That's why I was saying just the purchase cost of your ship and loadout should be deducted from your wallet, as a form of automatic replacement.

Fri Apr 25, 2003 6:30 pm by cej

"I think a player should have to pay the resale value of their ship every time they die, or some percentage of the ship's cost. If they don't have enough, they go to zero credits and the ship starts out with hull damage (got it from a used ship salesman, junk yard, whatever). This is an incentive to stay alive, but the price of death also increases as you improve your ship, like higher taxes for the upper class."

I would love to be able to do this.

CEJ
SysAdmin for (SR) Syndicate FL Server

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