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I remember a similar suggestion from a while back, though I think the idea was to insure your loot from being stolen. However, it could work with both - pay a small amount to insure your loot from being stolen, pay a large amount to insure yourself from being killed!

There would need to be a wait time between paying and being insured to prevent abuse, just as it would be best to prevent insured players from being able to loot or kill other players too (matching their insurance, of course). It would suck to get killed and looted by another player that's invincible because they have deeper pockets.

I thought of a 2 class system in the game .. onetime the player with all the benefits/ risks of PvP and than the non PvP player who cant be killed/ looted ( and of course cant do any of that him/her self) by another player. I wouldn't set the insurance too high as it would be unfair for the occasional player .. that's why I had around 5$ a month in mind. You buy for longer ( say 6 month/ a year/ lifetime) you get it cheaper or some sort of in game bonus.

If DL has not changed their mind, the main function of PvP is to make sure all macro-bots will be killed off by the players.
If so, forget insurance.


OK, "main" is prolly too strong a word, "one of the reasons why it's there" sounds better.

if using hugos method then im not against it. but it needs to be a 1 time insurance, and with a cooldown rate before you can buy it again. lets say 30 days. in this way, people who tend not to die, it will be worth it for them (like the peaceful crafter who just needs to make 1 trip) but for those who die often, not so worth it.

In ANY case. this should be discussed in a separate topic inside this forum section, not in the section description.... 

I suggested this to the devs a long time ago so i thought now would be an appropriate time to bring the idea up again to them...
How about Insurance terminals ... such as bronze/silver/gold insurance,where you can buy different levels of insurance appropriate to the players gameplay style... so "resources" could be covered by the Bronze tier insurance,"valuables" could be covered by the Silver tier insurance and finally the "Items" could be covered by the Gold Tier insurance....So if you are killed and it is inside a lootable area then depending what insurance you have taken out it will cover you upto that level of insurance and it is upto the player which one he feels compfortable buying/needing from the terminal.. if the player feels he can take a chance and needs no insurance that is upto themselves ... So when a player is killed he will lose the insurance (or one of the points if it is a bulk buy)... gl

P.S when you die and your insurance is used it is only so you dont lose items for that level of insurance you cant cashin on any insurance for a cash gain or anything,you just dont lose items... gl

I suggested this to the devs a long time ago so i thought now would be an appropriate time to bring the idea up again to them...
How about Insurance terminals ... such as bronze/silver/gold insurance,where you can buy different levels of insurance appropriate to the players gameplay style... so "resources" could be covered by the Bronze tier insurance,"valuables" could be covered by the Silver tier insurance and finally the "Items" could be covered by the Gold Tier insurance....So if you are killed and it is inside a lootable area then depending what insurance you have taken out it will cover you upto that level of insurance and it is upto the player which one he feels compfortable buying/needing from the terminal.. if the player feels he can take a chance and needs no insurance that is upto themselves ... So when a player is killed he will lose the insurance (or one of the points if it is a bulk buy)... gl

P.S when you die and your insurance is used it is only so you dont lose items for that level of insurance you cant cashin on any insurance for a cash gain or anything,you just dont lose items... gl

umm how about u can pay the insurance thru terminals to a specific player or group of players?

do u think some invested in skills just for u and others to pay a terminal and laughing to pass thru all the zones where supposed to be dangerous ignoring anyone's attack cause u have money to
pay a terminal insurance?

I don't think is fair, so if a specific zone is protected by a specific Corporation, after all this is about in this game, corporations , alliances, strategy .. and so on
I don't think paying a terminal is the point of this game, not as I see it... paying thru terminal ( each terminal for each zone who belongs ) will allow to some Corporations, Society or Players to set his own price of insurance, general price for everyone who want to be safe or specific price for some set for specific players, this way I can see a benefit for those who spend tons of money/time to skill up...

cheers

The insurance is already ingame. Has been for years.


In many other games it takes skills and/or requires certain player level to use biggest HK's and best armors.
In AW a total noob can easily buy skills to use high-end HK and no skills whatsoever to slap on the most powerful armor.


What else it is than a fully legal god-mode built into game? In other words, a full PvP insurance.
To make the comparison even more accurate, who do you pay to get into this god-mode? Some player group who's corporation owns the area?
No, as most of the loots used for crafting are (currently) as good as worthless, the biggest part of AWD's are actually used for paying directly to the "government terminal".


If AW will ever have the true endgame PvP, this system has to change.
U have to work hard not only for attack skills (to use high-dmg weapons: rifles & melee),
u also have to work equally hard to get defensive skills (to use high-power defensive capabilities: HK's & armors).
This is simple balance. No balance, no game. In this case, no real PvP.




Having said this, however, i want to point out another obvious truth. AW can't be based entirely on PvP. First of all, not everyone likes PvP. Besides, there's realities beyond anyones control, like the guy who lives in Australia and has 5000 ping can never compete with the guy who lives in UK and has 50 ping. But they both deserve the place under the AW sun... This means the PvP areas must always remain optional, if u enter it u have agreed to the rules inside & if u don't agree, u are not forced to enter (directly or indirectly).


For several practical reasons, have to give 1st priority to non-PvP world - establishing working economy, balanced loot system, work with level design, solve problems w server/client stability and the basic game features. Only after all this is working fine you can start thinking about PvP.


Althou i like PvP and can't wait for it to become fully functional... PvP is like cherry on top.


If no cake, this "cherry" will taste like onion. Ppl always tend to accuse everyone/everything else when they lose in PvP, this is perfectly normal human behavior. If they happen to be right and the fight actually was not fair then the game will start losing players. Not good.

If we could Farming, build roads, fishing would all be nice.