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Nation Change

Jul 25, 2014 Death Fluffy link
I've seen a lot more of people changing nations for whatever reason recently, mostly for the top tier ships imo.

GS is very helpful with regards to player requests, Ray has helped me multiple times for different things, for which I owe him my gratitude. I just think for something like a nation change, that there should be an in game mechanism that allows players to do this without having to make a request to the development team. I think it should be costly, similar to the expense of faction recovery. Limited to x number of times at increasing cost. And that it should require some sort of accomplishment, whether with respect to standing or something else.
Jul 25, 2014 incarnate link
I think it should probably cost actual real-world dollars, like a name change or something. $5 to switch nations, and you can do it once on the lifetime of any given character.

(The point being to keep it from happening often.. not any expectation of meaningful revenue from this change).
Jul 25, 2014 Death Fluffy link
+1 Incarnate!

As someone who has benefited in the past from these, I will say that I would have happily paid each time.
Jul 25, 2014 DeathSpores link
if they want to keep specific exclusive nation ships, they should pay 5$ for each item i'd say :p
Jul 25, 2014 Pizzasgood link
+1 to the once-per-char limit. +2 to just not permitting it at all, because people should just get it right the first time.
Jul 26, 2014 greenwall link
+2 to just not permitting it at all, because people should just get it right the first time.

such naive thinking....

It definitely should have a real world cost, and should have long ago. I say bump it to $20 and a limit of three times (for the three facdtions).
Jul 26, 2014 Pizzasgood link
Jul 26, 2014 abortretryfail link
I think this should have both a real-world cost and in-game penalty (standing hit).
Jul 26, 2014 TheRedSpy link
My view is that your text colour i.e. your "nation affiliation" should change as your standings do. It should be a current affiliation thing, not an origin story.
Jul 26, 2014 vskye link
+1 for a cost.

Devs eating hotdogs vs steak is a good problem. ;)
Jul 27, 2014 DeathSpores link
maybe they should go veggie.
Jul 28, 2014 Shadowhawke link
You have 6 character slots. Either use 'em or pay $20 dollars to change faction and take a huge hit I.e. premenant kos with old faction. And limit to once per character.
Jul 29, 2014 csgno1 link
+1 to Real world cost.
+1 to Limit per character, I'd suggest 2.
-1 to perm KOS.