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No it should not, it takes away all individual experimentation and EVERYONE will be running cookie cutter loadouts. Unless profits are significantly increased to offset it then people will leave the game in droves.

10 min window is pathetic in its own right i wont even go into how ludicrous this even is.
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I don't even play anymore and I agree.
When you could swap out stuff with no fee it was fun because you could actually try and test things out to see what you like, or what was better/worse etc.

Trial and experimentation is the right way to put it yeah, I mean in the early days they were changing weapons so much you were always changing stuff up and there weren't really and up to date and hard facts on stuff.
Plus the in-game information was useless, is it still? Damage/shields etc being in the value of bars! hah.

They could at least have a longer trial time, or a firing/test range mode or SOMETHING.
 
Might as well just give everyone access to everything then heh, it's 10%, get over it. Amazing how many people have suddenly turned into a bunch of whiney entitled children over it lol, truly pathetic. Choice has consequence, deal with it.
 
They should just do the selling of Modules like they do with other Commodities in the Game, some Systems don't have ANY Grade A whatevers, other Systems do, if I want to sell a higher Graded thing that is NOT available in the current Outfitters then that should command a premium (Not saying a HIGHER price but definitely more than the 'across the board 10% loss over new'), same as there should be a greater financial Penalty for selling F Grade Stuff where A Graded is abundant.

For me though the 'across the board 10% loss' is a stupidly bad idea as all it does is quash the freedom of choice and experimentation options available, it forces you through fear of financial penalties to make a single choice and keep to that choice specially with the more expensive ships which are already overly extortionate to outfit, people just hate 'losing' money, no matter how much more money you can make easily in 30mins, it's human nature.
 
Credits is Elite`s progression, all this 10% will do is slow you down. 10% on hull plating is still 16million that is 8hrs pure trade grind just to get over the impact of having to sell something to experiment. This will hurt newer players even harder, quite frankly there is ZERO reason for this to be implemented.

So what if someone has 1billion credits it has zero impact on anyone else.
 
The latest developments letter says they are possibly going to reconsider the 10% loss on modules.

The way the prices escalate its not really practical to be costing people 10s of millions of credits because they want to change from trading to combat.
As for the comments in the letter itself, "we all own multiple ships outfitted for specific roles" or something along those lines form the devs.
YOU may have specific ships for specific roles, those of us who have other things to do, like eating and sleeping and heaven forfend 10 hours of our day taken up with work, we don't have the luxury of 750 million credit assets so we can run a fleet of decently specced ships.
 
Yes, but it is not really required in the current system, you buy it at 100m and sell it back at 100m. So in effect it is storage. What they want to do is charge you 10% on selling back without any option to store or outfit on another ship you own (if you own another ship suitable) TBH the entire game is losing FOCUS bigtime the more i read about powerplay and the WEEKLY grind on that i shall be looking for something else play very quickly. I dont mind putting effort into a game, there comes a point when my time > The game. ELITE is about that stage if this content goes through as is.

Oh and for the record its speeded up on the BETA !!!!
 
Finally less than 10KLY from Sol and making a beeline back. Got something like 2500 systems worth of data to sell from a very drunken stagger to and from SagA*.

Going to trade for a bit when I finally get back and upgrade to an Anaconda then get back out there again :) Might head for a random section of the rim this time (it'll take WAY less time to map a flipping route that's for sure :) )
 
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