I'm starting to feel the itch to get back in game again and work on a trident I have started for one of my characters. Since, it is fairly close to completion though, I don't see much point if by building it, I would have to start from scratch to get what I hope would be a more useful ship in the S or P variants. Has any decision been reached on whether or not players will be able to upgrade their class M's to the new variants when they become available?

Others would say you should have to start from scratch because they've already wasted the time doing it in preparation but if it actually happened that way i'd take the 8 hour drive to WI is explain my displeasure in person as I'd find that drive less of a waste of time than actually make 2 more dents

if it's just the computer and sensors though then whatever, at least those parts are different

psst this sounds like a suggestion

I waited a bit before finishing mine but in the end decided I could be waiting quite a while so went ahead, second dent is much easier anyway...

Tridents should be upgradeable to a new class.
Set an upgrade price of say... 30-50 mil. at M7 shipyard and make it a 48 hours wait for the upgrade to be executed.
End of story.

Spence Ill take that ride with you.

You're assuming that the new types will be better.

'Conversion' might be a better word than 'upgrade'. I'd like to have it so one could gather the net difference in parts and run a mission to convert, receiving back the unneeded parts.

'Conversion' might be a better word than 'upgrade'. I'd like to have it so one could gather the net difference in parts and run a mission to convert, receiving back the unneeded parts.

This would be ideal!!

Yeah sounds good. +1

-1

I disagree with the notion that everything should be handed to you on a silver platter. Slothful ingrates. Capship building is supposed to take time and be hard.

We wouldn't want you to get tired of new capships within the first 10 minutes they are released, would we? You gotta earn something the hard way to appreciate its true value.

I agree with Joker. It is supposed to be a monumental task. Make it easy and it devalues the end result IMHO.

It was a monumental task that took me 4 years to complete. I don't mind having to build a couple other parts to convert my existing trident, but starting from scratch would be a slap in the face.

That's the same thing as telling your boss: "Hey I worked so hard and I earned $50,000 last year. I think I'm entitled to a free $50,000 right now, pronto. If you don't give me a free $50,000 you would be slapping my face."

Honestly, does that make any sense at all?

You work hard to earn this, and you also work hard to earn that.

That's not a very good analogy; they're not asking to have the new Trident in addition to the old one. They're asking to convert the old one into the new one, similar to trading in an old car to partly offset the price of a new one.

A better objection to capship conversion would be "choices should matter" -- allowing people to too-easily flip back and forth between capship variants may be undesirable, similar to how such behavior with national ships was undesirable.

Personally, I don't have a problem with the basic idea of a conversion, but I do think it should take at least 20% of the effort that building a Trident from scratch takes.

Are we talking about a one-time only conversion or an unlimited whenever you feel like it conversion?

How about a conversion where you don't get the extra old parts back, that should slow it down.

How about no conversion, and you build a new trident like a real man? It's this very same slothfulness that's causing the declining economy in our country, and the reason Trump won the NH primary despite being an extremely despicable person.

The thing is joyless, this isn't a job it's a video game.

How you treat a video game speaks volumes about how you treat the rest of your life. Food for thought.