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Make the gat turret a drop item only

Apr 13, 2012 Death Fluffy link
It's a common enough drop. Why not take it off the market and let folks collect them for use?

Everyone can go ahead and yell at me now. ;-)
Apr 13, 2012 TheRedSpy link
10000000+

It's a really good idea for so many reasons
Apr 13, 2012 Pizzasgood link
+1, though I'm certainly biased.
Apr 13, 2012 CrazySpence link
no thanks -1
Apr 13, 2012 TerranAmbassador link
-1
Apr 14, 2012 TheRedSpy link
I will say a big reason that I 1+'ed this is not because I think gat turrets shouldn't be bought, but because they shouldn't be traded at outrageous markups that ruin, offset and devalue every other activity in the economy.
Apr 14, 2012 Phaserlight link
That's a different issue, TRS. It probably deserves its own thread.

Anyway, -1 to taking AGT off the market.
Apr 14, 2012 TheRedSpy link
Oh I could write all day about why gat turret prices are ruining the economy. The point is that this will fix the problem, create a new marketplace and add more meaningfulness to combat.

It's certainly not the only way to achieve all these outcomes, but it is a developmentally easy one.

Ergo, 1+
Apr 14, 2012 meridian link
-1

Hive Gat is already an exclusive drop. Adjusting prices and/or falloff curves is a better fix for the economy issue.
Apr 14, 2012 greenwall link
-1

eh, taking this weap out of the stations will have little effect on anything -- just meddling with something that doesn't need meddling with. And changing the gat turret price / availability will do nothing for the economy. As long as there are guilds and players with billions upon billions of credits (effectively making obtaining credits meaningless, or at the very least effortless), the economy will never really be "fixed", as some like to say. Separate topic for that though...
Apr 15, 2012 Chaosis link
-Everything
Apr 15, 2012 vskye link
-1
Apr 16, 2012 TheRedSpy link
Real economies are built on scarcity driving supply and demand which determines price. There is an unlimited supply at the moment thus taking away that unlimited supply will increase the prices and have a more realistic effect. The other option is to have the sell prices also scale which is a fix, but the fact remains that this could be a good piece of economic reform. It's an idea worth consideration.
Apr 16, 2012 slime73 link
-1
Apr 16, 2012 pirren link
+1, wise idea
Apr 16, 2012 abortretryfail link
As much as I think the Gatling Turret is overpowered and needs to be nerfed...
-1

The way to fix this is not by removing them from sale, it's by fixing the way supply/demand and station markets work.
Apr 16, 2012 Alloh link
-1

It should be renamed without 'turret', maybe increase reqs... but become a rare drop is not fun, and only suits the lazy pirates needs for easier preys...
Apr 16, 2012 pirren link
only suits the lazy pirates needs for easier preys...

Are you so lazy to loot AGT?
Apr 16, 2012 CrazySpence link
we don't need to loot it now, there's enough - on this thread to kill that, there always is, always will be, I bask in the failure of the gatkillers