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How do you plan to insure? I think many of us have gotten use to having an assortment of resources with us at all times. Resources are expensive to insure, I think the most expensive thing to insure. I've been trying to carry lighter, but sometimes, it's just not that easy. I've also been trying to select what type resource I'm after and stick to mainly that to have in my bag, plus what I need for traps and tents.

I've known people that say they will only insure their gun(s) and maybe some armor and nothing more. That's probably what I will do and because I don't wear much armor, maybe I'll insure a pair of pants so I'm not running around in my boxers (that's all I need those tusken raiders to see after they just laid me to waste).

So when on other planets, without a bank, and that 950 OQ herb meat sitting in your backpack, are you going to insure it? Are you going to think twice before taking on that higher con mob to get that stack of wooley hide?

One thing is that with our new camo kits, perhaps we'll have the easiest time getting back to our corpses to retrieve our items.

When insurance is back in, duel a friend. Each of you should kill each other once so you leave a corpse on the ground. Loot what you need from it, and leave the rest. When you need some resources, loot them, make whatever you need to make. Then insure those precious few items you have. Since you'd have so little on your person, insurance would only cost about 1k or so.

This is a tactic I used for advanced planets where the bank didn't work. (Particularly the bank at the science outpost on Dathomir)

this will be a problem to me as i usually have over 15k bone on me and 20k metals and aroudn 5k polymers..thats more then i have in money to insure :/

...would you pay a Ranger to retrieve your corpse?

I can understand the trust issue...but, people hand thins over to slicers blindly.

If I wasn't already the invisible Master Ranger, I would pay a Ranger to retrieve my corpse.

Any ideas of costs? Would you pay 2k for your corpse? Could we get more?

Oh, and you have to remember...in the upcoming patches with the conceal kits, I don't think we'll be dying very much. The only thing we'll have to fear is NPCs....

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Flynn_Nomad wrote:

...would you pay a Ranger to retrieve your corpse?

I can understand the trust issue...but, people hand thins over to slicers blindly.

If I wasn't already the invisible Master Ranger, I would pay a Ranger to retrieve my corpse.

Any ideas of costs? Would you pay 2k for your corpse? Could we get more?

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Well I think with the conceal kit, if the rating is based solely on the ranger and not on the other PC at all, they will be just as invisible as you so you can guide them back to their body. Just make sure they pay you in advance, and if they don't, disable the conceal kit before you reach their body. :-D

Well, IF they get insurance working properly, you should be able to just insure your major items. Then again, I don't think insurance is that big of an issue. I can always do a body run (which I had to do once).

oh my...hadn't even thought of this one yet since I'm so used to being without insurance, but, on corpse retreivals:

1. We will have a distinct advantage over everyone but master scout with innate maskscent ability.

2. Selling camo to the newly cloned on advanced planets so they can retrieve their corpses. Or having them consent you and fetching it for them(at a much higher cost, of course).

Wow, this sounds like a lot of fun.

Overheard at Dathomir Outpost:

So, just died huh?

Ya...getting my stuff back is gonna be impossible.

Hrm, bet I could help you out for a small fee...

LOL, its funny you say this. I have been trying to tell people that things as they are now are not the norm, and it will change. Only those of us who played the game since day one, or actually read the manual, know how the game is.

On my first few days as a scout, I used up my 3 free deaths, got killed by some red con creatures way out in who knows where. I tried to make it back to get my stuff off body, but I died again. I think I was one of the first people to suffer half pool of wounds. Anyway, I lost all the hides and bones that were on the body. Thankfullly, I was still using newbie blaster and clothing, and you get that all back with out insuring.

I think I will only insure my blasters, and my chest armor. With my leet ranger hiding techniques, I can probably recover my corpse myselft. I like the idea of people paying me to get their corpse full of resources. Mwuahahaha, another means of money. And remember, those camo kits will work against NPC's not just animals.

Do you know what hte costs on factory crates are? I stopped carrying a lot of my resources now, just have factory crates of adhesive mesh and high tech field base's on me. Of course I have my recent harvest, but I've started dropping it all whenever i hit my house. Assuming crate cost is reasonable to insure I would think that would be idea, just insure 25 camps, and don't bring the resources along.

I don't really intend on dying once conceal is in though

The conceal kits would be a great source of income, just camp the cloning center, or for those ch's coming to tame aggro's, nothing like running around undisturbed for a half hour amidst a sea of red dots.

I think that corpse runs can take away from the fun of the game. EQ has taken the need for CR's almost out of the new expansions (using a graveyard where all corpses eventually go to) and that has lessened the grief of dying.

I think that SOE should consider doing away with the whole insurance scheme of the game and just force us to bind (clone). Either make it so we have to get to our corpses, minus our equipment, or give us all of our equipment and don't force corpse runs.

I think that corpse runs can take away from the fun of the game.

Without a doubt, this is going to drive many, many players absolutely bonkers. We've all developed some pretty lacksadaisical habits in the past 2 months.

if they do start corpse runs and someone pays you to retrieve it, the corpse should come in a backpack type container so there stuff doesnt get mixed with yours and it should have a volume of one.