Clans selling ships

I’ve been working on this the last week or so and I have the basic framework done so I thought I’d open it to public input. Here is where I am at.

clansellship <ship> <price>

A clanmate with the proper empowerment can post a clan ship for sale for a certain price. This ship will show up on the ‘ships room’ and ‘ships sale’ lists as available. Anyone can then come along and buyship that ship.

The basic idea is that instead of having to hunt down a engie clan salesperson, you can just fly to their show room and buy a model right off the lot.

Thoughts?

I think this is great, would open up a world of opportunity to those who don’t log in at the same time as the engineering companies. The only issue would be ships that cost more than 2 million credits. I suppose those can still be done the old way, but maybe factor the bank into it? Using a bank account to pay.. which I’m not a big fan of either.. or clans can suck it up and let things go for less.

The Hawks would be a problem for non-clanned people. Clanned people can always use clanbuyship.

Of course, there could always be a ‘bankbuyship’ which would use up the credits from your bank accounts, much like formclan does.

If buying ships start using bank funds that’d be awesome.

I would actually like to see some kind of auction set up. Say clans have some old ships they don’t want anymore, they could put them up for auction for a set amount of time and sell them to the highest bidder.

RE: Rakun, as someone who is currently running a ship clan, I am fine with not every ship being eligible for this system. I would probably use it for a lot of my smaller cheaper products while I would still keep a great majority of my products “behind the counter” so to speak to prevent a lot of strip ship theft.

I agree, Zeromus. Ships could get stolen, so this does not have to be a must. 😛

I suppose this is where combatants/hunters/slicers come into play to protect your assets 😉

No more than they usually do. I was mostly referring to the fact that you can’t carry more than 2 mil, though. Both ship clans sell ships for more than that, currently.