yeah... to replace something, you first need to have it availiable.

So you say, reducing the psychological barrier, that prevents many player from participating in PvP, would lead to carebearing?

I think your using the wrong word, since a "carebear" is usally someone who avoids PvP or robot loss at all costs, and thats why most player do this:

who said you get insurance paid for equip that dropped?

even reimbursement by DEVs ignores items that dropped in your loot-can.

It can be leading to carebearing due to the fact that people are wanting their items insured, so in the case of losing them, the income damage possibly done to you is reduced dramatically. The majority of excitement and reward for a kill or a loss would become more to the point of irrelevant. Nothing beats a kill that is a major loss to a player, especially if it's against a rival Corporation. But what reward would that give if everything was insured? The only reward given would be the person that died cause he knows basically has the NIC again to replace what he had.

Your right, I havent done any PvP at all in Perpetuum yet, but I have done PvP in Eve, and HAVE lost ships worth Billions. I didnt cry over CCP to start insuring Modules due to the fact the total cost of them were so much more then the ship itself. I knew the consequences, and sure I wasn't impressed, but thats part of the game, and it's a part of it that I love, along with many others.

As for your comment about me wanting to "destroy" the fun of others for this game, is total bs. You are just completely missing 1 of the Major Aspects of this game that makes it so much different from other Games. "Your Loss, or the loss of others could have a effect on the Entire Game". Sure at the moment, with a low population, it's not going to have that much of an impact, but what about when Perp really does pick up to a point where this would pretty much destroy this concept?

I'm not at all against Perpetuum growing, but I don't believe taking a unique factor away from what it is, will improve on Memberbase. How many New Members do you know that go straight into PvP? They all Mission at the start, and with the new "Alpha 1's have no Aggression Mobs unless Attacked", then there should really be no reason to have this in the game to help put "Fun" in for New Members.

There are so many other things that can be changed, improved, and implemented in it to be more attractive to the New Members.

But everyone has different opinions of Games, and I'm not against that.

Nice replies.. didnt read them all thought. Merkle, I understand your point very well and thought of it myself too but I took the Kain's price just as a reference on showing that an item worth 2.7m can be insured and an item worth 7m can not. This is also not a crythread about item prices, theres plenty of these and I have never participated in any of these, I am just pointing out that having an option to insure everything could be nice enhancement. Also, the payout should obviously not be nowhere close to 100%.