A Uridium-Less Server?

I'm not asking you to abolish the idea of paying money for ingame items.
I proposed this idea on the Darkorbit Facebook page and the SM team suggested I take it up in further detail on the forum. So here I am.
The proposal is as follows:
I have a paid GB1 account and I do enjoy playing on it. However, after some time the gameplay has gotten bland and repetitive. This is due to the fact that everybody fights with the same tactics against the same ships. Nobody uses credit ships; there is no point in buying a liberator or nostromo anymore. One simply bids on a goliath, buys the first iris and then bids on the rest, bids and buys LF3s and B02s as they go along until they become full elite, at which point you have the choice to either push through that barrier and spend a bucketload of money to become ultimate full elite eventually; or you can sit pretty in the Full Elite position and just get used to the fact that if someone spends more money than you, that's their choice and they will beat you in combat.
Thus, my tactic is to simply use the hit and run venom tactic to take out anything bigger than me. Alternatively I buy DCR rockets and EMPs so I can make a quick escape.
Don't get me wrong. I am perfectly happy with supporting the developers. However I think that a server that removes all Uridium weapons and ammo would be very interesting to play on. It would be built entirely around tactics. Pilots would actually use the credit bought ships. To increase personalisation and free flowing gameplay the dev team could add more credit ships that are the same price and have extremely similar stats but the player's taste in how they want their ship to look would determine what ship they buy. This would also mean that player vs player experiences wouldn't be as predictable as they are. Let the art team and graphics designers go crazy, lots of ship designs or even user-made custom designs would be cool too (within moderation).
Customizing the colour of your lasers would be another good idea.
THIS IS NOT AN ANTI-WALLET WARRIOR RANT.
To make this a considerable idea for a server with a profit, perhaps charge small amounts for customization of the ships. £2.99 perhaps for a custom design, or laser colour change. Heck, even charge for the new ships, I would buy for sure, but don't make them vastly overpowered as the Goliath is to the Bigboy, for example.
Perhaps keep the auction system in for this purpose. Again, your choice.
In this way, bigpoint could release a parallel server to the ones users already play on.
I hope you don't think I'm just a noob ranting about the condition of the game. It is certainly a well made game and this is just an idea.
Please comment your thoughts on this
-Sausage/»•SΛUSΛGΞ•« GB1

 

i like the idea where u can customize your ship £2.99 not bad. i am sure lot of players would be interested in this +1, and about tactics , thats why jackpot arena exist

 

well iam uber fe and i pay ill jump to that server i a sek and never go back to my (big ship) i like the ide

 

I find this idea intriguing, though I don't know how the dev team feels about something as ambitious as this.

What about simply having the server be pay to play with something like an annual subscription to access instead of having an option to pay for extra in game features so there is literally no in game features you can buy to gain any advantage?

Also, other than the non-uri equipment, would the game play be identical to how it is now? Would there be throwbacks from earlier versions of the game, for example no more DMZ's at the port?

 

This is actually a good idea and would be inteteresting to come into effect.

 

I definitely like the idea of pay to play; would stop it just being a cheaper server. Maybe you would have to have a premium acc?