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In the universe, will there be a way for us to buy and sell used ships? Whether that be through used ship dealerships or via trading with other players.asked by SneezyDinosaur

TL;DRChris Roberts says players will be able to sell used ships at a discount fairly early, while dedicated used-ship dealerships are lower priority and later, and player-to-player trades will have rules like a title transfer tax.

I would say that long term that probably will be a way to buy and sell used ships. Shorter term what's going to happen is you're definitely going to be able to sell your used ship which you will sell at a discount, but probably will only be new ships available to buy at the dealership. So you would go to a dealership and go "Oh I'll trade in your used Aurora for this and get this new ship so you need to pay me the difference".That will be happening pretty early, but having dedicated used ship sales places probably won't be for a little bit. That's sort of a lower priority. We've had the same discussions on clothes like could you go and sell your used clothes and then you have the equivalent of a thift store. While that's kind of a cool idea, it's simpler on the game mechanics side to sell the item at a discount since it's now been used and then you just buy new items.That's kind of where we're at, longer term we will probably allow sort of buying and having maybe used car dealerships, but you know you gain the ship and it's got has some wear and tear on it and rundown so it's probably needs somebody to fix or it may not operate as optimally until you can fix it up. That's kind of it, trading with other players we're definitely going to allow you to sell and trade with other players. There's going to be some rules and limits to it to avoid the abuse of it and they'll probably have to be things like title transfer tax and stuff like that when you sell a ship to another player, you have to pay the UEC or money to transfer the title just like you do on say a car here in the US.

10 for the Chairman›Episode 74·
Published on this date.4 Jan 2016
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