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What happens with looting subscriber items or even just pledged gear? What happens when those subscriber items are looted off you? Do the players lose those forever, and do the new players have them forever?

TL;DRIn 3.15, looted or destroyed subscriber items are lost to you but stay on your account and are re-entitled in 3.16; a longer-term way to recover stolen items is intended but unresolved.

Richard TyrerSquadron 42 FPS Game Director

So specifically for 3.15, if you die or if you go into a downed state and somebody loots those items, or your ship blows up and you can't get back to those items, you will not have access to those items anymore, whether the new player has stolen them or whether they've been vaporized. So you will lose them in 3.15. They are not removed from your account. So when 3.16 comes around and we re-entitle all the items, you will be re-entitled all those items. So that's the short term, what will happen in 3.15. The intention long term is that we have a mechanism in the game that allows you to kind of associate yourself as a player inside the game with those items. And if those items are then stolen or taken or whatever, we will have a mechanism for you to be able to get those back. Now, I don't think it will be a simple matter of just an insurance claim where you just put the insurance claim and then you get it back, because first off, real life insurance is incredibly complex. Lots of people do insurance fraud. So it's like I die and then I claim my insurance back and then I just go and loot my body and I'm duplicating items. So we might have a system where that item is associated by me. I've registered the item if I've got a special weapon or whatever. And then if that person gets picked up by UEE security or it comes into the hands of the law, then it's given back to you. Similar to if my car got stolen and the police found my car and it was still drivable and usable, then it would be returned to me. So there will be mechanisms in the future inside the game that will allow you to potentially get these items back. There's still lots of questions that we need to resolve on our end. But just to be clear, for 3.15, somebody loots your subscriber items, that player will take them, but they were not removed from your account. So come 3.16, they will be re-entitled to you.

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Published on this date.22 Oct 2021