Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20171007024755/@comment-29735334-20171031005919

Shinhwalee wrote: There are people who want Iowa to not be available again for the entire Event for a player if the person scraps/sinks/modernization-food his Iowa, so the person can't abuse the "get rid of one's only copy so he/she can farm another one again for stock equipment". ... And then there are folks who do not want Iowa to be available ever again because it will threaten their "elite old player" status and bragging rights...

IF the dev does not want players to farm Iowa's stock equip, but wanting to make her available to players who never have her, they may as well set the condition of her dropping determined by the presence of her stock equip in the player's inventory (rather than the presence of the ship herself).