It’s a pity that I don’t have the opportunity to transfer my ARXs anywhere (as many as needed) so that my finished ship, a Cutter with a prism and a reactive armour, would have 0 rebuy
Python Mk II & Updates To The Gamestore
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There is a reason I didn't play things like World of Whatever, or anything made my any company called Gaijin Entertainment, for long.
Better than bad doesn't mean good and whataboutery is a poor justification for a similar trend.
To an extent.
Aside from Arx purchases for cosmetics they've already got our money. They are after fresh blood, who are looking for a different kind of game than what Elite: Dangerous has been.
Personally, I voted with my wallet for the last time in 2018...a token purchase in grudging acknowledgement of the overhauled Engineering system that took it from horrifically bad to just plain bad. Even if I thought my purchases were going into this franchise, rather than funding the development of more profitable ones, I would not be inclined to pay for it's continuing degradation. Since I cannot spend less than nothing, I don't even have the illusion of agency some paying customers have.
What I do have is a growing pile of cash set aside on the off chance a viable competitor for the first-person spaceflight MMO niche appears. In the meantime I'll enjoy what I can about Elite and complain about what I can't.
Why wouldn't Frontier want to Elite to end up like that, if it proves to be a lucrative revenue stream? They'll almost certainly end up with more money pandering to a new crop of players who are less adverse to predatory microtransactions than they will catering to long time players who have already been milked for most of what they're willing to give.
At one point there were people at the helm of this corporation who probably cared about the game enough to make it's something other than pure product, but most of them have either died or moved on. I wouldn't believe FDev if they tried to allay my fears at this point; I've been disappointed too many times for the next disappointment to be a surprise. I'm all for giving people the benefit of the doubt, but corporations aren't people--they are the collective manifestation of the most vile aspects of a committee of people, wrapped in a legal fiction to deflect responsibility--and any corporation that says anything other than 'we will do whatever is in our shareholder's best interests' has calculated that such a bold faced lie is in their shareholder's best interests.
I get it that they need our money and the python MK2 is a tenner( for early access) and I would pay that . But if they gave us stuff we wanted to buy. A few naff paintjobs and some samey ship kits and basic weapon, engine effects and no decent decals , they ain't going to make me want to buy them . But they have to be careful.....
Think I'll buy the Python II on launch day and see if that affects anyone.
O7,
O7,
That would … actually seem reasonable?Plot twist: The engineered modules are locked to the ship you bought.
I got my copy to crash and saved the program to a floppy disk. Loaded much quicker … but still needed the tape (rewound) in order to load the loading-screen picture!!
These young 'uns don't know they're born. When I was a lad I had to load Elite in from a cassette tape.
I paid someone in ARX to type it in for me, it was so P2W ...
I realize that my opinion is not interesting to anyone, but I don't understand many players here on the forum. Maybe I'm just too old ?
When I started playing Elite a long time ago, it took me a few years to buy a Cutter and fully engineer it. During that time I think I would have accumulated ARXs for one more ship. And here (as I realized) builds and new ships can be bought later in the game, just later, so I don't see any problems at all.
But there is one thing that completely changes the game for me. This rebuy, before I always wrote, the main thing for me personally credits, even if they are easy to earn, still it imposes a limitation on me.
Now after buying a ship (I hope to give such an opportunity for all ships) for ARXs I become immortal ! Now I will always play in the open game and fight to complete destruction and no try to escape !
I LOSE NOTHING ! For me it is important in the end it will give me to increase my game experience.
When I started playing Elite a long time ago, it took me a few years to buy a Cutter and fully engineer it. During that time I think I would have accumulated ARXs for one more ship. And here (as I realized) builds and new ships can be bought later in the game, just later, so I don't see any problems at all.
But there is one thing that completely changes the game for me. This rebuy, before I always wrote, the main thing for me personally credits, even if they are easy to earn, still it imposes a limitation on me.
Now after buying a ship (I hope to give such an opportunity for all ships) for ARXs I become immortal ! Now I will always play in the open game and fight to complete destruction and no try to escape !
I LOSE NOTHING ! For me it is important in the end it will give me to increase my game experience.
What a terrible idea. What's next - gacha instead of current engineering?
BTW, a legitimate question: what about LEP owners? Will you give them EA, or try to force them to pay for it?
BTW, a legitimate question: what about LEP owners? Will you give them EA, or try to force them to pay for it?
Fair but it is only one ship? I've got about 50 of the beggars! No chance would I have Arxed them all even if they were on sale, so insurance is still real, apart from the billions of credits I seem to have accrued over time too of course!
There still are other ships to work up to, A rate FSD's for etc etc. after the medium ships we've seen.
The latter...
After walking to my mates to play it on his BBC Model B. I had a Dragon 32
A Dragon 32!??!After walking to my mates to play it on his BBC Model B. I had a Dragon 32
I had a Vic 20 and my dad would flog me every morning after waking me at midnight!
LEP Holders get EA, as does anyone else also willing to spend ARX for it.
I wish people would stop making it look like LEP holders are entitled crybabies, when we're not.
ONE LAST TIME, THE LEP DOES NOT AND SHOULD NOT APPLY HERE.
Got it?
But it made you the person you are today
No, not really. It’s a paid update of an existing ship.
As a compromis, Frontier can let me have it free for a trial period only ….. say, three months.
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Hopefully it’ll affect you at leastThink I'll buy the Python II on launch day and see if that affects anyone.
O7,
Unless they buy the Arx specifically for getting the ship it isn’t even going to affect FDev.Hopefully it’ll affect you at least