Who says you can't store them?
Python Mk II & Updates To The Gamestore
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That is probably what I would do too, I I were to buy the pre-access.I unlocked the MKII and didn't deploy it
I have buy one in the shipyard instead
Engineering has absolutely no impact on insurance or resale value, regardless of whether the module is worth 0 or 50 million.
Any engineering you do remains on the ship when you rebuy it. Doesn't matter if the module was free or not.
If you replace any modules and subsequently get destroyed, you will have the insurance cost of just the non-free modules you installed.
The catch with store-bought modules is that they cannot be stored, so switching them out for something else destroys them.
You can delete and redeploy store-bought ships in their original configuration, which would make this a source of infinite free modules.
Do you at least get a warning if you engineered it and are trying to replace it?
There is a warning that it's going to get sold off.
This I addressed in my comment as well. FDev could make them disappear if the prebuild is re-spawned, but even if they can't do that easily, where exactly is the problem? That the buying customer is having the advantage of spamming his module storage with zero-cost modules for all ships to use? So what? All it helps him is with in-game credits he saves for buying and rebuying that stuff. In-game credits are completely meaningless at this point. The whining about "but then it would be pay to win" also is. It already is P2W, why selling a product that is so restricted now that it almost undermines the incentive to pay? I'd say they should be honest about it and simply open it up. That would save everybody useless discussions and especially unnecessary inconvenience for the customer.
Doesn't matter what we think of it, it's what they did.
Why not give everyone, everything, including engineered modules from a menu, for free, as soon as they finish their pilot training in the tutorial?
I don't think I have ever been inconvenienced in the game, but I'm sure others may have been, hence the suggestion above...
And they can alter the deal further. Yeah, I get it.
No problem if they pay premium. Not sure if this is fun for such customers, but to each his own, right?
Regarding changes to the store layout I need to say that I like it. Simple, clean and efficiently functional.
Why should they pay a premium?
Don't you want others to play and enjoy the game?
To each their own, I suppose...
If they don't pay, there will be no game to enjoy. That's why we are having such discussions at all: FDev was in financial troubles, changed course in monetizing the game, and now is - as it seems - in a better position. Isn't that a good thing for people playing the game?
LOL if you think that their approach to ED has changed things for them - 20% cuts and divesting loss-making partnerships are what has "steadied the market" (to an extent).
Really? So buying the game has no effect?
According to their latest forecast, those troubles may already be over...
Choice is always a good thing, buy new toys as an option, as now, is probably good for the company, or not buying, as the individual wishes, appears to be working well today, doesn't it?
Of course, there will always be outrage over anything FD does with this game in particular, or even doesn't do, it is the nature of gamers, isn't it?
It probably brought in a small boost to their bank account, but, as you pointed out
Has likely made more of a difference.
They are not the only games developer to slim down their salary budget by losing a chunk of their workforce, and probably not the only one to make acquisitions or franchises that didn't end up profitable. They won't be the last either, no doubt.
As it is, instead of pulling the plug on ED in short order when things got a bit tight (which is a double-edged sword!) they made a few folk irate by selling a handful of ships for store currency. Can't please everyone though, so they chose something that was a gamble. Has it worked? Who knows apart from them...
I don't get what you mean.
I already wrote that paying will have an effect. Alas, buying the game is just a one-time effect. Giving incentive to constantly shell out money is generating a much more stable revenue-stream. I also already wrote that it seems like their troubles are over.
I also agree that choice is always a good thing, buying toys as an option as well. Here I don't understand why FDev is limiting these toys (storing modules), that was my whole point.
And I agree on the outrage argument, this I addressed with "already P2W, anyway". What does it matter if they now sell toys that give you an advantage in game? Why not properly make it work for what it is: a toy to play with. Why indulging in this almost childish "oh, they hate us now, let's introduce some half-arxed mechanics so nobody can cry P2W anymore"? The genie is out of the bottle, anyway.
If folks are willing to pay money to play the game in a way that most of us might see as "boring", let them. If they want to pay premium to have the menu with everything everywhere, all at once, let them. Where is the problem?
I'm sorry, but I find the whole P2W thing, aplied to ED, entirely laughable, but maybe as I am very good at not spending my money if I don't perceive value gained...
Yes, I've seen the 'definition' posted here several times, and fully understand that folk unable to, or unwilling to, spend further money for a frippery, perceive that they are 'losing' to those who are able, or willing, to spend the cost of a kebab on recreation. It's tough, for sure, but so is RL, at times...
Indeed. It is laughable to try to dance around that terminology. They are just trying to make a bit more money with their game. So I think they should focus on delivering a quality product when they are selling something, like with the prebuilds. The non-storing of modules only makes sense in the context of that whole pay-to-win discussion. I think it is a mistake to give it that much weight and forgetting about the idea of the product: to give customers a jump-start. Stripping them of the possibility of in-game mechanics like ship-building and module managing is lowering the quality IMHO. And for what? Just so people can say "oh, it is no pay-to-win, then"? Laughable. They won't do that.