Cruel and unusual punishment - Store Sale

Aashenfox

Aashenfox
Joe Cool said:
Still there, but it seems one of the very rare items not in the sale -25.500ARX, phew!

Did I mention the cruel and unusual ...

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Thanks for the link man. I consider myself a bit of a Mamba specialist so I was going to do some comparisons between it and my own fully optimised version, then suggest what are the most essential mods to do to the preconfig to make it 'truly effective as a high CZ destroyer', maybe I'll make FD very happy at the end of the month and buy a f-ton of arx. :D
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Shurimal said:
Now, if only we would get the special summer (and other seasonal) paints for new ships as well.
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Iridescent Scorch coming back to the store for most ships would likely break my resolve... Particularly since they mostly fixed the colours in Odyssey. (It still looks much better in Legacy, such is life!)
 

Shurimal

Shurimal
Rat Catcher said:
Iridescent Scorch coming back to the store for most ships would likely break my resolve... Particularly since they mostly fixed the colours in Odyssey. (It still looks much better in Legacy, such is life!)
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Oh, yes! I miss iridescent paints. Grabbed Iridescent Gleam for my 'Conda back in the day, but never had the chance to get more before they disappeared😢
 

aRJay

aRJay
I would like to do pretty much all my ships in Tactical Crimson, there is just one example of that in the sale.
I would also like more of my ships to have the Stygian Red, now there are more of these but they are mostly above my remaining ARX.
 

[VR] Mad Mike

[VR] Mad Mike
thanks for the heads up that is a nice discount for a new model for my fleet carrier and a tasteful paint job. I am now down to 4000 arc.
 

l12ngo

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Archvillain said:
While I only have one station and one paintjob for it, the interface is the same as ship paints, suit cosmetics, decals, etc. In other words, I'm confident you can apply your station skins to as many stations [of the matching type] as you have. Nothing suggests otherwise.
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Great, thanks.
 

Cosmo

Cosmo
Joe Cool said:
The conspiracist in me says they're pulling all the available ARX out of the wallets of honest Commanders prior to the launch of the new ship.
Well that or it could just be a huge Summer Sale I guess.
Stand by your wallets Commanders, this could get messy :eek:
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People who want more (free) big updates and new ships for ED should buy stuff for ARX. If you can't afford it then wait though.
 

Edelgard von Rhein

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I cannot see anywhere, either in game or on the store, giving how long the sale is on for.
Thanks to this sale, I can afford the survey ship kit for one ship, to use on DW3. I have not yet decided which will be my main ship, however: the Anaconda can do anything but I prefer its appearance without the kit; the Corvette has everything but jump range and I really like the look with this kit and the Python is in between the two and also looks good with the kit. (To complicate matters further, I have been enjoying flying the Cobra MkV so much that I may yet make that my main exploration ship).
Of course, I could bring all four ships along on one of the official carriers... .
EDIT: got it for the Corvette, as it suits it so much better, although I'll probably only be using it for hauling/mining on DW3.
 
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Joe Cool

Joe Cool
Edelgard von Rhein said:
I cannot see anywhere, either in game or on the store, giving how long the sale is on for.
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I'd suggest buying any bits before
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Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Joe Cool said:
I'd suggest buying any bits before

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So, not in the store, or in-game? (I couldn't see the date mentioned anywhere on the store pages, even when clicking the 'sale' box)
It doesn't even appear in the Launcher scroll section (I had to look!) but only, apparently, on some social media post?

It does appear as a repost from X on the FD discord, but even that isn't actively recruiting new members from ED!
 

Rat Catcher

Rat Catcher
Joe Cool said:
Correct, you got me!
X - the only source of the truth :ROFLMAO:
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The nice thing is that most of the 'tweets' get reposted here by kind members, and, if FD remembers to set some property on their own discord reposts, it wil appear on my own. they are remembering more often these days, a few months back it was very intermittent.
 

Knuttin Atoll

K
Shurimal said:
most paintjobs around 3200...3600 so current 25% discount brings them mostly in line with old full prices.
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It's incredible how quickly people have already normalised these grossly inflated prices in their heads. But clearly FDev's updated marketing appears to work, perhaps another hike is in order since the market is clearly not turned off by it.

If we stick to the facts and remind ourselves of the old pricing (which I remember very well as I bought loads across all price ranges in the past), most standard skins in ye olde days were actually much lower around the 2k mark (+/- 300 Arx), with cheapest offerings starting at a now eye-watering 380 Arx. Only the most expensive (apart from seasonals, those were about 5.5k at the extreme end) topped out at around 3,300ish per skin.

The current prices remain silly. And the marketing strategy to promote any sales is even sillier, though not quite as much as the newly added designs. Which thematically might fit well into their park sims perhaps (fruit themed? in a supposedly dystopian, sort-of-hard-fi space setting?). All that in combination is very good for my wallet though, got to admit.
 
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