After reading the dev update I now think they'll re balance every combat ship.
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Is this a pending price drop on ships?
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After reading the dev update I now think they'll re balance every combat ship.
The rebuy cost of ships and equipment is already affected by any discount of the purchase price, so the two points are one and the same.
If price will be cut, you will be refunded for difference (as usual previous price nerfs for ships).
I thought the first thing everyone learned when playing, was to sit tight for a few days after a new version ships........ cuz, it is gonna change......lol.
Nice change of tack.
Servers going down in 30mins. Will we see the new prices?
Today's dev update suggests they are looking at other ways to re-balance professions too.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=124528&p=1919779#post1919779
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=124528&p=1919779#post1919779
I don't think so. Michael posted less than an hour ago that the new prices will come in a minor update before the end of the week.
Yes, but the FDL and the Type-9 are both fictional, and so the building costs don't exist and therefore aren't much help as a guideline. You have to look at the purpose and then try and make it make sense in relation to the ship's role in the game, and parallel's to the real world. Yes, a container ship is 100x bigger than a yacht. The Type-9 is four times bigger than the FDL. The Type-9 being cheaper than the FDL therefore doesn't make sense either for its in game role, or in a real world analogy.
It being a 'luxury ship' isn't a sufficient justification for the massive price tag. At that price, it has no viable in game role, and personal luxuries in the real world don't cost more than massive commercial operations, so nor should they in game. Right now, the FDL is an overpriced novelty ship like the Orca. They could halve the price and it still be expensive.
But the servers are going down for a minor update!
He would have said later today then.
If the Vulture goes into the Asp price bracket (where it belongs really) I might actually be able to pick one up, so yay. I first noticed they started making game balancing announcements in-universe style with the galnet news about the scandal of galactic price fixing over repair costs, and I thought that was a very simple and clever way of making game changes fit into the storyline. I'll be keeping an eye on the news posts now since they might actually be useful.
Yes, and if ripped so, I would take my two friends along, Smith & Wesson.
Here's hoping. Want the Vulture but was about 5Mil short last night to be able to buy one.
Fingers crossed
I thought the Vulture should cost around the same as an Asp when the details were first released a while ago. I'd be surprised with the rebalancing if it's cheaper than 15m
Well, I said "yacht" and "container ship" rather than "most expensive yacht" and "most expensive container ship", indicating an average rather than an extreme. You know, as might be bought by a "well healed bounty hunter" rather than a billionaire oligarch. But, seeing as you've gone to this effort to prove me right now, I suppose I'll just run with it:
Estimated price $450m to $1.2b. Split the difference. Call it $825m. That's £552m.
Is that more or less than £930m? Even $1.2b would be £803m. More or less?
So is the Dolphin. And is the Imperial Clipper really the last word in Imperial luxury?
And that's just failing to justify the price on real world analogies. You haven't even attempted to justify the in game role. Meanwhile, in the background, FDev have announced a price drop...
Brought a FDL last night but didn't have the money to fit her out, so I went on a Beryllium binge and nearly had enough credits when I saw the server going down notice and read the Galnet news item. It had a Special White little token in the corner of the articles headline to get your attention, never seen it before, but I am just curious to see what happens now chaps.......balance on some prices like the FDL and Vulture and reduction overall of 10 to 30 percent on all combat ships....or just a reduction on ''all combat orientated craft''....mmmm....maybe both.
http://www.falconfly.de/temp/ELITE-NewShipPricing-FIX-LOL.jpg
So it turns out this is how they're announcing to "fix" the Price Table for combat Ships - coming soon(tm) to a Shipyard near you
It really made me spontaneously laugh hard, it's rare that the Game still does that...
Sorry for all guys that "jumped the gun" and tossed countless Millions of Credits at the new ships http://www.falconfly.de/img/chatt.gif
People are getting reimbursed so no big deal. Confirmed by the devs.
Also, no one knows how much the reduction will be yet, so don't you jump the gun either.....
