Ship Transfer Costs - These Prices are Nutty!
- Thread starter DullingWine
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With the utmost respect, i don't get this view one bit. If you're running around a bunch of systems around a home base doing missions and trading, and you come across combat zone/mining ops and want to transfer your ship stored one or two systems away so you can easily partake in it...but it costs an arm and a leg how is that bad planning? This is exactly the type of opportunity that this feature should be used for, no?
Also, I deliberately chose my home base (Fong W*ng) because of its proximity to Shinrarta and because it was Federation (because i'm a Fed guy and because i wanted to rank up). Good planning, i thought.
Who'd a thought transferring a larger heavier ship would cost more.
Then that's what you should do. There's no harm in having lots of ships still but while those ships might be scattered around at the moment 2.1, the change means you can easily 'clump' them together .. to make (strategic) bases around the bubble say? Having the ships follow you around like so many puppies is a bit .. meh, imo .. and a rich man's luxury. Better to have a proper decision to make? Why not let it sit a while? Maybe it's better if it won't fundamentally 'change' the way you play .. but 'influence' it .. ?
I throw 250k to every other faction in need
by the time you can afford a Python you can make those 250k in five minutes!
Do you mean you did earn $80k, or still do - would imagine mission costs are much lower now right ?
10 times lower according to the Sothis thread.
(a) it won't cost you much?
(b) it won't take long?
and (c) how much money will you make in said combat zone/mining ops?
Only application I've found for it thus far as well.
Could have been a nice moneysink, but shipping around my turbohauler is both cheap and effective (and the rest of the fleet can cross the bubble in less than half an hour anyway .. all of them .. including the FAS).
Too much for you? then don't use it, let others use it and you stop whining and move ships the old 'free' way.
I repped you for a considered view here. I wouldn't disagree if the primary purpose of Ships transfer was so you could easily form long term bases....but it's more than that. It's not for transferring your entire fleet (like puppies) every time you move a 100ls. it should be for moving 1 or 2 ships when you want to avail yourself of an opportunity/event etc and to remove some of the drugery around in equiping/maintaining ships. All in service of better and more inclusive gameplay. At least that's my thought.
This was often said about repair costs for ships like Pythons but after you play a while you get the feeling of it scaling? Wouldn't jump to conclusions too hard, the paint stll aint dry on the update? Mine's still downloading!
Exactly......
My type-9 mining ship costs 4m to transport it a short spitting distance. More money than I have ever made from using it.
I forgot that they're actually carrying it on their back.
I don't get why FD are introducing features which by design mean they won't get used very often. They spent all that time to develop features that are awkward to use. Look at the small number and type of ships that can use fighters, and the prohibitive cost of ship transfers. As if having a time sink isn't enough they also add a credit sink to the same feature which is silly and will decrease the use of that feature. I don't understand the logic FD uses sometimes.
Ah - the quick and easy insult. Why are bothering to read the thread if you're completely satisfied and don't want to read people 'whining'?
It's not whining, it's expressing an opinion, and arguing a viewpoint (greater accessibility). Is that wrong?
I don't think this was ever intended to be a feature that was used by most players most of the time. It was a niche thing that would be handy every now any then.