What is the value of a credit?

trauts1

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I'm struggling to work it out - for example I can buy an Anaconda for ~142 million Cr. Lets say it costs me another 50 million to make it useful for exploring/passengers. That seems reasonable for what would be a pretty decent ship were I to buy such a ship (for use on the sea) today.

Seems pretty reasonable.

But then I can spend a day or two over a weekend with 3 explorers on-board and easily make 30 million profit.

This doesn't seem to add up - it seems waaaay too much - but the explorers thought it was worth it.


These two things I can't match up in my head - which brings me to my question:
What is a credit worth? It seems in one case (buying the ship), I can relate it to roughly 1 UKP. In the other (payouts for exploration missions) it seems to worth far, far less. How can this be????
 

Wylie28

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Are you taking into account materials and commoedites? They drop credit rewards a lot. The credit value of a mission is decieded BEFORE material and commodities are added as rewards. Looking at the credit numebrs alone isnt accurate.

On top of that, its a game. Credit prices are not determined from an economic standpoint.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
trauts1 said:
I'm struggling to work it out - for example I can buy an Anaconda for ~142 million Cr. Lets say it costs me another 50 million to make it useful for exploring/passengers. That seems reasonable for what would be a pretty decent ship were I to buy such a ship (for use on the sea) today.

Seems pretty reasonable.

But then I can spend a day or two over a weekend with 3 explorers on-board and easily make 30 million profit.

This doesn't seem to add up - it seems waaaay too much - but the explorers thought it was worth it.


These two things I can't match up in my head - which brings me to my question:
What is a credit worth? It seems in one case (buying the ship), I can relate it to roughly 1 UKP. In the other (payouts for exploration missions) it seems to worth far, far less. How can this be????
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You can thank players for that.
In early betas, the economy was right. You were making 100k/hour tops, whatever you did. Earning money for Anaconda was a REAL work and to own one was a priviledge.
Then players start complaining. They wanted to have the best of everything in two days of playing, and Frontier collapsed under the pressure. Nowadays you can make tens of millions per hour and people STILL whine it's not enough.

This is actually one of the pet peeves of mine and something I will never forgive this community.
 

Vardaugas

Vardaugas
Take beer as a measure: Let's assume 1 unit is 1t which is around 1000l, which costs 187cr galactic average. So 0.5l of beer cost 0.0935cr wholesale. Extrapolate from there.

Beer is a good measure because there is always at least as much demand as there is supply.
 

Daniel Cloudsifter

Daniel Cloudsifter
trauts1 said:
I'm struggling to work it out - for example I can buy an Anaconda for ~142 million Cr. Lets say it costs me another 50 million to make it useful for exploring/passengers. That seems reasonable for what would be a pretty decent ship were I to buy such a ship (for use on the sea) today.

Seems pretty reasonable.

But then I can spend a day or two over a weekend with 3 explorers on-board and easily make 30 million profit.

This doesn't seem to add up - it seems waaaay too much - but the explorers thought it was worth it.


These two things I can't match up in my head - which brings me to my question:
What is a credit worth? It seems in one case (buying the ship), I can relate it to roughly 1 UKP. In the other (payouts for exploration missions) it seems to worth far, far less. How can this be????
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According to the official ED RPG, 1 credit is worth $50 in 21st century currency (page 98). Micro credits (1 credit = 100 mcr) are worth $.50 and are used for personal day to day purchases.

Also, all us Pilot Federation players - we're middle class. Yes, even if you own an A-rated Anaconda (Corvette) that costs 500 million credits (equivalent to $25 billion today), your still middle-class. The people paying for these trips often have billions, if not trillions of credits.
 

Candy Man

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Vardaugas said:
Take beer as a measure: Let's assume 1 unit is 1t which is around 1000l, which costs 187cr galactic average. So 0.5l of beer cost 0.0935cr wholesale. Extrapolate from there.

Beer is a good measure because there is always at least as much demand as there is supply.
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I've seen gold used as an indicator in the past. But as a tonne of gold isn't actually a tonne, just the meter cubed box it's shipped in.
Beer is a much better indicator and a whole lot tastier.
 
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Andrew Gaspurr

Andrew Gaspurr
NW3 said:
If you watch some of the early alpha gameplay videos, you'll hear comments like "Wow, there's a 500 credit bounty on that pirate. That's well worth my time."
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That's nice and fluffy. And if 500 Credits was worth that NPC's time who are we to judge him?
But speaking of "beta testing", if I remember Passenger Mission beta testing you could easily make a couple of millions per hour already. And players didn't even have a chance to whine about it, because well, it was beta. Frontier implemented it, just in case you are still looking for the "guilty". Thank them, not the players.

Of course it's only human to look for the biggest watering hole but then again you can't fault the players for taking the advantages the game offers.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
NW3 said:
Yes, it is. If you watch some of the early alpha ED gameplay videos, you'll hear comments like "Wow, there's a 500 credit bounty on that pirate. That's well worth my time."
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I remember one time when I found a pirate Anaconda with 7500Cr bounty and I was like WOW! and I fought it in a Viper for about 10 minutes before finally killing it and it was really awesome. Shame. *ding ding*
 

EdzUp

EdzUp
Daniel Cloudsifter said:
According to the official ED RPG, 1 credit is worth $50 in 21st century currency (page 98). Micro credits (1 credit = 100 mcr) are worth $.50 and are used for personal day to day purchases.

Also, all us Pilot Federation players - we're middle class. Yes, even if you own an A-rated Anaconda (Corvette) that costs 500 million credits (equivalent to $25 billion today), your still middle-class. The people paying for these trips often have billions, if not trillions of credits.
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Considering that fifty years ago a million pounds was a lot, today its a billion so it goes without saying that by 3303 it would be trillions or quadrillions of credits to actually be where billionaires are today.
 
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