So why can't I and everyone else who missed that boat; share the rewards you gained, by being a kick-starter?
Let me buy the Cobra MK IV please.
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Everything I got as a kickstarter, you can get.
So you don't play on your PC account, so dont use the c4, and you dont like the c4, but still dont want me to use it because you got the game before me? Okay, cool
Superior.
Missed opportunities are the fault of those left out; not those making the offer, in the first place. There is no discrimination; because something time locked, but offered to all, cannot discriminate, who will or who won't, take up the offer.
IF (and I don't think it'll happen) FDev did make the ship available to all, I'd see it as them coming to their senses and I wouldn't lose faith. Anyone with an LEP or pre-order package could easily be compensated in some small way. They did it last year with regards to extras for LEP'ers because there was no paid for DLC (although I'd rather have had store credit, just saying")..
As I've said earlier on in this thread, it should have been a timed exclusive. Once Horizons was officially finished and Beyond had started then the ship should have become available to all.
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PS4 player here, so I obviously do not have the ship in question...or any other exclusive stuff.
That bit 'easily compensated' is rather untrue. 'Compensating' your LEP folks and the like would inherently just repeat the cycle and this thread would be respawned under a different guise. Fact is exclusives are exclusives - folks like me who play PS4 are very familiar with that concept. There is some cool stuff I've gotten year(s) before anyone else, and there is some cool stuff I'll never get because I came late to the party. Just is what it is.
You want the Cobra Mk IV? I get it - so here's a deal (because I'm totally able to make you one as a player instead of the developer?) - you can buy the Cobra Mk IV when the Elite 2020 update drops.
But.
An exlcusive Medium Ship for LEP comes out at the same time.
To 'compensate'.
That's how exclusives work 'fairly' if at all. Anything more than that would be like whining to Ford you deserve a chance to buy a new 1950's Mustang Stingray because you weren't around when the chance to buy one finally passed up.
But I could buy that car from a person. But that's against frontiers rules. I would be cool to them releasing it in the future.
All absolutely valid, sandkid but as I stated, I think it should have been a timed exclusive. I'd have less reason to invest in Saxa then
Ok look, I have the solution here, and everybody wins. However I will require from each person wanting to purchase a Cobra 4 the following:
100 gallons of diesel fuel, 14 ounces of refined, enriched Uranium-238, 2 20 pound bottles of compressed hydrogen, and 3 milligrams of anti-hydrogen.
These materials are required to power and operate my time machine, with which I will promptly return you to December 28th, 2014, at which point you can then purchase your Elite: Dangerous account and be eligible to access the Cobra 4.
You will, of course, have to live out the remained of your life in your own past, as I cannot return biological material from the past to the present without creating a fatal temporal paradox.
But at least you’ll have a C4, and Frontier’s glorious reputation will remain intact.
There will come a day, however, when you will suffer an incredible migraine headache, which will be the day you purchased your Elite account, as you will want to carry out this task at that time, but having already done it in your own past your neurons will react to this minor, self-correcting paradox, which will pass when you reconcile having already done what you are trying to do. These migraines typically last for 1 to 2 hours, but are completely debilitating until they pass.
100 gallons of diesel fuel, 14 ounces of refined, enriched Uranium-238, 2 20 pound bottles of compressed hydrogen, and 3 milligrams of anti-hydrogen.
These materials are required to power and operate my time machine, with which I will promptly return you to December 28th, 2014, at which point you can then purchase your Elite: Dangerous account and be eligible to access the Cobra 4.
You will, of course, have to live out the remained of your life in your own past, as I cannot return biological material from the past to the present without creating a fatal temporal paradox.
But at least you’ll have a C4, and Frontier’s glorious reputation will remain intact.
There will come a day, however, when you will suffer an incredible migraine headache, which will be the day you purchased your Elite account, as you will want to carry out this task at that time, but having already done it in your own past your neurons will react to this minor, self-correcting paradox, which will pass when you reconcile having already done what you are trying to do. These migraines typically last for 1 to 2 hours, but are completely debilitating until they pass.
The last bit, sounds like the way most players, say they feel, after flying the Cobra IV.
Sold! Where do I sign up?
I gave more than that and I will not tell you or anyone about that, it is inappropriate to ask someone so. I haven't received a unique decal. Next...
You claim the have been a kick-starter and the minimum donation of £5, would get you an unique decal. A decal, that those of us, who missed out; will never have.
<sigh> One teeny tiny flaw;
There can be engagements in life which mean you cannot know about it, then miss out, then cannot get what was advertised to certain people in a certain loop. I received no email about it.
That still does not make it, discrimination.
Being as interested in Elite as you claim: Kick-starter and all that; didn't you subscribe, to said emails.
If you donated £10 you got a free emails.
And what about the rest of my words?
You'll find that I said I would be pleased if you had access. Please don't disregard that. I did not say what you attributed to me.
I said that I'd be pleased.
However, there is the however part... the loss of trust would be a bigger negative, a bigger negative which ought to be bothersome to you too.
I sympathise, but I can say with utter conviction, that if our roles were reversed, even if I desperately desired access to the C4, I would be mortified if FDev capitulated, because in that decision FDev would have acted dishonestly, in my opinion. And that happens to matter much more.
That's a side effect of temporal displacement. See, the tech works.
I would understand if you were talking about the liberal democrats saying they won't raise my student loan but they do anyway. Which happened.
But we are talking about a game. A ship within a game which the people who do own dont seem to value as useful. It's really not important and shouldnt cause you any distress.
Aren't you being a little hyperbolic?
