By buying packages, you risk "buying" stuff that does not exist.
Notice ARX FAQ
You think FD are going to start behaving like CIG?!!!
After food poisoning, yes.Do you also ask for a refund for the food you just ate in a restaurant, because you're not hungry anymore?
Sorry, but that's just silly.
That's the idea. I have no clue as to how much I have wasted on EVE, MechWarrior, etc, that could be redeemed.
If you have a receipt, many stores will do just that, or give you a coupon, to avoid negative publicity.
I got ripped to shreds for saying this on Reddit
After a bad tasting meal you do that after food poisoning you sue and report to the standards/licensing authorities.After food poisoning, yes.
Do not mistake yourself. I mean if you buy an ARX package at 10 euros for a paint job at 8 euros, and during several months you do not buy anything, then during all these months without purchases you can consider that you bought for two euros something that does not exist.
Each to his own, but I don't see it as any more nonsensical than what already happens instantaneously inside the hangar. Whatever is being applied to the ship goes beyond the facilities of a 21st century paint shop. My money -- by which I mean my imagination -- is on nanotech or a similar programmable skin that's controlled electronically from inside the ship. Or maybe it's tweaked by invisible robots of the same type that currently provide the external camera suite feeds.
(Much as I would love to be able to EVA and paint custom stuff on my ship Dave Lister style if and when we get space legs, it wouldn't offer the most compelling gameplay for the bulk of users. And it would open the door, of course, to space willies. Thousands of space willies.)
In the meantime I'm rather looking forward to being able to do quick colour scheme swaps while out and about. My explorer ships mostly run with Tactical Ice but it'll be nice to be able to pop on something more appropriate for specific screenshots. Hopefully this feature will be integrated into the ship's control panels, if not in the September update than at some point down the line. But if it's only on the menu for now that's fine. It's a step in the right direction IMO.
(Don't ask how my headcanon copes with instant application of ship kit components, because it mostly doesn't. Best I can come up with is that they're 3D printed by the same technology as the fighters -- which I already hate -- but somehow manage to be created instantly. Or, given that they have no physicality within the simulation, maybe they're holographic. I hate that, too. I guess sometimes a game is just a game.)
Of course the real reason FD will have done this, eventually and after years of requests, is that it opens up a revenue stream selling paint jobs to long-duration explorers who otherwise only buy cosmetics once in a blue moon when they return to human space. Why it's taken FD so long to do this is a mystery. They've been almost literally throwing money away by not implementing it sooner. Unless they figure a lot of explorers will suddenly purchase the back catalogue that they've been avoiding for months, and so give the coffers a one-off injection that will look good on the financial reports. And of course to do that, those explorers who would otherwise have paid cash months ago will now have to buy arx packs, the sizes and relative values of which are currently unknown...
That retail psychology is everywhere in this update. It's interesting to speculate why this push is happening, and why now.
Just my ten cents. Sorry, two cents.
Then it's a good thing that we can earn Arx while playing the game: a regularly-increasing Arx balance to spend on cosmetics.
Of course, that won't prevent the non-players complaining that they have left-over Arx from purchases, never-to-be-used-again, but then why would non-players buy cosmetics for a game they are no longer playing?
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Yes, a good thing. It remains to be seen with what intensity.
Next thing will be scratch cards sold in flight whilst you are picking your way slowly though the edge of the galaxy, and some intolerably loud announcements about car hire at your destination.
I've been ripped to shreds on this forum for saying far less.
Why do hotdogs come in packets of 8 and buns come in packets of 6?Do not mistake yourself. I mean if you buy an ARX package at 10 euros for a paint job at 8 euros, and during several months you do not buy anything, then during all these months without purchases you can consider that you bought for two euros something that does not exist.
As you say, it depends where you shop.Because he went to a crap super market, there sold in 8packs as well... lol
You eat the spare ones naked* while you're preparing the buns and condiments for the other six.
*for the removal of doubt it's the hotdogs that are naked, not the chef
Because he went to a crap super market, there sold in 8packs as well... lol
And also hotdogs are available in packs of 6.
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Because buns are bulkier than hot dogs.