How did ED deal with ship prices in Alpha/Beta?

[Garix]

Where they massively cheap to enable testing or closer to current (or at least release) pricing?

 

[Navigare Necesse Est]

Maybe they cost fish?

 

[Garix]

Maybe they cost fish?

Possible

A certain other thread's recent discussion just had me wondering and didn't want to derail it any further than it normally can be and therefore being Yaffled

 

[Gully Foyle]

Where they massively cheap to enable testing or closer to current (or at least release) pricing?

Yes, No.

 

[Garix]

Yes, No.

Thanks

 

[Asp Explorer]

Oh - the glory days of saving up and buying a Cobra, only for it to hit an invisible wall and explode two minutes after first launch

 

[Morbad]

In the post-release betas they have often been 1/10th of normal prices.

I'm not sure what they were in alpha, but they weren't particularly cheap in beta 1 to beta 3...considerably more expensive than they are now, relative to current earnings. Beta 1 had plaeholder figures for everything. While beta 2, 3, 3.9, and Gamma 1.0x generally had the same ship prices as now.

 

[Zetta]

Just had a quick look at a video of the premium beta. Some ships are the same as now but others markedly cheaper, ie the Cobra Mk3 was 111,000Cr (349,000Cr live) and the Tpe 9 was 1,000,000 (76,500,000 live).

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iJJrk9wGj8&t=9m28s

 

[Jezzah]

God remember those days. I'd bought my first HOTAS several months earlier expecting to use it playing STAR CITIZEN! Found out about the ED alpha and played that ever since. Those heady days in alpha and beta were marvelous.

 

[Darkfyre99]

God remember those days. I'd bought my first HOTAS several months earlier expecting to use it playing STAR CITIZEN! Found out about the ED alpha and played that ever since. Those heady days in alpha and beta were marvelous.

I have to agree that the Alpha and early Premium Beta period was Elite Dangerous at its best. The Economic Sim hadn’t been dummied out due to players whining on having to haul base commodities to regenerate the high profit ones, Supercruise was simulateously faster (for hands on Pilots) and less forgiving of poor technique, Monty Haul Campaign rewards were the result of credit exploits rather than the norm, and newbies could be expected to stay in small, cheap ships long enough to learn from their mistakes.

 

[lysan]

God remember those days. I'd bought my first HOTAS several months earlier expecting to use it playing STAR CITIZEN! Found out about the ED alpha and played that ever since. Those heady days in alpha and beta were marvelous.

Yeah I came from SC too, what a clusterF that one was.

 

[Chris Simon]

Yeah I came from SC too, what a clusterF that one was.

Was?

 

[Jenner]

I don't recall the price, but when I got my first ship upgrade from a Sidey to a Cobra I felt like a god.

 

[Midian Cabal]

I don't recall the price, but when I got my first ship upgrade from a Sidey to a Cobra I felt like a god.

From a Sidey straight to a Cobra!? Posh parents, eh?
I was happy as a child when I traded in my Sidey for a 10 years old E-rated Eagle...

 

[znôrt]

From a Sidey straight to a Cobra!? Posh parents, eh?
I was happy as a child when I traded in my Sidey for a 10 years old E-rated Eagle...

i actually got a freagle. dunno why, no nepotism here! but yeah, that was a headstart!

 

[Jenner]

From a Sidey straight to a Cobra!? Posh parents, eh?
I was happy as a child when I traded in my Sidey for a 10 years old E-rated Eagle...

Those were the days. Port Zelada. The 'lozenge.' Fish.

 

[MDHansen]

back in dem olden days a scrub had to work for his metal spacehorses