Imperial Eagle Paint Packs!

[fennster]

Well, yes.
That's my point.

Most of the iEagles that get sold are probably bought by people who want them rather than need them.
And people are probably going to be willing to spend money on things they have obtained through choice rather than than necessity.

I think their point was you don't need any rank to buy the ieagle.

 

[Tanall]

Exactly. iEagle rank is the first rank achieved above the starting point.

 

[Blaize Meduenin]

I think its because the ship isnt very popular or its a stepping stone ship which people dont tend to invest real money into. At least not enough for it to be worth Fdevs time to impliment into the game.

here is a thread that might help settle the thought.
Correlate this poll with the # of store paintjob/kits available for each ship.


https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...s-favourite-ship-POLL?highlight=poll+ship+fav

This is a much better statistical guide. http://inara.cz/galaxy-statistics

A record of over 100,000 ships owned

14 ships are less popular than the Imperial Eagle, hence my point why skip the Ieagle and not less popular ones. 2 of the ones near/at the very bottom even have 5 paint packs...

 

[Vasco Sapien]

This is a much better statistical guide. http://inara.cz/galaxy-statistics

A record of over 100,000 ships owned

14 ships are less popular than the Imperial Eagle, hence my point why skip the Ieagle and not less popular ones. 2 of the ones near/at the very bottom even have 5 paint packs...

Yeh seems so.

Maybe its not about who owns one or someones personal like for the ship, but how many hours each ship gets used in game.
only Fdev would have those numbers.

 

[Stealthie]

I think their point was you don't need any rank to buy the ieagle.

If it was, it'd be wrong.

You don't need much rank to buy an iEagle but it is a faction-locked ship which means that chances are that most of the 100,000 people who've bought one didn't simply buy one out of necessity.
Which, again, means they've been vanity purchases - and they're the sort of things people cherish and are likely to be willing to spend real money on.

Silly thing is, it's not like it's any kind of gamble for FDev.
it's not like they have to be worried about spending a bunch of money to supply a market that might no be there.
Even if they only sell 100 iEagle skins, that will have covered the costs incurred producing them.

 

[fennster]

If it was, it'd be wrong.

You don't need much rank to buy an iEagle but it is a faction-locked ship which means that chances are that most of the 100,000 people who've bought one didn't simply buy one out of necessity.
Which, again, means they've been vanity purchases - and they're the sort of things people cherish and are likely to be willing to spend real money on.

Silly thing is, it's not like it's any kind of gamble for FDev.
it's not like they have to be worried about spending a bunch of money to supply a market that might no be there.
Even if they only sell 100 iEagle skins, that will have covered the costs incurred producing them.

No. You literally need credits and a shipyard that sells an Imperial Eagle and it's yours. Not a single Empire mission done.

 

[Stealthie]

No. You literally need credits and a shipyard that sells an Imperial Eagle and it's yours. Not a single Empire mission done.

Heh, I could have sworn it was only available after your first Imp' rank-up.

Would be interesting to have access to the stat's on how often various ships are flown.
I admit that I really only wanted an iCourier and ended-up buying an iEagle to "complete the set" but, since then, I've ended-up using the iCourier for other things and I've built the iEagle into a lightweight data-runner which gets used quite a bit.

Course, I tend to paint ALL my ships white (when I bother with paint-jobs at all) anyway so I'm not sure if I'd be tempted by paint for the imperial ships.

 

[bitstorm]

I think its because the ship isnt very popular or its a stepping stone ship which people dont tend to invest real money into. At least not enough for it to be worth Fdevs time to impliment into the game.

That's irrelevant though, because iEagle skins already exist and have for a long long time :

- Military
- Tactical
- Vibrant
- BlackFriday
- Metallic
- Camo
- DoubleStripe
- Hotrod
- Stripe1
- Thirds

The issue is Frontier create these and leave them there for literally years. There's got to be about 30-40 iEagle skins in that lot.

It's ridiculous, from a player's perspective Frontier's marketing is utterly awful, their role seems to be to frustrate people for money.

For God's sake just at least release ALL Vibrant, Military and Tactical skins for ALL skips. They're ** anyway, it's at the point now where we see a Vibrant skin release and we all groan because it's so awful. You've now made people wait for so long for something so dull, that seeing Vibrant iEagle skins is just disappointing.

Just get them out the door for Christ sake.

Then you can keep people waiting for the remaining 6 iEagle skin types over the next 3 years because that's good marketing isn't it. [blah]

 

[the100thmonkey]

Why won't FD release paint packs for the imperial eagle?

Weak after weak after weak they release paint pack after paint pack, every ship has at least 3 now, even fighters and srv but still the Imperial Eagle hasn't even got a single pack!

WHY?

FD have a policy of not releasing packs for ships flown by people who can't spell.