God damnit, I was waiting for a (rather overdue) cosmetics sale so my saved ARX would go further, not a freaking price hike so they only only go as far as John Howard can throw a cricket ball!
Python Mk II & Updates To The Gamestore
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Greetings Commanders!
We've got an update for you on the release of the Python Mk II, as well as changes coming to the gamestore:
https://www.elitedangerous.com/news/python-mk-ii-updates-gamestore
It's one thing to shift the paradigm to making money to support the game through early access of "things". I think most reasonable players will support that. But to increase pricing on something that is intangible and doesn't change the game experience (most ships, you can't see the paint job from inside the ship...), is going to blow up in FDev's faces and poison what goodwill they were generating.
It feels like FDev takes actions the community supports and them FDev immediately and purposely cuts it's own legs off...
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Just heard about the hike in ARX prices, and the effective devaluation of unspent ARX - from what was looking like a great new chapter to take Elite forward into it's next decade, Frontier have taken all that goodwill and chucked it in the bin. Well done lads 
The new store pricing is unacceptably high for all age groups. Plus, the timing is atrocious. Could of at least stalled this for two weeks to allow the P2 and other new ship packages sales to accrue.
viewing much bitterness currently. I'm not impressed one bit. My current in game Arx have halved in value.
Can only conclude Frontier have had their arms heavily twisted by a high majority of shareholders.
would imagine meetings are taking place to discuss this debacle.
Flimley
viewing much bitterness currently. I'm not impressed one bit. My current in game Arx have halved in value.
Can only conclude Frontier have had their arms heavily twisted by a high majority of shareholders.
would imagine meetings are taking place to discuss this debacle.
Flimley
Doubt it. It's bank holiday weekend. And Tuesday is patch day.
I was going to boycott the preaccess only but intended to buy the shipkit instantly, even if I won't have access to the ship before August. Well, any and all purchase plans are on hold now. The MK II looks nice without any cosmetics already.
Actually, the timing is good... There are 3 working days to iron out any minor niggles...
Better than a Thargsday!
I'm not the biggest fan of the kit PJ, but like some of the bits...
Of course, if it came with a Raider kit as standard, I'd be bleating very loudly as I'd have to buy several...
"Can"? Maybe as a technicality, look at your WPN section. That loadout is not remotely sustainable with that distro (to say nothing of your questionable inclusion of a KWS, which is a power hog - on an already power-strapped ship - and has no practical use case).
It's not relevant to the topic at hand either but there's absolutely no reason to dedicate two of the one of the few optional slots the thing does have, to MRPs. Protecting modules doesn't matter if the ship can't outlast the modules, and not even a full hull-tank Anaconda needs more than 2 MRPs.
edit: also the shield boosters can be done better, and plasma slugs ought to be taken off of all the PAs because even even the extra fuel tank won't be nearly enough to keep 6 slug weapons supplied.
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Not everyone will understand me, but having combat slots on a ship characterizes the ship as military.
Are you referring to how all ships in the game have weapon hardpoints, or the 'military slots'? If it is the latter, there are a few ships (mostly large pad) that do have those slots but can fulfill well roles that aren't military.
It's the difficulty of translation.
I wrote, if a ship has military slots, it's military ship.
I can help a little with the translation aspect... (or structure, more accurately)
When discussing some topics, it is convenient to word them as simply as possible, for better understanding...
(and, when your native speech may not include the minor details that some English speakers demand, they may be over enthusiastic in criticising your comments)
That's not inherently true, though.
Aside from what I already mentioned (applies to the Cutter, Anaconda, probably a couple others I'm forgetting) - there are several combat-focused ships that have no military slots; FDL, Mamba, Krait Mk. II being the most poignant examples.
Asking for clarification of intent in a statement is not "over enthusiastic criticism".
There were multiple potential meanings - the thought that "all ships in Elite are military ships, by nature of having combat slots (e.g. hardpoints)", or the latter discussion about the "military slots" ingame, which are not at all consistent with whether a ship is or is not a "military ship", for the aforementioned reasons.
Nothing about this has to do with belitting someone, so don't make it so.
Maybe I am better used to understanding non-native English speakers.
It is all in the interpretation, after all.
Well, the combat ships with no military slots are civilian combat ships. All ships that do have military slots are in some way connected to the Imperial, Federal and Alliance navies.