Ship Shop - Real Money

[Ancipital]

If SC is as good as it should be, it'll be worth every person who committed far more than they should for daft items, If it is as bad as it might be i agree with you 1000000%!

I'd bet your life that the eventual truth will be somewhere in the middle.

(Though it's not a question of agreeing with me or not right now- it's a fact that people can p2w for a game which doesn't yet exist- they didn't make anything to win yet )

 

[Derath]

I'd bet your life that the eventual truth will be somewhere in the middle.

(Though it's not a question of agreeing with me or not right now- it's a fact that people can p2w for a game which doesn't yet exist- they didn't make anything to win yet )

Yeah middle is my expectation, but I do genuinely hope for the best primarily because they seem to be trying so hard to launch a game with immense content instead of tiny content then patching it in (while everyones quits and gets bored)

 

[Asphine Nytrix]

Guys I'm not suggesting putting Anaconda to a shop, maybe ASP. MAX...... and this is open world therefore there are strong players and lower players, depends on how much time you've put into game. How can it be pay to win then?..... What you are suggesting is that players with plenty of time are PayToWin, having more time is PayToWin..... those who don't have that much time, but they actually have lives, jobs, families etc. want to get to upper level too, but with normal circumstances they will reach it after months and months after a player with plenty of time..... So if they find right balance, this can be awesome for everyone.

 

[Eagle Eye]

Like we dont have enough people crying and quitting after losing everything within hours of getting an Asp as it is. There is a reason we call it "the Asp curse". Ppl that buy their way into an Asp will fly without insurance, crash it (because it drifts like nothing else before it) and demand their money back. Not a headache Frontier need at the moment.

 

[Cosmo Bozo]

You may be right. I remember some discussion of the explorer start being a major monetary advantage, but it may have been a Cobra, and the advantage due to the discovery scanner (it came with an intermediate or advanced, i forget which).

It also came with a bounty.
And none of the equipment had any trade in value.
It was an advantage but not a massive one.

 

[Zetta]

I firmly believe that a character's status should be a reflection of what that person has achieved inside the game not what they've achieved outside of it.
If someone doesn't have a lot of spare time it'll be all the more rewarding when they save enough credits to buy whatever it is they want.

 

[Herik]

It would send the game down a dark route if they started selling ships. (Even if it's some "starter pack").
If they did that, then they would be going against everything that they have said in previous statements, which they would only be selling cosmetic items.

Ship rewards are, well rewards. They are to thank people for adopting into the game early, help with development by spending more money, and help by getting involved on the forums, and providing feedback.

Now I'm not saying "They shouldn't do it because it's unfair to KS backers" - I'm saying that they shouldn't because it's aiming towards a pay-to-win shop.

There are only a few things you can buy in game with credits. Ships, modules, weapons and commodities. Now if they started selling one of those things with real money, then they are lowering any need for people to even get credits.

You know how the road starts... Starter pack with a cobra. Then later "Advanced pack" with a python... and further down the line "elite pack" with an anaconda.

It's not good.

This is one of the reasons that I am not buying into Star Citizen. That game is extremely pay to win, where you can buy ships with real money, and credits. I don't want Elite to go down that route.

All correct Flappers. +1

 

[Daeron]

Like we dont have enough people crying and quitting after losing everything within hours of getting an Asp as it is. There is a reason we call it "the Asp curse". Ppl that buy their way into an Asp will fly without insurance, crash it (because it drifts like nothing else before it) and demand their money back. Not a headache Frontier need at the moment.

The Macbeth of Elite... The influx of new Commanders will assure re-runs, I'm sure. And all varieties thereof. I'm thinking the insurance should be automatically deducted as a percentage of your earnings, because autonomy is overrated.