Ship sale

[gsr2000]

Originally Posted by virgelmitchell

I doubt any noob is going to pick up a carrier! For 1 it requires a minimum level of 40, and level 40 is not a noob



Too bad I already purchased all the assault ships at full price. I wonder if they'll give me a refund for the difference (lol). Even at level 79 I would need an 83% discount to buy a carrier, and that's if I pulled out the wallet to buy cubits.

I guess no refund .

[Subway81]

Originally Posted by DarknessCommander

Haha Greedy & cheap^^ I know im also Dutch=)

Skip the greedy part, it might be true but it makes us look bad Ill stick on cheap only

[Cybor-Bot]

Originally Posted by gsr2000

I guess no refund .

well at lvl 50 i'm not really a noob but I would buy one if the price was right and did not require merits.

[deltaforce11]

Awww I got all excited when i logged in and read the sale post. Then i re-read it and it said it was only the assault ships... Just when i thought i'd buy an Aesir =[

[cprstupid]

Originally Posted by sibience

I don't know why people think the carrier is some kind of end game ship and only long term players should be able to get one.

As for merits they are easy to get if I was going to get a carrier without buying cubits it would probably take me longer to aquire the cubits than the merits anyway.

The carrier is actually useless unless you have a bunch of regular strikes to fly with. As there gets more and more of these carriers on one side it will get to the point where there just won't be enough strikes to fill them and so it will be worthless.

Especially as more and more strikes pilots and new players are jumping straight into escorts after the last ammo update

The only players that will benefit from it are those that have a wing with a decent amount of active strike pilots.

So what an escort carrier and line carrier class lol. I doubt you do. IMO they are fiddling with ship pops now. All this is a plan to move the game into balance. Ships sales, new ammo. We are
Being nudged about for what is to come. It's either that or they just want to give crap away. I mean we got over 80 tuning kits a bit ago, the rock fest, plat-gate. And now two ship sales. So either the team has gone all Howard Dean on us ahhhhhhhh. Or something is up. I tend to think somthing is up and try to read the tea leaves.

[Subway81]

Originally Posted by sibience

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As for merits they are easy to get if I was going to get a carrier without buying cubits it would probably take me longer to aquire the cubits than the merits anyway.

If there wasnt a merit - cap, that might be true. Or do you really make not more then 1000 cubits a day?

[YuGi_2142]

Originally Posted by sibience

I don't know why people think the carrier is some kind of end game ship and only long term players should be able to get one.

Because BP was telling us that for 6 months when we were waiting for that ship...

Originally Posted by sibience

The carrier is actually useless unless you have a bunch of regular strikes to fly with. As there gets more and more of these carriers on one side it will get to the point where there just won't be enough strikes to fill them and so it will be worthless.

True.

Originally Posted by sibience

Especially as more and more strikes pilots and new players are jumping straight into escorts after the last ammo update

True.

Originally Posted by sibience

The only players that will benefit from it are those that have a wing with a decent amount of active strike pilots.

True.

Originally Posted by sibience

As for merits they are easy to get if I was going to get a carrier without buying cubits it would probably take me longer to aquire the cubits than the merits anyway.

Are you on drugs? With 3x mining boosters you could get the cubits for the carrier in two days. In the same time you can get merits for 5% of the carrier tops...

[FreddyFeldercarb]

Originally Posted by YuGi_2142

Are you on drugs? With 3x mining boosters you could get the cubits for the carrier in two days. In the same time you can get merits for 5% of the carrier tops...

How many hours per day would you be playing for those two days? 12 each? It only takes 30 minutes to do your DEO's to earn 450 merits plus what you got from your kills then fill out the balance and get to your 1000 merit daily limit. Especially using a 1.5x merit booster. 30 days, 30,000 merits, 15 hours.

Throw in Thrace Thursdays where the cap is lifted and you should have plenty of merits for the Carrier in a matter of 15 hours.

Then figure in about another 90 minutes to finish the other dailies and clear one system of water and in that same time not even running a booster you could easily have 450,000 to 600,000 cubits if you played every day and didn't spend any of it.

[sibience]

Originally Posted by YuGi_2142

Are you on drugs? With 3x mining boosters you could get the cubits for the carrier in two days. In the same time you can get merits for 5% of the carrier tops...

Only at the weekends

Well merits i can hit cap every day without any problems, getting cubits on the other hand requires mining or grinding NPCs both of which suck, if cubits dropped from PvP or the game was worth me spenidng money on right now then maybe i'd get them faster

[Cybor-Bot]

Originally Posted by FreddyFeldercarb

How many hours per day would you be playing for those two days? 12 each? It only takes 30 minutes to do your DEO's to earn 450 merits plus what you got from your kills then fill out the balance and get to your 1000 merit daily limit. Especially using a 1.5x merit booster. 30 days, 30,000 merits, 15 hours.

Throw in Thrace Thursdays where the cap is lifted and you should have plenty of merits for the Carrier in a matter of 15 hours.

Then figure in about another 90 minutes to finish the other dailies and clear one system of water and in that same time not even running a booster you could easily have 450,000 to 600,000 cubits if you played every day and didn't spend any of it.

I was playing heavily but now that the game resources and mining have been seriously nerfed not much fun left and the huge battles I was getting into are going to be harder to come by but a 1000 merits a day I was getting about 700 every 2nd day and I use a lot of merits on nukes but like I said the mining for resource is just about negated and without that its very hard to pay for the support items I need for my ship unless I break out my card every week and that's not gonna happen, so I will play a lot less BGO.