So... About Ship Kits...

[Airatome]

Apparently the several thousand ARX ship kits that give you things like additional wings/bumper/spoiler customization options are STRICTLY for that particular model of ship, period, and don't unlock those same packs (with the same name even) for other ship models?

Oh this looks neat on my Krait Phantom! Let me go put this on my Krait MK - PLEASE INSERT MORE MONEY!!

Oh. I see what they did there. GG Frontier. GG

At least I can earn up to 400 ARX per week. So in 5 weeks or so Ill have enough to buy the one I want. Only, by that time I'll also have enough credits to just buy an entirely new ship. I don't understand why the did this. I didn't feel their ARX/Customization system was particularly predator or anything but model specific packs and skins? Was there no way to make these universal across multiple ships? Was it a code/game limitation thing?

[Rragar]

Originally posted by Airatome:

Apparently the several thousand dollar ship kits

There's no such thing as a one-thousand dollar ship kit, let alone several thousand dollars. If you're going to criticize something, at least get your facts straight.

You can buy 85,000 ARX for 59.99 USD, which is the most expensive option. And the expensive kits are worth what, 13,500 ARX on average?

This would make the average aforementioned kit worth approximately 12 USD. Not "several thousand dollars".

[Airatome]

Originally posted by Rragar:

Originally posted by Airatome:

Apparently the several thousand dollar ship kits

There's no such thing as a one-thousand dollar ship kit, let alone several thousand dollars. If you're going to criticize something, at least get your facts straight.

You can buy 85,000 ARX for 59.99 USD, which is the most expensive option. And the expensive kits are worth what, 13,500 ARX on average?

This would make the average aforementioned kit worth approximately 12 USD. Not "several thousand dollars".

I mistyped, but you failed to comprehend my intention. I meant exactly what you said. 13.5K ARX is "several thousand ARX" . Clearly I didn't mean or say USD $ . No fact checking required here.

Now where were we...?

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Airatome:

I don't understand why the did this.

They did it so you don't have to pay a monthly fee for those servers to play the game. Instead they sell completely voluntary cosmetics that have absolutely no impact on the gameplay (those extra spoilers don't even increase your ship's hit points - they are transparent to weapons shots).

[Sighman]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

Originally posted by Airatome:

I don't understand why the did this.

They did it so you don't have to pay a monthly fee for those servers to play the game.

Yep, this. People who had to scrape together $8 to buy the base game on sale can enjoy Elite as much as a one-percenter with 15 Rolls Royces. But if the latter splashes their cash on ship kits and cosmetics, the kid who used all their pocket money to play still benefits.

Isn't that better than pay to win?

[Airatome]

Originally posted by Sighman:

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

They did it so you don't have to pay a monthly fee for those servers to play the game.

Yep, this. People who had to scrape together $8 to buy the base game on sale can enjoy Elite as much as a one-percenter with 15 Rolls Royces. But if the latter splashes their cash on ship kits and cosmetics, the kid who used all their pocket money to play still benefits.

Isn't that better than pay to win?

Absolutely. I entirely understand cosmetics as a form of additional funding. I mean that concept has been clear for a long while.

I'm just perhaps salty that the one ship kit I purchased with 3 - 4 options for each if the 4 cosmetic slots works for that ONE ship and that ship only instead of unlocking those same options across the board for all ships. I am still happy with my purchase, because I am probably not trading out this 42+ LY Phantom for anything else in a while but I wish they would have made that clear.

[Sighman]

Originally posted by Airatome:

I'm just perhaps salty that the one ship kit I purchased with 3 - 4 options for each if the 4 cosmetic slots works for that ONE ship and that ship only instead of unlocking those same options across the board for all ships. I am still happy with my purchase, because I am probably not trading out this 42+ LY Phantom for anything else in a while but I wish they would have made that clear.

Fair enough.

But if the one ship kit worked on every ship (and bear in mind they're all modelled individually to match the shape of each ship), then the ship kits would cost 37 times as much.