Since we are now required to level up ships with synergy to gain rank, I have a suggestion.
Premium ships currently serve no purpose other than a credit grinder because they don’t have repair costs.
Since premium ships come with full synergy, any synergy earned by flying a premium ship should automatically be converted into free synergy that can be applied to any ship. That means there is no cost to converting the synergy earned on these ships using GS. We’ve already paid GS to buy the premium ship, we shouldn’t have to pay to convert surplus synergy we earn while flying them.
I agree is stupid to gain 330000 exp to level up from 8 to 9, I have 80k synergy that i could transfer buti refuse to pay 600 gs for stupid 80k synergy.
I also agree. I just ranted about how I would like to see the DLC packs go on sale, Steam finally offers a discount on them and I snatch up the Elite pack, and then you guys do this. Basically just paid money for nothing (and I won’t even go in to Gold Standards for loot that was improperly reimbursed IMO).
This would be an excellent use of premium. Rank 4 sucks? Buy a Rank 6 Premium and grind that instead! It’s win-win:
For the Player: Your playtime is more or less the same, your income is higher (no repairs and better income bonus) and you get to fly a ship that is functionally identical to your Rank 6 you’ve aimed for.
For the Developers: Your player has spent real money on Gold Standards to buy a Premium ship. Said Premium is not overpowered compared to other ships of the tier so the game isn’t being spoiled for your other players (which is important - if people don’t like the game they’ll quit!).
Since there is no other option, i voted NO, I am up for prem ships helping with progression , but i disagree with your proposed concept
“… i do not believe that having an ability to freely transfer all freely generated synergy to ANY free ship is a right way to go…”
Maybe distribution of free synergy within correlated tree branch yes up to the level of the premium ship, in acore allowing to get an access to the higher free ships and be on a same term with everyone else of that level.
Or having prem ships set as milestones within ship trees in a sense allowing players for “pay-to-not-grind”
Okay, how about this…
Nukem / Desert Eagle, being T3 Premium Empire Fighters, allocate their xp to your other T3 Empire Fighters, starting with R7. When your R7 ship is full it’ll just pool “elite” synergy on itself until you buy rank 8, and repeat for rank 9.
Once all your T3 Empire Fighters are elite, the premium models will pool elite xp on themselves.
This would repeat across all factions and ship types.
Since there is no other option, i voted NO, I am up for prem ships helping with progression , but i disagree with your proposed concept
“… i do not believe that having an ability to freely transfer all freely generated synergy to ANY free ship is a right way to go…”
Maybe distribution of free synergy within correlated tree branch yes up to the level of the premium ship, in acore allowing to get an access to the higher free ships and be on a same term with everyone else of that level.
Or having prem ships set as milestones within ship trees in a sense allowing players for “pay-to-not-grind”
Your suggestion of setting them as milestones would only cause premium ships to be a way to immediately buy the next ship in the line, so we would never actually fly the premium ship itself. LOL.
Since there is no other option, i voted NO, I am up for prem ships helping with progression , but i disagree with your proposed concept
“… i do not believe that having an ability to freely transfer all freely generated synergy to ANY free ship is a right way to go…”
Maybe distribution of free synergy within correlated tree branch yes up to the level of the premium ship, in acore allowing to get an access to the higher free ships and be on a same term with everyone else of that level.
Or having prem ships set as milestones within ship trees in a sense allowing players for “pay-to-not-grind”
I don’t see the problem of the free synergy idea?
Whether we pay right now to transfer the synergy, or pay for the ship and get the free synergy from the ship. It ends up in a lot of different places in the end.
I support the OP.
Your suggestion of setting them as milestones would only cause premium ships to be a way to immediately buy the next ship in the line, so we would never actually fly the premium ship itself. LOL.
yeah i was thinking of that possibility, that could be easily fixed by requirements to “virtually” lvl up your prem ship - its stats already at the maximum level, but still require you to fly it for some time until it unlock the next ship
I don’t see the problem of the free synergy idea?
Whether we pay right now to transfer the synergy, or pay for the ship and get the free synergy from the ship. It ends up in a lot of different places in the end.
I support the OP.
basically “free synergy” going to any ships will lead to a process that would look something like this: you get t2 Kalah/Rhi-no (or lets say t3 nukem or steams desert eagle, w/e) and then you just play this ship, and accumulating synergy and then you just spend all that accumulated synergy and moneyz on buying ships all the way to the t5 in one go without actually having to fly any ship above your farming prem ship witch will eliminate a desire to buy any higher ranked prem ship, that is why i believe that if that approach is to be implemented, free synergy should not be distributed towards higher ranked ships. And if you allow distribution of that free synergy to all the ships of different factions, it will eliminate a desire to buy any other prem ship except the one you already have - buy an empire gunship and level all Jericho guards with it.
yeah i was thinking of that possibility, that could be easily fixed by requirements to “virtually” lvl up your prem ship - its stats already at the maximum level, but still require you to fly it for some time until it unlock the next ship
basically “free synergy” going to any ships will lead to a process that would look something like this: you get t2 Kalah/Rhi-no (or lets say t3 nukem or steams desert eagle, w/e) and then you just play this ship, and accumulating synergy and then you just spend all that accumulated synergy and moneyz on buying ships all the way to the t5 in one go without actually having to fly any ship above your farming prem ship witch will eliminate a desire to buy any higher ranked prem ship, that is why i believe that if that approach is to be implemented, free synergy should not be distributed towards higher ranked ships. And if you allow distribution of that free synergy to all the ships of different factions, it will eliminate a desire to buy any other prem ship except the one you already have - buy an empire gunship and level all Jericho guards with it.
That is not much different then before.
Before you would farm in your Premium ship, and just buy the next ship in rank, when you level up your reputation, with the credits. Now you do the same basicly, but use the synergy and your credits.
yes, there should be free synergy. Buying a prem ship and then spending money for synergy transfer is double farming the players
Your suggestion of setting them as milestones would only cause premium ships to be a way to immediately buy the next ship in the line, so we would never actually fly the premium ship itself. LOL.
Easy fix - premiums don’t get full synergy by default any more. They could start at level 1 but have a +10%, or +20% synergy bonus built in to make them level faster.
yes, there should be free synergy. Buying a prem ship and then spending money for synergy transfer is double farming the players
Yes but you shall not be able to unlock your T5 Jericho ships by spending free synergy from your T1 Prem Empire ship
Yes but you shall not be able to unlock your T5 Jericho ships by spending free synergy from your T1 Prem Empire ship
It was possible before as well, and didn’t get used that way. I really don’t say the problem.
premium ships are worthless. that will be all.
not really. certain premium ships are still good on their own based on attributes and skill bonus that fit my playstyle. I bought a few because I wanted them based on that not their free repairs.
I’ve read “Pay not to grind” opposition up there.
Well, in this game it should be exactly that !
It is not Pay to Win (Thank God) but pay not to grind is the way to go.
I would love that my hard earned real life money will not go to waste. I want to fly my R9 premium ship and then transfer the synergy into my other ships without having to pay AGAIN.
I do not mind having restrictions like “you can not transfer synergy past your gold ship level”. That way I can basically level up all my ships up to level 9 (especially the whole T1 and T2 I haven’t played for years. And if I want to level up T4 I have to either buy T4 gold or regular T4 ships. At least my progress up to R9 will be enjoyable.
I recently switched to Legion Contracts and since I literally have nothing but the default ship I had to grind it up up to SynL 4. Imagine how frustrating is that for a player who haven’t even played T2 for months and want to just go forward. Not playing T1 with all the newbies. That ruins their first impression as well.
New patch added:
General
Free energy bonus for premium ships increased to 10% from total synergy
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New patch added:
General
Free energy bonus for premium ships increased to 10% from total synergy
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So that means I fly like an ace get 6-8K synergy and instead of 300-400 I now get 600-800 ? Boo-hoo. Sometimes in games I make 1000. Which translates to …
Yeah this needs to be relooked at. I have no incentive to buy or fly premium ships right now.
5% more synergy gain with requirement of transferring the rest of the synergy at a ludicrously bad GS rate? Yeah no thanks Gajin.