Premium Ships Morphed by an SP Ship Plant

Suggestions Miscellaneous
#1

There are some great looking ship models in there, but they’re doomed as being things like rank 6. Premium ships could be sent through a secret project ship plant to have their ranks adjusted and modules rearranged. This idea is to make premium ships more valuable.

 

Secret project ships are quite expensive, so I’m sure you’d expect a ship plant to have some expense. Let’s not forget the premium ship already cost some real money, and it was a fully usable ship to begin with. I think it should be easier to convert a premium to an sp than it is to make an sp. Their conversion expense would be relative to the original price tag too since the prices vary on premium ships.

 

An alternative to being directly resource expensive would be something about gameplay being the route to entering a premium ship into the plant. If the pilot can get their ship to certain far away zones, find the plant, and do without the ship for a while, they can pick it up when it’s done.

 

#2

Even more P2W? Are you crazy?

#3

As this is always the argument that comes up when someone says premium, I don’t see why not. I’d like to be able to use my Nyx and Blood Tormentor in Tier V games! ^^

#4

As this is always the argument that comes up when someone says premium, I don’t see why not. I’d like to be able to use my Nyx and Blood Tormentor in Tier V games! ^^

 

I dont have any problems with premium ships, as long as their powerlevel is comparable to that of normal variants. Nyx and Blood Tormentor are examples for that. But it is not OK, that there are GS/DLC Ships which are just flat out bettern than any normal variants on the same Tier. Have a look at T3 recons for example. There are only 2 rank 9 recons, which are both better than other Tier 3 recons (by a large margin) and unsurprisingly both are premium ships. Guess what T3 is a very important Tier, so Gajin decided to hide the the best T3 recon behind a 49,99€ paywall, because they know that competetive players will need that ship. Obvious cash grab right there.

 

The suggestion of the OP has the risk of creating more ship variants which are flat out (a lot) better than the non-premium variants. Things like these drive away players who do not enjoy obvious P2W games. This game already has very few players.

 

Nontheless, there is a nice way to get the best of both worlds. Just make every premium ship act as a skin unlock for any ship of the same type. So if you have bought the Blood Tormentor, you could use the Blood Tormentor skin on your T5 ships. So you could enjoy the looks of your premium ships, even when you are currently flying a normal ship.

#5

Guess what T3 is a very important Tier, so Gajin decided to hide the the best T3 recon behind a 49,99€ paywall, because they know that competetive players will need that ship.

Say what?

Hold on, I love to criticize, and I sympathize, but I can’t agree to your statement…

The Sai, as pirate ship, is an exception in T3, being a R9 Recon for Feds, which is unusal, since Fed’s main ceptor role is Covert Ops.

You also get the Reaper and other goodies, as well as permanent 10% credit boost, and in Steam sale you can get that pack for 25 bucks.

I find the price of that pack is reasonable.

The other packs have been fixed accordingly: Achilles and Hyena offer now R9 ships in T3, so DLC ships do not take away main roles.

You could actually only argue, that Empire misses the R9 Recon in T3 as f2p ship, altough the Swarm is awesome, while it has the Deimon as a GS ship, and that Feds don’t have a R8 Recon, which the Hawk-Eye actually should be.

I get it, you find it unfair there is no free alternative to that ship, but actually, I do not get why it has to do anything with being competitive, since Recons fullfill their jobs quite well in that tier, and the main advantage of the Sai is as bomb runner in purely detonation games, which is quite a niche role.

#6

Nontheless, there is a nice way to get the best of both worlds. Just make every premium ship act as a skin unlock for any ship of the same type. So if you have bought the Blood Tormentor, you could use the Blood Tormentor skin on your T5 ships. So you could enjoy the looks of your premium ships, even when you are currently flying a normal ship.

 

That skin unlock way is great. It’s simpler than adjusting for rank synergy level, stats, module arrangement, and bonuses. Your idea is easier on creators.

 

It could carry the ship name. It could be applied only to original role and faction. Anything to keep it a re-ranked form of the original premium ship is good. The way I introduced it in this thread kept it as the original role and faction with its name too, but module rearranging like sp ships have does make it complicated.