Why Destroyers should be cheaper?
There is no reason.
They need a certain invest from the player. We had events during the whole Christmas to prepare for the Destroyers release.
They have fixed price and once you crafted one , you can modify it as you want just for credits.
Players who really wanted Destroyers did the Christmas Quests and are now playing their Destroyers. And they didn’t used the Monocrystal Rewards for crafting Secret Project ships.
TLDR: Assuming players who want a Destroyer are either vets with plenty of resources to spare or have taken part in one specific event is not a good idea.
So what about players who weren’t around for the Christmas Event?
Or entirely new players who have a friend that tells them “Dude, Destroyers are so awesome, you should come play Star Conflict”
How long will it take them to actually be able to build a Destroyer with no Event that showers them in Monocrystals?
And farm out the other resources they need to build one?
Do you think they’ll stick around and increase the overall playerbase, once they see how much of a grind it is to get one?
Let’s take the Archon as an example (simply because that’s the one I’d like to build):
2x Destroyer Internal Structures
32 Neodium Plates / 64 Impure Neodium
16 Graphite Plates / 32 Impure Graphite
20 Metal Blanks / 40 Vanadium
32 Osmium Crystals
40 Monocrystals
2x Engine Package
24 Metal Blanks / 48 Vanadium
36 Computing Chips / Crystal Shards
18 Screened Batteries = 18 Graphite Plates / 36 Impure Graphite + 18 Computing Chips / Crystal Shards + 54 Osmium Crystals
10 Processing Blocks = 40 (Pure) Silicone + 20 Computing Chips / Crystal Shards
44 Monocrystals
2x Reactor Package
42 (Pure) Silicone
48 Graphite Plates / 96 Impure Graphite
48 Osmium Crystals
30 Computing Chips / Crystal Shards
40 Monocrystals
3x Deflector Package
54 (Pure) Silicone
72 Computing Chips / Crystal Shards
18 Processing Blocks = 72 (Pure) Silicone + 36 Computing Chips / Crystal Shards
15 Screened Batteries = 15 Graphite Plates / 30 Impure Graphite + 15 Computing Chips / Crystal Shards + 45 Osmium Crystals
60 Monocrystals
1x Exterior Structure
12 Metal Blanks / 24 Vanadium
18 Graphite Plates / 36 Impure Graphite
15 Osmium
6 Screened Batteries = 6 Graphite Plates / 12 Impure Graphite + 6 Computing Chips / Crystal Shards + 54 Osmium
18 Monocrystals
1x Computing System
30 (Pure) Silicone
30 Computing Chips / Crystal Shards
15 Osmium
3 Processing Blocks = 12 (Pure) Silicone + 6 Computing Chips / Crystal Shards
22 Monocrystals
Now to put it all together:
Metal Blanks = 56 / 112 Vanadium
Pure Silicone = 250
Computing Chips = 269
Graphite Plates = 121 / 242 Impure Graphite
Osmium = 263
Neodium Plates = 32 / 64 Impure Neodium
Monocrystals = 224
Of course, Metal and Silicone will probably be the least issue, as getting these is rather common from salvaging even the early upgrade kits a player doesn’t need, the Chips/Shards are reasonably easy to get too, either from salvage or OS.
Then there’s Neodium, Graphite and Osmium.
Neodium and Graphite can be farmed in Water Harvest, if you’ve got a ship that can dodge all the Aliens (Fed Tackler with Cruise seems to be the best option, not just here but for farming resources in OS in general), with the odd Osmium every now and then.
The sheer amount of Graphite means spending hours upon hours doing nothing but flying circles in that one sector of course…
Osmium can be acquired in Northstar now, but the droprate there isn’t all that great, I just spent about 45 minutes, dropping everything except for Osmium and got a whopping 8 when I called it quits. Good droprate for Shards though.
Last, but definitely not least are the Monocrystals, which take 38 Days to acquire, while doing all three daily missions every single day (actually, only one needs to be completed on day 38, but eh), which assumes a player has a ship for OS and it’s one you can actually complete the contracts with.
Even with a Rank 12 Command, I sometimes say “hell no” to some of the dailies, as I know they’ll be extremely hard if not impossible to complete.
More than a month of playing every day for Monos, with probably a few of those days spent on nothing but farming for Neodium, Graphite and Osmium…
If this price is what’s deemed acceptable for a Rank 8 Ship, I shudder to think what the Rank 11 and 14 ones will cost.
“But you can buy materials, so you don’t have to grind!”
Only if you like to gamble. I really don’t, so I won’t spend any money on containers that might give me something I need or something I’ve already got plenty of, personally I’d rather take the slow but sure way since that are my only two options.
I did take part in some of the Christmas events, so I’ve got plenty of Monos, but I still spent a few hours yesterday to acquire the remaining Neodium and now I still need 50 Graphite Plates and 140 Osmium.
I really wouldn’t want to be a new player who sees that shiny, desirable toy and then gets bored out of his mind trying to acquire it from scratch…
