Shuttle rental cost

Frank?

Hi!
Simple question. For the new 6.1.0 client, how much DIL will it cost to get a 'one time' use shuttle?

Please keep in mind that your answer could very well break faction events into purely P2W and drive away many players.

eXo | SilverRose (retired)

Hi! Adding on. Will these 'one time' use shuttles be disabled during faction events? Or are they a fun new feature?

SSR Barkley

and with that, thousands of voices cried out in terror, and wallets were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened

Emmett K

Have to be cheaper then time boosts to even be considered.
If it's cheaper to run 4 faster then 5 normal, I will do that.

<TGE> Donut

DavideBooks

SSR Barkley wrote: »

and with that, thousands of voices cried out in terror, and wallets were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened

Nice.

These are good questions.

Xoiiku

Nero84

This seems like another step to P2W for faction events. I am VIP13 but again a new change that will affect events without a change in reward structure.

Dirk Gunderson

A feature nobody asked for that carries an extreme danger of further distancing the haves from the have-nots in Faction events?

Almost a Angel

Someone heard my Social security check is coming....

[DC] Principia

[10F] Belle'Anna

Kinda hoping this is for shuttles used for farming faction items outside of an event. To help level crew who have stuff which are faction only and aren't being run during the event. Otherwise my ability to occasionally rank in faction events is going to get even trickier.

[FSC] Adm: Gryphon

this kind of add on will just put even more bitter sour in the F2P peeps.
i have all ready noticed there are far less new peeps joining the game.

The Fish

What a great day for DB to announce the game is going full P2W. Everyone is mad at everything else already lets drop this too lol.

Odo Marmarosa

When I hear "one-use" shuttle, I think of a Voyager shuttle.

FutureImperfecta

If this turns ridiculous..
(Lol I said if..)

I'll just hoard everything and come out strong every 2-6 months.

Captain_Who

We'll see the cost, rarity, and effect. But this has the potential to make me never attempt to rank again.

And I'll say it again, re-frikken-work the reward structure. If that had been announced at the same time it would have offset most of the negative potential reaction.

Ren~

The Fish wrote: »

What a great day for DB to announce the game is going full P2W. Everyone is mad at everything else already lets drop this too lol.

Well faction events are already full pay to win, I didn't know it was possible to make it worse though. DB outdoing themselves every day.

robownage

I'm hoping they have a countdown timer - like once every 24 hours or something, unless you have a special token.

DeanWins

Nero84 wrote: »

This seems like another step to P2W for faction events. I am VIP13 but again a new change that will affect events without a change in reward structure.

Faction events are pretty much already pay to win anyways, at least if you are referring to the top 10 ranks.
Thou if this change is effective during faction events, it would just push it even further.

Rizu

Well, faction event incomes dropped dramatically after thursday double rewards you know. No god damn ppl buy shuttle boosts like they buy chron pack on galaxy events, so we've to run a rent'a'shuttle. Rent your shuttle today from Enterprise!

Captain Sushi

Rizu wrote: »

Rent your shuttle today from Enterprise!

We'll beam you up!

[DC] Picard Loves Reds

Captain Sushi wrote: »

Rizu wrote: »

Rent your shuttle today from Enterprise!

We'll beam you up!

I just heard the voiceover actor reading this....too funny!

Jim Steele

eXo | Frank wrote: »

Hi!
Simple question. For the new 6.1.0 client, how much DIL will it cost to get a 'one time' use shuttle?

Please keep in mind that your answer could very well break faction events into purely P2W and drive away many players.

Its clearly a way to make more money without doing anything major DBs part. Fine, go ahead and have this 'feature' but if people are paying more to place in events the rewards have to scale. I for one wont be altering my purchasing habits for a lousey few hundred extra merits.

Jim

Frank?

Hi! Still me, still here.
So,

That's the new build notes on iOS as of right now.
Same question as earlier that has yet to be answered - especially now that we know that rental shuttles are for faction events:
1) What is the single use cost, in DIL, of a rental shuttle?
2) What is the change to shuttle speedups cost, in DIL?

barrydancer

Follow up question. Is the extra shuttle I pay for guaranteed to succeed? Because I ain't wasting my hard-earned dilithium only to have your atrocious RNG or unaddressed AND bug still make me fail a mission.

Zombie Squirrel

Everyone just wait until nxt tuesday when the changes go live. Still 2 days before the nxt (faction)event starts. And i doubt it will be much of a game changer. Ppl that made top 1000 in faction events, still will do it and top ranks will still have to use extra ressources(boosts, dilithium for speed ups and so on...) to rank high.

The whining and complaining before the feature even is live, is really........

And right now the changed Shuttle Interface, which was shrinked by a lot is giving me way more headaches. Even on my iPadPro i barely can see the skills beneath the tiny shuttle slots.

=GBP= Plain Simple Garak

eXo | Frank wrote: »

Hi! Still me, still here.
So,

That's the new build notes on iOS as of right now.
Same question as earlier that has yet to be answered - especially now that we know that rental shuttles are for faction events:
1) What is the single use cost, in DIL, of a rental shuttle?
2) What is the change to shuttle speedups cost, in DIL?

Are those features only coming out after the forced upgrade? I could logon through steam and check otherwise once the kids are off the bed.

Frank?

I'm not whining, I'm not complaining, I'm simply asking DB to answer a question about potentially large gameplay mechanic changes to a game that you, I, and a lot of other people play and spend quite a bit of money on. I'm entirely within normal parameters to ask about a change in cost structure.

Please stop trolling my and other threads with this. If you have nothing to add to the current conversation, please don't post.

Thank you.

(HGH)Apollo

I don't think these extra shuttles will change faction events much. Only the top 25 spots may be affected and I don't know how anyone gets top 25 without putting a ton of cash in for boosts or hoarding boosts for months for one event.

milamber42

eXo | Frank wrote: »

Hi! Still me, still here.
So,

That's the new build notes on iOS as of right now.
Same question as earlier that has yet to be answered - especially now that we know that rental shuttles are for faction events:
1) What is the single use cost, in DIL, of a rental shuttle?
2) What is the change to shuttle speedups cost, in DIL?

Definitely interested #2. Perhaps 2nd line of packs will be started for Dil only, eliminating the speedups from the current boost packs. DB knows that boosts are used for faction event quick starts, so why not increase the cost and make more money?