Timex
3665
They actually already have customizable “homes” in game in the forum of hangars.
So, the latest attempt at money grabbing funding acquisition balancing adjustments has caused some ripples.
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/6au1cb/psa_0_ccus_going_away/
Can someone please explain what a CCU is? :)
Isn’t that the system that lets people ‘melt’ down shit they own for star citizen virtual bucks they can use to buy other stuff?
Timex
3668
CCUs are cross chassis upgrades. They often didn’t actually cost any money, as you can “buy” them for $0.
They allowed you to upgrade a ship into a different ship.
They serve a useful purpose in that if you buy a ship, you can change it into another one later without buying a whole new ship.
Apparently there are a million or so unused ones out there, since they cost nothing.
No, that’s just called melting. Cross-Chassis Upgrades are what allow you to upgrade the ship in a package to a different ship while retaining all of the other items and perks that came with the package. The most common reason to CCU is changing your ship without losing the original’s Lifetime Insurance perk (which is what would happen if you melted it).
So now the fee is gone but they’ll make CCUs expire.
That much thought (or lack thereof) around buying/selling ships that anyone will be able to buy with in-game credit when the game comes out seems… a bit weird, doesn’t it?
I’m wondering if buying/selling JPEG ships is the only real game most people will ultimately get.
I won’t even get in the “we need real data to balance ships” stuff, because it’s absolutely bonkers.
At this point, nothing about Star Citizen makes me think it will be anything but a massive disaster.
Timex
3672
Why would that be weird?
When you say JPEG ship, are you using this term ironically, or are you operating under the mistaken impression that the ships do not exist in game?
Because it feels like this is the game. Waiting for ships and concepts, buying them based only on dreams and expectations.
Both. I’m using the term ironically and many ships do not exist in the game, and most of the ones that do exist in the game might be completely different when the actual game comes out (if it ever does), because that has happened already.
Timex
3674
The CCU’s apply to actual ships and allow you to migrate between them… because people are actually playing the game right now and flying those ships around.
But tons of ships do in fact exist, and are flyable in the game right now. Certainly they could change, but the same goes for any asset in any computer game. The ships in EvE have been rebalanced countless times.
There are 47 flyable ships and 55 non flyable ships as of today.
While that’s certainly is more non flyable than flyable, 47 flyables is a lot, imho. However, I don’t think the number of flyables is even going to go over 50% until the game, or at least SQ42 ships. Revenue is indeed somewhat dependent on new ships.
Oh, so Star Citizen doesn’t have its own cardiac care unit? Figured that might come in handy after users saw their credit card bill.
It seems to me that many people are storing CCUs to use them to switch to yet non-implemented or non-flyable ships. Isn’t that the case?
You didn’t pay dozens or hundreds of real-life dollars for the ships in EVE.
Someone please explain what this all means. CCUs? Migration? Whut?
KevinC
3679
Timex and Ryan_Kelly explained a few posts up.
Timex
3680
Some people most definitely did/do. People spend mountains of money on ISK and Plex.
Again, maybe you think their purchases are misguided, but there is certainly no problem with such a system, from a player’s point of view, given that all of those things can alternatively be acquired through in game efforts.
Lantz
3681
My understanding is that the main complaints are from this scenario:
- RSI sold people $350 renderings of concept spaceships
- some people were hesitant to buy $350 conceptual spaceships because they were skeptical that the end result would match the concept
- RSI offered up these CCU tokens for $0 which allowed people to switch their $350 spaceship to different $350 spaceships in the future if the final result was not what they wanted
- people spent $350 on conceptual spaceships because they now had options and didn’t feel locked in
- RSI has still not delivered said spaceships
- RSI is telling people that they are going to take away the $0 tokens from people so they can not wait until the ships are actually available to make their decision anymore
- RSI hopes people now just buy the ships they can’t just switch to anymore
That was my understanding too.
CCU (Carbon Capture and Utilization) techniques are needed to clean the atmosphere after too much Baby PU or Chris Roberts will have to deal with an increase in climate-related migrations. Something like that.
Ah! Thank you!
On the one hand, yeah, I guess that sucks to change the deal midway through.
On the other hand, these are people that paid $350 for virtual ships. If they really felt that leery about it, why not just save their money?
