[TI] fuel rip off

hi ide like to ask u as to y when i just click to get my pet out it uses nearly 100 fuel without even moving,this is what i call a rip off, i understand its been like this for years but now new pet levels i notice it alot more costing me ten times more uri to keep it out to assist me ,can u plz look at this as it should not be like this im loosing thousands and thousands of uri and fuel and alos having to buy rebates to keep price down and thats now fair and i still notice my uri getting eaten buy pet fuel constantly even with a fuel protcal in lvl 3,can i get anyone to lookinto this as its we are paying for fuel but geting fulel taken from us for before we even started to move also when config changes uses more fuel ,how many more ways do u wana bump us ,if a added all the years of fuel u took from me fr getting pet out u would me a few bil uri or fuel lol

 

Hello murdoc01,

When you start your vehicle in the morning/afternoon does it not use fuel on start up?

 

strange how the pet needs fuel but the ship dont?

just another stealth tax courtesy of bp

 

I agree that we should have the initial deployment cost, BUT what about all of the glitches that have caused us to re-deploy it to get it to work again. Jump Portal for instance, Jump through and he just sits at the portal until you re-deploy it so he will do what he is set to do. Not to mention the non Premium paying to repair and again to deploy it again after destruction. The decision to increase the Levels when you shut off the EP of the PET at Level 15 is also a bit of a rip off. I feel there should be a option to advance the PET above level 15 or not. I will never use the Sacrificial Flame and as such really do not care about the extra levels shield or gun slots.

Well no one said you needed to spend Uridium to buy it when you did. We all knew it was going to be a Uridium eater when they first announced it. Thankfully they did make it so we did not have to BUY the Gears and Protocols all of the time as originally released.

 

as for the sarcastic remark lol it dont use enough for anyone to notice but this clearly does

 

on the ball there yeah your right lol

 

NOTE: THIS IS CANON 100% TRUE

Ships use magic solar power, but according to the legends, some bad guys (bigpoint developers) attempted to destroy these panels in the past, which would force us to use fuel for them as well. Our ancestors fought well and while they did not managed to defeat the developers, they forged a pact: protection for ship panels. Since then, PET use fuel while ships use magic solar power.

NOTE: THIS IS ALSO CANON 100% TRUE

Start-up fuel and fuel in general are indeed ridiculous, I mean if we need to pay fuel we might as well have 1000 uridium removed from our account every day for food and taxes. And just to equal it out we might as well let the rich people pay more taxes. The only difference is that your uridium saldo, or your amount of items does not help me because we cannot trade them. This makes it so that we pay a huge load of money (uridium) to a goverment (Bigpoint developers) which has all the power. Sounds familiar?

Anyway: it is another perfect example of step to step luring, considering that if you do not own a pet you will not see the fuel option in the shop. It isn't until after you bought it that it is displayed. The idea is to make you happy for obtaining it and then force you to spend more if you want to keep being happy and get anything out of the investment you just made.

Enjoy

 

How can you compare a browser game to a vehicle,this don't make sense

 

costing 70 "?" in fuel to activate your pet is like having to use 5 dollars worth of gas to start a car that gets 25 mpg.not good.also,as hmhy said,having to reactivate after portal jumps is very costly.

 

If you were a smart player (LOL) you read the FAQ before ever getting the PET (or anything in D O) so you KNEW what you were getting. The exception is when you ask for verification and there is NO ANSWER PROVIDED as no one had one at the first RELEASE of the PET.

Assuming you have a level 15 PET with FULL Gear and Protocol slots the calculation comes up 78 UNITS for use. I do not see anything saying this is charged as a deployment, but then it also does not specify how often this is charged (I assume it is every minute it is active charged at the start of the 60 seconds) This is actually only 19,5 Uridium (without any discounts applied) and if you were smart you filled up when they put the PET stuff on % off used Premium and Rebate and Uridium you got on MHH (or Helix Sales) and reduced the actual $$ spent for the PET to begin with, without buying the Uridium with these sales it is 1 Uridium per minute it is active. THESE NUMBERS DO NOT REFLECT THE FUEL CONSERVATION BEING USED.

Really this is what it has come to. I never actually did the math till today and the PET pays me way more than he costs me in this situation, between the Looting, Pally collection, and Kami Kills I think it was Uridium well spent, however, I believe we are being ripped off by the Experience having been stopped at level 15 and we now have to gain more experience to gain more Levels we may or may not want to have. I think the PET should have a ONE TIME ACTIVATION switch allowing us to decide IF we want the extra Slots that come with the NEW Levels or not to conserve the Fuel costs, I for one do not see any reason as I rarely fly in a group and would not stop a fight to select a friendly ship to use the Sacrificial Flame on.

 

If only the new players managed to find the forums before they spend their uridium on LF3 and upgrades xD

 

Hello again

Should you wish there be no Pet Fuel and feel it to be a worthy idea, we have an Update and Idea Pool section here on the forums.

Closing as answered.