Getting More Expensive??

Over the past year I have been reading more and more of the threads in an effort to learn more about what is happening in the game and to try to help others. One of the things that seem to keep coming up is that "Everything is more Expensive." I am only completing my third year in a couple of months and maybe I have been missing something. What exactly is costing more and more now? This statement always leaves me asking, "Why do they always throw that?"

 

I don't know exactly, but I think that getting and getting expensive is meant mostly for becoming UFE. Herc ratio dropping, Havoc ratio, skill tree and so on.

 

They just get frustrated. They feel like they get less and less parts from GG so gates are more expenvie to build, they feel like they don't get Hercs so they must build even more and more gates to get UFE.

The game is not getting more expensive. Period. It is getting much cheaper, it is years since they last added something which makes this game more expensive. It is getting cheaper and cheaper since all the awesome discounts and now the 388% happy hour which we had about a week ago.

No one should listen to those guys since it is just a small minority, there are always those who feel like they are treated badly. There are lucky ones and there are those who have bad luck. Only those who have bad luck complain on forum.
When someone gets 10 Hercs from 15 Kappa he is just happy but not happy enough to come to forum and post 50 messages about how good BP is. But when someone needs 100 Kappa for 10 Hercs he will come and cry about it million times.

Basic human psychology, negative things feel much more worse than how the good things feel good lol. If you find 20€ from the street you smile but won't make a big deal bout it, but if someone steals your 20€ when your back is turned you will call the cops and call the news and be angry and your whole week will be ruined

 

lol, it has been years since they last added anything to the game. Just look at the news on the home page. Darkorbit also didn't give us discounts and UHH because they wanted to give us a break, they literally are trying to take every last cent they can get. You can tell when BP decided to watch an video upon login for 100 uri. FE is useless these days and a goliath in auction literally sells for less than a bigboy.

Here is a list of things which have made the game more expensive:

PET 10.

PET 10 upgrades to unlock slots.

PET 10 protocols and gear.

PET 10 fuel.

Apis drone. (they don't even give the price anymore)

Zeus drone.

LF4.

LF4 upgraded.

Item upgrading in general.

Boosters (why sell in hours of 10?).

Goliath Skill designs.

Additional Hangars.

Log Disk and Pilot Bio creation cost.

Pilot Bio reset costs.

Booty Keys of all colors.

Galaxy gates and there "probabilities".

Tech center additional creation modules.

Clan limits to prevent helping newbies.

The 3 "new" ships.

Drone designs.

RSB75.

RB214.

DCR250.

PLD8.

EMP1.

All Uridium HS rockets.

SLMO1.

the 3 supermines.

... and also the 1799 cost for the new turkish vengie design. (sooner or later)

 

Most of what i see lately is GG used to take advantage 1800 spins to open kappa now well over 2000 now from what i've been reading. It does seem those last few parts have become more elusive. As for me i don't keep count its too depressing my luck is horrible I just grind away.

 

Not just Kappa, Zeta took me ~3k spins to open. For the last 4 parts I have paid ~1k GG spins. By the way, whole gate was spinned x1.

 

Anyone who's played longer than 4 years can't say its not more expensive. Back when they started the most expensive ship was a goliath now they got ships 3x as much. No PET existed so you didn't waste any money on fuel, slots, gear, protocols, lasers and shields. No Hell storm existed so you didn't waste money on upgrading them or ammo. I know for a fact that my PET consumes fuel 3x as fast, I noticed the month it happened. Not sure if it was a beginners thing only but when I started Premium was $1 a month now it's like $6.50 a month. Regardless what anyone says back when no drone design existed, or only one drone design existed it really couldn't have been that hard to get full drone designs for your ship.

 

It took 3/4th of a map for you to die or poof the others vs. now

 

A lot of the stuff listed hil4127 can be obtained through the auction. Yeah golis, vengis, and leonovs are really inexpensive (cred wise) which makes the game easier to get fe. Lf3s and bo2s are also pretty cheap for creds just as the top speed gens are just a mil or something max. The skill designs probably take a month of using only your skylab to make enough to bid on one (or make a bill creds) and if you really wanted a skill design you would use skylab + pop npcs or whatever for some more creds ~ so probly 2 weeks or something for a skill design. The 3 new ships also are in the auction so they're also creds.

The only things that are worth buying that are NOT cred items would be; havocs, hercs, lf4s, upgrades, bio, pet (+pet accessories), apis, and zeus.

Which obtaining those things isn't that hard if you go about it wisely.

Also about the pet "using more fuel" it doesnt use any more fuel now than it did when it came out. It uses fuel per minute based on several things (like level of the pet, gears equiped on it, protocols equiped on it. Here is the equation for how much fuel per minute it consumes

1 + ( [PET Level] * 2 ) + ( [Ai Protocols equipped] * 2 ) + ( [Gears equipped] * 4)

 

You can easily get past that by using Ad-block. Don't have to watch the vid but you still get the 100 uri.

 

I am well aware about everything in this list, I have witnessed the coming of every single one of those and I have gotten them by kristallons cubes and palladium since 2008.

This thread is about people claiming this is getting more expensive not about it being expensive. Nothing in your list was added recently expect the Pusat. It is years since they added something we must buy. It is not getting more expensive. Game is much cheaper now than it used to be a year ago. It is not getting more expensive anymore.

And stuff booty keys of all colors, no one has to buy them.

Of course this game is now more expensive that it was in 2008 and 2009 but it is not more expensive than it was in 2014 summer for example! That is my point here. It is not getting more expensive anymore.

To OP, many of those post above just show that people live in the past, don't worry this game is not getting more expensive.

 

Actually, I am glad to have gotten the feedback, all of it. But after reading it, I find no reason for anyone to say it has gotten more expensive. What it has done is not stagnated. While DO has came out with more things over years, it did not truly make the game more expensive. None of the stuff is necessary to play the game. Does it make it easier to play, yes. Does it make it more fun, maybe. But in all you still do not have to spend any money if you do not want to. So in uri, and credits it does take more to get everything on the list. Takes more time too, but did you want a mmo game online or a cartridge game from 20 to 30 years ago?

 

Yeah, there was another thread where I said the same thing: Everything evolves, and the game will evolve too. Those who say that the game is expensive are those old-school players, when back in the days there was no P.E.T, drone designs, formations and so on.

Anyways, I don't think the game is expensive. I think it is challenging enough, if you want to achieve everything, you can do so. Some of the UFE's I know haven't paid a 1$, and they are UFE. It's just a game with slow gameplay, everyone should take the time and enjoy it. Paying money will only accelerate the time needed to become better, nothing else. What I love to say: "Everything in time".

 

I think paying money accelerates the frustration.

If you use a cheat code on a console game you move faster through it and wham, game is over. Now what are you going to do?

Paying money is the same concept in a way. You pay for the listed items, get all those listed items and before you know it, you are complaining there are not enough players in the game so you can finish all your hunting quests.

I play on one server where I have paid money, and 5 where I have not. Pick any of the 5, and as long as I can log into them , I have way more fun than on the one.

 

It's true, paying money can make frustration. I do enjoy the game as free player, and that's why I don't pay anything. Everything can be achieved here, just with time.

But, from the other side, it's a company, you know. They keep the game live cause of players that pay. But, it's out of topic, never mind.

 

Mods can close, if they dare...

 

Enjoy the game.

Closing as requested.