12 hours ago, Danakar Endeel said:
Yeah, the sneaky edit and the changing of WB CCUs to suddenly revert to normal CCUs even though it still says "Warbond" on the image makes this a bit wierd. Also, the zero communication and no grace period when CIG promised time and time again to improve communication was rather disappointing. Heck, they specifically communicated to us when the Avenger and 300i would go up in price and offered us time to get them at the original price for a time before bumping up the price by $5 (which imo they only did just to make the 100-series feel more appealing; even though they were ridiculously overpriced as a 'starter'. Those ships should have been sold at $15 less and kept at a starter pack option).
Additionally there was a lot of confusion regarding discounted ship packages and people claimed that any Warbond Ships and Packages would also be changed.However, it seems people were confused and lumped everything together which is where the confusion stems from. As far as I've seen:
- Existingships/packages that are being offered with atemporary event discountwill notretain said discount when melted and then bought back.
- Conceptships/packages that are being offered with apermanent concept discountwillretain said discount when melted and then bought back.
At least that would match what that senior concierge rep told me when they said that I could still buy back my Warbond packages which I bought at concept. Those would remain unchanged and I could buy them back at $80 each.
Sorry I'm still new to SC (started Dec 2020), What exactly are temporary event discounts and permanent concept discounts?
I expect they are different from Warbonds, right?
I just had an offer for a 5USD discount for the hoverquad, since I previously bought a Nomad game package ( which is my first pledge), which would that be then? probably the temporary event discount.
I know I'm not suppose to get mad about what they did, because there were a lot of warning about CIG could change things in the CCU game, but look at it in my perspective, I just started SC, never heard about the CIG warning about the changes that could happen, then I found out and learned every thing I could about CCUs and started collecting CCUs in Feb 2021, ILW collected all concept ship CCUs available for several CCU chains just to be sure, then again did it for the remaining concept ships in IAE, lost a lot of sleep doing that just to make them all fit into the time frame. After all that and 645.50 USD of pledges in, I said okay all I have to do now is start buying back all those recent ccu's that earned savings throughout this year via buy back tokens, then this happened. Its as if all the effort and planning and money was wasted., If they would just give us just one day to buy them back at original savings, I might find content. Maybe if I just didn't learn about this CCU thing and just stuck with my original plan of maxing out at just the prospector, maybe I'd be much happier.
Okay it's not really all doom and gloom for me, luckily most of my chains are made of WB CCUs (bought in ILW) that I didn't melt, but I did melt 2 endeavor/crucible C2s for IAE that I shouldn't have, and was only able to buy back with a token 1 C2.
Now my only recourse, if I still want to play this new version of the CCU game, is to buy back with cash 2 Hull C's and hope they could replace the C2 but still be able to connect to 2 of my 4 Prowler to BMM WB CCUs, which I think is unlikely because I doubt the Hull C with its massive cargo will ever go below 440 USD to connect to the Prowler.
Another is to buy back with cash 3 Vultures ccus and 1 Hull B, hoping to replace the 3 Taurus CCUs that I've also failed to buy back, and hope that it would connect to 3 of my 5 Hurricane to Ion WB CCUs
But for the 5 Harbinger to Caterpillar CCUs that I failed to buy back, I don't have anything except Apollo and Medivac, but both actually are in conflict with my WB CCUs, so that's where I got hit the most, but the good news about the Apollo and Medivac is that I could buy those in ILW with store credit, and maybe even the Hull C, if they make it available in ILW and still at same price.