It’s worth noting that the market alſo acts as a convenience for the caſual gamer- noöne wants to have to ſearch half the galaxy to buy a pack of amps. Alſo, fuel prices are another thing to conſider.
What rare ſtuff are you talking about?
Again, what higher-level equipment are you talking about?
idk, BX, Muller, just slightly overpriced, you know, totally within the reach of the ordinary player that they don’t have to grind.
Those are “common” stuff that you should be able to pick up from most stores.
Better ships, ship mountables, etc.
Wait, here’s one.
As your tier goes up, the prices in galactic store get progressively more expensive.
Remember, if the game gets any significantly sized playerbase you can guarantee that the good locations for prices and rarity will make their way online pretty quickly.
Exploration will be easier post-EA.
Currently there’s no real benefit to higher tiers other than accessing new missions (and that’s irrelevant post tier-50 or so). It’s probably good to give people a reason to want to tier up as well if we’re also going to punish them for it, otherwise people will be trying to get low scores and avoid hitting the big leagues as long as possible.
Given that the tiers are eaſy to get, it’s entirely poſſible for a really bad player who only plays once a month to be on tier 99. I don’t think this’ll achieve the goal.
Better discounts at regional stores? About that I once had this idea about vouchers that decrease prices on certain things. I’m not sure if I ever published it, though. Maybe unlockable equipment?
What goal specifically are you talking about?
Oh and btw here’s that voucher idea.
They better don’t. If they do I’d rather quit than compete with people who can amass thousands of keys with the beep of a debit card.
Full support.
Personally, I voted “Keep essentials only in Galactic Market”. To me such essentials are things we need for our spacecraft and for missions, like extra lives, missiles, maneuvering jets, bullet spray condensers (sometimes (albeit every 5 months) I use them).
Spacecraft, weapons and other equipment would fit Herowares much better, and we can have spacecraft equipment such as Gravity Nullifiers either in Aftermarkets or Academies. It would give them a purpose.
Which was why I suggested additional factors of restriction: tier and exploration.
Sure but I’d rather we have an entirely free-to-play game than a pay-to-win MMO, let’s not walk past the problem like that. If part of the weapon skins and other such cosmetics are purchasable with real money - full support, that’s how many games do it and it doesn’t affect the gameplay. Otherwise hell no.
Mh, keys don’t affect the competitive parts of gameplay, even if a crappy player gets the best ships and equipment to play a challenge, there is not much chance of him winning as the game discourages use of equipment and anyway a lot of the game is skill-dependent. Unless something changes and things do become dependent on keys, then I don’t mind them being purchaseable.
I do admit that a new player getting a bomber can be slightly unfair, but most things that buff damage like that usually have a level of skill to master.
Keys are not directly proportional to winning though. You can have tons of keys and still score atrociously because you are bad at the game, or vice-versa.
Unless we’re talking about Space Race.
I don’t know. Challenges allow the use of perishables and all that spicy stuff. One could easily get them with real money and annihilate everyone else, for example, on Space Races, and make it impossible for casual players to even reach the top 10.
Not to mention that simply buying everything right away completely destroys the fun and the sense of achievement.
Like skill, I believe that equipment should also be fixed for all players so that they’re on an even playing field.
Eh, it’s them spoiling the fun for themselves. Though we should do something about difficulty in CIU because it ranges from very hard to unfair, compared to previous games.
We’re not asking you to do it, lol. If people want to ruin their progressions, what does it matter to you? It’s not a story driven game where they’ll be missing out on some amazing experience.
I agree that buying currency in any game does have that effect, and I also agree that it’s no fun and I wouldn’t want to do it, but I don’t really think that’s an argument against anyone doing it.
Honestly. I just got a much better idea to make everyone happy.
MMO games that are FTP rely on players who make in-game purchases, and that’s not a good thing because it means such players would get an unfair advantage against everyone else.
However, I’ve seen many games use a different method that is accessible to everyone, of course if they have connection to the Internet - which is mandatory in CIU anyway.
As in advertisements you can watch, for example, once per day, to get some keys. 50-100 would be more than enough, considering how easy and accessible it would be.
The purpose of microtransactions (for IA) is to be able to profit from the game although it’s free. Chicken Hunter Licenses would also help.
But if microtransactions are instead replaced with such ads (limit: 1 per day I guess), imagine the massive amount of players who would watch them for a small bonus and thus give tons of ad revenue to Interaction Studios.
In my opinion, this is much fairer and more feasible.
Maybe.
Probably not.
These things are not easy. If optional ads were a reliable source of income that didn’t require having to sell something, then everyone would be doing it and microtransactions wouldn’t exist.
Keep in mind that ads are already planned to appear (at least on mobile, not sure about PC) in place of the “Early Access” banner.
I do agree that a feature like this (that requires no payment on the part of the customer) might help iA to finally capitalize on that phantom, zero-revenue mega-audience the CI series apparently has in Vietnam, though.
Uh-huh, that’s the point. I don’t really want microtransactions in the game, and I believe other people agree with me.
Good. But I hope that banner becomes smaller otherwise it’d be way too hard to see the galaxy. I don’t want an ad covering the top of my screen.
I don’t think it’ll be hard to achieve at all if advertisements are already planned anyway. It’d literally just be a voluntary “Watch this 10-15-second ad to get a few keys”.
Micro Transactions for reskins is fine, but not ingame currency please.
Also, the license/reskin purchases should also remove any ads if that’s okay with iA. I mean, optional ads are still a thing. Perhaps this can be put in the gameplay settings as an option?
Option being:
In-game advertisements “Advertisements help us keep this game free. Please consider leaving them on if you can.”
I wasn’t keen on Personalized Names being a premium feature as well aka, you have to buy a CHL to get that feature. I really don’t wanna be known by a random identifier just because I don’t have a credit card to spend my money on, and this is true for many players, especially those from vietnam as Kylo Hen has stated:
Welcome to the 90% profit mobile driven gaming. It may be unacceptable, but it’s the most common thing in this place.
So how did you expect microtransactions to work here? It’s exactly what they are supposed to do.
But we already have a rarity system, you would either need to make them extremely better than normal or remove galactic market completely (or just leave 3 most needed items in case there’s someone extremely bad at the game and somehow runs out of fuel keys and luck - leave smallest pack of fuel, smallest pack of lives and normal missiles)
That was already suggested: Make the stores by default!
Yeah, because there’s only one regional shop that sells it.
Behold, rarity locations different to every player (IA said that it wouldn’t be easy to do, but not impossible):
Uncommon opinion about rarity of items
Oh, look. Another one that won’t be playing after release. Welcome. I guess you should get comfortable with it right now because this will totally be a thing.
Not speaking about the whole purchasable keys, but that’s a rather bad argument. I mean, fact that many games do it doesn’t change that it is bad. Stupid Bethesda and their horse armor DLC.
Missiles? Weapon upgrades? Special Weapons? Satellites? Better ships? The only thing you can possibly add to make it more affect the gameplay right now is “you died, pay 1000 keys to continue”.
but still I would like to see a new challenge where all helping things (satellites, superweapons etc.) are disabled. Everyone gets the same equipment and you are competing just with your skill.
When you die in a Space Race - #18 by kokokokos
So we agree on that. Good.
Because it ruins the fun and enjoyment for others?
Optional? But the ads will be there in the place of EA banner after release. Would it be good to add both of optional and forced ads? We’re talking about someone without CHL of course, because CHL should remove ads.