It's funny as I was already thinking about melting a few smaller ships to upgrade me Retaliator to the 600i before all the 3.2 hype started.
I even wrote stuff on a whiteboard comparing different ships and the 600i came out on top, on stats. I wanted something that could carry a decent amount of [high value] cargo yet have reasonable armour, shields and a good weapon loadout. I thought for the last couple of years that was the retaliator, but the way turrets are at the moment, and the way modules have been dumped like a sack of shite, it's not the retaliator at all.
The 600i seemed to tick the boxes, 40scu about the same as a freelancer and about the same as I expected the retaliator to have, 3 x s5 forward facing guns which is fecking potent no matter how you look at it, 2 turrets for extra assistance if I need to get some blades in there, or NPCs. And to top it of it's fecking gorgeous in every way from top to bottom front to back.
I hope they don't put the price up too much. I suspect they will. It already was a bit rich for my tastes and if they bomp the price up I may well give up on it, even though that bed looks good for me and 4 blue alien girls. Mass effect all over again. Joker moaned like heck when he had to clean up the sticky residue after the last Normandy Blue Alien Girl party I hosted.
My suspicion (don't quote me on this, i may be and probably am wrong) is that we'll get one last close to concept-sale price, maybe a little higher for release celebrations, and then it'll go up to $600 like the 890j went to $890 after its initial price of $600.
I'm not saying the 600 is a ship
worth $600, it'd be just to keep the rarity on it ;)
Thats what I suspect. Time will tell :slight_smile:
To be honest, I'd expect CIG to be so sick of backers flying off the handle when ships become flight-ready and are not the demi-gods backers bought them to be, that they have introduced the 600i with less speed, maneuverability and durability intentionally and will raise it a little bit rather than release a god of a machine and then nurf it over and over again.
Either that or they'll watch the Melt Storm that might be happening on some parts of Spectrum right now, lock buyback on this particular ship just to keep it rare, and THEN buff it :slight_smile: Only the true 600i owners willing to stand by their ship like The Glorious Leader will benefit from the craft that it will turn out to be, mwahahahaaaaa!