IAE damage report 2955

'tis 'ere CCU hoarder has been hoarding CCUs.

Just melted some nonsense and got Terrapin -> Railen, Terrapin Medic -> Railen CCUs. Already got two Hull Bs, now I just got to melt Ares Inferno -> Mercury (Bought that today to put it in my buybacks) and I'll get Herald -> Hull A and something something -> RAFT. Gotta cover those ships they straight up told will go up in price, these bumps can sometimes be surprisingly large. Like how Taurus went from 140 to 190 (and then to 200). For seemingly no reason. Not every time though, I think there's been a case of a mere $5 bump as well.

But I certainly can't leave them uncovered. It's store credits anyhow.

Melted a couple of things and picked up a couple of 10 yrs. No new money as per usual.

BUTUZ said:

Melted a couple of things and picked up a couple of 10 yrs. No new money as per usual.

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Ditto...I didn't bother melting anything last year, but this year, the Wolf just looked too good...I just melted some old ships I haven't flown for years, and woo-hoo! Brand new JPEG spaceship smell!

The hangar got a significant rework but it was all credit and CCU's. The only new cash was giving out a couple of MDC's as LTI tokens to some newer players.

Well, seems there's severe damage to the Hull D now, it's been downgraded to being literally just Hull C with an extra spindle. Like wth CIG?
So, I'll likely change my Hull D CCU chain to being Ironclad Assault CCU chain then, or something. Sad, I was kinda looking forward to bulk hauling.

Well I picked-up:

Drake Clipper
Drake Golem Ox
Kruger L-22 Alpha Wolf plus ballistic gun set (Upgraded L-21 with CCU)
RSI Salvation (TEST-ride till I can buy it in game)
MDC (TEST-ride till I can buy it in game)
Zeus ES -> Starlancer Max CCU (for after I get the BIS paint for the ES)
Starlancer Tac -> Galaxy CCU along with the refinery module and cargo module (will hold onto it until the Galaxy gets closer)
several paints
picked up all the 'Epoque' armor sets

I lost:
Sent my $250 BMM back to buybacks purgatory, again. (It'll come back, it always does) lol.


I've been enjoying my Perseus with thundercloud paint. Waited patiently for that ship, and it didn't disappoint. Sexiest box runner in game!

The Clipper is fun too. I've actually done a few interstellar small cargo missions in it to Pyro, and was surprised at it's quantum range!

I'll have to update my fleet pic as soon as Starlink gets the new models in.



Edited because me no type good. Some bad yes.

Radegast74 said:

Ditto...I didn't bother melting anything last year, but this year, the Wolf just looked too good...I just melted some old ships I haven't flown for years, and woo-hoo! Brand new JPEG spaceship smell!

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Exactly! I actually melted my retaliator. Was my fav ship but realised i don't ever fly it and it isnt much use for anything solo really :(

I've only added the 2 event starter packs to my main account, and I'm in the process of converting my surplus credits into BIS ships, to get as many of the free paints as my final (release/1.0) fleet is likely to need. Post IAE, I'll probably be melting most of the BIS ships and picking up the new releases to evaluate.

The recent changes to the Dominus and Praetorian packs have forced a rethink of how my final fleet is likely to be configured: I had been planning to eventally use one of those old packs to build my fleet from (I wanted certain extras that were in them - The piano in particular), but will now have to start the planning again from scratch.

I wil also be grabbing a number of CCU's before the event ends, to cover the planned price increases post-IAE (Hull A and B, RAFT, and Railen) and known/predicted 2026 releases - My CCU collection is getting out of hand, though, and I may end up having to cull it at some point in the future.

Damage report:
no ships were harmed in the making of this improvement
I picked up an AW2725Q, to improve my overall immersion. Also cos I work with 4k+ footage all the time now and only had 1080p monitors.

Was very tempted to pick up an OX cos I really like the Golem, and Drake ships in general, but I can wait 3 months for it to be available for AUEC.
The rest I didn't even consider. Don't much care for the Salvation or have any use for the MDC, all the others are really far out of budget, and my gameplay goal has always been collecting ships IN the game, not with my wallet, so buying more ships would defeat the purpose anyways.

Only damage was for a warbond Salvation, as I like the pocket salvager.
Other than that, CCU a ship to the Clipper with store credit. Now just working out if I want to CCU anything before its all over for the year!

My Sabre became a Scorpius and I now own all of the modules for my Galaxy. SOOOOON! tm

Damage! I got mesmerized by the beautiful IAE skin on the Polaris, so my wallet committed suicide in the form of Perseus to Polaris WB CCU! I'll be in mourning

Made a lot a changes... Made sure all ships now are flyable or drivable.. And all are LTI . . Except vehicle they are 10Yrs
I was so so so tired having concept ship's that I can't fly or be used . . .
So got my polaris back and Perseus C2 and a bunch a other enjoyable ships all serve a way to earn money from mining, salvage, huling to bounty hunting and then some..
For the first time in a long time I feel very happy with my ship fleet as all of it usable for something including just drifting and doing nothing WoooHooo!

But the one thing that made me totally lose my shit, into a hysterical laughter was...
Having a MDC parked in the Extra large hangar on the short side of the hangar prove to be lucrative. . .
As during free flight there are yuppies that think it is fun to fly in to a Extra large open hangar roof that take forever to closel..
Let say they got a warm welcome ha ha. . . And I got me some new ship guns after some salvage operation on their damage ships..
Shure they where size 1 stuff including the ship guns but still free i free :-P ha ha ha ha . . .

CHEERS!

I spent some new money where I felt it was probably worth it. A new chain to make a Clipper (can't decide if I like or not yet), an L-22 Alpha Wolf because it's just gorgeous, a Salvation (might be an LTI token later) and another in a starter pack on a new alt to get the referral Dragonfly, and some MDCs as LTI tokens. Oh, and the 2950 BIS paint pack - those are stunning.

I made up a load of complete chains and switched the endpoints of a couple with some store credit. I made a bunch of chains over the years and sat on them unmade, with the idea to optimize them further or fly the intermediate ships for a bit, but didn't manage to do either. Real life stuff has gotten busier, and I want to spend time with my family before my kids get to the stage when they only communicate with shrugs, grunts and eye rolls. So, I just applied chains to an Inferno, a Taurus (and a CCU from that to an Andromeda which is what my original 2012 Rear Admiral pledge was for, and I am a bit nostalgic about), a Gladiator (was going to be something else, but hey a 'free' BIS paint...), a Guardian MX, a Hull B and a Railen. Not a single penny in new money for any of this bunch, just some store credit shuffling. They've all got some reasonable discounts and the Hull B and Railen will increase in price, but I've still paid for them one way or another so am not feeling smug. I'm really looking forward to the Railen though - I hope it's as good as it was pitched to be!

Oh, and I sold a couple of things including a Polaris on Reddit r/Starcitizen_trades right before IAE, so have almost broken even in new money terms.

With the release of the Perseus, I went from having two concept ships down to four... Added a Crucible, Ironclad Assault and Railen so my Liberator wasn't lonely. Very sad they didn't dump a few Gladiator paints onto the store so I could fail my willpower save. Mostly reshuffling credit, but added about $100 in warbond CCU's

Also bought two game packages for friends

Not much wallet damage, but I got rid of a lot of store credit. I have a couple buybacks to retrieve, but I can't use store credit now till January to do that. They include the Ironclad Assault but I bought it on concept so no rush.