Melting - exchanging your ship for store credit
Upgrades - a mechanism to change a ship you own into another ship of higher dollar value
Buybacks - after you Melt a ship, it goes into your Buybacks. An area where you are allowed to repurchase them in the future.
What ship is your donor LTI? And do you want to keep it?
What ship is your game package? And do you want to keep that ship? Or change it to a Cutlass Black?
Upgrades - a mechanism to change a ship you own into another ship of higher dollar value
Buybacks - after you Melt a ship, it goes into your Buybacks. An area where you are allowed to repurchase them in the future.
What ship is your donor LTI? And do you want to keep it?
What ship is your game package? And do you want to keep that ship? Or change it to a Cutlass Black?
The issue here is that you need a Star Citizen game package which is your Mustang, but it doesn't have LTI. Currently this is the only game package that comes with LTI.
You will have to melt both your ship and game package. Buy the LTI game package with real USD ($55). Then using your credits from the 2 melted ships, upgrade your Pisces (in your new LTI game package) to a Cuttless Black.
If you are interested in playing Squadron 42 as well as SC, then you have to buy this instead of the above.
Edit: I should also add that it is fairly rare to find a LTI starter game package. And I wouldn't be surprise if they stop selling this LTI game package in a couple of days after the anniversary event.
You will have to melt both your ship and game package. Buy the LTI game package with real USD ($55). Then using your credits from the 2 melted ships, upgrade your Pisces (in your new LTI game package) to a Cuttless Black.
If you are interested in playing Squadron 42 as well as SC, then you have to buy this instead of the above.
Edit: I should also add that it is fairly rare to find a LTI starter game package. And I wouldn't be surprise if they stop selling this LTI game package in a couple of days after the anniversary event.
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No, not silly you, most of the time there is no LTI ship in the starter packs, and you buy it before you know what's what.
And everyone is pretty focused on getting LTI, but it shouldn't be necessary to play the game. The LTI ships blow up just as fast as the non-LTI ships, and insurance cost is all in-game currency. No real problem.
From years of observation, I wouldnt worry about insurance at all. Like vav said, its all in game currency, and when your insurance lapses, you just wait till you have the money to pay for a new re-up, which should be cheap. In order to get into the position of letting your insurance lapse, the devs say you will have to go out of your way. So yeah insurance is something they came up with in the beginning, but the lengths of the policies are pretty irrelevant considering how they intend insurance to work. Once i starte switching my fleet around, i stopped worrying about lti. Most my ships have several years of insurance but not LTI. And this is on things like a hull E, C, 890, A2, etc... So big expensive ships. Not worried one bit.