Remember to check out Brictorias tables here!
Finale:
Concept ships buyable at the moment
So I was talking about these with a friend the other day and thought I'd share my musings here as well. I see Brictoria did something similar as well.
Here I think those Apollos in particular are quite interesting. And while the Zeus is very likely to be quite modest, it's still an easy way to turn store credits into discounted CCUs so definitely worth considering.
@Brictoria We doing this again? Glorious!
Translation of the title:
IAE = Intergalactic Aerospace Expo
2955 = 2025
WB = Warbond
CCU = Cross Chassis Upgrade
watch = keep a beady eye on
What are WB CCUs?
They're how CIG does discounts. They require new money (so no store credit) but you can get $5, $10, $15, $20 or more knocked off the price of a regular CCU.
"$5 dollars? Why bother" I hear you ask.
Well the cool thing about these is that you can combine the discounts if you can fit multiple WB CCUs in the same CCU chain. It's basically make your own discount. Now, you have to pay at least $5 for a CCU, so the smallest WB CCU you can buy is a $10 CCU discounted to $5, or a 50% discount. Not too shabby.
The thing to keep in mind here, is to always select the ship closest in value to the WB CCU discount point. So for example, let's say Arrow ($75 melt value normally) has a $5 discount WB CCU on it. You can't pick 325A to Arrow CCU, as that'd be $0 CCU and CIG doesn't do those. For obvious reasons. Instead, you could, and probably should, pick 315p ($65 melt value) for a $5 off, and pay $5 at 50% discount. Of course you could pick 300i ($60 melt), possibly because you own a 300i, and pay $10 at 33% discount. But you really shouldn't. This is for two reasons. Firstly, because WB CCUs are new money, so you'd have to put in $10 new money, when you could've just used $5 store credit for 300i to 315p and then used $5 fresh money for 315p to Arrow. Secondly, and more importantly, the smaller CCUs you use the better chances you have to fit some new future CCUs into the chain. Thirdly, specific to this and some other cases, 315p is permanently available. So even if you don't have store credits right now, you can get that normal 300i to 315p CCU whenever.
"Okey, but it's still just $5 dollars, like what are you going to do, keep doing this for years and, then what, get ships for next to nothing?"
Yes. Absolutely yes. This really is "build your own discount." If you have the patience to do this over several sale events, you can get something like my $155 Banu Merchantman CCU chain. That's quite a steal. Or if you got more money than patience, you can do this over like one event and walk away with perhaps a 30% total discount depending on the target ship and your luck. That's not bad either.
"But isn't the goal to support the development! Why not just pay the full price of ships?"
Well, if you get a ship for 50% off, you still got the option to buy a second ship also for 50% off. You'll still fund with the same amount, only you got twice the amount of ships now. Cool, right?
For historical data, see
ILW 2952 https://testsquadron.com/threads/friendly-reminder-that-warbond-ccus-are-a-thing.19713/
IAE 2952 https://testsquadron.com/threads/iae-2952-wb-ccu-watch.20063/
ILW 2953 https://testsquadron.com/threads/ilw-2953-wb-ccu-watch.20422/
Alien Week 2953 https://testsquadron.com/threads/alienweek-warbond-ccus.20484/
IAE 2953 https://testsquadron.com/threads/iae-2953-wb-ccu-watch.20705/
ILW 2954 https://testsquadron.com/threads/ilw-2954-wb-ccu-watch.21205/
IAE 2954 https://testsquadron.com/threads/iae-2954-wb-ccu-watch.21503/
"Didn't you just copy-paste this info blurt from your previous post?" x2
Shhh! You're not supposed to notice! This is just for new members anyhow, if you've already been around ILW or IAE, why are you here reading 'information for new members' in the first place?
IAE = Intergalactic Aerospace Expo
2955 = 2025
WB = Warbond
CCU = Cross Chassis Upgrade
watch = keep a beady eye on
What are WB CCUs?
They're how CIG does discounts. They require new money (so no store credit) but you can get $5, $10, $15, $20 or more knocked off the price of a regular CCU.
"$5 dollars? Why bother" I hear you ask.
Well the cool thing about these is that you can combine the discounts if you can fit multiple WB CCUs in the same CCU chain. It's basically make your own discount. Now, you have to pay at least $5 for a CCU, so the smallest WB CCU you can buy is a $10 CCU discounted to $5, or a 50% discount. Not too shabby.
The thing to keep in mind here, is to always select the ship closest in value to the WB CCU discount point. So for example, let's say Arrow ($75 melt value normally) has a $5 discount WB CCU on it. You can't pick 325A to Arrow CCU, as that'd be $0 CCU and CIG doesn't do those. For obvious reasons. Instead, you could, and probably should, pick 315p ($65 melt value) for a $5 off, and pay $5 at 50% discount. Of course you could pick 300i ($60 melt), possibly because you own a 300i, and pay $10 at 33% discount. But you really shouldn't. This is for two reasons. Firstly, because WB CCUs are new money, so you'd have to put in $10 new money, when you could've just used $5 store credit for 300i to 315p and then used $5 fresh money for 315p to Arrow. Secondly, and more importantly, the smaller CCUs you use the better chances you have to fit some new future CCUs into the chain. Thirdly, specific to this and some other cases, 315p is permanently available. So even if you don't have store credits right now, you can get that normal 300i to 315p CCU whenever.
"Okey, but it's still just $5 dollars, like what are you going to do, keep doing this for years and, then what, get ships for next to nothing?"
Yes. Absolutely yes. This really is "build your own discount." If you have the patience to do this over several sale events, you can get something like my $155 Banu Merchantman CCU chain. That's quite a steal. Or if you got more money than patience, you can do this over like one event and walk away with perhaps a 30% total discount depending on the target ship and your luck. That's not bad either.
"But isn't the goal to support the development! Why not just pay the full price of ships?"
Well, if you get a ship for 50% off, you still got the option to buy a second ship also for 50% off. You'll still fund with the same amount, only you got twice the amount of ships now. Cool, right?
For historical data, see
ILW 2952 https://testsquadron.com/threads/friendly-reminder-that-warbond-ccus-are-a-thing.19713/
IAE 2952 https://testsquadron.com/threads/iae-2952-wb-ccu-watch.20063/
ILW 2953 https://testsquadron.com/threads/ilw-2953-wb-ccu-watch.20422/
Alien Week 2953 https://testsquadron.com/threads/alienweek-warbond-ccus.20484/
IAE 2953 https://testsquadron.com/threads/iae-2953-wb-ccu-watch.20705/
ILW 2954 https://testsquadron.com/threads/ilw-2954-wb-ccu-watch.21205/
IAE 2954 https://testsquadron.com/threads/iae-2954-wb-ccu-watch.21503/
"Didn't you just copy-paste this info blurt from your previous post?" x2
Shhh! You're not supposed to notice! This is just for new members anyhow, if you've already been around ILW or IAE, why are you here reading 'information for new members' in the first place?
| Todays Ship(s) | Warbond CCU Price | Normal price |
|---|---|---|
| See Finale below | ||
| Asgard | $325 | $350 |
| Guardian MX | $270 | $290 |
| Starlancer TAC | $340 | $375 |
Finale:
| Ship | Warbond CCU Price | Normal Price |
|---|---|---|
| Terrapin | $200 | $220 |
| Carrack | $560 | $600 |
| Perseus | $620 | $675 |
| Date | Ship | Warbond CCU Price | Normal price |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15th | Vanguard Warden | $250 | $260 |
| 16th | Nautilus | $685 | $725 |
| 17th | Constellation Taurus | $185 | $200 |
| 18th | Perseus | $615, changed to $620 | $675 |
| 19th | Freelancer MIS | $165 | $175 |
| Guardian MX (Flight ready) | $270 | $290 | |
| Starlancer TAC (Flight ready) | $340 | $375 | |
| 20th | Starfarer Gemini | $315 | $340 |
| 21st | Ares Inferno | $235 | $250 |
| 22nd | C2 Hercules | $370 | $400 |
| Storm AA | $95 | $100 | |
| 23rd | F7C MK II | $165 | $175 |
| Asgard (Flight ready) | $325 | $350 | |
| 24th | Paladin | $275 | $300 |
| 25th | Caterpillar | $300 | $330 |
| 26th | See Finale Above |
Weird. When I went to actually buy the Perseus CCU, it's now more expensive.
Yes. I checked my browser history and it was indeed $615 before (I had used google for currency conversion, so the amount got saved in the history. The original was 13.66 eur to usd, roughly $15 now it'd be 18€ to usd or roughly $20)
Ah, reddit says it was $615 for just a short while, same as IAE last year. Guess they made a mistake.
Yes. I checked my browser history and it was indeed $615 before (I had used google for currency conversion, so the amount got saved in the history. The original was 13.66 eur to usd, roughly $15 now it'd be 18€ to usd or roughly $20)
Ah, reddit says it was $615 for just a short while, same as IAE last year. Guess they made a mistake.
Concept ships buyable at the moment
So I was talking about these with a friend the other day and thought I'd share my musings here as well. I see Brictoria did something similar as well.
Here I think those Apollos in particular are quite interesting. And while the Zeus is very likely to be quite modest, it's still an easy way to turn store credits into discounted CCUs so definitely worth considering.
| Ship | Price | Potential flight ready bump | Chance to release/price bump before/at IAE | Rationale |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| G12A | $65 | $5 | Moderate | Origin, long term active production, small and could come out at any time |
| Legionnaire | $120 | $10 | Moderate | Anvil, planned to release along with hacking gameplay, but in active prod as per the wiki? |
| Zeus MK II MR | $190 | $20-$35 (Other variants were $25) | Very High | RSI, active prod, variant of already released ships |
| Vulcan | $200 | $20-$100 (Hasn't had a bump in 7 years) | Low | Anvil, not active prod |
| Apollo Triage | $250 | $20-$100 (Hasn't had a bump in 7 years) | High | RSI, active development |
| Apollo Medivac | $275 | $20-$100 (Hasn't had a bump in 7 years) | High | RSI, active development |
| Paladin | $300 | $30-$50 | High | Anvil, relatively straightforward ship, was in whitebox 5 months ago |
| Crucible | $350 | Anything's possible with such an old concept | Very low | Large ship, anvil, not active prod, missing mechanics |
| Liberator | $575 | $50-$100 | Very low | Large ship, anvil, not active prod |
| Perseus | $675 | $50-$150 | High | RSI, active prod, but large ship |
| Nautilus | $725 | $50-$200 | Very low | Large ship, anvil, not active prod |
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