Odin Battlecruiser from Anvil?

[Radegast74]

And here I am trying to decide if my Retaliator has too much of a crew requirement to be worth keeping for its limited mission capability.

I melted mine,

Never thoiught I would.

Hardly used it.

Sad times.

I, too, melted my Retaliator. I never thought I would...it was the first ship I really ever fell in love with!

But, almost 10 years later, with absolutely ZERO friggin' use for the last 8 years, I decided it was time to move on. CIG and all the other ships (and the Other Ships Mk.II) have moved on, and it was time I did, as well.

SAD!

 

[Mudhawk]

Better start planning to build a death star size space station!

Time for Crusader to build a 5th moon. I for one would love to watch the progress every time I pass by Orison.
Come to think of it, anyone knowing of some old ruins on a jungle planet where a hangar might be hid?
I'm asking for a friend.
Who happens to be Emperor...

 

[Shadow Reaper]

I don’t think there is a plan to model the Retribution. Like the Vanduul ships it is an empty husk. That’s why they have self-destruct—players cannot board and take Vanduul ships because they’re hollow.

As to the Tally, I think CIG made the same mistakes as those who designed the B-29. They thought guns sticking out everywhere would keep it safe and they simply did not. The Superfortress actually got more funding than the Manhattan Project, and it’s remote turrets we’re a wonder, but they didn’t much hit their targets, same as the manned turrets and the bombs dropped from way on high.

IMHO, the guns are not enough to make it dangerous. CIG thought they would be enough and they were wrong.

However, I still think the beds in the Tally are perfect to sleep half dozen Arrow pilots, and the ship is cheap for what you get. Some have argued it is not a stealth ship, but it has 0/0/0 armor so it is in some sense stealthable. Certainly, it can get in range of its primary weapons without being sensed, given the extreme range of this weapons. So yeah, consider the Tally partnered with a wing of fighters and it makes a lot more sense.

 

[Stevetank]

I put in a ticket and applied for the Odin. Hopefully I get selected.

 

[Mudhawk]

I put in a ticket and applied for the Odin. Hopefully I get selected.

You do realize that you have to hang upside down from a great tree and offer up an eye to apply for that ship.
Right?

 

[Stevetank]

You do realize that you have to hang upside down from a great tree and offer up an eye to apply for that ship.
Right?

I told them I would promise to crash the Odin into the sun with TEST Squadron on board.

 

[Mudhawk]

I told them I would promise to crash the Odin into the sun with TEST Squadron on board.

Oh!
Well...
In that case they probably gift you two.
One for the actual deed.
And one to guard the place and make sure we stay there.

 

[GrumpyCat]

I shot my shot for shits and giggles:

6,476,027 Players.
1000s of active players every day.
The percentage of those players who eat, breath, live the lawless gameplay known as piracy every day? Can be counted in the hundreds.

There are anti-piracy organizations with members numbering in the 1000s who have huge fleets dedicated to hunting pirates down. Then there is the UEE and guilds who will send there own armadas to wipe out pirate groups.

Pirate capital fleets are the enemy and spice Star Citizen needs, because you cant be infamous without a credible threat to the status quo. The verse needs a villain worth fighting, and my crew is ready to turn this mobile base into the ultimate check on every trade lane and player station in the system.

 

[Mudhawk]

I shot my shot for shits and giggles:

That alone is TESTimony that you got the TESTicles it needs to go above and beyond the call of WTF?!
I'm proud to serve in the same Squardon as you!

 

[Thalstan]

If it's anything like the Kraken wave, as long as you have submitted a ticket, the more money you have backed with, the higher your "wave" is to buy the ship. Some of those that were in early waves even submitted black applications...

 

[Garonman]

I made a ticket for the Odin. Crazy times we are asking if we can spend money with them but there we go.

Does anybody know what is the likely process? I heard the last time we were invited to send an application we were allotted time slots but in general the ship was not hull limited due to the first time concept?

 

[GrumpyCat]

I made a ticket for the Odin. Crazy times we are asking if we can spend money with them but there we go.

I get the feeling CIG just lets everyone who applies get in lol.

View: https://youtu.be/uASUHbFEhWY?t=88

 

[Garonman]

I get the feeling CIG just lets everyone who applies get in lol.

View: https://youtu.be/uASUHbFEhWY?t=88

As long as they are concierge they get in yes

 

[Radegast74]

As long as they are concierge they get in yes

Gotta have some standards...we don't want the riff-raff running around and buying those things.

Not until next year, at least LOL

 

[Mudhawk]

I hope you get a t-shirt with the recipe for your purchase.
You know, one of those "...and all i got..." t-shirt thingies.
Just a digital one is fine.
So people can see how far you go for your dreams.
(Then again, a tradeable battlecruiser token
might just be a sane investment if the game continues to draw a crowd. Considering what i could ask for my BMM right now compared to what i shelled out.)

PS: I wonder if it's CIGs tactic to set a 1000$ starting line to even be able to bid on a battlecruiser. That forces speculants to invest first and trade later.
Or maybe you need to be Grand Admiral or higher?
Can't sell military hardware to just any goon from the streets, right?

 

[Fak3r_SC]

I'm genuinely interested in how many they will sell or allow to be sold and how common that will make them in the verse. In almost every star citizen video on YouTube that has multi ship/org combat, at least one Idris shows up. I wonder how many odin's they'll sell in comparison to Idris and how rare it will be to come across one in battle. There used to be a limit on Idris many moons ago but it seems that's no longer the case. I've also sent in my ticket just out of curiosity :)

 

[Thalstan]

CIG is going to sell these to as many people as possible.

As for how many show up, that's going to depend on how many people they can fit in an instance, how many it takes to crew one, and of course, "why bring 1 Odin when I can bring 8 Idris frigates and a Javelin destroyer for the same number of crew"

That's the whole reason for the concierge "application". They are trying to gauge the interest of their biggest whales and then determine how many they should sell. For instance, If they get 1000 applications, they can probably assume that there are 1200-1500 people interested (or whatever their metrics show) and they can set the numbers to be 1400...just under their projected sales as to keep the FOMO.

They are also going to keep things under wraps for as long as they can so that people have just a limited amount of time to buy the ship before they lose the chance, meaning they have little time to think about it.

Anyway, I suspect the real number for a 4-6k ship is going to be somewhere around 500-1000. They will probably make more money off of ironclad sales, which brings me to another point.

Why are they pitching a 6k ship when they are selling two ships that will cost an average of 500 bucks per, plus at least one or two other ships...

 

[Sky Captain]

Makes sense to me. My other thought is that if CIG truly wanted to know the number of interested participants that correlate well with glorious petitions of interest, they’d have said the purchase will be warbond only or indicated that buyback would be disabled for the ship. That might have weeded out some that will purchase it then convert it to buyback. They then could have seen that submittal count as one buying tier, then opened it up to store credit submittals to see if it made a difference. Then decide if it made sense to expand from warbond to credit sales based on their initial idea of sales volume intended. Not that I’m opposed to store credit. And of course some would still lie. But it just seems that there was room to eke out a little more marketing data.

 

[Fak3r_SC]

CIG is going to sell these to as many people as possible.

As for how many show up, that's going to depend on how many people they can fit in an instance, how many it takes to crew one, and of course, "why bring 1 Odin when I can bring 8 Idris frigates and a Javelin destroyer for the same number of crew"

That's the whole reason for the concierge "application". They are trying to gauge the interest of their biggest whales and then determine how many they should sell. For instance, If they get 1000 applications, they can probably assume that there are 1200-1500 people interested (or whatever their metrics show) and they can set the numbers to be 1400...just under their projected sales as to keep the FOMO.

They are also going to keep things under wraps for as long as they can so that people have just a limited amount of time to buy the ship before they lose the chance, meaning they have little time to think about it.

Anyway, I suspect the real number for a 4-6k ship is going to be somewhere around 500-1000. They will probably make more money off of ironclad sales, which brings me to another point.

Why are they pitching a 6k ship when they are selling two ships that will cost an average of 500 bucks per, plus at least one or two other ships...

That's a good point, i think the javelin was around 60 or 70 to crew(not sure what the skeleton crew would be) and as they quoted the battle cruiser to be almost double the mass,space/size(cant remember verbatim) then I guess it would be around 100 to crew it. Surely if instancing would allow in the final product that our awesome TEST org could field an Odin, javelin and 8 Idris ;)

 

[Raven_King]

Grabbing my popcorn for this one. I'm already worried my existing big ships will almost never get an outing, unless I become much more social in game. I can't see how a working dad with more than one hobby outside SC and other games to play stands a chance of having time for significant multiplayer stuff. While it appeals massively, it's just not practical for me, and I suspect for a huge fraction of our player base. Will happily hop on and crew someone else's Odin once in a while, or offer my big ships up for org use when we have ways to do that, but this sale is for genuine captains who can organize and lead a team of dozens of players regularly. I imagine there are far more wannabe captains ("I bought it, that makes me captain!") than real ones who players will follow for more than a short while. Leading people you employ is a skill not everyone has, leading people who are there for their idea of a fun time, moreso. Not leading people well will result in a crew dispersing and going elsewhere for their fun.

But if any org can do it, Test Squadron can. When it works and the game loops for crew are mature enough, crewing a big battlecruiser will be an amazing time.