<--- *sitting on a base Starfarer*
May be better to upgrade now, but it was sure better to buy outright when it cost 100 bucks less.
A lot of us "acquired" Gemini when they mentioned the increase. We weren't given them from Starfarers.
It's a possibility. They seem to be sticking with 1 hangar 1 flight ready ship per month. Everyone thinks the Starfarer will be the flight, but they did say long ago they didn't want it flying until you could do the fueling. And in a recent RtV Ben said the Reliant would be in 2.4 in one form or another.
This. Disco's thread just added that update. So it's probably going to be hanger ready in 2.4. So what will we be flying I wonder...
Most people have been guessing the Starfarer. And it's probably not a bad guess. Although that would make it jump to $400 and be a worse value than a Gemini at $340 when it goes Hangar ready.
Did they ever actually say that the price would go up another 100? Or did they say it would 'go up a bit'.
Fairly certain in an RtV Ben said it went up about a hundred in hangar ready and "once it's flight ready it should go up a similar amount". It was the RtV shortly after the Starfarer went hangar ready and they only spoke of the price increase for less than a minute, but it was there.
Oh its a fantastically bad investment as far as investments go. The Starfarer is in no way worth 300 dollars, much less 400. By the time the PU launches you will be able to get one for free.
Precisely this. Glad I didn't pay the new price. Perhaps 'investment' was the wrong word to use. I'm thinking 'deal' would have been more accurate.
I was reaaallly on the brink of buying a 'farer. But I didn't do it since the time, CIG/RSI released that ship for everyone to have a look onto/into it. For sure, CIG wanted to convince more backers to invest in the Starfarer by making her availabe for everyone in the hangars. Now, as I stepped into that space refinery/tanker while this limited time, I have to admit first being impressed about this huge size. But at the same time I began to ask myself: what shall I do with this big space cow? Just hanging around and waiting for ships to be fueled up? And whats about the crew - what are they doing all the time? For sure I want to own *one* larger multicrew ship. But it should be more like hanging in space even without much hope to defend yourself against pirates. 'cause that is for sure: a Starfarer only makes sense at the borders of space where fuel is short and long ranged ships need to fuel up. Ergo the Starfarer will always need a lineup of fighters or/and kind of a small battlestation-ship/-fregate to be secure out there, won't she? Furtheron, since that Starfarer-hangar-showtime I ask myself if there will be such a mechanism will be implemented in SC which allows a KI to takeover common and regular actions like within the PC Game "The Patrician", where the KI is running shipping routes or trading stations - more or less successfull ...
