It wont be until Feb 14th that you wouldnt be able to buy them directly, anyway.
If you want, i can purchase a package for you which you'd be able to buy for cost. I'd just buy it, melt it the next day, and then if you ever wanted it then i can unmelt it using cash and gift it across to you/your friend.
Any of us can do that really, i happen to have just shy of $200 credit, so makes no difference to me, requires nothing but about 30sec of my time. I already have a melted LN on account from ages back, but i want that just in case. But adding more wouldnt be an issue.
[edit - i just did 2x LN, 2x Mustang Alpha packages. $45 each. The LN is worth $5 more as a ship though. It'll be handy to help others in the future if need be. If nobody ever wants them, makes no difference to me]
I melted my Reclaimer down, thats going to be my 1 credit buy-back in about 1yrs time, but now i know i can melt it and bring it back at will, i'll be using my credit to access ships i can see & use now.
I'd already bought a $20 Tali Base to Sabre CCU, that got applied the other day. Plus i had a $0 Redeemer to Vanguard, so i bought a CCU for the P72 to Redeemer CCU and used both to end up at the Vanguard (gotta take advantage of those $0 CCUs for limited availability ships).
So i think that cost me about $220 for the Vanguard, and dropping the Tali Base meant i had no need for the 2x$25 cargo modules.
It leaves me with enough to buy the Reliant Kore, Tana (skirmisher) and Sen (researcher) and check them out when they go on sale.
They're not something i'd be keeping (i already have my finial ship plan laid out) but a mate likes them so will be nice to have a look at them in-hangar and at Crusader. The Kore seems likely to be in-hangar with 2.2, i think flyable is probably 2.3 at best.
. (I already had all of the 'interesting' games I could choose from the AMD list - so thought I'd get some that would be worthwhile to give away)
