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You guys seen they've bumped the BMM price up to $300? Anyone shocked? I am, i would have expected $350... what a crazy little bubble SC exists inside of.

I really enjoyed the segment on the Banu though, typically the chit-chat segment i tend to lose a little interest after the first few minutes, i zone out and get distracted. However they really made it interesting and insightful, getting to understand more of the depth and influences that has gone into that 1 race, and what that result is. The new ship isnt my type, do love it though, and i want a BMM more than ever now, but i'll still be CCU'ing through it, thanking CIG for the $50 saving in the process, and putting it high on the priority list of ships to get in the verse.
 
PaulC2K said:
You guys seen they've bumped the BMM price up to $300? Anyone shocked? I am, i would have expected $350... what a crazy little bubble SC exists inside of.

I really enjoyed the segment on the Banu though, typically the chit-chat segment i tend to lose a little interest after the first few minutes, i zone out and get distracted. However they really made it interesting and insightful, getting to understand more of the depth and influences that has gone into that 1 race, and what that result is. The new ship isnt my type, do love it though, and i want a BMM more than ever now, but i'll still be CCU'ing through it, thanking CIG for the $50 saving in the process, and putting it high on the priority list of ships to get in the verse.
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Didn't know $300 was a bump up? Every ship goes up after concept sale on occasion at a higher price and I'm sure all the other times it's been back on sale it's been $300

just checked and 300 is the same price as the other sales for BMM
 
It had always been $250, until yesterdays announcement.
2017.04.20 - The BANU Merchantmen is now $300, ahead of it returning to the store for 10 days starting April 21st
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Any $300 prices you're currently seeing is through CIG moving the price up ahead of them being sold again and basically denying backers the ability to buy-back any melted CCUs based on the $250 price, they're all $50 more now. Someone on Reddit was talking about the fact that they'd bought a Terrapin to BMM CCU but had to melt it, but cant buy it back now because its price is $50 now following the announcement.

I dont doubt their being price bumps, i bank on them! I have an insane number of CCUs, going to pretty much every concept ship from the cheapest flight-ready ship.

Todays very predictable news saves me $50 (technically its $50 credit i dont need to put into my planned line-up, that can now go elsewhere - a Dragonfly to Prospector CCU is high on the list). I have the Exploration Pack (Carrack, Terrapin & Dragonfly) and this gets me $50 closer to the Orion, and thats before they potentially bump the price up on the Terrapin.
Terrapin to Redeemer ($55/TBC), Redeemer to BMM ($0 then), BMM to Starfarer ($0 now), and i have a Starfarer to Orion ($25) waiting for this very occasion, meaning i had a locked in $325 Orion upgrade path. If they increase the price of the Terrapin, it'll either make it closer to the Redeemer price or it'll surpass that price ($60 price increase minimum) at which point thats a greater saving than i'd get with the BMM, so im better off still - im just unable to take advantage twice.

That said, price increases arent a guarantee, CIG have been very inconsistent. They made a song & dance about this being how it was late '14, applied it to a few ships, then seemingly forgot throughout most of 2015 while releasing a couple with no price changes (Sabre has always been $170, Vanguard always $250) and its not like neither were hyped. Meanwhile, a 2-seater Reliant increases by 30% from $50 to $65 without a spec change, following a run of price bumps starting with the Starfarer in March '16. I fully expected the Herald to get a bump, and wanted a bump for selfish reasons, didnt happen. The BMM though was blindly obvious it'd happen, my only surprise is its still so cheap. Its extremely popular, been hyped and been a long standing meme, and alien tax is brutal... but not here, not today.
 
PaulC2K said:
It had always been $250, until yesterdays announcement.

Any $300 prices you're currently seeing is through CIG moving the price up ahead of them being sold again and basically denying backers the ability to buy-back any melted CCUs based on the $250 price, they're all $50 more now. Someone on Reddit was talking about the fact that they'd bought a Terrapin to BMM CCU but had to melt it, but cant buy it back now because its price is $50 now following the announcement.
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I was looking at a historical prices including original concept and most recent and the MM was on there as $300, however it looks like they may have just updated it recently.

And from what i know of melts and buy backs when they change ship price it does not alter your buyback price. IE if you buy a ship for 100 and you melt it, then it's worth 130. Your buyback will be 100. However this may have been old information that i read. I was looking into it recently as i have begun to melt a lot of ships.
 
basically denying backers the ability to buy-back any melted CCUs based on the $250 price
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Ships hold their price. CCUs dont. [edit: on unmelt/buy-back, that is]

p.s, you'll get a spanking for your sig. They're tetchy little beings even when people ask for one :p
 
PaulC2K said:
Ships hold their price. CCUs dont.

p.s, you'll get a spanking for your sig. They're tetchy little beings even when people ask for one :p
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i see, i never actually melted ccus, only ships :) i have enough in the melt fund to buy anything up to the polaris and melt it down again so don't bother with ccus.

I don't follow regarding the SIG??? I see nothing wrong *pretends nothing is happening*
 
Yeah, ive never really bothered with credit CCUs, only the $0 ones until recently, and its only in a few cases where it felt like it made sense to cover a few angles, like locking down the Orion at $325 so i can see what options come along, rather than diving straight in with a Terrapin to Orion one for $130 the moment the opportunity presents. The downside is having chunks of credit you cant fly :D The funds i need to pay for that upgrade are basically spread over CCUs, where in the past ive just bought things with credit to try them with no interest in keeping it, cant do that atm :(
The last year or so its just about getting the most for my money, ive contributed as much as i can, and now its just a matter of deciding what i want from those funds an essentially trying to get more than im really entitled to i guess. A year back, it was the choice of Reclaimer or Orion, but that discounted bundle and a little melting meant i could have both and still have a little left over.
 
I feel like giving this game another blast at the weekend, I heard that they have now implemented TrackIR is that fully functional in the PU yet? or is it going to be released in another patch?

I'll make a note to join that discord when I do jump on too, there are no law's against drink flying right? :D
 
Not feeling the Banu Defender.. has high hopes for it. Visibility in the cockpit looks awful but I'll grab a ccu incase they improve it. Internals look fine.
 
So from an outsider that has never played the game (although looks great) - the money and prices seems absolutely incredible for a game. Why does it work?
 
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