Hmm. I know a fair few were excited at the prospect at naming their ships, but it's a tad dodgy. Technically, you can name your ship & it'll be known in game, but only in the UI or when someone scans you.
What's "dodgy" about that?
Unless you get right up close to a ship, I'd only expect to see their name in the UI anyway...
You mean the payments?
I suppose it'd've been good to have one basic free Nameplate, perhaps, as all ships come with one basic paint job.... But I don't begrudge FD their little store transactions. They seem to be doing those pretty well, compared to some other games, for the most part.
I question the bobbleheads (aside from the actual Braben one, which is just hilarious) as I don't understand the reference/relevance, and I think the ship kits are mostly stupid little stick-on fins that make absolutely no difference to the ship... But I like the paintjob idea, weapon colours and so on.
Would be good to see some kind of customisable paint job/pattern/template thingy, perhaps, but may be difficult to stop people from putting 'little willies' and things on there.
I had my combat rank reset today. I was deadly with 20% left to Elite however that was attained way back. I struggled when engineers came out but after being nearly being murdered eveytime I lost an interdiction today, it was either reset or give up. I am not going to "git gud" before anybody spouts that ******** either, I am not good as the game plays now and I will not get any better.
Bit of a bummer... did you request it be reset?
I'm not an amazing pilot myself and have really struggled with some NPCs after the restat.
If you merely want to hike your ranking up, you can still find and pick off lower NPCs.
You don't have to "get good" so much as just get smart, at least as far as combats and interdictions go - If you're being interdicted, submit immediately and focus on just boosting out and jumping back to Cruise before they can get to attacking you properly, for example.
If you want the combat rewards, maybe for a community goal or something, pick fights where you're supported by other players or even NPC cops and the like - Let them do most of the work and chip in a few shots near the end of each opponent. You get the bounties for helping and you get the kill count if your shot is the fatal one.
Don't fight good, fight smart.
