[High Priority] Capital Sci data code guns change discussion

[Markam]

On a scale of 1 to 100, how pissed off will people be if we made sci data cap codes purchasable in Conn for a credit value close to the credit purchase limit, though not likely as much as 500 sci data would cost..? I.e, a 500 code gun would be sold for somewhere like 1 billion credits, where at current market rates it would be worth what, 1.5 billion at a minimum?

It is understood that some people would be upset by the codes they purchased previously would be worth less by this change.

While concurrently making sci data sell-able to NPCs for about what the market rate is, so it is not worthless.

The sci data > Cap code player request could potentially stay, and would be cheaper than the regular credit purchase amount, so RP/sci data farming effort makes for cheaper cap codes than just dumping credits on it.

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[Kalhmera]

This would be amazing. it gives players who want to do the cheaper route do the player request and those who want to do rp as well. Or having the option to pay slightly more or the same and get it in conn easily and quickly. I am all for this change.

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[Ice Princess]

I would say to make the most expensive guns 1 bil flat and move with sci data back to cosmetics only.

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[Markam]

Below is one proposal for the pricing. Just a suggestion mind you.

Battleship Weapons:

Heavy: 200 Sci Data OR 950 million credits (equal to 4.75 million per data)
Primary: 150 Sci Data OR 750 million credits (equal to 5 million per data)
Secondary: 100 Sci Data OR 500 million credits (equal to 5 million per data)

Battlecruisers:

Heavy: 175 Sci Data OR 875 million credits (equal to 5 million per data)
Primary: 125 Sci Data OR 625 million credits (equal to 5 million per data)
Secondary: 75 Sci Data OR 375 million credits (equal to 5 million per data)

Cruisers

Heavy: 150 Sci Data OR 750 million credits (equal to 5 million per data)
Primary: 100 Sci Data OR 500 million credits (equal to 5 million per data)
Secondary: 50 Sci Data OR 250 million credits (equal to 5 million per data)

So, if you farmed sci data (or just bought it for 3 mil/unit) and made the RP and request, you can buy a 200 sci data gun for about 600 million credits. Or you can go to conn and buy it for 950 million, a mark up of 350 million.

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[Kalhmera]

This is looking like great system Markam! I like this alot.

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[Ice Princess]

5 mil per data is way too much honestly. People will just adjust their sci data prices to that and call it justified.

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[DarkTails]

All you're doing is increasing the cost of scidata to 5 million/unit, why would anyone sell it cheaper if players have a firm line that has to be paid.

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[Omi]

When this whole shit parade with scidata started way back in 201whenever with the dumbass cultist events, wasn't it meant to just be for cosmetics?

I know people like to complain about inflation in Discovery but how on earth did we end up at 1b+ per gun being a normal thing

Just make the scidata guns available for a reasonable price and move it back to being a muh cosmetics thing for snowflaking again

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[t0l]

i can buy credits for irl money discovery is now p2w

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[Markam]

This is an economics discussion and im not best qualified for it, but if players can skip Sci data altogether and buy the guns from NPCs for what is equivalent to 5 mil per sci data, why on earth would they bother buying sci data for 5mil a unit when it gives them no advantage to just buying from the NPC?

Edit; Regarding gun prices being quite high,I understand having to pay 1 bil for a gun seems a lot, but considering the investment by previous players, suddenly turning their time and effort into something worth much less is more prone to backlash than guns being too expensive. Besides, money is quite easy to get these days and money sinks are needed.

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