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Higher tier pledge package coming?


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I think I heard something official from CIG about implementing higher tier pledge packages, is this confirmed? Do you think we will see a 50 000$ Pledge Package in the store soon™?

A 50 000$ Package might include 5 javelins and 10 Idris and an assortment of duplicates of everything else?

Also a 1 million dollar images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSONiRlGBJHZ4Hx7V3zMoo  Pledge Level would make sense to introduce for the really serious contributor to the cause. Suggestably the 1M$ pledge would include 100 Javelins and 100 Idris and 5 Panther Escort Carriers and your own landing location on a planet where you can store all your ships.

More readily available to pledgers should also be a measly 100k$ Pledge Option with 1 Panther Escort Carrier and 10 Javelins and 20 idris and an assortment of everything else.

What do you think?

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In all honesty I think they will keep raising the pledge packages as they have right now, increments of $6'250 so the next pledge might be $25'000. ($50'000 seems a bit of a stretch right now I think, for some time).
A million dollars might be a bit to the extreme side right :P? Most people will not have a single chance in hell of getting it, others might think CIG are just hogging money and well simply it will put too many high-tier ships (Javelins and Idris's) in the game at launch. IMHO. I am all for supporting the game with pledges but what are you to do with 100 Javelins except expanding that e-peen :P?

If I just took your troll bait then I will go back into my cave now! :)

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19 minutes ago, Kendis said:

 

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In all honesty I think they will keep raising the pledge packages as they have right now, increments of $6'250 so the next pledge might be $25'000. ($50'000 seems a bit of a stretch right now I think, for some time).
A million dollars might be a bit to the extreme side right :P? Most people will not have a single chance in hell of getting it, others might think CIG are just hogging money and well simply it will put too many high-tier ships (Javelins and Idris's) in the game at launch. IMHO. I am all for supporting the game with pledges but what are you to do with 100 Javelins except expanding that e-peen :P?

If I just took your troll bait then I will go back into my cave now! :)

Sure it might feel like too many Javelin and Idris at launch but it won't really affect balance since ships can't be gifted or sold from a package! Also you won't be able to sell off your ships at launch of the PU. On a serious note I actually think those pledges would fill a need, a need for some super-rich IT entrepreneurs to have to most extreme Pledge package you can think of. Also I think they should get a badge saying "One million Dollars" with Dr. Evil on it and the included planetary base is the ultimate ribbon of gratitude for the 1M$ pledgers. 

Also a 100k$ option would likely sell out pretty fast if sold as a limited allotment hardcore pledge package, just think of all the ultrarich dudes that have pledged for Star Ciizen, there are bound to be more than a few dollar multi millionaires among the backers.

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Actually this idea would be very detrimental to balance because you most certainly can sell off account locked ships in the PU. I was at CIG on the 14 th and get a tour of the place from Ben who confirmed this statement to be true. Not only can you sell them in the PU but prior to the launch everyone will Have a Grace period where you can freely disperse ships, perks, uec and gear as you see fit without in game taxes or restrictions.

On an additional note, I've asked Sandi at the last citizencon (2014) about high level packages and her take was to provide in game advertising rather than more ships. The market for these high level packages wouldn't be individuals but rather orgs and real-world companies who would like to market to our membership via in lore ads.

AJ

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I don't think they'll make larger packages as the "completionist" is the completionist. So they'd just add ships or offer a token to keep from this. 

About the Pegasus as this is a subject close to my heart, 14 million mark goal, talks of the 15 million goal being, "Additional flyable ship class: escort carrier", key word being flyable, not necessarily being buy-able but I've always assumed I would be able to buy. It will be persistent and they have neither confirmed nor denied the fact the possibility of purchasing the Pegasus as of yet, so till then I must keep faith in being able to buy such a vessel is possible. 

This all being my personal opinion, with the up-most respect for all of yours. 

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Goals for this project made in 2012 is outdated. They no longer apply or draw a correct picture. The new market segment in 2015 is a real thing, people have pledged well over 15k $. 

How this could be handled differently by CIG? I get it, branching out getting more items is good for a corporation. But this is a digital game, in a world made of pixels. I would say burning less calories getting pennys on physical items.

Getting things back into a digital format seems right to me. A good solution might not be selling persistent ships, but adding xi'an/banu ships to a package. They've all ready sold one called alien package. Their intelligence about their project now, is not being used. Things that were a perhaps in 2012, is now being built and they have more resources at hand to make it possible.

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sorry, i thought this thread was about higher level packages and not about if/when the Pegasus will be offered for sale. to add my two cents to that topic, i dont really think it will be offered for sale but having said that CIG does have it as a flyable ship. 

AJ

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19 minutes ago, Ostia said:

RSI is such a troll.

True, but can you imagine what would have happened if some insanely wealthy individual had come to CIG during the Kickstarter (when they posted that), and said:

"$10 million for my very own Bengal Carrier?  Sure, why not." 

LOL... It even has LTI!

(and to be fair, back in the days of the Kickstarter, CIG had NO idea that they'd eventually get up to over $100 million in pledges... they said that they were surprised they even raised the $6 million that they did during that period).

Anyhow, sorry for the slight derailing (although the subject of this thread DID remind me of that post from CIG from back in the Day... I remember seeing a pic of Sandi with it in her cart even).... but back to the actual topic.   I'm going to agree with @Kendis and say that IF CIG was to add a new tier (and I'm not saying that they would), that it would probably be at $25,000 and it would include two of all of the Wave 3 & 4 ships that aren't in the current Completionist Package (just like the Completionist Package includes two of every Wave 1 & 2 ship), all of the add-on modules (for things like the Endeavor & Retaliator), and it would include at least one (possibly two) Javelin-class Destroyers.   But that's just my guess.

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