The expensive interceptor

Ok nice ship but At first I thought only hassle was to earn the 10k pieces and get the interceptor but I realised it takes ship pieces to upgrade it as well. Today I saw someone posting it takes 10k freaking pieces to upgrade it from lvl43 to 44. Here it is Like seriously ? For how long do we F2P peasants will need to play like no-lifers for a ship ?

 

Just saw a level 47 interceptor, must've cost him a fortune

 

Agreed. Should be that you buy the ship with the pieces, and then upgrade with gold like the rest.
Oh, and maybe bring that 10k starting price down a touch for us folks who actually have to work a 9-5 (or equivalent lol) job in the week, leaving pretty much only weekends to truly play and grind for pieces. Player burnout will become a problem if all the new ships are going to be introduced this way

 

They say its a premium ship

 

@Aether_Zero absolutely agree.

The value placed on the ship is coming from cloud cuckoo land. Looking at the screenshot from @Reorge the monetary cost of that one upgrade is shy of £48.99.. that's a 59 hp gain? In other games, that's a top end ship, a legendary or 2, epics, boosts and a disco ball for show with 000's in currency to play with.

 

Exactly. It's pretty much impossible for the F2Ps to get this ship to an usable level. Such a shame

 

LOL. If they keep making events for only ship pieces then they are gonna miss me with that. I'ld rather play other 5 ships. The ship is not all that for this much effort anyway.
It's gonna affect us F2Ps in guild rivalries but guess we gotta suck it or quit. I was really happy bout the update, Some were saying they are making the game less p2w and I see it now. Unbelievable

 

I love pretty much everything about the update, don't get me wrong. Just the introduction and amount of grind just to get the new ship, let alone level it up, is just a bit cack handed. All in my own opinion of course lol

 

It is clear that upcoming new premium ships will be for pay 2 win players

 

I liked the idea of a premium (hard to get) ship. It's ok that it needs its own currency and that it would be a great budget income for the game. However, the numbers required for leveling are just too damn high. It's irritating.

 

Same

 

Much of the new update has been great. However, after grinding all week to get the new ship, it was hugely disappointing to discover that it is only upgradable via Ship Pieces :-[ Maybe I missed that important bit of info in all the excitement of the upgrade, but that would have been nice to know beforehand. I think it's inconsistent and disingenuous. I'm not even sure I can use the new ship without grinding, even more, to level it up. Ridiculous!
I agree that the amounts of pieces required to upgrade the ship seem out of balance. Also, the amount of gold required to upgrade the orig 5 ship types after the update seems very high as well.

I love this game for so many, many things it does well, and I would be willing to pay for reasonably priced benefits to support further development from time to time, but those don't exist - every purchase feels like a ripoff.

 

This has been mentioned before. Battle Bay's game economy is way out of whack. 10,000 ship pieces for $49.99 – that can purchase 2 AAA PC Games (when on sale). Sure, some whales would willingly pay to be first on the bay with the new boat, but for the majority, it just means lots of grinding. It just seems wasted that a not-insignificant majority who would be willing to spend small amounts of real money is neglected as the value of items are so over-priced for what one is getting.

 

We should at least be able to watch ads for ship pieces

 

Just need to allow quests to reward pieces say 100 per quest. Unless you buy pieces, F2P will never get a maxed out interceptor and I don't think that's entirely unreasonable when you have to use parts to level it all the way.

 

I'm F2P and just 500 pieces from getting the ship. I'll upgrade the ship over a couple of weeks playing. It's not that hard.

 

Personally I couldn't care less for the Interceptor but other things I read regarding upgrading normal ships with gold and especially sugar seem extreme.
For example I used to be able to go from mk4 to mk5 (similar to lvl 29 to lvl 39) for something over 2 million gold. Now I need that for just one level !!!
I used to be able to upgrade all my cannons with Bhurt with 900.000 sugar in two and a half days time no I need that for just one weapon !!!!
At the same time the rewards stayed the same and a normal player like me (meaning I play F2P on my free time and I dont live for the game) cannot do training and upgrade weapons with the current cost of sugar. Its either one or the other.
If someone doesn't take into account all these things an fix them I fear many including me will stay gradually away from the game.

 

I definitely feel you.
They highly raised the dmg of weaker rarity weapons to make it easier for new and f2p players to get a grip. On the other hand, they made item training, ship upgrading and new ship cost overly-expensive. Wish they had increased the battle rewards.

 

I get it and I wish it were cheaper to upgrade, but it's not like it is unusable at lower levels. I am a 3k infamy player, generally in ace 1, and I have a lvl 22 interceptor. With it I can play and win against lvl 47-50 regular ships in the 3k infamy range on a consistent basis. I'm pretty sure that I couldn't say that about a lvl 22 regular ship. So sure drop the price of the upgrades, but if they add to the health of that thing it's game over, the p2p guys will have a huge advantage.