seriously this sucks!

Thenew ship upgrade make no sense unless you pay there under lvl and if you pay you have no reason to play events the way they are . I want the interceptor but mostly getting the lil mouse peices . very frustrating .
Then the price of gold to lvl ships is ridiculous you have to choose lvl ship or buy parts to lvl weapons becaaue you can't afford both . if I was a new player ID be long gone . this update was great for letting g us use any weapon but you have to be able to lvl the weapons.
With these new ship lvl cost it's ridiculos

 

I do think that they should have rewards that old players can claim, unlike the dedication achievement for days in a row, there should be a bonus you get for your accounts 1year bday and stuff like that. As someone else mentioned there was that offer at the beginning for 5bucks to get the pearl diver And some other items, would like to see those monthly as well (basically a single purchase cheap deal that rivals the large offers in value).

As for the new ships, I actually prefer the interceptor in ranked, it’s my favorite. I’ve been using it at lvl 29 but the events this week have it up to 31. Sure the last levels are very expensive, but it’s more than useable with the small amount of hp I’m missing. And the levels up to this point weren’t to expensive in reality. Also my reaper is over lvl 20 but I don’t have any green items leveled up so I’m not sure why people complain more about a ship that you can’t level than they do about all of the items that can’t level lmao

 

As a top 1% grinding player you are still only at L29 Interceptor, and you're still only a fraction of the overall ship pieces needed for L50 as the costs continue to escalate. I bet it will take far longer than you think to get it all the way up. On the other hands while items are difficult, there is at least a semi reasonable path to level them up. The thing is, new ships require new items, and as you alluded to, getting the ship is only part of the battle. New ships requiring new color items would have initiated extra grinding and spending without having to come up with new per-ship currencies that take months to acquire, so I'm still unclear why Rovio thought it necessary to premiumize the ships themselves to this level.

 

Fortnite only gives you skins and nothing to give you an advantage over others. Look how popular it is now.

 

I’m only 500 pieces from a lvl 32 and I’ve never gotten my 1%chance at 5k pieces in over 350 boxes. The last levels aren’t enough hp for me to worry about, but you are right that I am probably top 1% grinder.

As for their clear premiumization of the new ship by then not being available for gold.. Rovio is having some financial problems so it’s not crazy to see that reflected out of our favor. But let’s think of this in a clear modern game company sense.

Console games were always a flat rate of about 50 bucks and additional content costs extra. now we have games that are updated constantly and so you are paying a membership constantly to support them making these updates. If they aren’t getting enough people buying the vip membership, then they are going to charge directly for the new content, and that’s what we have with the new boats. makes sense to me.

Im sure there was a member”ship” pun I could’ve made but I’ve got to spend time catching up on this event grind instead of making a pun hehe