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dMw Gaming => Star Citizen MMO & Squadron 42 single player => Sim Gaming => The Shipyard => Topic started by: OldBloke on June 19, 2014, 10:40:41 PM

Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: OldBloke on June 19, 2014, 10:40:41 PM
Starts tomorrow apparently - 20th June 2014.

Stretchgoal description ...

QuoteXi’an Scout Unlocked! The Khartu is the light attack craft of the Xi’An military. Contrary to Human ship design, the Khartu doesn’t have a traditional main thruster, instead featuring an array of maneuvering thrusters on articulated rigs. This design allows for incredible agility, making them the bane of UEE pilots, who bestowed the nickname ‘Quark’ because when all of the thrusters are firing, the ship looks like a spark flying through space. The Xi’an Aopoa corporation also manufactures an export model, the Khartu-al, for sale to human civilians as a dedicated scout/explorer. The export model features the same Xi’an maneuvering rig, but control surfaces modified for human use and a more limited armament.
Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: smilodon on June 20, 2014, 10:04:38 AM
This I like, might fit well with my 325i fighter.

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Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: Jamoe on June 20, 2014, 02:05:28 PM
Little bored at work so I hit the store looking for ship sale. Decided to try and guess the xian scout url and hit this :)

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/xian-scout

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Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: TeaLeaf on June 20, 2014, 02:16:56 PM
Hehe, looks like they might be updating the pledge store!
Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: OldBloke on June 20, 2014, 03:14:13 PM
Quote from: Jamoe;385541Little bored at work so I hit the store looking for ship sale. Decided to try and guess the xian scout url and hit this :)

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/xian-scout

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I think that's their standard '404' error message.
Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: Liberator on June 20, 2014, 03:19:48 PM
Except anything else you type just displays the Pledge store front page.
Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: BrotherTobious on June 20, 2014, 03:24:20 PM
Roll roll up, sweapstake here guys, ok England are almost out, but you can have a bet on who cumbles first and gets a ship in this sale.  And with the steam sale on I can hear wallets accorss the 'verse crying in pain!!!
Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: OldBloke on June 20, 2014, 03:42:30 PM
Quote from: brothertobious;385547roll roll up, sweapstake here guys, ok england are almost out, but you can have a bet on who cumbles first and gets a ship in this sale.  And with the steam sale on i can hear wallets accorss the 'verse crying in pain!!!

f5  f5  f5  f5  ...
Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: Liberator on June 20, 2014, 08:35:05 PM
$150

It's live
Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: smilodon on June 20, 2014, 08:37:28 PM
They've had enough money from me for now. Anything else I think I'll earn through some simple hard work in the game.

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Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: BrotherTobious on June 20, 2014, 08:42:47 PM
With you atm smilo got to get 325a suited and booted

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Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: Jamoe on June 20, 2014, 09:13:51 PM
Quote from: OldBloke;385543I think that's their standard '404' error message.

If you put something random in you get their standard pledge page

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pledge/dfhggjhydt
Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: Sparko on June 20, 2014, 09:28:21 PM
pretty cool looking ship!, the cockpit looks excellent :D

....but a tad expensive atm
Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: OldBloke on June 20, 2014, 10:00:39 PM
Quote from: Sparko;385557pretty cool looking ship!, the cockpit looks excellent :D

....but a tad expensive atm

Indeed. A bit too much for a small ship. I resisted ... for now ... does look fun though :D
Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: TeaLeaf on June 21, 2014, 08:22:54 AM
I'm not planning to have this one in the hangar either, I'm not good at dogfighting and have instead put my sights on a couple of the ships we'll see later this year or next year such as the Carrack or the mining ship.

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Title: Ship Sale - Xi'an Scout
Post by: OldBloke on June 23, 2014, 09:44:07 AM
Doesn't appear to have been a totally successful sale. The 'money in' chart shows a bit of interest but nothing like the Freelancer sale.

I'm surprised CIG did this to be honest. When they polled the masses on whether to put the Mustang on sale they got a 'no' vote. From the comments made at the time it was obvious that a lot of people didn't want ships that existed only as concept art to be put on sale - particularly when the CIG kitty was, at the time, approaching a healthy 40 million. :sideways:

BTW, will hit 47 million any time now.