I noticed this when I first bought my T5 Avenger Battlecruiser a couple months ago. Instead of buying the regular T5 version of the ship off the ZEN Store, I bought the Fleet Modules (500 ZEN ea normally) off the exchange and I purchased the Fleet Version from the Ship Selector. But the Fleet version does not carry the [Console - Universal - Variable Auto-Targeting Armament], even though I paid the exact same price in modules (6 = 3000 ZEN) that I would have paid for if I had bought it from the ZEN store (plus Fleet resources).
This is the same deal with the new upgraded T6 version of the Avenger, the Arbiter, that was just released. You can purchase the regular T6 version from the ZEN Store for (a currently discounted 2500 ZEN) and get the TRAIT and THE CONSOLE, but if you buy the Fleet version, which costs the exact same amount in Fleet Modules (5 = 2500) you get neither of those things.
Basically what your saying is, we have to buy the main version first to get all the goodies that come with it, and only THEN pay the SAME AMOUNT again, plus 20,000 Fleet Credits, to get the slightly upgraded Fleet Version of the same exact ship we just purchased.
Can someone from the team please address this discrepancy.
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Basically, I technically bought them out of order, and because I did so I have to pay 2x the price. That's a discrepancy, a bad one, and honestly it seems like a technical error because in order to buy the Fleet Version, you should have already purchased the main version beforehand. Yet the system allows you to circumvent that and pay full price for a fleet version but get none of the amenities.
On the plus side, I've heard VATA kinda sucks anyways, so at least its a lesson that only costs you frustration instead of cash.
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Seriously? This forum is filtering S - U - C - K - S now? We sharing gamespace with Hello Kitty or something? Jeeze.
Some people don't care for the console, nor do they want to bother with the normal version. They can buy the Fleet modules off the Exchange and never have to bother with Zen at all.
I think the Fleet version should mention it doesn't come with the VATA console though.
We sorta take it for granted that we just know the Fleet versions of C-Store ships do not come with special consoles, but I think it would help new players.
Do people around here read the descriptions on the C-Store and/or Shipyard Info Screens to see what a product has and what it comes with before they buy anymore? Anyone else but me???
Cryptic doesn't have to do anything special. Because the info pages already tell what comes with any variant of any ship.
Of course not, instructions are for losers. Much better to just buy stuff and complain if it's not what you thought it would be.
But seriously, the OP must obviously have read the description of at least some version of the ship to know the console even exists in the first place, so its his fault not reading the description of the ship he actually bought.
There is not "an order" you "need" to buy ships in, you buy whatever you like. There happens to be a discount for owners of base version, but this is really old stuff, not a recent change. The news stated exactly what would you get for each ship version. Trait and console for base version, no trait and no console for fleet version.
Your laziness.
Read in advance and do the math.
Do it differently next time.
You are owed nothing now...no refund, no apology, no further explanation.
Yeah, basically this.
well, i never ever understanded ppl who bueyd fleet ship without buing c-tore ship first to get not only consoles, fleet modules discount but especialy acount unlock.
but you that you bueyd flelt modules with energy credits (buying at exchange) rather than for dilitium ( exchange for zen), right ?
so this way you saved A LOT of dill to get that ship which you used on different things.
and if you didnt knowed that buing c-store ship will get you console+discount+acount unlock - well, your fault, live and learn.
for what you have forums ?
Oh, there is. The discount option only works in one direction and I think that was the point the OP was trying to make.
That is a discrepancy. Decide for yourself if it´s good or bad, but it´s there regardless.
well, i agree with that part that devs should make clear that buing c-store ship first will give you fleet modules discount, but that all. not realizing that ship lack console is your own fault, read description.
it bring back memories of eve online where were normal and fleet (of it was faction ?) version of ship, problem was that normal ship costed cca 600k of money, fleet around 500m on official exchange, but many were succesfuly scamed because they accepted "superior personalized offer" in which they bought "fleet" ship for 200-300m. Yeah pack was named fleet ship, BUT when you looked inside that package (and it was realy easy to do) - and readed name of that ship/desciption.....you finded it was normal ship and not fleet one.
and laughet at thier tears when they realized they were scamed...they tried to scam me too, but i was smarter.