Prehaps cost for a deck = R x (R^3), Where R = your rank.

500M credits isn't that much to be honest. And I doubt a legion that is paying anything will allow lower levels to join, so they wouldn't be able to easily benefit greatly.

However, this would give an advantage to lower levels. At level 163, it would cost just under 706M for one deck. However, at level 10, it only costs 10k per deck. That's very cheap. Also, at rank 1, it would cost 1 credit per deck. At that rate, someone could reset their ship, get tons of credits from a friend, and have an unlimited amount of decks.

For example, when my friend joined, I gave him 600M to start off. Therefore, he could have 600,000,000 decks, at level 1. He could then spend all his rank points on some other stat, and not have to worry about decks ever again. He could also easily autorank. At a higher level, with a full ship, I don't think anyone would be able to defeat his ship, at any given level.

The formula should be more like this: t=10(x^3+y^2+(1000(x+y)))

Where t is the total cost, x is your rank, and y is your current amount of decks.

At this rate, it would cost me (rank 163, 757 decks) just under 60m for one deck. This may seem cheap, but you could say that there is a minimum cost of 100m.

So, it would be somewhat like this:

if t>10(x^3+y^2+(1000(x+y))), cost=t; else cost=100m.

Also, you should only be able to purchase decks over rank 150.

Isn't that R^4? Jussayin'

Anyway... It's an unnecessary addition. Players now have the opportunity to get more shipbots thanks to base payouts than us old timers did when we needed to add decks. We survived and decks have a soft cap. After a certain point, you just don't need them anymore.

no no no, this wouldnt work at all, think about how bad this would be, it would mean big players could just give 1bill to someone and at rank 1 i would have the max deck needed, wouldnt work at all Darth Flagitious

I would prefer to sell decks instead of buy them... they arent in any use for me at rank 340. I imagine the situation of the high ranks that have piles of ship-bots sitting in their cargo.

This I want to sell my decks. I have 2673 shipbots just sitting in my cargo. Give us a way to trade those in for rank points or creds that are worth something. Not the 15K - 60K cred scrap value of them. And yes what you are saying would over power many many smaller ranking ships. I could simply give them say 250B creds and say have fun. lol Then what? I'm sorry but decks need to be earned the hard way.

+1

Decks after a centain rank and size become useless. I would rather have a ship bot exchanger that changeds 1 shipbot into 1 rank point.
It would be much more useful (Could be added into the CT lab)

But i can't be bothered to post this idea.

~John Falls~

Anything like that would give me and several others a colossal boost, but a module would be limited, so the only thing i can think of is a nice 1 space for 1 arti planet building or something similar