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Ben, would you like to talk about the price for the Starfarer? Folks have already seen that the price is different on the CCU list.

TL;DRThe Starfarer price rises for new buyers because the ship grew far larger than first planned, existing owners are unaffected, and the flight-ready sale price is warned to rise by a similar amount.

Ben LesnickDirector of Community Engagement, Online Strategy and Spaceships

Yes, I think we had talked about that a couple days ago. It's going to be $300 for the Starfarer this time around. We sold it for $200. Very, very cheap initially. The initial plan for the Starfarer was that it was going to be a truck cab with a fuel tank, literally something of a flying tinderbox. And UK made it a much, much larger ship, similar to what they did with the Idris. So the price has to go up.

Jared HuckabyHost, Community Manager

And we've said that for a while, that one of the virtues of supporting a ship in its concept stage is that that will be the cheapest price.

Ben LesnickDirector of Community Engagement, Online Strategy and Spaceships

Yes, this will not impact people who have already bought the Starfarer at all. They got it in at the cheaper level, just new people. And I mean, as fair warning now, it's going to go up a similar amount for the flight-ready sale. So this will still be the cheapest chance to get a Starfarer. We hear about pricing for every sale ever, and it always is going to be what it is. We know everybody would like a ship that's as cheap as possible and that has as many features as possible and that is as interesting as possible, but it's always going to be a balance.

Reverse the Verse›March 25th, 2016·
Published on this date.25 Mar 2016