Cult Citizen

[icycalm]

This thread is for furniture not purchasable in the verse. There are quite a few of those, mostly available in the Subscribers Store, and the roster is increasing almost every month because a good portion of the new sub items are furniture or large decorative items like statues etc.

[icycalm]

• Salvaged Skull 1 SCU Container
• Salvaged Skull 2 SCU Container
• Salvaged Skull 4 SCU Container
• Salvaged Skull 8 SCU Container

So here's the story with these. They first appeared last year during Pirate Week but were only available in a $660 "Scourge of the Stars" pack with the 4 Skullcrusher ships. No other way to get them, and I was crushed because I couldn't afford the pack. I was low-key praying that shubn would pick them up so we could get the boxes and give them to recoil for Pyro HQ, but he didn't bite. And understandably so, because to add insult to injury, the pack didn't even come with LTI! It was a very bad deal on top of the annoyance of being forced to spend $660 for a $10 item. And it was Warbond! They were asking for fresh cash for a bundle without even LTI!

The RSI page was here: https://robertsspaceindustries.com/pled ... ck-Warbond

Lots of threads on Reddit and Spectrum complained about all aspects of this crap deal, but no response from CIG. Here's one meme about it:

Missed Opportunity
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/co ... pportunity

CIG forgot the micro in micro transactions they just going for FOMO whale bait now.

On a Warbond with 6-month insurance too, fuck that shit.

I was hoping they would improve the deal due to the backlash, and even better offer the boxes separately, but no dice. Here's one of the tamer threads from the time, just asking for LTI as opposed to trashing CIG like most other threads on the subject:

Any possibility to get Scourge pack with LTI?
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spec ... k-with-lti



I honestly wasn't expecting to see those boxes ever again, but when Pirate Week hit this year I was super excited to seem them featured in a $60 paints pack [ > ] plus a $30 pack with a couple of armors thrown in.

Pirate Week Treasure Pack $30.40
https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/p ... asure-Pack



I didn't want the armors as they're included in other, larger and more cost-efficient packs, but I bought the pack anyway for the boxes, and was glad to be able to do so given their $660 pricetag from last year.

But then the treasure hunt was solved and the reward was... these boxes! So I melted the pack with the two armors. I would certainly like another set of these boxes, but I thought best to wait next year in case they bundle them with something I actually want. At any rate having one set of them made me at ease with the idea of their existence, because for the past year I've been feeling like a poorfag who wants these damn boxes but can't afford their $660 pricetag.

Plus, due to my two clones and the treasure hunt, I now remembered I have three sets in all so I could give recoil one or even two of them! And shubn has two or three, and if Adjudicator has entered the code for all his clones we'll basically have infinite. Just sent him a DM in case he missed my notification on Discord last week. And hopefully more people logged into RSI and entered the code, so we should be able to stock our Pirate HQs (we have two now, Ruin and Grim HEX, and we should have also Levski soon, plus up to two more in Pyro if recoil appoints Commanders for Checkmate and Orbituary) with stacks upon stacks of these cool containers.

So CIG was listening to the outcry last year, and they more than made good this year. I wasn't even expecting to buy them cheap, and they ended up giving them out for free essentially, as long as you are active enough in the game to know that Pirate Week is running and follow the treasure hunt on Reddit. And if you weren't that active, well, you can still buy them for cheap during Pirate Week, and if you missed even that you'll at least be able to source them from the grey market until next year.

TL;DR players who acquire these boxes in any way are free to use them in their hangars as long as you're based in a pirate location, and/or give them to our Pirate Commanders and SupComs to make their HQs look and function cooler if you don't plan to put too much effort into decorating your own hangar.