Do you have to pay(much) for your ammo?

arbogast666 · December 2007

Thanks in advance

tgreer · December 2007

Originally posted by arbogast666

Thanks in advance

Depends on the weapons you use normally.

Machine Guns, and Polarity Guns get expensive. Even at lower lvls.

Level 30+ i spend .....100k+ just to get 3000+ rounds. So depending on what i use and what character i am on it gets really expensive. Too expensive.

lets say i use 4 guns with 3-4 different ammo types, thats 300k-400k+ a play session in just ammo

bstuart · December 2007

if you go the biotec / medic route then yes as you progress the cost of ammo and items to use your abilitys are crazy

Liliane · December 2007

Yes, ammos cost sometimes a lot, but not too much. You get enough money to buy them. I have never been situation that I could not buy ammos what I need. Tier II guns use a lot of ammos, but other tiers don't use them much.

In lower level I did carry between 500 to 5000 ammos. Now at level 30 I carry 5000 to 10000 ammos. Mostly because I use machine guns more than I did in lower levels.

arbogast666 · December 2007

Thanks for the information

Azanth · December 2007

Yes, you have to pay for ammo and yes, it can get expensive sometimes. BUT.. that's part of the strategy of the game. All you use are chainguns and shotguns, you will spend a lot more than someone who, say, uses rifles and pistols when the situation warrants it.

For example, a pistol w/ Firearms 5 does nearly as much DPS as a chaingun with MUCH less ammo consumption. So if all you are doing is taking down 1 grunt at close range, over the long haul it's much more cost-efficient to use the pistol than the chaingun. Of course, if absolute highest burst DPS is what you need at the time, use the chaingun. It's all situational.

_Shadowmage · December 2007

If you use the chaingun all the time - expect to be broke and scrounging.

At level 20-25 I am playing with a friend who is a commando and constantly broke. He uses his chaingun all the time.

As a specialist I use logos powers, polarity gun, rifles, heal and armor repair disks. I have 650,000 credits in my footlocker.

You get credits for killing stuff, so using logos makes money.

Experimemt13 · December 2007

I have been running a specialist and have the same experience as Shadowmage... Plenty of money by level 15 and it just builds.

I have a friend who was using a chaingun a lot and was having mone problems... until he started diversifying his weapon usage a bit. He has plenty now.

So if you aren't thoughtful about it, you can come up short at times it seems.

Trenchgun · December 2007

I use chaingun all the time and haven't had any trouble keeping it funded.

phluux · December 2007

I don't have trouble buying ammo at all. If anything, I wonder what on earth I'm going to do with all of my money.

Loben · December 2007

I think the higher level ammo costs are a bit much in some cases. Elite grade canister ammo costs something like 250 credits per shot. At level 48, I'm still using select grade but generally I get an average of 250 credits per mob in Abyss. This is assuming I'm solo and not dividing the cash with my group. Even if I managed to 1 shot the mob with an elite ammo canister weapon (which is very unlikely), chances are I'd still lose money on the kill.

When more people get close to 50 and clan wars really start heating up, I really really hope I don't have to grind (using subpar weapons) in order to buy ammo to pvp with. I'm just glad that with the upcoming changes medics will be able to use viral damage for everything. At least viral injector ammo is cheaper.

Another annoying thing is that the cost of fighting varies wildly with each class and seemingly without much reason. Demolitionists for example spend a large amount of cash to use most of their logos abilities, in addition to the normal ammo costs. Spies on the other hand can do great using 0 ammo and having 0 cost for logos abilities.

I haven't spend much time in the last two zones, so here's hoping the mobs there drop a great deal more cash/loot....

To answer your question though, until you start using select grade ammo at ~lvl 47ish, ammo cost isn't really much of a concern unless you use a chaingun to kill everything. Depending on your class and weapon, it may not be a concern then either.

Reklaw · December 2007

Originally posted by phluux

I don't have trouble buying ammo at all. If anything, I wonder what on earth I'm going to do with all of my money.

You could try and do some crafting, when you start early with crafting you will notice that it does cost some cash, 10/15k can go rather quick to escape your bank, when you going to upgrade or craft stuff on craftstations. But still money isn't a real issue, my beef atm is NOT ENOUGH INVENTORY SPACE

Yolanda · December 2007

I have to say that the other day someone gave me a giggle. I watched him outside Imperial Valley using exclusively chainguns running all over the place, blazing away, strafing, jumping logs, shooting at the ground and 20 mins later he was in General complaining he had no money because Chainguns were costing him too much.

I pick this example for a reason: He was a lowbie (level 11 from memory) and it was his first character. No-one can get mad at me for using it because at that stage of the game he's not expected to know any better. He is also my RL friend so I'm allowed to laugh at him in a cruel fashion for even the smallest of reasons!

What a lot of people have yet to understand is that TR LOOKS like a fast pased shooter but it's still built on top of a more traditional MMO style system where weapons are designed to be used in certain situations in certain ways to be ultimately effective and there IS no "one uber weapon that does it all". Learn to use your weapons when they are the best choice for the job and use them in the correct manner and you will find yourself spending a LOT less on ammo. While the above example is the "fun" way to play it's definately not the cheapest.

Good Luck and Happy Hunting

Rayx0r · December 2007

Originally posted by Yolanda

I have to say that the other day someone gave me a giggle. I watched him outside Imperial Valley using exclusively chainguns running all over the place, blazing away, strafing, jumping logs, shooting at the ground and 20 mins later he was in General complaining he had no money because Chainguns were costing him too much.
I pick this example for a reason: He was a lowbie (level 11 from memory) and it was his first character. No-one can get mad at me for using it because at that stage of the game he's not expected to know any better. He is also my RL friend so I'm allowed to laugh at him in a cruel fashion for even the smallest of reasons!
What a lot of people have yet to understand is that TR LOOKS like a fast pased shooter but it's still built on top of a more traditional MMO style system where weapons are designed to be used in certain situations in certain ways to be ultimately effective and there IS no "one uber weapon that does it all". Learn to use your weapons when they are the best choice for the job and use them in the correct manner and you will find yourself spending a LOT less on ammo. While the above example is the "fun" way to play it's definately not the cheapest.
Good Luck and Happy Hunting

lol..I like watching nubs piss away ammo on miasmas in pinhole caverns. they havnt figured out the purple cloud yet and just sit firing away and in turn the quick fire of the chaingun continuously procs the invounerability cloud of the miasma.

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