I don't know why I am so sad because of this right now, but it really hurts. During closed beta, you made the Trident purchasable with credits, and I got my hands on it. I can remember how confused I were, because I did never flew a heavy Dreadnought before. I bumped into everything. It was so gruesome that you gave us the ship, only to take it away from us again. I paid credits for the ship, it was in my hangar, it was my ship. You have to make money, yes. But cmon, there are enough Heroships in the tree, you could sacrifice this one. Can't you scan closed beta accounts and detect who had it, and give those people the ship back? I bought it with credits I worked hard for, I flew it!

It would only be fair!

I am not unthankful, we got nice stuff for compensating the 3 wipes, but we got this ship for ingame credits, and that was the vintage build. So you gave us a not to 100% effective build that had to be revamped later on. So why not giving the new Trident away for credits, for a limited time? Something like that. Or for free?

It was a closed beta, there was also a wipe. So all that information is gone on a personal player level.

Wasn't the Trident freely given away to players who participated in an autumn event of 2016 a few months after Open Beta?

Either way, saying you should get something because you had it pre-wipe is like saying I should have all the customizations availabe because they were offered for 1gp each at one point during a testing phase.. or that I should start with all ships unlocked because I went through the grind a dozen or so times before the final wipe.

(As a side comment, do any of the people who won the blood-spattered coating still actually play the game?)

As a side comment, do any of the people who won the blood-spattered coating still actually play the game?

MaBoB does have some kind of "bloodbath pattern", and he is still playing.