What a 4* cover can buy you (in your currency or country)

kensterr
kensterr Posts: 1,277 Chairperson of the Boards
edited August 2015 in MPQ General Discussion
The cost of buying a 4* cover is quite high, along with the cost of a roster slot. So I thought maybe it will be good to know what this virtual currency can buy you in real life. I'll start off with what I can get in Malaysia:

4* cover (2500HP) = 10 lunches
Roster slot (900-950HP) = 4 lunches
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  • Malcrof
    Malcrof Posts: 5,971 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited August 2015
    Stark salaray is $99 USD, for 20k HP.. it can get you, maybe a taxi to the airport? Dinner for 4 at Olive Garden..can't even get a real taxidermied Jackalope for that.
  • nwman
    nwman Posts: 331 Mover and Shaker
    2500 hp, so if you bought Logan's loonies maybe $20. (2900 hp for 22.99 cdn) It's cheaper if you do stark salary.

    So 2-4 lunches depending on what you eat.
  • kensterr
    kensterr Posts: 1,277 Chairperson of the Boards
    OJSP wrote:
    Logan Loonies cost 15 GBP and Stark Salaries cost 80 GBP.

    So a 4* cover is about the same price as 3 medium meals at a quite well known fast food chain. Lunch prices elsewhere are too variable to make a comparison.

    15 GBP can get you roughly 5 Subway lunches, no? Without drinks of course.
  • smoq84
    smoq84 Posts: 421 Mover and Shaker
    Poland:
    Logan Loonies (2900HP) for 75PLN - this is like about 5 lunches.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    So I've just got to not eat for a day or two and that single cover can be mine?

    Well, that puts it into perspective... icon_e_wink.gificon_lol.gif

    DBC
  • JVReal
    JVReal Posts: 1,884 Chairperson of the Boards
    $20 USD

    about 7 gallons of gasoline
    A wireless network card at Best Buy (online only)
    1/10th of my monthly cell phone bill (family plan)
    An oil change
    Front brake pads
    A Game Of The Year edition of a PS3 game
    3 tall beers at the Green Door
    A Blu-Ray if you catch the right sale the week its released, or 5 Blu-Rays if you wait until Black Friday
    A 64 Gig USB flash drive
    20 Pepsi 2-Liters if you catch the right sale
  • Malcrof
    Malcrof Posts: 5,971 Chairperson of the Boards
    JVReal wrote:
    $20 USD

    about 7 gallons of gasoline
    A wireless network card at Best Buy (online only)
    1/10th of my monthly cell phone bill (family plan)
    An oil change
    Front brake pads
    A Game Of The Year edition of a PS3 game
    3 tall beers at the Green Door
    A Blu-Ray if you catch the right sale the week its released, or 5 Blu-Rays if you wait until Black Friday
    A 64 Gig USB flash drive
    20 Pepsi 2-Liters if you catch the right sale

    Sounds like you are gearing up for a LAN party.. may want to make those Mountain Dew's instead of Pepsi.
  • Lopan15
    Lopan15 Posts: 225 Tile Toppler
    St. Louis MO.
    A steel book cased blu-Ray of Raiders of the lost ark, and a crapload of food at Panda Express. That was the last $20 I spent yesterday.
  • El Satanno
    El Satanno Posts: 1,005 Chairperson of the Boards
    In the Land of the Rising Sun, 2500 yen will get you:
    • stuffed to the gills with sushi at one of the ubiquitous circle sushi places in Tokyo
    • A large (or vente or whatever stupid pretentious name they give it) mocha-frappa-loppa-Al-Pacino at Starbucks, and maybe one of them overpriced cookies
    • 24+ hours at an internet cafe, including the shower and drink bar
    • All the way to Narita Airport by train from pretty much anywhere in the Tokyo area
  • Omega Red
    Omega Red Posts: 366 Mover and Shaker
    A single four star cover from a Stark salary buys me either of this:

    Two king chicken sandwiches with fries and soda, plus two ice creams at Burger King.

    Three tickets for the movies plus change for the bus.

    A month worth of Netflix (five accounts, four devices) plus change for a three-pack microwave popcorn.

    A week worth of transport for myself.

    Twelve packs of milk (I consume one daily).

    Three three-pack Trojan condoms.

    Four venti or whatever they call it at Starbucks, plus some change.

    Two 18-pack of toilet paper.



    All those things together are worth eight four-star covers.
  • firethorne
    firethorne Posts: 1,505 Chairperson of the Boards
    300 packs of ramen noodles.
    Tales from the Borderlands or Rocket League on Steam.
    7 packs of guitar strings.



    Also remember, this is 1/13th of fully covering the character. To get the character to fully usable, you need 10 covers (assuming winning the first three). So you're up to $150 USD, for a single unleveled virtual character. That will get you the complete Adam West Batman box set.
  • CrookedKnight
    CrookedKnight Posts: 2,579 Chairperson of the Boards
    A Stark Salary costs $100 in U.S. dollars. A 4* cover is one-eighth of that, which works out to $12.50. That's dinner at an okay restaurant (or lunch for a week from McDonald's); a bargain-bin video game or a big-name AAA game during a Steam sale (for instance the entirety of Skyrim, including expansions); ; a non-matinee movie ticket; a month of Hulu and a good chunk of that same month of Netflix; a third of a tank of gas; or (sigh) two days' worth of tolls for my commute to work and back.

    But that's a Stark Salary. If you can't or don't want to plop down $100 US on the game at a time and just want the one cover, you buy Logan's Loonies - 2900 HP for $20. At that price, 2500 HP works out to $17 and change. That'd pay for Hulu and Netflix for a month outright; dinner at a good (but not fancy) restaurant; groceries for one person for a week, if they're frugal; a hardcover book; or a recentish movie on blu-ray.
  • evil panda
    evil panda Posts: 419 Mover and Shaker
    The retail price of a Li'l Jon album on iTunes is about 11-12 USD. So you can either have Countdown for What, or Turn Down for What - your choice icon_razz.gif
  • snlf25
    snlf25 Posts: 947 Critical Contributor
    A stark salary would pay my 40mbps internet and dishnet tv bill for 1 month. One 4* cover is a tank of gas. In Des Moines, Iowa.
  • Cymmina
    Cymmina Posts: 413 Mover and Shaker
    Near Toronto, Canada

    Logan's Loonies ($22.99) will pay for...
    • 3 medium pizzas from Little Caeser's and a bit of change left over for a couple pops or 3 small slushies at the convenience store
    • Half of a tank of gas for my Cavalier
    • Hemming 2 pairs of pants

    Stark Salary ($119.99) will pay for...
    • 2 months worth of premium dog food and poop bags for a medium sized dog
    • An average quality winter coat
    • A taxi ride to and from the airport (40 minutes away)
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Logan's Loonies costs R$60, which is about the cost of a basic phone bill (monthly fee of a basic service package), two to three football tickets of the lowest price, two lunches (including stuff like fast food burger+soda+chips, all-you-can-eat, etc) or 4x burger, two medium top grade pizzas, 20x 2L soda, 20x bus pass (half of what most working people use in 20 days; students pay half), movie in theater for two (some snack included, not popcorn tho), 30x 40mb service pack of 3/4g service on pre-paid phone, a cheap pair of shoes, monthly fee for a 15mb speed Internet at home (mobile services are at least 2x more expensive), 3 months of Netflix, 4x top grade milkshake.

    Stark Salary is R$300, so a retail game for PS4/Xbox One, 2x 3ds game, monthly fee on parking lots, a cheap phone like Samsung Galaxy Y, a cheap tablet with 7" screen (no phone, only WiFi), 20x porn magazine, 100x best newspaper avaliable, 2x daily cleaner service.
  • evil panda
    evil panda Posts: 419 Mover and Shaker
    So I have a few observations:

    1. A lot of you like fast food
    2. You guys either have really cheap gas, or small gas tanks
    3. Why the hell are your cab rides so expensive??
  • Cymmina
    Cymmina Posts: 413 Mover and Shaker
    evil panda wrote:
    3. Why the hell are your cab rides so expensive??

    When your starting city is different from your destination, you usually have to pay a premium when taking a taxi, since they are unlikely to have a passenger to cover the return trip. There are shuttle services for the airport that run on the hour that are much cheaper, but they don't cover the area where I live.
  • Linkster79
    Linkster79 Posts: 1,037 Chairperson of the Boards
    evil panda wrote:
    So I have a few observations:

    1. A lot of you like fast food
    2. You guys either have really cheap gas, or small gas tanks
    3. Why the hell are your cab rides so expensive??

    1. I rarely buy fast food.
    2. £15GBP wont even fill a quarter the fuel tank in my car.
    3. Petrol is very expensive in the UK. 1 gallon after conversion is approx $8.30 US. A taxi journey to work which is 12.5 miles will cost me just over £15.

    Back on topic for the cost of 1 4* cover I usually buy 2 Blu Ray films or 3 DVD's. Feed a family of 5 for a day, buy lunch for a week or even get to work and back for 3 days in my own car.
  • Lee T
    Lee T Posts: 318
    CrookedKnight wrote:
    A Stark Salary costs $100 in U.S. dollars. A 4* cover is one-eighth of that, which works out to $12.50. That's dinner at an okay restaurant (or lunch for a week from McDonald's); a bargain-bin video game or a big-name AAA game during a Steam sale (for instance the entirety of Skyrim, including expansions)

    It's interesting to compare apples to apples (and slightly less depressing than comparing to necessities like food), buying all covers (10) for one single 4* character costs about as much as buying two new full fledge AAA video game.

    As far as I'm concerned, No matter how much I'll ever make, I won't spend a full game's money to cover one and only one characfer, no way no how. I understand those who do (it saves a lot of time and fully covered character are a lot more fun than barely covered), but that's just not me.

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