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What would you do with 10k Zen?

twamtwam Member Posts: 0 Arc User
Curious as to what people think are the best buys, at the moment.

Let's assume no previous acquisitions, and you're sitting on a stack of 10k Zen*, planning to play both Fed and KDF characters.

What would YOU buy?

Services/ships/packs, etc: feel free to mix and match.





*Or close enough to 10k - if you end up spending 11k on your set, no big deal, this is mainly to get a feeling for what people would buy if they could start from scratch with some spending money on their hands.
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  • khayuungkhayuung Member Posts: 1,876 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    10k? That's hardly enough to buy anything USEFUL.


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  • momawmomaw Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    With an upcoming Tholian reputation and an entirely new playable faction, I would hoard my zen and see what new features are going to be offered in the near future.
  • dalnar83dalnar83 Member Posts: 2,420 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Nothing. Not much worth buying.
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  • hawks3052hawks3052 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    There is nothing worth buying. I own nearly all KDF ships and a small part of the Federation ones.
    I boycott the 5 ship packages.
  • carrisracarrisra Member Posts: 48 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    turn it into dil and spend it on the starbase thats where all my zen seems to go lol
  • ferdzso0ferdzso0 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    momaw wrote: »
    With an upcoming Tholian reputation and an entirely new playable faction, I would hoard my zen and see what new features are going to be offered in the near future.

    ^this

    altho if that would not happen, I would buy:
    ec cap unlock, bank, acc bank and inventory slots, a tac vesta, and the rest I would pay for lock box keys and dilithium (at current rates 1500 zen for dil is more than enough, and the lock box keys should open boxes with mining claims for an inactive other character, while bringing in EC, considerable amount if you are lucky)

    10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
  • momawmomaw Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    ferdzso0 wrote: »
    ec cap unlock, bank, acc bank


    I suppose the OP did say to assume that no purchases had been made.

    If that be the case, I agree with EC cap unlock. This is *essential* if you want to really participate in the player economy. And I would get the account bank before expanding the regular bank, because it makes life so much easier for gathering things between your characters. Personal bank...I haven't found essential to expand. When my bank is full, that's an indication that I need to throw out stuff that isn't being used like obsolete weapons and abandoned pets.
  • ferdzso0ferdzso0 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    momaw wrote: »
    I suppose the OP did say to assume that no purchases had been made.

    If that be the case, I agree with EC cap unlock. This is *essential* if you want to really participate in the player economy. And I would get the account bank before expanding the regular bank, because it makes life so much easier for gathering things between your characters. Personal bank...I haven't found essential to expand. When my bank is full, that's an indication that I need to throw out stuff that isn't being used like obsolete weapons and abandoned pets.

    as I am a cheap person, I did not have EC cap lol. but I have acc bank, and I am fine with it. sometimes I do feel it as a drawback, but nothing I cant live with. also most ppl are not even close to getting the max of ec cap (and I just evade that by transfering all my money to acc bank, and not buying selling above 10 mil)

    10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
  • doffingcomradedoffingcomrade Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    twam wrote: »
    Let's assume no previous acquisitions, syou're sitting on a stack of 10k Zen*, planning to play both Fed and KDF characters.

    What would YOU buy?

    Services/ships/packs, etc: feel free to mix and match.
    Acquire additional character slots and the EC uncap. A character slot pack pays for itself in within 5 days. From there, you use the results to construct additional pylons, thus increasing your ability to construct additional pylons and make more money. Give it a few months, and you'll have 100K Z. Remember, if you simply SPEND your money, it's GONE. One must look to invest it in ways that will get you MORE.
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  • allocaterallocater Member Posts: 289 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Sell at the dilithium exchange for 107 and buy back at 106, repeat for 10000 free dilithium every day.
  • marshalericdavidmarshalericdavid Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Energy Credit Cap Increase (Needed if you are ever going to buy lock box ships from the exchange)

    Deep Space Nine Bundle (Like having special duty officers for all my characters)

    Character slots (I like playing as a Eng,Sci and Tac for each faction)

    1 Account Shard Bank slots (I am a total F2P player so this is valuable for me allowing me to move account bound items between characters)
  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I would not spend my 10k Zen. With Roms coming out in about a month I would hold onto that 10k and see what Rom ships, equipment, races, Boffs, Doffs, etc that I might want to buy. That's what I'm doing with the 20k I currently have. :)
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  • ferdzso0ferdzso0 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    thecosmic1 wrote: »
    I would not spend my 10k Zen. With Roms coming out in about a month I would hold onto that 10k and see what Rom ships, equipment, races, Boffs, Doffs, etc that I might want to buy. That's what I'm doing with the 20k I currently have. :)

    ec cap and acc bank unlock is still there and useful.

    but yeah, in the end everyone is hoarding. I myself started, and worst case scenario (meaning that the dil prices just jump), I will have 8k by the time romulans are here (two chars are not much to grind on, but atleast I am done in 15 mins a day :D) which should be more than enough (especially since I will only need it for ships, and bank and inventory expanding)

    10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
  • bpharmabpharma Member Posts: 2,022
    edited April 2013
    EC upgrade, 1 Account bank, 2 more boff slots, 1 ship slot upgrade, 1 of each inventory upgrade. Then get the Defiant or MVAE and 4 fleet modules.

    That is at the moment assuming I had to spend it now and I would join a fleet to upgrade the C-Store ship to a fleet level.

    Though as others have said I would probably wait to see what LoR brings and see if I wanted to play Romulan and get a ship for that faction instead. I'd also only have 1 toon as it's much easier to get most of the stuff you need/want for it.

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  • jstewart55jstewart55 Member Posts: 412 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    If you don't have it, EC cap increase. If it's things that you need rather than want, more bridge officer space is always handy, as is the account bank. Extra character slots, too, if you want some alts. Ships aren't super necessary, unless you want a certain console.
  • theodrimtheodrim Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    EC upgrade, account bank, maybe a couple extra character slots and four more boff slots for my Federation main. Play the dilithium exchange with what's left, since it looks like there's some good speculatin' to be done right now.
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  • haravikkharavikk Member Posts: 278
    edited April 2013
    I don't personally have much of a problem with caps, so I don't know if I'd pay ZEN to unlock them. Plus if I remember right you can permanently improve some caps (Bridge officers for example) by paying for a month of gold membership, which is probably a better way to do it overall anyway.


    For me I'd likely invest in the Odyssey pack; 5k ZEN is an awful lot to save up in Dilithium, and is the price of a AAA game which is pretty steep! I'm currently saving up anyway though, if only to subsidise the cost a bit rather than get the whole thing for free (I've already bought other 2,500 ZEN ships so it's not like I'm freeloading, I've paid well above what I expected I would for two years of "free" membership!)
  • brigadooombrigadooom Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Wait for Romulans to arrive, and the fresh shinies they'll be bringing with them to lockboxes and C-Stores near you.
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  • twamtwam Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Interesting that, so far, only 3 out of 19 responses mention a ship. I definitely agree that the most-mentioned services are excellent first investments, but I'd have expected some more people listing absolute favourites/ships granting particularly useful advantages.

    Which is part of why I asked the question, I suppose: if we'd have seen a clear consensus on which ships (or consoles, in the case of low-level ships) are no-brainer acquisitions for the forumites, that'd be some indication of OP'ness or current meta's. Surprisingly, we even have an even distribution between cruiser, sci vessel and escort in the 3 ship mentions there are :)

    As for me, and my preference for sci-type play, my set would at least include:
    EC cap increase
    4 character slots

    And probably:
    Some bridge officer slots to swap builds mid-fight
    Tac Vesta
    B'rel retrofit

    And then maybe spend the remaining 4k-ish on:
    Either Guramba
    Or MVAE
    And some keys to get some EC flow going.



    Footnote: this is more of a curiousity kind of thing, not a request for advice, per se. I got various ships and the services mentioned unlocked (bar the account bank), and am definitely saving what Zen I have to see what the Romulans bring (and maybe make a little profit on the dil exchange in the proces) :)
  • ferdzso0ferdzso0 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    twam wrote: »
    Interesting that, so far, only 3 out of 19 responses mention a ship. I definitely agree that the most-mentioned services are excellent first investments, but I'd have expected some more people listing absolute favourites/ships granting particularly useful advantages.

    Which is part of why I asked the question, I suppose: if we'd have seen a clear consensus on which ships (or consoles, in the case of low-level ships) are no-brainer acquisitions for the forumites, that'd be some indication of OP'ness or current meta's. Surprisingly, we even have an even distribution between cruiser, sci vessel and escort in the 3 ship mentions there are :)

    As for me, and my preference for sci-type play, my set would at least include:
    EC cap increase
    4 character slots

    And probably:
    Some bridge officer slots to swap builds mid-fight
    Tac Vesta
    B'rel retrofit

    And then maybe spend the remaining 4k-ish on:
    Either Guramba
    Or MVAE
    And some keys to get some EC flow going.



    Footnote: this is more of a curiousity kind of thing, not a request for advice, per se. I got various ships and the services mentioned unlocked (bar the account bank), and am definitely saving what Zen I have to see what the Romulans bring (and maybe make a little profit on the dil exchange in the proces) :)

    when I saw this topic first I thought: "good idea, bad timing" :)

    10k DPS Vesta threads: 1; 2
  • startrek1234567startrek1234567 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    by a ton of keys and sell them to get a box ship.
  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Sit on it until a sale.

    I've already purchased all the stuff I 'need.' At this point, there's lots of stuff that would be fun to have, but none of it is pressing. As such, I can wait (months if need be) until I can get the most for my money.
  • franc275franc275 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    ferdzso0 wrote: »
    when I saw this topic first I thought: "good idea, bad timing" :)

    I had the exact same thought. If this was a down time, like when Dil to Zen was at or below 100 and they were giving the chance and a Jem Attack - it was turn that all into EC through Fleet Support Doff packs....

    But now, wait for any item purchases, EC Cap, Account Bank, rush a toon on each side to lvl 50 ASAP (shouldn't take more than 2 weeks probably) and we'll be on the heels of LOR - which should give you another slot for a rommie - with the dil refined from all that effort should be able to refill the coffers. I like to have between 7.5K and 10K Zen on hand at all times.

    This is assuming you paid money for the 10K Zen and did not refine dilithium for it, since you're saying starting fresh.... But then again it could have been gifts on the cryptic prepaid cards, so then not your money.... But still I'd say hold onto most of that zen, you never know when a really good set of ships might come out, or what kind of Rommie items will be out in just over a month.
  • radkipradkip Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Assuming no prior purchases:

    EC Cap removal
    Jupiter, Enterprise/Mirror Enterprise/Starfleet Academy uniforms
    Buy a Vesta
    Buy an Fleet Advanced Escort
    probably use the rest on skill respecs.
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I'd try to futher reduce dil price on zen...
    Don't look silly... Don't call it the "Z-Store/Zen Store"...
    Let me put the rumors to rest: it's definitely still the C-Store (Cryptic Store) It just takes ZEN.
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  • captainwestbrookcaptainwestbrook Member Posts: 224 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Save them for LoR.. I already took advantage of the 15% extra sale and stacked up some. I'm prepared for LoR :)

    But this is mainly because I have all the ships I've wanted on both KDF and Fed sides.. so yea.
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  • bitemepwebitemepwe Member Posts: 6,760 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    Buy butt loads of stuff, course.
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  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    For me since there is still items I want. I would get a Excelsior, and Galaxy. Then I guess I would buy a round of keys to see how many lobi I would get. I'm very close for the KDF warrior skirt for my KDF BOFF.

    The rest I would save for the new expansion to see what it has. I'm sure to see something new I want. After that I would go for more keys to try for the Jem Dread.
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    I'd probably save most of it until LoR comes out. I'm hoping to get my hands on a few Reman ships (assuming we're getting any at launch, which I think we will).

    I'd also probably get the NX-class, Enterprise uniforms, and Armitage Carrier. Oh, and unlock the NX prefix as well.
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  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited April 2013
    With 10k Zen, eh?

    I'd buy 20 FSMs.
    Sell them for 10m EC each.
    Use the 200m EC to replicate 5m Banana Splits and 5m Root Beers for all my friends*.

    *Yes, that means I'd be sending it all to myself. :)
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