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is 15k max what we can get? i think its more but i dont remember... also did every field here had dabo?
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Like, that big jump in the income graph is the ferengi admiralty.
When the Ferengi Admiralty Campaign first released they were giving out GPL in the tens even hundred of thousands. People were waiting for Cryptic to put new stuff into the GPL Store. They didn't and cut the GPL rewards hundreds to thousands of percent.
Who knows why, unless they needed the GPL to coat all those GPL Plated Ferengi Nagus Marauders they gave away.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
I have seen someone grab 100k from a dabo game at quark. No screenshots though. Sorry.
The rate of latinum gain since Ferengi Admiralty is very uniform so it seems light a straight line -the differences between individual missions and players average out rather quickly.
The more latinum people earn, the more they spend. It seems to be a proportional relationship. My guess would be that the spending is just a tiny fraction, however. Still, it's a fun idea that once people started earning a lot of latinum, they checked to see if there was something to do with it.
I wonder if the tiny dip in the Latinum gain and spending is related to a specific event for all players - like they reach Tier 10 in the campaign and now split their attention between Klingon and Ferengi Admiralty (like I do) and that leads to a slightly different curve?
I saw the 100k dabo on Thursday so perhaps i witnessed your lucky moment.
@salazarraze
@echatty
It is interesting though. Let's think about where you can spend GPL:
a) Party amplifiers and nullifiers
b) Vanity statues on ships
c) Sunglasses on Risa
d) instead of ec at the Dabo table
e) some doff assignments
f) holographic projectors
(did I forget something?)
The big ones are (b) and (c) (dunno whether the Risa vendor is available outside the event) but they're also more or less one offs - once you have the stuff, you don't need to buy it anymore. They could explain a spike but not a somewhat proportional continuous rise. (a) in my opinion also has limited use once you got a certain stack of what you want. So in my opinion it must be down to (d), (e), and (f). But all of these have limited costs and their drawbacks: Doff missions mostly give out commodities (or more GPL) and have to compete for the limited spots with more useful assignments, so I argue that in the long run only "Barter GPL for Contraband" is a viable option - potentially hidden behind 4 loading screens if you need to get to DS9 and back out. (f) - well, I don't see them that often and unless you're very dedicated you'll probably only use them occasionally when you're seen. So I think the best explanation is (d) for dabo being responsible for quite a share of the rise. But even with loads of players using dabo to wait off cooldowns on TFOs - and are there even that many? - with a spending limit of 600 GPL per minute and player it can't be that huge a sum. So I guess the question about missing y axis numbers comes into play: while the proportionality is interesting, I guess that the numbers on both graphs are apart on orders of magnitude which may be "because reasons" not to display them.
Also, the only reason to actually grind dabo is the "win 1 million" accolade. Endeavors are only for small amounts and as proven by the graph the ferengi admiralty is a far better source to actually get GPL from.
I'd say the most GPL is probably spent on the "one offs" (which aren't that one off if players get them on multiple toons) and/or the holoemitters.
I would think that as well normally - but the graph is much too smooth for that IMO. I would expect a spike soon after the GPL was available and then a dying off, even with multiple toons the day will come when most interested player will own the stuff.
Not mine, I got mine before Thursday, cause I was out of town from Thursday to Sunday and didn't play at all cause I was busy helping the husband.
I like the idea of most stuff in the GPL store being consumable. That can act as an EC sink. I also like the idea of multiplying how much EC you can bet on dabo. Maybe not up to 10k but 500 to 1k would be a good start. Of course, it would be ho-hum without adding new GPL items to actually buy.
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Dabo
I only hit on one of the three numbers for 200,000 GPL only once in six years of play. I only play ten minutes a day on any day I remember to play Dabo. I have yet to reach the 1,000,000 GPL mark, but I am over 800,000 GPL. So any year now I'll get to say...
btw - after hitting to 500,000 GPL mark, I decided to no longer use my EC to gamble.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Yeah, I get bunches of GPL that way, too, but it does not contribute to the Accolade.