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C-Store Price for keys a little off IMO

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Hey Cryptic/Devs/Community

I thought id post this after thinking over some of the numbers regarding the new drop boxes and keys in relation to a casual player. Firstly I wana say this isnt a rant at the fact of drop boxes or profiteering (which I dont think it is I think you just got the price a bit wrong)

So here goes. Since thursday when these new boxes came in i have bought 5 at 45k EC off the exchange. Dont know why i did that just seemed like a good idea. Since then through doing STF's and getting mystery boxes which turned into lock boxes and missions and the like i now have 27 of the things. So over two days ive had 11 drops per day of these things. Each key costs 100 cp (i know theres the 10 for 900 offer but lets keep it simple). so i would need to have 1100CP to open each box each day. 2200cp to open each box thats dropped for me so far.

Now im Gold... and i subscribe too (he he he) so at some point im guna get 400 CP enough for 4 boxes. Thats not much considering how many of these things you get. Now I know what your thinking what about dilithium conversion c-points. well lets look at that. We can refine 8k a day the current price is about 230d for 1 CP

400 CP Stipend
8000d / 230d/per cp = 34CP
434 CP total

so on that day i can still only open 4 boxes. And (think im part betazoid here) I know what your guna say again. You can buy keys of the exchange for 1.5mill ec. Well i dont have that and to do enough missions to drop enough loot to buy one would be insane and would cut into my dilithium gathering time. Well what about outright buying keys you say? Well again this leads back to my casual player status and the fact I subscribe. I dont have the disposable income to BUY extra keys on a regular basis.

Now honestly im not interested in a Galor that much, i prefered the Jemmie (which i didnt get by the way). But for the casual player with little disposable income, but with disposable time obtaining keys to open the boxes we get is out of reach.

The player with load of C-points already are fine, the player with loads of money to spare are fine, the players with both (you lucky little....) are fine. But the rest of us at current prices are not. And lets face it Dilithium to c-store ratio is only going to get further against the rest of us as these boxes and FE go on.

THE FIX

So how to fix the above. Well ive been thinking on it and lowering the price would be effective in several ways. Now you might say well if the price was lower all those people who paid $$$ for the keys wouldnt of done so. Not true anyone willing to spend that much will do so regardless of price. If they bought 40 keys on the offer it woulda cost 3600 cp. I can say with some certainty those people would of used the free way first. Then gone on to buy the extra keys.

if say the keys were 10 CP then on stipend day I could open 43 boxes (based on above 4 days worth) and each day I could at least open three boxes with refining. Being able to open three boxes would encourage me to come back the next day refine my dilithium and try again and again and if i did come into some disposable income to put that into keys too.

So we have 4 player bases those with money those with c-points those with both and those without. If the keys were 10 cp each then you would obtain extra income without loosing anything as those of us in the last group (at least I would) would be likely to spend that spare £5 to buy 400 cp for 40 chances and you would still have the income you already get with ours.

Cryptic/Devs/Community - thanks for reading this long *** post If you agree just do a +1 its easier but feel free to leave a comment too.

thanks
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