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SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited April 2012 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Celebrate the anniversary of Earth's First Contact Day with a 20% discount on your C-Store purchases* until Wednesday, April 11th, at 11:59AM PDT.

*Odyssey and Bortasqu' Packs and Cruisers, as well as Master Keys (single and 10-packs), are excluded from this sale



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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Nice. I can fulfill my dream of creating a cute little Nebula Tactical Cruiser with a 20% discount now. :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    KInda sucks I brought the Yellowstone just Yesterday ...

    Well there was stuff I wanted but I really did not need ... I suppose I will take advantage of it (expecially a respec).
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Sweet, I was just wondering when the next sale was :D.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    It's a good day to buy Klingon C-Store items!

    :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Looked over the list...

    Thought "meh... nothing worth my money in there"...

    Went along with my chat....
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    "YEAH!"

    - mirror universe Bashir
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    I am happy that sales were not discontinued with F2P.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Aww and here I thought I could get the 1st contact spaceship.. I wouldve bought that.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Nice, time to grind dilithium all week!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Woot! I was hoping for a sale soon.

    Are those the ONLY things that are excluded from the discount?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Too bad about the keys, though...

    All those boxes and not enough money for the keys to open them...:(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    I bought the Nx-starship replica the same day the sale comenced but was not actually on at the time it wasnt super early in the morning i bought it around 11:30 and i got home and found the sale had started the following evening!! I was very frustrated as i could have saved 80 cryptic points and i believe i should have had some notice of when the sale would start to make the most of my points but no, a big corporate company like cryptic would rather ripp me off!!:mad:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    and i just bought 100 DOff slots for all my 9 chars.....

    oh well, time to buy 200 more :D
    and maybe get those inventory slots maxed out on the rest of my chars...

    and when that is done i might look at ships again.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Nice, time to grind dilithium all week!

    I completely did not see the end date, read it as ending tomorrow!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Seems like i can't purchase it... anyone have any ideas on why? Or what i need to clean up? :)
    Both in game and the web c-store won't allow me to purchase it..

    Thanks to anyone who can help.
    [Edit] Was able to purchase on a different toon.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    ordio wrote: »
    Seems like i can't purchase it... anyone have any ideas on why? Or what i need to clean up? :)
    Both in game and the web c-store won't allow me to purchase it..

    Thanks to anyone who can help.

    You need plenty of ship and inventory slots for it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Are foundry slots counted inthis sale too? Because that is the only thing I'd ever buy. The rest is pointless junk or P2W TRIBBLE.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    anazonda wrote: »
    You need plenty of ship and inventory slots for it.

    Probably the inventory one... i have enough ship slots..

    I was able to purchase on another toon, who had a lot of inventory slots open :)

    Thanks :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Shame the Odyssey packs are exempt, I'd have bought those in a second.

    Still, time to spend all that Dil I was grinding
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Tucana wrote:
    It's a good day to buy Klingon C-Store items!

    :D

    QA'PLA!!!!!!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Are the doff crew extension worth it?

    I like the doff system and I'm curious if having 7 phtonic studies guys in my crew will really improve my odds of getting rewards in the system. Of its just for pokemon players who need to collect as many Doffs as possible.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    f2pdrakron wrote:
    KInda sucks I brought the Yellowstone just Yesterday ...

    Well there was stuff I wanted but I really did not need ... I suppose I will take advantage of it (expecially a respec).

    I just bought the Intrepid yesterday myself. I think this is why they didn't advertise it earlier, as I would have waited a day. :(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    I wish that there was a "warning" that there was a sale coming, instead of just Poping up with the sale the day it starts. Would be nice to know that there was a sale and to save C-store points or Transfer Dilithium to C-store points for those sales ahead of time before the Market starts to inflate. :(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    i sadly did something similar in regards to buying something yesterday...oh well
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Kingdox wrote: »
    Are the doff crew extension worth it?

    Going to 200 is definitely worthwhile. Beyond that I'd say throw them in to the 1-for-5 grinder to stay under the 200 line.

    I'll be taking my 3 alts up to 200 with this sale. =)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    sweet! I just transferred all my dil from my main toon back to cpoints to be used for a kling toon I just started, now instead of heading back to the dil exchange I can buy stuff cheap from the cstore.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    I wish that there was a "warning" that there was a sale coming, instead of just Poping up with the sale the day it starts. Would be nice to know that there was a sale and to save C-store points or Transfer Dilithium to C-store points for those sales ahead of time before the Market starts to inflate. :(

    A sale effectively starts when it is announced. Any market impact will be felt when it announced and all a delay in allowing purchases until some future point does is create a period during which no purchases are made.

    Imagine if today they had announced there would be a sale starting the 8th and ending the 11th. You would have still spent more on what you already bought pre announcement, the dilithium to C-point rate would already start adjusting and everyone would wait until Sunday for the sales prices to go into effect to purchase things they wanted to buy. Only difference by not pre-announcing is that people can start purchasing items on sale immediately.

    The only way a "warning" would help anyone is if they were part of some small group that were the only ones who knew the sale was coming.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    I was gonna refrain from buyin points, but I used the Sale and KDF Week as an excuse to by the Vandal... that ship is sexy... now just put Suricata's ship revamp in game so I can use it for end game PvE :P
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Protector wrote: »
    I just bought the Intrepid yesterday myself. I think this is why they didn't advertise it earlier, as I would have waited a day. :(

    For exactly that reason. The goal with sales is to increase their revenue. If you were not going to wait for a sale to buy the Intrepid, then they would have lost that extra revenue by giving you a warning, because like you said, who would buy something they do not really need today when they know it will be cheaper if they wait a day or a week?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Sakarak wrote:
    For exactly that reason. The goal with sales is to increase their revenue. If you were not going to wait for a sale to buy the Intrepid, then they would have lost that extra revenue by giving you a warning, because like you said, who would buy something they do not really need today when they know it will be cheaper if they wait a day or a week?

    The joy of capitalism.
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