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Other guys in my fleet got thousands of free zen in Tribble to play with. Is there something special to do to get it? I didn't get any and I've been messing with Tribble for months, now. 
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Back during Season 5 testing while testing out all the F2P changes we got free Test Cryptic points every so often during the testing so that Cryptic could gage what people would buy and what they would pay for items. (a futile idea as people just blow free points on things they want to try before they bought on holodeck)
At the same time a system was introduced that if you bought Cryptic points for Holodeck you would get the same amount of Test Cryptic points on Tribble, it may be that this is still in affect. Also if you are a Gold member your stipend gets added to Tribble too, of course you needed to have a character already on Tribble for any of this to take affect.
Hope that helps.
I'm not sure thats true, I've had characters on Tribble since season 5 and I havent been over in months and I only have 600 zen.
I should have several thousand if it gave stipends.
I am gold and I had some CP. I just got the short end, I guess.
You might be right, as I just re-calculated and if my stipend was included I should have more test points.
Just to make you aware, it is a holiday week here in the US.
Thx for help
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Pretty much this, when I logged over to tribble to check out fleet starbases I had a huge shock when I saw how much CP/Zen I had accumulated since the F2P beta. I'd rather not say how much because even though I enjoy playing STO and all the purchases I have made, but the fact I was able to spend so much on the game without too much thought was an eye opener and I have not spent any cash on CP in a couple of months but I digress....:o
I've bought the Thunderchild, Sao Paulo, Excelsior refit and retrofit, Oddy 3 pack, MVAE, TOS Enterprise, Guramba Siege Destroyer, Cmdr level BoP and Raptor, repecs tokens, character slot increase, EC cap increase, all within the past 3 months. I've bought lots of CP. I feel shafted.
Off topic: How are you guys changing your avatars to pics?
It was added not so long ago, no direct link in our forum control panel but you can edit it from the following link from pwebranflakes post on custom avatars.
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/profile.php?do=editavatar
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Well, yesterday i discovered that i also had free zen (500 zen)
Now i bought the Enterprise from TOS but its still wierd that i had a amount of 500 zen
Is this a bug/glitch ?
Well, i'm not subscribed to anything...
So how is one supposed to test any zen related content there - you dont get any zen added to the accoutn and u cant copy one u have in holodeck.
So, people without sub having 30k zen on tribble will have spent 300 bucks on zen for holodeck, roughly.
If you want to try a zen-ship before buying, you could buy the 2500 zen, copy a new character to tribble, try the ship, then buy it on holodeck, or not.
I think. Might be wrong. I got tribble-zen, without ever having subbed. It equals the total amount I purchased with real money.
That would be me. Transferred 2 characters for the first time a few months ago, and got no free ZEN at all.
When it comes to the starships, the only ship you can get at the experimental ship requisitions console is Odysseys and the Bortas variants. The other ships are either in the Tribble ZEN store, or can't be bought on Tribble. Newer ships like the Kumari, Vesta, Armitage, etc., are not obtainable on Tribble, unless you buy it on Holodeck first. They're not in the Tribble ZEN store, they're not in experimental ship console, and although they actually appear in the ship store, clicking "buy ship" only makes an empty window pop up where the confirm purchase window would go, so that doesn't work either. The only way to get them on Tribble is to buy it first on Holodeck, and then transfer that character to Tribble. Probably just a bug, probably when the ships were added to the game, Cryptic didn't add those ships to the Tribble ZEN store, and didn't add them to the experimental ship console either.
I can see why ZEN doesn't copy over to Tribble. Players could get, say, 2500 ZEN on holodeck, transfer a character to tribble, buy a ship, and decide of they like it or not. If they don't, they could just delete that character on tribble and recopy the character, thus recopying the 2500 ZEN and repeat the process, over and over again until they find a ship they like, then buying it, and only it, on holodeck, instead of buying each ship on holodeck and having to pay more ZEN for the next ship.
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