Make the Breen Cryo Grenades Purchasable

azyurion

With the introduction of the Lobi store, Cryptic has made a number of consumable grenade weapons available to all player classes. However, one of my favorite, class unrestricted, grenade weapons is the original Breen Cryo Grenade, which is not currently available for purchase in any store.

This consumable weapon was introduced with the Breen (Deferi) War episodes. It is still only available after completing the Cold Call mission. With so many open class grenade weapons being offered these days, I believe it is time to change the way the Breen Cryo Grenade can be acquired.

My thought is that the (20 charge) Breen Cryo Grenades should be offered as a dilithium, or latinum, purchased item from Assistant Manager Vux, at the Deferi Visitor Center. The ferengi npc vendor Vux already offers the Deferi Snow Tubers...and nothing else.

It shouldn't be any trouble for the dev-team to add another (Breen War) item to his inventory. Just like the tubers, buyers can be required to have completed the Cold Call mission before buying Cryo Grenades.

While I loved the Breen Wars missions, replaying them to acquire a green quality, low charge, consumable weapon is boring and silly. Players that have completed the rewarding mission should be able to acquire the item, for a price, in a way other than endless mission replay.

I don't know if anyone from the Cryptic "Think Tank" reads these forums, but in the hopes they do I am posting this request as a suggestion.

azurianstar

There is a Ferengi Vendor on Defera that sells Cryo Grenades, I believe at the top of the hour.


*Note, the OP isn't me.*

psymantis

azurianstar wrote: »

There is a Ferengi Vendor on Defera that sells Cryo Grenades, I believe at the top of the hour.


*Note, the OP isn't me.*

Long long ago a dev said that seller had a chance of selling them at the top of the hour. He's never had them in stock when I checked.

...and here's why. From the wiki:

"Vux on Defera has a 50% chance to offer Cryo Grenades every hour to players who do not have any Cryo Grenades left."

I hadn't used all mine. No wonder I could never buy any. /facepalm

azyurion

Actually, I have staked out Vux on a number of occasions and I have never been presented with a Cryo Grenade option, with any of my toons. I have thus concluded that if Vux ever was coded with a chance to offer Cryo Grenades, it is a much lower percentage than the old and still quoted 50%. I may be wrong, but for all practical purposes, refilling grenades from Vux seems broken and is certainly more troublesome than just replaying the mission.

That really is what I would like to see changed by the dev=team. Instead of wasting player time with silly probabilities for an item appearance, they should simply make it a regularly stocked inventory item, like the snow tubers. Given the premium nature of the grenades, selling them for dilithium, or gold pressed latinum would seem appropriate. Of course the one per character and mission completion requirements should remain.

The point of making this small change in the availability and distribution of the cryos is to allow players to enjoy the benefits of the item unlock without having to reply the unlocking mission ad naseum for a consumable prop. It would be nice to see such a small and player friendly change and so I have posted the thought in the hope of getting the ball rolling.

thomasjandrews

Unfortunately this idea is flogging a dead horse there's been many, many times this has been suggested and a dev has said the store is working as intended and that's it they wont check it any further. Yet no one has been able to get any cryo grenades .

stark2k

#1 - Not enough Demand for them
#2 - Deemed not important to even tweak
#3 - Easily replaceable via Mission Re-runs
#4 - Considered more a Gimmick Grenade, cool but gimmicky
#5 - Best use your character inventory slot for more worthwhile equipment

Devs won't even touch the issue. I've been to Defari on numerous occasion to varify the replenshing of the cryo Grenade, to this date I have yet to see them in that Greedy Ferengi's hands.