ok while on the surface the PVP is the same for both factions till you get to the gear,doffs, and boffs it is at this point that I find a HUGE disparity in prices for things like the Energy Weapons Beam Overload Doff (around 4-5 mil for a fed but 12+ mil for kdf) same with the technician doff (needed for an aux2batt build)
would anyone care to explain why with regards to most gear that I can get for a fed the price for said items on the kdf side are 100% higher ?
this disparity in pricing makes it near impossible for anyone with a KDF aligned character (that is less than 1 year old) to put together a competitive PVP build (and some of us want to make our KDF characters more competitive and not have to use a fed character EVER)
this is just an observation based on my watching the exchange for the more commonly used items in PvP... seems to me that because its easier for the feds to get the stuff (cheaper prices) that it is turning ALOT of Kdf players away from PVP....
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Many farmers use the KDF as a place to make a fortune inflating the prices, because they know the KDF have little choice but to play their game given the clear disparity that is a milestone of the faction.
Also taking that the population is smaller its about supply and demand. Small supply. Huge demand. Then look at Fedside and their coffers are overflowing with stuff that's being undercut by the next guy.
Doffing in KDF side is far less profitable in terms of how many doffs per day u can grind (and more hard since support missions don't give refugees), that has always been the reason why kdf doffs are more expensive. Special doffs like those u can get from dutty packs are expensive cause most of the ppl open those packs using fed chars. Anyway, the price of doffs have nothing to do with pvp, u can grind over 10millons per week and get the doffs very quickly.
KDF have a big issue: the queques. We need crossfaction queques. Market prices are irrelevant if u got the lobes.
p.d: u don't need purple energy doffs....u are fine with the blue ones, even the green ones are usefull.
Many farmers use the KDF as a place to make a fortune inflating the prices, because they know the KDF have little choice but to play their game given the clear disparity that is a milestone of the faction.
Also taking that the population is smaller its about supply and demand. Small supply. Huge demand. Then look at Fedside and their coffers are overflowing with stuff that's being undercut by the next guy.
Agreed, the population plays a big part in it. There just isn't enough supply to reduce the price to something reasonable.
Lot of purple doffs its better to just get for free from colonization. Purple KDF technicians are a rip off, don't buy them, go to B'tran cluster in gamma orionis block and do the colonization doff chain there. It has a normal and elite map so twice the chance you can find the support mission as normal clusters since you can check both. As others said KDF doff market is small and controlled by greedy farmers, don't support their huge markups if you can avoid it, lots of them are just feds playing farmer alt anyway.
As for new doffs just open packs yourself bought for ec off exchange then resell what you don't need and buy more doff packs until you find what you want or made enough profit to buy the doffs, you can make a profit by opening any doff pack as KDF, buy the mini packs of all types, and if you have zen some of the new romulan survivor doff packs.
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Also taking that the population is smaller its about supply and demand. Small supply. Huge demand. Then look at Fedside and their coffers are overflowing with stuff that's being undercut by the next guy.
KDF have a big issue: the queques. We need crossfaction queques. Market prices are irrelevant if u got the lobes.
p.d: u don't need purple energy doffs....u are fine with the blue ones, even the green ones are usefull.
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Argento@playhard88 - RRF Tactical (FED)
Agreed, the population plays a big part in it. There just isn't enough supply to reduce the price to something reasonable.
here is a chart with the other purple doffs you can get from colonization
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Assignment:_Support_Colonization_Efforts
As for new doffs just open packs yourself bought for ec off exchange then resell what you don't need and buy more doff packs until you find what you want or made enough profit to buy the doffs, you can make a profit by opening any doff pack as KDF, buy the mini packs of all types, and if you have zen some of the new romulan survivor doff packs.