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gatsie7
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Let me start by saying that I love the new quick equip features ! Now, I along with others that I have talked to think that it would be nice if our uniqe ships could be Discharged but reclaimed at a later date or with an Alt. We thought of how could this work out for both the players and PWE and came up with this... Put all these ships in the c-store and once you own the ship you have the option if you delete said ship to reclaim for a small fee , thus making PWE more money and giving us the ability to reclaim the ship on any other of our many Alts but only once per ship as long as this ship is still active.
What does everyone else think ?
What does everyone else think ?
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However, I wonder if the OP was thinking more along the lines of the recent reclaim-your-accidentally-got-rid-of-kit button?
I mean, i can't see how anyone would accidentally discharge a ship, but apparently it happens.
And it would be a real drag if it was your Tal Shiar Adapted Battle Cruiser.
However, packing and re-opening on another toon?
Will never happen.
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Don't count on it
So what does it hurt if you can discharge the ship and for a small zen fee open it up with another character ? Is it not better to make some money compared to no money.
If we will not try for another of the same ship but will spend money for a ship we know we'll get (that we already spent money to get) whats the problem?
Repackaging I don't see.
Offering at a flat or discounted price to alts, I can see.
It's a very Econ 101 type principle.
If you observe that people are buying a hot dog for $4 but only buying one, you might determine that they are completely satisfied by the first hotdog OR you might uncover that they have $2 worth of demand for the second hot dog. If that's the case, it makes sense to sell them that second hot dog at a discount or bundle it into the initial price. As long as the hot dog costs $2 or less a piece, you're better off selling two hot dogs for $6 than 1 for $4, even at a lower overall profit margin.
My thought would be to sell people a copy of any lockbox or event ship they've earned for something like 5k ZEN or 650k dilithium, whichever works out more advantagious to Cryptic overall.
One alt would need to own it but then any alt could claim one as well for a per-alt fee. I think it's unlikely many people buy two of the same lockbox ship on an account so I suspect this would be high enough to be non-trivial but low enough to avoid penalizing the creation of alts while increasing revenue for Cryptic.
Everything after this point is just your wishful thinking. As you say, no one knows what the real stats are other than Cryptic, and they seem to be okay with the system as is, in spite of hundreds of requests to the contrary. This is a pretty big clue which way the stats lean - after all, Cryptic is in the business of making money.
Lockbox ships are their bread and butter sale item.
You want a way to never have to buy lockbox ship X ever again
Your chances of this happening are exactly zero.
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That refers to consoles, not ships, and is on a per character basis.
Indeed... it is very easy to make that mistake :eek::rolleyes:
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That would be a nice idea!
Thing is, demand from item to item is rarely static when talking about quantities of an item. Along with offsetting storage function, THIS is why you see bulk discounts, even with intangibles like ZEN.
My marginal demand for a fifth hot dog is less than my demand for the first four. My marginal demand for a second hot dog is less than my demand for the first hot dog. Failure to accomodate this can cost Cryptic sales.
By having smart price discrimination by player and by alt, Cryptic can make more money.
Yeah, letting people repackage ships makes little sense. However, giving a discount on the second one does make sense if you believe that owning one on one alt diminishes the odds of a person buying a second one on another alt.
There's even a form of this with rep sponsorship if you view gameplay as an economic commodity (and it is from a marketing and promotion sense). They would rather that your second rep be easier than have you spend less time in game, because your demand for the rep content goes down after having done the grind once.
This is a side to game design I wish I could get my hands on because, on one hand, games like this have people with a knowledge of econ on staff (Rivera and Heinig, at the least). But on the other hand, systems design is often based on what is done as an industry standard in MMOs or what SEEMS fair or what SEEMS profitable when a touch of economic analysis would reveal ways to make BOTH players happier AND Cryptic more financially successful.