As the title says let it be possible to swap GPL for lobi.
For example let's say 1000gpl is worth 1lobi crystal. That way GPL will have a decent use in the game. And for Quark it's a win win situation but also for the players
How is it a win for Cryptic, though? Currently they make you pay $1.25 for 4 Lobi. They make you pay nothing for GPL; thus you can get Lobi for nothing.
STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
Do you pay for the lobi or do you pay for the chance to win actually something good?
Also buying and opening a box takes like 3 seconds, grinding for GPL can take a little longer.
And a 1000gpl might be not enough, it was an example. Let's say 10k GPL then, might be a little too much? But somewhere in between.
The only way to attain lobi is by buying a key and open a box, that's 2.5mill for a key or 125 zen.
You also got a lobi event, but besides that there is no other way.
New players don't have so much ec in game or spend real money for zen.not at the start that is.
The way the Lockboxes are set up you pay for the Lobi - everything else in the box is random. That is why it is not gambling.
And buying a Key with EC still required someone to buy it with real money before they could sell it on the Exchange, so Cryptic still got paid.
And time is not a commodity in this game. If it were the people playing 15 hours per day would be the richest.
Cryptic does not want there to be other ways to get Lobi. Lockboxes are their primary source of revenue. They like making revenue.
STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
GPL for Marks would be a good decision - as both GPL and Marks are a grind currency.
STO is about my Liberated Borg Federation Captain with his Breen 1st Officer, Jem'Hadar Tactical Officer, Liberated Borg Engineering Officer, Android Ops Officer, Photonic Science Officer, Gorn Science Officer, and Reman Medical Officer jumping into their Jem'Hadar Carrier and flying off to do missions for the new Romulan Empire. But for some players allowing a T5 Connie to be used breaks the canon in the game.
Dream on... PWE is not going to shoot itself in the foot by making Lobi virtually free. Lobi is the secondary incentive to get people to buy keys and Zen.
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As the title says let it be possible to swap GPL for lobi.
For example let's say 1000gpl is worth 1lobi crystal. That way GPL will have a decent use in the game. And for Quark it's a win win situation but also for the players
Never going to happen.
I would however like to see the roles of Lobi and GPL reversed in STO.
Instead of getting GPL for wininng at Dabo we would instead be awarded Lobi which can only be used in the way that GPL is used now in-game.
The Lobi store would then be renamed the Latinum Store and lock boxes would reward Bars of GPL when opened and all items in the shop would have a cost payable in Bars of GPL.
At least the above would make sense compared to what we have now.
Giving this a second thought there is a way to gate the transfer of currency (similar to the way dil refining is gated at 8k per toon per day).
Also - in DS9 (Body Parts) there are 100 slips in a strip and 20 strips in a bar...
So here is my suggestion:
Rename in-game GPL as slips, this would remain a character bound currency - these are like a tip currency that can purchase consumables and costume items from slip store.
Rename Lobi as Bars of GPL, this would remain an account bound inventory item - the much more valuable currency that can unlock ships, equipment and premium costumes from bar store.
Put in a once a 20hr doff mission that takes 2,000 slips and converts into a Bar, with various failure, sucess and crit chances that leaves approx 0.8-1.5 bar (lobi) per day average transfer dependant on the quality/traits of the doffs.
This wouldnt detract too much from the sale of lockboxes for lobi, would give something else for GPL (slips) to do.
It would also be CANON and much more aligned with Star Trek shows.
As the title says let it be possible to swap GPL for lobi.
For example let's say 1000gpl is worth 1lobi crystal. That way GPL will have a decent use in the game. And for Quark it's a win win situation but also for the players
That would never be done, first they had to remove the dabo tables from the game, because everyone would dabo for lobi, and because there are restrictive laws about it. That said then there would be a licensing issue, They would need a license for the gambling.
Whatever you like to call it it would never happen because there is absolutely no profit for cryptic. Nor there would be profit for PWE.
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"Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it."
Lobi Exchange
People can sell their Lobi on the Lobi Exchange for GPL, now all Cryptic has to do is keep making Lockboxes, and offer 1 item for 100,000,000 GPL that money spenders cannot live without.
Giving this a second thought there is a way to gate the transfer of currency (similar to the way dil refining is gated at 8k per toon per day).
Also - in DS9 (Body Parts) there are 100 slips in a strip and 20 strips in a bar...
So here is my suggestion:
Rename in-game GPL as slips, this would remain a character bound currency - these are like a tip currency that can purchase consumables and costume items from slip store.
Rename Lobi as Bars of GPL, this would remain an account bound inventory item - the much more valuable currency that can unlock ships, equipment and premium costumes from bar store.
Put in a once a 20hr doff mission that takes 2,000 slips and converts into a Bar, with various failure, sucess and crit chances that leaves approx 0.8-1.5 bar (lobi) per day average transfer dependant on the quality/traits of the doffs.
This wouldnt detract too much from the sale of lockboxes for lobi, would give something else for GPL (slips) to do.
It would also be CANON and much more aligned with Star Trek shows.
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Also buying and opening a box takes like 3 seconds, grinding for GPL can take a little longer.
And a 1000gpl might be not enough, it was an example. Let's say 10k GPL then, might be a little too much? But somewhere in between.
The only way to attain lobi is by buying a key and open a box, that's 2.5mill for a key or 125 zen.
You also got a lobi event, but besides that there is no other way.
New players don't have so much ec in game or spend real money for zen.not at the start that is.
And buying a Key with EC still required someone to buy it with real money before they could sell it on the Exchange, so Cryptic still got paid.
And time is not a commodity in this game. If it were the people playing 15 hours per day would be the richest.
Cryptic does not want there to be other ways to get Lobi. Lockboxes are their primary source of revenue. They like making revenue.
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It'd be nice if you could exchange it for useful things. Like, say, a multiple choice mark box?
For the glory of Tempus!
I am the hands of Shar!
Flames of Kossuth, protect me!
Oghma, grant me knowledge!
Lolth commands, and I obey!
Never going to happen.
I would however like to see the roles of Lobi and GPL reversed in STO.
Instead of getting GPL for wininng at Dabo we would instead be awarded Lobi which can only be used in the way that GPL is used now in-game.
The Lobi store would then be renamed the Latinum Store and lock boxes would reward Bars of GPL when opened and all items in the shop would have a cost payable in Bars of GPL.
At least the above would make sense compared to what we have now.
agree that lobi should be renamed/rebranded as bars of GPL. Maybe what we currently have could be renamed as slips or strips of GPL.
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I can never see GPL being traded for lobi. The above two quotes, however, are gold. I couldn't agree more.
I've suggested elsewhere that a GPL/EC exchange might work along the lines of the current dilithium/zen exchange.
Also - in DS9 (Body Parts) there are 100 slips in a strip and 20 strips in a bar...
So here is my suggestion:
Rename in-game GPL as slips, this would remain a character bound currency - these are like a tip currency that can purchase consumables and costume items from slip store.
Rename Lobi as Bars of GPL, this would remain an account bound inventory item - the much more valuable currency that can unlock ships, equipment and premium costumes from bar store.
Put in a once a 20hr doff mission that takes 2,000 slips and converts into a Bar, with various failure, sucess and crit chances that leaves approx 0.8-1.5 bar (lobi) per day average transfer dependant on the quality/traits of the doffs.
This wouldnt detract too much from the sale of lockboxes for lobi, would give something else for GPL (slips) to do.
It would also be CANON and much more aligned with Star Trek shows.
...#LLAP...
If a GPL/EC exchange happened I wouldn't be against it but I'd much rather a GPL/Marks exchange. Or a GPL/Fleet credits exchange.
That would never be done, first they had to remove the dabo tables from the game, because everyone would dabo for lobi, and because there are restrictive laws about it. That said then there would be a licensing issue, They would need a license for the gambling.
Whatever you like to call it it would never happen because there is absolutely no profit for cryptic. Nor there would be profit for PWE.
"Coffee: the finest organic suspension ever devised. It's got me through the worst of the last three years. I beat the Borg with it."
Lobi Exchange
People can sell their Lobi on the Lobi Exchange for GPL, now all Cryptic has to do is keep making Lockboxes, and offer 1 item for 100,000,000 GPL that money spenders cannot live without.
Problem Solved!
I thought WoW's forums had angry elitist snobs, but I never could have imagined the level STO forums has.
Your idea works too
I thought WoW's forums had angry elitist snobs, but I never could have imagined the level STO forums has.