Your assets in-game go poof eventually--but what you are really paying for, and what I base my personal valuations on, is not the pixels. It's *time.* Buying something like a ship in-game is really about buying a play style and banking on a certain amount of time (hopefully long term) to get enjoyment out of it as a key part of your gaming experience before it gets obsoleted, nerfed to oblivion, or the game folds.
The reason I went F2P is because I no longer have that certainty in the long-run usefulness of anything I might purchase--the overall track record needs a sustained turnaround before I change my mind.
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The op is using using the wrong term for the Elachi dread gamble. "Trottel Lotto" (Moron Lottery) is a term used by german WoW-players to describe the Raidfinder system. Because you might get a very good group or you might get an absolutely moronic group.
Feel free to apply it to STO PUGs, though.
lol good to know. So he's just another wow player who can't keep up with the cardassians in this game. ok...
I don't think R&D packs are very competitively priced. I'd almost always rather open two lock-boxes and get useless items and some lobi than spend 50 zen more and risk getting all useless items. I define "useless" items in this case as items that you can't make any significant ec off of on the exchange.
Of course you can craft with them, but so many rare materials sell for next to nothing on the exchange that you might as well buy them there.
I've long suspected that this is the reason they've made the advanced and elite queued missions that reward these items a lot harder (actual difficulty is debatable of course) - to try and keep the value high so people will dish out the zen for R&D packs.
I'm not sure if I think it might be worth it to pick them up now that they have lobi attached to them or not.
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The reason I went F2P is because I no longer have that certainty in the long-run usefulness of anything I might purchase--the overall track record needs a sustained turnaround before I change my mind.
Christian Gaming Community Fleets--Faith, Fun, and Fellowship! See the website and PM for more. :-)
Proudly F2P. Signature image by gulberat. Avatar image by balsavor.deviantart.com.
lol good to know. So he's just another wow player who can't keep up with the cardassians in this game. ok...
Of course you can craft with them, but so many rare materials sell for next to nothing on the exchange that you might as well buy them there.
I've long suspected that this is the reason they've made the advanced and elite queued missions that reward these items a lot harder (actual difficulty is debatable of course) - to try and keep the value high so people will dish out the zen for R&D packs.
I'm not sure if I think it might be worth it to pick them up now that they have lobi attached to them or not.