This system is a huge oversight by Cryptic and one they need to remedy before the Summer Event ends.
As it stands right now, any new character that you create after the Summer Event will not be able to claim account wide unlock ships. Nothing in the systems description implies that is 'working as intended.' It's an oversight, and frankly.. a pretty stupid one at that.
There is no reason the Event store can't be unlocked by default. If you haven't completed any events, then everything but the ship re-claim should be greyed out. It's an easy problem to fix and they need to fix it. There is no point in making ships global unlocks if there are only 2 or 3 times a year when a newly created character can access them.
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As it stands right now, any new character that you create after the Summer Event will not be able to claim account wide unlock ships. Nothing in the systems description implies that is 'working as intended.' It's an oversight, and frankly.. a pretty stupid one at that.
There is no reason the Event store can't be unlocked by default. If you haven't completed any events, then everything but the ship re-claim should be greyed out. It's an easy problem to fix and they need to fix it. There is no point in making ships global unlocks if there are only 2 or 3 times a year when a newly created character can access them.