So like, instead of putting the new Tzenkethi VANITY shield with all the rest of the VANITY holoemitters, they put it as a random drop from another random drop. Does anyone still actually expect anything to be added to the latinum store?
It's not a holoemitter. Holoemitters are consumable devices that completely swap your ship's model for another one. The vanity shield is a permanent shield for the vanity slot that gives your current ship model a Tzenkethi texture, like how reputation shields work.
This is not to say that I expect anything new in the GPL store anytime soon. Them saying that they'd like to do it is a far cry from actually allocating the hours to do it, especially if doing it is unlikely to bring them any profit.
Yeah, surprisingly, I've actually played the game before. My point is that it is still a vanity item and completely worthless outside of looking pretty, and instead of putting the vanity shield in with the rest of the vanity items in the GPL store (eg: sunglasses, clubwear, holoemitters, subspace party amplifiers, etc.), they decided to make it have a chance of a chance of obtaining from a box you have to pay money to open.
The entire point of latinum was that it was to be used getting pretties and shinies. Latinum can't give you a combat boost (At least, not directly), it can't buy you a functionally different ship or character, and it certainly can't do anything legitimately worthwhile.
What's the point in keeping it separate from the rest of the ship cosmetics?
The rest of the ship cosmetics that go in the Visual slots are not in the GPL store. They're mission rewards (very few) or reputation items. This is one of those, not one of the holoemitters. The 2 categories of things behave quite differently, and are relegated to different places.
This is an MMO, not a Star Trek episode simulator. That would make for a terrible game.
Well I do hope in the weeks or months ahead we'll soon see an announcement about several new types of GPL reward's that will be coming in the near to intermediate timeline.
So like, instead of putting the new Tzenkethi VANITY shield with all the rest of the VANITY holoemitters, they put it as a random drop from another random drop. Does anyone still actually expect anything to be added to the latinum store?
they promised to add stuff to the gpl store two and a half years ago it aint gonna happen
yep they also said we would get a ferenginar gr map with casinos in seas 5
Well sadly I admit there's not a lot of Star Trek TV shows to really showcase what Ferenginar looks like... but having said that there was the DS9 episode where Quark goes to visit his mother. When he arrives at the door while you can't see the buildings exteriors you can see the color of the atmosphere before he walks inside.
Also his mother house seemed to not have any windows in it, nor did many of the other buildings you saw in that episode from the Grand Negus offices, to the Ferengi Trade Commission, to a few others... but we did see the style of various internal buildings and how Ferengi look at interior architecture.
You think it would provide enough to make a beam down terminal with the Ferengi Trade Commision, Office of the Grand Negus, possibly one or two others connected buildings with no exterior windows or very limited as they seem to enjoy their privacy.
Still maybe they aren't familiar with that episode or struggled how to base a Ferenginar Command and Commerce beam down station? "Family Business" Season 3 Episode 23. I also remember I think it was a later episode where Quark returns to Ferenginar to find the Grand Negus standing in his closet to which he discovers he and his mother are in a relationship.
I'd welcome a Ferenginar beam down location but it be nice if it expanded options we could get with GPL.
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The rest of the ship cosmetics that go in the Visual slots are not in the GPL store. They're mission rewards (very few) or reputation items. This is one of those, not one of the holoemitters. The 2 categories of things behave quite differently, and are relegated to different places.
yep they also said we would get a ferenginar gr map with casinos in seas 5
Also his mother house seemed to not have any windows in it, nor did many of the other buildings you saw in that episode from the Grand Negus offices, to the Ferengi Trade Commission, to a few others... but we did see the style of various internal buildings and how Ferengi look at interior architecture.
You think it would provide enough to make a beam down terminal with the Ferengi Trade Commision, Office of the Grand Negus, possibly one or two others connected buildings with no exterior windows or very limited as they seem to enjoy their privacy.
Still maybe they aren't familiar with that episode or struggled how to base a Ferenginar Command and Commerce beam down station? "Family Business" Season 3 Episode 23. I also remember I think it was a later episode where Quark returns to Ferenginar to find the Grand Negus standing in his closet to which he discovers he and his mother are in a relationship.
I'd welcome a Ferenginar beam down location but it be nice if it expanded options we could get with GPL.