Exchange of (XB1)

crashdownbsg

I'm relatively new to STO, and I'd love to get a Kelvin Constitution, but why are they so damn expensive on the exchange?! Come to think of it, why are all ships so extortionate?! 100,000,000,000 for a Krenim ship?
Plus I saw a winter scarf on sale for 20,000,000 EC!!

leemwatson

crashdownbsg#7928 wrote: »

I'm relatively new to STO, and I'd love to get a Kelvin Constitution, but why are they so damn expensive on the exchange?! Come to think of it, why are all ships so extortionate?! 100,000,000,000 for a Krenim ship?
Plus I saw a winter scarf on sale for 20,000,000 EC!!

That's because it players setting that price. Nothing to do with Cryptic. STO's economy is a 'supply and demand' model. If no-one buys the ship, it'll likely be dropped in price.

crashdownbsg

I see, thanks.
But 20mil for a scarf, which players can get quite easily, is crazy!

admrenlarreck

Wait toward the end and check the prices of the ornaments and such they will skyrocket then.

darkbladejk

Assuming there's no weirdness going on ships go for a good chunk of change due to a number of factors. In part the harder a ship is to get the more it will go for. If only 1 out of every 1,000 lockboxes/promo packs drops a ship then the prices will reflect that vs a ship that has a 1 out of 100 drop rate. Once rarity of the ship is taken into account the next factor is supply and demand. If there is a large demand for the ships then they will go for higher also, especially if there isn't alot of them.

davefenestrator

FYI, the odds of getting a ship from a lock box are 1 in 250, based on years of people opening tens of thousands of boxes on the test server and hundreds on the real server. The odds of getting a ship from an R&D promo pack are 1 in 100. The R&D pack odds are better because the pack itself costs more.

That means the average cost per ship, before figuring in the value of the other pack or box contents, is $250 in real-world cash.

Does the price make more sense now? Whatever the "damn expensive" exchange cost cost is, if it is like the PC exchange then it is a lot less than $250.

On the PC, the exchange is a good way to get a ship with 100% success instead of gambling. You sell lock box keys or R&D PROMO packs (not regular packs, no one wants them) for credits, then use the credits to get the ship.

That's still expensive, but with lock box keys even opening 250 of them does NOT guarantee you a ship. Each box or pack is its own die roll, and you need to roll the 100 or 250 to get the ship.