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Duty officer promotion from the weekend
speedforce73
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The drop rate to get a ship from the duty officers was ridiculous low, impossibly low. I spent $500 and did not get one t6 ship. I get they had to be rare but that takes it to far and I am disappointed in the amount of gambling from the LOOT boxes cryptic pushes out. There has to be a better way to obtain the ships then spending $1000's of dollars and hope for the best.
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I haven't done this, but I don't really want any of the lockbox/DOFF ships.
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You should now have enough lobi to get a lobi ship, but you might want to wait for a 20% off sale on the lobi store. Sales happen several times a year.
No one needs a promo or lock box ship, you can buy ships for 3000 zen or get 3 free a year from the events.
Cryptic gives us all the episode and TFO content for free, compared to $15 a month sub + $40 expansions, but most ships cost money. That's the funding model that players have chosen to support.
1) earn dil
2) trade for zen
3) use zen to buy lock box keys or R&D promo packs
4) sell those items on the exchange for EC
5) use that EC to buy the ship you want on the exchange
You can get any lock box ship you want without gambling or spending any of your own RL money.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
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Even cavier with gold dust is not that expensive.
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It's not "all or nothing". If lock boxes went away the games would simply sell the stuff in the store. They would make LESS money, but still LOTS of money. And yeah, they might have to "scale back". Not denying there would be changes, but again presenting an "all or nothing" scenario is unrealistic.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
I know you didn't. But you said that this game would SHUT DOWN if they got rid of boxes. That is "all"(having boxes) or "nothing"(no game). The quotation marks around "all or nothing" are just me referencing that phrase.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
In STO all content and 3 ships a year are free, many ships are $30, and some ships are $50 (lobi), $100 (lock box), $250+ (pack) on the exchange.
If you really, really want a Connie, you can buy it with the 2 years of subscription fees you didn't have to pay.
i actually had a spot of luck like that early this morning...someone goofed and posted one of the promo doff packs (i forget exactly which one) for 19k when its normal selling price is around 20m...needless to say, i snapped that up immediately
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