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Latinum Trophies - Major Ripoff!

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
Someone mentioned Latinum Trophies on the forum and I decided to check them out. (Honestly didn't know they were in the game). You can buy 6 Latinum Trophies from the Hologram Device vendor, the most expensive being 500,000 Bars of Latinum. And each yields 10 Accolade points per purchase.

I had managed to save quite a fortune due to selling Prototype Consoles, and got curious and bought 4 consoles, one being the 500,000 trophy. And in the end, it was NOT worth it!


It's an obvious major money sink designed for those (like me) who sold tons of Prototype Consoles. And I really feel sorry for players who weren't fortunate enough to get Prototype consoles and worked up a fortune by doing Dabo, who end up buying these dead-end items. And those who played Dabo knows it takes a very long time to gain a small fortune.

Second, if you buy a more expensive trophy, you are only limited to showing the most expensive one!

Third, given the expense, they give absolutely no benefits whatsoever, outside of Bragging rights. Which really isn't worth squat, given the expense.



So don't bother buying these Trophies. You're better off spending your money on those Holograms Devices than these worthless displays. But if you do think this is a good buy, I got a Bridge in Brooklyn I'm interested in selling you. :rolleyes:
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    *dumps a copy of "Rules of Acquisition" on your toes*
    Number 16: A deal is a deal. :p



    See it like this... You exchanged a vast sum of GPL for an equal sum of GPL to show off to people.
    (not really working but eh...)
    Oh and rule 59: Free advice is seldom cheap.
    That will be 6 bars of GPL plz.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    They are trophies, and described as such, so what did you even expect? Honestly? They are there to spruce up your mess hall or ready room, just like every other trophy, so I see no issue here.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    I am reminded of the SWG "Millionaire" and "Billionaire" badges. How do you get them? Give the requisite number of credits to an NPC.

    Gym "And yes, people on the SWG fora complained about them being useless..." Quirk
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Gym_Quirk wrote:
    I am reminded of the SWG "Millionaire" and "Billionaire" badges. How do you get them? Give the requisite number of credits to an NPC.

    Gym "And yes, people on the SWG fora complained about them being useless..." Quirk
    I got the Billionaire one!
    Thank hell I married rich. :D


    *edit* +1
    Millionaire... Riiiiiight... Pocket change.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Chat wrote:
    I got the Millionaire one!
    Thank hell I married rich. :D

    It's hardly like there is much else to do...
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    what else are you going to do with that latinum
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    ACES_HIGH wrote: »
    what else are you going to do with that latinum
    Wait for something better to buy ;)

  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Is this United Federation of Planets or Ferengi Alliance?
    Pay for everything.
    List time i checked there was no curency in Federation so all this is stupid.
    And lower price on T5 retrofits.
    500 emblems is way to much.
    Give us back Federation not Ferengi
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    wrote:
    Is this United Federation of Planets or Ferengi Alliance?
    Pay for everything.
    List time i checked there was no curency in Federation so all this is stupid.
    And lower price on T5 retrofits.
    500 emblems is way to much.
    Give us back Federation not Ferengi
    There is currency in the Federation. You think all those enlisted and officers work for free and then all get shiny new homes and cars when they retire just because? You think Picard gives away his bottles of wine? You think Pops Sisko gives away the food at his restaurant for free?

    The goal of the 25th century isn't to make money but that doesn't mean people don't. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Cosmic_One wrote: »
    There is currency in the Federation. You think all those enlisted and officers work for free and then all get shiny new homes and cars when they retire just because? You think Picard gives away his bottles of wine? You think Pops Sisko gives away the food at his restaurant for free?

    The goal of the 25th century isn't to make money but that doesn't mean people don't. :)


    And here you'd be quite wrong:
    Star Trek Economics for dummies

    (yes it's not a wiki, but gues what they are also just sites with information posted by other people. so it's the same darn thing people. Wikis are NOT official either.)

    Basically this explains that the Federation doesn't use money anymore. Shiny homes? You can replicate shiny homes, because everyone has the same darn thing!
    Picard and Sisko did give their food/wine away for free. The point of Federation 'economics' is simply to better ones self. There's no more capatalism, since all the basic needs for anyone can be replicated by Fussion (not fission) powered devices. Nothing has a 'cost' anymore, only a personal value.

    Credits are simply a way for the Federation to make trades with less...shall we say, advanced societies that still put a monetary value on items.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Chat wrote:
    *dumps a copy of "Rules of Acquisition" on your toes*
    Number 16: A deal is a deal. :p

    See it like this... You exchanged a vast sum of GPL for an equal sum of GPL to show off to people.
    (not really working but eh...)
    Oh and rule 59: Free advice is seldom cheap.
    That will be 6 bars of GPL plz.

    Just funny in order to display that pile of Latinum you earned, you had to spend it. Typical Ferengi overcharge. :p
    Foxrocks wrote:
    They are trophies, and described as such, so what did you even expect? Honestly? They are there to spruce up your mess hall or ready room, just like every other trophy, so I see no issue here.

    Not exactly worth 500,000 if you ask me. Especially if you been grinding at the Dabo wheel for months to work up that much. :rolleyes:
    ACES_HIGH wrote: »
    what else are you going to do with that latinum

    Buy a moon? ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    wrote:
    And here you'd be quite wrong:
    Star Trek Economics for dummies

    (yes it's not a wiki, but gues what they are also just sites with information posted by other people. so it's the same darn thing people. Wikis are NOT official either.)

    Basically this explains that the Federation doesn't use money anymore. Shiny homes? You can replicate shiny homes, because everyone has the same darn thing!
    Picard and Sisko did give their food/wine away for free. The point of Federation 'economics' is simply to better ones self. There's no more capatalism, since all the basic needs for anyone can be replicated by Fussion (not fission) powered devices. Nothing has a 'cost' anymore, only a personal value.

    Credits are simply a way for the Federation to make trades with less...shall we say, advanced societies that still put a monetary value on items.
    So your argument is predicated on a non-canon piece of work that starts out with "unofficial" in it's title? Really? Good luck with that theory. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    It does seem to me a couple times in the shows or movies they mentioned that they don't have a use for money. In the one TNG episode where they find a bunch of 20th century people who had been frozen until science could heal them, one of them was a business man and Picard told him that the Federation had outgrown the need for money.

    Here's a series of quotes from Memory Alpha. Which I know isn't canon, but the quotes are from the shows/movies.

    * When Lily Sloane asked how much the USS Enterprise-E cost to build, Picard tells her "The economics of the future is somewhat different. You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century... The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force in our lives. We work to better ourselves and the rest of Humanity." (Star Trek: First Contact)

    * When Nog suggests that Jake should bid for a baseball card in an auction, Jake says "I'm Human, I don't have any money." Nog replies "It's not my fault that your species decided to abandon currency-based economics in favor of some philosophy of self-enhancement." Jake says "Hey, watch it. There's nothing wrong with our philosophy. We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity." Nog then replies "What does that mean?" Jake responds "It means we don't need money!" Nog quickly points out, however, that Jake wouldn't be able to bid or borrow. (DS9: "In the Cards")

    * Jake: (big smile) "I sold my first book today." Quark: "Really? How much did you get for it?" Jake: "It's just a figure of speech. The Federation News Service is going to publish a book of my stories about life on the station under Dominion rule." Jake then confirmed Quark's suspicion that he was not paid. (DS9: "You Are Cordially Invited")

    * Tom Paris says about the significance of Fort Knox: "When the New World Economy took shape in the late 22nd century and money went the way of the dinosaur, Fort Knox was turned into a museum." (VOY: "Dark Frontier")

    So it seems that most members of the Federation don't actually have any form of currency, and any currency is mostly used when dealing with other governments.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Solarfox wrote:
    It does seem to me a couple times in the shows or movies they mentioned that they don't have a use for money. In the one TNG episode where they find a bunch of 20th century people who had been frozen until science could heal them, one of them was a business man and Picard told him that the Federation had outgrown the need for money.
    The series has always been inconsistent and it always depended upon which writer did the script. For example, in the very first episode of TNG Crusher tells the merchant at Farpoint station to bill her account on the Enterprise. There are other such instances as well. Star Trek is full of continuity which contradicts itself. It's just the way it is.

    Certain writers wanted to take a more Socialist view, and I have no problem with that, but it doesn't work across the Federation. Does Lwaxana Troi's man-servant work for free because Betazed is part of the Federation? Do the dressmakers who make her clothes? How do all those officers and people in Quark's bar pay for drinks, and where'd they get the GPL to gamble with? It's not all as clear as a few writers wanted to make it.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    I'll echo the same disappointment as Azurian. When I heard about trophies, I expected something interesting. Having access to multiple piles of gold ingots that are blatantly moneysinks had my mood - at the time - turn very sour.

    No, I did not buy them. I like earning new accolades, but this was ridiculous. I would have to be much much more obscenely rich before I even went to spend such enormous amounts of GPL... and I had plenty of prototype consoles on hand. It's like saying that I traded by nice science consoles for cruddy piles of gold. Bleh!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Is this United Federation of Planets or Ferengi Alliance?
    Pay for everything.
    List time i checked there was no curency in Federation so all this is stupid.
    And lower price on T5 retrofits.
    500 emblems is way to much.
    Give us back Federation not Ferengi
    By the time I joined TNG, Gene had decreed that money most emphatically did NOT exist in the Federation, nor did 'credits' and that was that. Personally, I've always felt this was a bunch of hooey, but it was one of the rules and that's that.

    I agree. a bunch of hooey. the Farpoint "charge it to the Enterprise" is even funnier when you read this quote. Oopsy.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Azurian wrote: »
    Just funny in order to display that pile of Latinum you earned, you had to spend it. Typical Ferengi overcharge. :p
    Well it's my explanation for it. Sounds better in my head. :D
    The actual cost is for the erm... podium?

    Rule 102: Nature decays, but latinum lasts forever.
    The storage for the GPL is very costly. You have payed in advance, yes?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Well, thanks to this thread i realised that there's now something a heck of a lot better to buy for GPL than 15 minute holo-emitters. I'm happy with my 500,000 GPL pile, heck i just wish i could buy 1,000,000 or 10,000,000 or even 100,000,000 piles. I could then recreate shenanigans like these!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited October 2010
    Azurian wrote: »
    Buy a moon? ;)

    I see what you did there. :p

    Now that would be cool. I would definately buy one. ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    [12/23 22:09] You lost 200,000 Gold-Pressed Latinum

    [12/23 22:09] Item acquired: Latinum Ingots - Wall Trophy

    [12/23 22:09] You used Latinum Ingots - Wall Trophy

    Least you got something. All I got was this message then nothing.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    You want to know what really sucks?

    I bought the 500k Latinum floor trophy.

    Damn thing didn't even show up when I went to display it on my ship.

    Sent a bug report. It's still not there.

    :mad:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    This post has been edited to remove content which violates the Cryptic Studios Forum Usage Guidelines ~GM Tiyshen
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    "By the time I joined TNG, Gene had decreed that money most emphatically did NOT exist in the Federation, nor did 'credits' and that was that. Personally, I've always felt this was a bunch of hooey, but it was one of the rules and that's that." - Ronald Moore.

    The Federation's currency (or lack there of) has always gone back and forth, depending on the writer. Either way, Gene wasn't doing Star Trek any favors by trying to absolve currency and infighting in the Federation. It removed a lot of potential storylines, as has been noted many times by Star Trek writers.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Troglis wrote: »
    This post has been edited to remove content which violates the Cryptic Studios Forum Usage Guidelines ~GM Tiyshen

    LOL really, so your company is so horrible at customer service that you will remove my post and give me an infraction. You know you just proved my point that you people have no idea what your doing. Instead of removing posts and handing out infractions, or using your ban hammer, why dont you use your time fixing all the problems that this game has and you wont have people talking bad about your company. Of Course that makes sense, so you all obviously will never figure it out.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    Solarfox wrote:
    It does seem to me a couple times in the shows or movies they mentioned that they don't have a use for money. In the one TNG episode where they find a bunch of 20th century people who had been frozen until science could heal them, one of them was a business man and Picard told him that the Federation had outgrown the need for money.

    Picard actually told Ralph Offenhouse:
    "A lot has changed in three hundred years. People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of 'things'. We have eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions."

    Interpret it how you will.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited December 2010
    The loaded accolade is worh it :cool:
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