I doubt you ever will get ZEN as a stipend. If they gave you ZEN, you could transfer it to any PW game. CP will still be "bound" to STO.
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The F2P matrix still lists the promotional points as C-points, and since it seems unlikely they would have moved all the webpage files and info to PWE servers and leave such a mistake seems unlikely.
Don't look silly... Don't call it the "Z-Store/Zen Store"...
The F2P matrix still lists the promotional points as C-points, and since it seems unlikely they would have moved all the webpage files and info to PWE servers and leave such a mistake seems unlikely.
They left the bit about lifetimers have special colors here in the forums....
Understand that I'm not an official source of information.
But I'm pretty sure that the stipend isn't going to change the way it works any time soon.
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If you mouse over the "[?]," you get the following:
Promotional Points differ from Cryptic Points in that they can only be used in Star Trek Online. Cryptic Points, however, may be used across all Cryptic Studios' games.
Thus, it is not just that they are not going to be in Zen because they only are usable in Cryptic games; technically, they are not even CP. They are promotional points and are only valid in STO, so, theoretically, they are not even usable in Champions Online, even though that is another Cryptic game and it uses CP. As such, until they change that policy, there won't be giving you Zen instead of "promotional points" usable in STO.
But, in answer to your question, since 100 Zen = 80 CP, the conversion formulas are:
Zen * .80 = CP
and
CP * 1.25 = Zen
Thus, if they were to give you the stipend in Zen, it would be 400 * 1.25 = 500 Zen.
500 Zen if they decide to convert everything to Zen, still 400 CP if they don't. IMO, it would be the logical move since having one universal currency that can be used in all PWE games would make things easier.
After all, you have 5000 CP in STO and are currently broke, but want some items in Jade Dynasty. You are pretty much screwed in obtaining any items for Jade Dynasty. With a universal currency, then there is no problem.
500 Zen if they decide to convert everything to Zen, still 400 CP if they don't. IMO, it would be the logical move since having one universal currency that can be used in all PWE games would make things easier.
After all, you have 5000 CP in STO and are currently broke, but want some items in Jade Dynasty. You are pretty much screwed in obtaining any items for Jade Dynasty. With a universal currency, then there is no problem.
Yeah, but the reason they do it the way they do is so that if you want items in Bot Online, oh, I mean Jade Dynasty you have to buy more zen.
The Z(C)-store prices are going to go up 25% also.
ah well....
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The Z(C)-store prices are going to go up 25% also.
ah well....
Technically that's not 'going up', that's just listing the items in a different currency. If the novel I buy is $10.00 US, but $12.50 CDN, it's not actually going up. (Well, it is, with the current exchange rate but...you know what I mean! So I could have picked a better example.)
Technically that's not 'going up', that's just listing the items in a different currency. If the novel I buy is $10.00 US, but $12.50 CDN, it's not actually going up. (Well, it is, with the current exchange rate but...you know what I mean! So I could have picked a better example.)
heh...
I mean what you know...
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So the stipend will stay as C-points?
They left the bit about lifetimers have special colors here in the forums....
Understand that I'm not an official source of information.
But I'm pretty sure that the stipend isn't going to change the way it works any time soon.
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Look at my name... we still have that feature.
If you mouse over the "[?]," you get the following:
Thus, it is not just that they are not going to be in Zen because they only are usable in Cryptic games; technically, they are not even CP. They are promotional points and are only valid in STO, so, theoretically, they are not even usable in Champions Online, even though that is another Cryptic game and it uses CP. As such, until they change that policy, there won't be giving you Zen instead of "promotional points" usable in STO.
But, in answer to your question, since 100 Zen = 80 CP, the conversion formulas are:
Zen * .80 = CP
and
CP * 1.25 = Zen
Thus, if they were to give you the stipend in Zen, it would be 400 * 1.25 = 500 Zen.
I asked Branflakes this yesterday on Twitter, he said we will continue to get the same cpoints as our stipend.
There we go... solved.
After all, you have 5000 CP in STO and are currently broke, but want some items in Jade Dynasty. You are pretty much screwed in obtaining any items for Jade Dynasty. With a universal currency, then there is no problem.
Roger, roger...
Yeah, but the reason they do it the way they do is so that if you want items in Bot Online, oh, I mean Jade Dynasty you have to buy more zen.
From this: https://twitter.com/PoisonFox/status/215546449017057281
to this: https://twitter.com/PWE_BranFlakes/status/216326608934539267
Which points to this: https://support.perfectworld.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/4136
Quick answer "500 Zen"
Yep, just read that.
The Z(C)-store prices are going to go up 25% also.
ah well....
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Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
Technically that's not 'going up', that's just listing the items in a different currency. If the novel I buy is $10.00 US, but $12.50 CDN, it's not actually going up. (Well, it is, with the current exchange rate but...you know what I mean! So I could have picked a better example.)
heh...
I mean what you know...
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Forever a STO Veteran-Minion