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Latinum - What is it good for, anyway?
thetratz
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Not much.
My suggestion is that we make it a trade-able commodity. Or at least, add more items to the game (maybe illicit items for duty officers?) that depend on Latinum. A black market would be pretty cool. Then give players the option to exchange latinum between eachother for energy credits. Then you could launder credits/stolen goods. Suppose players were allowed to attack/engage other players who are busted for smuggling and laundering stolen goods/contraband were one of the ways you could loose the heat. That would be pretty cool!
There's no reason that this currency has to be so damned useless.
My suggestion is that we make it a trade-able commodity. Or at least, add more items to the game (maybe illicit items for duty officers?) that depend on Latinum. A black market would be pretty cool. Then give players the option to exchange latinum between eachother for energy credits. Then you could launder credits/stolen goods. Suppose players were allowed to attack/engage other players who are busted for smuggling and laundering stolen goods/contraband were one of the ways you could loose the heat. That would be pretty cool!
There's no reason that this currency has to be so damned useless.
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Maybe I was exspecting to much but when I first got some latinum I really thought it would be used to buy ferengi outfits and ships, not some holo ships and some kind of trophy for your ship - like anyone will ever visit my ship and go wow! you have a trophy.. it would be more like "wow! you have a lot of time on your hands". Or maybe after something like 3 months of playing this game I have missed out on where you spend it.
1=100 or as PWE would prefer 1 Latinum = 97.3 EC lol
But why would people buy Keys to open the lock boxes?
That is far and away the stupidest reason I have ever heard of for something like that. So basically they are saying, "We screwed you, deal with it" We duped you into buying SOOOOO much latinum that we fear the tidal wave of purchases that would come of it if we ever opened a store...so...enjoy your worthless latinum!
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Then they need to do what any other MMO does when a currency is hoarded. Create a Currency sink.
Something that takes no time or effort on PWE/Cryptic's part, gives the players something "neat" and consumes MASS amounts of the hoarded currency.
EX:
Introducing the new PERMANENT Ship Holo-emitter, only 500,000 GPL! The All new Phase Compression High Density rifle with auto remodulator, only 1 million GLP!.
Just some new items at EXTREME prices. Items people will want.
OR use GPL to buy respecs for a limited time. TRade GPL for Dilithium to a special vendor.
There's a plethora of things they could introduce to remove the massive glut of hoarded GPL. They would rather add another Curency though, one that uses an inventory/bank slot forcing the player to buy yet another Bank/inventory upgrade.
For the ships and the other items they shove in the boxes. The Lobi crystals should never have been a part of that.
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How were you duped into buying latinum? You can buy as many arcade tokens as you like (well could back in the day when there were arcades), but just because you could buy as many as you want doesn't mean it is reasonable to expect that to make the arcade games better, or to make them trade-able for a new car or something.
It sounds more like you got duped by a third party site than Cryptic, and even then, why would you spend any extra effort/cash on a blind assumption of value?
I would agree with that, GPL is worthless in my eyes and the stuff you can buy with it isn't worth the time you need to take to gather the GPL. I would have rather the Lobi Store had been the Latinum store and just had it more available at more locations or like how the Lobi Store is now.
I wouldn't complain about buying any of the following:
Anything Ferengi-based. Aka, costume parts, maybe the Energy Whip, and so on.
Rarer foods and drink, especially for cross-faction stuff (like more easily gotten Blood Wine for Fed players). Maybe even a few new things.
Also, DOFFs. As for what kinds, it'd be interesting, maybe even just one-time deals, like...5 Nausicaans (and very few questions), who would be various security/tactical guys of at least green quality.
A Ferengi lock-box, or at least the Mystery Box, maybe one with a slightly better chance of getting a gold box?
A Master Key? Just a one-time purchase either per character, or per account.
'Acquired' equipment from 'reliable' sources? Like an impulse engine that boosts your weapons, aux, and shield power like the efficient engine, but only has half the max speed at full impulse? Or a rifle that has a lot of power, but tends to 'lock' up?
A low-class trip to Ferenginar? See it's 'beautiful' torrential rains?
A high-class trip to Ferenginar? Even getting a brief 5-minute visit with the Grand Nagus himself?
A small amount of Gamma Quadrant Commodities? (To keep it fair, maybe only once a day, or even only once a week you could get them)
Another latinum wall trophy, so I can stop having to have a ship or accolade trophy on the wall with my lovely latinum slips, strips, and ingots. I don't care what it's called, how it looks, or even how much it costs, I just want one already.
Your own Leela hologram (maybe as a DOFF as a seperate thing) and a Dabo table for your ship and/or space station.
Give me things to buy with my latinum, and for every character I have, I will gladly spend hours sitting at Drozana or DS9 listening to Leela say the same things OVER and OVER while I play Dabo.
Might not make them profit striaght away but if you think about it, the more things to gain in a game and build your charactor up, the more your going to play and stay attached which in the long run will keep you here donating... thats the way I see it. There needs to be enough in the game to keep me interested.... interested = donations. If everything in this game comes down to money then what kind of game is it - a gambling game? instead of a Star Trek game where money was ment to have been rid-of for the betterment of humanity - this game goes totally againts what Star Trek stood for. I really don't feel i'm playing Star Trek when it comes down to eveything has to have a dollor sign attached to it.
Its a company run by board members who answer to shareholders who want a return on their investment. Lets not kid ourselves. Its not a gambling game, its a product made by a business whose goal is to turn a profit.
Reality check is there are metrics that decide where the resources go. If the metrics don't show latinum fluff turning a profit versus the investment then it doesn't get worked on. You mentioned how this game is not very star trek - to help put it into perspective imagine Cryptic as a Ferengi business. They won't give stuff away in hopes you spend money. That is very star trek, just maybe not star fleet so you seem to be confusing yourself with the two. Sorry its not to your liking but that's how the real world works.
That's pretty much all I use GPL for.
Maybe they will be added for Colonies or some other holding later on.
Of course I also think Latinum should be what Dilithium currently is.
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Be black on the right side. Add properly colored Cheron to the game today!
Adding stuff to the Latinum store will make people want to get Latinum
People trying to get latinum will be in game more
People in game more will be more apt to buy the Cstore shineys.
Following your logic they should never ever add free content. We shouldn't have Starbases or the new Tholian mission.
Yes Cryptic wants to make money. I'm all for it and if they want to put stuff I want on the C-store I will happily buy it. Cryptic also has a lot of good devs that want to have as much fun as we do. Not every decision or addition to this game has to be monetized. The vast amount of content in Season 6 proves it.
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Be black on the right side. Add properly colored Cheron to the game today!
Hey I totally agree with you, but obviously the developers have different metrics than the players do. That's why the gpl store hasn't been upgraded in almost 2 years.
Lets be honest with ourselves - the fleet star base system will retain more players than adding to the gpl store. I'm not saying they won't add to it. You just have to prioritize your projects when you have such a tiny staff.
The fleet star base system is also monetized - it uses dilithium in case you didn't realize.
This totally makes sense.
Here's how I see it. Why not make GPL available on the C-Store market, then make useful items available in game for GPL only (black market stuff?)...now here's the kicker, remove the ability to play Dabo with energy credits in exchange for latinum. If you play with EC, then you get EC. You play with Latinum, you get Latinum OR energy credits.
Done deal.
Yeah I agree, I dont have much latinum but I find myself using EC an awful lot! So yeah.
This would be a good idea but some players already have tens of millions of gpl grandfathered on their characters.