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freemason4
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I'm not real keen in the idea of giving my credit card info without knowing what I'm paying for. Is the cost of Zen described anywhere? IE: How much zen per $.
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If you buy $50.00-$100 worth of points you get a small bonus and at $200.00 it is slightly bigger still.
As for the bonuses for spending more... I think I'll go to the store. Getting more virtual stuff is all fine and dandy, but God and my wife would hurt me.
Back to the dilly grind I guess.
PS: I'm more afraid of my wife in this respect.
Can you pay for zen through PayPal?
JP
Not sure if you're meaning directly from your PayPal account. PayPal IS a payment processor for PWE.
To the OP: The formula is $1 USD = 100 ZEN if using a payment processor. Prepaid cards follow the same conversion but are only available in the US and Canada (at least, per the billing options page).
If you're in the EU, you'll be charged in Euros, and VAT may be applicable.
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It's PWE, not PWI, and international transfer fees are usually assessed by your bank, not PWE.
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PWE is based in the US, that means that we don't have to pay any international transfer fees
SO, if an Investigate officer Report takes ... 15 minutes and grants 996 D (plus FM), then you are "working" for about $4.00 an hour.
Naturally, if the D Market has a higher D ratio to Z, then the numbers are skewed. AND if the Investigate Officer Report takes you longer to complete, then you are working for less money per hour.
For my part, if I want Zen, I'll just pay out of pocket. Faster, easier and allows me to play the game my way. If I need D ... well, that's another story
How can one ascribe value to utter peace of mind?
Methinks more meditation is in order.
My post was directed at the person complaining about paying international fees.
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But you do pay a markup at the store (sometimes) plus sales tax (unless you're in Oregon or other no-tax location).
For example, at my local gamestop after everything is added up the prepaid $20 card costs $25.70 which makes it not worth buying even during the 15% bonus zen sale.
You're not giving your CC information to PWE in the first place. Even if you choose direct debit, you're still running your information through a third-party processor.
That's the reason PWE (and many other companies) use third-parties at all. They deal with the information and therefore the liability that comes with it.
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Your CC number isn't stored by Cryptic or PWE unless they want turn there Data Center into a Fort Knox level of security. No your credit card is stored at PWE's payment processor. PCI compliance is even worse that the US government's security policies (with I have deal with at work).
Also, a few other questions if you're so kind to answer:
What career is best for noobs? I'm guessing the answer is either tactical or it doesn't matter. However, I'd assume if any career path helps you grind out levels the fastest, it would be tactical for killing enemies faster. Also, if a certain career is better for grinding resources, I'd like to know because I can use that to fund another character (if possible) that I'll like more after learning from all the mistakes I made with the first one.
What can you regret doing as you learn this game / what will prevent me from having to buy the respecialization/reset item? I'm guessing it's just what skills you level up. I'll be reading guides so I specialize on what I intend to. Also, are there quest caps. Some games, new players sometimes regret not knowing about certain quests that give special items and/or points and when they find out about it, they cannot do the quest anymore.
That's pretty much it for me. I spent one day trying to play the game, and I was really lost. I tried to read up on the game, but it resulted in basically a braindead person staring into space. Think it's best to just jump in and learn, but the above three questions pretty much prevented me from diving into the game at full force. Thanks STO community!
Yup, any Zen you buy from the store or buy ingame via the Dil exchange is exacually the same, no difference when it comes down to buying upgrades like extra slots, EC upgrade ect
One good thing most people do is get a sub for 1 month while levelling up your characters as when you drop back to silver (F2P) you get to keep the bonuses earned - its best to find a cheap unopened copy of the game for the game code with 1 month of gold membership as it will be cheaper than a sub
With that you get 1 respec token every 10 levels, 500 Zen (normally to buy the EC upgrade with), Account Bank, extra Inventory, Extra Bank slots, more BO slots and i think a couple of other goodies
STOWiki might help you
All the quests/missions can be replayed, if you do a lieutent mission and like the item at maximum level you could go back and redo the mission and get the item again but with better stats ect
Kinda expensive as you have to pay in euros and there is a exchange rate to favor in
VAT as well if i remember correctly.
at a lesser value though your actually paying more money than you are getting zen in the long run its better to buy a card or just buy off the website.
you don't have to put any numbers from your card in just click on the type of card you have or want to use and then it shows amounts you can buy you don't actually put your card numbers in till your actually gonna do the purchase.
I get my $20 cards from walgreens and there is no tax included I live in Colorado so I am not excluded of sales tax just certain items do not get hit with the sales tax like most things I even have bought from Wal-mart and had no sales tax on the cards.
your first question was answered for ya and it was correct you can get anything in the c-store buy exchanging dilithium for zen. The other question might be answered by you once you figure out your style of game play since most the game deals with space combat you might (not always) spec for space and not worry to much about ground but that depends on you as well I like to play both so I put into both space and ground.
I play each class and have 21 characters 13 Feds and 8 KDF and find that yes I use my tacs for going after dilithium and some times my engineers as well but not as much as the tacs also besides STOwiki.org you might look into stoacademy.com as it helps me with planning my skill tree and you can find other players builds there as well, hope some of this helps you out, but remember the most important thing just have fun playing and experiencing the game and in turn you will find what you like the most.