An idea for the Zen/Lobi store(s)

seannewboy · August 2013

Has anyone considered an purchasable unlock item, to unlock bound to character items. Even if it still was not sellable at least we could send it to other characters. I think this is an item that could be sold in either the zen or the lobi stores.

topset · August 2013

I like this idea, but I'm not sure Cryptic will go for it.

The reason Lobi stuff is Bind-to-character on pickup is so you have to accumulate lobi on every character you want a lobi item. On the whole that makes you open more lockboxes and pay more money.

Would be nice though, so +1

seannewboy · August 2013

Im not just talking about lobi stuff, anything use it, buy the item, and its unlocked to be used again.

dwhornet · August 2013

I'd like to see the alternate ship consoles appear in lobi store. For example if you acquire the Mobious destroyer, you should be able to pay 300 lobi for the Wells class console.

kapla1755 · August 2013

topset wrote: »

The reason Lobi stuff is Bind-to-character on pickup is so you have to accumulate lobi on every character you want a lobi item. On the whole that makes you open more lockboxes and pay more money.

/snip

pretty much the reason for all bind on character items including reputation gear. eg... Oh you want dilithium right now ?, well grind or we have a handy-dandy conversion system if your willing to spend some cash

dwhornet wrote: »

I'd like to see the alternate ship consoles appear in lobi store. For example if you acquire the Mobious destroyer, you should be able to pay 300 lobi for the Wells class console.

Sounds nice but.....
The Lobi store UI would need to have a separate AI routine to check a character's inventory to make sure they have the Mobius for example unboxed on the current character and update the Lobi store UI to show that yes I have that ship opened so i can now purchase the companion ship console, times "x" number of people in a similar situation each and every time you opened the interface it would become a resource hog with little benefit to the company and a potential revenue loss with people not trying to get the complimentary console from the other ship. All those Lobi store ships were purchased by someone who just decided to put them on exchange vs use it themselves , and i say thank you to everyone who does that.

mandoknight89 · August 2013

kapla1755 wrote: »

Sounds nice but.....
The Lobi store UI would need to have a separate AI routine to check a character's inventory to make sure they have the Mobius for example unboxed on the current character and update the Lobi store UI to show that yes I have that ship opened so i can now purchase the companion ship console, times "x" number of people in a similar situation each and every time you opened the interface it would become a resource hog with little benefit to the company and a potential revenue loss with people not trying to get the complimentary console from the other ship. All those Lobi store ships were purchased by someone who just decided to put them on exchange vs use it themselves , and i say thank you to everyone who does that.

Those checks? Already done, frequently, for other lockbox ships, for their unique equipment in the Dilithium store. Adding another check in the Lobi store wouldn't require all that much additional code. (And, since it's a simple check, it's not really even AI. It's just a routine.)

kapla1755 · August 2013

mandoknight89 wrote: »

Those checks? Already done, frequently, for other lockbox ships, for their unique equipment in the Dilithium store. Adding another check in the Lobi store wouldn't require all that much additional code. (And, since it's a simple check, it's not really even AI. It's just a routine.)

Ahh routine was the word I has searching for. tyvm

Dilithium store special equipment is also not available from any other source unlike the current lockbox consoles available on a separate ship. so the second point of potential revenue loss would still seem valid.

dl9905 · September 2013

what is the easieast and fastest way to get lobi?

dahminus · September 2013

dl9905 wrote: »

what is the easieast and fastest way to get lobi?

open lockboxes, easy and fastest is relative :P

davidwford · September 2013

mandoknight89 wrote: »

Those checks? Already done, frequently, for other lockbox ships, for their unique equipment in the Dilithium store. Adding another check in the Lobi store wouldn't require all that much additional code. (And, since it's a simple check, it's not really even AI. It's just a routine.)

No kidding. The game runs on a very centralized server. All game processing fuctions and algorithims occur on the server with none performed on the connecting server. That is the game's biggest weakness. If the main server gets a glitch or crashes, the enitre game stops.

Sad really, when private player instances such as the exploration missions could be easily accoplished locally by the connecting terminal in much the same way SETI de-centralized data processing by using remote computers connected to the internet. This reduced the SETI server's workload since it shared the data processing. I think that this game would work much better if some of that data processing was shared.

Likewise, since the Foundry UI does not interact with the main server except for game instance processing (and open chat) that part of the game could be almost completely off loaded to the user's computer. If that was done, then players could dicker with creating user missions while the server was down and undergoing repairs.

While this would do wonders for user gameing experience, Cryptic/Atari/Perfect World does not want to relenquish even a scrap of game control for fear of hackers breaking the game code and cheating.

An idea for the Zen/Lobi store(s)

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