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Ship Pack request.

ragestroke008ragestroke008 Member Posts: 203 Arc User
edited January 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Lets say you save up your Zen and buy one from the Bortasqu, Odyssey or any of the 3-ship pack. Then you decide you like the ship and buy a second one.

My idea; If you buy two separately, you get the third free. Works out since you already paid the 5000, why not?
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  • dahminusdahminus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I'd love this feature so much...but I can see why cryptic wouldn't due to a loss in potential revenue
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  • thegalaxy31thegalaxy31 Member Posts: 1,211 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Really bad idea.
    I would love to visit this star in-game...or maybe this one!
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  • jarodroto123jarodroto123 Member Posts: 1,337 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    This would be nice, but like the Lifetime Sub the point of the packs is to reward those who put the money up front.
  • earlnyghthawkearlnyghthawk Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Not to mention, many stores don't offer a "buy 1 part of the set now, buy a second part later, and we'll give you the third for free" I guess maybe a "mom & pop" type store, if they knew you well enough, MIGHT do that. But most stores in general, either you buy whatever set it is, for the whole price, or you buy piecemeal, and pay the individual prices as you go.
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  • erei1erei1 Member Posts: 4,081 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    dahminus wrote: »
    I'd love this feature so much...but I can see why cryptic wouldn't due to a loss in potential revenue
    They give a ship for free, and you don't see the loss in revenue ? They don't earn anything from this.
    earlnyghthawk wrote: »
    Not to mention, many stores don't offer a "buy 1 part of the set now, buy a second part later, and we'll give you the third for free" I guess maybe a "mom & pop" type store, if they knew you well enough, MIGHT do that. But most stores in general, either you buy whatever set it is, for the whole price, or you buy piecemeal, and pay the individual prices as you go.
    This.
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  • nobletnoblet Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Nobody will buy the 3 pack outright then, since there's zero benefit in doing so.
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  • dahminusdahminus Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    erei1 wrote: »
    They give a ship for free, and you don't see the loss in revenue ? They don't earn anything from this.

    No...you misread, I said I "CAN" see that there would be a loss...
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  • alan171717alan171717 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    How about buy two get one half off?
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  • ragestroke008ragestroke008 Member Posts: 203 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Then why have them individually? Don't sell them separately. 3 individual for 7500 or a pack for 5000. That's a buying option that doesn't make sense.
    Time is a funny thing; There is always too much of it. Except when you need it the most, then there is never enough.
  • earlnyghthawkearlnyghthawk Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    ragestroke008 wrote: »
    Then why have them individually? Don't sell them separately. 3 individual for 7500 or a pack for 5000. That's a buying option that doesn't make sense.

    Because some people get "gottahaveitnow-itis", but can only afford one ship out of the pack, instead of showing a little patience, doubling their amount of zen in stock, and THEN buying the 3-pack. So the just get one, and then later have "buyer's remorse", when they decided they should have gotten all 3.
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  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    ragestroke008 wrote: »
    Lets say you save up your Zen and buy one from the Bortasqu, Odyssey or any of the 3-ship pack. Then you decide you like the ship and buy a second one.

    My idea; If you buy two separately, you get the third free. Works out since you already paid the 5000, why not?

    D'aaaaawwww, who got a horrid case of buyer's remorse and wants to slingshot around the sun, go back in time, and buy the 3-pack retroactively?

    Someone who's going to be disappointed again, that's who! :D
  • maskedmarvel1maskedmarvel1 Member Posts: 119 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Why do the 3 ship bundles alway's have to be the 3 slightly different versions of the same ship, I would be inclined to buy more ship bundles if they gave you something like an assault cruiser regent , a defiant and a vesta , then I could use all three ships instead of loading all the consoles onto one ship in the bundle and only using that.
  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    ragestroke008 wrote: »
    Then why have them individually? Don't sell them separately. 3 individual for 7500 or a pack for 5000. That's a buying option that doesn't make sense.
    So that the people who don't need all the gimmick consoles can just buy one ship at 2,500 and be done with it.
  • vocmcpvocmcp Member Posts: 1,134 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    erei1 wrote: »
    They give a ship for free, and you don't see the loss in revenue ? They don't earn anything from this.


    This.

    No they don't give you a ship for free. Actually they give you ONE ship and make you spend an additional 2500 zen for two bloody expensive consoles. Take a look at those packs. The three ships are exactly identical except for minor looks and the console layouts. Given that you equip a lot of universal consoles these days that doesn't matter at all. All other stats and the boff layout are the same. So no.... you don't get three ships. You get one with three consoles. And you paid a lot of money for it. That's all.
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  • raphaeldisantoraphaeldisanto Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Actually, they're not identical. Taking the Oddy as an example - the power bonuses are appropriate to the type of cruiser you'll be flying - Tactical gets +10 weapons, Operations (engineer) gets +5 to everything, Science splits it's bonus between shield and aux.

    The console layouts are different in each, as well.

    The three ships in the Andorian 3-pack are also different - even more different than the Oddy's, since the Andorian ships each have unique BOff layouts as well as the different console configs.

    No, it's not a huge difference in either case, but they are different.
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  • mikeflmikefl Member Posts: 861 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    ragestroke008 wrote: »
    Then why have them individually? Don't sell them separately. 3 individual for 7500 or a pack for 5000. That's a buying option that doesn't make sense.

    Because some people only want one type of ship... I buy the three packs but many times I find myself only really playing a particular build but I still the 3 consoles that way.

    The ship pack is to reward people for buying all three up front without knowing how well it will handle or if they will like them. If you could try before you buy then they wouldn't sell the 3 packs at all but this way they get commitment up front and give you a free variation for doing so.
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  • jedigeneralpika#5253 jedigeneralpika
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    You know what i want is a pack that has all of the galaxy variants in it
  • echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,916 Arc User
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  • darkbladejkdarkbladejk Member Posts: 3,806 Community Moderator
    avast ye zombie, back to the netherworld with ye foul necromancy /closed
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