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Dilithium EV Suits are Overpriced?

mightybobcncmightybobcnc Member Posts: 3,354 Arc User
edited February 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I should preface this by saying I have no interest in the EV suits in the dilithium store, but wow 300,000+ for a suit that has inferior stats to other suits that are completely free? Even the fleet holding special projects are only 200,000. I think Cryptic needs to reevaluate the price of this forgotten vanity item since free items are now superior to it.
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  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Perhaps they are that price because they do not want anyone to buy them? :)
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    edited February 2014
    I'm pretty sure it's a joke made by Cryptic. It's a Ferengi ship selling overpriced items. You could get the orange one free during the first week DIL mining came out.

    The joke is no one wants them because they're so overpriced. Only weirdos (and fools) would buy those.
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  • adverberoadverbero Member Posts: 2,045 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Back when they were the only suits availible other than the freebies that were in the old style, I did see people wearing them as vanity items

    But since then, Why would you use them, of course your not gonna buy one
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  • kozar2kozar2 Member Posts: 602 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Look on the exchanged. A few EC will get you a good suit.
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  • dontbefooleddontbefooled Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    mightybobcnc wrote: »
    I should preface this by saying I have no interest in the EV suits in the dilithium store, but wow 300,000+ for a suit that has inferior stats to other suits that are completely free? Even the fleet holding special projects are only 200,000. I think Cryptic needs to reevaluate the price of this forgotten vanity item since free items are now superior to it.

    Then don't buy one FFS. They are for MINING!!
  • saiwotsaiwot Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    They are just a few of those forgotten things that haven't been fixed yet. At least they made the C-Store EV suits vet rewards and they do look nice IMO. Maybe they would have sold well if they had come with a costume unlock. I think for the longest time I used the free one I got from the Dominion FE series.

    Looking at the 300K dilithium EV suits the idea that Cryptic ever thought they would be vanity items worth 300K dilithium is mind blowing. EV suits are not a big part of this game to start with and there are comparable suits available for a few thousand EC on the exchange. That being said if I had a billion dilithium and those EV suits were the best ground armor in the game I still would not buy 1 of them. :rolleyes:
  • revandarklighterrevandarklighter Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    adverbero wrote: »
    Back when they were the only suits availible other than the freebies that were in the old style, I did see people wearing them as vanity items

    But since then, Why would you use them, of course your not gonna buy one

    I would have bought those if they weren't per character.
    Well now I have them as a vet reward account wide so what^^
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  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I'm sure if someone has that kind of Dil to blow. All power to them. However for my Bridge Officers I usually collect several from the Dominion/Cardassia missions. Then I usually get one from Nukura from those rewards. Which I give to my Captain to make them stand out from my other officers.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    nakedsnake001 wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure it's a joke made by Cryptic. It's a Ferengi ship selling overpriced items. You could get the orange one free during the first week DIL mining came out.

    The joke is no one wants them because they're so overpriced. Only weirdos (and fools) would buy those.
    And I did. :D It was priceless seeing the reactions of people when I was pugging Nukara int Hard. Everyone wondered what it was and where I'd gotten it. :P
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    These EV Suits were introduced when there was practically nothing to use for Dilithium. They were the elite version of the regular EV suit, but now with far better EV suits available, they are completely useless.
  • kestrelliuskestrellius Member Posts: 462 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    You know, I noticed this, and how ridiculous the price was, even compared to the other, IMO, overly-high dil prices. I'm going to have to go with the people saying it's a joke. Even back in the day, I don't really see how this price could have been justified. Then again, that was before my time.
  • szerontzurszerontzur Member Posts: 2,724 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    /shrug

    It's a novelty item. Simply don't worry about it unless you really want to be a "special" snowflake.
  • tobar26thtobar26th Member Posts: 799 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    nakedsnake001 wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure it's a joke made by Cryptic. It's a Ferengi ship selling overpriced items. You could get the orange one free during the first week DIL mining came out.

    The joke is no one wants them because they're so overpriced. Only weirdos (and fools) would buy those.

    I think there's a little of this and a little of it just being a big TRIBBLE dilithium sink for those with money to waste :)
  • alexvio1alexvio1 Member Posts: 389 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    f2pdrakron wrote: »
    same notion as the KDF/Federation EVA suits in the C-Store that, surprise, also didnt sell.
    They gave these suits for veterans because they put free ones to the new FE.
  • thutmosis85thutmosis85 Member Posts: 2,358 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    nakedsnake001 wrote: »
    I'm pretty sure it's a joke made by Cryptic. It's a Ferengi ship selling overpriced items. You could get the orange one free during the first week DIL mining came out.

    Don't be silly ... whats next? ... Lobi Crystals being worth anything ... ;)
    alexvio1 wrote: »
    They gave these suits for veterans because they put free ones to the new FE.

    3-4 months later ... sorry don't see any connection here ...
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  • rylanadionysisrylanadionysis Member Posts: 3,359 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I didnt even know these existed actually, I always bought the 100 dilithium ones out of the dilithium store for my bridge crew whenever I needed to do the rom rep missions.

    then i just toss em out O_o
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  • tarastheslayertarastheslayer Member Posts: 1,541 Bug Hunter
    edited February 2014
    rylanadionysis wrote: »
    I didnt even know these existed actually, I always bought the 100 dilithium ones out of the dilithium store for my bridge crew whenever I needed to do the rom rep missions.

    then i just toss em out O_o

    Go to the vendor at the back of Vlugta Mine where you talk to the Ferengi for the missions, the vendor is on that walkway (in case you don't know). But yeah they're immensely expensive for some ev suits...
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  • sonnikkusonnikku Member Posts: 77 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    This is one of those many unintentional running gags of MMO makers not paying attention to the realities of going rates and the flow and need of items value under the mechanics of their games.
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  • azniadeetazniadeet Member Posts: 1,871 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Back when 1 zen would buy you 300 dilithium, these things just weren't that expensive.

    I wish they would do something to differentiate the visuals between this suit, and some of the very similar Nukara suits. Really make that yellow pop! It's a great vanity piece, let's make it stand out!
  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    saiwot wrote: »
    They are just a few of those forgotten things that haven't been fixed yet. At least they made the C-Store EV suits vet rewards and they do look nice IMO. Maybe they would have sold well if they had come with a costume unlock.

    I wish. :(
  • jeffel82jeffel82 Member Posts: 2,075 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    At the time those things were put into the game, both EV suits and the dilithium economy were fairly new additions to the game. Even then, I always thought it was ridiculous.

    Now? Much, much more so.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    rylanadionysis wrote: »
    I didnt even know these existed actually, I always bought the 100 dilithium ones out of the dilithium store for my bridge crew whenever I needed to do the rom rep missions.

    then i just toss em out O_o
    Boldly they rode has an indefinite supply of FREE ev suits. :P

    Oh and one of the vet perks is being able to claim free combat EV suits.
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