Just a friendly warning, for those that want to buy packs on the exchange.
Cryptic has changed the way the JHAS can drop during the current promotion!!!!
This time around the ship and lobi are in a "wrapper-box" that got build around the normal "Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Pack".
This "wrapper" is called "Promotion! - Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Pack". This box contains the lobi or JHAS plus one normal "Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Pack".
THE INFORMATION IN THE ZEN STORE IS INCORRECT!!!!
THE SHIP AND LOBY DO NOT DROP FROM THE "Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Pack"!!!!
Good question, but reading is fundamental and the key to all your questions. Bolding and making yellow the important part: "...including the ability to contain bonus prizes during special Duty Officer promotions that affect this pack IF it is opened during that promotion."
This promotion DOES NOT affect this pack, therefore, no, this is not eligible. If there happens to be a promotion "that affects all" or "that affects the GQ Cadre", then it would be eligible.
We don't want what the Feds have. We want the equivalent. We want fairer treatment. Concern, desire, greed to some extent, and passionate belief that the enough people would buy KDF items to make it worth Cryptic's while.
Good question, but reading is fundamental and the key to all your questions. Bolding and making yellow the important part: "...including the ability to contain bonus prizes during special Duty Officer promotions that affect this pack IF it is opened during that promotion."
This promotion DOES NOT affect this pack, therefore, no, this is not eligible. If there happens to be a promotion "that affects all" or "that affects the GQ Cadre", then it would be eligible.
Hope that helps!
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Are any of these promotions being planned? I ask because, as you stated, they're planned well in advance of the actual occurance.
Ahhh the original make-no-sense OP STO ship. Before the Scimitar came along that is. You know, the random one off Reman ship from a Trek movie that is now the STO Romulan flagship???
The interesting thing to me is that in the series, The Bug ship was a strength in numbers ship with like one or two beam arrays that was cannon fodder for a B-Rel or the Defiant yet here in our favorite game it blows both of those out of the water. Strange indeed.
Did the designers of this game watch that episode? I remember it clearly. Three Jem hadar Attack ships going head to head with Martok's B'Rel then promptly getting blown to bits by him. Why can't the best ships from the series that this game is based on be the best ships in said game? For the love of jebus.
Are there now TWO Survivor packs. The Old one and a "Promotion! - Romulan Survivor Pack". If you right click on the later it states it gives you a chance to the Lobi or attack ship.
I am confused because the dev blog states that once you buy a pack from the C Store, a container will be placed in your inventory. So what are these new packs on the exchange and do they have a chance of rewarding a Attack Ship?
Are there now TWO Survivor packs. The Old one and a "Promotion! - Romulan Survivor Pack". If you right click on the later it states it gives you a chance to the Lobi or attack ship.
I am confused because the dev blog states that once you buy a pack from the C Store, a container will be placed in your inventory. So what are these new packs on the exchange and do they have a chance of rewarding a Attack Ship?
From what I'm hearing no.
Only the new ones that you buy from the c-store will contain a chance at the bug ship :mad:
So if you where like me and buying the Romulan Survivor packs off the exchange for the last couple of months thinking that this promo was coming back you'll be very disappointed :mad:
Just a friendly warning, for those that want to buy packs on the exchange.
Cryptic has changed the way the JHAS can drop during the current promotion!!!!
This time around the ship and lobi are in a "wrapper-box" that got build around the normal "Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Pack".
This "wrapper" is called "Promotion! - Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Pack". This box contains the lobi or JHAS plus one normal "Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Pack".
THE INFORMATION IN THE ZEN STORE IS INCORRECT!!!!
THE SHIP AND LOBY DO NOT DROP FROM THE "Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Pack"!!!!
So the wrapper contains two boxes per se? Or is the wrapper just the box that contains the lobi or attack ship? And can the wrapper be sold?
Actually, they did phenomenal These promotions are planned out well in advance.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
If they truly did phenomenal as stated...this is the most discouraging thing I've read to date regarding how they rolled the dyson out and potential trends for the future.
I like the galaxy pack but the dyson was tragic. The ship itself is great but if future cool ships are going to be rolled out like this because enough people will buy and grind them to make it worth it....I may just have to stop buying ships and making new toons.
Only the new ones that you buy from the c-store will contain a chance at the bug ship :mad:
So if you where like me and buying the Romulan Survivor packs off the exchange for the last couple of months thinking that this promo was coming back you'll be very disappointed :mad:
Yeah, this almost bit me. I would have been doing this but thought they might come out with a new Doff Promo Pack by the time the next JHAS promotion hit, which would invalidate the Romulan Survivor ones. ...and they did invalidate them, but not in the manner I expected.
I feel your pain, since that easily could have been me!
well i don't think this is far i have the JemHadar Dreadnought Carrier. but in this game you can only use one ship at a time. having the the JemHadar Dreadnought Carrier should allow you to buy the damn fighter from the c-store or what ever.
I love this promotion and here's why:
You know you're getting 10 Lobi right off the bat, regardless. So, lets say $220 (yeah, that's crazy, but, for argument's sake, I have the descretionary funds, I want that bug and, hey let's face it, Romulus and Sphere were free, so I owe them for the fun I've been having anyway) get's me 23200 zen (it was 10000 plus 600 bonus for $100; 2000 for $20)
I buy 81 Rommie DOff packs and get 800 Lobi and (lucky me!) the bug.
So, now I have Lobi enough to buy the Jem Dread to go with my brand spankin new Jem Bug. Plus, I have extra zen to work the exchange for Dil to gear these bad boys up.
It kind of works.
Even if I don't go crazy and buy all that zen, even 10 packs nets me 100 lobi (not bad!) and other cool stuff from the packs themselves.
"Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Pack"
- Do these stack?
The reason I ask is I tried to get JHAS from a Gamma Quadrant Duty Pack Promo. Ended up with mailboxes on two accounts packed fully of DOffs (pre-mail nerf) and no ship :mad:
Nah. I'm reasonably sure that it's in response to the JHAS shortage lately. There's been several threads popping up these days asking for it. Especially since the ship is over 850mil now. I think they want them rare, but not quite that rare.
Given how promotions are rolling these days - PWE said something.
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Cryptic has changed the way the JHAS can drop during the current promotion!!!!
This time around the ship and lobi are in a "wrapper-box" that got build around the normal "Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Pack".
This "wrapper" is called "Promotion! - Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Pack". This box contains the lobi or JHAS plus one normal "Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Pack".
THE INFORMATION IN THE ZEN STORE IS INCORRECT!!!!
THE SHIP AND LOBY DO NOT DROP FROM THE "Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Pack"!!!!
"From now until server maintenance during the morning (PDT) of Thursday, April 10, 2013"
The promotion's being run by Starfleet's Temporal Affairs department.
Instead of marking it important and then putting a link to this thread in there.
I'm quite sure I'm not the only one who saw the ingame-promo and the old (INCORRECT) zen store page and bought a few doff-packs.
SO PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE WITH SUGAR ON TOP, put a warning up where people are acutally going to notice it (ZEN store page and ingame-promo banner).
LoL good catch! Timewarp time!
~CaptainSmirk
So that means the cadre are useless....
"now-retired C-Store pack"
In the words of Eric Cartman: "Lame. Not Cool. Totally Lame."
I have to agree.
Are any of these promotions being planned? I ask because, as you stated, they're planned well in advance of the actual occurance.
The interesting thing to me is that in the series, The Bug ship was a strength in numbers ship with like one or two beam arrays that was cannon fodder for a B-Rel or the Defiant yet here in our favorite game it blows both of those out of the water. Strange indeed.
Did the designers of this game watch that episode? I remember it clearly. Three Jem hadar Attack ships going head to head with Martok's B'Rel then promptly getting blown to bits by him. Why can't the best ships from the series that this game is based on be the best ships in said game? For the love of jebus.
I am confused because the dev blog states that once you buy a pack from the C Store, a container will be placed in your inventory. So what are these new packs on the exchange and do they have a chance of rewarding a Attack Ship?
From what I'm hearing no.
Only the new ones that you buy from the c-store will contain a chance at the bug ship :mad:
So if you where like me and buying the Romulan Survivor packs off the exchange for the last couple of months thinking that this promo was coming back you'll be very disappointed :mad:
So the wrapper contains two boxes per se? Or is the wrapper just the box that contains the lobi or attack ship? And can the wrapper be sold?
If they truly did phenomenal as stated...this is the most discouraging thing I've read to date regarding how they rolled the dyson out and potential trends for the future.
I like the galaxy pack but the dyson was tragic. The ship itself is great but if future cool ships are going to be rolled out like this because enough people will buy and grind them to make it worth it....I may just have to stop buying ships and making new toons.
Very sad
Yeah, this almost bit me. I would have been doing this but thought they might come out with a new Doff Promo Pack by the time the next JHAS promotion hit, which would invalidate the Romulan Survivor ones. ...and they did invalidate them, but not in the manner I expected.
I feel your pain, since that easily could have been me!
I'd tweeted Branflakes the other day asking when the event would be:
Really had been hoping for an event, 411 of the Cadre's stocked up.....
Over 150 packs from the last few promos.
0 ships.
Not buying any this time.
Maby if the gal reboot was not halfassed bs and we were not in the middle of a grindpocalypse I would be looser with my wallet.
I'd rather buy useless gold in d3 than waste money on those odds.
Isn't that like 113025 Zen worth? :eek: Y'all are some high rollers.
You know you're getting 10 Lobi right off the bat, regardless. So, lets say $220 (yeah, that's crazy, but, for argument's sake, I have the descretionary funds, I want that bug and, hey let's face it, Romulus and Sphere were free, so I owe them for the fun I've been having anyway) get's me 23200 zen (it was 10000 plus 600 bonus for $100; 2000 for $20)
I buy 81 Rommie DOff packs and get 800 Lobi and (lucky me!) the bug.
So, now I have Lobi enough to buy the Jem Dread to go with my brand spankin new Jem Bug. Plus, I have extra zen to work the exchange for Dil to gear these bad boys up.
It kind of works.
Even if I don't go crazy and buy all that zen, even 10 packs nets me 100 lobi (not bad!) and other cool stuff from the packs themselves.
- Do these stack?
The reason I ask is I tried to get JHAS from a Gamma Quadrant Duty Pack Promo. Ended up with mailboxes on two accounts packed fully of DOffs (pre-mail nerf) and no ship
Nope, they're dropping from the Hirogen Lockbox. Spent around 120mil getting those.
Given how promotions are rolling these days - PWE said something.
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You might want to try rephrasing things like this. It clearly reads that the DOFFs are actually the consolation prize.