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Proposed method of changing "bound to character" to "bound to account" for fleet gear
darramouss1
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Hello all.
I understand and agree with the binding of items. If there was no binding then I think the game would suffer from items dropping in value to the point where the market would collapse.
With fleet gear, however, I think that bound to character gear should,in some circumstances, be able to be transferred to other characters on the same account.
Why? Well, resources and time have already been spent to obtain the item, so it's not like it's free. That being said I don't think that items should be able to be traded between characters at will. I think that for X dilithium/fleet credits/zen a single bound to character item (or stack of items) should be able to be placed in to your account bank. As soon as another character takes it out it becomes bound to that character.
I feel that solution would work as it wouldn't be free, and as I've already mentioned, the cost of the item has already been paid for.
Thoughts?
I understand and agree with the binding of items. If there was no binding then I think the game would suffer from items dropping in value to the point where the market would collapse.
With fleet gear, however, I think that bound to character gear should,in some circumstances, be able to be transferred to other characters on the same account.
Why? Well, resources and time have already been spent to obtain the item, so it's not like it's free. That being said I don't think that items should be able to be traded between characters at will. I think that for X dilithium/fleet credits/zen a single bound to character item (or stack of items) should be able to be placed in to your account bank. As soon as another character takes it out it becomes bound to that character.
I feel that solution would work as it wouldn't be free, and as I've already mentioned, the cost of the item has already been paid for.
Thoughts?
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I think if you want alts then each one is viewed in isolation from the others.
BoA should only be for items purchaed with ZEN.
Also, Cryptic doesn't look at them in isolation. If they did they wouldn't have made lobi account bound.
it doesn't make much sense for consoles to be 9k each dil, ground gear to be around the 9-10k+ mark and fleet/rep space guns being 25k+
Good luck with that. Those dil prices and people spending real money to meet those prices for whatever purposes (fleet projects, reputation gear, etc) are exactly what Cryptic wants.
I question quite alot of Cryptic's sense of game balance (i.e. it's non-existent) but I do acknowledge that they're quite good in their money making schemes. I just wish that scheming and effort was also applied in the same way for fleshing out the game.
it seems once you hit t5, your fleet will have a fc shortage..
[12:44] Vessel One of Two Unimatrix 01 deals 1019527 (1157678) Kinetic Damage to you with Plasma Energy Bolt Explosion.
i know is virtually impossible, but still it would be nice for the prices to be actually consistent, instead of having them all over the place, doesn't make much sense(there is no logic in pets being 100.000 fleet credit each for instance, nor there is logic in weapons being 25k+).
Fleet gear is a dilithium sink...dilithium is time sinked to keep your butt in the chair at the computer playing. Their theory (and its a theory ok.. my opinion more like wish full thinking) is the longer your in game playing the more likely your going to spend money in the cash shop.
It at best a truism. Yes you might spend money.. but its no guarentee. There's stubborn folk like me who joy in being contrary because I can.
Any way... this studio is not going to let be allowing the highest quality in game items be account bound in less said items are in very very limited supply to begin with (certain lock box weapons and some set items). Its just contra-indicated by the plan to seperate us from our money.
(which is the REAL reason STO exists... it's based on a known, money making popular IP... the vision of Trek is actually entirely contrary to the Yankee trader mentality of the computer game industry..)