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daedalus304
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I'd love to see GPL brought into a new light of usage.
Maybe in the form of some profit chain of DOFF missions.
or
Ferengi Products, with a whole set of weapons, shields, engines, etc. things not normally procured from the KDF or Starfleet.
maybe even a new form of missions, like resupply colony, or something along those lines...maybe a new form of mission where you can transport goods like a merchant, and giving the suliban ship and tuffli a better advantage for these kinds of missions.
I dunno. I just need to see GPL become useful again, since the holo emitters dropped in their value due to oversaturation.
Maybe in the form of some profit chain of DOFF missions.
or
Ferengi Products, with a whole set of weapons, shields, engines, etc. things not normally procured from the KDF or Starfleet.
maybe even a new form of missions, like resupply colony, or something along those lines...maybe a new form of mission where you can transport goods like a merchant, and giving the suliban ship and tuffli a better advantage for these kinds of missions.
I dunno. I just need to see GPL become useful again, since the holo emitters dropped in their value due to oversaturation.
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dont give the devs more ideas of how to grind the hell out of it with gpl. everything else has been hit hard with that grind hammer recently.:rolleyes:
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Beyond the occasional doff reward or way to buy vanity items, it will likely stay the way it is.
Contraband typically costs 40k ECs on the Exchange. At worse I get one Contraband for my 1,800 GPL, that means each GPL costs me 22.22 ECs; meaning 22.22 is the conversion factor.
When playing Dabo, I generally bet 300 ECs at a time. With a conversion factor of 22.22, that means I need to win 13.5 GPLs for every 300 ECs I drop on the table. If I play Dabo 133.33 times and win 13.5 GPL every time I play it I will eventually get 40k worth of GPL or 1,800 GPL.
It is pretty hard go only get a mere 13.5 GPL on average playing Dabo 133.33 times. At worse I think I average getting 75 GPL on average every time I play Dabo. That means I only need to play Dabo 24 times to get 1,800 worth of GPL. Since I am betting 300 ECs every time I play I end up spending 7,200 ECs to get 1,800 GPL.
Spending 7,200 ECs to get one Contraband is far cheaper than spending 40,000 EC to buy EC on the exchange. And the assumes you fail the Doff mission every single time. If I have a normal success, then for 7,200 ECs I get 2 Contraband. A critical success means my 7,200 EC gets me 3 Contraband.
Of course, this excludes any GPL I win in the "Dabo" Doff Mission. I have a blue quality entertainer which means I am guaranteed to win 100 GPLs with around a 15% chance for a critical success to win 300 GPL.
I don't think GPL can get worse of a grind than it is now with you only able to earn 100 Bars of Latinum every minute of so. :rolleyes:
This is why people wanted high-stakes Dabo in for ages.
IF they ever add Ferenginar to the game and actually let us on the ground, I could see a ton of uses for GPL from classic Ferengi taxes to purchasing goods.
But given the pace of things, I don't think we will ever visit the Ferengi homeworld.
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http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Ferengi_uniform
options are open.
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and then make Equipment requisition credits ERC's for buying equipment from starbases and the homeworlds and fleet stores
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You also forgot some DOFF missions are in GPL as well. Like Entertainment provisions, where criting results in a free Vulcan or Orion Hologram. And some missions where you can buy Contraband with it.
get out, I hope a moderator bans you for life.