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Tech upgrades marked "Bonus Event"

predconpredcon Member Posts: 478 Arc User
edited October 2014 in The Academy
Are they going to remain in my inventory up until the point that I decide to use them? Or do I only have until the end of this event?
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  • jaymclaughlinjaymclaughlin Member Posts: 630 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I wondered the same!
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  • predconpredcon Member Posts: 478 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    I mean, I'm fine with using them up now if I have to, but I'd rather wait until after all the kinks are patched out of the expansion before upgrading anything at all.
  • rodentmasterrodentmaster Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    predcon wrote: »
    I mean, I'm fine with using them up now if I have to, but I'd rather wait until after all the kinks are patched out of the expansion before upgrading anything at all.

    This!!!

    Too many bugs destroying rare and paid-for items. No promise that anything will be "fixed" after the DR release. If you TRIBBLE up your unique item and its' suddenly common white, you're SOL.

    I don't want to TRIBBLE up my rare/unique items. This patch has been so bug-ridden it should be an embarrasment to Cryptic. This is what the tribble server is for: finding and fixing bugs. It's not a lack of players or lack of reporting! There are TONS of these reports from Tribble!

    What does Cryptic do? Ignore them. Ignore them completely and dump the code to holodeck, every time. So they make a server to find and report bugs, totally ignore the reports, then move the bug testing straight to holodeck? Makes no sense!!


    That said, I don't want to get into these upgrades because of 1) the idiotic price and 2) the massive bug list that's more likely to ruin my item than upgrade it.

    Fix #2 and I might dabble a bit. Fix #1 as well and I'll actually use it.
  • predconpredcon Member Posts: 478 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Exactly. I'd planned to use the free upgrade tokens for some of the Lobi Store stuff I've amassed, but my R&D skills are all below Lvl 10, and I want to make sure I can get the most of them.
  • hevachhevach Member Posts: 2,777 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    R&D skill is only tied to creating your own upgrades, not how much you get out of using them.
  • ridddickxxxridddickxxx Member Posts: 479 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    predcon wrote: »
    Are they going to remain in my inventory up until the point that I decide to use them? Or do I only have until the end of this event?

    My ground superior ones are still in the inventory, so are the accelerators, if that is what you have asked, they will stay after October 14 as well, there is no reason why would they remove it
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  • predconpredcon Member Posts: 478 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    hevach wrote: »
    R&D skill is only tied to creating your own upgrades, not how much you get out of using them.

    so they don't alter the chance of additional properties?
  • qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    ridddickxxx wrote: »
    My ground superior ones are still in the inventory, so are the accelerators, if that is what you have asked, they will stay after October 14 as well, there is no reason why would they remove it

    You can drag & drop the upgrade kits into your R&D tab....... ;)
  • qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    predcon wrote: »
    so they don't alter the chance of additional properties?

    R & D has nothing to with upgrading, it just so happens that you can craft upgrade kits....:)
  • predconpredcon Member Posts: 478 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    Either way, the chances of ruining items or wasting kits is still too high.
  • rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    predcon wrote: »
    so they don't alter the chance of additional properties?

    No, but they do alter the chance of getting more upgrade kits per project.

    A normal success gives one kit, but crits give two.

    Higher skill, more kits per run.

    The kits themselves have the same effect regardless, you just get more of them.
  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    edited October 2014
    They marked them upgrade so they aren't exploitable like the first ones.
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  • lordmalak1lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,681 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    lucho80 wrote: »
    They marked them upgrade so they aren't exploitable like the first ones.

    How were they exploited ?

    ...And why didn't these newly marked upgrades come with their own R&D slots in our inventory since they don't stack with the unmarked versions ?
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  • darkjeffdarkjeff Member Posts: 2,590 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    lordmalak1 wrote: »
    How were they exploited ?

    ...And why didn't these newly marked upgrades come with their own R&D slots in our inventory since they don't stack with the unmarked versions ?

    The original ones were normal kits with a "bound to character" property.

    That property was lost if you split the stack, and lost if merged with an unbound stack.

    They all got into the R&D inventory anyway, and I personally don't think I'm anywhere close to full capacity on that inventory.
  • lordmalak1lordmalak1 Member Posts: 4,681 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    darkjeff wrote: »
    The original ones were normal kits with a "bound to character" property.

    That property was lost if you split the stack, and lost if merged with an unbound stack.

    They all got into the R&D inventory anyway, and I personally don't think I'm anywhere close to full capacity on that inventory.

    OUCH- lost.

    ...but I'm still bouncing materials from my main inventory thru the bank to get them into R&D inventory but wondered why these new upgrades weren't stacking with the drops I've been getting. Best to not stack anything ATM and buy more R&D space (bad cryptic !) else risk losing stuff.
    KBF Lord MalaK
    Awoken Dead
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    Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    just use up the event ones first, then you won't need to worry about it anymore.
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  • darkjeffdarkjeff Member Posts: 2,590 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    lordmalak1 wrote: »
    OUCH- lost.

    ...but I'm still bouncing materials from my main inventory thru the bank to get them into R&D inventory but wondered why these new upgrades weren't stacking with the drops I've been getting. Best to not stack anything ATM and buy more R&D space (bad cryptic !) else risk losing stuff.

    Sorry, I think you misunderstood.

    The "Bound to Character" property was lost, not the kit.

    So instead of "Upgrade Kit (Bound to Character)" it became "Upgrade Kit" - and it could be listed on the Exchange, sent to other Characters, etc.
  • bds007bds007 Member Posts: 114 Arc User
    edited October 2014
    lordmalak1 wrote: »
    OUCH- lost.

    ...but I'm still bouncing materials from my main inventory thru the bank to get them into R&D inventory but wondered why these new upgrades weren't stacking with the drops I've been getting. Best to not stack anything ATM and buy more R&D space (bad cryptic !) else risk losing stuff.

    Just double click on it in your main inventory... it will go to the R&D tab without an interim bank needed, nor a drag and drop.

    This also works in reverse. On my main crafting toon, the R&D tab was full and I had to move some to my main inventory.
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