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800 day ship token is character bound ? Why ?
forvrsnoopy
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Is there any logical reason why the 800 day ship upgrade token is character bound ? I checked the I got from the mail, it said "Accound bound". I don't think twice and just open it.... and BAM the token is character bound.
Please oh please change it to account bound.
Please oh please change it to account bound.
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Also from patch notes
The box it came in *was* account bound. I knew that because I actually read the text.
Look, I got excited, read "Account bound" on the box, and opened it.
Should I have read the whole box ? Probably but it seemed logical to think it was account bound. Why do I feel bad about opening a present, I wonder.
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Thanks but it still doesn't answer my question. In what you say, it wouldn't matter on what character I unlock the ship. I only have one token, and it gets consumed once either way.
Edit : Also, I didn't ask for one token per character.
It sucks this happened but honestly just about any expensive item you can obtain in a box is binding once you open it.
There are a ton of things in this game that come in boxes so you can trade them or sell them but if you open the box, you're claiming it...
Submit a ticket. No one here can help you.
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As someone else said the upgrade is done on a single char but it is for the whole account. Once you upgrade a specific C-Store ship on a char all your other chars that have access to said ship will get to upgrade it for free and also its fleet variant.
If you wanted to upgrade say a KDF ship and unopened the package on a fed char then only a support ticket might help you.
If you got it on a char of the same faction, just claim the ship you want to upgrade on that char, upgrade it, and then on the char that you want to use it the ship and its fleet variant will have a free upgrade button.
Hope this helps.
Oops.
Only if you open the box, if you have not opened the box you can place it in your account bank and trade it to your Admiral.
I am guessing that there is some tech limitation that makes the consumable token itself not able to be Account Bound.
the folks who work at Cryptic now are not the same folks who made STO... they dont know the game code or fully understand it. That's why when they broke stuff like how Klingons couldnt zone into the star cluster in Sirius sector... they never fixed it cause they couldnt figure out wtf they did to break it or if they did, couldnt figure out how to fix it without undoing their additions to the game code.
They have issues with bound items becoming unbound by splitting them or merging them with unbound items.
Current patch notes confirms this.
You can buy upgrade tokens that are not bound and can be freely traded or sold on the exchange... if they made the token ACCOUNT bound, it would become unbound when merged with the normal store bought ones. That is why it HAS to be Character bound. They put it inside a box that is account bound so it could be traded with your account bank and you can not stack this box cause there is no stacking of boxes.
See it all fits... that also explains why so many freaking bugs are introduced into this game... this is a frankenstein monster game with them adding new code constantly and they dont fuilly understand how that new code would break things.
Could explain the problem with secondary deflectors for science ships... you would think all that need to do is add a new slot to the ships for the deflectors... guess that would cause all sorts of problems cause it would add it to all ships that use the same model/code? Why only the new science ships have had 2ndary deflectors.
Sorry, but if you're going to discuss wild speculation as fact, you may wish to provide evidence to support your 'theories' less it resemble nothing but wild conspiracies...
As to why they become character bound, no idea...
Does it matter? If you bother to read what the box says, not really...
As it is, even if it does become bound to a certain character, unlocking a specific ship unlocks it for the entire account anyway, so just use it on that character...
They seem to have no problems with bound and unbound item upgrade tokens.... Weird theory though.
I was thinking "I'll just wait for them to release T7 ships, then I'll upgrade my T6 (soon fleet T6) to T6U" just to show you guys that I can be patient.
But I just remembered : the text on the token specifically says "T5 to T5U", so I guess they'll introduce new tokens when the time comes.
Maybe I should just delete it
just buy the dam thing of the exchange, it is 12 mil. ffs
Thank you sir, that perfectly answers my question. /sarcasm
Not trying to be a jerk but L2READ! They explained the entire thing clearly --- that it appears to the first character to log in, that it is tradeable until opened, and that after opening is bound.
Just like a ship --- buy it off the exchange with your level 10 bank toon and then open it, guess what happens?
That's what I did, LAST week. I was only planning to upgrade my scimitar . . . Can I use it to upgrade by Cell ship back to its pre nerfed levels? Even when I get free stuff from Cryptic, it does not work out quite right.
I wasnt expecting to see it and when I read the mail that came with it I tabbed out to double check. The box is now sitting in my account bank while I decide the most effective ship to use it on, as in which one I'm most likely to play across all characters. Scimitar or oddy are tempting but for the decision to class them as three ships.
I just want to know why, so I can make sense of this.
I usually read everything (even the patch notes). Just not this time. I read "Account Bound" and stopped reading after.
Anyways, please treat this as a suggestion and close the thread.
Thanks.
not much of an answer I know but its better then you will get from cryptic.
if you haven't got a ship you can upgrade with the character that has it now, you are stuck with either discarding it or saveing it just in case.
the idea is that you might not have seen the news item before logging in and seeing that the item was bound to character so they put it in an account bound box so you could transfer it to another character before opening it, daft way to do it I know but there you go.
I don't know why they could not just give an account bound token like what come with the delta ship pack that way although I received the tokens on my fed I was able to transfer one to my kdf and one to my rom.
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Because reading is hard n'stuff. :P
Feel for ya, OP; that said, I've learned (after a couple times) to read the text. This sorta falls under the 'My own da** fault' category.
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most likely the reason why is because they simply used the code framework for something that already exist's in game which comes in an account box, with character lock item ( dil mining rights for example), and just changed the item attached to it.
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I have the mail message, and I can see the picture of the reward box at the bottom of the mail, there's even a (greyed out) button saying 'take item'...but right clicking, left clicking or any other form of clicking doesn't seem to make that button active.
Am I just being REALLY dumb here?