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xiesha911
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I look over Exchange and can't find any.
I see Herald Baltim and Quas but no Vonph...
Is this lockbox ship bound to character on pickup?
I see Herald Baltim and Quas but no Vonph...
Is this lockbox ship bound to character on pickup?
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Hold on to your hat when you hear the price.
The Vonph is not the first ship to go for a stupidly high amount of EC for its time. It won't be the last. The first one to really break that barrier and do it for so long was the old JHAS from years ago.
Well, considering the 1/3 chance from normal lockbox ship (and this is not limited time ship) i will just wait for reasonable price (300-400mill)...
The Vonph is the first what I call super-premium ship to be part of a lockbox drop. A ship like the Vonph is normally used for the Promo R&D or DOFF Pack Events. Like how the Sheshar, Annorax, JHAS/JHSS, etc. were. But unlike those Promo Pack Events, the Vonph will always be with the Herald Lockbox. It's just the chances are even lower than the already low drop rate of a regular Lockbox Ship.
I'm not sure if the Vonph's price will stay, go up, or go down over time. Some guys that are closer to the pulse of STO's economy can answer that one better than I can.
Or player greed could keep it high, or cause it to go higher. It's actually gone up from the 700m it was going for days ago. It's now at 900m.
If someone is going to be dumb and try to sell it for lower "just to be nice" or some other foolish thing, someone else will just buy it for cheap and sell it again for the high price.
Yup...buy at 700 million sell at 900 million...easy 200 million profit. People like xiesha can wait...but I doubt this ship will ever be listed on the exchange, or if it is it will sell in the blink of a eye to someone who is extremely lucky or will flip it.
I'm tired of people claiming stupid things like greed just because you can't buy a lamborghini for a roll of quarters. That's not how the world works. Anyone who is spending this much currency or cash on an item is not an idiot and knows exactly what they are buying. Nobody is being greedy or getting screwed.
Out of the 3 it appears the Baltim is the big winner with the Quas being a good ship.
Oh, wait...
for 1/750 chance, my notification won't shut about other people getting it. Must have had 150 notifications
At least some people are opening and using the ships at least.
One thing I don't get, seeing as everyone is capped at 1 Bil how can you go above that price if it came to that?
Probably...especially if it's a R&D/Boff pack ship.
They would include other items like keys.
Didn't he build The Machine that Northern Lights used?
Even then I don't see that happening with that trait...
The math is just the half of it, a lot does come from the ship itself. Both the Vonph & the Annorax had quite the hype behind them and they also do pack quite a punch, especially the Annorax.
I've heard from multiple sources that this is indeed the case. I think the Vonph's price will eventually crash. I will admit, I want to have the Vonph but only because of the trait. The prices it is currently commanding is way too much just for a trait. Once the ship collectors are done buying the Vonphs out, I'm pretty sure we'll see those prices drop.
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So instead of getting a ship that brings you like a billion EC you'd rather want a somewhat decent console that only brings a few million on the market?
Yeah, that sounds reasonable....
You assume that I am one of the "price gougers" taking advantage of the gullibility of the average user... No I wouldn't want the ship to sell... I don't sell ships.. I use them.. and as a person who enjoys collecting various ships... This one is WAY low on my list of ships to acquire simply because A. Its not that great of a ship... B. The trait is sub-par... and C. Its not a limited time ship...
So with all those factors in place... Yes the console would be higher on my list of things to get out of the lockbox.
The Annorax I get, it's the best designed science ship I've seen in this game in years, and the trait is also good. The Vonph, well, the trait isn't a must have, but some people love spamming 20 abilites on all at the same time while pressing spacebar like madmen. The ship itself, not impressive to me. Now the new Defiant, that is a thing of beauty. I'll be hoarding dil all through the Mirror event so I can gather the Zen to buy it.
Only on a market which has price transparency, a polypolistic supply side and a polypsonistic demand side. All three are debatable here.
That doesn't automatically mean that these prices are in any way TRIBBLE one side over, but before we roll out Smith and Keynes and all this other stuff about invisible hands and market forces, some conditions have to be met. So these prices also do not mean that they are in any way fair or adequate.
I've always wondered: do you get the notifications when somebody gets the ship box out of a lockbox, or do you get them when the ship box gets cracked open?