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How or where could I buy a Temporal Light Cruiser?
sevexpar
Member Posts: 66 Arc User
There's none on the exchange and I've been asking around in Zone chat for a couple of days, now. Is there a secret trick to it or are they all gone?
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Do they re-run them though? I'd love to pick up the Elachi R&D promo ship I missed from taking an extended break from the game but I couldn't find anything that stated if they would ever be re-run again.
They do re-release them, and that is pretty much exactly the interval it seems to me, from memory anyway.
You can say it, but if people are paying it, it's not true. The people who will spend always have more say than the people who won't.
You can't possibly be so short sighted to not realize that Cryptic makes an enormous amount of money off the player to player sales... because players all across the wealth spectrum bought additional packs specifically to speculate. That Cryptic gets their money up front doesn't mean they're not taking their cut on every transaction.
And Cryptic will be even more wise to have made it clear when the window's open, you' better act on it. This is a high pressure sales item. From a practical standpoint we're talking about a $200-$250 ship. That's way outside the normal model for this game. We had literally 3000 posts of people whining "why can't I buy it for $30?" Cryptic absolutely wants 12 months of accumulated regret, of "why didn't I buy that last time?" prompting people to dump in way more money than they normally ever would, without waiting for zeni-sales, and without careful planning. They want reckless spending and on this item, they'll get it if they lay the proper groundwork. More frequent windows and Cryptic LOSES MONEY because people start to think "well, that's a lot of money. I should think about it, and maybe I'll pick it up next time around..."
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You'll spend a lot less time leaning forward asking to get kicked in the face when you stop pretending Cryptic is your friend. They will ever and always act in their own best interest.
I'm beyond heartbroken that I missed out on this ship.
My hope is that we'll get a c-store pack of all 3 ships.
Join Date: Aug 14th 2008
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Honestly, I hadn't thought about it. I'm keeping track of the T5-to-T6 revamps because I will probably pony up for a new Llaihr and a new Narcine when they become available. In this case though I don't care all that much. The dream is to fly the dreadnought with the full trio of consoles and uniquely Elachi benefit that grants. The T6 revamp ships will likely have better consoles of course, but not enough so to tip the scales for me. What's available now works to my satisfaction.
If they re-run the promo, you'll likely see them do a Sheshar-style change to the specialist seating: get a Temporal Light Cruiser with Command or Pilot or "fancy new specialist" for a limited time. In this way, players who bought it once, will have incentive to buy it again. Also, it would devalue existing stockpiled promo-packs as the would have the "older" ships, possibly with less-valuable specialist seating.
So really this item was very expensive to obtain during the event. There are of course many lucky people that got it in the first few packs, but that is rare. If you really want to try. Buy a 10 pack on the exchange for $290 million and try your luck. You might just get the ship. If people don't open packs that means new supply is zero and depends on those holding the ship it their banks to be located.