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What is the best thing about Lifetime Sub?
sparkbibo
Member Posts: 14 Arc User
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I've read all the things you get for Lifetime Subbing, and I'm wondering what people think about it. Obviously I like the idea of not paying a monthly fee, but what is the best thing about it, or thing you appreciate most, make most use of, etc etc.
Obviously, these are all opinions, but I'm thinking about getting the lifetime sub and was wondering what you guys thought.
TIA
Obviously, these are all opinions, but I'm thinking about getting the lifetime sub and was wondering what you guys thought.
TIA
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Play as a Monthly Subscriber but pay a one time price! <-Worth it.
Play as a Liberated Borg or the NEW Talaxian race <-Cool
Access to the Captain's Table - A special area restricted to lifetime subscribers and veterans! <--For the record this is wasted space.
Exclusive costume insignia - visit a tailor in-game to add it to your Captain <-I wear it most of the time.
"Career Officer" title - Show off your commitment <-See me in game you will see it.
Special Forum Perks and more! <--Not sure but OK.
I agree with you about supporting the game. I already subscribe monthly, just considering the lifetime.
The T6 tacship (Manticore and KDF/Rom versions) is a nice ship with a fun console. One of my captains flies it with a torp-oriented build - 3 x quantum variants + 1 x dual heavy cannon up front, turrets in back. The mastery trait is also good for torp builds.
The tier V token is nice to get a ship you need for a console set, or just to fly something fun like the Kar'Fi carrier for KDF.
I like the android for away teams since I can pick Eng or Sci and it has both Superior Creative to buff powers and self-res to revive itself on defeat.
The +5% XP is nice for leveling up new characters without needing grinding, and helps you earn spec points a little faster.
I'm on PC, and by April 2018 the the 500 zen / month will have paid back the $200 I paid for it.
I like 'em. They're more on the escort side of things so if you're into science ships or cruisers you'll end up stuck with the ranking ships, use Zen, or rely on event ships, but with a Lt Cmdr universal slot they are still pretty versatile. The non-fed versions use battle-cloak instead of the nastier standard-cloak. And the console is one of the few ship consoles worth using in my opinion, active all the time allowing you to switch between defensive or offensive postures with a special ability for each mode. Not an end-all be-all console, but not a gimmick like most Zen ships either. Also if you're into specializations, the T6 version (go ahead and skip the T5U) only has the engineer-command specialization option.
Now that you can play for free, it's a harder choice. Like said above, if you go alt crazy it's gonna be a better deal. If you have 1 or 2 toons, you're better off subscribing for a month, power-leveling them to max during that month so they qualify for all the subscriber perks. Then if you do want to make new toons, just subscribe again for a month and level up again.
If not getting the 500 Zen stipend on consoles and not going alt crazy, I really can't see any reason; unless the Vet ships just really call to you. Vet ships are nice, but most players will get tired of using the same ship for too long, so take that into account.
Compare a $200 LTS to what $200 of Zen will get you. During a Zen sale, a $200 purchase can get you 28,000 Zen.
Thats a reward as part of you being a Temporal agent and not an LTS.
For me I just like a sense that I have worry free gaming in that I always have plenty of space in bags, never worry about losing stuff due to banks missing payments, and generally have a sense of being in control of my own gaming.
Not sure about these forum perks we were supposed to have as pretty much all of those vanished in the last forum revamp, and yes captains table is pretty much a waste of space.
Still waiting to be able to use forum titles
I will probably do the LTS soon here, mainly for all the veteran rewards.
I did notice several of you guys referred the the LTS as being $200... Did it go up recently? Currently, they list it at $299.
About twice a year they'll put it on sale. I would expect the next sale some time 'round the end of June.
The two free ships are decent heavy escorts (as in midway between escort and cruiser) and captains yacht is a nice looking fed shuttle, sadly KDF version looks like a wedge of cheese and rommie a cereal box toy. You'll probably never use the t5 ship but it's worth claiming for the admiralty card.
Got my LTS back when the game was sub based so it's paid itself off by now. With some patience the stipend can be saved and used during ship sales to get at least a 3 ship bundle. Or converted to keys to trade into EC on the exchange or bartering for lockbox ships.
Possibly the most useful thing is the account bank slots which let you transfer items and ec to any character on your account regardless of faction.
Definitely wait for a sale on the LTS nowadays though, the game has lasted 7 years but it's a sizable chunk of cash to put down on a game.
Patience is a solid rule, only buying during a sale be it zen or ingame store stuff means you shouldnt feel you got burned on price.
ehrm... what was the question again?
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Oh, I forgot about the ships, 2 each, T5 and a T6 for each faction. The traits are good and so are the ships. So good in my view that after getting the trait I got the Fleet version of the T6. Also you get a LTS skin you can use for all ships, not just the one's you get with the LTS
Yup, that's why I only buy when there's a sale. Sure, I'd like that newest ship in the store now!!! but I'll like it even more 2 months from now when it's 20% off.
Thats me. So the best thing about the LTS is the way my account keeps on collecting Zen, so when I inevitably quit for a few months when I return theres a nice pool of Zen I can use to buy nice things.
(Of course, it would be nice if I could crack the the level XII gear barrier as there are only so many episodes, and pve queues quickly loose their luster in an XII geared ship, so I'll quit again soon for 6+ months)
we would love to get a lifetime subscription for XB1, but for both of us it would be about $600.00. we wish the developers would do something like a payment plan of may be three monthly installments to make it more affordable.
Life takes its toll on our money, and being the working class with house, car and other life bills our entertainment takes a back seat after all bills are payed.
We love TSO and support it through the Zen store, but would still love to be lifetime members, hopefully ARC will consider doing a payment program in the future....
If you have a LTS on PC, why are you playing on a console?
AFAIK console LT sub comes without monthly ZEN which IMO makes it not really worth it. Twice if you both already have LTS on PC. If its a couch/TV thing there are options far cheaper than an LTS to make that with PC possible.