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Ok kinda cool the Miranda's getting T-6 but...
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So yeah it's kinda cool the Miranda's getting a T-6 version. Not crazy about it but hey I understand the devotion some have to it. That said...
Folks have been asking for it for a very long time and now the wishes of the masses has been granted and t's a C-store purchase. I feel the T-6 Miranda should have been released in the same fashion as the TOS T-6 ships. Why? Cash flow for Cryptic. Given that the Reliant is kind of iconic maybe not as much as the rest of the TOS era ships it is still iconic. On top of that seeing that the 35th anniversary of TWOK is coming up it should have been a special very limited time release in a extremely low probability lockbox just like the TOS ships were for the 50th anniversary of Star Trek. I think Cryptic would make a heck of a lot more money via key sales doing it that way.
Folks have been asking for it for a very long time and now the wishes of the masses has been granted and t's a C-store purchase. I feel the T-6 Miranda should have been released in the same fashion as the TOS T-6 ships. Why? Cash flow for Cryptic. Given that the Reliant is kind of iconic maybe not as much as the rest of the TOS era ships it is still iconic. On top of that seeing that the 35th anniversary of TWOK is coming up it should have been a special very limited time release in a extremely low probability lockbox just like the TOS ships were for the 50th anniversary of Star Trek. I think Cryptic would make a heck of a lot more money via key sales doing it that way.
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True enough but as I said in my post iconic ships like it should be handled the same way they did for the TOS ships. Sales of keys spiked and brought in a lot of cash. Plus when they did the TOs ships they kind of set a standard for how future iconic t-6 ships would be released one exception is the NX-refit being a charecter locked Lobi ship. By doing the NXR lobi they also made key purchases a long run revenue maker if you want that ship on several charecters. So it is a staright up purcahse as well and the T-6 Mirandas could have been marketed the same way again creating more cash flow via key sales for lobi from boxes. It would also create long term cash flow given you would need to have TRIBBLE lobi for the purcahse and lobi is only from lockboxes. With the C-store model you get a one time sale from an account as the ships are account wide unlocks while a lobi ship is a charecter bound purchase and as I said to get lobi you need to have keys to have keys someone had to buy them with cash.
True enough but a standard was kind of set as far as how T-6 franchise ships were sold.
I was fine with the TOS Conni being in a pack because we know that's CBS' stipulation to keep it rare but I never agreed with the temporal (Wells, Universe etc.), mirror, or Kelvin Timeline ships and uniforms or the D7/T'Liss and TOS dreadnoughts being in packs as they're all main faction material. Same with the TWoK uniforms and weapons languishing in the dil and Lobi stores. I feel they would sell as well if not better in the C-Store.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
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'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
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Some people ask for a T6 TOS Connie. Cryptic releases it in a Promo pack. People complain about it.
Some people ask for a T6 NX. Cryptic releases it in a lobi store pack. People complain about it.
Some people ask for a T6 Miranda. Cryptic releases it in the C-Store. People complain about it.
Tune in, next time: Some people ask for a T6 Nova. Cryptic releases it for free. People complain about it.
I would. I don't want a Nova. I want a Norway.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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I want a T-6 DY-100 Botany Bay...
Most won't get this.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
I don't understand the idea behind this topic. "It's not fair I had to invest more to receive my favorite ship than someone else had to invest to receive their favorite ship". So what? Obviously, the ship has enough value to you or you would not pay the asking price. Who cares what someone else pays for their favorite ship?
If the issue is "my favorite ship is too expensive", then that is what you need to address, not how much someone else spends for their shiny pixels.
The only logical reason for T6 Miranda being a C-Store ship is that they don't expect the level of demand for it as the T6 TOS Connie. It IS that plain and simple.
Kudos for finally giving us one thou. Next Sabre/Steamrunner/Nova/Ambassador and a "T6 VOR'CHA"
Hello rubber banding my old friend, time to bounce around the battlezone again, where are all my bug reports going?, out of love with this game I am falling, As Cryptic fail to acknowledge a problem exists, Shakes an angry fist, And from Support all I'm hearing are the sounds of silence.
No actually I don't have it backwards. The comment was aimed as to why it's not in a Lockbox considering the TOS Connie was.
I'm no fan of them releasing the TOS/TMP revamps because of my head-canon. Whilst the Miranda's innards are easier to re-jig, the Connie's wouldn't, but neither of those ships should have the DPS potential of ships 4 times their size. There's an awful lot of lack of engineering and 'physics' common sense in this game compared to the canon.
You're seriously going to attempt to troll this!? My reasoning on why it isn't in a Lockbox is sound. It would be backwards if I said it SHOULD BE in a Lockbox.
I'm confused. Is the Ferengi posting on someone else's Forum Handle?????
No, I'm wrong, there was no pretense about making it the 'Logical Vulcan' thing to do by releasing it in a Promo R&D Pack.
Oy!!!
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
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T6 NORWAY!!!!!
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
'...I can tell you that we're not in the military and that we intend no harm to the whales.' Kirk: The Voyage Home
'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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Lag denied your Heal
What happened to my Halon consoles
Poni?
~blinks anime style~
You're joking, right? o.o
Again someone has missed why I posted this thread. It has nothing to do with me but rather cash flow into the game. Case in point: With C-store ships be it a bundle or single ship sale they become an account wide unlock. With me so far? Say you have ten charecters you buy 3000 Zen for 30 bucks and get the C-store ship and wow it's unlocked for you entire spread of ten charecters wheee goodie! So compare that to say the NX-refit that is lobi. Okay you unlock boxes and get enough lobi call it 60 bucks for sake of this comment. Wow Cryptic has doubled it's income from that C-store ship just on one charecter alone. Oh wait you notice it is charecter locked not account unlocked oh wow you want it on your other nine charecters. Well you go and buy 540 dollars worth of keys for enough lobi via the lockboxs to do that. So wow Cryptic has made 18 times the revenue for doing a lobi release over the C-store release. Or another way of creating more revenue would be to make the C-store purchase unlockable only by one charecter they already have this for items drydock slots and so on. So for ten charecters that would be 300 dollars total revenue comapred to just 30 dollars for all ten charecters. That's my point Cryptic could make a lot more revenue to keep the lights on and pay for new content this way. That is the ENTIRE point of my post revenue into the company so they can keep this game growing. You are reading things into it that are not there.