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Logic Dictates: It is best that R&D Ships are RnG! #spock
repetitiveepic
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With the great new smuggler promo in full swing, I think its important that people take a moment to think about *why* things like this have to come from RNG packs. It isn't venality on the part of the developers, there is a logical reason for why it is best for players and the community that it works this way.
To not run afoul of the no-necro rule, I post a new thread rather than bump an old one. It is what it is!
There are three good outcomes to look for with prize ships in STO.
1) The prize ships are rare and desirable. -If nothing is rare and desirable, the game is tepid and boring.
2) Everyone has a chance to get one. -If not everyone has a chance to get one, it is unfair, and pay2win.
3) The company earns revenue and profit. -This is absolutely necessary for the game to continue being run. Business has to earn profit.
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If we make them available to anyone who wants one at a fixed price in the c-store, but that price is low, then they are no longer rare and desirable, and we sacrifice outcome 1.
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The only way to make the promo ships very rare and desirable, if they are offered to anyone who wants one at a fixed price in the c-store, is to make that price very high.
The market prices them at about 15k zen, which takes into account the consolation prizes in the promo boxes as well as the odds of winning a ship. In terms of zen expenditure to get one, its closer to 25k zen.
However, if they were offered at that high price, almost no one would have a chance to get them, and also, the owners would not get much revenue.
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Since having the ships rare and desirable is a good outcome, and the game earning profit is a good outcome as well, and everyone having a chance to get the prize ship is a good outcome as well, we should not give up any one outcome in order to secure two of the others, when instead we can get all three outcomes at the same time.
1) It is good that the ship is rare and desirable
2) It is good that everyone has a chance to get one
3) It is good if the company earns revenue and profit.
The good in these outcomes is cumulative. Having two outcomes is better than having one, and having all three is better than having either two or one.
We can only have all three of these good outcomes if the ships are awarded from RNG boxes.
Since all three outcomes is better than just two, or just one, we should unequivocally support the ships being released in RNG boxes, since it leads to the best possible outcome for the game.
To not run afoul of the no-necro rule, I post a new thread rather than bump an old one. It is what it is!
There are three good outcomes to look for with prize ships in STO.
1) The prize ships are rare and desirable. -If nothing is rare and desirable, the game is tepid and boring.
2) Everyone has a chance to get one. -If not everyone has a chance to get one, it is unfair, and pay2win.
3) The company earns revenue and profit. -This is absolutely necessary for the game to continue being run. Business has to earn profit.
-
If we make them available to anyone who wants one at a fixed price in the c-store, but that price is low, then they are no longer rare and desirable, and we sacrifice outcome 1.
-
The only way to make the promo ships very rare and desirable, if they are offered to anyone who wants one at a fixed price in the c-store, is to make that price very high.
The market prices them at about 15k zen, which takes into account the consolation prizes in the promo boxes as well as the odds of winning a ship. In terms of zen expenditure to get one, its closer to 25k zen.
However, if they were offered at that high price, almost no one would have a chance to get them, and also, the owners would not get much revenue.
-
Since having the ships rare and desirable is a good outcome, and the game earning profit is a good outcome as well, and everyone having a chance to get the prize ship is a good outcome as well, we should not give up any one outcome in order to secure two of the others, when instead we can get all three outcomes at the same time.
1) It is good that the ship is rare and desirable
2) It is good that everyone has a chance to get one
3) It is good if the company earns revenue and profit.
The good in these outcomes is cumulative. Having two outcomes is better than having one, and having all three is better than having either two or one.
We can only have all three of these good outcomes if the ships are awarded from RNG boxes.
Since all three outcomes is better than just two, or just one, we should unequivocally support the ships being released in RNG boxes, since it leads to the best possible outcome for the game.
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Someone seems to be trapped in a temporal bubble.
Rule of Aquisition 239
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.'
*Hands up if you buy regular R&D boxes with zen. Anyone?
Yeah. Where's that Silver Bullet when you need it!?
Decide you don't need the super expensive promo ship, keep your wallet closed and move on.
Don't see this going for T6 Constitution type prices. The logical thing is for this to just fizzle out.
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 choose this option.
I support this course of action.
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.'
Pythagoras doesn't keep reminding everyone, however.
Now that i think about it I'm hitting a point where all my characters have ships I'm happy with aesthetically, going forward it'll be hard to get me excited about a new ship unless it's a redo of one I already have but with a better specialization. Wanted a T6 Miranda for years, but now I can't decide if I'm going to buy it or not cause I only have 1 fed toon that I haven't settled on a permanent ship for.
This is how I feel. I don't need every new 'shiny' that comes along. Most all my toons are happy with what they have for the most part. Before I buy new ships they would have to be pretty spectacular to pry them out of the ones they fly.
My friend feels exactly the same way.
This is true too. It's what makes the community interesting.
What I want is probably very different from what you want or someone else wants
I do too and have been since gamble boxes came into the game.
And how about those that simply cannot afford to buy keys for instance?
Anyway you turn this, it IS pay2win or a gambling system.
The less fortunate never will be able to get such ship.
They just get less sober.