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I am sure this has been mentioned before, and I am aware of what people will say with the arguments of the exchange will get flooded etc.
but...
What if we could pay 100 zen for a Ferengi hacking tool, that allowed us to unbind an item from the character, and bind it instead to our account.
I am not asking for the item to become tradable on the exchange but interchangable between characters on the account.
Thoughts, Opinions, Ideas?
but...
What if we could pay 100 zen for a Ferengi hacking tool, that allowed us to unbind an item from the character, and bind it instead to our account.
I am not asking for the item to become tradable on the exchange but interchangable between characters on the account.
Thoughts, Opinions, Ideas?
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I have stuff I could share if that could happen.
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Probably have it scale based on the item. $1 for minor items and $30 for R&D Promotion Event Ships. Lobi and Lockbox ships would be set at $20 or $25 since they seem to be a bit more common than R&D Promotion Event Ships.
Most items I have my alt toons can live w/o. But if you include lockbox ships as the items, then sure. There are always a few I'd like my other toons to drive (even if Cryptic doesn't let them get the Ship Mastery that comes w/ it). I'd pay a few bucks to let an alt drive a ship that's just languishing in my main's space-garage.
Of course, imo, all items in STO should be BoA. Especially when you think of the indentured servitude our Doffs/Boffs suffer from. "Death or doff-grinder is your only way off my ship!"
The price of the Ferengi Hacking tool should remain a constant however.
The fee would be very high. Whales and DPS maxxers buy multiple copies of the ships.
Thinking about this thread the last day or so, I think the only possibility would be that "hacking tools" would make character bound items account bound instead of completely unbound. No need to cannibalize key sales. Also items would become bind on equip obviously. Also, as others have said, items that were never unbound like lobi weapons (one example) would not be possible to "hack."
This is a really nice solution there as long as its all in the region of account bound. No need to give people the ability to resell this as to not upset the market for those items. But let's be honest how many people buy a lobi or otherwise account bound ship twice (except consoles) on an alt? Don't think this would hurt sales at all, if anything it could boost sales because desired items are no longer restricted to a singular character. New recruitment event? got the perfect lobi ship already! as opposed to: "nah, i'm gonna save up for something new, the new recruit gets something else". The only thing that really should be looked into are ship-traits (some of the most desired ones come from lobi ships) as well as ship specific consoles, but hey, i'm not a dev
Agreed, while I like the idea.. I don't see it happening. If it did, it would be expensive.
phrased it wrong last night, was a tad too tired, my point was that, some people (myself included) would start make more purchases due to the fact that those purchases are eventual investments for new characters like recruits in the future instead of waiting until it's needed. Let's say you happen to have lobi/EC for a thing you might want to try out on one character and it's not working the way you expected, you can always send it to some other character where said item/console/thing would fit better in the future or even decide to make a build around it with the next recruit. You'd have a higher range of stuff ppl might try but didn't before because it comes with restrictions. Obviously certain ships like the astika/zahl/tos dread/nx refit etc would still be bought multiple times for their traits/console because some people (myself included) want the consoles on multiple/different builds.
Also - Consoles that come with ships, - yes, I would still buy multiple ships of a certain type in order to equip the console on other char's so - actually it's a win win for cryptic here - as If nothing else it will increase the sales of ships for them if people have the ability to swap consoles through this use of a Hacking tool.
Personally, across two accounts there's two ships I'd like to trade to a different alt.
But I agree, it will never happen. Way too much loss of money for Cryptic. So those alts will never get those ships, no way am I paying for something that expensive twice.