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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,569 Arc User
    What would have made more sense in the Premium Pack to justify 15,000 Zen uplift is:

    10x Epic Universal Upgrades rather than the 'Enhanced".
    30 Keys like the Legacy of Romulus Pack.
    20 R&D Promotion Packs
    100,000 Refined Dilitium
    200 Lobi
    20 Phoenix Packs
    1 Epic Token
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  • thegrandnagus1thegrandnagus1 Member Posts: 5,165 Arc User
    > @psytce0002 said:
    > So now I have to buy a new T6 version of the Defiant? ... and probably need to get the updated Fleet version.
    >



    The flaw in the reasoning is thinking you "have to" buy anything. You don't. You may WANT to, but that is a completely different issue. Honestly, it's a lot like a new version of your phone coming out that performs a little better. You are under no obligation to get it, nor do you actually need it. It's called "self control".

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  • westx211westx211 Member Posts: 42,205 Arc User
    > @ltminns said:
    > What would have made more sense in the Premium Pack to justify 15,000 Zen uplift is:
    >
    > 10x Epic Universal Upgrades rather than the 'Enhanced".
    > 30 Keys like the Legacy of Romulus Pack.
    > 20 R&D Promotion Packs
    > 100,000 Refined Dilitium
    > 200 Lobi
    > 20 Phoenix Packs
    > 1 Epic Token

    See now this makes sense. I still probably wouldn't buy it for the increased price but atleast I would be able to understand the extra 150 dollars. As it stands now there is no reason to purchase the premium pack, everything in it would be cheaper to just buy yourself
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  • avoozuulavoozuul Member Posts: 3,196 Arc User
    edited January 2020
    Too bad my favorite ship the Prometheus isn't a hero ship so that won't receive a new version.
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  • foppotee#4552 foppotee Member Posts: 1,704 Arc User
    So what is the new mission? Was it that: "To Hell With Honor" TFO or is it yet to come maybe? Thinking & looking back though I amend my original statement as there has been small additions of playable content, but unless this anniversary mission has been released already you're predicting the future & being disingenuous about the current to be nitpicky.

    The new mission hasn't been announced yet, but it soon will be.

    Just read the patch notes. You're correct about the new mission(s) 2-parter as it is. I like how it states after the part 1 you can immediately begin part 2 without leaving, intriguing.
  • steaensteaen Member Posts: 644 Arc User
    edited January 2020
    coldnapalm wrote: »
    So...will the ships be available individually?

    This is really the only question that I (and I suspect I'm not alone) am interested in the answer to at this point.

    The fact that it's been repeatedly asked across multiple platforms without having been answered suggests to me that the answer is probably not what I'm hoping for.
  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,918 Arc User
    edited January 2020
    coldnapalm wrote: »
    Actually, the pilot defiant is a 5/3 weapon vs the 4/3+experimental of the normal one...so...yeah that is a big difference right there. Which is why I asked about individual ships...cuz I want that as the defiant is pretty much the only fed ship I like.

    Yeah, the 5/3 Defiant is a huge upgrade. I know a lot of people will be interested in that so hopefully the ship is available 'stand alone.'

    For me, I am not terribly interested in anything they have coming up ship wise.. I have all the ships I really want. I do however, hope they're able to sell these and make money for the game. I honestly think it will be far more profitable for them if they also sell ships individually. Many players aren't going to pay $300+ for a bundle and would rather buy ships individually.
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  • lordbeefy7lordbeefy7 Member Posts: 169 Arc User
    I have most of the ships in the bundle. The bundle effectively then is a bunch of new skins. I fail to see any attraction in this bundle. Im a real self confessed STO fan but even I cant get very excited about this. Whats the difference between legendary and existing zen versions. A few stats and a skin? or am I missing something??
  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    lordbeefy7 wrote: »
    I have most of the ships in the bundle. The bundle effectively then is a bunch of new skins. I fail to see any attraction in this bundle. Im a real self confessed STO fan but even I cant get very excited about this. Whats the difference between legendary and existing zen versions. A few stats and a skin? or am I missing something??

    An extra console, better hull and shields than the Tier 6, different Bridge Officer layout, a new skin, and a new starship trait. So they are essentially 10 Tier 6 Fleet ships with all the skins and consoles from previous versions of the ship. This bundle is not for people that have most of the ships, but for those that have none or a few of the ships.
  • dongemaharudongemaharu Member Posts: 544 Arc User
    If they sold 100 ships for $1000, that would be great. I mean, come on what a deal. It’s only $1000!
  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,587 Arc User
    Yeah, it happened: I lost track. :o

    So far, this has been a rather unusual start towards the Anniversary. I see no sales of any kind announced. I *think* the Picard lock box is supposed to be released today, and rumors of 43,000+ Zen multi-packs in March? All pretty vague so, far. I mean, are we even sure Anniversary starts today?! LOL.

    Oh yeah, and I saw the Priority One vid of the new TFO. Is that going to be happening today too?

    Anniversary starts in a few hours, Cryptic. If there was ever to be more announced about it, *this* would be the time to do so.
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  • wazzagiowwazzagiow Member Posts: 769 Arc User
    are we likely to see anything like this for the klingons and romulans???
  • jcswwjcsww Member Posts: 6,789 Arc User
    When it comes to lock and promo box ships offered in these types of bundles, the price would seem a little more reasonable, at least to me, if this was an alternative to the R&D Promo and Master Keys to open boxes. Whether we get any lock box ships in these bundles though is yet to be seen. Personally, I would be very tempted for a TOS Connie, Universe class, Ambassador, and TOS KDF and Romulan D7's.
  • daboholicdaboholic Member Posts: 265 Arc User
    Well, based on what I've read already, I definitely don't think this bundle is aimed at me. Given that I'm not really a fan of the "standard" Starfleet design, I don't really like the saucer, neck, hull and nacelles on pylons look, I always preferred the Miranda over the Constitution, the Nebula over the Galaxy etc.

    However, if Cryptic wants to throw in a curve ball and surprise me by making my favourite ships (the Akira and the Luna) something different, hopefully light cruisers, then I'll definitely get behind that 😁
  • borg0vermindborg0vermind Member Posts: 498 Arc User
    jagdtier44 wrote: »
    Im sure some people have been looking forward to the borg ship so guess that could be it
    Looking forward to a Tac Cube as tank DNC and a Sphere as sci ship.

  • tidetogo1tidetogo1 Member Posts: 34 Arc User
    wazzagiow wrote: »
    are we likely to see anything like this for the klingons and romulans???
    Probably not. Us KDF mains get to sit this one out unless you feel like dropping 300 bucks on traits.

  • browarus2019#7707 browarus2019 Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    For me the problem is not value per ship but overall price. I get it, that there are 10 reworked ships + consoles. But it is 20000-30000 ZEN for Q sake! If this ships were sold as single for let's say 3000-4500 ZEN I would consider to buy one, maybe later second. But not all of them for $300.
  • kronin#4685 kronin Member Posts: 325 Arc User
    The asking price is way too high. Period. For me, that is the end of the discussion. I don't care if it's a good value. It's out of my price range. For that price, I could buy a library of games on Steam. So, if the ships become available individually or in smaller packs (and once we know what the ships even are), then I will offer my opinion on the ships and such.
  • gaevsmangaevsman Member Posts: 3,190 Arc User
    It's like how you can get a burger for $1 at Mcdonalds.

    Not to derail the thread, but all the McDonald's in my area got rid of the dollar burgers YEARS ago, I believe the cheapest is around $2 now, and even the McChicken is at least $1.50. I completely agree with your points regarding the bundle though B)

    In my country, it's $10, more or less, same for a coffee. So yeah, its quite expensive... i just hope the pack is available for a long time, because it will take long to get some savings! (i'm also getting savings for an apparment, housing is also expensive here)
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  • lordmerc22lordmerc22 Member Posts: 776 Arc User
    There is significant time, but will be direct, that so far it feels it will be a somewhat worse anniversary compared to older ones, not better. There is time to change that if we see more things revealed and the episodes can save it too but they did at least start slow and generally it is a mixed bag so far:

    -Anniversary ship is fairly good but worse than most of past ones
    -New TFO looks it will be fun
    -Omega event is downgraded
    -Giveaways are nice but slightly worse than other times - lets see if it will have a ship - since ongoing reserving judgement
    -Story, reserving judgement, I expect it to be better but not as much as it was hyped as Geko made me believe we will have 4-5 episodes arc
    -Anniversary pack apart from being hard to obtain, not due to the value, but due to the high investment upfront is totally one sided(if you see leaks around and aready announced ships we only dont know two ships left) it does make feel anyone who doesnt main a Federation toon and likes to fly classic Federation ships as unwanted. You will see a lot of "Does cryptic want me to play their game anymore?" around the players who do not main a Federation toon.
    -Sales during anniversary so far hadnt been significant
    -Borgbox and its ship and other contents seem to be good, if not a bit OP for some contents

    Does it make it a bad anniversary? no, you get your hands on a lot of freebies so everyone gets at least something free(most games give nothing or close to nothing on their anniversaries so cryptic generally is generous) and by default that is positive but it feels worse than past ones which isnt fit to a milestone like a 10th anniversary is
  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,950 Arc User
    westx211 wrote: »
    I doubt we would see them drop from the 5/3 loadout

    The only reason I think it's a possibility is it would keep the existing TOS Connie desirable. But if their goal is truly just to give fans what they want then your right, they probably won't change that.
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  • tidetogo1tidetogo1 Member Posts: 34 Arc User
    lordmerc22 wrote: »
    There is significant time, but will be direct, that so far it feels it will be a somewhat worse anniversary compared to older ones, not better. There is time to change that if we see more things revealed and the episodes can save it too but they did at least start slow and generally it is a mixed bag so far:

    -Anniversary ship is fairly good but worse than most of past ones
    -New TFO looks it will be fun
    -Omega event is downgraded
    -Giveaways are nice but slightly worse than other times - lets see if it will have a ship - since ongoing reserving judgement
    -Story, reserving judgement, I expect it to be better but not as much as it was hyped as Geko made me believe we will have 4-5 episodes arc
    -Anniversary pack apart from being hard to obtain, not due to the value, but due to the high investment upfront is totally one sided(if you see leaks around and aready announced ships we only dont know two ships left) it does make feel anyone who doesnt main a Federation toon and likes to fly classic Federation ships as unwanted. You will see a lot of "Does cryptic want me to play their game anymore?" around the players who do not main a Federation toon.
    -Sales during anniversary so far hadnt been significant
    -Borgbox and its ship and other contents seem to be good, if not a bit OP for some contents

    Does it make it a bad anniversary? no, you get your hands on a lot of freebies so everyone gets at least something free(most games give nothing or close to nothing on their anniversaries so cryptic generally is generous) and by default that is positive but it feels worse than past ones which isnt fit to a milestone like a 10th anniversary is

    As a KDF main, you summed up how i've felt about this pretty nicely. I get to spend 200 bucks on traits! I'm just dripping with excitement over that.

  • stark2kstark2k Member Posts: 1,467 Arc User
    My gripe with this free ship is the fact that it is a "Command" ship. I was hoping for a box that when opened, will offer between Intel, command, and miracle worker.
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  • postagepaidpostagepaid Member Posts: 2,899 Arc User
    Its only 30k worth of zen on paper, the value diminishes significantly if one or more ships are only for the trait or console or simply never flown.

    Anniversary begins today (has begun by now) so it does seem like no freebie store ship, which ties into the giveaways being reduced by a couple of days.

    The mission is usually getting teased earlier than the day it begins, hopefully it'll be better than walking geordi through the new galaxy interior hoping he decides not to glitch into a doorjam and force a reset before you fight stripper kurland.

    Likewise this bundle of "epic" still only has two ships unveiled on the news section and it's landing today. 10 ships makes it a very obvious "hype" builder for 10days prior unveiling one each day instead of unveil 2 because you forgot and kick the rest out the airlock seconds sometime after it goes live.
  • lnbladelnblade Member Posts: 410 Arc User
    Likewise this bundle of "epic" still only has two ships unveiled on the news section and it's landing today. 10 ships makes it a very obvious "hype" builder for 10days prior unveiling one each day instead of unveil 2 because you forgot and kick the rest out the airlock seconds sometime after it goes live.
    It's not out today, it's out on the 13th.
    Can't argue that, but you've got time to get Zen together since these don't hit the C-Store until 2/13.

  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,950 Arc User
    Anniversary begins today (has begun by now) so it does seem like no freebie store ship
    The news blog says "From now until January 29th, there will be a new giveaway every single day!" That means there is at least one more giveaway starting today and ending tomorrow, and possibly another if their meaning is that the last giveaway will begin on the 29th. So as of now we do not know if there will or will not be a ship given away, but precedent has always been that the giveaways include both a uniform and a ship. We won't know what today's giveaway will be until 10AM PST, or about an hour and ten minutes from now if I'm converting that to EST properly, but the announcement definitely indicates there is at least one more coming.
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  • lordgyorlordgyor Member Posts: 2,820 Arc User
    edited January 2020
    > @lordbeefy7 said:
    > I have most of the ships in the bundle. The bundle effectively then is a bunch of new skins. I fail to see any attraction in this bundle. Im a real self confessed STO fan but even I cant get very excited about this. Whats the difference between legendary and existing zen versions. A few stats and a skin? or am I missing something??

    The difference in some of them appear to be fairly major, like changing the Defiant from an Escort to Pilot Warship. Hypothetically some of the other ships might have even more radical changes.

    It might be able to wear the same customs as the Defiant and the Defiant exclusive toys, but its under the hull the Pilot Warship Defiant is a very different ship to the Valiant.

    This much less true for the Andromeda class vs Ross Class, but still at least somewhat true.
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