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The Harcourt Fenton Mudd Market & GPL

aspartan1aspartan1 Member Posts: 1,054 Arc User
edited September 2023 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
When the Mudd market was first introduced I thought of it as cute nod or dare I say homage to a shyster and innovative novelty move as a way to recycle some very useful items people maybe missed out on for different reasons. More importantly as an end run around the plague of gamble boxes and RNG rapings of serious money in the case of some people such as me because if it was not for bad luck I would have no luck.

Anyway, I have been waiting with great hope given intentionally astronomical prices that Cryptic was going to to be creative with some unique way to get discounts only a Ferengi would love; case in point the totally useless GPL in game.

Everyday I hope to read a news article from Cryptic tell the community GPL can be used to purchase discounts for the Mudd Market from the Consortium at various locations throughout the quadrants but sadly it never happens in this reality.

Shoot, access may of course be granted after completion of several quest lines of special economic missions or whatever to spice it up some so maybe it would be considered as more of an earned perk vs a give away.

Surely someone at Cryptic must have had the same idea amiright? Just sayin'...

It is like the Captain's Table it is totally forgotten and sad really as there is so much potential left on the table.
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  • maniac20#5251 maniac20
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    They have mentioned a few years back they were looking at expanding the GPL store but that has yet to happen.
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,689 Community Moderator
    maniac20#5251 wrote: »
    They have mentioned a few years back they were looking at expanding the GPL store but that has yet to happen.

    Its possible that the problem is the current supply of GPL most established players have. On one character I got about 10 mil GPL and nothing to spend it on.
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  • vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,943 Arc User
    I mistyped my bet on Dabo yesterday and lost 2M ec.. and have 10.5M GPL
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  • redeyedravenredeyedraven Member Posts: 1,297 Arc User
    edited June 2020
    aspartan1 wrote: »
    as a way to recycle some very useful items people maybe missed out on for different reasons. More importantly as an end run around the plague of gamble boxes and RNG

    That's exactly what ended up happening. Missed an event? Want certain RNG-single-unlocks for all your toons? You can have that now - for essentially double the price in Zen, given the items are on sale. Circumventing RNG or missing an event is gonna cost you, but at least it's guaranteed.

    I don't see Mudd's market becoming a GPL-dump, as GPL is pretty much associated with Ferengi.
  • maniac20#5251 maniac20
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    rattler2 wrote: »
    maniac20#5251 wrote: »
    They have mentioned a few years back they were looking at expanding the GPL store but that has yet to happen.

    Its possible that the problem is the current supply of GPL most established players have. On one character I got about 10 mil GPL and nothing to spend it on.

    I am in the same boat on 1 character when it comes to GPL
  • salazarrazesalazarraze Member Posts: 3,794 Arc User
    GPL is useless by design. They won't let you use a worthless currency to purchase a premium item.
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  • aspartan1aspartan1 Member Posts: 1,054 Arc User
    The idea addresses the point of the GPL being worthless.

    Simply put, using Mudd as a sink for discounts when there are no official sales is really enabling time shifting functionally.

    Cryptic loses nothing and gets a good way to diminish the GPL in the game while giving players a perceived advantage at least in terms of a time shift for value.

    I see it as a win/win situation for players and Cryptic. Then if they develop a couple more sinks such as buying rep tokens or other things there is so much that could be done generate a positive player experience and garner goodwill for Cryptic at the same time without costly them anything other than some time to do proper planning and development.
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  • redeyedravenredeyedraven Member Posts: 1,297 Arc User
    edited June 2020
    aspartan1 wrote: »
    Cryptic loses nothing and gets a good way to diminish the GPL in the game while giving players a perceived advantage at least in terms of a time shift for value.
    Not gonna happen. They *might* consider some GPL-sink at some point, but the Mudd-store is what it is.
    It's a PREMIUM-item-store. Missed event-items, and in the future possibly more and more promo/lockbox ships for a rather hefty price, but at least circumventing RNG and account-wide.
  • captainkenny1captainkenny1 Member Posts: 326 Arc User
    How about a GPL cost to refine more dill? like a million GPL to refine 500K dil?
    my 0.02 cents
  • kiralynkiralyn Member Posts: 1,576 Arc User
    captainkenny1 wrote: »
    refine more dil?

    The correct answer to any idea that include this phrase is NO.
  • theanothernametheanothername Member Posts: 1,512 Arc User
    edited June 2020
    I think I shared my thoughts about that already. But basically I like the general idea and potential behind a Mudd market; but not the lackluster "GIVE ME YOUR FREAKIN $$$!" execution.
    maniac20#5251 wrote: »
    They have mentioned a few years back they were looking at expanding the GPL store but that has yet to happen.

    They did, they even asked the community for ideas which became a real interesting thread. Shortly after that the lobi shop was introduced :P
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