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I'd say so too, but the intention is to burn enough dil to stabilize the market. *shrug* I have 26 characters totaling about 428000 dil as of today, so I won't be doing this alas, but I'm sure plenty of people will be happy to take advantage of this. Hopefully they rotate other fun things into the dil market later on.
These are lock box shields, where you have to spend millions of EC per weapon choice pack just to gamble for them.
Check the Exchange prices for these, they were fairly high the last time I looked. If the price has crashed it's because of this.
The wiki has pictures and there are probably some decent YouTube videos: https://sto.fandom.com/wiki/Hur'q_Vanity_Shield
Agreed.
As I said in the other thread, 280k is a bit high but I'm very happy with this.
I've never gotten even a single shield exactly because of what you said: it's a chance within a chance and the prices on the exchange, because of that, are preposterous.
I will buy at least one Sec 31 shield, for sure.
Ci sono tre tipi di giocatori:
- quelli a cui non va mai bene niente... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che sono talmente imbesuiti da credere a qualunque cosa i dev dicano, perfino che la luna è fatta di formaggio... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che credono a quello a cui è giusto credere, sono d'accordo con quello con cui è giusto essere d'accordo e sono critici con quello che non va;
Ai giocatori dei primi due tipi, gratis in omaggio un bello specchio lucente su cui arrampicarsi. E una mazzata in testa per la loro poca intelligenza e compassione verso gli altri giocatori che non la pensano come loro.
Agli appartenenti al terzo tipo, invece, dico grazie. Anche se non sempre si riesce a mantenere la calma, siete quelli per cui vale la pena incazzarsi.
~$5 for a lockbox vanity shield is a bargain considering any other method to obtain one.
It's quite easy: just put it for sale at 25 - which is the minimum - then simply remove the offer.
This will make it go into the Exchange Balance, which is accessible to all of your characters. This is also useful because you can then withdraw any quantity you want, so you can leave some in there for other characters if you don't wanna continually switch.
Alternatively, you can just put it for sale at 25, log onto the character you want it on, remove the offer and withdraw all of it immediately.
As for the shields being put into the C-Store... sorry, but in this case it would defeat the purpose, which is to create a feasable dilithium sink.
Ci sono tre tipi di giocatori:
- quelli a cui non va mai bene niente... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che sono talmente imbesuiti da credere a qualunque cosa i dev dicano, perfino che la luna è fatta di formaggio... e vanno sul forum a trollare;
- quelli che credono a quello a cui è giusto credere, sono d'accordo con quello con cui è giusto essere d'accordo e sono critici con quello che non va;
Ai giocatori dei primi due tipi, gratis in omaggio un bello specchio lucente su cui arrampicarsi. E una mazzata in testa per la loro poca intelligenza e compassione verso gli altri giocatori che non la pensano come loro.
Agli appartenenti al terzo tipo, invece, dico grazie. Anche se non sempre si riesce a mantenere la calma, siete quelli per cui vale la pena incazzarsi.
For people like you who (apparently) haven't used the dil exchange to shift dil between characters, this might get them to put zen into the dilex to buy the dil for this. That will help the exchange too. Especially since they'll then remove the dil from the game to get their shield(s).
I have a lot of unrefined dil, but I keep the dil for the upgrades and some gears. A vanity shield doesn't worth 250000 dil.
edit: helps if I don't hit the post button too soon. Lastly on this, yeah I can see some folks not being fond of the 280k dilithium, but considering what some of these things would go for normally, this is a steal
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I'd say it is aimed squarely at people who have no particular interest in spending the dil on anything else right now.
The big thing that I hate about vanity shields, though, is the lack of a preview mechanic. There are a couple I think I'd want on certain ships but the wiki is not kept up to date on vanity shields.
Agreed I take back what I said originally
Tzenkethi Vanity Shield .....
Section 31 ....
Borg ,,,
Honestly its a lot more reasonable. And based on how the blog is worded, this is a test to see how it will work, and they're testing multiple things at once.
I don't think they're going to drop the price as it has been pointed out to be a bit above the equivelent of a C-Store uniform unlock, as well as the current economic situation. This is a DL sink, and one that so far looks to be pretty popular. They may decide to rotate the selection with each release considering we don't have the full menu of vanity shields. Hell... they may even outright put the less popular ones up permanently. I don't know. But as Space Barbie is the true endgame, this is going to get lots of bites. Might tick off the people selling Vanity Shields for a bit, but honestly I'd prefer a few angry EC sellers to having a dead DL economy.
There's a Tailor for characters that offers "try before you buy" with uniforms so why not for our starships?
Otherwise we have to search the internet searching for the right vanity shield on the right starship & find that combination that we also want or we're gambling again with a purchase.
For now we'll probably have to settle for various preview pics that have been made over time, and any preview videos.
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I can understand if it's different in-game mechanics making it more difficult, but Cryptic would be serving us players & themselves better if there was a link showing the vanity shields on various starships. The whole seek out on the internet & hope & pray to find the right vanity shield on the right starship wanted may not even have a result & it's Cryptic that has all those resources. Perhaps not a video but just screen-shots would suffice, but given Cryptic's gambling mechanics I'm not thrilled at more gambling purchases & hoping it looks like I like, but I think the actual price per vanity shield is reasonable given their origins.
I'm not even sure what's in the dilithium store to buy from memory but if Cryptic was really wanting to help the current dilithium situation recover I'd think more than a meek -20% would be offered.
Also, a big concern I just read is: the possibility of Cryptic having all of us buy these then later on this will become a Mudd's bundle which would be account-wide. That would just suck.