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If there really are millions of unspent green tokens. That means no one bothered to turn them into upgrades... and use them. As in there isn't anything to upgrade.
Of course I want to see more stuff end up in phoenix. They made a mistake when they stopped putting new things in the boxes. But I would say its more important to get people upgrading gear. If there really are that many unused phoenix upgrades in the game it makes me wonder how much new gear they would have to release before people get to a point of needing more.
Perhaps its time for gear to get a somewhat expensive MK bump. lol
It would depend how they went about it. If they went the Cryptic way it'd be as bad as trying to get UU/Epic the current way, if they went our way (I'm assuming fairly reasonable) then it'd be bad for the dilex. That said I'm sure odds better than drawing a royal flush in 5 card stud (I'm exaggerating here), wouldn't hurt.
I do see Borty there mentioning odds, those things us floundering peasants don't get to know. So what difference would that mak
Only thing I can think of is moving less desirable (or obsolescent) ships down a tier or two. I would assume everybody wants the Interceptor, so that would stay at epic. Very rare might have to go rarer though.
If I get an UR I just get X-upgrades, and I got a whole 2 epics since the Phoenix box thing starter (and those were on the account that I did not have a specific ship I wanted like the already mentioned Samsar for my Kobali captain).
As more of my characters reach top end the fewer upgrades I need so my buying phoenix boxes has slowed a bit. I suspect that pattern is not that unusual from what I hear from others in chat.
Make it a steep exchange? But no they don't want things to change...they're all to happy to force people to buy dilithium if they want it in time for a sale
People spending 1million dilithium for a guaranteed epic instead of 5 million for some very rares, a bunch of rares, and a ton of uncommons then giving up on the broken system?
They aren't doing anything at all to try and fix the exchange because it just feeds their greed and that is how they like it
The exchange also makes them real world $$$... There is no such thing as free Zen.
There is a handful of dedicated players constantly buying dill from other players... giving them things to spend purple rocks on ensures they keep buying purple rocks from people with zen.
Either way its Cryptic that makes the money. And keeping backsides (even free for the moment backsides) in seats increases their potential $$$.... in order to get tempted to drop $50 bucks or something at xmas you have to be playing.
No they don't want the exchange to be stuck at a month wait on sales of Dill. Having it balanced to be run in the 490-500 range with the odd ground out with a day or two wait when the big sales hit... is probably ideal for Cryptics pocketbook.
Also Bort: "Oh, before anyone asks, no we won't change a single thing and just blame you to 'not get it' as always"
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Well the numbers would have to be a lot higher then 8 to 1. Which is why they won't do it.
Are you going to convert 1024 greens for one UR. Cause for them to go there that is about where they would need to be imo. Any less then 3-4 million Dil per gold just wouldn't make sense. It wouldn't be a sink anymore.
The Phoenix box is on that path right now. They stopped putting stuff in, people amassed tokens, now they feel everything they put in to do with these tokens isn't worth it.
Nothing but bundles for hundreds of dollars is worth the effort at this point.
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Trade up could still work and not devalue the larger tokens. Just scale the numbers
Green -> Blue. 3
blue -> purple 6
purple -> ultra rare 16
Ultra rare -> gold 16
This would give people a sense that they could convert greens to blues or even purples for gear without too much pain. But to pick up a gold ticket without RNG You would still need 4608 green tickets... lol (or 18million dill... but if you where opening boxes a gold ticket trade up would probably average more 7-10 million with blue and purple pulls) I don't think that is insane for Cryptic... I mean we are talking one toon ships, ships that used to be free account unlocks. Players may balk at the numbers, and I guess that is the only reason I could see for not doing it.
I mean I guess if there really are 20 million green tickets that means even with my numbers 4,340 gold tickets would be added to the game. Granted I imagine the majority of those would be on the same handful of players accounts... and not spread across everyone playing. I mean I'm sitting on 7 gold tickets right now cause I currently don't need anything in the store... so its not 100% true that the people sitting on 20 million would even care to smash them up. I stopped buying Phoenix unless I really need a few upgrades long ago but I used to have stacks of green and blue tokens as well.
I want and like to create new characters. Every character I create needs EVERYTHING. Personally, I save my pheonix upgrade tokens for new characters. However, Star Trek Online doesn't offer a player who has supported the game for 11+ years and has already outfitted 40 characters to max level much. The game caters and is focused on possible new players.
I have been waiting for a "Linus" Saurian skin for what must be over 2 years. I don't even need a new species. One re-skin update of an already existing species in the game and I will spend much of my saved resources to play the game again, because I will need everything again. Each new species makes the entire game journey new for me, but there hasn't been a new species in years (at least it seems that way).
New players probably don't have resources saved, because it is so costly to outfit characters. Players that have saved resources might just be waiting for a reason to make a new character - a character/species they don't already have.
The comment made by Borticus scares me, because it inferrs that we don't like what they've created in the game. I interpret it as a message that there is not much new to come, and my wait and hope for a new journey with new character species is futile.
I agree! Also I very GLAD they don't allow trade-ups, the only thing I really wished is they hadn't completely IGNORED Phoenix with Mudd's Market for the last 2-3 years!
I think they need to include about 33% of Event Gear into Phoenix, even if people PREFER Mudd's Store for Account-Wide unlock!
So hopefully the UPDATE he's doing will see a few new things added, it's been a long time.