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drilldo squirt posted:What the hell is in that dlc they are selling for 150 dollars? Who would buy that? Like $300 worth of ships. Me (sometimes, I bought the big romulan launch pack and the big T6 launch pack, I feel I got value from ONE of those two.)
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LordCo posted:
Love it. You are a god amongst men LordCo.
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Cyberball 2072 posted:Like $300 worth of ships. Me (sometimes, I bought the big romulan launch pack and the big T6 launch pack, I feel I got value from ONE of those two.) It's not worth it currently because the game is pretty obviously in emergency milk-the-players-for-all-their-cash mode. Don't spend any real money on this game. The decline in quality with the latest few updates should be a huge warning bell. Play, have fun, torment pubs but for goodness' sake don't give them cash right now. If they somehow got the game back to the casual fun it was pre-Delta Rising then you'd be justified dropping a few bucks I guess.
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Jul 24, 2015 08:47
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Cyberball 2072 posted:Like $300 worth of ships. Me (sometimes, I bought the big romulan launch pack and the big T6 launch pack, I feel I got value from ONE of those two.) That seems excessive.
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Korgan posted:It's not worth it currently because the game is pretty obviously in emergency milk-the-players-for-all-their-cash mode. Don't spend any real money on this game. The decline in quality with the latest few updates should be a huge warning bell. Play, have fun, torment pubs but for goodness' sake don't give them cash right now. If they somehow got the game back to the casual fun it was pre-Delta Rising then you'd be justified dropping a few bucks I guess. Oh no, I agree, what I was trying to say was that around New Romulus there was enough game to make all those ships you got useful and fun to gently caress around with. I wasn't tired of the game then so having 11 odd ships at once to level through and gently caress with was great even if you ended up with a few dud ships. When the T6 pack came out so did the new upgrades path and all the other bullshit we pick apart daily. Since the updates ended up killing alts being a viable source of sidegrading fun having 9 new ships to gently caress with was far less enjoyable since it quickly became clear that I would end up picking the one decent ship out of the bunch and sticking with, where a month before it was still financially viable to have 8-10 duders of various factions all fully geared for endgame poo poo. I in no way meant to imply that buying the Romulans pack or any other now holds value, I didn't feel like I'd misspent at the time. Also the prices on that stuff all went up after it launched. I paid more than I'd advise anyone spend on STO bu it totally wasn't 150 each. Also sadly, with the amount of STO I was playing back then I didn't have time for other games so to me dropping 100 or whatever on a game I know I'll play pretty much exclusively for the next 6-9 months doesn't sound too out of the question, but I've always been good at convincing myself into reckless spending and all kinds of buyers remorse. PSA TIME My Marvel Heroes and now Heroes of The Storm accounts are the same dangerous trap. Sure the game's free but so many 5 and 10 dollar characters later for a game that you can convince yourself has ENDLESS REPLAY VALUE! and you've spent wayyyyyyy more than the 60 something equally time killing as Oblivion or Street Fighter or whatever other game. F2P? Not even once kids! Its loving digital drugs and the first hit is free. Cyberball 2072 fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Jul 24, 2015 09:17
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Yeah, ships in STO weren't that bad a thing as long as you looked at it like a deferred subscription fee. $25 every two or three months isn't that bad as gaming expenses go, and depending on which ship it was it could be a dramatic change in playstyle. And it was even less onerous if you bought dilithium with zen. But then of course Delta Rising hit and they hosed that up by raising the price and obsoleting years of player ship purchases in one fell swoop. This cash grab was so amazingly blatant that it's what single handedly made most of my non-goon friends quit the game, and I can't really blame them. Or in other words, Korgan posted:Don't spend any real money on this game.
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Jul 24, 2015 09:25
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Don't listen to them; buy all the ships! ALL OF THEM! The costumes too, buy those. 
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Jul 24, 2015 10:05
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I have never bought any of the multitude of ships I have with real money. All of it has been from dill converted to zen over time. I have never actually spent any real money in the zen store except for that one time I got really drunk and bought the 'gently caress You' boots.
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DAVE!!!(c)(tm) posted:I have never bought any of the multitude of ships I have with real money. All of it has been from dill converted to zen over time. I have never actually spent any real money in the zen store except for that one time I got really drunk and bought the 'gently caress You' boots. Listen to this man, he is playing the game correctly. Drunk.
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Jul 24, 2015 11:26
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DAVE!!!(c)(tm) posted:I have never bought any of the multitude of ships I have with real money. All of it has been from dill converted to zen over time. I have never actually spent any real money in the zen store except for that one time I got really drunk and bought the 'gently caress You' boots. I've spent like $200 across the life of the game (been playing on and off since the beta) and regretted all but I think three purchases. The Vesta, the Scimitar and the Presidio were all worth it.
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[3:49] [TheTradingChannel] Shot@Shotmonkey: God drat kemocite [3:49] [TheTradingChannel] Shot@Shotmonkey: Soemone doubled all the prices again [3:49] [TheTradingChannel] Shot@Shotmonkey: *Someone [3:50] [System] You are no longer marked as idle. [3:50] [TheTradingChannel] Druk@repetitiveepic: his name is "adam@smith" [3:50] [TheTradingChannel] Shot@Shotmonkey: I dislike him already [3:50] [TheTradingChannel] Druk@repetitiveepic: he's always manipulating the exchange prices, its awful [3:51] [TheTradingChannel] Druk@repetitiveepic: he made plas leeches cost more than 80m now too [3:51] [TheTradingChannel] Shot@Shotmonkey: It's obviously a completely legitimate practice [3:51] [TheTradingChannel] Shot@Shotmonkey: but still [3:51] [TheTradingChannel] Shot@Shotmonkey: gently caress that [3:51] [TheTradingChannel] Druk@repetitiveepic: i think if enough people call him out on the forum the devs will do something [3:51] [TheTradingChannel] Druk@repetitiveepic: like when they added the dance nullifiers [3:52] [TheTradingChannel] Shot@Shotmonkey: I don't know what they could do about this though - you can't stop people buying and reselling [3:52] [TheTradingChannel] Druk@repetitiveepic: its mainly that one guy though [3:53] [TheTradingChannel] Druk@repetitiveepic: adam@smith, who sets all the high exchange prices [3:55] [TheTradingChannel] Shot@Shotmonkey: As annoying as it is, he hasn't broken any rules - I don't think they can really do anything with justification
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hakimashou posted:[3:49] [TheTradingChannel] Shot@Shotmonkey: God drat kemocite I'm still trying to put together a wiki guide to non-standard/P2W boff abilities and kit modules, and after looking up pricing I'm pretty sure the only way to get one at this point is to befriedn a Wesley.
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Jul 24, 2015 12:15
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To paraphrase the Wesleys: bootstraps, son.
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LordCo posted:
hahah I still like it. Also: Working on something new, and wondering if anyone's succeeded in making a convincing Xean clone in the character creator. Standard rules of OPSEC apply; let me know in-game or on mumble.
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DAVE!!!(c)(tm) posted:I have never bought any of the multitude of ships I have with real money. All of it has been from dill converted to zen over time. I have never actually spent any real money in the zen store except for that one time I got really drunk and bought the 'gently caress You' boots. That may very well be but someone is buying that Zen so just trading in Dil for it still means you're enabling that poo poo. Edit: You probably also sold all your Star Citizen stuff to Reddit and made 80 bajillion dollars. Morglon fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Jul 24, 2015 13:50
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Morglon posted:That may very well be but someone is buying that Zen so just trading in Dil for it still means you're enabling that poo poo. But I got mine. Suck it son.
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Jul 24, 2015 18:01
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drilldo squirt posted:What the hell is in that dlc they are selling for 150 dollars? Who would buy that? *I make bad economic decisions when it comes to digital space ships.
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Zhaaaaaawn apparently downloaded a bunch of poo poo so he could use the vanilla forum feature cryptic neglected to implement and ignore us all. Which means he isn't able to flag any of our posts because he can't see them. Which also means to an ordinary observer, he appears be reading but not responding to anything we post. I am sure there is a way to leverage this to paint him in his true colors to anyone that stumbles across his autistic fleet thread.
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Had to mute another idiot in NoPPS today. Here's the relevant bits of the chatlog for posterity: Another day in NoPPS posted:[NoP Public Service] Scion@jazzmag: Anyone got a kemocite 1 manual they'll let go for a lot less than the exchange?
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Excerpt from the chatlog from last night's ESD zone chat. Xean has come forth and confirmed the rumors that he is a staunch LGBT-bigot. At this point I now consider Xtern1ty to be a hate-fleet and have suspended all aid efforts to the fleet indefinitely. ESD Zone posted:[Zone #5] Violence@crotch0311: Why can't someone light takei on fire
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Lagomorphic posted:Excerpt from the chatlog from last night's ESD zone chat. Xean has come forth and confirmed the rumors that he is a staunch LGBT-bigot. At this point I now consider Xtern1ty to be a hate-fleet and have suspended all aid efforts to the fleet indefinitely. Hahaha that will never go away.
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The romulan pack back before Delta was a pretty good deal when on sale (which they did once or twice a year). Dozen ships, some costume stuff, then that was all made obsolete with Delta Rising. I don't think you even get free T5U tokens for your romulan ships if you buy it now. And why bother when for the same amount of money you can just buy a DR pack and get a dozen T6 ships. A Bad Game.
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So, in other exciting Cryptic developments, it looks like Christine Thompson, AKA @Cryptic_Kestral, is dropping the Cryptic from her twitter handle. Here's @Salami_Inferno's send-off. I'm honestly not sure if this is a good sign or a bad one. Is there anyone writing for STO besides her? ETA: No front-page post, but there's a goodbye post on the STO forums. Wizard of the Deep fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Lagomorphic posted:Excerpt from the chatlog from last night's ESD zone chat. Xean has come forth and confirmed the rumors that he is a staunch LGBT-bigot. At this point I now consider Xtern1ty to be a hate-fleet and have suspended all aid efforts to the fleet indefinitely. Should we post this in the xternity sto thread?
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Wizard of the Deep posted:So, in other exciting Cryptic developments, it looks like Christine Thompson, AKA @Cryptic_Kestral, is dropping the Cryptic from her twitter handle. Here's @Salami_Inferno's send-off. crypticfrost left as well, he is her husband. He was QA and posted the tribble patch notes. According to her it wasn't a layoff. https://twitter.com/HelloKestrel/status/624704331577692160 Tuskin38 fucked around with this message at 23:23 on Jul 24, 2015 |
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Jul 24, 2015 23:18
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Probably "creative differences."
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BombermanX posted:Should we post this in the xternity sto thread? I think posting chatlogs is against the rules. Also the whole naming and shaming thing. It's your account though, I'm not gonna tell you what to do.
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Wizard of the Deep posted:So, in other exciting Cryptic developments, it looks like Christine Thompson, AKA @Cryptic_Kestral, is dropping the Cryptic from her twitter handle. Here's @Salami_Inferno's send-off. Tons of people quit or got fired fairly recently so yeah it's done.
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Tuskin38 posted:crypticfrost left as well, he is her husband. He was QA and posted the tribble patch notes. Smart move on their part. The longer they stay, the more sullied their resumes are and the harder it is to get other work in the industry.
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Meh, writers and QA are a dime a dozen already unless you're someone with a reputation people can make bank on.
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Morglon posted:Meh, writers and QA are a dime a dozen already unless you're someone with a reputation people can make bank on. Especially good that they left then. Who the gently caress wants a dented box of cereal when there are undamaged ones to be had?
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Well again, it's writers and QA, the former never comes undamaged and the latter has seen some poo poo, man.
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https://twitter.com/CrypticEQAH/status/624739170301423620 Cryptic has openings.
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Jul 25, 2015 02:49
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Well, starship troopers reference instills confidence.
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Well the alternative to that would be paying decently, not creating a hostile work environment and generally not being on the way out anyway.
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Someone explain how money works, so far I've found 4 different types.
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Berke Negri posted:Well, starship troopers reference instills confidence. I enjoyed those references. drilldo squirt posted:Someone explain how money works, so far I've found 4 different types. This game has too many currencies.
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drilldo squirt posted:Someone explain how money works, so far I've found 4 different types. More seriously there's energy credits which is basically like gold in other games except for the fact it's only really useful for buying poo poo on the exchange. Then there's dilithium, which is used for the stuff you'd actually want to buy and can also be converted into cash shop currency. Which is Zen, and is bought with dilithium (or vice versa) or with cash money. And then there's a different type of mark for every reputation, which only really matters if you're leveling said reputation. See, simple!  Tuskin38 posted:https://twitter.com/CrypticEQAH/status/624739170301423620  CrypticHow many staff members does STO even have left? Is it more or less than like the two people still trying to pretend Champions Online is viable?
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drilldo squirt posted:Someone explain how money works, so far I've found 4 different types.
Those are the main ones, but there are plenty more. The summer and winter events introduce several new currencies each tradable for ships and other event items. There's various reputation items which drop from advanced STFs which are only usable to buy reputation gear, epohh tags which can be traded for epohh pets which can be grown and then either kept as a pet or traded for marks, and probably a hundred more that I'm forgetting. The game has entirely too many currencies for its own good.
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