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Still can't believe the Dil backlog is under 3 million now.
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Cythereal posted:You just missed it, alas. Oh hey mate! I thought I saw something about it being delayed on console but honestly no dramas if it’s not. Cruising around in a mirror T5 Sovereign (I hope they’re still available and cheap on the Exchange?) should scratch the itch enough for me.
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Feb 27, 2023 02:40
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Yeah console is a month or two behind PC just because of all the certification work they need to go through for console patches so they won't brick them with lovely Cryptic code. Don't know the exact schedule at this point though.
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Feb 27, 2023 16:14
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I remember the last time I played Romulan ships were bad because of their Singularity Cores didn't output as much power or something. Is that still a thing?
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Feb 28, 2023 06:23
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fullTimeLurker posted:I remember the last time I played Romulan ships were bad because of their Singularity Cores didn't output as much power or something. Is that still a thing? You bet! And their trump card of having excellent layouts while launch era feds flew around in cope cruisers is long gone. Now its normal for (almost) any new ship to be quite decent regardless of hull color. Some exceptions still creep through of course (like the vomit inducing bridge officer layout of the parliament class). edit - On the upside you can now fly ships of any faction (once you overcome the initial hurdle) so if you want something with a warp core its never been easier to just fly an ship that doesn't bleed power. DancingShade fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Feb 28, 2023 |
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Feb 28, 2023 07:24
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Don't forget if you want to fly a D'dex you're stuck without the cruiser command that nets you an extra 3 turn for even more 'fun'. They finally released a decent version in the legendary but it's in a bundle so even more expensive than the typical legendary.
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Feb 28, 2023 07:38
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Just fly whatever until the next free event ship as they're generally quite decent for free. Or spend money, if so inclined.
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Feb 28, 2023 07:48
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Eimi posted:Don't forget if you want to fly a D'dex you're stuck without the cruiser command that nets you an extra 3 turn for even more 'fun'. They finally released a decent version in the legendary but it's in a bundle so even more expensive than the typical legendary. Are you talking about the Legendary D'dex or was there yet another one that they released? Because every single D'Dex i've flown has been a total piece of poo poo, even though it's the original reason I rolled a Romulan toon.
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Feb 28, 2023 09:29
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Was it bort that had the tantrum on twitter when the legendary D'Dex came out and everyone was pissed off because it was poo poo and he basically cried about how everyone wants ships that are good but not all ships can be!
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Feb 28, 2023 10:07
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MikeJF posted:Was it bort that had the tantrum on twitter when the legendary D'Dex came out and everyone was pissed off because it was poo poo and he basically cried about how everyone wants ships that are good but not all ships can be! I don't remember but its sounds about right. (don't use twitter but I'm sure it was posted about here) The gozertorp of ship designers.
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Feb 28, 2023 12:46
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DancingShade posted:Some exceptions still creep through of course (like the vomit inducing bridge officer layout of the parliament class). Which pisses me off because it looks great. I copied a bunch of last year's event reward to tribble to try it out and it looks and moves great, but the layout is just ugh. MikeJF posted:Was it bort that had the tantrum on twitter when the legendary D'Dex came out and everyone was pissed off because it was poo poo and he basically cried about how everyone wants ships that are good but not all ships can be! Yeah pretty sure it was, thankfully he seems to be gone, and the last of his ship-design influence can be seen in the Monitor and the Sirius, especially compared to the Hydra and the Eagle.
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Feb 28, 2023 13:47
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There would be a lot more design room for ship layouts if there weren’t so many useless skills.
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Feb 28, 2023 15:52
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New Mudd-Bundle: Khitomer Alliance Pack I'll leave it to your discretion if ~$150 is worth the account unlock for missing event ships. They're not bad, but that's a high price for some average-at-best ships.
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Feb 28, 2023 18:07
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Wizard of the Deep posted:New Mudd-Bundle: Khitomer Alliance Pack Yeah none of those ships are worth Mudd's pricing.
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Feb 28, 2023 18:09
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Given that event ships are generally a step down from lockbox ones, seems like this should have been cheaper. Or they could do the regular "choice" price point but just throw in some coupons and tokens and whatever.
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Feb 28, 2023 19:10
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Reddit is in uproar over this. Personally, I'm more or less fine with it: -It provides a new way of acquiring old event ships as accountwide unlocks. People have been screaming for this for years. The Monkey's Paw has provided! -I personally own all of the ships in it already, so have absolutely zero reason to buy, thus saving me a bunch of zen! -This is clearly an experiment by Cryptic to see if they can push the boundaries further and remonetise old event content. I guarantee someone on the staff wrote a big business case proposing this, claiming it would bring in money for zero work/outlay. I don't think it will be that successful in practicer though, not because the business model is flawed, but because the specific ships in this one are way too recent (all from the last few years) and frankly none are that great (Temer Raider is nice, but not essential). In practice, if they repeat this (a big if), the next bundle will correspondingly be more generous, probably including at least one very desirable old event ships as a choice - such as the Bajoran Interceptor or Breen T6 Plesh Tral... -As they are trying to test the waters and avoid annoying people too much, the bundle only has 3 ships rather than 4 - this means you can get all of them at once, rather than having to buy it twice to get the last one. Tigey fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Feb 28, 2023 |
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Feb 28, 2023 21:28
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Tigey posted:Reddit is in uproar over this. Personally, I'm more or less fine with it: I doubt anything good will come of any kind of success here. 
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Feb 28, 2023 21:52
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Tigey posted:Reddit is in uproar over this. Personally, I'm more or less fine with it: I don’t have any of the Alliance ships (or uniform) on my console account and would love to have them because I love the aesthetic. I do not $200 (Australia tax) want them though. Jesus gently caress Cryptic.
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Mar 1, 2023 07:40
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Isn't the whole point of mudd's market is that the price they put them up at isn't the real price? They multiplied the proper price by 4 and then rotate all items through 75% discounts.
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MikeJF posted:Isn't the whole point of mudd's market is that the price they put them up at isn't the real price? They multiplied the proper price by 4 and then rotate all items through 75% discounts. Pretty much.
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Mar 1, 2023 08:41
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That Jarok carrier is an absolute pig to fly. But because it is basically the only full carrier Fed captains tend to have because of the recent event, you still see them every now and then. My team green captain flies one too, because otherwise he would be stuck on some T5 scimitar variant, but I sincerely think that switching Jarok wasn't an upgrade.
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MikeJF posted:Isn't the whole point of mudd's market is that the price they put them up at isn't the real price? They multiplied the proper price by 4 and then rotate all items through 75% discounts. The bundles never go down to 75% off anymore though. Previous event ships are up as Mudd's ships for 17000 zen, and THOSE get a 75% discount because they aren't in a bundle, bringing them to a slightly more reasonable 4250. By putting all these together and nowhere else, they're being the biggest dicks they can about it. Not even including the Khitomer uniform as a freebie is just adding insult to insult.
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Lifetime's 50% off for the next two days apparently if that's anyone's thing. God help me, I'm actually mildly tempted, 13 years later. Edit: lol nevermind apparently five minutes of research shows that, shocker of shockers, it's still a terrible deal. Drone fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Mar 2, 2023 |
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Mar 2, 2023 19:24
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Drone posted:Edit: lol nevermind apparently five minutes of research shows that, shocker of shockers, it's still a terrible deal. I've been thinking about getting that every time they offer the deal, but every year it's just never been worth it. edit: okay and seriously wtf, I just finished off 2500 ambush kills on my recruit and all I get is that lovely trait? I thought at least the game would give me that BOFF. I suppose that would just be waaay to generous
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Mar 3, 2023 00:22
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Der Kyhe posted:That Jarok carrier is an absolute pig to fly. But because it is basically the only full carrier Fed captains tend to have because of the recent event, you still see them every now and then.
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Mar 3, 2023 00:26
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Another red alert coming. I'm never going to say no to another ult tech upgrade.
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Mar 3, 2023 21:51
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If it overlapped with the meta event, I would do it. But I can't be bothered logging in just for a red alert event.
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holy poo poo they're down to 2.175 mill backlog on the dill exchange. It was up around 3.5 when they started taking measures to prevent bot grinding. They might have actually done something productive.  edit: if it gets down to a 1 mil backlog I'm selling my stash and buying back in when it finds a new equilibrium
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Cyrano4747 posted:holy poo poo they're down to 2.175 mill backlog on the dill exchange. It was up around 3.5 when they started taking measures to prevent bot grinding. Yeah it's kind of crazy how quickly the backlog is clearing out. I'm genuinely surprised there's that much demand for dil, what is it being spent on?
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I don’t think they are “taking measures” so much as limiting starbase one for the event has inadvertently proven that SB one really is the problem. I’m willing to bet the dill backlog will shoot back up when advanced and elite are options for bot farms again.
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Jxforema posted:I don’t think they are “taking measures” so much as limiting starbase one for the event has inadvertently proven that SB one really is the problem. I’m willing to bet the dill backlog will shoot back up when advanced and elite are options for bot farms again. It had been dropping fairly steadily for at least a month before SB1 was an event, and one of the major botters talked about getting 700(!) accounts banned. So they absolutely did something about the botting problem. They also updated SB1 in general to make it harder to bot. So we'll see.
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Hunter Noventa posted:It had been dropping fairly steadily for at least a month before SB1 was an event, and one of the major botters talked about getting 700(!) accounts banned. So they absolutely did something about the botting problem. They also updated SB1 in general to make it harder to bot. So we'll see. Seriously? 700 accounts? Wow. That's insane. What is the point of them doing that? You can't sell any of the ships you buy with Zen right? So how were they getting money out of the game?
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fullTimeLurker posted:Seriously? 700 accounts? Wow. That's insane. They probably bought keys with Zen, resold those for EC and then sold EC ships on out of market exchanges for real money. That's my guess anyways.
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Mar 4, 2023 21:17
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ahh, that makes perfect sense. I do the dumb version of that. Buy Zen with real money, buy keys, sell keys to buy ships
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fullTimeLurker posted:I do the dumb version of that. Buy Zen with real money, buy keys, sell keys to buy ships This is what they hope for. They hope you will get tired of the Dilithium grind and just buy the keys directly. Or use spare Zen after a purchase on such. I've done the second.
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Welp. I am fully out of dilithium. First time I think that's happened to me since Legacy of Romulus.
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I don't know if its related but the Exchange's T6 box ship market just recently had a mini-crash, dropping from "generally 400M+" to below 300M on several ship types (I saw 215M at lowest selling point) and its now back hovering mostly just above 300M.
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Der Kyhe posted:I don't know if its related but the Exchange's T6 box ship market just recently had a mini-crash, dropping from "generally 400M+" to below 300M on several ship types (I saw 215M at lowest selling point) and its now back hovering mostly just above 300M. Knock-on effect of fewer bots meaning less EC perhaps.
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Cyrano4747 posted:holy poo poo they're down to 2.175 mill backlog on the dill exchange. It was up around 3.5 when they started taking measures to prevent bot grinding. the backlog is down to 1.445 mil. I'm going to go ahead and ditch my stash because I have a feeling that when it finally drops it's going to happen fast. I'm a little surprised there is anyone sitting on outstanding buy orders, then again that could be part of the reason for the rapid draw-down. Before this I was punching in one every month or so with my refined dil just to get in line. I doubt they're going to post anything must-buy in the next month or so, so time to pull out while this settles down. edit: man it's fun seeing those sell orders complete instantly. edit 2: does anyone remember the max refind dil you can hold? I know there's some limit somewhere. Cyrano4747 fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Mar 6, 2023 |
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Cyrano4747 posted:the backlog is down to 1.445 mil. Max is 10 million per character, but remember that you can effectively stash an unlimited amount on the exchange using unrealistic buy/sell orders.
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