So i gave it a go. Got 4th Data V, 2nd The Prophet, 1st Dr. Hugh, and 4th star for Ambo-Riker. 3rd for Armed Phillipa Georgio. Other wise honor, but i am happy.
If the list Shan posted is accurate and two voyage exclusives are really in the pack then there are a total of five 4*'s in the pool that I can use so this is likely a mostly honor proposition for me. Pass.
Yeah, I wanna know if Ensign Picard and Dr. Leonard McCoy are in the pack, too, @Shan.
I wish this guaranteed a legendary. I would have bought on that.
Edit: It does say guaranteed legendary
So that means $25 a legendary guaranteed. Still not sure if I will go for it. I think I still would prefer a x10 pack containing schematics and Rares with guaranteed superrare or legendary for each pull. I might bite on my main account, at moment no.
Or if you're patient, $50 will buy you 31,000 dil (monthly card).
Yes, it is theoretically possible to go back in time 5 months and get this for just $20 (plus have some dilthium left over). I expect most people will need to just spend $50 now.
Or if you're patient, $50 will buy you 31,000 dil (monthly card).
Yes, it is theoretically possible to go back in time 5 months and get this for just $20 (plus have some dilthium left over). I expect most people will need to just spend $50 now.
And for the people only spending the monthly card or less, these offers will continue to look like bad deals to be skipped over. Offer people not on a monthly card a single 10x pack for $5 and you'll convert a lot of new sales. That's 174% value relative to the monthly card which is in line with all the other offers.
Here is my dilemma, since this is the first one let's just assume it is a 2 hour dilemma...
...I already have unclaimed premium pack pulls (12 10x premiuim pulls to be precise) which I have been waiting to open until I get the crew slots to justify it.
This offer which I am actually VERY tempted to grab offers 2,500 VIP. I am currently VIP 11 and at VIP 12 there is a bump in crew slots which is something I really want. I am currently 2,600 VIP points away from VIP 12, meaning that if I buy this offer it will actually make my situation WORSE!
I would essentially add in 2 10x pulls' worth of crew, straining my already bloated roster, and miss the next bump in VIP crew slot bonus by 100 VIP points! WOWZERS!
...actually though, in looking this over, my monthly card expires tomorrow, and when I buy that again it comes with what, 100, 150 VIP points? So I could theoretically buy this NOW, crack the packs BEFORE they expire, then let any overflow crew sit in that 7 day purgatory for a day until I buy the new monthly card, at which point I'll get a lot more crew slots and then the purgatory crew will just get spots!
OK, wow, really gotta do some math here, lol. What I could really use now though is about 15,000 chrons to let me immortalize a bunch of the crew in my current roster destined for the freezer to get those slots back!
Don't really have 6500 dilithium to hand or fancy spending that much to get it...so...can anyone help me out: if I get the single 1x pull at 650, is that also a guaranteed behold? Wasn't totally clear to me.
Don't really have 6500 dilithium to hand or fancy spending that much to get it...so...can anyone help me out: if I get the single 1x pull at 650, is that also a guaranteed behold? Wasn't totally clear to me.
Yes, I think it's a guaranteed behold, but not necessarily a 5* behold. Could be one with 4* characters.
Here is my dilemma, since this is the first one let's just assume it is a 2 hour dilemma...
...I already have unclaimed premium pack pulls (12 10x premiuim pulls to be precise) which I have been waiting to open until I get the crew slots to justify it.
...
I would strongly encourage holding off on your premium packs until the next full portal update (the last was this summer). What you'd be getting here is a shot a recent very good crew not yet in portal. The premiums would be more likely to help you fuse crew you already have, but also more likely to give you "mehs" and no new all-stars.
Since it's my birthday week I just treated myself, and my pulls were extraordinarily kind. In 2 ET buys, a Gary Seven (which brings tears of joy to my eyes), Alt Future Jadzia, EV Burnham and Zhiantara Odo, none of whom I had, a Benny and Solar Sails Sisko (no complaints), and one "meh, I'll have to settle for Tyler Son of None But Hog of One Crew Slot and hope he counts as Discovery Crew in future events".
As a bonus, one of the purples FF'd my RAF Bashir, which put me over the top in the Holodeck collection and got me a 10-pull premium ... which got me another begold. CAVEAT: equivalent success not guaranteed!!! Maybe my karmic balance is up for starting the Haiku thread.
Now for the brutal scrub of who has to go to the freezer...
Here is my dilemma, since this is the first one let's just assume it is a 2 hour dilemma...
...I already have unclaimed premium pack pulls (12 10x premiuim pulls to be precise) which I have been waiting to open until I get the crew slots to justify it.
...
I would strongly encourage holding off on your premium packs until the next full portal update (the last was this summer). What you'd be getting here is a shot a recent very good crew not yet in portal. The premiums would be more likely to help you fuse crew you already have, but also more likely to give you "mehs" and no new all-stars.
Since it's my birthday week I just treated myself, and my pulls were extraordinarily kind. In 2 ET buys, a Gary Seven (which brings tears of joy to my eyes), Alt Future Jadzia, EV Burnham and Zhiantara Odo, none of whom I had, a Benny and Solar Sails Sisko (no complaints), and one "meh, I'll have to settle for Tyler Son of None But Hog of One Crew Slot and hope he counts as Discovery Crew in future events".
As a bonus, one of the purples FF'd my RAF Bashir, which put me over the top in the Holodeck collection and got me a 10-pull premium ... which got me another begold. CAVEAT: equivalent success not guaranteed!!! Maybe my karmic balance is up for starting the Haiku thread.
Now for the brutal scrub of who has to go to the freezer...
It was MY birthday week also, and I too bought the offer! I took screen grabs of EVERY pick, I will share them presently, hopefully everyone gets a kick out of it (some of the choices were AGONIZING!)
OK, so like @Peachtree Rex said, this offer for today was really too good an opportunity to catch up to not take, since I need to, you know, catch up. Below I will post grabs of all 20 behold choices I had (for @Zetterbeard and anyone else who would find enjoyment in such postings) and then recaps shots to show the choices. Many of them were tough, although I did have an internal system to help, ie I tried to favor adding stars to existing crew rather than getting new crew (since my slots are tight) and I also tried to favor 3 skill screw over 2 skill crew. When all that was equal, I looked them up and tried to favor Gauntlet ability. Only once did I make a choice that went against ALL of these "rules", but I kind of felt I had no choice. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
Oh yeah, I freely admit my crew is not on par with most of you, so if it is not too much trouble, I would like to request no "OMG, you didn't have THAT crew!" comments
I have the dilithium for a pack. I went through the list and found 4 4*s that I want (1 being the 4th Penk that 3 event packs didn't give (stupid Shran)). As far as the 5*s go, out of the 72, I would be content with 31 (content meaning that they are someone I really want, could improve my crew significantly at 1/5, I want but would need more stars to be good, or would be an extra star for an existing crew, whether useful or not). That means that I have an 8% chance to get a behold with crew I don't want (Tyler, Son of No One Likes Discovery) or have no opinion on (like Solar Sails Sisko, who has "meh" stats and gets no interest from me except that he's a Sisko).
I also have a 12% chance to get someone I really want either for the character or the stats (excluding a useful extra star, like a 5th for Ru'afo or a 3rd for Professor Sato).
I also have the issue where I am worried about them releasing a character I absolutely must have and that I won't have the dilithium to try without breaking the bank. I've saved up my 8700 dil (was 10k before 2 Commando Shrans ruined my plan to vault Penk instead of dumping him) from the monthly card and the bit that you get from buying $10 offers.
I'm also worried that the crew I really want won't show up in the next portal update (I'm looking at you, COP Founder Picard, who skipped two updates and only had 1 event pack rerun in more than a year and a half).
OK, so like @Peachtree Rex said, this offer for today was really too good an opportunity to catch up to not take, since I need to, you know, catch up. Below I will post grabs of all 20 behold choices I had (for @Zetterbeard and anyone else who would find enjoyment in such postings) and then recaps shots to show the choices. Many of them were tough, although I did have an internal system to help, ie I tried to favor adding stars to existing crew rather than getting new crew (since my slots are tight) and I also tried to favor 3 skill screw over 2 skill crew. When all that was equal, I looked them up and tried to favor Gauntlet ability. Only once did I make a choice that went against ALL of these "rules", but I kind of felt I had no choice. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
Oh yeah, I freely admit my crew is not on par with most of you, so if it is not too much trouble, I would like to request no "OMG, you didn't have THAT crew!" comments
Overall, this was INCREDIBLY fun!
I'm guessing you started playing this year then, judging by your lack of Mirror Picard.
I would have had a lot of fun with those begolds (though the last one would have been "meh"), but I would have just picked extra stars for some of my stronger crew. Which one did you break your rules for?
Also, I was under the impression that there was a begold that guaranteed 3 limited crew, not one that gauranteed at least one choice of the 3 be limited. That hurts the chances of getting good limited crew a lot, especially since I want/kinda want only about half, plus there are enough crew in the portal I don't want. I may not go for this then...
OK, so like @Peachtree Rex said, this offer for today was really too good an opportunity to catch up to not take, since I need to, you know, catch up. Below I will post grabs of all 20 behold choices I had (for @Zetterbeard and anyone else who would find enjoyment in such postings) and then recaps shots to show the choices. Many of them were tough, although I did have an internal system to help, ie I tried to favor adding stars to existing crew rather than getting new crew (since my slots are tight) and I also tried to favor 3 skill screw over 2 skill crew. When all that was equal, I looked them up and tried to favor Gauntlet ability. Only once did I make a choice that went against ALL of these "rules", but I kind of felt I had no choice. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
Oh yeah, I freely admit my crew is not on par with most of you, so if it is not too much trouble, I would like to request no "OMG, you didn't have THAT crew!" comments
Overall, this was INCREDIBLY fun!
I'm guessing you started playing this year then, judging by your lack of Mirror Picard.
I would have had a lot of fun with those begolds (though the last one would have been "meh"), but I would have just picked extra stars for some of my stronger crew. Which one did you break your rules for?
Also, I was under the impression that there was a begold that guaranteed 3 limited crew, not one that gauranteed at least one choice of the 3 be limited. That hurts the chances of getting good limited crew a lot, especially since I want/kinda want only about half, plus there are enough crew in the portal I don't want. I may not go for this then...
If I were following my rules, I should have chosen the second star for Tactical Michael Burnham, but I've lost to Nurse Faith Garland TOO MANY TIMES in The Gauntlet to not realize what the correct choice was there!
OK, so like @Peachtree Rex said, this offer for today was really too good an opportunity to catch up to not take, since I need to, you know, catch up. Below I will post grabs of all 20 behold choices I had (for @Zetterbeard and anyone else who would find enjoyment in such postings) and then recaps shots to show the choices. Many of them were tough, although I did have an internal system to help, ie I tried to favor adding stars to existing crew rather than getting new crew (since my slots are tight) and I also tried to favor 3 skill screw over 2 skill crew. When all that was equal, I looked them up and tried to favor Gauntlet ability. Only once did I make a choice that went against ALL of these "rules", but I kind of felt I had no choice. Anyway, I hope you enjoy!
Oh yeah, I freely admit my crew is not on par with most of you, so if it is not too much trouble, I would like to request no "OMG, you didn't have THAT crew!" comments
Overall, this was INCREDIBLY fun!
I'm guessing you started playing this year then, judging by your lack of Mirror Picard.
I would have had a lot of fun with those begolds (though the last one would have been "meh"), but I would have just picked extra stars for some of my stronger crew. Which one did you break your rules for?
Also, I was under the impression that there was a begold that guaranteed 3 limited crew, not one that gauranteed at least one choice of the 3 be limited. That hurts the chances of getting good limited crew a lot, especially since I want/kinda want only about half, plus there are enough crew in the portal I don't want. I may not go for this then...
If I were following my rules, I should have chosen the second star for Tactical Michael Burnham, but I've lost to Nurse Faith Garland TOO MANY TIMES in The Gauntlet to not realize what the correct choice was there!
If you have the opportunity to improve your gauntlet crew, then that's never the wrong choice. Mirror Picard and 8472 will definitely come in handy.
Also, I was under the impression that there was a begold that guaranteed 3 limited crew, not one that gauranteed at least one choice of the 3 be limited. That hurts the chances of getting good limited crew a lot, especially since I want/kinda want only about half, plus there are enough crew in the portal I don't want. I may not go for this then...
Considering last time you didn’t get guaranteed a gold and the limited crew could all be purple, even 1/3 legendary choices being limited is a major improvement.
I have never bought one of these before..... if I buy the 650 one do I get 1 behold and that’s it or what? I’m confused
Yes. One behold. 99% chance of it being 4*
Should that be 90%?
In theory, a 650 dil premium 10-pack should yield an 11.98% chance of a gold (((1.27% "or" 1.27%) "or" 1.27%) or 1.27% .......), a smidge better than ET's 10%, and will have a higher fallback value of honor to cash in from a bad pull. That's offset against ET drawing from a much better pool. Evens out in the wash, I think. Either way, the 2x10 ET offer is a way better value than the 650 dil ET ***IF*** you need the crew and have cash rather than dil to spend.
I have never bought one of these before..... if I buy the 650 one do I get 1 behold and that’s it or what? I’m confused
Yes. One behold. 99% chance of it being 4*
Should that be 90%?
In theory, a 650 dil premium 10-pack should yield an 11.98% chance of a gold (((1.27% "or" 1.27%) "or" 1.27%) or 1.27% .......), a smidge better than ET's 10%, and will have a higher fallback value of honor to cash in from a bad pull. That's offset against ET drawing from a much better pool. Evens out in the wash, I think. Either way, the 2x10 ET offer is a way better value than the 650 dil ET ***IF*** you need the crew and have cash rather than dil to spend.
A single pull does not follow the 12% chance rule and that would be a single pull. But in all honesty I suppose I should’ve followed my statement with LOL because it was tongue in cheek
Bought 1. The begold had Silva La Forge (new), EV Suit Seven (new), and Darth Bashir (4/5). Went with Darth Bashir to finish him. Also got a 3rd star for Tash (collections) and a new Gabriel Bell.
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$50 would buy you 4000 dil (+1250 at vip 14). 2 10X pulls are 13,000 dil.
Actual Dil cost would be US$87.75, so it IS a "bargain"
My internal debate to purchase is on now. The fact I would get extra Dils just for the purchase does influence the decision slightly.
Yes, they are.
Edit: It does say guaranteed legendary
So that means $25 a legendary guaranteed. Still not sure if I will go for it. I think I still would prefer a x10 pack containing schematics and Rares with guaranteed superrare or legendary for each pull. I might bite on my main account, at moment no.
Each ten pull guarantees a legendary. Still too rich for me though.
I does. "Each 10X... ...Guarantees at least one Legendary limited time crew"
Or if you're patient, $50 will buy you 31,000 dil (monthly card).
Yes, it is theoretically possible to go back in time 5 months and get this for just $20 (plus have some dilthium left over). I expect most people will need to just spend $50 now.
And for the people only spending the monthly card or less, these offers will continue to look like bad deals to be skipped over. Offer people not on a monthly card a single 10x pack for $5 and you'll convert a lot of new sales. That's 174% value relative to the monthly card which is in line with all the other offers.
...I already have unclaimed premium pack pulls (12 10x premiuim pulls to be precise) which I have been waiting to open until I get the crew slots to justify it.
This offer which I am actually VERY tempted to grab offers 2,500 VIP. I am currently VIP 11 and at VIP 12 there is a bump in crew slots which is something I really want. I am currently 2,600 VIP points away from VIP 12, meaning that if I buy this offer it will actually make my situation WORSE!
I would essentially add in 2 10x pulls' worth of crew, straining my already bloated roster, and miss the next bump in VIP crew slot bonus by 100 VIP points! WOWZERS!
...actually though, in looking this over, my monthly card expires tomorrow, and when I buy that again it comes with what, 100, 150 VIP points? So I could theoretically buy this NOW, crack the packs BEFORE they expire, then let any overflow crew sit in that 7 day purgatory for a day until I buy the new monthly card, at which point I'll get a lot more crew slots and then the purgatory crew will just get spots!
OK, wow, really gotta do some math here, lol. What I could really use now though is about 15,000 chrons to let me immortalize a bunch of the crew in my current roster destined for the freezer to get those slots back!
Yes, I think it's a guaranteed behold, but not necessarily a 5* behold. Could be one with 4* characters.
I would strongly encourage holding off on your premium packs until the next full portal update (the last was this summer). What you'd be getting here is a shot a recent very good crew not yet in portal. The premiums would be more likely to help you fuse crew you already have, but also more likely to give you "mehs" and no new all-stars.
Since it's my birthday week I just treated myself, and my pulls were extraordinarily kind. In 2 ET buys, a Gary Seven (which brings tears of joy to my eyes), Alt Future Jadzia, EV Burnham and Zhiantara Odo, none of whom I had, a Benny and Solar Sails Sisko (no complaints), and one "meh, I'll have to settle for Tyler Son of None But Hog of One Crew Slot and hope he counts as Discovery Crew in future events".
As a bonus, one of the purples FF'd my RAF Bashir, which put me over the top in the Holodeck collection and got me a 10-pull premium ... which got me another begold. CAVEAT: equivalent success not guaranteed!!! Maybe my karmic balance is up for starting the Haiku thread.
Now for the brutal scrub of who has to go to the freezer...
It was MY birthday week also, and I too bought the offer! I took screen grabs of EVERY pick, I will share them presently, hopefully everyone gets a kick out of it (some of the choices were AGONIZING!)
Oh yeah, I freely admit my crew is not on par with most of you, so if it is not too much trouble, I would like to request no "OMG, you didn't have THAT crew!" comments
Overall, this was INCREDIBLY fun!
I also have a 12% chance to get someone I really want either for the character or the stats (excluding a useful extra star, like a 5th for Ru'afo or a 3rd for Professor Sato).
I also have the issue where I am worried about them releasing a character I absolutely must have and that I won't have the dilithium to try without breaking the bank. I've saved up my 8700 dil (was 10k before 2 Commando Shrans ruined my plan to vault Penk instead of dumping him) from the monthly card and the bit that you get from buying $10 offers.
I'm also worried that the crew I really want won't show up in the next portal update (I'm looking at you, COP Founder Picard, who skipped two updates and only had 1 event pack rerun in more than a year and a half).
Debating buying a second one.
I'm guessing you started playing this year then, judging by your lack of Mirror Picard.
I would have had a lot of fun with those begolds (though the last one would have been "meh"), but I would have just picked extra stars for some of my stronger crew. Which one did you break your rules for?
Also, I was under the impression that there was a begold that guaranteed 3 limited crew, not one that gauranteed at least one choice of the 3 be limited. That hurts the chances of getting good limited crew a lot, especially since I want/kinda want only about half, plus there are enough crew in the portal I don't want. I may not go for this then...
If I were following my rules, I should have chosen the second star for Tactical Michael Burnham, but I've lost to Nurse Faith Garland TOO MANY TIMES in The Gauntlet to not realize what the correct choice was there!
If you have the opportunity to improve your gauntlet crew, then that's never the wrong choice. Mirror Picard and 8472 will definitely come in handy.
Considering last time you didn’t get guaranteed a gold and the limited crew could all be purple, even 1/3 legendary choices being limited is a major improvement.
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Yes. One behold. 99% chance of it being 4*
Should that be 90%?
In theory, a 650 dil premium 10-pack should yield an 11.98% chance of a gold (((1.27% "or" 1.27%) "or" 1.27%) or 1.27% .......), a smidge better than ET's 10%, and will have a higher fallback value of honor to cash in from a bad pull. That's offset against ET drawing from a much better pool. Evens out in the wash, I think. Either way, the 2x10 ET offer is a way better value than the 650 dil ET ***IF*** you need the crew and have cash rather than dil to spend.
A single pull does not follow the 12% chance rule and that would be a single pull. But in all honesty I suppose I should’ve followed my statement with LOL because it was tongue in cheek
That was pretty painful for 6500 dil...