but I'll mainly pull 10x packs ... hopefully to FF some older 4*s and maybe be lucky and get a 5* behold in one of those too.
Really? 4k honor is quite expensive.
I saved 300k for beholds so far. I really hope it will happen.
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but I'll mainly pull 10x packs ... hopefully to FF some older 4*s and maybe be lucky and get a 5* behold in one of those too.
Really? 4k honor is quite expensive.
I saved 300k for beholds so far. I really hope it will happen.
Like I said ... don't have much saved up ...
With 160,000 Honor, I can either do:
- 40 10x pack pulls
- 5 5* beholds (if they cost 27,000 each).
Result
If I do the max 10x pulls I probably expect about 4 5* beholds in those 40 packs (which is worth 108,000 Honor) ... so I'm basically spending 52,000 Honor to star up my 4*s.
On average I'm only missing out on one 5* behold.
I might be able to immortalise some of the 4*s I have left, or get more stars on Evolved Janeway (one Paris away from a third star).
If I'm lucky I might get 5 5* beholds and if I'm unlucky I'll get 3 (or less) in 40 packs.
I'll take my chances.
ps - EDIT: Added benefits ... I might be able to get some of my 5* ships to lvl 8 (I have 5 at lvl 7 with unique traits), which would help voyages a bit ... I'll be left with a chunk of Honor at the end that I can use as a start for my next citation project.
Also, last year the 10x pack deal ran for a longer period than the 5* beholds, so there's that.
If you use all that honor for beholds, I hope you at least post them, so the rest of us honor-poor folks can get some vicarious enjoyment out of them. 😉
Shan stated they're probably not running that sale again. i would expect a bunch of other, lower priced, offers, on things like honor, packs, dil, chrons, etc.
Shan stated they're probably not running that sale again. i would expect a bunch of other, lower priced, offers, on things like honor, packs, dil, chrons, etc.
Where? I missed that. That's unfortunate.
If that's true, I guess I'll stop hoarding and buy those citations.
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Shan stated they're probably not running that sale again. i would expect a bunch of other, lower priced, offers, on things like honor, packs, dil, chrons, etc.
Shan stated they're probably not running that sale again. i would expect a bunch of other, lower priced, offers, on things like honor, packs, dil, chrons, etc.
Where? I missed that. That's unfortunate.
If that's true, I guess I'll stop hoarding and buy those citations.
Yes. When did she say that?
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
Shan stated they're probably not running that sale again. i would expect a bunch of other, lower priced, offers, on things like honor, packs, dil, chrons, etc.
Shan stated they're probably not running that sale again. i would expect a bunch of other, lower priced, offers, on things like honor, packs, dil, chrons, etc.
Where? I missed that. That's unfortunate.
If that's true, I guess I'll stop hoarding and buy those citations.
Yes. When did she say that?
I remember something like, "don't expect this offer to run again," but not a definitive statement like "never."
I’ll give it another few days and then I’m citing up Warship EMA.
I had hundreds of thousands saved up for it earlier in the year and got bored and FF’d Neelix, Burnham, Number One and Boothby instead. My increasingly regular 10 hour voyages thank me. That said, doing a tonne of beholds is the only way I see myself finishing some half decent 3/5s who just aren’t good enough to cite...
Well, a company never wants to say "we'll never do this again" to any special deal they've presented in the past — I'm sure DB would want to keep their options open. I would interpret a statement like that to mean, "There are no plans to have an offer like this again, so probably don't hold your breath for it to happen again next year," and not, "There is no way we would ever consider doing this again, no way, no how."
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing. ~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
Well, a company never wants to say "we'll never do this again" to any special deal they've presented in the past — I'm sure DB would want to keep their options open. I would interpret a statement like that to mean, "There are no plans to have an offer like this again, so probably don't hold your breath for it to happen again next year," and not, "There is no way we would ever consider doing this again, no way, no how."
It's actually the opposite. A company always wants to say "one time only". It's how you build urgency. Also, if you train your users to expect sales, then they never pay full price again. Just look how many people are sitting here waiting for an honor sale already. If DB said "every Christmas we will have a sale on honor begolds" the conversion of honor to begolds the rest of the year would plummet. Especially in the months leading up to Christmas. Think about the 50% off crew slot sale. I bet DB used to sell a lot more crew slots at 3k before people started to expect 50% off a couple times a year. Now everyone waits until the next sale to buy crew slots.
Assuming the sales did well last year, I would fully expect similar sales again this year. Maybe we'll even get lucky and they will change it up to offer a citation instead of begold sale this year.
Well, a company never wants to say "we'll never do this again" to any special deal they've presented in the past — I'm sure DB would want to keep their options open. I would interpret a statement like that to mean, "There are no plans to have an offer like this again, so probably don't hold your breath for it to happen again next year," and not, "There is no way we would ever consider doing this again, no way, no how."
It's actually the opposite. A company always wants to say "one time only". It's how you build urgency.
I guess I was speaking more of not committing to an "always or never" stance on anything internally — within the company. I suppose you have a point about a company stating "this will never happen again" to their customers in order to build urgency, but I have to think that something like that would have a tendency to backfire if they suddenly decided to reverse their stance at a certain point in the future. One would hope (if perhaps not expect) a company like DB would want to be seen as credible and trustworthy in that regard, rather than emulating the stores who are always holding "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS!" sales every few months, just to, as you say, build urgency.
If DB said "every Christmas we will have a sale on honor begolds" the conversion of honor to begolds the rest of the year would plummet.
Assuming the sales did well last year, I would fully expect similar sales again this year. Maybe we'll even get lucky and they will change it up to offer a citation instead of begold sale this year.
I do agree with this point, though. DB may not come right out and say, "We will never have an offer like this again," but it's certainly in their best interest if players do not expect certain offers to pop up, if said offers might affect their bottom line during the normal course of the year. So essentially saying, "Well, don't hold your breath," does that quite well, without having to commit to a definitive yes or no answer.
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Come on, I started saving honor since last xmas, I've got about 840k saved! I need to know what to do!
I can’t say with any real certainty, but I would think if we don’t have an announcement by this Friday we shouldn’t expect a sale next week. With Christmas falling where it is, there’s only really two or maybe three working days next week and only one is before the holiday...a Monday announcement would be a bit skimpy on advance notice.
Personally, if I don’t see a holiday sale announcement by this time on Friday I am buying two citations with my 103,000 honor and using them to immortalize Gladiator Spock and probably get another star on Torpedo Surgeon McCoy.
Come on, I started saving honor since last xmas, I've got about 840k saved! I need to know what to do!
I can’t say with any real certainty, but I would think if we don’t have an announcement by this Friday we shouldn’t expect a sale next week. With Christmas falling where it is, there’s only really two or maybe three working days next week and only one is before the holiday...a Monday announcement would be a bit skimpy on advance notice.
Personally, if I don’t see a holiday sale announcement by this time on Friday I am buying two citations with my 103,000 honor and using them to immortalize Gladiator Spock and probably get another star on Torpedo Surgeon McCoy.
The sales last week ran from Christmas to New Years and generally were announced as they were going live. It wouldn't shock me to see sales announced on Monday or even Tuesday.
Come on, I started saving honor since last xmas, I've got about 840k saved! I need to know what to do!
I imagine that you can safely spend half of it. I'm not ruling out Convergence Day just yet. That's mid-January. If nothing by then, I'd save maybe 200k and spend the rest. That's my plan for my 400k honor, anyway.
Come on, I started saving honor since last xmas, I've got about 840k saved! I need to know what to do!
I can’t say with any real certainty, but I would think if we don’t have an announcement by this Friday we shouldn’t expect a sale next week. With Christmas falling where it is, there’s only really two or maybe three working days next week and only one is before the holiday...a Monday announcement would be a bit skimpy on advance notice.
Personally, if I don’t see a holiday sale announcement by this time on Friday I am buying two citations with my 103,000 honor and using them to immortalize Gladiator Spock and probably get another star on Torpedo Surgeon McCoy.
The sales last week ran from Christmas to New Years and generally were announced as they were going live. It wouldn't shock me to see sales announced on Monday or even Tuesday.
Neither of the sales in 2018 ran to New Years. From Shan's post in December 2018:
"From December 18 to December 21, get a Legendary Behold for the discounted price of 27000 Honor! Available up to three times per day, this offer is available in the Honor Hall.
From December 18 to December 25, visit the Time Portal for the For Honor pack! ..."
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Come on, I started saving honor since last xmas, I've got about 840k saved! I need to know what to do!
I can’t say with any real certainty, but I would think if we don’t have an announcement by this Friday we shouldn’t expect a sale next week. With Christmas falling where it is, there’s only really two or maybe three working days next week and only one is before the holiday...a Monday announcement would be a bit skimpy on advance notice.
Personally, if I don’t see a holiday sale announcement by this time on Friday I am buying two citations with my 103,000 honor and using them to immortalize Gladiator Spock and probably get another star on Torpedo Surgeon McCoy.
The sales last week ran from Christmas to New Years and generally were announced as they were going live. It wouldn't shock me to see sales announced on Monday or even Tuesday.
Uh, they didn't start on Christmas; they were over by then. The Legendary Behold sale ran from 18-21 December and the "For Honor" packs were up from 18-25 December. That said, Shan's post went up at 3:25 on the 18th, so a similar time table is still entirely possible, even if the particulars differ.
Come on, I started saving honor since last xmas, I've got about 840k saved! I need to know what to do!
I can’t say with any real certainty, but I would think if we don’t have an announcement by this Friday we shouldn’t expect a sale next week. With Christmas falling where it is, there’s only really two or maybe three working days next week and only one is before the holiday...a Monday announcement would be a bit skimpy on advance notice.
Personally, if I don’t see a holiday sale announcement by this time on Friday I am buying two citations with my 103,000 honor and using them to immortalize Gladiator Spock and probably get another star on Torpedo Surgeon McCoy.
The sales last week ran from Christmas to New Years and generally were announced as they were going live. It wouldn't shock me to see sales announced on Monday or even Tuesday.
Uh, they didn't start on Christmas; they were over by then. The Legendary Behold sale ran from 18-21 December and the "For Honor" packs were up from 18-25 December. That said, Shan's post went up at 3:25 on the 18th, so a similar time table is still entirely possible, even if the particulars differ.
There were other special offers that kept popping up in game. Not necessarily honor discount, but other deals.
I don't remember all of them, but the sale over New Years was something like $10 for 15 packs, 1500 DIL, and some chrons.
Come on, I started saving honor since last xmas, I've got about 840k saved! I need to know what to do!
I can’t say with any real certainty, but I would think if we don’t have an announcement by this Friday we shouldn’t expect a sale next week. With Christmas falling where it is, there’s only really two or maybe three working days next week and only one is before the holiday...a Monday announcement would be a bit skimpy on advance notice.
Personally, if I don’t see a holiday sale announcement by this time on Friday I am buying two citations with my 103,000 honor and using them to immortalize Gladiator Spock and probably get another star on Torpedo Surgeon McCoy.
The sales last week ran from Christmas to New Years and generally were announced as they were going live. It wouldn't shock me to see sales announced on Monday or even Tuesday.
Uh, they didn't start on Christmas; they were over by then. The Legendary Behold sale ran from 18-21 December and the "For Honor" packs were up from 18-25 December. That said, Shan's post went up at 3:25 on the 18th, so a similar time table is still entirely possible, even if the particulars differ.
There were other special offers that kept popping up in game. Not necessarily honor discount, but other deals.
I don't remember all of them, but the sale over New Years was something like $10 for 15 packs, 1500 DIL, and some chrons.
I think it was also the first time we saw the 3k/3k/15 packs for 24.99.
Come on, I started saving honor since last xmas, I've got about 840k saved! I need to know what to do!
I can’t say with any real certainty, but I would think if we don’t have an announcement by this Friday we shouldn’t expect a sale next week. With Christmas falling where it is, there’s only really two or maybe three working days next week and only one is before the holiday...a Monday announcement would be a bit skimpy on advance notice.
Personally, if I don’t see a holiday sale announcement by this time on Friday I am buying two citations with my 103,000 honor and using them to immortalize Gladiator Spock and probably get another star on Torpedo Surgeon McCoy.
The sales last week ran from Christmas to New Years and generally were announced as they were going live. It wouldn't shock me to see sales announced on Monday or even Tuesday.
Uh, they didn't start on Christmas; they were over by then. The Legendary Behold sale ran from 18-21 December and the "For Honor" packs were up from 18-25 December. That said, Shan's post went up at 3:25 on the 18th, so a similar time table is still entirely possible, even if the particulars differ.
There were other special offers that kept popping up in game. Not necessarily honor discount, but other deals.
I don't remember all of them, but the sale over New Years was something like $10 for 15 packs, 1500 DIL, and some chrons.
True, but we knew what the week leading up to Christmas would look like for the honor-based offers and today marks the one-week mark to Christmas Day 2019. I’ll give it two more days and then stop holding back my crew progression hoping for something that by now is almost certain to not be coming yet this year.
Something’s gotta give for me soon, honor-wise. Hoarding is starting to be a real pain. And I know there are loads of people out there with more than me, too. Throw us a bone, DB!
Something’s gotta give for me soon, honor-wise. Hoarding is starting to be a real pain. And I know there are loads of people out there with more than me, too. Throw us a bone, DB!
I kind of feel if you have that much honor knocking around that there is no way that any DB offer is going to make up for the lost progression of saving that honor for so long.
And surely even the cheaper begolds are just not worth it as you are more than likely getting random redundant older characters or duplicates of characters you've already immortalised. I and many others have stopped buying premium packs for that reason. Begolds are very low value on average these days.
Something’s gotta give for me soon, honor-wise. Hoarding is starting to be a real pain. And I know there are loads of people out there with more than me, too. Throw us a bone, DB!
I kind of feel if you have that much honor knocking around that there is no way that any DB offer is going to make up for the lost progression of saving that honor for so long.
And surely even the cheaper begolds are just not worth it as you are more than likely getting random redundant older characters or duplicates of characters you've already immortalised. I and many others have stopped buying premium packs for that reason. Begolds are very low value on average these days.
I’m actually not interested in the begolds so much as the fact of a begold sale will probably mean a citation sale isn’t coming anytime in the near future (not that there has ever been an indication that one will happen).
I’d also like to hold off spending too much in case a new honor hall legendary that looks good is released. Kahless and Beverly are fine but they don’t really do it for me.
Bummer. So far the Advent season was really an entire disappointment in STT. No cool offerings for real cash, no honor sale, nothing special at all basically apart from Data who was due to his skill set no reason for excitement either.
I have never seen a game (or company in general) which takes that little advantage of the willingness of customers to spend money around this time of year.
Fingers crossed that the few remaining days will compensate this lack.
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I saved 300k for beholds so far. I really hope it will happen.
Like I said ... don't have much saved up ...
With 160,000 Honor, I can either do:
- 40 10x pack pulls
- 5 5* beholds (if they cost 27,000 each).
Result
If I do the max 10x pulls I probably expect about 4 5* beholds in those 40 packs (which is worth 108,000 Honor) ... so I'm basically spending 52,000 Honor to star up my 4*s.
On average I'm only missing out on one 5* behold.
I might be able to immortalise some of the 4*s I have left, or get more stars on Evolved Janeway (one Paris away from a third star).
If I'm lucky I might get 5 5* beholds and if I'm unlucky I'll get 3 (or less) in 40 packs.
I'll take my chances.
ps - EDIT: Added benefits ... I might be able to get some of my 5* ships to lvl 8 (I have 5 at lvl 7 with unique traits), which would help voyages a bit ... I'll be left with a chunk of Honor at the end that I can use as a start for my next citation project.
Also, last year the 10x pack deal ran for a longer period than the 5* beholds, so there's that.
I'm getting twitchy. Last year, it started today. Still no announcement! ZOMG!
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That is far more than the limit they gave last year. Go buy some citations, dammit.
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If you use all that honor for beholds, I hope you at least post them, so the rest of us honor-poor folks can get some vicarious enjoyment out of them. 😉
Shan stated they're probably not running that sale again. i would expect a bunch of other, lower priced, offers, on things like honor, packs, dil, chrons, etc.
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No way! If we don't have one, wait for Convergence Day. Then if we don't have one, I recommend a good cry. Then buy citations.
Where? I missed that. That's unfortunate.
If that's true, I guess I'll stop hoarding and buy those citations.
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Yes. When did she say that?
I remember something like, "don't expect this offer to run again," but not a definitive statement like "never."
Ah yes, the "Once in a timeline" sale-sy hyperbole from last year's post. I didn't take that as a serious promise that it would never happen again.
However - if they aren't planning to do one, it would be amazing if Shan actually did post "Hey - not happening, carry on!"
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I had hundreds of thousands saved up for it earlier in the year and got bored and FF’d Neelix, Burnham, Number One and Boothby instead. My increasingly regular 10 hour voyages thank me. That said, doing a tonne of beholds is the only way I see myself finishing some half decent 3/5s who just aren’t good enough to cite...
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
It's actually the opposite. A company always wants to say "one time only". It's how you build urgency. Also, if you train your users to expect sales, then they never pay full price again. Just look how many people are sitting here waiting for an honor sale already. If DB said "every Christmas we will have a sale on honor begolds" the conversion of honor to begolds the rest of the year would plummet. Especially in the months leading up to Christmas. Think about the 50% off crew slot sale. I bet DB used to sell a lot more crew slots at 3k before people started to expect 50% off a couple times a year. Now everyone waits until the next sale to buy crew slots.
Assuming the sales did well last year, I would fully expect similar sales again this year. Maybe we'll even get lucky and they will change it up to offer a citation instead of begold sale this year.
I guess I was speaking more of not committing to an "always or never" stance on anything internally — within the company. I suppose you have a point about a company stating "this will never happen again" to their customers in order to build urgency, but I have to think that something like that would have a tendency to backfire if they suddenly decided to reverse their stance at a certain point in the future. One would hope (if perhaps not expect) a company like DB would want to be seen as credible and trustworthy in that regard, rather than emulating the stores who are always holding "GOING OUT OF BUSINESS!" sales every few months, just to, as you say, build urgency.
I do agree with this point, though. DB may not come right out and say, "We will never have an offer like this again," but it's certainly in their best interest if players do not expect certain offers to pop up, if said offers might affect their bottom line during the normal course of the year. So essentially saying, "Well, don't hold your breath," does that quite well, without having to commit to a definitive yes or no answer.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
I can’t say with any real certainty, but I would think if we don’t have an announcement by this Friday we shouldn’t expect a sale next week. With Christmas falling where it is, there’s only really two or maybe three working days next week and only one is before the holiday...a Monday announcement would be a bit skimpy on advance notice.
Personally, if I don’t see a holiday sale announcement by this time on Friday I am buying two citations with my 103,000 honor and using them to immortalize Gladiator Spock and probably get another star on Torpedo Surgeon McCoy.
The sales last week ran from Christmas to New Years and generally were announced as they were going live. It wouldn't shock me to see sales announced on Monday or even Tuesday.
I imagine that you can safely spend half of it. I'm not ruling out Convergence Day just yet. That's mid-January. If nothing by then, I'd save maybe 200k and spend the rest. That's my plan for my 400k honor, anyway.
Neither of the sales in 2018 ran to New Years. From Shan's post in December 2018:
"From December 18 to December 21, get a Legendary Behold for the discounted price of 27000 Honor! Available up to three times per day, this offer is available in the Honor Hall.
From December 18 to December 25, visit the Time Portal for the For Honor pack! ..."
Uh, they didn't start on Christmas; they were over by then. The Legendary Behold sale ran from 18-21 December and the "For Honor" packs were up from 18-25 December. That said, Shan's post went up at 3:25 on the 18th, so a similar time table is still entirely possible, even if the particulars differ.
There were other special offers that kept popping up in game. Not necessarily honor discount, but other deals.
I don't remember all of them, but the sale over New Years was something like $10 for 15 packs, 1500 DIL, and some chrons.
I think it was also the first time we saw the 3k/3k/15 packs for 24.99.
True, but we knew what the week leading up to Christmas would look like for the honor-based offers and today marks the one-week mark to Christmas Day 2019. I’ll give it two more days and then stop holding back my crew progression hoping for something that by now is almost certain to not be coming yet this year.
I kind of feel if you have that much honor knocking around that there is no way that any DB offer is going to make up for the lost progression of saving that honor for so long.
And surely even the cheaper begolds are just not worth it as you are more than likely getting random redundant older characters or duplicates of characters you've already immortalised. I and many others have stopped buying premium packs for that reason. Begolds are very low value on average these days.
I’m actually not interested in the begolds so much as the fact of a begold sale will probably mean a citation sale isn’t coming anytime in the near future (not that there has ever been an indication that one will happen).
I’d also like to hold off spending too much in case a new honor hall legendary that looks good is released. Kahless and Beverly are fine but they don’t really do it for me.
I have never seen a game (or company in general) which takes that little advantage of the willingness of customers to spend money around this time of year.
Fingers crossed that the few remaining days will compensate this lack.