When to switch to FTP?
Pablo Pawly
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Today my monthly card ran out, and I am seriously considering going the FTP route. I am VIP 13 so I do have enough slots and more replicator uses than my credits allow. Today is also the fifth voyage that has cost quite a lot of dil for very few returns. So what to spend dil on? In fact do I still need it?
So when would you, or did you switch to FTP?
So when would you, or did you switch to FTP?
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I switched after having spent £12 or so on three monthly cards.
NEVER! If you love/like to play the game, its just fair that you continue to support the developers so the game can keep running for more years to come, even if its just buy monthly card only. If you don t like the game anymore and/or doesn t care much if its around or not, then just stop playing.
This, any game I enjoy I'll support at a minimum level. developers either have to charge to sell the game or survive on mini transactions. That part is simple economics. And since they are giving the game away for free they have to survive on the mini transactions. So I might stop buying packages because they don't make sense and DB creates packages that defies logic. But they will get my monthly card at a minimum until I stop playing.
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3 months f2p-very slow
3 months monthly-made some good progress
3 months monthly plus 25$ offers. Really got strong
3 months- mostly monthly, sometimes double up on a great legendary, and some unique offers.
Im vip 14 and hit top 1000 most events. I used to buy the 25$ 2 super rare event packs but I always get all cards so there’s no point except to get the legendary.
I think monthly is worth it for the tickets for boosts and for voyages. I don’t need the dil but i use it well so why not.
No doubts about that. But you speak of enjoying. If you enjoy this game and want it to last think about this: Many small things can make a big difference. If you and many others who so far invested zero into STT would at least buy the monthly card it could prolong the lifespan of this app MASSIVELY. Your money, your choice oc.
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I myself am content with rankings between 500 and 1000 and slowly collecting strong crew / crew i like.
That said i would be willing to spend for offers with apropriate return. Even "Specials offers" are only barely monthly card value though...
It would be also extremely apropriate to give better benefits to VIP Players that spend huge sums on a largely "simple" game. I.e. 2x, 3x, 4x honor from airlocking crew, an exchange for FF beholds and so on.
1) Guys, please stop it with the F2P hate. Most players of freemium games fall into the "never spend a dime" category. The game will not shut down due to the 50 people in the VIP 0 fleet failing to buy a monthly card. The game will shut down due to long-term whales getting fed up and stopping their weekly spending.
2) The monthly card is a good value. If you're going to keep playing, I'd suggest keeping up your monthly card as a bare minimum. That said, it's also a slippery slope. If you have some dil, you may be tempted to buy more dil in order to get the shinies that you want - but I'd still suggest keeping it up for $5 a month.
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Being F2P to start and staying that way really doesn't unlock the whole game in any meaningful way, but it can certainly still be a fun diversion to Trek fans, so why be terrible to FTPers?
Deciding to pay, and continuing to pay once your idea of "value added" is gone, is kind of pointless, but it's also safe to assume that the people who are doing so have the means to. So good on you, whales!
I will, however, add my one nugget of advice that helped me feel less perpetually annoyed at DB/STT: don't think of it as a "Monthly Card." Think of it as a "30-Day Card." If you think of it as "monthly," then at the end of the month, your default is going to be to insta-renew it. You don't have to, after the first 2 or 3 (once you've got your 4 shuttles and some extra crew slots, your spending can be kept quite minimal). So think of it as "30 days," and when it's over, it's over. You only buy a new one when your DIL supply drops below a certain point (me, I like always have two event packs worth of DIL, just in case; I don't spend on anything else other than favorable Voyages and sometimes cadet tickets.
DB does seem to have gone over to the dark side, in terms of blatantly monetizing every facet of the game, instead of making a kick-**tsk tsk** game, and trusting us to spend our money on it.... but at the same time, so long as I keep my donations to a point where I don't feel taken advantage of or just giving them money out of habit, I'm happy to toss the $4 their way when I actually feel like it will benefit me.
I'm at VIP 6. Have been for a while. Won't get to VIP 8 (the next one that unlocks anything remotely useful) for a year, at least. To me, the quickest way for DB to make spending easier for casual players without totally devaluing their precious DIL (which they really do seem to overvalue more than any other developers' premium in-game currency) would be to greatly increase VIP perks, both at the top end (to induce whales to spend more) and by having benefits accrue much faster at lower levels (so that we aren't as happy to "plateau" at a lower VIP level if there's nothing easily achievable in the near future). At the bare minimum, each VIP level should add a multiplier to all Daily Missions.
I mean, if VIP 7 unlocked 5 more crew slots and 2 more replications per day, plus 7x the credits/merits/honor from Dailies, that might actually be something. But it doesn't, so it's not. And thus, I keep my $4 and my pride, for now. At least until the next Faction Event where I really like the threshold 4* enough to buy packs to FF it.
I'm never going to spend £100 on a single card as it is astronomically above my budget, but the monthly dil is useful just for refreshing voyages, buying the occasional event pull, or buying extra cadet tickets.
I have bought the in-game offers (when they come my way) in the past, but I am unlikely to do so in the future as I have most SR cards FF already; so I chuck most of the packs away now anyway!
Jim
Thanks to the "Immortalize your crew members" achievements, I recently hit the point where I could afford a 4th shuttle ... and decided not to buy it, spending some dil on crew slots instead. I may buy even more, before considering a 4th shuttle.
I switched again after being provided with several ship schematic offers while others were getting the 10 10x for $10 offers. Since it seemed like DB didn't want my money, I wasn't giving them any. Now that the offers are more evenly distributed, I'm spending again. Sometimes too much. But I'd go F2P again if I thought DB's actions (or lack thereof) warranted it.
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I agree with you regarding not needing a 4th shuttle to obtain trainers. Where I think the 4th shuttle still plays an important role is the competitive advantage it gives you during Faction events.