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Question for the Devs - Why SHOULDN'T I horde honor for sales?

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  • AviTrekAviTrek ✭✭✭✭✭
    Players used to spend honor as it came in, then an honor sale was offered. Now players are saving between sales. If WRG decides they no longer want to offer an honor sale like that then players will adjust. This entire thread is confirmation for why they don't want regular predictable sales.
  • Prime LorcaPrime Lorca ✭✭✭✭✭
    AviTrek wrote: »
    Thurthorad wrote: »
    AviTrek wrote: »
    Players used to spend honor as it came in, then an honor sale was offered. Now players are saving between sales. If WRG decides they no longer want to offer an honor sale like that then players will adjust. This entire thread is confirmation for why they don't want regular predictable sales.

    To be fair we were saving even before sales to be able to FF a new honor hall crew the day they were released. We expected there would be a lot more crew added to the honor store than there ever was. That's on DB.

    One of the first pieces of advice that I received on the forum was to save honor until I had enough to FF a new legendary in case I got a really good one. I hoard a lot more than that these days, though.

    But that's something I still agree with, even if there is never an honor sale again. For an experienced player with a deeper roster, you're never using a 1-4/5 crew except in gauntlet where the first star is all that matters. So citing from 1/5 to 2/5 makes no difference to your gameplay. And then by the time you get too 5/5, who knows what new crew will be added or that you'll get from a drop. So instead of buying citations piecemeal one at a time, buy them 4 at a time (or whatever amount you need to FF). That way you get the benefit of the 5/5 at the same time, but keep the option to change to a different crew until then.

    That's not hoarding if you then spend your 200k honor when you get it.

    Agreed. In my opinion, you just defined the STT line between prudent saving and sale-created hoarding. :)
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  • Ishmael MarxIshmael Marx ✭✭✭✭✭
    If you have a goal to try to FTM or just FF the newest awesome card that you get, then 200K (or 4 banked cites) is a fine strategy. Go for it.

    On the other hand, there is the adage about not putting all your eggs in one basket. If you focus all your honor/cite efforts on one card (whether all at once or sequentially every time you get 50K), the trade-off is that the rest of your roster is neglected for long stretches. Depending on your game goals, it may make more sense to distribute your improvements across your crew. Nobody knows which crew will be featured in 3 weeks, or 5 weeks, or whatever. If you spread the wealth around, your crew will be more prepared for whatever event TP puts out. Do it long enough, and you’ll be ready for every event they create. A 3/5 bonus crew is plenty useful for faction and galaxy events, unless you’re trying to win the event. Two 3/5 crew are more useful in factions than one FF card.

    Not saying either way is right. Just wanted to point out that there are multiple ways to play, and each player should decide what’s best for them.
  • W.W. CarlisleW.W. Carlisle ✭✭✭✭✭
    The above, plus- we now have four citation only Golds, so having just a cite or two on hand for one of them is useful. I'd been working on Kahless and Bev Picard both at 1/5* stars for Gauntlet. (Everyone knows he's good, but she's got some decent numbers, if you are still missing some of the more obvious ones for MED and she can simply be bought.) When the Cultural Figure trait popped up, I dropped one on him and used him a good bit. I may make finishing those four Golds a goal, if I make good progress on some of my others
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  • Baragash wrote: »
    I only keep 5-10m credits on hand, so you can imagine the positivity with which I've received the Dabo sale :(

    Result: changes my behaviour to the opposite of what WRG want, now I'll go back to hoarding credits too.

    +2
  • In a related segment... They now added an expiration to all messages. Granted, so far its 180d. But now they're preventing us from hoarding chrons/rewards/etc in our message queue.

    So instead of incentiving spending, they've restricted hoarding.

    Thanks TP/WRG
  • ThurthoradThurthorad ✭✭✭✭✭
    It would be nice if there was a way to earn the credits we need for this dabo sale. Like if I could sell extra inventory for credits or if Skirmish gave more. Heck, even if they sold 10,000,000 credits for $5 it at least would be something.

    You can buy credits with dilithium. I don't know how much 10mil would cost though...
  • (HGH)Apollo(HGH)Apollo ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thurthorad wrote: »
    It would be nice if there was a way to earn the credits we need for this dabo sale. Like if I could sell extra inventory for credits or if Skirmish gave more. Heck, even if they sold 10,000,000 credits for $5 it at least would be something.

    You can buy credits with dilithium. I don't know how much 10mil would cost though...

    Unless my math is wrong, about 38,000 dilithium which would be approx. $350.
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  • Thurthorad wrote: »
    It would be nice if there was a way to earn the credits we need for this dabo sale. Like if I could sell extra inventory for credits or if Skirmish gave more. Heck, even if they sold 10,000,000 credits for $5 it at least would be something.

    You can buy credits with dilithium. I don't know how much 10mil would cost though...

    Unless my math is wrong, about 38,000 dilithium which would be approx. $350.

    With the VIP bonuses it should be less than that (the actual amount depending on your VIP level) but funnily enough still more than what it would cost to clear the wheel with dilithium on a normal day, at least for me at VIP12.
  • Warrior WilloWarrior Willo ✭✭✭✭✭
    I am proud to have 600k in honor. That should be REWARDED, it should see the developers enthusiastic, not look at it suddenly as lamentable “problem” to be solved by suddenly undercutting the possibilities of a future honor sale...

    A fantastic point here. Where the hell do the devs get off for complaining that we have too much of a resource that primarily comes from SPENDING MONEY ON THE GAME?

    At first I thought this was merely crummy. Now I feel Tipping Point is bizarrely seeking to punish their customers for daring to buy their product. What the hell kind of business is this?

    Please dial it back, this is getting ridiculous!
  • ProontProont ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd be fine with the sale if a worthwhile gold card would appear on my Dabo. So far I've only seen duds.
  • KPan [ISA]KPan [ISA] ✭✭✭✭
    Proont wrote: »
    I'd be fine with the sale if a worthwhile gold card would appear on my Dabo. So far I've only seen duds.

    I have a feeling we are going to pull 10mill worth of 90k credit packs Tuesday afternoon. Lol.
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