Thursday 28 June 2012

Ship buffs lost again - how to help

Hi dudes,
So with today's "hotfix", Turbine managed to wipe out all ship buffs again, for the second time over the last 4 days (the first time was when the expansion went live and Hannah spent some 200k plat renewing everything).

I'm not going to waste time ranting about how unbelievably useless Turbine are and suggest a way to help fix the damage at least partially instead. They are now offering a discount coupon on ship amenity purchases in the store as a "compensation". It's worth 900 TP and can be used once per account, which is a joke for a guild like ours and doesn't even begin to cover the losses, but it still saves a little bit of plat.

If you want to help, please go to the store, put a Greater Experience Shrine contract (wa week's worth) in your cart and apply a "Ship01" coupon when you check out. The XP shrine is the most expensive amenity in terms of plat so it makes the most sense to use the coupon on it. The coupon is worth 900 TP and the shrine is 600 TP so you can try to fit in some more amenities in (the discount can't be used on anything else afaik) but, to be honest, there isn't really anything worthwhile you can buy for 300 TP or less so you could just spend the whole coupon on the shrine and not bother about anything else.
Then add the contract to buy a Greater Experience Shrine and put it on upper deck where the old one was. If it's already there, use the contract to add another week to it. If it's already full (more then 5 weeks), save it for later and use it in a week or two, but with our current number of active people I'm not even sure we'll put the 5 weeks together. I foolishly spent my coupon on another server because I thought it was 1 per server but I'll pay the plat to renew everything else.

As for the other amenities:
+2 Ability (Str/Con/etc.) Shrines and Greater Energy Resist Shrines - I'll buy a week on each for now and increase that when I have some more plat - I'm pretty broke at the moment.
Crew members - dtto, they're not expensive plat-wise so I expect it won't be a problem to renew those.
Shroud crafting Altars (Invasion and Devastation) - these are seldom used so let's leave the slots free for now, if anyone wants to use them, just buy 1 week.
Guild chest - seldom used but I'll buy one when I have some plat.

2 comments:

  1. i'll put a couple things on later sure :) got a bit of plat sitting around spread between toons

    though i noticed with update that the base plat value of items seems to be down quite a bit, any1 know if thats WAI or not?

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  2. Hannah's already bought 2 week's worth of everything, again. Not sure I'd buy any more just now tbh, just in case they screw up again...
    No clue about the base values, sorry.

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