Originally Posted by Z3R0B4NG

the Dev Blog clearly said "phased out".
that says to me they have gone without replacement unless i understand the wording wrong.

i'm not 100% sure about this...

...but those 480 DL you got on your char could have come from pretty much any single badge / mark or emblem, are you 100% positive that you had NOTHING but the merits on that char?

(needless to say that this still would be a very crappy conversion rate)

Originally Posted by Z3R0B4NG

What to do before F2P release:


- Delta Flyer
if you do not have the Delta Flyer yet, last chance, get it now while you still can,
the Delta Flyer Crafting Quest will be REMOVED with F2P and the C-Store will be the only way to get it.
If you don't know how to get it: you need to have a few points in your general research skill (that means you need to craft a few items), then the Quest will pop up in your mission contacts,
you will then need to do 10 days of flying around in a Shuttle to scan 12/12 anomalies.
It's easy enough, get it done!

Since it's a vanity item, I'd suggest sell the schematic while everyone panics.


- Tier 3 Excelsior and Nebula Class
buy them NOW, the Ships will only be available through the C-Store
if you buy them now for Energy Credits you get to keep them!
more importantly, their Special Abilities are changed into Consoles (just like all the other Tier x.5 Ships).
So get those 2 Ships NOW for EC while you can, you can discard the Ships after F2P and keep the Consoles in you Bank or put them on your Tier 5 Ship, that is up to you. But who is going to say no to a *free* Transwarp Console?

Or Buy with Dilith converted to C-store points later. Above mention consoles come with the VA level as well if your toon is VA already.


- VA1 Tokens
VA1 Tokens are going to be removed (might still change, sdAngelo said they would do "some more thinking" about it... well i wouldn't count on it).
If you have unspent VA1 Tokens, get your Retrofit Ship NOW or those tokens may very well go to waste.
If you have chars below VA1? Well, time to grind up and get those Tokens while you still can, or your Endgame Retrofit will cost you 1600 C-Points.

Still haven't figured out this are .5 classes and a c-store purchase unlocks for whole account? Also just as buy-able with dilith, just no "Free" single character version.


- Emblems
it is pretty clear by now that Emblems are loosing a lot of worth in the conversion process! (in the real world they would call this "inflation").
yes you may get a bit of dilithium for your old Marks and Badges, but if you have lots of Emblems you will still loose buying power.
So make sure to buy what you need NOW.
If you have nothing left to buy, think about what your next ALT might need and buy him some gear + bank it / mail it to yourself... or put it on the Exchange or your Fleetbank if you are that kind of nice person ;P

If there is nothing at all that you need anymore, well, then i guess you can wait and see if that dilithium will get you any C-Points on the player driven exchange.

Wrong, post was around here that showed that it's the opposite, except for weapons. You did convert a player onto the test server right?


- Crafting
if you have not crafted yet, it's time to start RIGHT NOW!
Grind your crafting up ASAP, there will be dilithium cost attached to many items (all the good ones anyway), so if you have not crafted yet, make sure to get that Crafting Skill up, or soon it will cost you a bunch of dilithium just for leveling the number up (with low level items that you don't need anyway!).
And this goes for ALL your Chars, since dilithium cost will apply to all Chars and you can not trade dilithium.
The Times of sending your anomalies to your Fleetcrafter are OVER.
The Times of mailing your anomalies to your own main Crafter are OVER!
Now every char needs to be a Crafter for himself.

If you already have maxed your crafting skill, make sure to craft what you can NOW, they are adding the time gated dilithium grind to crafting so it is better to get the items while the old rules still apply.

Wow grinding for anomalies is easy with the Doff system, and now a new resource (call it currency, or even a lame "tax") but it's still just a resource that replaces something that now easier to get.


- Ships
The *free* Tier 5 Ships will soon cost a lot of dilithium, right now they only cost you Energy Credits!
In the Skilltree Revamp (soonTM) they want to make it easier to switch between Ships and Weapon Types without the need for a Respec (we will see how this turns out).
If you care to have multiple Endgame Ships, buy them NOW while they only cost you EC.

...and now go back to the above points about Emblems and Crafitng, maybe you want to put some proper gear on those Ships too?

Not a lot even by a long run. Why is a expert like you speccing out a t3 ship anyways, I thought you knew better....


- C-Store
you want to BUY any of the C-Store Ships?
if you want to buy any of the Tier 1 Ships, better wait till after F2P, they are going to get a lot cheaper!
But thats about it, if you want to buy anything else you better prepare to buy now, many of the Ships will rise in price.
I will not tell you to throw your C-Points at them NOW... but you might want to think about it...
there is also a chance for some sort of *End of Sub* C-Store sale... i would hate to panic buy now only to see a sale then...
also the F2P releasedate needs to be announced to the Press before to get some PR hype going,
this is something they can't just ninja change on us. There should be plenty of time to react.

for the record: this is still on Tribble and "subject to change"...
there... i said it! (happy?)

in reality we all know this won't change because the C-Store is now the only way for Cryptic to make money, and umh... THAT BETTER WORKS OUT!!! ...or we all will be playing TOR very soon... ( because no money = no server, no dev's, no game! )... and we don't want that, right?

Personally i would say make the items cheaper but throw a lot more of them in the Store (but that would also mean more work for the Dev's... and one single Ship Dev can only produce so many Ships, right?).

We don't know it won't change, and I fail to see anything you mentioned. You are on the server now and not just basing this of others right? (Recent history has proved you wrong anyways, or did you leave that part out?)




- Merits / Honor
Merits are already "Phased Out" on Tribble, that means they will go *poof* in the conversion, you will not get any dilithium for them either!
So better make sure that all your BOffs have the Skills you want, one last time, before it costs you Energy Credits.

BS. You don't know the conversion rate, and it looks like I got some from my small amount. If you screenshot a character with nothing but merits converted to the test server that earns nothing, or post where a dev said nothing for them, then I'll buy what you are saying, but I've seen nothing to suggest it.


- Respec
If you are out of Free Respec Tokens, make sure one last time that your Skills are sitting in the right spot.
As of now we do not even know how respecs are going to work in the future, but they sure as hell will not cost Merits anymore (phased out!)... so it is either Energy Credits or Dilithium
and C-Points anyway because there is a Respec Token in the C-Store already.

*note: it was already announced that there will be a new free respec token coming with the Skill Revamp (soonTM)...

We know we won't need them as much, can't wait to see how that system works before you cry wolf, can you?




...did i miss anything?

Originally Posted by aimtomisbehave

So instead of working through each STF once for the set, after F2P you'll be looking at 30ish (depends on salvage costs) STF missions per part.

Originally Posted by mastergenera1

where is the vendor for the new STF sets on tribble couldnt find it when i was on.

Originally Posted by Z3R0B4NG

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1 Emblem is worth 480 dilithium if you go by the 1 Emblem dailies on Tribble
in the conversion you get something like 330 DL for your single Emblem

so if you wait for the conversion of your Chars your Emblems will get reduced (they said it on the last live STOked on saturday... and it's also my conclusion of some of the examples we had in the thread).

The pricetags in the shop are fair now i think, but the conversion is shenanigans.

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