146528-cosmic-points-are-unbalanced-carbine-not-giving-enough-for-ncoin-purchases

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Alright, here's some math.
 
It takes 300,000 cosmic points from the start of tier 1 until the end of tier 6. This isn't explicitly stated, but when you reach the end of one tier, you start from "0" on the next tier.
 
Tier 1: 4,000 Tier 2: 5,000 Tier 3: 15,000 Tier 4: 56,000 Tier 5: 70,000 Tier 6: 150,000
 
For example, if you buy a boxed copy you will complete tier 1, 2, and be 3,000 points into tier 3.
 
The breakdown for each kind of purchase is available at http://www.wildstar-online.com/uk/news/2015-08-19-level-up-with-cosmic-rewards/ . Point totals for each category are viewable in-game in the store.
 
If you were to buy...
 
$100 bundles of NCoin and spend ALL of it in the shop, it'd take you 14.4 transactions. There's actually no bulk discount on NCoin (wtf?) it'd cost you $1,440 to reach the end of T6 through Ncoin purchases.
 
30 day timecards, valued about $15 each, reward 3,000 points. You would need 100 of them (good luck!) which would cost $1,500. (60 day timecards award 6,000 points, so there's no difference).
 
If you were to buy CREDD for yourself and redeem it, you'd earn 5,000 points. For 60 of these, you'd pay $1,200.
 
Now, if you were to buy boxed copies (12,000 points each) you would need 25 to get from start to finish. Valued at $20 each, you'd only pay $500.
 
This is ridiculous. I understand that boxed copies are a sunk cost for Carbine now, but players should be earning more for NCoin purchases and CREDD purchase/redemption. There are a finite number of boxed copies (no more are being produced), and how long is it until we can't find them anymore? If we want to talk about being fair, let's at least double - retroactively - what all other categories reward aside from boxed copies.
 	
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They're almost all equivalently balanced, but the issue is you are valuing the boxes at $20 each, whereas they are valued by Carbine at original release price ($60 each) thus causing it to be 1500.
 
Imagine those that bought it for $60, and not getting an equivalent amount of rewards.	
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They're almost all equivalently balanced, but the issue is you are valuing the boxes at $20 each, whereas they are valued by Carbine at original release price ($60 each) thus causing it to be 1500.
 
Imagine those that bought it for $60, and not getting an equivalent amount of rewards.
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Box copies, especially heavily discounted box copies, have pretty much broken the whole cosmic reward program for as long as they're still available. Even more so when you consider them to be 30 day subs with the mystery box added on top.
Thankfully that problem will fix itself when the supply of box copies runs out.
Until then, though, they are the best value for earning cosmic points which may turn out to be a bit of a problem because everyone looking to complete the cosmic reward track through them essentially gives no money to Carbine as they already got any money they were going to make off of box sales. In the period where Carbine needs to make money.
Either way, that is a hole they dug themselves when coming up with the cosmic rewards program, they could have just stopped giving points for box redemptions made after the relaunch (but still grant the mystery box and signature time) but that opportunity has come and gone.	
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Box copies, especially heavily discounted box copies, have pretty much broken the whole cosmic reward program for as long as they're still available. Even more so when you consider them to be 30 day subs with the mystery box added on top.
Thankfully that problem will fix itself when the supply of box copies runs out.
Until then, though, they are the best value for earning cosmic points which may turn out to be a bit of a problem because everyone looking to complete the cosmic reward track through them essentially gives no money to Carbine as they already got any money they were going to make off of box sales. In the period where Carbine needs to make money.
Either way, that is a hole they dug themselves when coming up with the cosmic rewards program, they could have just stopped giving points for box redemptions made after the relaunch (but still grant the mystery box and signature time) but that opportunity has come and gone.
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