santa crate scam dont waste your money

[EN3WadsworthFFG9]

dont do it . its a scam

[Ace42]

Not sure what you mean by "a scam" - the drop rates are published next to the crates so hard to miss when you buy them.

A stack of 20x Mega Crates will get you 3-4 ships, which is what you'd expect on average. And when I opened my stack of 20 megas, I got 3 ships - exactly as you'd expect.

Pretty weird "scam" if it does exactly what it tells you it will.

There's drop-protection, so if you have exceptionally bad luck, you'll *still* eventually get a ship if you've brought the prerequisite number of containers.

EDIT: Looking at your duplicate thread - looks like you weren't buying mega-crates, and you got a tier 8.

Which is pretty lucky, considering how many lower tier ships are in the drop pool.

Simple maths will let you look at the droplist - see that low tiers have a higher probability of dropping, and thus calculate the average cost-per-ship from crates, and compare it to the cost of just buying them from the armory.

[Jackson]

Learn the definition of "scam" please.

There is gambling (loot crates) and there's a scam. With a scam you get nothing for your money. With the loot crates, the drop rates are published and you always get something.

[Hiei]

Trying to get clown awards?

[Rogue]

This game has a few annoying mechanics, yes.

Scaming is not one of them.

The amount of free ships and other items you recieve by simply playing is astounding.

[juujbee]

yea bought the Mega's and got a good drop rate for ships from the 20 I bought and the five I got through tickets and freebees I got 6 ships nothing above an 8 but a ships a ship

[Ace42]

Originally posted by juujbee:

nothing above an 8 but a ships a ship :happy_yeti:

Yep - clearing out the lower-tier ships in the drop-list is how you guarantee better value-for-money out of the subsequent drops.

Very good value if you've got all the low-value ships already - once you've cleared out the trash you're guaranteed the ultra-rares dropping at the same rate (3-4 per 20 megas on average) you were getting less valuable ones at initially.

[christof]

OP's just tryhard about being edgy, it seems.

[rebelyell]

Drop rates are very good for me and others...! looks like another troll post. lmao

["Maester" MMarsMM]

in total i got 3 ships up to now...for free...just by the event....its col

[IS]

It's not a scam, it is belarusian style roulette for you, mate. Don't waste your money on that game AT ALL.

[christof]

Nothing particularily Belarus about it either (never mind that the company has been Cypriotic for a long time now), these mechanics aren't even particular to free to play games. To name another example that I've played personally, The Division 2 features them as well.

[Magicbus]

Originally posted by EN3WadsworthFFG9:

dont do it . its a scam

i've got 3 premium ships (1 tier IX, 2 tier VII) on 5 premium santa contaneirs. this is not scam.

[奶小的姑娘]

yup by gambling you probably won't get what you wanted and make yourself feel worse. I learnt it last year.

[Hiei]

Originally posted by 奶小的姑娘:

yup by gambling you probably won't get what you wanted and make yourself feel worse. I learnt it last year.

You always get something good in the boxes, maybe not what you want but you do, different from actual gambling where you get nothing at all.

[奶小的姑娘]

Originally posted by Hiei:

Originally posted by 奶小的姑娘:

yup by gambling you probably won't get what you wanted and make yourself feel worse. I learnt it last year.

You always get something good in the boxes, maybe not what you want but you do, different from actual gambling where you get nothing at all.

It IS gambling, but different from 'actual gambling', you can't win real money from opening mega crates. Your grand prizes are some pixel boats that are deliberately made unavailable for direct purchase.