Monday Megathread - your weekly "dumb question" thread

[u/Sputnik1_1957]

Post all the questions you may have about anything STO-related. PC? Console? Everyone's welcome to post their questions here.

Last thread can be found here.

Stay safe out there and happy flying!

[u/Pale-Paladin]

Hello, I saved a few zen for the better part of last few months (basically from when I started since I'm still fairly new to the game, having started around May-June) and I was waiting for a big zen store sale, and thought maybe Black Friday would be the good one to get some ships mostly (I'd love to go for packs but there's no way I'd save enough in a reasonable time)... But Black Friday ended up being only 25%. Kind of dissapointing, not gonna lie, I skipped a few 25% before, hoping there may be better then. But is there really a chance? How often does it get better? Is there a chance to have better one during Christmas? Assuming I'll still be playing the game till then...

[u/tampered_mouse → u/Pale-Paladin]

CasualSAB has a recent video about the Black Friday sale and explains what is good to get and where you should maybe wait for better sales.

If it is mostly ships, then it depends what specifically:

• Ship bundles go for 35% every now and then.
• Mudd's bundles (these with ships and other junk in them) go for up to 50%, which will happen directly around Black Friday again.
• For single ships 25% is good, but there is a good chance there might be a 4500 Zen 3-pack gift T6 100% coupon sale again around xmas / new year, i.e. with that you can get 3 ships for the same price you'd get 2 ships right now during the sale.

Keep in mind that currently you have a Zen bonus if you put real money up, so you can for example just stock up Zen right now and then wait for a better sale% for the things you want.

[u/Freakium → u/Pale-Paladin]

25% is usually the best you're going to get for a storewide sale. General sales would be 20% and the occasional bundle sale would be 35%.