![]() ![]() Oh, and XP boosts, but I don’t think I will ever be interested in such things again. The only thing I cannot buy with these Certs are helmets, camo, and other such visual extras. This is a literal case of the common WoW “log on, collect epix” hyperbole. And SOE has said they aren’t going to roll them back. For example, I bought the rocket pods for the jet only to find out they were included in the “Vehicle Starter Bundle” along with a lot of other juicy weapons while I did not get a discount for already owning the rocket pods, the rest of the bundle was still a good enough deal to purchase. As it turns out, the database query also captured all transactions in which you bought an item that was later a part of a bundle that you purchased anyway. Did I spend $130 on, frankly, poorly-planned purchases on redundant toons? Of course not. The official version of things is exactly what I wrote above: SOE decided to reimburse the people who bought two of the same gun on two same-faction characters at a 1 SC for 2 Cert ratio. But something has gone horribly, horribly wrong: Well, today we have SOE’s response: Certification reimbursement. “But wait,” players reasonably asked, “what about all that Station Cash I spent on weapons I now have a useless duplicate of?” Still, using Certs to unlock weapons means you can play for free so being able to unlock one weapon and use it on every faction makes the Station Cash option that much more competitive. Usually, the choice is 700 SC (~$7) or 1000 Certs for a weapon, with 1000 Certs representing a pretty significant investment both in time (I accumulated around 9,000 Certs after 150+ hours) and opportunity cost (spending Certs on class upgrades, like more fuel for your jetpack). Fairly recently, SOE decided that one of the perks of purchasing faction-agnostic weapons with Station Cash was that it would unlock the weapon on all of your characters. When Ps2 first launched, all the weapon unlocks were on a per-character basis. Please note that if this causes a player’s certifications to go over 10,000 they will not accumulate any more certification points until some have been spent to bring it below the cap.A certification grant has been done for players who purchased duplicate weapons on multiple characters.In the latest 38mb patch, these seemingly innocuous patch notes appeared: SOE dropped the bomb on Planetside 2 a few hours ago. ![]()
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