Or make the max amount of vets you can have be 100 and make a warning when trying to convert vets after 100 saying that the max has been reached. I don't know exactly what the rate is now, but I know it is downright impossible to convert vets after 100, but that doesn't stop NF from letting you burn your experts in vain attempts so you have to buy more. I know it goes down as you level, and as your number of vets increases, but come on. And to all of you who say "ERRRRRR! It's just DIFFICULT, not IMPOSSIBLE!" Please. Just to test the "difficulty" level, I decided to see just how many experts it would take me to get 110 vets on my lv 65 brit BO, who already has 100. I burned through 400 (four HUNDRED, four zero zero) experts. That's forty tries. And forty failures. Now, if I hadn't gotten all of these experts for free from the random item drops, I'd be pretty pissed that SDE took $8 of my money and I basically have nothing to show for it. As it is, I'm a little peeved that it was 400 experts that other crew could have used, but whatev. They were free, and there is a point to be made here. Sometimes that takes a little sacrifice. Also, to those of you who are going to tell me that vets cant equal more than 30% of total sailor capacity, do some math for me. Take 488 (sailor capacity of lv 65 brit BO) times .3 (30 percent). I'm no math whiz, but if my calculator finger works right, it equals 146.5 or 147 to round and make things nice and even. How much money do I have to spend on experts to get those extra 47 vets? I can't say for sure, other than it's definately more than 8 bucks, which MIGHT be worth it i were guaranteed to get those vets, or at least not guaranteed to NOT get them.
Let's take the current base vet conversion rate at lv 65, which I'm sure is not published anywhere for obvious reasons. I can say with a good degree of certainty that it is less than 2.5%. Let's say base is .75%, as I did this with a premium subscription during the 100% vet conversion boost event. Those of us who purchase premium subscriptions are entitled to a 50% increase in the vet conversion rate, but it's not a true 50%, it's 50% of the original rate, which would be a whopping gain of .375 percent, which makes the rate that we PAY MONEY FOR 1.125%. Let's also take into account the 100% vet increase boost event, and our awesome conversion rate is an astounding 2.25 percent.
I'm not saying anything drastic, but 10-20% i think is good. What it is now is a complete ripoff.
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