S ranks not in shops? *gasp*

[FlameBlade]

I started thinking that maybe people are right, S ranks are too rare, Sega wouldnt let us have those monstorous beasts of weapons...

Go to ur local synth. shop, see all the 9 star boards you can BUY....so we aren't going to get S rank boards for what, the years, that PSU will be out? And they already said that in about a month, (is it?) that AoI will come out and MOST (sorry before I said all I guess 200 more weapons is not close enough to fill most of the A rank spots as well) A ranks can be bought from shops?...are we getting free-range S ranks or not!?!

PS: Reminds me of when back in the day people said, "dude, A ranks are too rare, NO WAY they are putting them in shops."

PPS: Im hungry...

PPPS: Why are you reading the third one after you saw the second one lol

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[Shardio]

Stupid question if you ask me... Nobody knows this for sure, and it isn't an opinion-based question either.

[DurakkenX]

more than likely all items that are seen in offline shops will be sold in online shops.

[Dragwind]

If it were to happen, it would be far into the future. I wouldn't worry about it now. We still have events coming up, AOI, etc.

[EspioKaos]

On 2007-08-13 13:02, FlameBlade wrote:
And they already said that in about a month, (is it?) that AoI will come out and ALL A ranks can be bought from shops?

The developers have said no such thing.

[FlameBlade]

"02-02. How many new weapons will be added?
Though an exact number has not been given, many sources have been quoted as saying over 200. However, it should be stated that one source (an interview in Famitsu) implied that over 200 applied to the current 23 categories of weapons we have with the base game, not necessarily the four new categories."

For heavens sake, how many weapons are there in this game, I thought 200 more would be close enought to fill all the A rank slots but okey doke.

EDIT: omg....I looked at the top of the thread I just pulled that quote from.....sorry man...nvm nvm nvm, didnt even know who I was quoting...



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[Sinue_v2]

I could see us end up getting some Ep 1 & 2 S-Ranks in shops come the release of AoI. This will be further encouragement for those who haven't upgraded, because it will make their rares completely worthless - and they would have to upgrade to get the newer stuff. Kinda like how how ST made low-level rares (Durandel, Varista, Club of Laconium, etc) available in shops in v.2, and made most of the rest of v.1's rares drop like rainfall in the new Ultimate mode.

[HFlowen]

Make the Varista available for purchase.... BUHAHAHA!

[-Rune-]

On 2007-08-13 13:23, HFlowen wrote:
Make the Varista available period.... bwahahahaha!


fixed <.<



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[FlameBlade]

ok....I think, if you take the whips the slicer thing and all their 1-12s, including kubara versions, and if you take madoogs and shadoogs (spelled right?)...I can barely come up with 100...the amazing amount of weapons is going to scare me.

Do they count traps as weapons?...maybe I could name the 120 or so new regular weapons lol, which means, hmm, 80 or 90 some S's??? lol jk I know about the different types, ex. yohmei axes

[majorgamer55]

i think we should get them in shops simply because famitsu will destroy the srank economy lol
(if we get it)
and besides its nots like 10* are super rare these days

[Soukosa]

S grades aren't sold in the shops simply because they're something you earn by working for them. Spamming an easy mission with a high payout and then using that money to buy them isn't earning them. Hell, on the EN PC/PS2 version, you don't even need to do that since there's still alot of haxeta floating around >.>

They aren't gonna sell what's in the shops in offline mode either. Offline has no economy so they put additional stuff in there to make it easier to get. There's also no point in selling the new off ball weapons either since the whole point of those was to give lower level/more casual players something that's easier to hunt for.

[Kion]

I don't expect to see them in shops in PSU at all. The only possiblity of seeing S ranks in shops would be in AoI and the 10* kubara melee variation boards, or items from the casino.
Other than that, like Sounomi said, S ranks have to be earned by hunting. Don't expect sega to hand you powerful weapons.

Edit: and yeah, what's with the poll? It's not opinion based and your question doesn't even make sense.

PS. This planet makes me hungry

PPS. HELL YEH

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[darkfalz16]

i think there going to put at least 10* boards in shop cuz well think about it Aoi has up to 15* which makes sense to put 10* weapon boards in shop maybe even actual 10* weps and 11* boards but i think we will get 10* boards in Aoi thats just my opinion



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[Aralia]

I'm thinking we'll get some special s ranks for the shops and have "legendary" weps that we'll have to hunt.

But then again looking back at PSO GCN, we had nothing more than the basic weps in shops (even if they did come with sweet % and abilities..)

Honestly, I imagine -some- high ranking weps available.

Either that or a vast increase in drop rates come AoI. Since as it is, S ranks are virtually impossible for casual gamers to get.

[Mortisx3]

On 2007-08-13 13:49, Sounomi wrote:
S grades aren't sold in the shops simply because they're something you earn by working for them. Spamming an easy mission with a high payout and then using that money to buy them isn't earning them. Hell, on the EN PC/PS2 version, you don't even need to do that since there's still alot of haxeta floating around >.>

They aren't gonna sell what's in the shops in offline mode either. Offline has no economy so they put additional stuff in there to make it easier to get. There's also no point in selling the new off ball weapons either since the whole point of those was to give lower level/more casual players something that's easier to hunt for.



We have a winner!

[Nobo]

S-ranks aren't even THAT hard to get Some u can really easy like a skela and a ragnus. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_beer.gif

[ThEoRy]

Hasn't this topic been beat to death already? How many times do people need to ask the same questions?

[Powder Keg]

On 2007-08-13 13:49, Sounomi wrote:
Spamming an easy mission with a high payout and then using that money to buy them isn't earning them.

Says who? (w/o haxeta)

[Uncle_bob]

Not everyone who plays PSU is a chickenshit 13 year old kid that has all day to look for an S-Rank board that will in all likely hood FAIL during synthesis.

I worked for my money, let me buy some S-ranks.

[ThEoRy]

Why not just make em super expensive then? That way you have to put in work in order to get rewarded one. Unlike now. Where if it were work, I would work hard all week, then on Friday, I would hope I was lucky enough to possibly maybe get a paycheck, but then when you take it to the bank to cash it... it bounces! Awesome huh?

[HaydenX]

On 2007-08-13 13:44, FlameBlade wrote:
ok....I think, if you take the whips the slicer thing and all their 1-12s, including kubara versions, and if you take madoogs and shadoogs (spelled right?)...I can barely come up with 100...the amazing amount of weapons is going to scare me.

Umm...Whips and slicers are both advanced lvl. weapons (i.e. 7*+ only). Madoogs and Shadoogs both have 1*+.

I'm now imagining a kubara madoog that grinds at a rate of 75 pp per grind and 14 tp per grind. Anyone else drooling over a kubara madoog.

In the immortal words of the Kool Aid Guy..."Ohh Yeahhh!"

[Nobo]

On 2007-08-13 16:49, Artea wrote:

On 2007-08-13 13:49, Sounomi wrote:
Spamming an easy mission with a high payout and then using that money to buy them isn't earning them.

Says who? (w/o haxeta)


I agree with artea why the @#%! isn't it earning them to save up for a while and buy one its harder than just getting one lucky from a drop. http://www.pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_argh.gif

[Sinue_v2]

S grades aren't sold in the shops simply because they're something you earn by working for them. Spamming an easy mission with a high payout and then using that money to buy them isn't earning them.

That doesn't make much sense. If they were to set the price for S-Ranks in the shop at, say, 3 million. You would need to do three hundred HSM C runs - by far the easiest mission with the best payout. If you did each one in 10 minutes, that's 50 hours of runs for a single weapon. Bullshit that isn't work, especially for a casual player.

You don't "work" for ANY of the weapons in PSU. You just run missions - ad nauseum and hope the drop goes to you - and hope the synthesis doesn't fail. It would be one thing if the way to get S-Ranks was to complete challenges... sort of like C-Mode, or endurance trials. But you don't... you just play and stay in one area and hope that the great roulette wheel of fate throws a weapon board your way.

I say they should give players the opportunity to EARN their weapons, not just rely on lady luck to hand them something like a fickle welfare officer.

That haughty attitude is one of the things I can't stand about rares and "rare hunters".

[majan]

earn is a flexible word.
you can earn by grinding and grinding and grinding UNTIL you get lucky,or you can earn by grinding and grinding and grinding until you get the cash and hope to god there arent all 999's in the asshole's player shop.

s ranks probably wont be in shops because they are the unique items in this game.think of it this way:
every manufacturer makes certain shit,right?most of the things that are manufacturer specific are the only ones that have the A and S ranks of it,where the other makers will stop at 6 stars.A ranks are the top of the line stuff that's mass produced,hence it being available to us in the NPC stores.the S ranks,on the other hand,are the unique shit that separates one player from another when they have one.S ranks are S ranks in this game because they are that rare.if they were readily available to everybody,everybody would be complaining at how lame the game is and how theyre so bored when five minutes ago they were begging everything to just be handed to them.

like I said,earn has a wide meaning,but indeed,S ranks are to be earned,not just grabbed at your own will.

[Sinue_v2]

Selling S-Ranks in shops != selling all S-Ranks in shops. There could still be plenty of findable (especially the very top tier stuff) unique S-Ranks which are findable or earnable by doing special challenge/endurance missions.

And as you pointed out - S-ranks are already found in shops. Player shops. Although they are often (always) ridiculously priced.