>Damnit, please tell me that uniform top isn't a "pay for it" option in
>the tailoring.

Well, I could, but I'd be lying, since that's the Jupiter 5 jacket (to be had in the option pack of that name, along with those fancy trousers and some other stuff).

Anyway, isn't pretty much everything interesting? It's how they make their money now that they've stopped charging people to play the game. The pay-for-shinies model, for whatever reason, annoys me less than the old industry standard of being asked to pay for the software and then being asked to pay again for the privilege of actually using it - particularly in the case of things like costume option packs and ships, which are account-wide permanent unlocks. If I had to pay repeatedly for each character I wanted to, say, put the Wrath of Khan jacket on, or have command an Excelsior-class starship, that would be a different story, and I would probably adopt a position of extreme cussedness and decline to do so. As it is, though, I find I don't particularly grudge them that; they have to keep the lights on somehow.

But this isn't really the place for a debate about MMO business models. YMMV, anyway.

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