>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).

Yeah, I was kinda figuring it was, indeed, something like that.

>
>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.

Given that my participation has started as more of an experiment than anything, and I'm trying not to have my money go to the copyright cartel (like the MMO business model, not a discussion for this thread), it does make it... difficult to dress the characters up as I see fit. And I kinda gave up on the officers, anyway, since I can't seem to turn OFF the display of their armor, yet I can turn off the display of mine. Although maybe I'll go poke at the settings again...

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

:)