Prices for purchasing Cartel Coins outlined

Prices for purchasing Cartel Coins is outlined on the SWTOR website. The basic amount is $4.99 for 450 coins with other options for buying more and the option to purchase 5500 coins at the same is being touted as the best value.

When I logged in, there was a warning that the link to purchase more coins through the Cartel Store was taking people to the wrong website and the link above is where they actually want you to go to purchase coins. This, unfortunately isn't the only problem being experienced so far which is making F2P not such a wonderful thing at the moment. They game is going down for 2 hours tomorrow with a patch to follow so hopefully, they are going to fix what they've broken. I'm not holding my breath.... :whistle:

The prices don't look too bad to be honest, comparative to STO. Its nice that you get more coins per dollar the more you spend. I've always thought it was stupid that STO doesn't do that.

I agree about the prices being much better than STO's but I found it sort of confusing. I thought I'd have much more cartel points then I did. Are they supposed to be evenly distributed across all your characters? I had like 23,000 on the test server and now only have about 3,000 per character.

They just randomly gave varying amounts of Cartel Coins on the ptr for people to test the Cartel Store. On the live server, you are granted a total amount for how long you subscribed with various other complimentary amounts depending on if you had an authenticator for the game, whether you purchased the Collector's Edition or Digital upgrade of the game, etc. That total is not a per character total either, it's per account. Each of your characters can use coins from that total but whatever amount you use on each character is deducted from that total. There is a thread a couple of spaces down from the current thread entitled "Check out how many Cartel Coins you may receive!" that has a link to see how many coins you were going to get but at the time I posted that the list apparently wasn't complete as I received more than it said I was going to get there. Subscribers are also going to get coins added to their account each month. The base amount I believe is 500 but there are a couple of instances where you could get more than that per month.