I'm sorry you guys feel this way about the event. I was personally looking forward to it since I felt that premiums being available for purchase through any combination of grindable currencies would be a nice opportunity. I take your point on the exchange rates, but please remember that is primarily a way for players who have an excess of one resource to get others that they have far less of - which previously hasn't been possible.
Think of it as essentially a 'premium' conversion for one resource to another.
As already noted, the 10 point commander adds 1,500 doubloon value to the ship prices. And please remember that the event gives you the opportunity to pay for any amount of the cost of the ship with grindable resources - I fully expect most players to acquire these ships for substantially less doubloons/real money expenditure than they would by purchasing them for doubloons straight up in the armory.
Really, there is no trickery intended here. It's an event with ships and captains set at their value with the opportunity to discount or acquire the ships with grindable resources. I hear you guys loud and clear on the pricing, especially for resource conversion, but I hope you can see that it's intended to give players flexibility in how they pay for the ships and represents something new for us.
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