Karasu_Browarszky

I see both of these having great potential

Why are you saying this is the worst? I use this a lot on my BB's which have little use for the -3 detectability, they might make use of the +4 maximum dispersion, or the various credit bonuses, but I am using them on my best ships to grind as much free XP as I can (mostly with the Missouri in mind) as they have +200 XP bonus, according to tool tip BOTH for Free AND Commander XP (not sure if this is true but it definately boosts Free XP for my ships).

Okay, based on my observations this is how it works (at least for me): You buy the more expensive 3 and 5 euro presents and they work like TYL containers, you may get something good, but if you dont get something good, you get utter ****. The cheapest 1 euro presents, on the other hand, are more or less guaranteed to deliver consumables that MAY prove to be very much worth the money spent or actually even much more than what you have spent; I have stocked an impressive amount of new year's camo paint this way.

I spent some more and I got...Emden...

That describes my experience with the drop rates as well. Okay, if statistically we have a 2 percent chance with every drop you could argue that we simply got the 2 percent chance somehow, purely by random, more often at the beginning. Still.. if many people have experienced this exact same pattern, without knowing [self-edited] about statistics myself, what are the odds for that happening.. unless they were somehow 'adjusted' at some later point after their introduction?

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

Ok, thanks. Bought a few, mostly the 1 euro ones thankfully, no ships in any of them, of course, not in 3 or 5 euro ones either. Just signals and camo. The cheapest ones gave 1600 gold in all, that and new year's camo I guess are somewhat useful.

It's now been about a week more or less since I got one and it contained flags iirc, and the one before that 50.000 Free Xp. When they were first introduced they dropped a lot more often and contained a lot more credits as well. Haven't seen a credits crate drop for ages, now. The regular crates are what they are, the best I have gotten out of those is two free slots.

What puzzles me is that payment window (whatever the technical term for that page is where you fill in your details) is different from the regular Premium Shop. Specifically, what I am not seeing is that little box you can untick in order NOT to save your card details...