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Suggestion: make most of the consumeable lobi ground devices into kits instead
admiraltroika
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When's the last time you saw someone using an Elachi flame crawler or a tachyon grenade or a Tholian radiation crystal? Never, that's when.
Just make these kit modules already, and increase the lobi cost a bit in the process.
Just make these kit modules already, and increase the lobi cost a bit in the process.
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Hell no.
So much broken stuff in the Lobi store, I am REALLY glad they're consumables. I hope they stay like that forever.
Now if Cryptic does a balance pass on them, that's a different story.
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Or they could make it so that completing certain content unlocks them as crafting recipes. e.g. completing the Nukara rep unlocks the nukara lobi consumables as something you can craft, etc.. Some of the consumables probably can't be shoehorned into an existing rep though, so those others could be tied to a vaguely-relevant episode mission like chroniton grenades getting unlocked from one of the time travel episodes.
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This I concur with.
Got one Captain who'd make some damned good use of the Elachi items. Do love me some Heavy Crescent Turrets.
"[GARBLED ELECTRONIC NOISES]"
- Thot Gar - Commanding Officer of the Braaktak Kaan
Temporal grenades here.
They might even go so far as to start updating the ground Lobi gear to be sets.
Weapon + Armor + Shield + Kit Module = four piece.
The armor should ideally come with a costume unlock but that could (possibly) be done with some nice subtle variations of existing options.
Maybe they could have the armor unlock the opposite faction's 29th century outfit...?
profits.
Lobi is 100% money based in this game. The ONLY way to get it is via a lockbox key, which you can only buy via zen.
For those that don't realize it, EVERY bit of zen on the dil exchange was BOUGHT by somebody and placed up there to bypass the massive dil sinks and grinds in this game. It's pay 2 win at work. Even if you grind out the dil and exchange it, that's already been paid for. Somebody bought that with real life cold hard cash that Cryptic takes to the bank.
The ONLY way to get anything from the lobi store is real world money. Oh, it's laundered through the lobi system, but that's the truth of it.
They won't make the change you suggest because they have made more PURE PROFIT off lockbox sales than they did off of subscriptions before they went F2P.
Greed over quality.
But they might very well sell more lockbox keys by making this change.... They certainly might to me. I'd be interested in buying some kit modules like this, but I have never dropped a single Lobi crystal on a consumable item, and there is no reasonable likelihood I ever will. There is no way I'm paying (as you point out) real money for something that could be used up in an afternoon's play.
A kit module that gives a consistent, reusable benefit... now, that might be attractive enough for me to crowbar open my wallet.
All Grenades should be consumables IMO, but to keep them from overwhelming every single ground map, how about the lobi store unlocks each fancy grenade at the dill store with the initial purchase of that grenade type? (yeah, I know, another dill sink, just what we need.)
For more specifics of my proposed grenade system revamp, go to http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=22521391#post22521391
I'd rather make them craftable or something instead of that.
I've always been annoyed with the combat pets being given a limited number of uses, a Combat Pet is a PET you should be able to resummon it every time the CD is up.
Others I would like to see as Kits, like Grenades, there is an established method of this for current kit moduals with Stun Grenades, Plasma Grenades, even Cryo from the Q Winter Wonderland.
To this day I am STILL baffled as to why the Undine Bio Armor and AP Lance aren't part of a 2/2 set -.-
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Read through it; it doesn't seem unreasonable (note that this would also affect the anesthazine gas grenades available to science officers as well). I reiterate too that lobi - and by extension, real money - has no place being a requisite for purchasing ingame consumables. Dilithium is a compromise on this issue that does have precedent (the TF Omega store has a whole tab devoted to consumables).
Yes, that's why I never bothered with the summons from the Nukara and New Romulus rep stores (this is not an issue with the combat-grade horta). Why the Nimbus beacon mechanic was never adopted for these (with the more powerful examples having longer cooldowns) I don't know. And the fact that there are use limits for the non-combat pets (item consumed after X hours' total usage) - the NR entourages and the MIA-for-whatever-reason vanity drones - is even sillier.