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Idea for 2800 Event/Locked Boxes.

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I know this isn't exactly the most appropriate place to post this at all. Although after trying numerous other sections and getting you can not post here messages I eventually gave up and settled on this being only place I could post. I suppose since I am not subscribed to the game. Anyways, onto what I actually wanted to post about.

Alot of the complaints I see are about the balance of the rewards from the locked boxes vs. the cost. There's also the fact with how much the keys cost either via C Points themselves or via the exchange. I understand this game is free to play, and that the company has to profit in some sort of manner. I do however feel like the current event is pretty overboard. People play games for enjoyment and to have fun. There is nothing enjoyable or having fun in wanting something imparticular and only have a chance at it and capable of dropping as much real life money towards it as you want and never being able to obtain it. All this will do is drive people away. So I came up with a personal idea or maybe an option.

There's many different ways you could balance it more.
1. You could just do away with the uncommon boxes since the rewards don't justify the costs by any means. Just have the rare ones drop only at half the rate of boxes currently so the cost is more balanced with the rewards possible with having the gold boxes instead.

2. You could leave the uncommon drops, lower the drop rate of the ship and other higher tier items from them even more, but not require them to have a key to open. Only have the gold locked boxes require a key to open. This would also help balance the boxes dropping vs. the amount of keys in the economy.

3. Introduce more ways to the keys or lower the cost of the keys.

I could keep going with numerous other ideas on how to balance this event for the overall playerbase but I do not want to extend this post for too long. However I do like option number 2 the best and feel that it is the best suited for STO's current enviroment. It reinforces the free to play stereotype as well still giving an advantage to those who wish to spend money on C Points.

Hopefully this gets moved to a more appropriate place or least gets noticed. Thanks for any community feedback.
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