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All Lockbox Ship Need To Be Nerfed
certox
Member Posts: 29 Arc User
All of these lockbox ship's need to be nerfed from the bug ship to the ferengi, gem hadar and any future lock box ship's as well. They should never outclass the top tear 5 ships in the game all lockbox ships should be mediocre at best. THIS FITS STAR TREK LORE AND BALANCE
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The Galor is the odd man out, since originally they were pretty sad underpowered ships that were easy prey for low to mid range Federation ships with rogue captains, but then the Dominion came in and generously upgraded the Cardassian fleet to match their Jem'hadar allies, after which they were also proving to be equal to superior one to one against Federation or Klingon equivalents.
Sure, argue balance, but when you argue lore, you're asking for trouble: the Federation's star ships were constantly being outclassed by third rate villains in these ships.
BTW. You should probably thank your Lockbox Nerds, because they are the ones that paid for Legacy of Romulus.
Only Flag/battle ships. The should be more balanced with the lower level ships, so they don't one shot it.
Actually, I always wondered about that in Temporal Ambassador. Wells comes in, Wipes the floor with a Tarantula, then needs help on the Orb Weavers and Recluses. Not sure how that works.
Yeah, so did all the subbers.
And anyone who bought anything from the Z-Store, too.
Pretty much anyone paying anything for this game, I imagine, not just "Lockbox Nerds".
But, as the bit in red I highlighted points out, precisely where are you getting those numbers from? I find "literally hundreds if not thousands of players that drop $200 or more on keys" a little hard to believe. Where are you getting those numbers from?
If you payed attention to the mission play-by-play, the exploding Tarantula knocked out some of that Wells' systems. Plus, Tholians, being an alien species that messes with time travel and inter-dimensional experiments fairly often, are probably well equipped to mess with future ships compared to their neighbors.
This was Trek gone in the direction of poetic sci-fi. More like Peter David's novels or Grant Morrison's comic books. I wanted a 29th century Trek spin off when we got Enterprise and was always disappointed they went th opposite direction.
I also argued for lockbox ships to be on par with Fleet ships. They weren't originally. Because at the end of the day, the point of fleet ships is to get money and lockbox ships also do that. If you offer people the chance to be unique and it's costly, I think it's competitive.
I think the issues some have with players in other faction ships has less to do with Trek lore and more to do with game lore. It's a problem mainly if you assume everybody with a blue nameplate or orbiting Earth Spacedock is a Starfleet officer and everyone with a red nameplate and orbiting Qo'noS is in the KDF.
Don't do that. Seriously. Don't.
The lore problem requires meta gaming. Ie. taking real information you have about other players and assuming it as fact.
It's like this. In an RPG, somebody's name is often presented to you through meta game means. It may be in a chat window or floating over their head. But a rule of role play and immersion is that you don't know their name even when it's presented to you. It's bad form when John Smith walks by to call him John Smith based on the name over his head. Even if you back it up with something like, "I make it a point to memorize the names and faces of all captains in the database."
Just because the name over his head says John Smith doesn't mean that's his name or that you know it.
And when you see a Galor at ESD, don't assume it's a Starfleet Captain flying it. And if it is, maybe he's got his own story for how he got it.
Game mechanics do not need to be perfectly true to overall lore. And personal lore need not align with game mechanics.
Same reason I have no issue with somebody getting a name change and a race respec. That's absurd if you try to hold mechanics to lore. But maybe the person sees it as a new character. And the tailor window may be absurd but that didn't stop two actors from playing Braxton or Tim Russ from playing a half dozen characters on Trek. But you only hurt yourself if you apply what you know from mechanics/out of world thinking to what you see in the game world... Whether you're a role player or not, IMHO.
What you see in the UI or your inventory is not part of the lore. If it's in the UI, it's an out of universe summary of an in universe piece of information and not necessarily accurate.
When my character goes to a vendor to buy a gun, my character doesn't get handed a list of items with energy credit prices. That information is directed at me, the player, not the character I'm playing.
Time cops ftw!
A shame we're all so lazy.
I have no problem with the Tholians being able to handle Time Ships or vis versa. My point was it is silly to think you can Insta-kill the more advanced ship, but the less advanced ones give you trouble.
Doesn't it ruin the mission, No. but it is one of those crazy plot holes. Of course, Trek is full of crazy plot holes, so it is kind of par the course really.