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Such as Arctus Baran's ship or that alien vessel from Unification Part 1. Plz!
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http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1124921
Baran's ship could be a raider with a psudo-cloak console. The Qualor II depot combat ship could be a 5/2 escort or destroyer. Toss in some red disruptor weapons and we're set.
A.K.A. "Arctus Baran's ship." :P
Dear god, no. Lockboxes are the worst idea since Hitler's parents decided to concieve. Make them fleet, lobi or C-store, say I!
Basically give it cloak until within 12km of any target, at which point it becomes completely visible.
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Even Lobi ships are Lock Box ships, with Lock Boxes being the primary source of Lobi.
The suggestion (linked) for a Mercenary/Privateer/Pirate/etc fraction would be curious to pull off in regard to how that would work for Federation players - they'd align with (work secretly) for some splinter group that condones such activities?
Given that there are the breen and risian ships that are not lockbox ships there could be other ways to implement them.
But I agree if anything they'd probably do that via lockbox^^
I personally am fully satisfied with my Kumari and d'kyr mercenary crafts, but it would be nice to see some more variety arround.
Yep the Breen and Risian ships aren't Lock Box boats, but what would they do then outside of Lock Boxes? Have to figure that the Winter and Summer Events are going to keep rolling out Breen/Risian for a bit. Would they add another seasonal event? Would they add another annual event? Where would it fit in the schedule with everything else going on?
In the end, it kind of gets into many of the complaints folks have about Lock Box/Event ships turning the game into Generic Space Online rather than Star Trek Online...
...though, who knows what they're going to do with X2 and S10, eh?
I personally would have a long list of suggestions in that regard^^
Btw the Dyson carrier wasn't lockbox either. (But ships as simple missions rewards is far to easy imo^^)
My favorite would still be to add highly costly rep projects to get ships to keep people interested in the diffrent roes longer.
But tbh, they could simply add them to the fleet **** store if they wanted. That are still 25 bugs for the ore character purchase.
Or they could add extremly rare drops to boss fights.... Although that would require us to get any real boss fights.
So there are dozends of ways to add more ships not lockbox related and still keeping them rare. But since that's seems to be their only income these days that probably won't happen.
The Obelisk and Dyson Science Destroyers...as well as the Ambassador and Kamarag...as well as the Odyssey and Bortas'...well, they were all 9 console boats.
The DSD became available as a Lobi (Lock Box for Lobi) boat and the ADSD 10 console ships are ZEN boats. They're factional though. Neither the Ambassador nor Kamarag 9 console boats are available, though one can pick up the 10 console Flee versions with a T3 shipyard. The Ody and Bort 9 console versions can be picked up from a T5 shipyard for 200k FC, and they released the ZEN bundles.
The Obelisk was the only "neutral" version of those kind of mission reward ships. The 9 console version is still available from the Spire Fleet Holding, but the 10 console version is still a Lobi (Lock Box for Lobi) boat.
One could possibly see them doing something similar with X2, eh? Dropping out a 9 console boat as a mission reward for a temporary period of time, then making it available either through a Fleet Holding or for Lobi while having the 10 console version available for Lobi if it were a neutral ship. Though, they'd be just as likely to do what they did with the DSD/ADSDs, eh? Free 9 console factional ship, later available for purchase in some fashion, and then the ZEN factional boats...
It's an investment to do a ship - they'd need a return on that investment.
To me, as far as factions go, there is only one way Mercenary could work. It would be similar to COH's Rogue/Vigilante.. or Romulan where you eventually have to choose a side to work with but with the ability to switch sides using a set of missions. Like Romulans, you can use certain faction ships but not as many. But you are allowed to have mixed faction doffs/boffs. You both get the best and worst of both worlds to keep it balanced but mainly, you would only have a few ships to work with. I would LOVE to see something like this myself but I am not holding my breath over it. We will see a Cardassian faction before anything close to this.
Well firstly you have the misconception 9 console ships do not count.
Outside my "main" ships (then again with the exception of my Hegh'ta) I fly around a lot in 9c ships (My Ar'Kif I use a lot if I'm fed up with the low turning scimitar, the D'Kyr ect ect) and in ANYTHING pve related they work perfectly well. I could upgrade some of them to the 10 console variant, but outside PVP I don't see a need for it.
So more neutral 9 console ships would be perfectly all right for most people wanting them I believe.
Also I thought we are taking about "What could be done" not "What has been done".
It's not a misconception that they do not count - it's the obvious matter of the 10 console versions of ships being better than the 9 console versions. Not only do they sport the 10th console, they receive +10% base hull and shield modifier, as well as oft having Universal BOFF Stations allowing for more customization.
I fly a single 10 console boat. Doesn't mean that I do not want to upgrade to a Fleet Kar'Fi, that I do not want to upgrade to a Fleet Varanus, that I do not want to upgrade to a Fleet Mogh, that I have not asked Cryptic to do a Fleet Marauder, that I do not want to upgrade to a Fleet B'rel, that I have not asked Cryptic to do a ZEN Raptor with a Fleet variant, nor that I have not asked Cryptic to do a Fleet Guramba.
If it's an argument of "need", why even bother with the 9 console boats? You don't need a T5 boat in the first place...
And...?
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1124921
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Miradorn_raider
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.