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  • shaneseifertshaneseifert Member Posts: 59 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    I also would like to salute Cryptic on making the perfect storm of player outrage.

    A T6 connie, BUT it's the one from the Kelvin Timeline, AND it's Lockbox only.

    This is truly the magnum opus of trolling the playerbase. You need to give yourselves a massive pat on the back.

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    I was looking foreword to Agents of Yesterday. Not playing it now. I am straight up done with this game, you want my money, put the ship up for sale. If its too expensive, or not worth it, I wont buy it. But I am not GAMBLING to get it. I HATE the lock box system. And I don't give a DAMN about rarity when you have people flying around in Iconian ships etc.. This is ALMOST as bad as playing through 3 games of Mass Effect with developers crowing about how great choice is, then killing you no matter what you do in the last 5 minutes of the game. I am so finished with this game. Good luck everyone.
  • cuchulainn74cuchulainn74 Member Posts: 831 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    mhall85 wrote: »
    iconians wrote: »
    The addition of Khan's assault cannon is also nice.

    Oh, is THAT what the Lobi weapon is?

    I think that's what it is. I could be wrong. In fact I fully anticipate 5 forum posters meticulously going frame-by-frame in Into Darkness and comparing it to the Boolean Heavy Assault cannon in STO to see whether it is or not.​​

    I wanna know the inside joke behind calling it the "Boolean" HAC. That's an odd name for a brute force weapon, I'd say. What, you hit something alive and it boolean flips to dead?
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  • mhall85mhall85 Member Posts: 2,852 Arc User1
    iconians wrote: »
    mhall85 wrote: »
    iconians wrote: »
    The addition of Khan's assault cannon is also nice.

    Oh, is THAT what the Lobi weapon is?

    I think that's what it is. I could be wrong. In fact I fully anticipate 5 forum posters meticulously going frame-by-frame in Into Darkness and comparing it to the Boolean Heavy Assault cannon in STO to see whether it is or not.​​

    Yes, it is Khan's gun. A poster on Reddit shared this with me: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Boolean_gun
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  • themetalstickmanthemetalstickman Member Posts: 1,010 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    mhall85 wrote: »
    iconians wrote: »
    The addition of Khan's assault cannon is also nice.

    Oh, is THAT what the Lobi weapon is?

    I think that's what it is. I could be wrong. In fact I fully anticipate 5 forum posters meticulously going frame-by-frame in Into Darkness and comparing it to the Boolean Heavy Assault cannon in STO to see whether it is or not.​​

    Well, it's definitely intended to be.

    If I get that cannon, does that mean I can one-shot that Scorpion from Cutting the Cord? :p
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  • cuchulainn74cuchulainn74 Member Posts: 831 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    I also would like to salute Cryptic on making the perfect storm of player outrage.

    A T6 connie, BUT it's the one from the Kelvin Timeline, AND it's Lockbox only.

    This is truly the magnum opus of trolling the playerbase. You need to give yourselves a massive pat on the back.

    8BDPmzP.gif​​

    I was looking foreword to Agents of Yesterday. Not playing it now. I am straight up done with this game, you want my money, put the ship up for sale. If its too expensive, or not worth it, I wont buy it. But I am not GAMBLING to get it. I HATE the lock box system. And I don't give a DAMN about rarity when you have people flying around in Iconian ships etc.. This is ALMOST as bad as playing through 3 games of Mass Effect with developers crowing about how great choice is, then killing you no matter what you do in the last 5 minutes of the game. I am so finished with this game. Good luck everyone.

    You know you never HAVE to gamble for any ship in the game, right? If you want to buy it outright, buy and sell keys. Then buy the ship on the Exchange. There you bought it. The only gripe is that it's not Account-Wide.
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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    I also would like to salute Cryptic on making the perfect storm of player outrage.

    A T6 connie, BUT it's the one from the Kelvin Timeline, AND it's Lockbox only.

    This is truly the magnum opus of trolling the playerbase. You need to give yourselves a massive pat on the back.

    8BDPmzP.gif

    I was looking foreword to Agents of Yesterday. Not playing it now. I am straight up done with this game, you want my money, put the ship up for sale. If its too expensive, or not worth it, I wont buy it. But I am not GAMBLING to get it. I HATE the lock box system. And I don't give a DAMN about rarity when you have people flying around in Iconian ships etc.. This is ALMOST as bad as playing through 3 games of Mass Effect with developers crowing about how great choice is, then killing you no matter what you do in the last 5 minutes of the game. I am so finished with this game. Good luck everyone.

    Forum posts like this is why I'm so excited about Agents of Yesterday.​​
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  • lucho80lucho80 Member Posts: 6,600 Bug Hunter
    "When damaging any foe with Cannon: Scatter Volley or Beam: Fire At Will, gain a stacking bonus to outgoing weapon damage for a small amount of time."

    FAW's new best friend, although I'd love it in my tac toon for the CSV damage bonus.
  • themetalstickmanthemetalstickman Member Posts: 1,010 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    iconians wrote: »
    I also would like to salute Cryptic on making the perfect storm of player outrage.

    A T6 connie, BUT it's the one from the Kelvin Timeline, AND it's Lockbox only.

    This is truly the magnum opus of trolling the playerbase. You need to give yourselves a massive pat on the back.

    8BDPmzP.gif

    I was looking foreword to Agents of Yesterday. Not playing it now. I am straight up done with this game, you want my money, put the ship up for sale. If its too expensive, or not worth it, I wont buy it. But I am not GAMBLING to get it. I HATE the lock box system. And I don't give a DAMN about rarity when you have people flying around in Iconian ships etc.. This is ALMOST as bad as playing through 3 games of Mass Effect with developers crowing about how great choice is, then killing you no matter what you do in the last 5 minutes of the game. I am so finished with this game. Good luck everyone.

    Forum posts like this is why I'm so excited about Agents of Yesterday.​​

    I feel like this is you right now:
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    For the record, it's me as well.
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    Your father was captain of a starship for twelve minutes. He saved 800 lives, including your mother's, and yours.

    I dare you to do better.
  • banatinebanatine Member Posts: 250 Arc User
    edited July 2016
    Well, as much as a LOVE these ships coming in, the single crushing dissapointment of this box is the Romulan Carrier.

    The fact that it is NOT the Nerada makes me a very very sad panda. Also, i feel that if THAT was the best angle you could find to take a picture of it, i fear what the rest of it looks like... :)

    Secodly, the blos states that the T'laru has a SINGLE hangay bay... Surely if it's supposed to be a carrier, it's meant to have two?
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
    edited July 2016
    Ummm.... OMG love that Bat'leth....and are the uniforms and pierced ridges part of the lock box????

    OK...will go read the rest of the posts, first, before freaking out.

    I found it:
    Just for show. It's actually rewarded elsewhere, and not included in the Lock Box / Lobi offerings.
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  • keletteskelettes Member Posts: 488 Arc User
    edited July 2016
    Examination of the time-lost salvage taken from the Kelvin Timeline reveals that the Federation of that reality had a decidedly higher emphasis on military technologies, likely as a direct result of their overwhelming defeat at the hands of the alien vessel that invaded their space in the 23rd Century. The same has shown to be true of the Klingon and Romulan ships of that time. This emphasis on cutting-edge technology allows their starships and equipment to be comparable with our own in the early 25th Century, despite technically being hundreds of years old.

    Nobody ever bugged them from a Mirror Universe. They never had to face a joint Breen/Cardassian/Dominion armada. They never faced the Undine. They never encountered the Borg (well aside from the Borg tech that was installed on the Narada after the Hobus nova -- which probably counts as ancient when compared to 2410-Borg tech). They never encountered the Voth. Never discovered a single dyson sphere. They never had to face an Undine invasion. They NEVER fought the Iconians. They never faced a group of Na'kuhl fanatics who blamed us for the actions of the Tholians and tried to erase us from time itself.

    Each of these incidents (and I bet others could tell so much more) pushed Prime Universe R&D to greater and greater heights, for the sake of survival. They only faced an antiquated mining ship with antiquated Borg tech.

    Put them through the same we went through, and THEN we can talk about comparing their ships to ours.

    Personally, if we were to classify those fossils with 2410's ship performance standards I wouldn't put any of those ships over T5.
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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    lucho80 wrote: »
    "When damaging any foe with Cannon: Scatter Volley or Beam: Fire At Will, gain a stacking bonus to outgoing weapon damage for a small amount of time."

    FAW's new best friend, although I'd love it in my tac toon for the CSV damage bonus.

    Yeah, it's about time FAW got some much needed love!​​
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  • nimbullnimbull Member Posts: 1,564 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    I also would like to salute Cryptic on making the perfect storm of player outrage.

    A T6 connie, BUT it's the one from the Kelvin Timeline, AND it's Lockbox only.

    This is truly the magnum opus of trolling the playerbase. You need to give yourselves a massive pat on the back.

    8BDPmzP.gif​​

    Pretty much sums this up. Also I'll be making more energy credits off of lockbox keys at this rate.
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  • sohtohsohtoh Member Posts: 620 Arc User
    lucho80 wrote: »
    "When damaging any foe with Cannon: Scatter Volley or Beam: Fire At Will, gain a stacking bonus to outgoing weapon damage for a small amount of time."

    FAW's new best friend, although I'd love it in my tac toon for the CSV damage bonus.

    Looking forward to it with my Pilot Escort with CSV3 and the Withering Barrage trait.
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  • blitzy4blitzy4 Member Posts: 839 Arc User
    Still disappointed.
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  • banatinebanatine Member Posts: 250 Arc User
    kelettes wrote: »
    Examination of the time-lost salvage taken from the Kelvin Timeline reveals that the Federation of that reality had a decidedly higher emphasis on military technologies, likely as a direct result of their overwhelming defeat at the hands of the alien vessel that invaded their space in the 23rd Century. The same has shown to be true of the Klingon and Romulan ships of that time. This emphasis on cutting-edge technology allows their starships and equipment to be comparable with our own in the early 25th Century, despite technically being hundreds of years old.

    Nobody ever bugged them from a Mirror Universe. They never had to face a joint Breen/Cardassian/Dominion armada. They never faced the Undine. They never encountered the Borg (well aside from the Borg tech that was installed on the Narada after the Hobus nova -- which probably counts as ancient when compared to 2410-Borg tech). They never encountered the Voth. Never discovered a single dyson sphere. They never had to face an Undine invasion. They NEVER fought the Iconians. They never faced a group of Na'kuhl fanatics who blamed us for the actions of the Tholians and tried to erase us from time itself.

    Each of these incidents (and I bet others could tell so much more) pushed Prime Universe R&D to greater and greater heights, for the sake of survival. They only faced an antiquated mining ship with antiquated Borg tech.

    Put them through the same we went through, and THEN we can talk about comparing their ships to ours.

    Personally, if we were to classify those fossils with 2410's ship performance standards I wouldn't put any of those ships over T5.

    Stop getting your logic in my Sci-fi! :D
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  • nikolunusnikolunus Member Posts: 162 Arc User
    The back of my head is screaming that "The Powers who Hold the licence" have a major hand in this. Possibly a way to curve the rage over Trek since this year started. To me this is a slap in the fans and the playerbases faces. While there will be people happy to just enjoy the chance to have a Max Tier Connie finally no matter what form they are bending on. This could also be a push to get more attention towards the new movie and timeline that just feels lacking in fan support. I honestly think this is a big gamble (aside from money making for the game to keep going) on the licence holders and cryptics part. I hope it pays out for them cause I love this game, im meh about the whole Kelvin timeline cause honestly its just a mess and gives me a temporal headache.

    I cannot say that the ships interest me, if one falls in my lap okay cool, otherwise it will just be a "hey i have some spare zen oh why not try my luck" thing.

    Good Luck with this one Cryptic and may the fan rage not be too great.
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  • pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
    edited July 2016
    Just for show. It's actually rewarded elsewhere, and not included in the Lock Box / Lobi offerings.

    Cool! Glad to know that!
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  • jtoon74jtoon74 Member Posts: 409 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    I also would like to salute Cryptic on making the perfect storm of player outrage.

    A T6 connie, BUT it's the one from the Kelvin Timeline, AND it's Lockbox only.

    This is truly the magnum opus of trolling the playerbase. You need to give yourselves a massive pat on the back.

    8BDPmzP.gif​​

    I was looking foreword to Agents of Yesterday. Not playing it now. I am straight up done with this game, you want my money, put the ship up for sale. If its too expensive, or not worth it, I wont buy it. But I am not GAMBLING to get it. I HATE the lock box system. And I don't give a DAMN about rarity when you have people flying around in Iconian ships etc.. This is ALMOST as bad as playing through 3 games of Mass Effect with developers crowing about how great choice is, then killing you no matter what you do in the last 5 minutes of the game. I am so finished with this game. Good luck everyone.

    Really?, the fact that you die at the end of Mass Effect didn't bothere me, just that the original ending had illogical conclusions like the gates blowing up, when in the DLC mission at Bataria in Mass Effect 2 destroyed the system, ther normany II running away for some reason like a coward, the 2 teamates you take with you on the final mission appearing on the Normandy II for some reason. Sorry about subject change.
  • starcruiser#3423 starcruiser Member Posts: 1,259 Arc User
    Ugliest lock box ship EVER!

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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited July 2016
    Just for show. It's actually rewarded elsewhere, and not included in the Lock Box / Lobi offerings.

    Oooooooook. Glad to know that...

    Your team is really going all out with this temporal narrative. It's almost as if @borticuscryptic should have let you know that BEFORE publishing the dev blog.

    The attention to detail in Agents of Yesterday is mind-boggling, it's even in the forums!​​
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  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,950 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    lucho80 wrote: »
    "When damaging any foe with Cannon: Scatter Volley or Beam: Fire At Will, gain a stacking bonus to outgoing weapon damage for a small amount of time."

    FAW's new best friend, although I'd love it in my tac toon for the CSV damage bonus.

    Yeah, it's about time FAW got some much needed love!​​

    Cryptic is truly trolling at full power today ...
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  • f8explorer#7814 f8explorer Member Posts: 1,328 Arc User
    YAY!!

    Gonna have to save up some serious EC, Vengeance and Connie ain't gonna be cheap.

    This is the first lockbox in a LONG time that I've been excited about. Plan to go for the Connie, Vengeance and KDF ship + KDF and FED uniform + weapon packs.

    I want the ships but want them outfitted with the right uniforms. ;)
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  • bubblegirl2015bubblegirl2015 Member Posts: 831 Arc User
    The box is decent except for that old ship

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  • tymerstotymersto Member Posts: 433 Arc User
    I have to say, I'm extremely disappointed we're seeing these over-proportioned pieces of garbage into this game.
    This nothing but an obvious cross-promotion with a eh set of films.

    And if nothing else this is a serious middle finger to everyone who wanted a upper end TOS or TMP styled Connie.
    I am thoroughly disgusted with this.

    Thank you for the time...
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  • goodscotchgoodscotch Member Posts: 1,680 Arc User
    Here's to all of you that will be buying keys to try on these lockboxes...May you get the ship you want on the first try! Q'apla!

    Now...WHERE'S THE T6 K'TINGA AND VOR'CHA?!!!!!!
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  • captsolcaptsol Member Posts: 921 Arc User
    edited July 2016
    tymersto wrote: »
    I have to say, I'm extremely disappointed we're seeing these over-proportioned pieces of garbage into this game.
    This nothing but an obvious cross-promotion with a eh set of films.

    And if nothing else this is a serious middle finger to everyone who wanted a upper end TOS or TMP styled Connie.
    I am thoroughly disgusted with this.

    Thank you for the time...

    You're welcome. Here's a corner to cry in. > :)
  • hanover2hanover2 Member Posts: 1,053 Arc User
    It's been so long since I cared to check, so someone please refresh my memory. Is it possible to buy Lobi directly with Zen, or do I have to open a ton of lockboxes to get enough for that dreadnaught?
  • captsolcaptsol Member Posts: 921 Arc User
    goodscotch wrote: »
    Here's to all of you that will be buying keys to try on these lockboxes...May you get the ship you want on the first try! Q'apla!

    Now...WHERE'S THE T6 K'TINGA AND VOR'CHA?!!!!!!

    Cryptic needs to come up with new T6 Feddie ships to package those with in a bundle.
  • jcswwjcsww Member Posts: 6,826 Arc User
    Will we be able to use the TOS Connie skin, Connie Refit skin, the Exeter skin, and/or the Ambassador skin on the T6 Connie?
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