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Kelvin Lockbox

I've been playing STO since it released on Xbox One (a few days after, really), and I've seen some lockboxes show up in my inventory. Particularly, the Cardassian lockbox. Is anyone else having an issue where the Kelvin lockbox doesn't show up in their inventory? Or is there something else that could be going on?

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  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    Something else.
    Whenever there's a new Lock Box to be released, Cryptic discontinues the current lock box and instead has a special period of time wherein older lock boxes that newer players might have previously missed are again available. This lasts until the new Lock Box is released and the old lock boxes are again retired. Of course, in the last year or so (for PC, at least) the individual types of lock boxes have been replaced with the Infinity Lock Box which contains the prizes from all but the most recent lock box, but the concept remains the same.

    Example; the Kelvin Lockbox was being retired, so all the old lockboxes from Cardassian on through to Na'kuhl got another run (or the Infinity LB for PC players), this lasted until the 25th when those were all retired once more and the Sphere Builder Lock Box was released.
    "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
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  • tom61stotom61sto Member Posts: 3,711 Arc User
    edited November 2016
    coldnapalm wrote: »
    Nope...the older lockbox drops got replaced with the infinity lockbox on the PC. The console people are on their first lockbox still...which is the cardy one. You guys don't have the kelvin lockbox yet.

    Actually, they do. Link to XBOne blog on it. Cryptic is really cranking out the Lockboxes Console-side, with a different one released each month.

    Though, it should be noted that they don't actually seem to have the ability to use Temporal BOff abilities (can't make a BOff Temporal), despite these ships having spots for them.
  • mkm1911#2674 mkm1911 Member Posts: 96 Arc User
    Question:

    Are the rewards from lock boxes leveled? From level 50-57 my rewards are either mk 11 or 12. If I wait to open some at level 60, can they be mk 13/14?
  • nikeixnikeix Member Posts: 3,972 Arc User
    They cap at XII coming out of the box. ...Though due to a quirk of item upgrading, you may actually want to open them on a lower level captain to (dramatically) increase the chance of them gaining higher rarity grades.
  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,865 Arc User
    ^ rarity can increase max. 1 step (like very rare to ultra rare) per mark level. So if you upgrade from XII to XIV you get 2 chances to increase.

    But if you have a spare captain you leave at a low level, they can open the box, get the item at Mark II. You then have *12* chances to increase in rarity.

    The tech points to go from II - XII are much less than needing to go XIV -> XIV -> XIV ... over and over until you finally get a rarity increase.
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