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The Inquiry class(Riker's ship) from Picard is coming to a promo-pack near you!
thegrandnagus1
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It was shown/announced on tonight's livestream. Here are some pics from reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/ilizh4/the_next_lockbox_ship_is_rikers_ship_from_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/ilizh4/the_next_lockbox_ship_is_rikers_ship_from_the/
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Meh... I'm still more interested in the Discovery D7.
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> Wouldn't surprise me. We know CBS slaps random decrees on a lot of things.
IDK, it seems like your talking about "the old days" of STO. These days it seems more like "anything goes"; any timeline, any ship, any uniform, any weapon etc; regardless of whether it "makes sense" in the game's storyline or not.
Or do you have any recent examples of dev statements about recent CBS decrees?
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
At least with it being rare it won't end up filling social areas and TFO's as a copy and paste Fleet 😁
Yeah, this isn't a ship I'm interested in either. But sometimes the problem isn't whether you want it this time or not, but what it says about next time (which you might want).
Supposedly we were under some kind of impression that ships only went a lockbox if they were:
A: from a different species/faction
B: from a different era(past/future)
C: from a different timline(kelvin, mirror, etc)
D. something that is supposed to be rare in-universe
This ship is essentially from the same time period as STO and it's apparently mass produced and not even supposed to be rare. So this ship basically tosses all of those old "rules" out the window and means they will put any "normal" Fed ships in lockboxes from now on.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Pics from /u/53898072-c82b-4238 on Reddit:
A C-Store ship line just got made into a Promotion ship...
As you mentioned that seems to be for an actual story reason. Not "random", like you said in your previous post.
Yeah, that does seem more "random" than the example above.
This seems like another "story reason" to me. As in, we don't actually know what is going to happen to that colony. Will the Roms try to wipe it out in the next season? Will the androids leave and travel or stay there in seclusion? So no that doesn't seem like a "random" decree but for an actual potential story reason.
But yeah, out of those 3 examples the DS9 thing does seem kind of "random".
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
I'm sorry but Cryptic jumped the shark on this one. As Nagus succinctly layed out above a Federation 'contemporary' era ubiquitous ship IN NO WAY fits the criteria for a Promotion Ship, even a Lockbox or Lobi Ship for that matter.
This stinks of a cash grab to close out the third fiscal quarter. They have lost all sense of reason on pricing (for Mudd's Market and other Bundles). The Weekly Patches are barely more than a couple of items, a counterpoint to the effort Cryptic Neverwinter Developers are undertaking.
When I first saw the announcement of the Twitch Stream to announce a new Promotion Ship, I thought the Cerritos couldn't possibly be worthy of that treatment. I didn't imagine this, however. It too isn't either.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
I mean they did say when they put playable borg ships in the game it was going downhill (later said NONO we meant Cubes!! KEEP BUUUYYYIIING)
All good points.
I wouldn't pay $5 for this ship (the ugly, it burns!) but by the rules they've used up until now it should be C-Store. "Cash grab" does seem appropriate unless CBS decides that Picard will be retconned out of the prime timeline because the ratings were so low.
And probably 3, as I still think there is going to be a KDF legendary bundle before the end of the year. Of course, I'm also ready to be disappointed
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Allow me to take that one..
It's a new money making scheme from Cryptic.. and no, I am not kidding.
This ship is a promo box Starship Trait.
That's right.. they put a Trait on it that everyone would want in hopes that would drive it as a promo box ship..
The Trait is Emergency Weapon Cycle only for Emergency Power to Shields.. and..
it stacks with Emergency Weapon Cycle.
This will make it an uber insane DPS Combo.. and they just threw the ship in as packaging. Cryptic is trying their hand and Promo Box Ship Traits.
There is no low this money grubbing studio won't sink to.
As a 'Filthy DPS'er,' no.. I am drawing the line here. I won't buy Promo Box ships for Traits alone.. no way.
Can whomever decided that spell "dignity" without dying from embarrassment?
And that's why creators should not make polls via social media. It backfires very hard 99% of the time.
The ship itself is... fine I guess. The ingame-model looks good, but first of all, it looks like a better Imperial-class-skin, second, it's a very bland and very basic design. It's C-store-material at best.
And who had the idea to tack on a third-piece bonus for the old battlecruiser-set? Couldn't you have made this a legendary battlecruiser instead? Even with skins for the KDF and RR-versions?
Freedom-class isn't popular (despite being pretty good).
Jellyfish is rare too, despite being decent.
La Sirena wasn't very popular either afaik.
Oddly enough, I've also seen only like one or two of the S31 swarm-cruisers, even though that one is pretty cool actually.
Also, the shape of the secondary hull is just odd. No, this ship looks like a placeholder indeed - the already existing Avenger/Arbiter are much better and should have just gotten the skin for free...
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Of course it would have a highly desirable ship console that I bet is ship universal given the other two became that way unchracteristically, and some really good starship trait.
I bet further down the line there will be an inferior version of the ship for 6,000 zen limited time sale bundled with some 'mistakenly advertised keys' that will be omitted, and other minor things to try to justify more than double the price for a single C-Store ship.
Again, this game does not have the gameplay, the polish, a viable network experience, or a proper end-game material to justify these gamble rates and prices.
Probably not worth it, given the insane prices (over $200 for one item in a game? You could buy like 8 or 10 games with that amount of money).
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That might actually be appropriate. On multiple levels.