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Tholian Lock Box

pwebranflakespwebranflakes Member Posts: 7,741
edited July 2012 in Galactic News Network [PC]
Details about the new Tholian Lock Box are revealed in entry #13 of the Season 6 News Dev Blog series.


Link to the blog.
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  • th3gr4ndnagu5th3gr4ndnagu5 Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    In keeping with the theme of Tholians, and building upon our past tradition of offering very rare, handcrafted Duty Officers in our Lock Boxes, there will be a chance to gain one of six unique Warfare Specialist Duty Officers, all of whom are members of the Tholian species willingly serving aboard Federation and KDF starships in defiance of the Tholian Assembly.

    The whole thing should have been a doff pack. Doff pack = win, lock box = fail.
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  • beezle23beezle23 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    th3gr4ndnagu5 wrote: »
    The whole thing should have been a doff pack. Doff pack = win, lock box = fail.

    But now I have something new to be shoving into the recycler!
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  • qjuniorqjunior Member Posts: 2,023 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    beezle23 wrote: »
    But now I have something new to be shoving into the recycler!

    Yes and yes...unfortunately. :(

    It's a bit strange that we can get Tholian ships for ourselves while we never saw one as an enemy before...
  • trek21trek21 Member Posts: 2,246 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    th3gr4ndnagu5 wrote: »
    The whole thing should have been a doff pack. Doff pack = win, lock box = fail.
    And orders are orders.

    Which I'm assuming is the case here.

    And very interesting rewards there, even if the highest one (the Tholian ship) is still very low. I won't be opening many of these, as I'm saving my dilithilum for my character's playstyles, but these all sound cool :)
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  • hrci2907hrci2907 Member Posts: 648 Media Corps
    edited July 2012
    good lockbox:D
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  • atatassaultatatassault Member Posts: 1,008 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    trek21 wrote: »
    And orders are orders.

    Which I'm assuming is the case here.
    Indeed. Given the Upgraded GQ Doff Pack and the Reinforcements Doff Pack, this seems to be a mandate from PWE.
  • tobar26thtobar26th Member Posts: 799 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Details about the new Tholian Lock Box are revealed in entry #13 of the Season 6 News Dev Blog series.


    Link to the blog.

    Sorry? No faction specific ships in lock boxes? What happened to that statement eh?
  • robertcrayvenrobertcrayven Member Posts: 355 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    th3gr4ndnagu5 wrote: »
    The whole thing should have been a doff pack. Doff pack = win, lock box = fail.

    I don't understand why this logic is not comprehended by the people responsible for making those decisions.
  • th3gr4ndnagu5th3gr4ndnagu5 Member Posts: 6 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Facebook comments are funny :D
    Alejandro De Marco Wow...
    5 minutes ago via mobile ? Like

    George Clay Mitchell Wow.
    4 minutes ago ? Like

    James Nathan Smith it was on CBS last week, a classic
    4 minutes ago ? Like

    Beeza Geeza And to think, all those people who sarcastically assumed the useless Ferengi lockbox was just going to be replaced with a Tholian lockbox WERE RIGHT.
    STO, you never fail to disappoint.
    3 minutes ago ? Like

    Joshua Langner Not again lockboxes
    2 minutes ago ? Like ? 2

    Chris Reynolds The Lockbox TRIBBLE needs to stop, I'm tired of being bombarded with pickups of Lockboxes and they all end up being TRIBBLE.
    about a minute ago ? Like ? 1

    Michael C. Hall ‎*shakes head* Let's see a show of fans of those who are surprised at this news?
    about a minute ago ? Like

    Simon Potter http://cdn.stripersonline.com/e/e6/240x196px-LL-e66ddef6_reverse-1253886001_office-no.gif

    http://cdn.stripersonline.com/e/e6/240x196px-LL-e66ddef6_reverse-1253886001_office-no.gif
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    about a minute ago ? Like

    John H Harris More TRIBBLE we don't want...
    a few seconds ago ? Like

    Majlen R?vai oh god why...
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  • benj2293benj2293 Member Posts: 5 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    No PWE. Just No. You don't get the point that you're losing more paying customers than you're gaining by adding these, for gods sake put the ships in the C-Store... no wait the "Zen Store"
  • crazypachydermcrazypachyderm Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    You know, I'm ok with this. The prizes are all pretty neat, and master keys are dirt cheap on the exchange anyway.

    Will there be gold boxes like before, too?
  • captainrevo1captainrevo1 Member Posts: 3,948 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    that looks like a decent lockbox to me.

    i want to wait and see how it is in practice after ive bought a few but it does seem to be much more valuable and less rubbish in there.
  • trek21trek21 Member Posts: 2,246 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    benj2293 wrote: »
    No PWE. Just No. You don't get the point that you're losing more paying customers than you're gaining by adding these, for gods sake put the ships in the C-Store... no wait the "Zen Store"
    It's still called the C-Store, it just uses Zen. This is pwebranflakes official word.

    And on the lockboxes, PWE only care about their money. And because of that, they won't figure that out until too late.
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  • rheatitanrheatitan Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    i like the whole thing were its explained that mistakes were made, the way you took on board the feed back, that you added more ships because thats the reason why people buy the keys for lockboxes etc etc

    We can see alot of work went into this thank you

    Now how about more story/mission content just for something for us to do
  • k4pt41nk4ng4r00k4pt41nk4ng4r00 Member Posts: 32 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Absolutely pathetic.
  • direphoenixdirephoenix Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I was with everything up to this part:
    ...and even a beastly Tholian Recluse Carrier that players will have the opportunity to fly into battle.

    Players flying a Tholian Carrier just doesn't seem right.
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  • trek21trek21 Member Posts: 2,246 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    k4pt41nk4ng4r00 wrote: »
    Absolutely pathetic.
    Following orders they probably don't want to do is not pathetic.

    It's called real life.
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  • entnx01entnx01 Member Posts: 549 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Question, then: Will all the original Lobi Store items still be there, just with additions for the Tholian lock boxes?

    Thanks! :)
  • kingdoxykingdoxy Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    So cryptic made changes to make the boxes better and you all still hate them for it. Way to practice that Trek diplomacy all you guys are such fans of.

    Cryptic Thank you for making changes to the lock box system. Its not perfect but I may actually use these keys I've been sitting on that I picked up off the exchange.
  • helmsmn2helmsmn2 Member Posts: 34 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    You know, with better drops and more possibilities of these new boxes, I'm almost tempted to open a couple... NO! What am I saying? My God, make it stop!!


    Seriously though, these do look better than the previous boxes.
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  • trek21trek21 Member Posts: 2,246 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    kingdoxy wrote: »
    So cryptic made changes to make the boxes better and you all still hate them for it. Way to practice that Trek diplomacy all you guys are such fans of.

    Cryptic Thank you for making changes to the lock box system. Its not perfect but I may actually use these keys I've been sitting on that I picked up off the exchange.
    Yeah, some people just can't be satisfied, and it's just sad there's nothing we can do about that.

    I thank you as well, Cryptic :)
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  • thejoggerthejogger Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    /facepalm

    The community feed back was overwhelmingly to scrap the lockboxes!!!

    Oh well, more stuff to drift in space as i'm sure they'll be 2-a-penny and ofc lifers can STILL only buy 4 keys a month! :(:(:(

    Pass!
  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Meh, never gonna get away from lockboxes I guess. The prizes look like an assortment of decent-to-cool though (and the KDF definately wins on the console this time). I guess if we're stuck with lockboxes no matter what, I'll certainly take decent-to-cool over full-of-junk. Not that I'm burning EC on keys for anything not gold, of course.
  • mikewendellmikewendell Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Tholian Orb Weaver

    Couldn't even get the name of the weapon right.

    Maybe you mean the Tholian Web Weaver?
  • trek21trek21 Member Posts: 2,246 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    thejogger wrote: »
    /facepalm

    The community feed back was overwhelmingly to scrap the lockboxes!!!

    Oh well, more stuff to drift in space as i'm sure they'll be 2-a-penny and ofc lifers can STILL only buy 4 keys a month! :(:(:(

    Pass!
    Cryptic is under orders to put these in. That means any and all feedback for this won't change a thing.

    It's sad, but true.
    mikewendell wrote: »
    Couldn't even get the name of the weapon right.

    Maybe you mean the Tholian Web Weaver?
    But they're not talking about the web, they're talking about a Tholian ship class, one of the new ones.
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  • kdawgenigmakdawgenigma Member Posts: 300 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Just when you thought they learned their lesson when the started adding items to the doff packs. Then they pull this. Had to get my comment in now because soon this thread will be flooded with moved threads being placed here.
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  • trek21trek21 Member Posts: 2,246 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    kdawgenigma wrote: »
    Just when you thought they learned their lesson when the started adding items to the doff packs. Then they pull this. Had to get my comment in now because soon this thread will be flooded with moved threads being placed here.
    They probably did learn their lesson, and that's why we got the Doff pack.

    But PWE ordering them to do this next one lockbox style doesn't help.
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  • k4pt41nk4ng4r00k4pt41nk4ng4r00 Member Posts: 32 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    trek21 wrote: »
    Following orders they probably don't want to do is not pathetic.

    It's called real life.

    Some things in life are pathetic. This new lock box is one of them.
  • walshicuswalshicus Member Posts: 1,314 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I'm not actually that bothered with this - it takes seconds to just bin a stack of them and the rewards aren't actually that bad this time.
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