Nice lockbox. Pity you guys didn't go for the hat trick and introduce the Dommy Battle Cruiser in there too. (My fave Dommy design and the one you didnt include but hey Im not complaining! Just add it later on some time )
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Brandon, you need to help your higher ups see how TRIBBLE this situation is.
Store ship that can be played all characters on an account: 2500 zen
Lobi store ship that can be played by one single character: 800 lobi = ~100 boxes = 11250 zen
Attack ship that is no longer available by any means except buying on the exchange, for one single character, 350 million EC/1.4 million per key sold = 250 keys = 28125 zen
"As another added bonus for owners of a Jem?Hadar Attack Ship, there will now be a Hangar item available for use exclusively for the Jem?Hadar Dreadnought Carrier that will allow this ship to launch a wing of Jem?Hadar Attack Ships. Scaling quality levels of these items will be available for purchase from the Shipyard Store, Dilithium Store, or Fleet Store only if you have obtained the Jem?Hadar Attack Ship through a prior promotional event. Additionally, obtaining either the Jem?Hadar Heavy Escort Carrier or Jem?Hadar Dreadnought Carrier will unlock a new material that can be used on existing Jem?Hadar Attack Ships."
So I'm a hard core carrier pilot and all my toons are Eng and Sci as they fit best into the roll for the full on carriers. I look at this and go really you messed that up big time as most of the core of the carrier community don't fly escorts and don't or would not even own the Jem?Hadar Attack Ship.
I feel like I'm being punished by this item falling way outside my normal game play. Plus as we know you can't get them now but on the exchange for starting as low as 340,000,000.
I'm sorry but this was really stupid and not thought out well.
If we had a clue when we had a chance to get this item that would not be a big deal but this was out of left field.
Devs can you please rethink this as that is a very unlikely combo or even bring back the change to get the ship for a short time.
Brandon, you need to help your higher ups see how TRIBBLE this situation is.
Store ship that can be played all characters on an account: 2500 zen
Lobi store ship that can be played by one single character: 800 lobi = ~100 boxes = 11250 zen
Attack ship that is no longer available by any means except buying on the exchange, for one single character, 350 million EC/1.4 million per key sold = 250 keys = 28125 zen
Seriously bro.
Well, the point is for lockbox/lobi ships to be very very rare. Therefore the average cost you calculated.
Store ships are faction ships. These are not. Can't say that I disagree with Cryptic on this one.
The Attack Ship is not available in this box, but there are some items from the box that will work on it, and the ability to purchase special hangar pets if you own one and the new Dreadnought -- more info in the blog. We'll also be posting a FAQ with a bullet list, similar to this one, in the very near future.
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Will there be any plans to make available the JHAS from Doff packs like in the past while the Dominion lockbox is available?
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Brandon, you need to help your higher ups see how TRIBBLE this situation is.
Store ship that can be played all characters on an account: 2500 zen
Lobi store ship that can be played by one single character: 800 lobi = ~100 boxes = 11250 zen
Attack ship that is no longer available by any means except buying on the exchange, for one single character, 350 million EC/1.4 million per key sold = 250 keys = 28125 zen
Seriously bro.
It would all be solved by putting all the Lobi store items in the cstore where they should have been in the first place. :rolleyes:
It is not like they have not put single character bound stuff in there before.
Well, the point is for lockbox/lobi ships to be very very rare. Therefore the average cost you calculated.
Store ships are faction ships. These are not. Can't say that I disagree with Cryptic on this one.
Nope, thats just a bs excuse they keep throwing around to justify ships costing $300. It is nothing to do with them being very very rare.
If that were the case, the Breen ship would never had been made available to everyone for free!
Brandon, you need to help your higher ups see how TRIBBLE this situation is.
Store ship that can be played all characters on an account: 2500 zen
Lobi store ship that can be played by one single character: 800 lobi = ~100 boxes = 11250 zen
Attack ship that is no longer available by any means except buying on the exchange, for one single character, 350 million EC/1.4 million per key sold = 250 keys = 28125 zen
Seriously bro.
What kind of grass are you smoking?? As per the wiki - The Temporal lock-box had avg of 5.5 lobi per box and 182/1 odds on the top prize
800/5.5 = 146 keys or 14.6x1125zen = 16,370 Zen for the Lobi Ship
182/10 = 18.2x1125 zen = 20,470 zen for the Top prize(which would include the 800 lobi for the other ship)
Therefore you can get both ships for ONLY a max avg of 20k zen or $200 US dollars per character!
I tend to agree on the point you will need to be a prior owner of a Attack Ship (Bug) to claim the chance to launch Attack Ships from your Dommy Dreddy. I hope this feature will be opened to all at a later date.
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I tend to agree on the point you will need to be a prior owner of a Attack Ship (Bug) to claim the chance to launch Attack Ships from your Dommy Dreddy. I hope this feature will be opened to all at a later date.
Doubtful being that they never did that with the Galor and its weapons.
Pretty sure the JHAS will come back in a doff pack or something, and if players don't want to wait there is always the exchange for a lot of EC.
Well, the point is for lockbox/lobi ships to be very very rare. Therefore the average cost you calculated.
There is no limited supply of lobi store ships. Therefore, they are not rare, merely exorbitantly expensive.
And for the bug ship? Fine, it's "supposed to be" rare. What possible sense then does it make to build new content for something that only a tiny fraction of your players can actually use. If there is supposed to be some kind of factional continuity, then why aren't there bug-level factional ships and fancy new factional features being added? The only the thing the Federation and KDF are getting from this update are some ugly yellow skins and ridiculously one-sided console trades.
Nope, thats just a bs excuse they keep throwing around to justify ships costing $300. It is nothing to do with them being very very rare.
If that were the case, the Breen ship would never had been made available to everyone for free!
You didn't understand me. I'm not justyfing Cryptic's price over these items for their reasons. I'm justyfing this from mine own reasons. To me it's plainly stupid the bulk of Starfleet and The Klingon Defense Force to be consisted of alien ships.
As I have stated before and will once again - the free Breen ship for me was ultimate fail because of this, and if they wanted to give something free it should have been faction alike.
Now it loks like the Breen fleet is undergoing an invasion on Earth once again.
Therefore, if a player is so eager to have & use these non-faction ships, he/she should be prepared to cash in or grind like hell to obtain it. By no circumistance should it be easy obtainable like bying a Galaxy-X or such. Just my view from mine own perspective. I couldn't care less how Cryptic justifies the pricing, for my own reasons I agree with their policy on this one.
To repeat some previous posts, I think it is kinda overkill that STO is making every faction's ship available widely to Fed/Kling factions. Honestly, I think that we should see these other factions (rom, dom, card, ferengi, etc.) made available to play... Then again, this request has been made since day 1 of STO, pretty much, and still seems to be pacified by releasing these "substitutes".
I say that PW needs to hit the nail on the head and move forward by making more playable factions rather than merely releasing their ships to... Starfleet... and The Klingon Empire... after all, I believe that a true klingon would much rather fly a bird of prey or a negh var than a dominion ship... respectively the same for a starfleet officer.
Brandon, you need to help your higher ups see how TRIBBLE this situation is.
Store ship that can be played all characters on an account: 2500 zen
Lobi store ship that can be played by one single character: 800 lobi = ~100 boxes = 11250 zen
Attack ship that is no longer available by any means except buying on the exchange, for one single character, 350 million EC/1.4 million per key sold = 250 keys = 28125 zen
Seriously bro.
Problem is, this is exactly what the sales and marketing teams want, mo money!
Store ship that can be played all characters on an account: $25.00
Lobi store ship that can be played by one single character: 800 lobi = ~100 boxes = $112.50
Attack ship that is no longer available by any means except buying on the exchange, for one single character, 350 million EC/1.4 million per key sold = 250 keys = $281.25
Sad fact is, the lock box economy generates a LOT of money for cryptic.
Educated veterans know ways to minimise the cost of acquiring lock box / lobi items (EC farming, dilithium farming, playing the dilithium exchange, buying keys with zen from dil exchange etc.), the problem is, the great masses don't know these things and buy keys with their own money in the slim hopes of getting the ship in the box or slowly building up the lobi.
The reason the dilithium exchange is in the state its in at present, is because the masses are buying zen to fund their dilithium needs. Cryptic doesn't make any money if you earn dilithium, they do make money though when someone buys zen. The more people, getting less dilithium per zen they trade, the more zen they need to buy, the more money cryptic makes.
Also I have to say every time I read a post going "we have a small team and cannot do this because we are small" I have to wonder ... OK, no interiors because you are too small BUT every two-three month we get a new bridge interior ... for a privileged few.
Why? To make some things more exclusive. More special. Some people manage to get them, others don't. Like tickets to the superbowl. On a much smaller scale, of course, but you know what I mean.
Brandon, you seem to be answering questions about the new lockbox except for the question regarding about whether the same toon has to own the bug ship in order to get the attack ship carrier pets. I think it's becoming clear that you're answering by not answering...
Feds have had free dedicated science vessels for a while now. Klingons still don't have a free science vessel (BoPs do not count as they do not have the hull nor the shield bonus innate to science vessels). YOu can even use your Brigadier General ship token to get one. So you see, for everything you think you have been doing without for the past three years, the other side has done without more.
The point I was making is that this isn't the first carrier Feds have gotten access to. But at the same time, Feds have no free carriers at all.
Why? To make some things more exclusive. More special. Some people manage to get them, others don't. Like tickets to the superbowl. On a much smaller scale, of course, but you know what I mean.
Brandon, you seem to be answering questions about the new lockbox except for the question regarding about whether the same toon has to own the bug ship in order to get the attack ship carrier pets. I think it's becoming clear that you're answering by not answering...
He stated that directly. A single char must have both for the bugship fighters to be purchasable. It does come with a fighter wing though(AFAIK).
To repeat some previous posts, I think it is kinda overkill that STO is making every faction's ship available widely to Fed/Kling factions. Honestly, I think that we should see these other factions (rom, dom, card, ferengi, etc.) made available to play... Then again, this request has been made since day 1 of STO, pretty much, and still seems to be pacified by releasing these "substitutes".
I say that PW needs to hit the nail on the head and move forward by making more playable factions rather than merely releasing their ships to... Starfleet... and The Klingon Empire... after all, I believe that a true klingon would much rather fly a bird of prey or a negh var than a dominion ship... respectively the same for a starfleet officer.
Cryptic is counting on lockboxes to sustain revenue and by doing so shooting themselves in the foot. While the boxes may provide a sizable quick boost, it will be impossible for them to create these factions for future extended content by releasing all these ships and content through the boxes in the small amount of time since the first box. In effect, Cryptic is actively shortening the longevity of their own game.
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The point I was making is that this isn't the first carrier Feds have gotten access to. But at the same time, Feds have no free carriers at all.
But at the same time, Klingons have no free science vessels at all.
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When there is a large team they can do that, I am pointing its hard to feel sympathy when when we talk about lack of content to everyone play and resources are being used on shinny new toys for a wealthy minority.
That begs the question, what are you even going to use thise new ships on anyway? Replaying the same old content we had since about a year ago?
Also you know what I would pay for? a Ferengi option for the KDF with a upgradable D'Kora but that is not going to happen because they are not even giving the options of "OK, you can unlock these non-allied races to play as either side and with their specific ships" that I would say at least it would be something, I would even pay 5000 Zen for it but no, its on a lockbox for a few to feel "extra special".
Congratulations, you are a special snowflake on a empty sandbox.
Essentially every ship is reduced to a Tuffli freighter as we spend our time flying around to the various Doff missions and making Kessel runs. When not ferrying supplies and/or colonists, we sit in spacedock waiting on the same old STF queues to pop for faction reputation just to acquire items we used to get by running those STFs. Empty sandbox indeed.
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My view on this is a few things have to be changed in the way this is going to unfold before myself and anyone else that has opposed this thing of needing the attack ship and a carrier to buy very rare carrier pets for this.
#1. First off it should only be a requirement that you have to have a Jem Hadar Carrier to purchase them that is not a big compromise to get them. Although I could see the balance there in someone just dropping them in a vo'quv or atrox without owning an actual Jem Hadar Carrier.
#2. If you guys feel it to get your jollies off that we own a ship + a jem hadar carrier just make it where you have to own 1 mirror ship from that pack so that players can easily just buy one off exchange if need be and gets your jollies off and pleases most people or whatever.
#3. If these are going to be per toon and not account wide you guys need to up this drop rate of a trillionth of a percent drop rate for these things. It's not like most asian grindfests where every player has 1 toon they play and then some banking toons a lot of us veterans have like 20+ toons.
#4. Make having an LTS account mean something with these lockboxes because its the foundation of this game now is to grind nonstop without getting to enjoy anything. So if thats what its going to be then make it worth the chunk of change every LTS player has dropped into this game (We might not be paying customer anymore but a lot of veterans who are still committed to the game are the ones who are pushing forward all the noobs you want/are getting money from so we would like some respect when it comes to doing your jobs for you )
This is very nice indeed. I will get a few keys to try it. But, I will not go through a lot just to get the ship. Since I'm saving up zen points for a new cruiser or the Vesta.
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how is the zen store life? It would be better if they just sold the ships directly instead of these perfect world lockboxes. i miss the old cryptic, run by... not pw.
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Dominion Dreadnaught. Dommy Dreddy he is the law.
Brandon, you need to help your higher ups see how TRIBBLE this situation is.
Store ship that can be played all characters on an account: 2500 zen
Lobi store ship that can be played by one single character: 800 lobi = ~100 boxes = 11250 zen
Attack ship that is no longer available by any means except buying on the exchange, for one single character, 350 million EC/1.4 million per key sold = 250 keys = 28125 zen
Seriously bro.
So I'm a hard core carrier pilot and all my toons are Eng and Sci as they fit best into the roll for the full on carriers. I look at this and go really you messed that up big time as most of the core of the carrier community don't fly escorts and don't or would not even own the Jem?Hadar Attack Ship.
I feel like I'm being punished by this item falling way outside my normal game play. Plus as we know you can't get them now but on the exchange for starting as low as 340,000,000.
I'm sorry but this was really stupid and not thought out well.
If we had a clue when we had a chance to get this item that would not be a big deal but this was out of left field.
Devs can you please rethink this as that is a very unlikely combo or even bring back the change to get the ship for a short time.
Well, the point is for lockbox/lobi ships to be very very rare. Therefore the average cost you calculated.
Store ships are faction ships. These are not. Can't say that I disagree with Cryptic on this one.
Will there be any plans to make available the JHAS from Doff packs like in the past while the Dominion lockbox is available?
It would all be solved by putting all the Lobi store items in the cstore where they should have been in the first place. :rolleyes:
It is not like they have not put single character bound stuff in there before.
Nope, thats just a bs excuse they keep throwing around to justify ships costing $300. It is nothing to do with them being very very rare.
If that were the case, the Breen ship would never had been made available to everyone for free!
What kind of grass are you smoking?? As per the wiki - The Temporal lock-box had avg of 5.5 lobi per box and 182/1 odds on the top prize
800/5.5 = 146 keys or 14.6x1125zen = 16,370 Zen for the Lobi Ship
182/10 = 18.2x1125 zen = 20,470 zen for the Top prize(which would include the 800 lobi for the other ship)
Therefore you can get both ships for ONLY a max avg of 20k zen or $200 US dollars per character!
Doubtful being that they never did that with the Galor and its weapons.
Pretty sure the JHAS will come back in a doff pack or something, and if players don't want to wait there is always the exchange for a lot of EC.
not necessarily....the mirror sovereign can't fit the metreon gas canister that the normal sovereign/regent can
There is no limited supply of lobi store ships. Therefore, they are not rare, merely exorbitantly expensive.
And for the bug ship? Fine, it's "supposed to be" rare. What possible sense then does it make to build new content for something that only a tiny fraction of your players can actually use. If there is supposed to be some kind of factional continuity, then why aren't there bug-level factional ships and fancy new factional features being added? The only the thing the Federation and KDF are getting from this update are some ugly yellow skins and ridiculously one-sided console trades.
You didn't understand me. I'm not justyfing Cryptic's price over these items for their reasons. I'm justyfing this from mine own reasons. To me it's plainly stupid the bulk of Starfleet and The Klingon Defense Force to be consisted of alien ships.
As I have stated before and will once again - the free Breen ship for me was ultimate fail because of this, and if they wanted to give something free it should have been faction alike.
Now it loks like the Breen fleet is undergoing an invasion on Earth once again.
Therefore, if a player is so eager to have & use these non-faction ships, he/she should be prepared to cash in or grind like hell to obtain it. By no circumistance should it be easy obtainable like bying a Galaxy-X or such. Just my view from mine own perspective. I couldn't care less how Cryptic justifies the pricing, for my own reasons I agree with their policy on this one.
I say that PW needs to hit the nail on the head and move forward by making more playable factions rather than merely releasing their ships to... Starfleet... and The Klingon Empire... after all, I believe that a true klingon would much rather fly a bird of prey or a negh var than a dominion ship... respectively the same for a starfleet officer.
Problem is, this is exactly what the sales and marketing teams want, mo money!
Store ship that can be played all characters on an account: $25.00
Lobi store ship that can be played by one single character: 800 lobi = ~100 boxes = $112.50
Attack ship that is no longer available by any means except buying on the exchange, for one single character, 350 million EC/1.4 million per key sold = 250 keys = $281.25
Sad fact is, the lock box economy generates a LOT of money for cryptic.
Educated veterans know ways to minimise the cost of acquiring lock box / lobi items (EC farming, dilithium farming, playing the dilithium exchange, buying keys with zen from dil exchange etc.), the problem is, the great masses don't know these things and buy keys with their own money in the slim hopes of getting the ship in the box or slowly building up the lobi.
The reason the dilithium exchange is in the state its in at present, is because the masses are buying zen to fund their dilithium needs. Cryptic doesn't make any money if you earn dilithium, they do make money though when someone buys zen. The more people, getting less dilithium per zen they trade, the more zen they need to buy, the more money cryptic makes.
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Why? To make some things more exclusive. More special. Some people manage to get them, others don't. Like tickets to the superbowl. On a much smaller scale, of course, but you know what I mean.
Brandon, you seem to be answering questions about the new lockbox except for the question regarding about whether the same toon has to own the bug ship in order to get the attack ship carrier pets. I think it's becoming clear that you're answering by not answering...
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Cryptic is counting on lockboxes to sustain revenue and by doing so shooting themselves in the foot. While the boxes may provide a sizable quick boost, it will be impossible for them to create these factions for future extended content by releasing all these ships and content through the boxes in the small amount of time since the first box. In effect, Cryptic is actively shortening the longevity of their own game.
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All cloaks should be canon.
But at the same time, Klingons have no free science vessels at all.
Al Rivera hates Klingons
Star Trek Online: Agents of Jack Emmert
All cloaks should be canon.
Essentially every ship is reduced to a Tuffli freighter as we spend our time flying around to the various Doff missions and making Kessel runs. When not ferrying supplies and/or colonists, we sit in spacedock waiting on the same old STF queues to pop for faction reputation just to acquire items we used to get by running those STFs. Empty sandbox indeed.
Al Rivera hates Klingons
Star Trek Online: Agents of Jack Emmert
All cloaks should be canon.
#1. First off it should only be a requirement that you have to have a Jem Hadar Carrier to purchase them that is not a big compromise to get them. Although I could see the balance there in someone just dropping them in a vo'quv or atrox without owning an actual Jem Hadar Carrier.
#2. If you guys feel it to get your jollies off that we own a ship + a jem hadar carrier just make it where you have to own 1 mirror ship from that pack so that players can easily just buy one off exchange if need be and gets your jollies off and pleases most people or whatever.
#3. If these are going to be per toon and not account wide you guys need to up this drop rate of a trillionth of a percent drop rate for these things. It's not like most asian grindfests where every player has 1 toon they play and then some banking toons a lot of us veterans have like 20+ toons.
#4. Make having an LTS account mean something with these lockboxes because its the foundation of this game now is to grind nonstop without getting to enjoy anything. So if thats what its going to be then make it worth the chunk of change every LTS player has dropped into this game (We might not be paying customer anymore but a lot of veterans who are still committed to the game are the ones who are pushing forward all the noobs you want/are getting money from so we would like some respect when it comes to doing your jobs for you
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how is the zen store life? It would be better if they just sold the ships directly instead of these perfect world lockboxes. i miss the old cryptic, run by... not pw.