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Let me toggle off the dropping of lock boxes
sonnikku
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(or at least let me vendor them for 0 credits in the vendor screen with the rest of my junk)
It's so tiring having to right click, mouse over to discard, click again and then one more time to tell the computer I mean it every time one of these things drops. Which is CONSTANTLY. I'm up to my armpits in these damn boxes and I really do have no use. I don't buy scratch cards at the gas stations and I don't blow my money with keys that cost millions, so they really are a drag. Kudos to you that stock pile them and take up precious space in your banks to sell them a few patches later for a few thousand credits, but that's beneath the majority of us with better sources of income.
It's so tiring having to right click, mouse over to discard, click again and then one more time to tell the computer I mean it every time one of these things drops. Which is CONSTANTLY. I'm up to my armpits in these damn boxes and I really do have no use. I don't buy scratch cards at the gas stations and I don't blow my money with keys that cost millions, so they really are a drag. Kudos to you that stock pile them and take up precious space in your banks to sell them a few patches later for a few thousand credits, but that's beneath the majority of us with better sources of income.
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The whole point about them dropping is that having them in your inventory makes them an incentive to open them. Take that away, and people on the fringe of opening boxes will stop.
I do, it was horrible ! Romulan plasma torpedos dropped them ! :eek::D
No, it really wouldn't. People would just buy less keys if you could get them in-game as a very rare drop.
If you don't want them, throw them away or sell them on the exchange.
The last thing they would ever implement would be a means to easily defeat one of the biggest money sinks in this game.
Obviously. Between an offer of being showered with boxes I'll never open and nothing, I'll take the nothing. Just please spare me having to stay on top of discarding them constantly.
So keep it that way as a default for the sheepies, but give players such as myself an option to disable these "amazing investments". Even if I bought the damn keys the boxes would outnumber them ten to one at least.
Agreed, my second alternative listed in the first post. If I can't toggle them off, easier to just vendor them with a single click like the rest of the trash efficiently. They can be made to sell for 0 credits like the gear a new ship comes pre-equipped with.
Everything dropped them.
Yeah, I'd settle for just a "reject" option for all loot (not just lockboxes) so that if you reject it, it goes away instead of continuing to just sit there on the game map, blocking your view. In my case, I'd use it on all the useless food items that drop for me.
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I remember Gold Lockboxes... Was fairly amusing to discover that the borg were firing lockboxes instead of torpedos at you as well.
As for the OP.. it's a necessary evil for this game. It's better than having to sit through a bandwidth-consuming commercial ad. I do dislike these promotional periods at the end of a lockbox's cycle though; they fill up my inventory faster than food items in ground combat - and multiply that issue even further.
To be constructive; it would be nice if a stackable 'choose your lockbox' item was dropped instead for these.. 'promotions'.
I don't mind discarding lockboxes now and then (or selling them on the exchange for a bit of EC) if it means I can go gallivanting all over the galaxy for free.
I'd be fine if they just make stacks higher than 20, it would makes for less stacks to delete, but they won't do that because they also want me to buy more inventory slots.
If you like opening lockboxes = no problems. Just open those you want and discard those you dont.
If you never want to open up lockboxes, just keep "loot all" on and when your inventory gets full just discard the lockboxes. Or you can sell them on the exchange since A LOT of players werent playing when certain LBs were dropping.
We get a FREE MMORPG that is absolutely AMAZING and is getting bigger and better with every update. Lockboxes are just part of the game you have to adjust to. Its LOOT. One day you might want to open them and unless you play wayyyyyyyyyy too much, you arent going to get a full stack of a certain LB type for at least a few play sessions. Just put the stack in your bank and forget its there. Or DISCARD. Thats it - simple.
COmplaining about LBs dropping in an awesome free mmorpg is like saying " i hate eating hamburgers because when i go to bk/mickeyds/wendys/etc they always wrap the burger in that paper. I hate having to throw that paper away." Umm, really??? Same difference. LOL
Shoot down an incoming fighter and then POOF. Giant TRIBBLE box.
Ye.... there are far worse things that Cryptic could do, and they need to monetize somehow.
Let's say, for the sake of discussion, 2 of every 3 drops is a lockbox. In my experience, this is way high, so this is a worse case senario. Since these stack in groups of 20, you'll have ten other slots filled with common/green phasers/disruptors/shields/etc before you have 2 slots of lockboxes. How many clicks to get rid of the 10 other things? 1- Inventory, 2- Replicator 3- Recycle, 4- Scroll past stuff you keep, 5&6- Doubleclick 1st Item, 7- Ok to confirm, 8&9 Doubleclick 2nd Item... 32&33- Doubleclick 10th item, 34- Ok to confirm, 35&36- Esc twice to exit Replicator & Inventory windows. Lockbox removal clicks? 1- Inventory, 2- Rightclick Lockbox Stack, 3- Click Discard All, 4- Ok to confirm, 5- Esc or I to get out of the inventory window. Most of those are eliminated if you "do" them with the rest of the TRIBBLE you've accumulated, and you don't even have to fret over "Should I have kept that?!?"
Not to mention I've sold a stack of 20 lockboxes on the exchange for more than I'd have gotten for one silly "Common" quality phaser that takes up just as much room. 1st time it happened, I commented in zone chat that I didn't think they'd have sold at half the price I listed. The guy who bought them replied it was worth the EC for his time, he was opening 100 lb's in one swipe.
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That will fix your issue of having to discard them.
Common sense people.
Also how is it a pain to trash them right click discard voila.
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