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centersolace
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With the possibility that we may be getting pilot-able Undine ships, in order to help get over this nonsense, I decided to make this thread listing all the ships that would make much better choices.
1. Baran's Mercenary Vessel
Why would it be a good Lockbox ship?
Have you looked at this thing? This ship is a nasty, wicked looking customer, a perfect match for a Klingon or Romulan looking to wreck some massive face. It would fit so well, I'm really surprised it isn't one yet.
How canon is it?
Very. At least one Romulan commanded one for a short period of time, it wouldn't look out of place against a Klingon fleet, and at least two undercover Starfleet officers have served on one at the same time!
2. The Maquis Raider.
Why would it be a good Lockbox ship?
While not as epic as some of the other ships, it's still a rather cool looking vessel, and would make a nice small escort.
How canon is it?
Medium. It was a federation design to begin with, and it's old enough that a few of them may have been passed around.
3. The Whorfin Class.
Why would it be a good Lockbox ship?
Even though the movie it came from sucked, it is a nice design, and it was also the first 100% computer generated ship in Star Trek. Not to mention El-Aurians are rather underrepresented.
How canon is it?
Medium-Low. It's unlikely that the various factions would appropriate fairly weak civilian transports, but then again, El-Aurians do travel a lot...
4. The Eymorg starship
Why would it be a good Lockbox ship?
Dumb episode, but cool ship! The Eymorg starship was one of the most radical changes when the remastered editions came out. So the Dev's could pick which (or even do both!) version(s) of the ship they wanted to do, and even then, they could have a lot of fun with the design if they so chose. Besides, it would be nice to have a TOS themed lockbox for once! (Yes, I would rather fly the ship from "Spocks Brain" than a space squid)
How canon is it?
Low. But still more canon than flying space squids.
5. Balok's pilot vessel
Why would it be a good Lockbox ship?
Similar to the above, but from a much better episode, we have Balok's vessel from "The Corbomite Maneuver". It's just so weird and alien. This game is in need of more variety, and this certainly provides.
How canon is it?
Low-Medium. The First Federation has had a trade agreement with the various members of the Alpha Quadrant for at least 300 years. It is possible ships have been involved.
6. The Tarellian starship
Why would it be a good Lockbox ship?
It's one of the coolest looking ships, so much so it was one of the favorite designs of Andrew Probert. It's a really alien ship, and nothing has looked quite like it before or since. It was also one of the few designs to be assisted by Gene Roddenberry himself.
How canon is it?
Very, very unlikely. As of the episode "Haven" there was only one left. It's not mentioned what happened to the Tarellian's afterward, so it's entirely possible that the plague was cured, and they were free to duplicate their ships. It's also possible they all died and people stole the plans and duplicated the ships.
Either way, both of those scenarios are much more likely than flying undine space squids.
That's all I can think of right now. I'm sure there's more, but I don't feel like visiting Ex Astris Scientia.
1. Baran's Mercenary Vessel
Why would it be a good Lockbox ship?
Have you looked at this thing? This ship is a nasty, wicked looking customer, a perfect match for a Klingon or Romulan looking to wreck some massive face. It would fit so well, I'm really surprised it isn't one yet.
How canon is it?
Very. At least one Romulan commanded one for a short period of time, it wouldn't look out of place against a Klingon fleet, and at least two undercover Starfleet officers have served on one at the same time!
2. The Maquis Raider.
Why would it be a good Lockbox ship?
While not as epic as some of the other ships, it's still a rather cool looking vessel, and would make a nice small escort.
How canon is it?
Medium. It was a federation design to begin with, and it's old enough that a few of them may have been passed around.
3. The Whorfin Class.
Why would it be a good Lockbox ship?
Even though the movie it came from sucked, it is a nice design, and it was also the first 100% computer generated ship in Star Trek. Not to mention El-Aurians are rather underrepresented.
How canon is it?
Medium-Low. It's unlikely that the various factions would appropriate fairly weak civilian transports, but then again, El-Aurians do travel a lot...
4. The Eymorg starship
Why would it be a good Lockbox ship?
Dumb episode, but cool ship! The Eymorg starship was one of the most radical changes when the remastered editions came out. So the Dev's could pick which (or even do both!) version(s) of the ship they wanted to do, and even then, they could have a lot of fun with the design if they so chose. Besides, it would be nice to have a TOS themed lockbox for once! (Yes, I would rather fly the ship from "Spocks Brain" than a space squid)
How canon is it?
Low. But still more canon than flying space squids.
5. Balok's pilot vessel
Why would it be a good Lockbox ship?
Similar to the above, but from a much better episode, we have Balok's vessel from "The Corbomite Maneuver". It's just so weird and alien. This game is in need of more variety, and this certainly provides.
How canon is it?
Low-Medium. The First Federation has had a trade agreement with the various members of the Alpha Quadrant for at least 300 years. It is possible ships have been involved.
6. The Tarellian starship
Why would it be a good Lockbox ship?
It's one of the coolest looking ships, so much so it was one of the favorite designs of Andrew Probert. It's a really alien ship, and nothing has looked quite like it before or since. It was also one of the few designs to be assisted by Gene Roddenberry himself.
How canon is it?
Very, very unlikely. As of the episode "Haven" there was only one left. It's not mentioned what happened to the Tarellian's afterward, so it's entirely possible that the plague was cured, and they were free to duplicate their ships. It's also possible they all died and people stole the plans and duplicated the ships.
Either way, both of those scenarios are much more likely than flying undine space squids.
That's all I can think of right now. I'm sure there's more, but I don't feel like visiting Ex Astris Scientia.
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Season 10 lockbox
I thought WoW's forums had angry elitist snobs, but I never could have imagined the level STO forums has.
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Since we are getting bioships in s9, I smell Borg spheres in s10 lockbox. After all, not much power creep possible after riding a planet killer, right?
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They should be (from a cryptics point of view) if possible ships that are already there so they can just put stats on it and be done with the whole thing.
Or do you really expect them to put extra work into their most lucrative selling scheme?
They did it in the beginning.
Ferengi Marauder and Galor Class were remade from scretch for the lock box, and the Time Ships were entirely new - if I recall correctly.
Since then, it's just ships of the next themed enemy...
Jem'Hadar Carrier was also new, all the borgified romulan ships, some of the elachi vessels, all the voth ships, as well as every shuttle.
How were the Voth and Elachi ships new? They are the paragons of "new enemy ships made into lock box ships"...
You can compare them in the foundry. The player ships look very different from the NPC versions. They also behave very differently too.
They are player ships. Of course they behave how the player wants them to behave.
But I didn't realize they look any different from their NPC counterparts!
but thats the thing about aesthetics. everyone has a different opinion of what they like, so i cant see how any of these are better or worse. they are just different that some will love and some will hate.
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the problem most will face is a marquis raider would be a shuttle in this game. although I could see it as a smaller reward in a box or the lobi store it wouldn't make any sense as a $tar $hip.
Because they had to put the work into making them for the expansion anyways. As they may do with Undine ships. I personally don't care what ships they do in lockboxes though, I haven't opened them since they came out, and I will continue to not open them, and all they do is allow my "regular" ship to be more unique.
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fair enough...
Thats a federation ship. And more of a shuttle then a t5 escort. Although: its awesome.
Doubt that lockboxes would sell...
Looks kind of like a Vulcan design to me^^
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I can fit dozens of stacks of 20 boxes in even my smallest ship's holds, so the boxes can't be that big so...
To make sense, the next Lockbox Ship should be about the size of a small child.
Of course, having small children (and working with them) I wouldn't discount thier ability to take on most of the ships in the game today...
It was an awesome design in TNG: the Gambit (not the Marvel Character).
For the others, meh.
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I don't really see that one being used by anyone other than the federation. Would be a cool ship to add though.
IMO, this would be good to add for traffic around starbases and other outposts... Don't really see it being player controlled.
Starfleet would be foolish to ignore the proven potential of such a design were it to be updated. Maybe get the Catians in on the project to retool the Maquis raiders so that they could be launched from their Atrox carriers, even.