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New Xindi lockbox

moskatamoskata Member Posts: 56 Arc User
edited April 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I want to start by saying that I am biased. I loved Enterprise and I don't view it as the taboo series most people do. Showing further how I'm biased the enterprise was the first ship I bought (the one Jonathan Archer flew).

Now that that is out of the way, is nobody else excited for new xindi ships? especially insectoid ships? I know it's not the Iconian lockbox everyone wanted but I think it's still pretty awesome.
Just brought it up because it seemed to get a lot of hate on facebook, so I'm opening the topic to the forum.
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  • medalionemissarymedalionemissary Member Posts: 612 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I used to quite dislike Enterprise... quite unfairly when it was first airing

    I went through a re-watch on blu-ray when they came out in HD

    My appreciation of the show has increased, but I still view it as the weakest of all the later Treks

    I loved the Xindi arc season, i would be down for more Xindi stuff

    The Aquatic Narcinie is just an elegant marvel of a ship
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  • moskatamoskata Member Posts: 56 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    medalionemissary wrote: »
    I used to quite dislike Enterprise... quite unfairly when it was first airing

    I went through a re-watch on blu-ray when they came out in HD

    My appreciation of the show has increased, but I still view it as the weakest of all the later Treks

    I loved the Xindi arc season, i would be down for more Xindi stuff

    The Aquatic Narcinie is just an elegant marvel of a ship

    Thanks for agreeing with me on the ships and giving enterprise another chance, I still think it would have been better if they got the seven or so seasons all the other series got (excluding TOS ofcourse)
  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,687 Community Moderator
    edited April 2015
    Season 5 might have been the Earth-Romulan War, which was an established canon event in Star Trek. Anyways... I'm looking forward to this new box, and I'm actually considering that Lobi cruiser. Also... my Romulan's Intel Warbird is gonna get her standard plasma replaced with the Plasmatic Biomatter. Also... I love the Phased Biomatter on my Phantom. ^^
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  • moskatamoskata Member Posts: 56 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Even saying "phased biomatter" just sounds smart :P But yeah, it barely even got into the Romulan story line, there's a kickstarter movie that's trying to pick up on the romulan story line so if that's successful it should be good.

    Don't suppose any of ye know if those ships would play well on a sci captain?
  • drakethewhitedrakethewhite Member Posts: 1,240 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Interesting isn't it that the Federation considers biowarfare to be the in thing in the 25th century. Nice to know that we got over our silly idea that some weapons were beyond the pale :rolleyes:

    Oh, and no. No interesting in lockbox ships at all, never have been and likely never will be. One of the truly bad features of this game.
  • bumperthumperbumperthumper Member Posts: 513 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Gotta say, I'm a bit nervous as to what the Xindi Training Manuals have to offer.
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  • moskatamoskata Member Posts: 56 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    drakethewhite wrote: »
    Interesting isn't it that the Federation considers biowarfare to be the in thing in the 25th century. Nice to know that we got over our silly idea that some weapons were beyond the pale :rolleyes:

    Oh, and no. No interesting in lockbox ships at all, never have been and likely never will be. One of the truly bad features of this game.

    Oh biowarfare.... the memories.

    I'm not saying the lckbox system is a good game mechanic, I think it's terrible. I've just happen to be really lucky with keys I've bought on the exchange. I'm just wondering do you find the ships exciting and is it a big let down compared to the oc==iconian lockbox everyone was hoping we'd get.
  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,165 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Where be the Ent Maco outfit? :eek:
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  • moskatamoskata Member Posts: 56 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    thay8472 wrote: »
    Where be the Ent Maco outfit? :eek:

    I've been asking myself that since I started playing this game, not to mention the phase pistols :) I mean we have original series ones
  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,165 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    moskata wrote: »
    I've been asking myself that since I started playing this game, not to mention the phase pistols :) I mean we have original series ones

    or the non combat Beagle pet.
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  • szerontzurszerontzur Member Posts: 2,724 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I'd love the 'bug ship', if I didn't already enjoy my Armitage soo much. Still holding out hope that we'll get a T6 successor that merges the consoles into a 3-set.

    I do kind of like the look of the Ateleth.. if only because it reminds me of some of the Vasudan ships from Descent Freespace and Amarr vessels from EVE.


    I don't really see myself going for either ship though; all the little things are what I'm more interested in. My Fed Torp Specialist is going to have a field day with Kemocite-Laced Weaponry and the new Projectile doff.

    Also interested in seeing how good the Molting trait will be as a way for Tac Captains to heal themselves on ground. I might mess around with Scarab Plating on my Commando Engineer as well.

    Subspace Vortex sounds like it would be an interesting tool for a Vacuum build, but I don't think I'd be able to spare the science slot for it on mine. It will probably be useful for a number of builds and tactics. I imagine it shares a cooldown with other anomalies though.
  • moskatamoskata Member Posts: 56 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    thay8472 wrote: »
    or the non combat Beagle pet.

    Well we got Data's cat so who knows :)
  • gavinrunebladegavinruneblade Member Posts: 3,894 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    moskata wrote: »
    Well we got Data's cat so who knows :)

    One of the devs, I think borticus, said dog body models are more complicated and there's so many different breeds at different sizes that they're hesitant to do a dog. Two of the people on the podcast named different breeds they each wanted, and he said "and that is exactly why we don't have a dog in the lobi store".
  • moskatamoskata Member Posts: 56 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    gavinruneblade wrote: »
    One of the devs, I think borticus, said dog body models are more complicated and there's so many different breeds at different sizes that they're hesitant to do a dog. Two of the people on the podcast named different breeds they each wanted, and he said "and that is exactly why we don't have a dog in the lobi store".

    I can understand how different breeds would be hard but Archers beagle would be cool. I dint think they show dogs in star trek otherwise do they?
  • gavinrunebladegavinruneblade Member Posts: 3,894 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    moskata wrote: »
    I can understand how different breeds would be hard but Archers beagle would be cool. I dint think they show dogs in star trek otherwise do they?

    A few. Remember Archer's vacation and the surgically altered lady who tried to get information put of him on the suliban?

    Mirror porthos was a Rottweiler

    In first contact there were a few dogs

    Q tried to give one to Janeway

    Odo turned into one

    There's a few other appearances, but porthos was the only recurring dog
  • dpsloss88dpsloss88 Member Posts: 765 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Enterprise was entertaining, but Archer was completely irrational, but amazingly lucky (or had a lot of help from the temporal agents). No way they would make an emotional child the captain of Earth's flag ship.

    Though, come to think of it Nimitz was a complete EF-UP as admiral of the Pacific Fleet, and we nearly lost the entire Philipines invasion force of 20,000 men because all his officers were to afraid to question his obviously stupid orders.
  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I will grab a few ground weapons as usual from the Exchange. I usually do for each of my characters to play with.

    The Malon ship looks interesting. Hope to get it at a good deal off the Exchange. My Romulan or KDF could make good use out of it.
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  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,897 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Not sure about the ships...waiting for more info on them before I decide...I'm more interested in some of those new boff abilites and the Lobi weapons.
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  • sardociansardocian Member Posts: 187 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    bumperthumper wrote: »
    Gotta say, I'm a bit nervous as to what the Xindi Training Manuals have to offer.

    I'm not looking forward to these... I already have 3 of each type of BOff on my main with all abilities unlocked (so I can pick and choose as the build needs)... this just means I'm going to need a total of 27 of these training manuals to keep them all up to date :-/
  • darramouss1darramouss1 Member Posts: 1,811 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I've not been enjoying the direction the game has taken over the past year. Based on that, no, I'm not looking forward to them as I'm not going to be spending any money on keys.

    Combine that with the fact that these ships look so very meh, and I think you get the idea.
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