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What the heck is this? Lockbox rip off +10 R&D skill reward
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What the heck is this. Open up a Lock box and this is the reward:
There in no way is that something that should be in lockbox you pay 125 zen, or 3 million EC atm for. Not even 50 of these would be worth it.
There in no way is that something that should be in lockbox you pay 125 zen, or 3 million EC atm for. Not even 50 of these would be worth it.
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I do have to say though, I agree with the OP..that's even more of a ripoff then the normal ripoff.
It's a perfectly valid item, its value is the same as the key you used to open it with, as long as the value of the items in the boxes is equal to or higher than the value of the keys then we're winning, you're just being greedy.
One of life's little lessons...
Don't you know...lockboxes are not gambling, your 125z is buying the set amout of lobi in the box - everything else is a bonus 'lucky dip'..thus they can put whatever they want of whatever value in the box and theres nothing you can do about it as you were playing to win the lobi, right?
In the future, look at the info box - that tells you what you possibly can win and if you see poor offerings like that, well...its either risk it or don't waste your zen/dil/money
I'm an Arc user? Yeah, right..I'd rather eat a chainsaw, blade first
RIP KDF and PvP 2014-07-17 Season 9.5 - Death by Dev
A few TRIBBLE 'filler' prizes lengthens the odds
I'm an Arc user? Yeah, right..I'd rather eat a chainsaw, blade first
I open lock boxes to get Lobi Crystals, though I rarely do that. Even rarer than that I open lock boxes just for fun to see if I can actually "win a grand prize" like a lock box ship (not a Mirror Universe ship) or something else that is valuable like a Plasmonic Leech.
If you feel that you getting burned opening lock boxes, then the solution is simple.... stop opening them.
http://www.fallacyfiles.org/gamblers.html
And I'll take your catalysts, if you seriously don't see their worth.
Is this recent? The last boxes I opened for lobi were Vaadwaur ones, and the rewards weren't this crappy.
Go in for buying the lobi and expect nothing else. You'll be much happier if you win something of value. I do, and I'm happy with even getting some occasional R&D boxes with Tech and Research Upgrades.
As to the only thing I don't care about lockboxes, are the Dilithium Vouchers (I get more value out of even Reputation Mark bonuses or CXP bonuses for Doffing). Now if they allowed those to be claimed as a straight bonus of say 8000 or so RAW Dil (with the usual 20 hour use restriction between claims), I'd settle for that. It'd be worthwhile for me during the times I don't have enough time to actually spend 15 minutes or so grinding Dil instead of 10 minutes completing a queue.
As others have posted above be very cautious of this game as there are lots of dirty little tricks hidden around the sto universe that can potentially part money from your wallet for chance items.
If something looks really good first make sure you check on it in the forums or reddit about it before you spend rl money.
The logic of lockbox is simple you pay 1.25 dollars for 4 lobi solid this way the company can escape/ bypass unethical business practices. Everything else is fancy fluff that is more than overtly advertised in the game making you feel that you need it/want it / important for your build... tempting you to try your luck at getting them (krenim lockbox incoming) . Your safest bet is to just earn EC in the game to buy it and make sure ofcourse, that you double check the real value of the item on the forums or reddit.
The only difference is that instead of grinding dungeons, zones, and/or boss NPCs for keys or other box-unlock items (keycards, card, depending on the genre), you only have to pay for them (and is still technically considered free given Dil->Zen exchange as an option).
Lockboxes in STO would be less of an issue if Master Keys did have a chance to drop from boss NPCs in queues, like the Iconian Dreadnought in Gates and Herald Sphere, with only the queue difficulty increasing the likelihood of them dropping. For example: Normal would grant 1%, Adv 3%, and Elite 5%, with successful optionals granting an additional % rate so that the maximum would be Normal granting 5%, Adv granting 7%, and Elite granting 10% chance of a Master Key drop from the NPC boss, which still has to be rolled for (but can be used or sold on the exchange without drastically affecting Key prices).
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
A T6 ship costs 30$. I could have bought 7 copies of TR. Even if it was at full price it'd still cost less.
Plus if we consider how STO cannot run at medium settings as good as TR does on High... lol.
Make this lesson yours OP, don't even bother buying Master Keys. To be honest I'd recommend to not spend a dime.
No not new. Just never gotten such a horrible booby prize out of the boxes before. Worst I've ever gotten out before was CXP tokens that I don't need. But at least they have some value. +10 Skill to R&D crafting, no matter how many are put in are ridiculous.
And it isn't like this is actually an stock inventory item in real world games, it is digital, so why even put something that bad at all.
Value should at least be close to the zen equivalent in the store, and this isn't close to that.
And I only buy keys with EC. So not like out of my real pockets. But they keep doing this because we put up with it.
Where do you get that idea? Please show me the store item on the zen store.
If you consider a one minute minigame for 5k dill (or 10k during a dill weekend) a grind, you must really hate logging into the game, cause that takes longer.....
Not like you have to do anything but 1 rich dilithium node. Its 1 minute. Hardly a grind. And at least the dilithium has value unless you have everything in the game already.