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Last Chance Lock Box Event

pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
in Galactic News Network [PC]
The Lobi Crystal Consortium (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Quark Enterprises) has announced that they are no longer going to be offering the Year Of Hell Lock Box as in-game drops and rewards as of Tuesday, October 27th, 2015.

You know what this means!

~LaughingTrendy

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  • szimszim Member Posts: 2,503 Arc User
    Oh... joy...

    Still waiting for a "no lockbox drops" checkbox in the game's options menu. Please? Those lockbox special events are horrible. At the end of every STF or mission I have to discard 5-6 different lockboxes. I'm begging you. Give us an option to opt out.
  • cuchulainn74cuchulainn74 Member Posts: 831 Arc User
    The hyperlink for the "Xindi Lockbox" is the Xindi-Amphibious LB. Does this mean there will be no Xindi-Terrestrial LBs dropping during the event? It's certainly the LB everybody really wants to get. :wink:
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  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    ...Is it just me, or is the number of old lock boxes really starting to add up?
    Five years of STO, the coming Iconian Lock Box (New Dawn Lock Box, whatever it ends up being called) will be the fifteenth lock box, that's three a year, one every four months...

    And they pile up in Inventory and Bank faster than most players can buy Master Keys. I'd probably be more interested if the Last Chance events were accompanied by a real discount on Keys, twenty-five or even fifty per cent off - not the dinky little fifteen per cent that doesn't even really put enough of a dent in the price to make it worthwhile...
    "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,165 Arc User
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »

    You know what this means!
    Herald Lockbox
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    Maybe a Harbinger you can summon?
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    My bad... Dalmatian pets?
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    Herald Sticks
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  • storulesstorules Member Posts: 3,286 Arc User
    cuchulainn74 wrote: »
    The hyperlink for the "Xindi Lockbox" is the Xindi-Amphibious LB. Does this mean there will be no Xindi-Terrestrial LBs dropping during the event? It's certainly the LB everybody really wants to get. :wink:

    Would be great if they can tell us what areas to concentrate for the different lockboxes. I only want the Xindi for the Kemocyte and could care less for the other ones. Just hate the randomness of the event drops. I thought once we went to F2P mode the randomness of dropping rewards has gone. Yet those boxes are still randomly dropping with no logic if you need to concentrate in just one kind. fox-12.gif​​
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  • cuchulainn74cuchulainn74 Member Posts: 831 Arc User
    thay8472 wrote: »
    pwlaughingtrendy wrote: »

    You know what this means!

    Dalmatian puppy coat?
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    All right, I nearly choked on my coffee there. That was funny!
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  • saurializardsaurializard Member Posts: 4,404 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Goodbye, Year of Hell lockbox, hello,
    Herald lockbox. Now gimme that raider, Mister Key.
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  • zigadeiczigadeic Member Posts: 113 Arc User
    bum bum bum new lock box coming soon lol
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  • tilarium1979tilarium1979 Member Posts: 567 Arc User
    szim wrote: »
    Oh... joy...

    Still waiting for a "no lockbox drops" checkbox in the game's options menu. Please? Those lockbox special events are horrible. At the end of every STF or mission I have to discard 5-6 different lockboxes. I'm begging you. Give us an option to opt out.

    Seriously? Like as in destroy them? I just sold off my excess lockboxes and made an easy 14m. Some of the newer and more popular ones go for 2m a stack! Glad I sold them before the event!
  • tilarium1979tilarium1979 Member Posts: 567 Arc User
    storules wrote: »
    cuchulainn74 wrote: »
    The hyperlink for the "Xindi Lockbox" is the Xindi-Amphibious LB. Does this mean there will be no Xindi-Terrestrial LBs dropping during the event? It's certainly the LB everybody really wants to get. :wink:

    Would be great if they can tell us what areas to concentrate for the different lockboxes. I only want the Xindi for the Kemocyte and could care less for the other ones. Just hate the randomness of the event drops. I thought once we went to F2P mode the randomness of dropping rewards has gone. Yet those boxes are still randomly dropping with no logic if you need to concentrate in just one kind. fox-12.gif​​

    Or just go into the Dilithium store and buy the ones you want? 200 dilithium for a stack of 20.
  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Can You PLEASE make them stack to 99 in our Inventory/Bank/Fleet Bank's!!
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  • farquat2farquat2 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    daveyny wrote: »
    Can You PLEASE make them stack to 99 in our Inventory/Bank/Fleet Bank's!!

    *THIS*. in Neverwinter they stack to 999. Like or Despise lockboxes, they should not get in the way. If you must pester us with them, don't make managing them a chore.
  • trillbuffettrillbuffet Member Posts: 861 Arc User
    My 2 cents on this is it does not matter how many blogs you guys put out. If its something players don't want the days of getting it just because its the only thing you haven't obtained just to get it for the heck of it so now players who still play are voting with their wallet.
  • ddesjardinsddesjardins Member Posts: 3,056 Media Corps
    I have to second (or third) the sentiments here.
    1. Make the stackable to at least 100, but 999 would be awesome.
    2. Make the Dilithium VIP rewards sell-able; or at least gift-able. Or allow us to bulk convert them for a fee. I'm sitting on more than I can practically open in the 120 days between lockboxes.

  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    Oh cool, now I can see what they come up with next. This latest box saved me a lot of EC, since there wasn't much good in it.
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  • gilrandir00gilrandir00 Member Posts: 14 Arc User
    Fourthing the request for greater stacksize for lockboxes. I have an alt reserved exclusively as a lockbox bank - it's ridiculous to see a whole bank full of boxes I *might* get around to opening (or at least selling) at some point.
  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    I don't know, bigger stacks might help, but I still say reconsidering the price of Master Keys (during sales if at no other time) might also work...
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    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
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  • messahlamessahla Member Posts: 1,160 Arc User
    Ok who wants to guess what the "New lockboxs'" token T5 ship will be?
  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,165 Arc User
    messahla wrote: »
    Ok who wants to guess what the "New lockboxs'" token T5 ship will be?

    I want to say some new Mirror ships... but my brain is telling me not to say that.

    So best guess... Octani (SP?) Cruiser?

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  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Hm... Herald Baltim Heavy Raider (T6) as the 'grand prize', a Mawasi Cruiser of some kind in the Lobi Store to complete the 'Year of Hell Coalition' (since we already have the Nihydron and Zahl, they're all that's left)...

    And the 'consolation prize' ship will probably be a playable version of the "Krenim Heavy Raider" hanger pet from the Annorax Temporal Dreadnought, I'd say.
    "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • cuchulainn74cuchulainn74 Member Posts: 831 Arc User
    turbomagnus wrote: »
    Hm... Herald Baltim Heavy Raider (T6) as the 'grand prize', a Mawasi Cruiser of some kind in the Lobi Store to complete the 'Year of Hell Coalition' (since we already have the Nihydron and Zahl, they're all that's left)...

    And the 'consolation prize' ship will probably be a playable version of the "Krenim Heavy Raider" hanger pet from the Annorax Temporal Dreadnought, I'd say.

    So if we can get the Baltim, do we get to repeatedly Kamikaze enemy ships for massive shield penetrating physical damage while sustaining virtually none ourselves? Because I'm not gonna lie, that would be stupendous.
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  • warpaint21warpaint21 Member Posts: 62 Arc User
    I want a Mirror Science ship for my Romulan. Wishful thinking I know.

    Oh, and I agree that it would be much appreciated if the boxes could stack to 100 or even better 999.
  • iranoveryourdogiranoveryourdog Member Posts: 54 Arc User
    szim wrote: »
    Oh... joy...

    Still waiting for a "no lockbox drops" checkbox in the game's options menu. Please? Those lockbox special events are horrible. At the end of every STF or mission I have to discard 5-6 different lockboxes. I'm begging you. Give us an option to opt out.

    ^^^THIS^^^ Please. so tired of always having to discard stacks of lockboxes, because they are a total scam :/ please give us the option to not be scammed. please?

  • lolwatmeworrylolwatmeworry Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    Good lord.

    I stop playing for a while due to life, and come back to see that the lockbox TRIBBLE is still ongoing.

    Free tip: Try making them worth the money needed to open them. At the very least, don't make them the blatant rip-off that they currently are.
  • xylylxylyl Member Posts: 45 Arc User
    If lockboxes shall be a necessary aspect of the game, then add my vote for 100 or 999 lockboxes per slot.

    Year of Hell is what I spent on lockbox keys in the last 12 months. All this yielded was 9 T5 mediocre ships: a miserable return on investment, in my opinion (as well as a possible lockbox gambling problem). The saving grace was over 2000+ Lobi crystals.

    Some modest recommendations:

    1. At least give the lockbox keys a bigger discount. Say 25% or better (this was stated earlier)
    2. Give a bigger discount for Zen. Say 25% or better. This would help sales of C-Store commodities and services.
    3. Give a steeper discount for quantity key purchases. Say 100 keys for $50.
    4. A lifetime subscriber perk for a monthly quantity of free lockbox keys.

    Just my .02 Zen...

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  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    cuchulainn74 wrote: »
    turbomagnus wrote: »
    Hm... Herald Baltim Heavy Raider (T6) as the 'grand prize', a Mawasi Cruiser of some kind in the Lobi Store to complete the 'Year of Hell Coalition' (since we already have the Nihydron and Zahl, they're all that's left)...

    And the 'consolation prize' ship will probably be a playable version of the "Krenim Heavy Raider" hanger pet from the Annorax Temporal Dreadnought, I'd say.

    So if we can get the Baltim, do we get to repeatedly Kamikaze enemy ships for massive shield penetrating physical damage while sustaining virtually none ourselves? Because I'm not gonna lie, that would be stupendous.
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    If we get the Baltim, some form of that would probably be the Starship Trait, I'm thinking... toned down, of course, because Q forbid that NPC enemy ships not be like unto gods smiting us with totally unfair abilities that we just don't get counterparts to...
    "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • grtiggygrtiggy Member Posts: 444 Arc User
    i want a checkbox for disabling lockbox drops for me so i never see them and never pick them up, sick of constantly having to delete those things or having to sift through the 8 or 9 item drops cause half of them are freaking lockboxes.

    also the event name is very very missleading as this "last chance" event has happened sooooooooo many times before now that we all know that the event is going to come around again.
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