I just saw this in the Patch Notes for tomorrow. This does not help those with existing LB weapons, but it can be useful in the future for outfitting new toons.
"All lock box weapon types have been made to uniformly use the binding rule of Account-Bind-on-Equip.
Existing bound versions cannot be unbound, but future obtained versions of these weapons will reflect this change.
The following energy types were updated to match this uniform binding rule:
Chronoplasma
Coalition Disruptor
Elachi Crescent Disruptor
Fluidic Antiproton
Nanite Disruptor
Phased Polaron
Phased Tetryon
Polarized Disruptor
Vaadwaur Polaron
Voth Antiproton"
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10035123-star-trek-online:-release-notes:-june-23rd,-2016
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You know those previously Character Bound cannot nonsense was the same thing they pulled with the VIP Mining Claims. They can be made Account Bound if they so choosed, but they are not.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Unless... *goes check on Tribble*
EDIT: NOOOOOOOOOOO!!
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
I was under the impression, based on the wording, that such unpacked weapons would be, provided they were not already bound to a character...
From the notes:
''Existing bound versions cannot be unbound, but future obtained versions of these weapons will reflect this change.''
Yes, but unpacked and bound are two distinct states... Since the announcement only states bound weapons will not change, some clarification may be needed here - though, I guess we'll find out tomorrow anyway...
If I unpacked the weapon and then used it and it got bound to char it will remain bound to char. That's what it means.
and then your first sentence in that discuss was suggesting you believing that the change does not affect already unpacked weapons no matter if they were used or not....
No I didn't suggest anything like that obviously. When I wrote that sentence I was thinking about items that I already used and they got bound to char. The sentences that got written afterwards cleared that up for anyone with common sense so I'm not sure what your point is.
BUWAHHH??!!
I've been teetering on the very edge of buying those since my TOS character will be Andorian. That's GREAT news!!
And I'm also quite happy to see the Kumari cannons finally being upgradable. Next change I wish to see is, given that we won't be able to choose different weapon colours, Mk 12 Andorian phasers added to the stores and perhaps to the crafting system as well.
Realising that my entire reaction until now has been off-topic... the change to making lock box weapons account bound on equip is also appreciated. This might encourage me to try different weapon types in the future for some alts.
yeah, it's about damn time...only took them almost TWO YEARS!
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Yes, and I understood that... I was referring to unpacked weapons, which had never been equipped, so were not bound in any way...
Checking just now, a set of Coalition Disruptor Beams I had been sitting on - since I hadn't decided which one character to give them to - are all Bind-to-Account now...
They had been unpacked, but had never been equipped... So clearly the wording did only apply to equipped weapons, and unpacked-but-unequipped weapons were also updated to Bind-to-Account...
Would also appreciate making the Dyson proton DHC upgradeable. Spent way too many resources building the Harpia in full protonic polaron rep gear and would like to have another reason to use the tactical mode too.
I have toons that have changed from a focus on plasma to polaron, torpedoes and now even those torpedo consoles aren't used anymore. It's nice that we can send most weapons to other characters, but I still have to buy new consoles on new alts even though I have enough gear on this one toon alone to equip two new alts.
And he is not even my only character that has a lot of spare gear.
Most especially fleet stuff-consoles, equipment, etc. Should make it all acct bound so we can send it to other toons if need be.
I agree, but at least we are moving in the right direction.
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