Not that it matters as they will be snapped up and resold by outside vendors for insane amounts. Crytpic is shooting itself in the foot again just like they did with the TOS T-6 Constitution/D-7/Warbird. Wish they would sell these carecter bound C-store where you can 100% get one instead of the F over these lockboxs are. Got a hint for you Cryptic many like me would dump a hundred bucks per toon that way you get the revenue instead of some gold farmer in China. Thank god the NX Refit was Lobi!
I don't see this to be the case.
You may "dump a hundred bucks per toon" to purchase a R&D promotional ship outright, but two other players will "dump a hundred bucks" opening boxes for the chance of winning the ship.
Sorry, but the metrics don't lie; these promotions are probably their biggest cash cow, with lock box keys being not too far behind.
And don't get me wrong, I don't particularly like this fact - on the other hand, its clearly a very successful sales strategy and it keeps the server lights on, so.....
Sadly you are correct in that being a successful strategy but lets be real for a second. Offsite farmers are a reality and unless something is done this will continue to keep some items out of the players hands locked behind a huge price tag that does not contribute to Cryptics pockets. I will not buy from an outside reseller as I would rather put the money in the Devs pockets then some gold farmer who for all we know maybe siphoning those funds off to neferious groups. LLAP
Not that it matters as they will be snapped up and resold by outside vendors for insane amounts. Crytpic is shooting itself in the foot again just like they did with the TOS T-6 Constitution/D-7/Warbird. Wish they would sell these carecter bound C-store where you can 100% get one instead of the F over these lockboxs are. Got a hint for you Cryptic many like me would dump a hundred bucks per toon that way you get the revenue instead of some gold farmer in China. Thank god the NX Refit was Lobi!
Whatever makes them the most $$$ so the servers stay on and we can play with our less hard to get ships.
Seriously The Romulan one looks best from what I have seen.
But where are the Gorn, Orion, Nausicaan, Ferengi, Caitian, Reman, and Vulcan 26th century ships? That is what I ask. It is a damn conspiracy I tell you, a conspiracy.
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That fed ship sets a really low stander of what people will pay a lot of money for. Next T6 ship this rectangular block
Willing to bet the playerbase would pay 200$ + if it had the right setup
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I would have loved to have gotten the Romulan ship, it's pretty. The last promo with TOS ships I would have gotten all three. Sad thing is Cryptic isn't distributing them in a way that is realistic for me so I save my money and go play other games since I can't Star Trek on my Star Trek game the way I'd like to which honestly is more close to the actual series then what is made available to me.
Having seen the KDF one up close in must say it's actually a really nice design. It looks mean and powerful, like it could lay siege to an entire system. I guess that's the point, it's essentially a mobile star base so it needs to be huge and intimidating.
The U-class (I've ended up calling it a U-boat!) looks terrible I think. Even though the canon source is awful they could have at least modded it to make it look a bit more finished. You know, properly scaled window textures and an actual good looking nacelle/pylon junction would have been a great start point.
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Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
I think the KDF one looks great, followed very closely by the Romulan ship.
As for the Enterprise J, I'll say that the artists did a good job. They faithfully, and accurately recreated the ship.
It's not their fault that what they had to re-create is the stupidest looking pile of space trash ever. The Enterprise J is ridiculous.
Them recreating the original I can understand, but what they should have done is make J the default but at least have a finished version as one of the alternate skins. That way the players can choose which version of the ship they want to fly. Of course, if it turns out that's what they've actually done, then I stand corrected!
I think they are all nice but when they boxed the D9, I was done, if its not in the C-store, its not in my fleet of ships. Same goes for these ships. I wont even spend a dime on trying to get one at a 0.001% chance. Shame, C-store ships mean I need drydocks and ship slots means I need to buy zen to get them.
That Valkis is one truly amazing design the more I look at it. I'm not afraid to say even the best looking Romulan ship in STO, all-round except for texture detailing. One should really go to New Romulus and find one and see it from all angles. Seriously, pictures of it don't do its 3D profiles justice whatsoever. It's a blend of the Explorer Warbirds' Vulcan-styled circular warp core of the future, Command Warbirds, T5 Tal'Shiar Destroyer's side profile, Malem's bridge section, and even aspects of the T'Laru such as the large thin impulse engines.
I truly hope they'll reuse the 26th Century design ideas again to make more Romulan ships -exactly- like this, whether they'll be Lockbox, Lobi, or Promo.
Scale it way down, even really small like a Malem (it's from the future, so it's allowed to be much larger on the inside), modify the skin a little, work on those textures, make it a science warbird with a flight deck housing frigates, give it some fun console set bonuses to make up for the missing T5 Vesta console set, and keep CMD temporal but with Lt Intel. At this point, it's inevitable something like this gets released eventually to compete with the Edoulg.
That fed ship sets a really low stander of what people will pay a lot of money for. Next T6 ship this rectangular block
Willing to bet the playerbase would pay 200$ + if it had the right setup
Naah, maybe a super giant space cylinder!
Make it massive with some sort of probe and have a superpower like, say I don't know a subspace electro-tachyon pulse. Yeah it could just disable anything non-organic within say 500,000 Km.
But we all know that nothing in Trek is ever that unimagianitive.
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I'd go for the Klingon one if I were to get one...just don't think I would...even though KDF are finally get a new Frigate pet...and a decent one...I just don't like the whale of a ship it is...and I don't quite get why the D7 got Battlecloak but this one didn't...a 23rd century ship did but a 26th century one didn't.
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Seriously The Romulan one looks best from what I have seen.
But where are the Gorn, Orion, Nausicaan, Ferengi, Caitian, Reman, and Vulcan 26th century ships? That is what I ask. It is a damn conspiracy I tell you, a conspiracy.
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The U-class (I've ended up calling it a U-boat!) looks terrible I think. Even though the canon source is awful they could have at least modded it to make it look a bit more finished. You know, properly scaled window textures and an actual good looking nacelle/pylon junction would have been a great start point.
As for the Enterprise J, I'll say that the artists did a good job. They faithfully, and accurately recreated the ship.
It's not their fault that what they had to re-create is the stupidest looking pile of space trash ever. The Enterprise J is ridiculous.
Just to sell it again.
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Things I want in STO:
1) More character customization options such as more clothing options, letting the toon complexion affect the entire body, not just the head. Also a true RGB color picker applied to all costume and appearance options, which would allow for true appearance customization and homogenous colors instead of "this same exact color looks vastly different on two different pieces."
2) Bridge customization, not bridge packs. Let us pick a general layout and adjust the color palette, console appearance, and chair types, as well as more ready room layout options.
3) Customizable ground weapons, i.e. The aesthetic look of phaser dual pistols but they shoot antiproton bolts. For obvious reasons this would only apply to standard ground weapons.
4) For the love of Q please revamp Plasma Ground Weapons. They look like demented Supersoakers right now.
5) True Vanity Impulse and Deflector effects similar to Vanity Shields.
6) A greater payout for hitting T6 Reputations. Currently it takes more time and resources to get from T5 to T6 than it does to get from nothing to T5. Make that grind really pay out at the end.
7) Mirrorverse Refugee event similar to AoY/Delta/Gamma, complete with new Mirrorverse recruits for all factions.
8) Independent Faction, because yo ho yo ho a pirate's life for me!
Them recreating the original I can understand, but what they should have done is make J the default but at least have a finished version as one of the alternate skins. That way the players can choose which version of the ship they want to fly. Of course, if it turns out that's what they've actually done, then I stand corrected!
But if it makes the person happy.... Then let them have their cake.
That said, the other two are more appealing.
I truly hope they'll reuse the 26th Century design ideas again to make more Romulan ships -exactly- like this, whether they'll be Lockbox, Lobi, or Promo.
Scale it way down, even really small like a Malem (it's from the future, so it's allowed to be much larger on the inside), modify the skin a little, work on those textures, make it a science warbird with a flight deck housing frigates, give it some fun console set bonuses to make up for the missing T5 Vesta console set, and keep CMD temporal but with Lt Intel. At this point, it's inevitable something like this gets released eventually to compete with the Edoulg.
Naah, maybe a super giant space cylinder!
Make it massive with some sort of probe and have a superpower like, say I don't know a subspace electro-tachyon pulse. Yeah it could just disable anything non-organic within say 500,000 Km.
But we all know that nothing in Trek is ever that unimagianitive.