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do ships from lockboxes expire?
gazdadude
Member Posts: 22 Arc User
ive got the two descovory ships but leveling a new character to use them will the ships expire?
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We've had pre-character ships from lockboxes and such for years now, and we still have C-Store ships and Event ships even went from per-character to account-claimable since their introduction (at least any based around a Event project).
You can do that, but only before it's opened. Once opened, it is only on that character.
Lockbox ships make the identity of a captain, C-Store ships are meant for leveling your alts.
I disagree. The Arbiter, Scimitars, and other C-Store ships are as good as the lock box ships. Besides, "Space Barbie is the real endgame."
Not entirely true. As for inflation and rarity, those ships never outright expire as was the original question, they just don't come to market, or don't sell as often when they do. as for powercreep if you're trying to squeeze every last one and zero from a ship, then sure you can make that argument. However my t5u Galor was still outperforming all of my t6 ships until the Keldon came out, with the Keldon only being outdone by my Miracle Worker ships.
Going to strongly disagree about the lockbox ships making the identity of the captain and c-store ships being mainly for leveling alts. In a game like this, it's 20% ship, gearing, setup, skills etc all rolled into the setup category, and the other 80% is the pilot. Ships in this game are basically shells with varying properties and what you load them with and how you fly them determines how well they will do or not do. In my case I'm currently flying the Tucker Class Tactical Miralce Worker ship as it gives me more options than did my previous ships. There's also alot of great traits and items that can come from cstore ships as well.
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Some of the lockbox ships have been removed such as the t5 narcine dreadnaught which was one of those removed from the t5 infinity ship box for no real reason other than to push the new t6 despite the fact that a t5 would help advertise and draw folk into considering looking for an upgrade for it.
Lockbox ships are the ones that they either think they'll make bank from due to tie ins with trek tv & movies or ones they don't really want to put on the store as they'd only be a cross faction triple pack rather than a megabundle. Lobi ships also count here due to the expense made by someone or other to get the item into the game.
It doesn't make sense to keep offering the grand prize T5 ships at 1-in-250 odds once a T6 version of the same ship is available. All that does is make it possible to choose the wrong ship by mistake.
It also doesn't make business sense to do what I'm guessing you'd want, to keep offering the T5U version but as an easy-to-get consolation prize ship with much better odds. That would just get people to settle for it it instead opening more boxes to get the T6 version, losing Cryptinc money not making it.
Basically, if you ever wanted to get a T5-U "consolation" D'Kora, now is the time to do it.
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But there are other possible explanations:
-Your old ship got trashed beyond repairs during a mission so you and your crew decided to take the shuttles, board and hijack one of your enemy's ships
-for the Herald ships, you can say the Whole gave the Alliance those ships as one of the means to atone for what they did and help rebuild our fleets
-same for Undine ships
-for Dominion ships, it can be that a Vorta and his crew said the Founders gave them as a sign of gratitude for returning the Female Changeling... and it's an offer you can't refuse anyway. Because they're the Dominion... and you're not.
-for Tzenkethi ships, it's not unreasonable to think Neth Parr being the best captain (as the Fleet Admiral says in the latest episode), she would have enough influence to encourage other Tzenkethi to defect, along with their ships
-same with Voth ships with those who defy the Doctrine
-for 22nd and 23rd century ships, just modern ships for nostalgic of the old days
-The Sarcophagus was explained in a blog
-Kelvin Timeline, OK, much less excusable... Hmmm... Quantum displacement, perhaps?
I would have to agree though, the wording could have been a little different.