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T5 ships- which one to post to exchange or what use do they have?

grimoaldus1701grimoaldus1701 Member Posts: 79 Arc User
Hi all,
I got a bunch of t5 ships from the lock boxes that I do not really want. Which ones should I post to the exchange? Are any of them valuable for use otherwise? Any other suggestions would be great. I just want to start a discussion about t5 ships and what to do with them.

Thank you all.
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,501 Arc User
    edited December 2019
    Reasons to keep a ship:

    - The ship has a console you want to use on another ship
    - You like the look, and either there is no T6 version, or you need to own the T5 version to unlock its skin
    - The T5 unlocks a frigate pet for a carrier that you plan to fly
    - You really want another admiralty card for just one character

    Reasons to sell a ship

    - None of the above apply to you
  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,918 Arc User
    Reasons to keep a ship:

    - The ship has a console you want to use on another ship
    - You like the look, and either there is no T6 version, or you need to own the T5 version to unlock its skin
    - The T5 unlocks a frigate pet for a carrier that you plan to fly
    - You really want another admiralty card for just one character

    Reasons to sell a ship

    - None of the above apply to you

    Exactly this.

    If none of these apply, sell them off. This list is pretty much the only reasons to keep a T5 anymore.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member Posts: 57,973 Community Moderator
    If it is any of the old Mirror ships, they unlock Mirror skins for all associated ships. So for example the Mirror Star Cruiser unlocks the mirror skin for the ENTIRE Sovereign line, including the T6s.

    I'm pretty fond of the KDF Mirror skins myself. Use them on my Qa'tel, Vor'ral, and Negh'Tev.
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  • grimoaldus1701grimoaldus1701 Member Posts: 79 Arc User
    Thank you all for the information.
  • saber1973asaber1973a Member Posts: 1,224 Arc User
    Another reason for keeping a lockbox T5 ship:
    Ferengi Marauder (D'Kora - I think was the name) got bridge with full access to Mail, Bank, Exchange and also Trader DOFF assignment giver and Dabo table.
    If you don't have something better (like the Nandi) you may want to hang to it.
    If you have the Nandi - you may want to also keep the console from D'Kora for use on Nandi...
  • saber1973a wrote: »
    Another reason for keeping a lockbox T5 ship:
    Ferengi Marauder (D'Kora - I think was the name) got bridge with full access to Mail, Bank, Exchange and also Trader DOFF assignment giver and Dabo table.
    If you don't have something better (like the Nandi) you may want to hang to it.
    If you have the Nandi - you may want to also keep the console from D'Kora for use on Nandi...

    Yes the D'Kora is nice for the amenities
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  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    reyan01 wrote: »
    Have to confess I wish they'd remove these as 'prizes' from opening boxes.

    Opening a box to see 'prize ship pack' flash up, and then realising that it's a T5 ship pack, is crushing. Talk about consolation prize!

    It's a consolation prize since you need a consolation after that disappointment.

    I'd rather they get rid of all the kit frames. And honestly, the Dilithium Vouchers suck, too. I have way too many of them and I am sick and tired of dilithium mining after doing it on a few dilithium weekends.
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  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    reyan01 wrote: »
    Have to confess I wish they'd remove these as 'prizes' from opening boxes.

    Opening a box to see 'prize ship pack' flash up, and then realising that it's a T5 ship pack, is crushing. Talk about consolation prize!

    It's a consolation prize since you need a consolation after that disappointment.

    I'd rather they get rid of all the kit frames. And honestly, the Dilithium Vouchers suck, too. I have way too many of them and I am sick and tired of dilithium mining after doing it on a few dilithium weekends.
    They should make the dil vouchers tradeable like everything else lockbox.
  • grimoaldus1701grimoaldus1701 Member Posts: 79 Arc User
    reyan01 wrote: »
    Have to confess I wish they'd remove these as 'prizes' from opening boxes.

    Opening a box to see 'prize ship pack' flash up, and then realising that it's a T5 ship pack, is crushing. Talk about consolation prize!
    Yes, me also! I have won so many T5's and no t6's!
  • salazarrazesalazarraze Member Posts: 3,794 Arc User
    I've given away quite a few T5 consolation ships over the last couple year or two. They aren't worth much EC, and I still run into new players every once in a while that don't have a decent ship. It might not seem like much, but getting a T5 fleet level 11 console ship is a lot better than what most new F2P players have access to. I saved up the rest in case they're worth something some day.
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  • ichaerus1ichaerus1 Member Posts: 986 Arc User
    The Mirror Ki'Tang Bird of Prey is still a good ship to use. If you own the Ch'Tang skin, and apply it to that, your ship will always be flying in the "space dragon" combat mode with the wings down. It looks pretty good.

    I'd pick the Orb Weaver ship if I could from the pack, to gift to a friend who has a thing for spiders. But I think it got removed and replaced w/ the T6 version.

    The other ships I liked were the Mirror Negh'Var, and the Mirror Ha'feh/Ha'apax/Ha'nom line. And the look of the Mirror V'quv.
  • trillbuffettrillbuffet Member Posts: 861 Arc User
    Quite a bit of T5 ships that are decent to still use for example the way they are redoing patrols and adding in new ones they are just as good at vaping the ships in those patrols. Plus there is no T6 Vo'quv and there has never been a T5 or T6 Hegh'ta heavy bird of prey. One of my letheans who pretty much was a tholian tech KDF alt I just switched it out of the recluse to that T5 mesh weaver escort and fine for that lol. Although I'd like to have the lethean ships for my 3 letheans but the exchange rate its too costly to even bother with dilithium much less spending money on it.
  • strathkinstrathkin Member Posts: 2,666 Bug Hunter
    edited December 2019
    The Undine Ship that comes with the free T5U upgrade is and can be quite nice given it has the same Mastery I-IV as the Temporal Jem Vanguard Warship. It also has about 20k more hull, and is actually a lot more resilient, than the Temporal Jem Vanguard Warship; otherwise the only difference is the 4/4 weapons with Undine, as opposed to 5/3 for the Temporal Jem Vanguard.

    https://sto.gamepedia.com/Undine_Nicor_Bio-Warship
    ╘ In fact this ship can almost put the Temporal Jem Vanguard Warship to shame...

    :'(
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  • postagepaidpostagepaid Member Posts: 2,899 Arc User
    Wish those boxes would be account bound and not per character.

    Since they ships are tradeable there's no reason to lock out a fed character from using them to unlock kdf mirror for sale or alts or to allow the box to be put into the account bank so a kdf alt can do the opening.
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