[TwentyPercentCooler]

I have to say, this game really abuses the Skinners Box effect.
That "Help Cadets at Starfleet Academy for dilithium rewards" event is pure evil. And you'll never get full 60 particle samples....


With 8000 dilithium a day (theorethical max, good luck getting that much, I'm lucky to get 2000), and 200 dilithium for 1 CP conversion, it would take a week to gather enough CP's for even the simplest 200CP purchases. Fascinating.


Oh, forgot to ask - a cardassian lockbox key ; does it have a fixed number of uses. Also, is stuff in the box random crap or relaly usefull, good stuff?

The only ones even worth considering opening are the gold ones. You can safely destroy the regular ones with no remorse.

I now have a Galaxy.

Now I need more Polaron beams.  NEED MOAR PURPLE.

I just started using polaron beams with the Jem'Hadar set. 800 DPS per beam. My broadsides are pretty incredible; even though the proc isn't that special, it's worth looking into.

[TrashMan]

The only ones even worth considering opening are the gold ones. You can safely destroy the regular ones with no remorse.

That's dissapointing. But I guess it figures. I only got regular boxes anyway..abotu 30 of them. Gonna put them on the exchange. Destroying them gets me nothing, at least this way I may get a few $$$.

[Liberator]

I think I've destroyed 10,000 of those, i have 3 gold ones sitting the bank waiting for keys, that said, the green ones do have a chance for a Runabout space pet...

[LunarNightmare]

With 8000 dilithium a day (theorethical max, good luck getting that much, I'm lucky to get 2000), and 200 dilithium for 1 CP conversion, it would take a week to gather enough CP's for even the simplest 200CP purchases. Fascinating.

I can get 8k on my Admiral pretty fast. I currently have about 80k just sitting there, not doing anything.

[TrashMan]

I can get 8k on my Admiral pretty fast. I currently have about 80k just sitting there, not doing anything.

:O

you are filthy rich!
80K dilithium is...only 400 Cryptic points. ... huh 

[NGTM-1R]

Oh, forgot to ask - a cardassian lockbox key ; does it have a fixed number of uses. Also, is stuff in the box random crap or relaly usefull, good stuff?

Interchangeable Antimatter Key. One use only, just like all the rest.

Anything besides a gold box is an exercise in frustrating yourself.

[TrashMan]

Oh, forgot to ask - a cardassian lockbox key ; does it have a fixed number of uses. Also, is stuff in the box random crap or relaly usefull, good stuff?

Interchangeable Antimatter Key. One use only, just like all the rest.

Anything besides a gold box is an exercise in frustrating yourself.

Now that's just evil...
And you actually pay for a single-use key to get what? A small shield battery?

Thanks for the warning. Now I know to stay away from the key.
But WTF Cyrptic...WTF?
And why do those keys sell for 900.000 energy on the Exchange?????

[NGTM-1R]

Because the gold boxes actually have decent stuff in them, mostly, and people buy the keys for gold boxes.

[TrashMan]

Is anything in the gold boxes actually WORTH 900.000??

[crizza]

So...gold is better than purple?
Out of my three purple boxes I got two blue duty officer packs and a strange 10k xp boost, which doesn't diminish...or I'm too stupid to use it o.O

[NGTM-1R]

Is anything in the gold boxes actually WORTH 900.000??

The Galor (40mil or better last I looked). Console Requisition Pack, possibly (which drops consoles from pay ships, possibly ones from the other side of the Klink/Fed divide even). I have no idea what blue duty officers go for on the exchange, but stack one of those and some greens and they might be worth it too.

So...gold is better than purple?

Gold is purple. The gold boxes have the purple quality. (It's confusing, they just say Cardassian Lock Box - Gold, instead of Cardassian Lock Box, regulars have the green tint, golds the purple)

[crizza]

But what about my 10k commendation boost? It just sits there and don't diminish...I have no clue what to do...

[NGTM-1R]

But what about my 10k commendation boost? It just sits there and don't diminish...I have no clue what to do...

I have no idea. I assume it boost duty officer mission points somehow.

[TrashMan]

Dont' you have to trun that boost on? I think there's a checkbox above your ship/character portrait.

[crizza]

True enough trashman, but that's it.
I have I nice green bar, telling me I have the boost and that's it...nothing realy happens^^

[NGTM-1R]

Jem'Hadar set + three shield distribution duty officers = incredibly, impossibly broken.

Seriously you can sleep through warzones or PVP, plus lag everyone out if somebody starts hitting you with cannonfire while you sleep through it. If Borg couldn't cheat and bypass shields with some of their abilities and torpedoes, they wouldn't stand a chance against you. There's something deeply wrong and hilarous about seeing escorts or science ships tank Tactical Cubes.

[Enzo03]

I have a gold box.  I don't think I'll be able to get to the point where I could actually use it to try to get a Galor (HAHAHA my luck is not that good) before the event is over...

but... I read about the lock boxes and apparently they stay after the event is over and master keys are used for other lock boxes as well so I could just wait until I got a key and open the gold box I suppose.  Cool.

Thanks for the info on the regular lock boxes though.  I have a stupid amount of them in my bank I need to get rid of and one precious gold one that I need to hoard.

[LunarNightmare]

I can get 8k on my Admiral pretty fast. I currently have about 80k just sitting there, not doing anything.

:O

you are filthy rich!
80K dilithium is...only 400 Cryptic points. ... huh 

I would also like to add that i'd have more if I wasn't trying to level my other characters up. I currently have my Admiral, my Klingon (that I ignore), a character that I modelled after my Admiral's tactical officer (and was so creative by naming it SolarNightmare), and then my elf.

[TwentyPercentCooler]

Jem'Hadar set + three shield distribution duty officers = incredibly, impossibly broken.

Seriously you can sleep through warzones or PVP, plus lag everyone out if somebody starts hitting you with cannonfire while you sleep through it. If Borg couldn't cheat and bypass shields with some of their abilities and torpedoes, they wouldn't stand a chance against you. There's something deeply wrong and hilarous about seeing escorts or science ships tank Tactical Cubes.

Yeah, I've been using the JH set. It's pretty good. The only thing I don't care for, as a cruiser captain, is the deflector array. I personally prefer structural integrity and shield system bonuses. For tanking ridiculous amounts of damage, it doesn't look much better than the Aegis set. I'm trying to save up the materials to have it crafted.

[NGTM-1R]

I actually have an Aegis set, I've never been very impressed with it in comparison to Borg, to be honest.