“ There are over 300 T6 ships on the exchange right now. When you figure it takes a on average few hundred keys or promo boxes to generate enough lobi for a lobi store ship, about 100 promo boxes for a promo ship, or about 200 lockboxes for a T6 ship (assuming RNG doesn't hate you), there is... ”
“ I wonder if Cryptic actually make money with these ships? STO doesn't have the biggest player base and unless the percentage of whales is larger than other games, it's hard to see how much they'd generate from putting 'meh' ships behind a gamblewall vs how much they'd make by offering the ships to... ”
“ We can brace ourselves for more of this next year too, you could effectively bet your reputation that the Titan-A will be packaged up and into the promo boxes probably by Summer 2023. ”
“ Oh, the Excelsior! I always liked this ship, and the Excelsior II looks absolutely great!
If it were a ZEN store vessel I would really, really think about getting it, but no... it's another lockbox-lottery-ship, which I won't support.
Well, maybe next year as the "Event Campaign 2023" reward. ”
“ Sadly, things like cross-faction flying (which killed trait and console boxes) and more recently the "SROs for all" change have made playing non-Fed toons less and less compelling, so they are creating more and more demand for Federation gamble box ships but Cryptic has made no efforts to improve... ”