The anniversary is in February, it's still January tomorrow, and it has been stated already on the web page that the anniversary ship is the Ambassador class, and the KDF ship whose name I forgot .lockbox ships have nothing to do with the anniversary.

Thank you for clarifying that

Actually, my hope is that this will end the demise of beams, in that they give us some kind of "beam rapid fire" power or improve beams (or nerf cannons) in some other way soon.

Now here's the question everyone else has missed:

Will the new Dominion ships benefit from the 3 piece Jem-Hadar set 'Victory is Life' bonus that previously only the bug benefited from?

Yes, I believe the set has been updated to specify that it works on all Dominion ships.

I wont say anything about the whole Lockbox thingy...

and still i dont really like federation crews flying around in alien ships.

But the ship models, hell they look really awesome, nice Job there

I was looking forward to the Hec, not anymore.....


The Dread may work in PVE if the inertia rating is high enough. It has enough engineer consoles to buff the turn rating to the point where it could be quite usable. The inertia rating is the key to a manageable cannon ship. There's not point even trying a cannon build if you slide every time you try to turn & take 5 seconds to stop.

I must agree that i've been eagerly waiting the JH HEC myself, now not so much... or not at all... PLEASE reconsider that BOFF layout, it's called an ESCORT heavy CARRIER not a CRUISER, in essence it's as "low" as the temporal destroyer, which i have and used with cmdr. tac and lt. tac and only do like half the damage i can do with an Armitage or JH Bug.
So you it will be either a Cmdr. tac / lt. tac and NO Sci abilities so bye bye HE / TSS / PH etc which in STF will get you totally wasted. OR i can choose to play with only ONE tactical officer... good deal for an ATTACK ship... i bloody run 2 tacs in my sci ships...

The last sentence of the text now reads:

"UPDATE: Read more about the new Temporal Lock Box in Season 7 Dev Blog #30 and in the new FAQ."

Find the error.

Dear Cryptic ,

Could you please-please put the Bug ship into this lock box as well ?

I'm not asking specifically 4 myself (I have one , but would not say "no" to a second one ) , but rather for the players who will have to look at a 400 Million EC cost at the Exchange today , and will have to look at a 500 Million price tag in 4-6 weeks if things go up in price the way they have up till now .

At which point -- considering that you've "linked" the availability of the Bug to the availability of certain "carrier pets" -- well , I'm just hoping that the fans won't go rioting once again ... .
(considering that the Bug ship is outside the EC means of most players today)

Remember , even the illusion of a chance at something is better then no chance at all .

Thanks !