Lobi Crystals

[Bolokay]

Is it true you can buy ships with Lobi Crystals? If so, how much on average, and does anyone know any good ways to grind it?

[Atiseum]

Get lobi crystals by opening lock boxes. Been awhile since i played so assuming that is how you still get them.

[Salami Tsunami]

Originally posted by btump2023:

Is it true you can buy ships with Lobi Crystals? If so, how much on average, and does anyone know any good ways to grind it?

This.

Lobi crystals are a tough grind. Given the hard limit of dilithium refining, I'd suggest buying lockbox keys off the exchange with energy credits.

You get your pick of ships in the Lobi shop, most of them exclusive. They cost 900 crystals each.

[Maj_Cyric]

900 for T6
800 for T5
300 for small craft

https://sto.gamepedia.com/Lobi_Crystal_Consortium

[Numenorean]

No reason to get LC at all; the amount needed for a ship is ludicrous, and you get better chances by getting ships sold on the exchange to be honest. You can easily make a ton of money by selling keys on the exchange for 5M a pop; and you can use your zen to buy the keys. That is faster than opening a ton of boxes, which give you only few crystals for each box.

[Dave of Infamy]

Originally posted by Numenorean:

No reason to get LC at all; the amount needed for a ship is ludicrous, and you get better chances by getting ships sold on the exchange to be honest. You can easily make a ton of money by selling keys on the exchange for 5M a pop; and you can use your zen to buy the keys. That is faster than opening a ton of boxes, which give you only few crystals for each box.

keys havent been 5 mill for a while now last checked 4.25mil but besides the point yeah lobi ships are nice but too expencive better farming and grinding ec and buy them from exchange

[Numenorean]

Well, they are between 4 and 5 mil :) A lootbox ship usually go for 120M on exchange, so it takes considerably less to get that amount of credits and buy stuff on the exchange; compared to gamble lootboxes to get crystals ;)

To be honest I wish there was a way to sell ships and unbound them. I have so many that I don't use, and they are all T6 from events or shop.

[Maj_Cyric]

Originally posted by Numenorean:

No reason to get LC at all; the amount needed for a ship is ludicrous, and you get better chances by getting ships sold on the exchange to be honest. You can easily make a ton of money by selling keys on the exchange for 5M a pop; and you can use your zen to buy the keys. That is faster than opening a ton of boxes, which give you only few crystals for each box.

I would disagree.. Anyone using AP Beams will want to get one of these..
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1762787292

But I do agree that getting lobi just for the ships isn't a wise course..

[Numenorean]

Well, that is not locked to the lobi store; you can get the requisition package and sell it on the exchange.

That's why I was saying that it takes less to buy what you want, on the exchange; instead than spend money gambling (or spend time grinding dilithium to get the boxes).

[Dave of Infamy]

Originally posted by Numenorean:

Well, they are between 4 and 5 mil :) A lootbox ship usually go for 120M on exchange, so it takes considerably less to get that amount of credits and buy stuff on the exchange; compared to gamble lootboxes to get crystals ;)

To be honest I wish there was a way to sell ships and unbound them. I have so many that I don't use, and they are all T6 from events or shop.

no being funny but what platform are you playing on ?? loot box ships are selling vastly over 120 mil lol the current sec31 lockbox ship is selling over 500 mil lobi ships are actually selling areound 120 -250 mil ec which to me makes no sence as its harder to get a lobi ship than a lock box

[ImperatorPavel]

Originally posted by Dave of Infamy:

Originally posted by Numenorean:

Well, they are between 4 and 5 mil :) A lootbox ship usually go for 120M on exchange, so it takes considerably less to get that amount of credits and buy stuff on the exchange; compared to gamble lootboxes to get crystals ;)

To be honest I wish there was a way to sell ships and unbound them. I have so many that I don't use, and they are all T6 from events or shop.

no being funny but what platform are you playing on ?? loot box ships are selling vastly over 120 mil lol the current sec31 lockbox ship is selling over 500 mil lobi ships are actually selling areound 120 -250 mil ec which to me makes no sence as its harder to get a lobi ship than a lock box

Eh, lockbox ship availability primarily depends on the Infinity Lock Box (and, therefore, how popular the ship is). Lobi ships can be acquired by anyone with the requisite number of Lobi at any time so their price is more stable.

[Maj_Cyric]

Originally posted by Numenorean:

Well, that is not locked to the lobi store; you can get the requisition package and sell it on the exchange.

That's why I was saying that it takes less to buy what you want, on the exchange; instead than spend money gambling (or spend time grinding dilithium to get the boxes).

The Lobi Dual Beam isn't the same as the unbound one from the
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1763256645

The Lobi version is part of a set, and with each time it fires builds up a charge that fires a beam overload once it hits 10 charges.. and is bound upon getting..
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1763256692


Even after the beam overload nerf (used to be 100% crit rate) it's still my forward arc center piece for my AP beam set...