Lockboxes provide you with random items in the MMORPG Star Trek Online (PC, PS4/PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S). A player opened 12,000 of the loot boxes to see the chances of getting specific items.
What is the purpose of the experiment? CasualSAB enjoys playing the well-running MMORPG Star Trek Online for 11 years and wanted to see how high the chances are for certain items that can be drawn from the loot box-like lockboxes.
To do this, he obtained 12,000 of the boxes, which he opens gradually and then logs the contents. You can watch it in this video:
What’s Inside 12,000 Loot Boxes from Star Trek Online
What exactly are lockboxes? Lockboxes are a type of loot box in Star Trek Online. They contain random items such as officers for your bridge or starships. You even have a chance to win the major prize. This varies frequently and often offers special ships, discounts, Lobi Crystals needed for purchasing special items, and more.
You can find lockboxes as loot or as rewards from events. However, you need keys to open these boxes. And you buy these keys in the in-game store.
Didn’t the player spend an enormous amount of money? CasualSAB played on the test server of the still exciting STO and was able to open the boxes for free there. Had he needed to purchase them normally, they would have reportedly cost around $12,000 (via reddit).
What did he find? Interestingly, he found the major prize and thus a special starship approximately every 240 boxes. This is a drop rate of 0.417%. However, CasualSAB explains that there is no guarantee to get a ship every 240 boxes. In the video, it is shown that he even opens hundreds of boxes at times without receiving a starship.
He discovered ships of the lower tier T5 with a chance of 1.908%. He found Duty Officer Packs with new officers “quite frequently” (13.867%), the bonus pool with a lot of EXP (12.292%), and weapons (11.833%).
In this table, you can see the chances for the individual items:
| Item | Drop Rate |
| Major Prize | 0.417% |
| T5 Ship | 1.908% |
| Console Pack | 3.375% |
| Bridge Officer Manual | 4.542% |
| Starship Trait | 1.842% |
| Kit Modules | 9.117% |
| Personal Trait | 7.000% |
| Weapon Pack | 11.833% |
| Dilithium Mine Claim | 4.717% |
| Duty Officer Pack | 13.867% |
| Duty Officer Mission | 9.892% |
| Kit Frame | 11.183% |
| Bonus EXP | 12.292% |
| Crafting Materials | 8.017% |
Are the data significant? Although CasualSAB opened the lockboxes on the test server, he assumes that the drop rates are the same on the live servers. Previous experiments of this kind have shown that drop rates on the test server and live servers were the same.
If you play Star Trek Online, you can see based on CasualSAB’s data how your chances currently stand for certain items you can draw from the lockboxes. It should be noted that the developers of the MMORPG STO can adjust these chances at any time.
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