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Let's say it's 6pm Eastern time on Sunday, and you're currently ranked at 1250 in a faction event. Your shuttles are at 4000VP with unboosted chance of success in the 65-75% range. What's your best bet at acquiring the legendary ranked reward without spending more than 10USD? Buy shuttle boosts to get more time boosts? Or just buy the $10 event offer and take your chances with the two packs?
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Typically the worst case is you get one fail out of maybe 12, so you are still up 4800 VP per 3 rounds over just regular boosts. That adds up.
I hit rank 125 earlier, holding at around 180 right now.
With strong crew, on Monday morning I will schedule out all remaining shuttles between the final 4+ hours to get the following:
(This is an example)
Shuttle #1: Optimal Event & Bonus crew with 3* time boost, then 1x4* time boost then 3x 5* time boost = 5 shuttles @ 4 hours = 20K potential
Shuttle #2: Bonus mixed crew with 3* time boost, then 2x 4* time boost = 3 shuttles @ 3.5 hours = 12K potential (+ one more optional 5* time boost if I have it.)
Shuttle #3: Bonus mixed crew with 2x3* time boost = 2 shuttles @ 3 hours = 8K potential (+ one more optional 5* time boost if I have it.)
Shuttle #4: Bonus mixed crew with 2x3* time boost = 2 shuttles @ 3 hours = 8K potential
One event not too long ago I hit them all at 4K, so instead of 4x3 hour shuttles @ 16K VP, I bumped my score almost 50K VP at the last minute to get me up in the top 100.
Hope that helps!
You’re right. They’re both longshots. You gotta make that commitment from the start of the event and go for it. This event is not one to go by though. This Brofleet thing is really knocking everyone else out. I’m usually top 20 when I go for it (13th in the Killy event) but right now I’m at 85th.
Brofleet is really skewing the numbers, plus the event features a popular character so interest was already high. Every single shuttle I sent had a boost, early shuttles were time boosts to get to 4K, then had skill boosts on during the day and double rewards at night. Finished 677.
Brofleet was 50 people.
Those 50 people are on the leaderboard each and every week, just with a different tag.
Like it was said above, you have to decide at the start if you are going to finish high and just stay on it and keep sending shuttles.
I don’t think it had that big of an impact. Sure it probably moved some people in the top 150 around, but beyond that probably not much of an impact. All of the people who participated are people who would have been in the top 1000 anyway so the net result should be the same people that would’ve been in the top 1000 still ended up in the top 1000. All it did was shift possibly up to 50 people a little higher in that group.
Yup, exactly! And I think we had a handful of people who couldn't hit top 1k after all due to IRL commitments.
It was mostly just that those of us up there were wearing different fleet tags and had much lower starbase bonuses.
Be a Bro! Join a Fleet, The BRO Fleet!!
(I would but our FADM has us in a tight leash)
Ha! Well I took your brotherhood and helping others speech to heart. Perhaps there was a reason for my holding out and this is it. I can share a 5* legendary with him and all that.
I am curious what level his starbase is now. They could not do too much. But I would figure all level 1 for each room either complete or ready to level.
It meant I could jump into squad leader position and with a number of carefully placed time boosts posted my best ever faction result, jumping at least 500 places. But to me fair, my squad leader always makes the top 1000 so while he did make a personal best, he didn't suddenly jump into a top player position because he was a BRO.
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I’m not saying everyone jumped up just because they were BROs. I’m saying the bros made a pact to put their best feet forward in this event. It was a max effort
And probably has rooms ready to be built as soon as the current completes.
Edit: I think all rooms level one would make starbase level 15? Yep 15
In addition to throwing my money into the digital equivalent of a BBQ and lighting it on fire, I had two other accounts I played -- where my VIP0 account ranked 823 and my other alt ranked 451. That meant getting up every 3 hours to send shuttles, time reducing during the day, and blowing tons of credits on shuttle boost pulls.
So, basically... If I can hit top 1k on three accounts, including a VIP0 one where the shared crew was a Mirror Picard, it was totally possible to do it on one. Bros be damned.
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Not all rooms are created equal. We focused on the base skills that showed up in shuttle seats the most, since those are the ones that matter in a faction event.
No real reason to decrease rep cost by 2% or improve profs.
Now there are 3
See, you gave it a full max effort. Three times over. That’s all I’m saying.