Crew slot sale. Thank you.

Mirror Cartman

Crew slot sale, excellent.
Five free crew slots, excellent. Thank you DB.

But look who snuck aboard whilst I was looking elsewhere.



Wesley Crusher #385 and Acting Ensign Crusher #213 off to the disintegration chamber with you, I need the honour.

Prime Lorca

Thanks for the slots, DB!

Aldude

Many thanks! I used my honour windfall, immortalised 4 gold crew members, hit an achievement and then used my new dilithium to buy crew slots in the sale.

Boom!

Sancho Panzer

@Aldude quick question if you don't mind. I'm also VIP0 with 100 crew slots, a few complete golds but mostly purples in my crew. I've almost saved enough dilithium for my 4th shuttle but I'm very tempted by the crew slot sale. Which would be more useful in your opinion: 4th shuttle or the 10 extra slots?

Data1001

Sancho Panzer wrote: »

Aldude quick question if you don't mind. I'm also VIP0 with 100 crew slots, a few complete golds but mostly purples in my crew. I've almost saved enough dilithium for my 4th shuttle but I'm very tempted by the crew slot sale. Which would be more useful in your opinion: 4th shuttle or the 10 extra slots?

I'm know I'm not who you were asking, but I think most people here would agree with me that your 4th shuttle will be a much better investment.

{DD} Smelly

Data1001 wrote: »

Sancho Panzer wrote: »

Aldude quick question if you don't mind. I'm also VIP0 with 100 crew slots, a few complete golds but mostly purples in my crew. I've almost saved enough dilithium for my 4th shuttle but I'm very tempted by the crew slot sale. Which would be more useful in your opinion: 4th shuttle or the 10 extra slots?

I'm know I'm not who you were asking, but I think most people here would agree with me that your 4th shuttle will be a much better investment.

Seconded.

mejoyh

Thank you DB all the changes are super welcomed. Expanded use of ads, direct dismiss from packs, extra slots, sale on dabo/slots, repeatable crew on voyages.

Sancho Panzer

Thanks @Data1001 and @{DD} Smelly (recruiting4lvl110sb)... Any thoughts about crewing all 4 shuttles effectively, especially in events? In my 100 slots I've got 4 immortal golds and a whole bunch of purples. I find I'm pretty good at having effective crews until I get to the 4k shuttles in events when it can be hit and miss.

I find I've got a lot of 3/4 purples from events and I'm airlocking many 1/4 purples as I can't get honor fast enough to clear the 3/4 purples. I've pretty much done all the grey, green, and blue crew do I won't get many easy immortals achievements from now on - I've competed 178,and saved the dil from the 125, 150 and 175 achievements in anticipation of hitting 200 immortalized and getting my final shuttle.

If I choose to go for the extra slots now, will it make my life easier for immortalizing crew in the long run? Will it mean I have more spare crew capacity and so will airlock fewer crew, meaning I can earn dilithium quicker for the 4th shuttle relatively quickly?

I'm also am painfully aware of how the crew slot deal probably won't be repeated until the new year...

Ishmael Marx

@Sancho Panzer - event success at the 4000pt level boils down to depth of crew roster. With 100 slots and rotating crew through the vault, you can assemble a sufficient crew for 4 shuttles and still do the various other activities (cadet challenges, voyages, etc). But to have good success at 4000pts, you need strong cards in each skill that ideally are bonus crew in any given week - which either means lots of crew with the trait-of-the-week (e.g., Dominion this week), or lots of variants of the featured crew (e.g., Odo this week). This crew development process can only be achieved with time (or money). If you have a lot of 3/4 crew, the vault isn't helping you, so you will just have to accept that the 4000pt level will be difficult until you can FF some crew for space and add other useful ones for future events. Just keep working on it and you'll get there.

Aldude

4th shuttle, hands down.

With 90 slots, I had to be brutal about space. I airlocked purples left, right and centre just to keep space open. I have a spreadsheet with my own points-based system of usefulness which I consult all the time...
But that 4th shuttle is vital!

muwoo

Sancho Panzer wrote: »

@Aldude quick question if you don't mind. I'm also VIP0 with 100 crew slots, a few complete golds but mostly purples in my crew. I've almost saved enough dilithium for my 4th shuttle but I'm very tempted by the crew slot sale. Which would be more useful in your opinion: 4th shuttle or the 10 extra slots?

4th shuttle. If you buy the crew slots you know what will happen? You'll fill them and you'll be stuck with not enough crew slots. You'll always fill up to the level you have and end up juggling so you might as well juggle at 90 and get that shuttle. I was skeptical at first because it's a lot of dilithium but glad I saved up for it.

Data1001

Regarding not having strong enough crew to maintain success in 4000 VP shuttles: this would still be a problem whether you had only 3 shuttles, or 2 shuttles — having 4 shutttles just gets you to that point faster. You will eventually get to a point of "settling in" at a shuttle difficulty level you can deal with, with your current roster, since enough shuttle failures will eventually drop you down to the next lowest VP level (and level of difficulty). But that 4th shuttle would still allow you to accumulate VP at a much faster rate during Faction events. It also helps a lot during the week, just running regular shuttle missions, since you can then build up your resources more quickly.

Data1001

muwoo wrote: »

If you buy the crew slots you know what will happen? You'll fill them and you'll be stuck with not enough crew slots. You'll always fill up to the level you have and end up juggling

Yes. This is the exact point I frequently make in threads discussing crew slots. If you are always dealing with a "crew slot crisis", then continually buying more slots will not solve your problem. You will eventually have the exact same issue, no matter how many more you buy.

The real solution to that problem is judicious crew management. First of all, freeze any crew you haven't used for 2 weeks. Getting them back out doesn't cost much, if you find that you do need them again. Secondly, realize that you may not be able to keep every new crew that drops for you, especially if they're just going to be taking up space and not contributing to your advancement. 1*, 2* and 3* crew should never be kept unless you have an immediate need for them, or have a lot of empty space and just want to level and freeze them for achievements or collections. 4* crew are useful if they're main cast characters (more likely to show up as event bonus crew), or have good Gauntlet proficiency — but if, for example, they're brand-new from an event and you only have 3/4 stars on them, it may be best to airlock them rather than have them take up precious space (again, unless you've got lots of space to spare). Any of the previous suggestions may be tossed out the window, of course, if you happen to love that particular crew member... I'm a firm believer that personal preference should trump all else (otherwise, why even play the game). For example, I knew I was going to pull event packs until I got Dehner, because I loved her character, and the artwork is good — even though she wouldn't be one of my top crew members (even FF). I didn't care about her stats, I really just wanted her in my roster.

Sancho Panzer

@Data1001 @Aldude @Ishmael Marx @muwoo thanks for your thoughts on this, I really appreciate your responses. I think I was hoping extra slots would help but you guys are right, I'll just end up with more 3/4 purples! Thanks everyone

Stellar Ice

@Sancho Panzer as a fellow VIP 0, definitely shuttles before slots. Shuttles are a game changer and it's the only way for VIP 0 to be competitive in faction events. Slots can come later. If you run out of room, just airlock your partial crew. They'll come around again eventually.