Requisition Shuttles - Best Use?
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So, we now have these new Requisition Shuttle tokens. Anyone who's been playing for a while would have gotten 14 of them for having all the factions to Honored.
Now, what do we do with them? What do you think the best strategy is? Presumably they should be held for a Faction (or Faction/* Hybrid), but how do you plan to use them in the event? Do you use them at the beginning to speed up your kickstart? Do you hold them until you're on the 4k shuttles for maximum points returned? Or are you doing something different?
Discuss!
Now, what do we do with them? What do you think the best strategy is? Presumably they should be held for a Faction (or Faction/* Hybrid), but how do you plan to use them in the event? Do you use them at the beginning to speed up your kickstart? Do you hold them until you're on the 4k shuttles for maximum points returned? Or are you doing something different?
Discuss!
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IMO, when using them for a faction event, they should only be used on 4K shuttles, and with that they should only be used with a reward 2x double boost or a 3* time reduction boost, to maximize any VP you can gain.
That's assuming your use of these tokens/rental shuttles is primarily focused on event use.
Otherwise, you could use it as part of your ramp up strategy once you get beyond 1 min shuttles. I still think total available missions are going to be a bigger limiting factor, but it could speed things up.
You will be on 4K shuttles faster than me with that.
I will pass you because I saved mine and mine are worth 4K a pop more than what your 4 are worth, every three hours.
It's not a race, it's a marathon.
It's a rat race to be precise. The best "strategy" is to get all threshold rewards up to the gold Penk's outfit and stop. That's my plan and it's the best one.
#rentalsucks
Why would you stop when you can get more goodies?
Because being treated as a rat does not suit anyone...
Using 1 requisition shuttles to get to 4K in two rounds might be okay. You could also just use a two 3* time boosts as well the first round, or instacomplete 1 shuttle to get to 32 before opening the first round.
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So long and thanks for all the fish.
Thanks to the 14 achievement tokens, that fit my little scenario perfectly.
I quick-started up to 3500 shuttles, through the normal methods.
Once there, I launched all 18 missions at once. Now, granted, this is a bad idea. I expected to fail 12 of those. 4 were my regular shuttles, 14 were the tokens. Then, I put the 5* time reduction boost on all of them so they all came back in 30 minutes.
I failed half.
But even then, those failboats briefly put me in 3rd place.
So, we can conclude, that was not the optimal use.
Using them in the kickstart is wasting points imho.
Another good potential use is stockpiling rental shuttles and then using them in a particular faction/hybrid event you have a good bonus crew for, in an attempt to place higher than usual in pursuit of an event-ranking achievement.
Do that 3 or 4 times and accumulate about 600 tokens, and then - when it's the right event with a good bonus pool, you unleash hell. Every round of shuttles you should send 12-15.
Does anyone really think this is a good innovation? When it was first announced, I was imagining that we could rent a 5th shuttle here and there and maybe eek out a few more points. (Or more generally, that a player could rent a +1 shuttle, regardless of how many you normally have.)
Now... we can apparently send dozens of shuttles simultaneously, and of course there are multiple pack offers to buy more tokens. I suppose this will increase the vp totals of faction events, and thus improve their phase balance in hybrids. But is this the best solution?? Perhaps I'll eventually wrap my head around this change, but right now all I predict is that I will be decreasing my efforts on faction events in the future.
I also had the impression that it would be a +1 kind of deal. The more I think about it, however, the more I realize that there was no basis for such an impression and, indeed, we should have expected this given DB’s redoubled efforts at squeezing every last dime they can out of us.
Making it easier and easier to "thresholds and out"..........
Yeah but the threshold is now 350K. I don't remember how many VP I got the last time there was an event with a smaller amount of bonus crew but getting 350K would still take some work. May as well go all in. I'm gonna go for top 1K without renting extra shuttles.
You can't do this. Where there are only 24 shuttle types for a faction event, only 24 missions can be opened, period, no matter your available shuttles to send.
These things don't help a kick start much because of that. You have to turn in number 1 to get number 25 open, and then the opened shuttle is one shuttle VP tier higher.
These are mostly a whale benefit. You have to have crew to make them succeed. Or a late game 4k gamble. Or a 800 VP bonus gamble that risks dropping you back down to 3500vp shuttles.
The effects most people will feel are a generally higher 1k rank VP total, forcing more time dedicated to the game, or more dollars spent, just to get the nominal reward.
If it cost 350k to rank 1k before, now it'll cost 370k. That's it.
Now, the whale math, under rank 25, I spent a year hoarding tokens or $300 on the event, that's another story. Similar idea, but higher scale, more dollars. I don't care enough, and I don't think enough others do either, so I'm not going to address that.
Suddenly the standings at the end of a faction event have the potential to be as volatile as a galaxy event, assuming people stockpile/purchase a significant number of rental shuttles.
And people already could use 5* speed boosts or pay Dil to speed up shuttles.
For example: I just acquired my first copy of Penk a little bit ago and only have him at level 60 so far, but if I get up to level 80 and I need an item not offered by the Ferengi Traditionalists, Bajorans, or Dominion, I'll use my shuttle rental tokens to run extra missions to farm up the items I need to level Penk. (I have not yet looked to see what is needed for Penk so it is likely he WON'T need me to do this, I was just using this as an example).
To paraphrase @eXo | Frank this game is a marathon, not a sprint, only for me my entire strategy is about being viable 4 months from now, so that is how I make my plans.
If the 4 free ones you get in the event aren't enough to get you to the threshold point you want, don't use them. If they do, then use them but remember you won't have any for the times you want to go harder.
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I’d say that the best usage of the extra shuttles depends upon your crew depth in that particular event. This event, i boosted kickstart to 4000VP in no time... on another event with excesses of bonus crew, I’d most likely use them at the top end (4000VP) to accrue a lot of points.
I’d say no one size fits all here