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Awkward Skirmish/Galaxy hybrid setup
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Hey, DB,
Since BOTH are chron and time intensive events, how about reversing them next time?
Put the Galaxy phase first and let space battle warps count as Intel farming in advance of phase two.
I mean really, we slam out the thresholds for Skirmishes in five minutes and then it's just grinding. With Galaxy first we'd have the new (maybe) 4/4 to work on and put on the bridge and
Wait for it, the best part here:
No sniping at the end. All Galaxy bonus items are finished by phase two and the win is determined by grinding.
(Conversely, a bunch of people get two extra days off if they didn't care beyond thresholds).
Since BOTH are chron and time intensive events, how about reversing them next time?
Put the Galaxy phase first and let space battle warps count as Intel farming in advance of phase two.
I mean really, we slam out the thresholds for Skirmishes in five minutes and then it's just grinding. With Galaxy first we'd have the new (maybe) 4/4 to work on and put on the bridge and
Wait for it, the best part here:
No sniping at the end. All Galaxy bonus items are finished by phase two and the win is determined by grinding.
(Conversely, a bunch of people get two extra days off if they didn't care beyond thresholds).
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I do like your points about ship battles for Intel farming in the first half and doing away with sniping, especially the sniping - no other event type has this “feature” without the aid of a lot of dilithium.
The "event" was over yesterday. Now everyone's just fighting for Layna and Burnham copies (free ten pack doesn't hurt either).
But it's an exhaustive grind with no milestones and at the end you still can't bank on your score because someone will come out of nowhere with three hundred bonus item turn ins and blow me off the map.
If Skirmish was second I'd actually have some confidence that two god awful days of ridiculous investment was actually going to pay off.
Run Galaxy first!!!!
Yep, I suppose that fits the status quo.
Galaxies let you pre-farm items as you wish, Skirmishes (and galaxies) let you stockpile as many chrons as you want, and Factions let you kickstart up front and open and run extras during the hybrids. I could be wrong, but I don't think there's much you can do to cheat on an Expedition. Maybe that's why we rarely see them selected as the event option.
That would seem to imply that pre-farming, saving chrons and kickstart are cheating. They aren’t.
One could maybe argue that the kickstart is an exploit but it is one that DB is uninterested in fixing, likely because it spurs competition and therefore spending. The others are certainly not cheating and expeditions are rare because the profit vs. effort ratio for DB is much smaller than the other event types, even when they mail it in on Expedition mission design by reusing the same layout each time.