Cite Decissions
calsnowskier
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I just finished the campaign and got my cites...
SR went on my lvl99 coffee Janeway so I could merge her with evolved Paris to get Evolved Janeway.
So now what to do with the leg cite...
Lvl99 4/5 Thrax or lvl99 1/5 Janeway?
The Janeway will never be avail in a begold, so it can only be advanced through Janeway/Paris children or through cites. Thrax is currently not avail through begolds, but probably will be eventually.
Thrax is very usefully to me at this point as is as either a voyager or a shuttler. Janeway is brand new to me, so I don’t know exactly how/if she currently helps, but at first look at her 1/5 version, she doesn’t look overly useful.
I am leaning towards Janeway due to the build cost involved in getting her more stars (cites are really the only option).
SR went on my lvl99 coffee Janeway so I could merge her with evolved Paris to get Evolved Janeway.
So now what to do with the leg cite...
Lvl99 4/5 Thrax or lvl99 1/5 Janeway?
The Janeway will never be avail in a begold, so it can only be advanced through Janeway/Paris children or through cites. Thrax is currently not avail through begolds, but probably will be eventually.
Thrax is very usefully to me at this point as is as either a voyager or a shuttler. Janeway is brand new to me, so I don’t know exactly how/if she currently helps, but at first look at her 1/5 version, she doesn’t look overly useful.
I am leaning towards Janeway due to the build cost involved in getting her more stars (cites are really the only option).
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Other folks will no doubt say to get Janeway another star right away so that you can have a little better boost to her during the Mega, but the way I feel, I've got so many bonus crew, I don't feel like I need to cite her up just for the meager advantage it'll give me — especially since I'm not going to be going for the higher ranks this weekend.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
I'm probably using my cite for Spock this time. I've still some honor but I'm waiting for now. I have a couple I could work on but they're all at 1*
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Ah, okay, I misunderstood. In that case, I agree with Seven of One above regarding you tracking her potential usefulness in your roster — but I would also still generally advise the Thrax citation instead.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
-EDIT-
Conversely, citing up really strong 5* crew with MED as a tertiary skill is also a good idea, so crew like Mirror Stamets who have really good ENG and SCI scores but also MED will also help your voyages out a lot.
For me, it'd be less relevant what she adds to my crew than it is to contend with what she's taking away from it: a minimum of two slots. It was one thing for me to fuse Tuvix and The Duras Sisters without using any Citations; those were just 3*'s fusing into 4*'s. Fusing 4*'s into a 5*, let alone into a 5/5? Nah. Unless, that is, that it would be somehow gratifying for you to do it the hard way. In that event, you'll feel better not having cut the corner so you may as well cite Thrax.
Personally, I will be patient and wait for Janeway's and Paris's to drop. I'm not in that big of a hurry for her. But if you don't want to use your slots like that, then I get it. Cites are the best option.
1 citation to immortalize Leonardo da Vinci
2 citations to either First Officer Burnham or Dr. Katherine Pulaski
Captain Level: 95
VIP Level: 12
Unique Crew Immortalized: 525
Collections Completed: Vulcan, Ferengi, Borg, Romulan, Cardassian, Uncommon, Rare, Veteran, Common, Engineered, Physician, Innovator, Inspiring, Diplomat, Jury Rigger, Gauntlet Legends
Did you find a strong Med holding you back from 10 hour voyages? I currently have DA McCoy @ lvl 100 1/5. I wasn't planning on working on him for a while. My current project is Mirror Stamets, my next planned project is Assimilated Hawk.
My current Med 5* are:
5/5 BR Bashir, Guinan, Prisoner Cornwell, Boothby, AoS Crusher
No 4/5
3/5 Mirror Stamets
2/5 Caretaker, Crell Moset, The Keeper, Prince Bashir, DF Paris
1/5 DA McCoy, Defensive Phlox, 2nd Guinan, M. Crusher, and Pulaski.
Adding the cite to Thrax also seems a bit of a waste. He is a strong card, but going from 4/5 to 5/5 would be a relative minor jump.
The only gold med I have is a 2/5 Bell Riots Bashir. But he is not built enough to get any use yet (I am building him). Maybe holding the cite until brb matures a bit or a better option arises is the best plan.
Thanks for all the advice
Actually, yes. For those of us late starters (been playing just over a year I think) we missed out on Darth Bashir and Prisoner Cornwell, and I only just started to make strides in Gauntlet right as Caretaker rotated out (I have since won two Caretakers since the reward system was changed) so MED has been a HUGE struggle. And since you asked, my personal record for a single voyage is 9 hours, 9 minutes with no refresh, although thanks to my renewed strategy of committing 100% to improving my MED crew (my last two immortalization projects have been Mirror Stamos and Warship EMA) I've been hitting 8+ hour voyages all weekend during a Faction event where I'm MASSIVELY over-extending myself to chase rank, which I'm calling a win!
As a newer player, I think I have a pretty good feel for the struggles facing our friend @calsnowskier, and for those who missed out on Prisoner Cornwell and Darth Bashir, the struggle has but one word: MED. Focus on MED and everything else will fall into place
I haven’t quite reached 10 hours yet either but I can get into the 9:30+ range on MED-focused voyages thanks to the following doctors (immortal unless specified):
-Cornwell
-Darth Bashir
-Crell Moset
-Warship EMA
-AoS Crusher
-4/5* Mobile Doctor
-Caretaker
-Leonardo
-White Rabbit
-Delta Flyer Paris
-3/5* DA McCoy
-3/5* Mirror Bev
-1/5* Defensive Phlox
-3/5* The Keeper
I obviously can’t use all of them at once; however, MED/DIP and MED/SCI are good combos for me and I can even make a nice run on MED/ENG if I am careful with how I choose my crew.
This is inaccurate. Going from 4/5 to 5/5 is generally the biggest jump in the game. If you do not need to improve SEC, that's one thing. But to avoid a fifth star is usually only for the most dedicated collectors that have to worry about getting a behold where they have all three immortalized already.
LOL, J/K
It is the process of sending out two, 3 minute voyages to force the game to reset your voyage traits after they reset server side.
I'll have to give that a try, but I think it'll tell me what I'm already suspecting. Once I finish my current project to immortalise Butterchurn (aka Survivalist) Kirk, I'll need to focus on citing up my best Dip and Med legendaries.
Even with my robust collection of doctors, reset voyages won’t look all that different for me. I think what you’re seeing here is more an artifact of few characters having MED as a tertiary or even secondary skill. My skill reset voyages will look like this:
COM - Borg Queen, Mirror Picard
DIP - Arachnia Janeway, 4/5* Minuet
ENG - Etana Jol, Caretaker
SEC - Mirror Shukar, Warship Tuvok
MED - Warship EMA, Prisoner Cornwell
SCI - Surak, Protomorphosis Barclay
The only one with non-primary MED is The Caretaker. I could potentially improve on that by having a brain fart and sending a couple of shuttles first, which could bump up Leonardo, White Rabbit, 2/5* Guinan, and Delta Flyer Paris (maybe 3/5* The Keeper and Darth Bashir as well, if it were a very particular set of shuttles).
Don’t beat yourself up too much over this screen, is all.
True, that is why part of my suggested citation strategy is to also cite up useful crew like Leonardo and Mirror Stamos who also have MED, because every little bit help!
No favorites. In-game text is just so hard to use and slow to refresh.
In fairness, the strategy is not purely mine. Others were saying to send out short voyages to refresh the traits and that such actions sometimes work. I simply experimented and found that if I sent two of them long enough to get at least one reward, it worked every time. I therefore put it out here in response to what people were talking about. It never occurred to me to put it in the squad chat. I'll start doing such things.
CMD: 9.120 - Mirror Picard / Prince Bashir (Borg Queen (4/5) gets my next citation)
DIP: 12.000 - Bartender Guinan / Chancellor L'Rell (1/5)
SEC: 7.688 - Thrax / Kol House of Kor
ENG: 4.797 - Etana Jol / Ru'afo
SCI: 5.796 - Surak / Honey Bare Jadzia
MED: 5.497 - Prisoner Katrina Cornwell / Bell Riots Bashir - Cornwell is actually my #2 DIP ... my #3 MED is Dr. Katherine Pulaski (1/5) ... If I switch out L'Rell for Pulaski I get much higher SCI and MED but lower DIP and CMD (SEC remains about equal).
I didn't put in 2-skill crew (e.g. Minuet), as I'd never do that for a Voyage anyway.
To me it is not about these scores at all, but making sure that crew with interesting 3-skill-combos are maxed ... this often does include MED, as ByloBand stated, but not always and I do think it is heavily roster dependent.
I agree that the two initial 5* mentioned in this tread are not really worth a citation at this time (Thrax during the mega event was), especially Evolved Janeway (though she is pretty decent).
I would aim to cite unique skill combos on your roster, which would probably mean citing someone with MED ... that is if the mega event Janeway has not yet been cited ... she's a must and will benefit most rosters even after the mega event is over.
On a side note ... outside of always hitting 8 hrs now-a-days for all combos at any time, I've made 10 hrs for the combos CMD/SEC and CMD/DIP ... how I've not hit it with the DIP/SEC combo baffles me.