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30 second shuttles back to 3 hours
{DD} Capt Jello
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I became honored with the Borg faction to get the achievement of being honored in all factions. Shuttle were 3 hours. I then purposely lost 120-150 Borg shuttle missions so I could drop shuttle time to 30 seconds again so I could attempt to get 0* items easier and help boost fleet shuttle mission daily targets when needed. On occasion, I succeed the 14% missions and have had the shuttle times jump to 2 min or even 10 min, but then lose as I should and drop back to 30 seconds. It's been this way for 4-5 months. Today I went to run 4 Borg shuttle missions and the time showed and actually took 3 hours. So, did something change?
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I have had 4 successes in a row when purposely trying to fail 4, to keep them at 2 minutes or 30 seconds. (I can also tell you the number of times this success has happened defies probability. This again brings into question the actual RNG algorithm. I believe now that the operating system is supplying the RNG)
One clue, if you had the success with your failure shuttles, would be if you fail one mission and drop under three hours, it is likely this happened.
This also confirms that the S31 shuttles in the recent Faction event did not change this (for me, at least!), seeming to rule out Borg Faction shuttles in events.
If I had the time available I would have been first to honor with Borg.
You needed at the start to send 3 successes with two failures. Maintain that ratio all the way to honoring with them. Thus you can 30 second shuttle your way to honoring with them.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
Edit: one thing I failed to mention I had open Augment shuttles and restarted Ap that is when they showed as three hour.
One last comment: I did forget when the faction event is over and you have open shuttles from the event faction those missions will be at the event mission time not your pre-event mission times. When you open new shuttle missions for that faction they will revert to your pre-event time.
Be careful, Augment may not give 2* science experiment. Have not noticed a problem with other factions. But, I do not have all of them tanked.
I have had no problem with items on Borg and S31. But it just might be a rarer drop for science experiments.
When a tanked faction gets the bonus from an event, you can turn merits into Chron. But at a rate that gives 6 successes in every ten missions sent. So 30 Chron to 75*10/8 merits or 93.75. I have not gone for more than 120 Chron. in a days time this way.
If there are still extra transmissions in the bonus rewards on passing shuttles the ratio of merits to chrons is closer to 1:1.
Yep, I forgot that they can return with transmissions.
Edit: when I run the winning faction shuttles. I get the return time to 30 minutes. Because, the bonus to time is 30 minutes less time. So these shuttles return immediately and may yield more transmissions than a 2 minute shuttle.