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Basic Holoprogram: We need more ways to get them!
GhostStalker
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This stupid item is literally why I do Section 31 missions whenever I'm not doing an event. And they're rare there, too. You can't get them from Cadet missions without some sacrifice. For example, in EAS they're on the Elite level, which means you're sacrificing 30 chronitons if you spend 6 tickets farming them.
Plus, SO MANY characters need them. And they don't just need one or two. They need 4, 8, or more per item! I mean just think about all of the different items that are made from this.
There needs to be a standard mission where these are available. Please.
Plus, SO MANY characters need them. And they don't just need one or two. They need 4, 8, or more per item! I mean just think about all of the different items that are made from this.
There needs to be a standard mission where these are available. Please.
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How about a new set of Distress Call missions with a focus on Section 31 items. Please?
Cadet missions help, but are a drop in the bucket. I usually end up just using a replicator on any gear slot that requires more than one and resign myself to just taking multiple days to finish that character.
I play the long game anyway, patience helps. If these things could drop from voyages, that would help a lot.
The holoprogram plus that stupid basic case files too!
The thing about Basic Case files was a similar thread a couple weeks ago. Both items can be found in the Sec 31 Faction Center about 2x a week. Yeah, the faction center prices are ridiculous, but for those particular items, I find myself buying/farming them from faction centers any time I see them there because those 2 items in particular cost far less (50/100 merits, or 50K credits,) than the thousands of warps & chrons spent trying to get them.
The distress call missions were mostly a joke. The drop rates are still abysmal and aren't any better than the existing missions. Plus some of the most needed items weren't even in there.
ALL basic items (ideally all items period) need to have a drop spot that isn't exclusively a cadet mission. It stonewalls progress for no reason. There's already enough resource management in this game that we don't need a pile of faction-only items.
While a brilliant strategy, it also speaks to the core issue of faction missions that at higher difficulties they stop dropping the low difficulty items. You really should be able to choose the mission difficulty you want to run, similar to missions.
I had literally no idea you could do that. Thank you!
That would be amazing.
That being said, I need a LOT more holoprograms than I'm getting. Please DB consider my original request.
Apologies for quoting myself, but it also occurred to me that we could have them as occasional gauntlet rewards as well. I suspect that, at least for most players, they would be more useful than blue trainers.
Please remember that when you farm the Basic Holoprograms this way from the Elite EAS Cadet mission, you at the same time also are getting to farm Basic First Contact Protocols, which are an item that can by 'annoying' to farm from the regular mission Double Trouble. That is, just from the Basic First Contact Protocols you get from the Cadet missions, you could be saving yourself well over 30 Chronitons you would have otherwise needed to use.
I would also suggest that with the supply of Chronitons now coming from Voyages, getting 30 fewer on Mon/Wed/Fri from Cadet missions is not that big a deal.
They do drop in gauntlet, just very rarely.
So rarely that I've yet to see them! I have an abundance of 2* sensors though..
Those have more workarounds. Not much more, but more. I only use Rockslide for textbooks for example. Operation Isolate is best for *** Alcohol. Third one is only place to get Earpiece. So you will get some even without farming them specifically. + UF.
I think Guinan is probably more likely to drop! I think I've seen at least 2 though.
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That's a good idea. It really doesn't make sense why Champagne needs holoprograms, it isn't like champagne can only be concocted in the holodeck.
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Just put 10^4 of all items in my inventory.....
Everything else is to exausting for me ........