Results from my over 48 hour Voyage.

(CSF) Jesus Is Lord [••••]

Phew, 4,500 dilithium crystals (approx.), 5 trips to my corner store for Google play cards which translate into dilithium, and I can recall the HMS Raktajino (don't judge you know you have named your ship even goofier things lol). The exact time i spent on ths voyage was 2 days, 1 hour, 8 minutes with 39 antimatter left in the tank. It's going to take a little less than 20 hours for my reward laiden vessel to come home. Now for the part everybody has been waiting for...THE REWARDS! Here is the COMPLETE list

4 star crew:
Claiborne Chekov x2
Dr. David Marcus
Holonovel EMH
Blood Oath Jadzia Dax
Mirror K'Ehleyr
Professor Scott (obtained from a dilemma)
Mirror Sisko
Kal-if-ee Spock
Lon Suder
Rakal Troi
Civil War Worf

3 star crew (all obtained from dilemmas):
Klingon Dukat
Keevan
Sniper Reed
The Viceroy

2 star crew:
KDF Alexander
Commander Chakotay
Lt. Commander Data
Lt. Naomi Wildman x2
Nurse Paris
Section 31 Reed
Commander Riker
Ensign Hoshi Sato
Recovering Spock
Lt. Worf
Lt. Tasha Yar

1 star crew:
Lt. Sulu

Honor received: 1,211
Legendary Trainers: 372
Super Rare Trainers: 35
Rare Trainers: 23
Credits: 191,400
Super Rare Replicator Rations: 277
Rare Replicator Rations: 1,200 (approx)
Chronitons: 4,743

Ship Schematics:
Super Rare Borg Sphere 878

4 star Components (all obtained from dilemmas):
Isolinear Chips x2
Emitter Crystal
Gold Pressed Latinum
Optronics

3 star Components (all received from dilemmas):

Casing
Relay

2 star Components:

Alchahol x11
Casing x15
Microconnector x16
Database x19
Emitter Crystal x13
Furs x17
Insense x21
Interlink x15
Isolinear x25
Gold Pressed Latinum x21
Expansion Module x15
Optronics x17
Starfleet Uniform Patern x22
Clothing Patern x15
Polyalloy x12
Synthesized Polymer x9
Power Cell x16
Relay x17
Sensor x15
Subprosessor

One star Components:

Casing x2
Emitter Crystal x4
Furs x2
Insense x3
Interlink
Gold Pressed Latinum x5
Clothing Patern x2
Polyalloy
Synthesized Polymer x4
Subprosessor x2
Relay x4

No star components:

Alchahol
Casing
Interlink
Optronics x2
Synthesized Polymer x2
Relay x2
Sensor x2
Subprosessor

Please leave feedback if you think 4,500 dilithium was worth all of those rewards.

Pallidyne

before commenting-- how many of the characters were new or will add stars for your current crew?

qxqx

I think it is not worth that DIL, because first I want to have a plan which I can play every day the same.

But as a little comparison I only want to take the main currencies into account here.

Your whole journey takes 68h (the flight and the return time): Many players can easily pass 6h without DIL spending. The average prices I get at the 6h mark is

~200chronitons
~150honor
~18000credits

If I recall the mission + the 2 extra hour of flight back it takes me ~8h. In an ideal situation one can fly roughly 8 times in 68h. so the prices without spending is

~1600chronitons vs your 4,743
~1200honor vs your 1,211
~144000credits vs your 191,400

Credits and honor seems to be roughly equal, the big difference seems to be chronitons, you earned 3x as much as I did. So in the end one has to answer the question are the 3000 chronitons (I don't want to value the other extra stuff here) worth the 4500DIL?

Thank you a lot for doing this journey and sharing it, so players can better decide if it is worth to them.

A little additional questions: Would you mind to share the refill prices here? Are they linear? Just curious.

Burnham, Michelle

Out of that list of 4* crew I could add a star to two, the rest would have to be gotten rid of, space reasons. My 10 hour mission only gave me two, and one added a star to a one star crew, the other was new. It wasn't as exciting as I'd hoped. The rep rations are nice, legendary trainers too, honor good, lots of fun new crew if you have room, though lacking in 3* oddly. The chrons are awesome too. But 4,500 dil? I think I'm happy with shorter missions, and I'll extend a few if I feel lucky, but to me that doesn't look worth the cash, sadly. Because I really enjoy the randomness of voyages it makes it a bit exciting day to day.

Pallidyne

For me the cost point is the crew. 4500 dil is not worth that amount of chrons. And if the characters are just honor, then meh. If you're in a point of expanding your crew, awesome.

Tresker

Thanks very much for sharing. I tend to do two refreshes, which gets me 12+ hours. I've been wondering if things scale much after that and from what I see here they do not. I would guestimate that my 12-hour voyages x 4 would be in the ballpark with your results, though you definitely pulled in more Chrons. But at a cost of about 200 DIL per voyage, I'd only spend 800 DIL on 48 hours. Thanks again for doing the experiment. I'll stay where I am on spending!

Commander Sinclair

Thank you for "taking one for the team!" This info is greatly appreciated. It also answers the Q about 5* loot & crew - which is to say, nada. (Trainers don't count.)

My current schedule of voyages is Mon-Wed 8-12 hour voyages with top crew, and usually only needs 2 resets (sometimes 3 to get to 12-14 hours) for about 150-250 dils.

On Event days (Thur-Sun) I send out 4-6 hour voyages with my "B team". No dil resets

On non-event days, I earn an average of 1000 chrons, 450 honor, 42K credits, and 5 x 4* crew.
On Event days with shorter voyages, I average about +600 chrons total per 2-3 voyages per day, 45K credits, 300 honor, and 1 x 4* crew per 3 voyages.

Hope that helps!

(CSF) Jesus Is Lord [••••]

Pallidyne wrote: »

before commenting-- how many of the characters were new or will add stars for your current crew?

Only 1...dr Marcus, the rest I either have ff or I don't really want.

(CSF) Jesus Is Lord [••••]

qxqx wrote: »

I think it is not worth that DIL, because first I want to have a plan which I can play every day the same.

But as a little comparison I only want to take the main currencies into account here.

Your whole journey takes 68h (the flight and the return time): Many players can easily pass 6h without DIL spending. The average prices I get at the 6h mark is

~200chronitons
~150honor
~18000credits

If I recall the mission + the 2 extra hour of flight back it takes me ~8h. In an ideal situation one can fly roughly 8 times in 68h. so the prices without spending is

~1600chronitons vs your 4,743
~1200honor vs your 1,211
~144000credits vs your 191,400

Credits and honor seems to be roughly equal, the big difference seems to be chronitons, you earned 3x as much as I did. So in the end one has to answer the question are the 3000 chronitons (I don't want to value the other extra stuff here) worth the 4500DIL?

Thank you a lot for doing this journey and sharing it, so players can better decide if it is worth to them.

A little additional questions: Would you mind to share the refill prices here? Are they linear? Just curious.

They started at about 200 but my final refill cost a little less than 600.

Capt Ajamm

Thank you for sharing your results!!

C-Note

Allow me to add my thanks as well for sharing your experience.

Grant77

277 super rare replicator rations and only 191,400 credits. It seems rather silly to me. Replicator fuel is in such extreme abundance, but credits are so scarce.

C-Note

Grant, just farm the Saturday cadet missions. Buy two extra tickets, and run only the Epic missions unless you really need to farm the Elites and Normals. Over a million creds should last for the week.

(CSF) Jesus Is Lord [••••]

C-Note wrote: »

Grant, just farm the Saturday cadet missions. Buy two extra tickets, and run only the Epic missions unless you really need to farm the Elites and Normals. Over a million creds should last for the week.

That's what I do, it'll usually last unless I replicate an abnormally high amount of 4 or even 5 star items (1 replicated 5 star is abnormally high for me).

MOZangelesSD

qxqx wrote: »

A little additional questions: Would you mind to share the refill prices here? Are they linear? Just curious.

AM tank refill costs are linear, and follow a simple formula --> Refill Cost = T/5 (where "T" is the total minutes elapsed when you run out)

For example, the cost of a refill at the 9hr 20min point would cost (540 + 20)/5 = 560/5 = 112 DIL

FutureImperfecta

First, thank you for running such a time and Dilithium consuming experiment.

.. In comparison to other aspects of the game, this is still a pretty sure savings just looking at straight up 10x packs for Dilithium.

7 packs would normally be around 4900
You paid around 4500 and got 11 4* crew.
So at a standard cost level you came out ahead.

(Though, through this voyage and other long ones we can feel pretty sure in saying the 5* crew isn't in play, which perhaps negates the value a bit)

Then ya add in the parts, chronitons and it's a big win.

.. It does show in comparison to other Voyages however that there are "sweet spots" in the Time spent/ Dilithium spent vs rewards structure.. it all factors in to now versus later.
Hurry, it take your time.

Very much like the time / value breakdown of the monthly Dilithium card vs buying 300 or 3000 crystals in one go.

Thank you for your effort and sharing it with us.

RShell

Adding my thanks to the others. Great research.

Commander Tomalak

48 hours WOW! Thank you for doing this though im not sure its worth the dilithium but some may say it worth it (as a one time event) if you think of it so pay 6500 dilithium for 10 super rare and you pull much more than 10 super rare so some could say it would be worth it even if it is every now and again

Hungry Dog DDM

Probably not worth the dilithium form most. But certainly interesting results.

÷ The Eternal Champion

Thank you very much for your time and thoroughly documenting your results.

(CSF) Jesus Is Lord [••••]

The Eternal Champion wrote: »

Thank you very much for your time and thoroughly documenting your results.

Happy to help the community

Tron of the Users... EOL

Love the stats, but no thanks I refill once maybe and get about 400 chroniton no 4* is worth my time except fierce gunian but not spending for that lotto ticket, and since bartender g. Is immortalized I am working on the 175 immortals and I don't need more junk... wish I could just buy a honorable citation