Huh...I guess I take back my earlier concern over the threshold for getting Data - it’s been so long since the last full Expedition (Quadrilateral 2, nearly two years ago) that I forgot how inflated the threshold rewards are in Expedition events.
So will the tickets have an expiration timer this time?
Somewhere earlier in the thread, Shan said this will follow the rules of "Auld Lang Syne", in which tickets were not timed.
Thanks!
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2) @Shan , the description is plural (tickets) but there's no number on the icon to indicate how many tickets we get in the threshold rewards. Any chance we could get a clarification on that?
It will be 1 ticket, not sure why the description is in plural.
also ... can we use the 6 in-mail tickets from aeons ago? ... can't find the final word on that ... this thread is a tad long
Edit: not that I personally have time to do so, but there might be others who do.
Yes they should work but know that once you claim them you have to use them all before the daily reset at 9pm pst. You can start an expedition with your last ticket before the reset and continue it but at reset your number of tickets goes up to 3. If you have two unused your number will still just go to 3 so essentially you lost two tickets.
Can someone remind me how the VP works? It’s been so long since an Expedition. You get bonus VP for using event crew, so do you just need to make sure at least one event crew are on each mission to get the max amount of vp?
- Players will be able to go through the Away Missions during the whole length of the phase. The time limit of 1 hour per ticket has been removed.
- All crew now have a 100% chance of receiving the rare reward when achieving a critical success on a rare reward node.
- When achieving a critical success on a rare reward node, featured event crew will receive a large VP bonus, while variants of event crew will receive a moderate VP bonus.
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Event crew doubled the base reward VP. variants gave you 1.5x bonus. You typically would want to hit the reward nodes with event crew only, or variants if you've exhausted your event crew. use sacrificial crew for all the non reward nodes.
Second: I was surprised when B-4 popped up in my Excel doc as a variant of Data. Anyone know if that is legit based on a previous event, or did I make a mistake when entering him in?
This is a super long thread now, so if I missed the answer beforehand I'm sorry for asking again. Additionally, I dont know the correct term for when you use your crew to run a mission and they lose some of their stat points, so I'm going to use the term "fatigued":
But my question is; how long does it take your crew to recover from the fatigue of running the Expedition missions? Is it at the end of the ticket? Or once per day? Or are they on a timer like in the gauntlet?
This is a super long thread now, so if I missed the answer beforehand I'm sorry for asking again. Additionally, I dont know the correct term for when you use your crew to run a mission and they lose some of their stat points, so I'm going to use the term "fatigued":
But my question is; how long does it take your crew to recover from the fatigue of running the Expedition missions? Is it at the end of the ticket? Or once per day? Or are they on a timer like in the gauntlet?
They recover at the end of each ticket, aka all crew start fresh at 100% at the start of each new ticket. If you stay on the same ticket all event, they'll never recover.
This is a super long thread now, so if I missed the answer beforehand I'm sorry for asking again. Additionally, I dont know the correct term for when you use your crew to run a mission and they lose some of their stat points, so I'm going to use the term "fatigued":
But my question is; how long does it take your crew to recover from the fatigue of running the Expedition missions? Is it at the end of the ticket? Or once per day? Or are they on a timer like in the gauntlet?
They recover at the end of each ticket, aka all crew start fresh at 100% at the start of each new ticket. If you stay on the same ticket all event, they'll never recover.
Thank you!! But wow, that's new to me. I didnt know you could stay on one ticket all event! 🤯
This is a super long thread now, so if I missed the answer beforehand I'm sorry for asking again. Additionally, I dont know the correct term for when you use your crew to run a mission and they lose some of their stat points, so I'm going to use the term "fatigued":
But my question is; how long does it take your crew to recover from the fatigue of running the Expedition missions? Is it at the end of the ticket? Or once per day? Or are they on a timer like in the gauntlet?
They recover at the end of each ticket, aka all crew start fresh at 100% at the start of each new ticket. If you stay on the same ticket all event, they'll never recover.
Thank you!! But wow, that's new to me. I didnt know you could stay on one ticket all event! 🤯
To be honest, it's been so long that it's possible you're forced to start a new ticket at the start of every day. But even if you aren't, it isn't worth it to keep playing the same ticket after clearing all of the nodes as the returns are extremely minimal compared to just starting a new one - you're better off using all of the daily tickets than replaying the same one over and over.
Part of me really wants T'Pol because Vulcan\Telepathic Med comes up often for me in Voyages (which stinks cause the only person who can fill that is Sybok) but her skills are so lackluster and then there is the fact that it IS an expedition which used to be my favorite cause I could actually get to rank 1k, something that has now changed to be possible for all event types so not sure how I'm going to do this, but I think once I get all the thresholds, wherever I am will decide if I go further... I wonder how many others are planning on doing the same thing?
I plan to hit thresholds and see. She certainly wouldn't be on my citation list. I am also going to see what the next event is and what the mega is before deciding. She has caretaker, and that may play a part.
Second: I was surprised when B-4 popped up in my Excel doc as a variant of Data. Anyone know if that is legit based on a previous event, or did I make a mistake when entering him in?
B-4 should be his own unique individual. Doubt he gets a bonus.
Thought about it all week and I have decided to bow out of this event, my dislike of Expeditions is stronger than my desire to hit threshold.
My one worry is that I've never missed an event before, I've never even considered it, and by giving myself permission to skip one event it might allow that decision to be made easier in the future for other non-Expedition events. It already has kind of happened, this weekend while I was thinking this over I found my drive to push hard in the Skirmish dwindle, and I posted my lowest Skirmish score in at least a year (still posted 1.3 million or something but I'm usually up around 2-3 million).
I hear ya. I did not have much incentive either to get my Moriarty to two stars which raised his stats all of like 40 points. Expeditions be annoying so considering skipping it as well here but I am waiting till Wednesday till we see what the mega is.
My decision is two-fold.
1. I really, REALLY have strong negative memories of the last Expeditions I did, like conditioned anxiety. You mention an Expedition and my stomach hurts, and the thought of not doing an Expedition removes that pain and replaces it with happiness.
2. Expeditions are much more of a time investment than I am comfortable making. Over the course of 4 days I can invest as many hours as I choose in a Galaxy or a Skirmish..."oh, I have 10 minutes free before I need to do a thing, let me Galaxy/Skirmish for 10 minutes." And on Factions to do well yes you must check in regularly, but each check in is only a minute or two once you have your kickstart done. but an Expedition is a serious time investment, and it all has to be done right now. You cash in a ticket and it takes a long time to complete it, and then you have five more that need to be done today, plus they give you more which ALSO need to be done today, because any unspent tickets are wasted when they refill back to 6. And yes a ticket can be completed faster at the cost of not maximizing points which just means you will need to buy more tickets to hit threshold now that threshold is 350,000 and not 130,000, which also will not shorten the amount of time you'll need to invest every day just to hit threshold.
I am dreading this event because I know I hated the last time there was a half-expedition. But I remember that, "hey, it only a few 15-30 min sessions at a time".
But damn, I hated those sessions, and for nothing but VP.
Sad thing is, I invested real money to up my Detective Data and The Professor (and now I have an army of Doctor La Forges)
Second: I was surprised when B-4 popped up in my Excel doc as a variant of Data. Anyone know if that is legit based on a previous event, or did I make a mistake when entering him in?
When I saw this the first thing that popped in my head was:
'flashbackrun-ish
Quick Reminder (and hint for the newbies): Once you play out a full grid, you have to hit "cancel attempt"
(I think that's the name of the button) to start a new Expedition. You will use a new ticket to start over and your crew will be revived to 100%.
It's a bit counterintuitive but hey, I didn't make it. And I found out the hard way, like probably every one of the old timers here.
3 pulls yielded 1 data (new but will be 2\5 by events end), 1 Professor (immortalized now), 1 La Forge (airlocked), 1 begold (2nd star for Data V, New Killy, 2nd star for Durango Troi). Better result that I expected so thank u DB!
The last time we had an expedition, I remember getting slightly motion sick during the crew scrolling process, especially as crew fatigue set in. My crew roster and slot count has increased substantially since then. I'm not looking forward to the long scrolls. I'll force myself to play enough to improve my 3/5 Detective Data. Will wait until then to consider whether to go for the 4* portal or not.
On a separate note: the consequences of power creep are amazingly apparent when an older event like this gets repeated. I remember Data and La Forge as being highly desired cards for their respective strengths. Now? There might be a couple of 3* cards that can beat their 1/4 or 1/5 stats (I say this without looking it up so don't beat me up too much if that's not quite true).
I love expedition events. But this one is terrible. Huge threshold requirements, and duplicate useless Super Rare in the ranked rewards. A very mediocre 5* for ranking way way high. Pass.
I love expedition events. But this one is terrible. Huge threshold requirements, and duplicate useless Super Rare in the ranked rewards. A very mediocre 5* for ranking way way high. Pass.
You have no honor. Or... you'll have about 800+ less honor from this event than I will.
(But seriously, thanks for freeing up a spot in the top 1,500.)
I love expedition events. But this one is terrible. Huge threshold requirements, and duplicate useless Super Rare in the ranked rewards. A very mediocre 5* for ranking way way high. Pass.
You have no honor. Or... you'll have about 800+ less honor from this event than I will.
(But seriously, thanks for freeing up a spot in the top 1,500.)
This is as good a time as any to point out that the ranked rewards show that only the top 1,000 get T'Pol. It appears to have the old style ranked reward structure.
I love expedition events. But this one is terrible. Huge threshold requirements, and duplicate useless Super Rare in the ranked rewards. A very mediocre 5* for ranking way way high. Pass.
You have no honor. Or... you'll have about 800+ less honor from this event than I will.
(But seriously, thanks for freeing up a spot in the top 1,500.)
This is as good a time as any to point out that the ranked rewards show that only the top 1,000 get T'Pol. It appears to have the old style ranked reward structure.
Either you misread something or they fixed it just that fast.
I love expedition events. But this one is terrible. Huge threshold requirements, and duplicate useless Super Rare in the ranked rewards. A very mediocre 5* for ranking way way high. Pass.
You have no honor. Or... you'll have about 800+ less honor from this event than I will.
(But seriously, thanks for freeing up a spot in the top 1,500.)
This is as good a time as any to point out that the ranked rewards show that only the top 1,000 get T'Pol. It appears to have the old style ranked reward structure.
Either you misread something or they fixed it just that fast.
It was just that fast. For my next trick, I'll make the missing merits and trainers appear also.
2) @Shan , the description is plural (tickets) but there's no number on the icon to indicate how many tickets we get in the threshold rewards. Any chance we could get a clarification on that?
It will be 1 ticket, not sure why the description is in plural.
It's the same way in the Campaign. Shuttle Rental Token says "Tokens", even when it is a single one.
EDIT: Just collected one, now:
Why was Vicki not expelled from Greendale after she literally stabbed Pierce in the face with a pencil?!?!?
I'm a bit confused. in the rules, it is stated that rewards are sent when event is finished
but normally, we can claim them when the vp-amount needed is reached...
So, how will it work?
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Uh huh. But I couldn’t remember if they put that in place before and it’s now standard procedure.
Thanks!
Yes they should work but know that once you claim them you have to use them all before the daily reset at 9pm pst. You can start an expedition with your last ticket before the reset and continue it but at reset your number of tickets goes up to 3. If you have two unused your number will still just go to 3 so essentially you lost two tickets.
https://forums.disruptorbeam.com/stt/viewthread/63383/
Event crew doubled the base reward VP. variants gave you 1.5x bonus. You typically would want to hit the reward nodes with event crew only, or variants if you've exhausted your event crew. use sacrificial crew for all the non reward nodes.
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I guess a good way of putting it, she's a decent all rounder who would probably be a good starter Med if you were new to the game.
First: literally LOLed @ "flashbackrunish" @Shan
Second: I was surprised when B-4 popped up in my Excel doc as a variant of Data. Anyone know if that is legit based on a previous event, or did I make a mistake when entering him in?
But my question is; how long does it take your crew to recover from the fatigue of running the Expedition missions? Is it at the end of the ticket? Or once per day? Or are they on a timer like in the gauntlet?
They recover at the end of each ticket, aka all crew start fresh at 100% at the start of each new ticket. If you stay on the same ticket all event, they'll never recover.
Thank you!! But wow, that's new to me. I didnt know you could stay on one ticket all event! 🤯
To be honest, it's been so long that it's possible you're forced to start a new ticket at the start of every day. But even if you aren't, it isn't worth it to keep playing the same ticket after clearing all of the nodes as the returns are extremely minimal compared to just starting a new one - you're better off using all of the daily tickets than replaying the same one over and over.
B-4 should be his own unique individual. Doubt he gets a bonus.
I am dreading this event because I know I hated the last time there was a half-expedition. But I remember that, "hey, it only a few 15-30 min sessions at a time".
But damn, I hated those sessions, and for nothing but VP.
Sad thing is, I invested real money to up my Detective Data and The Professor (and now I have an army of Doctor La Forges)
So really, the real enemy is myself.
When I saw this the first thing that popped in my head was:
'flashbackrun-ish
(I think that's the name of the button) to start a new Expedition. You will use a new ticket to start over and your crew will be revived to 100%.
It's a bit counterintuitive but hey, I didn't make it. And I found out the hard way, like probably every one of the old timers here.
If not, I'm really hoping that tweak in the code is used here, as well...
On a separate note: the consequences of power creep are amazingly apparent when an older event like this gets repeated. I remember Data and La Forge as being highly desired cards for their respective strengths. Now? There might be a couple of 3* cards that can beat their 1/4 or 1/5 stats (I say this without looking it up so don't beat me up too much if that's not quite true).
You have no honor. Or... you'll have about 800+ less honor from this event than I will.
(But seriously, thanks for freeing up a spot in the top 1,500.)
This is as good a time as any to point out that the ranked rewards show that only the top 1,000 get T'Pol. It appears to have the old style ranked reward structure.
Either you misread something or they fixed it just that fast.
It was just that fast. For my next trick, I'll make the missing merits and trainers appear also.
It's the same way in the Campaign. Shuttle Rental Token says "Tokens", even when it is a single one.
EDIT: Just collected one, now:
but normally, we can claim them when the vp-amount needed is reached...
So, how will it work?