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Duplicate Super Rares?
Jenos Idanian
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I'm hoping for some thoughts on this from those with mature rosters who have been playing awhile... or perhaps even those who haven't been!
When you can pick up four copies of a super rare at once (or in short order), either from ranked rewards or from a campaign, what do you do with them?
Do you:
After a time, once I have all my current super rares who are FF but not FE (19 of them) I can either work on some 1/5 legendaries for daily missions purposes, or get all four copies of super rares and work on them.
For context, I have 448 crew immortal:
Thanks!
When you can pick up four copies of a super rare at once (or in short order), either from ranked rewards or from a campaign, what do you do with them?
Do you:
- a. airlock them all, no dupes for me!
- b. immortalize and freeze, +1 towards the immortalize crew achievement each time, more dilithium, yay! Plus they could come up in events!
After a time, once I have all my current super rares who are FF but not FE (19 of them) I can either work on some 1/5 legendaries for daily missions purposes, or get all four copies of super rares and work on them.
For context, I have 448 crew immortal:
- 28 Legendary
- 257 Super Rare (plus 19 FF and not FE)
- 84 Rare
- 52 Uncommon
- 27 Common
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Armed Philippa Georgiou
Sec. 31 Philippa Georgiou
Combat Medic Paris
Drone Seven of Nine
Mirror Jadzia Dax
The FF Lore I just got, for example, will be more useful to me as 800 Honor toward some stronger card's eventual citation, just as Torchbearer Tyler was last week.
As I froze unused 4* crew and gained new slots, I found myself with extra space to collect duplicate 4* crew from events, voyages and various pulls. I started thinking I'd lonely duplicate really strong 4* crew, but now have around 150 immortalized duplicate 4* crew (over 500 unique immortals). They have come in very handy for certain events, either those with limited secondary event crew or an event I want to make a push for a high ranking.
I will not immortalize duplicate 1-3* crew and have no desire to immortalize more than a 2nd copy of each 4* crew (or 5* crew - currently open duplicated the gauntlet crew and Mirror Picard).
Nowadays, though, I typically will airlock the 4/4 dupe copies, since the original is going in the freezer anyway, and my achievements are almost all tapped out at this point, too.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
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-If it's an event and with packs and such I get two FF copies
-It's a main cast/tied to a heavy in rotation property like Disco
-It's a best in class 4*, to say top SEC or top DIP or something.
-The card is going to be useful (potentially) in a Faction event where I'm sending up to 24 shuttles at a time.
I'll level the first from packs, and the second I'll do once I've passed the 130k VP mark in the event and I get the gold clothing item.
The trick, for me, is remembering to unfreeze more than one copy the next time that card is useful for an event.
This is close to my approach. I have criteria now. (I didn't have high standards a few months ago.) But now...
1) Must be main cast or appear on currently active show (this equates to event potential).
2) Must have base over 900. My roster is deep enough now that I don't thaw if below 750 unless bonus crew is pretty limited.
I highly recommend the first standard above. You should implement your own number on my second standard to accommodate your roster needs.
Currently, my first-pass criteria is whether card has a 1000+ base (w/ bonuses) or is a gauntlet superstar (not many meet this criteria). Second-pass would be to consider their potential event recurrence - which usually translates into main cast cards (e.g., Mirror Dax, Sec 31 Georgiou, etc).
For the most part, I simply prefer the 800 honor these days.
Hmm... secondary question for those with deeper rosters than me - if I were to airlock an immortalized card (e.g., the aforementioned duplicate of Amb. Spock), would that decrement the immortalization counter in the achievements tab?
The game will not let you airlock anyone whom you have immortalized. Good question.
I've had no success with duplicates in gauntlet. Some may have, but I would not have a duplicate for this reason alone. I would need more.
1) In case they might be event crew (again).
2) To not have empty crew slots, because I don't like to search for the crew to airlock when a voyage ends.
3) To have an extra batch of honor available at all times (the same way others keep chrons in the in-game mail).
While I currently have almost 20.000 honor in dupes sitting in my crew at lv 1, I've only ever immortalized second copies of Combat Medic Paris (because back then I had almost no decent MED crew), Section 31 Georgiou (for an event where she was exact event crew), Sheriff Worf (I can't actually remember why) and Festive Lwaxana (because I got extra copies of her out of event packs while trying to pull Emperor Georgiou and then procedeed to FE her to compete in the event).
In general, I don't level them up until they happen to be exact event crew in a faction event where I want to compete (and usually not even then, if they're weak).
Currently working on RAF Bashir... For the third time
When we had Sec 31 Georgiou the first time in an event, I had already got her Immortalized, but her stats were top notch, so I leveled the second copy. Then she showed up again, and I got a 3rd copy. This has happened a few times – I mean, if you get a 4/4 crew handed to you with good stats, why not?
I am almost to the point to start doing this with golds. (Okay, well, I have 3 dupe Golds in the freezer, but only because they are from Gauntlet.)
I have a personal strict 'no duplicates' policy. Currently sitting on 63 immortalized legends (and about a dozen at 4/5) and 498 immortalized crew (all unique). It would be 499 were it not for my advocacy of the AEC Initiative!
I tend to keep crew I like, crew I think may be useful, and hard to get crew (voyage crew). I have two unlevelled copies of M113 creature, and have immortalised her as well.
If I see a faction event coming, I look to see who I can level, and sometimes do duplicates. e.g. I had two copies of stranded Odo in an event recently.
Lore however I traded for 800 honor as he doesn't come up that often enough for events.
If anything else doing some dupes is also a handy way of ensuring I can continue my daily levelling requirement.
For the dailies I pull once a 10x standard pack, the crew I get will get 1 item and will be levelled to 10 and then out of the airlock.
Currently have a duplicate of Vosk, Moogie and Laas going as their equipment shows up.
If you are just starting out, there are a few 4*s that are worth a dupe if you can manage it, but manage your expectations too. If you are limited by trainers or chrons or crew space think twice. If you have plenty of resources and you want a dupe, go for it.
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So long and thanks for all the fish.
Why on Harriman and Quark?
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Forgot I already had Harriman and I didn't have enough Ferrengi for an Event so I start him.