Gabrielle Burnham maxed out yesterday?
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this thread. It might be a quirk that would belong in the Engineering Room rather than the Bridge.
Today, I earned Displaced Gabrielle Burnham as a reward in the weekend's event. Literally minutes after the event was over, I looked to see if the crew had been maxed out by someone. To my astonishment, someone had maxed her out yesterday - 05/10/2020. How is that even possible? Here is a screenshot showing the date on which this crew was first maxed out: http://prntscr.com/sf1f33.
Today, I earned Displaced Gabrielle Burnham as a reward in the weekend's event. Literally minutes after the event was over, I looked to see if the crew had been maxed out by someone. To my astonishment, someone had maxed her out yesterday - 05/10/2020. How is that even possible? Here is a screenshot showing the date on which this crew was first maxed out: http://prntscr.com/sf1f33.
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Not „Could“, DID. That‘s what happened. Nothing unusual at all.
Nope, she was in the Cryostasis Vault last Wednesday, 24 hours before the event started, so the card was live & drawable from Dabo. 🖖
Wow, I can just imagine how much dil that player had to spend in order to snag G. Burnham one day before the rest of us got a crack at it ....
https://stt.wiki/wiki/Time_Portal#Dabo_Wheel_Cost
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EDIT: Save your resources & keep your powder dry for a new 3* in event ranked rewards on Monday, then make sure you have a fast device & connection. I have neither, but that’s the best advice I have read, from a player who has multiple FtM.
If you know the costs, then why say you “can just imagine how much dil”?
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EDIT: Someday, when I have more money than sense, I will spin the Dabo! wheel until I clear it. Hopefully, it will be during a half-off special, but I will feel great adding that 2nd star to ... Shinzon.
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So far my best time has been 3 minutes 44 seconds and that's probably the best my device, connection and reactions can do, but I have a feeling that it's way too slow
It’s under 3 minutes for 2-4*
The blues at the end are 2:10 to 2:30.
Golds at event end are very dependent on who is in the top 15. If one of the folks with ftm experience is there than 3-4 minutes. Otherwise usually 4-6 minutes.
Purples are usually 4-5 minutes. These are probably the easiest for someone to get a ftm on if they are willing to use 3 cites and get the card on their first pack pull. Most of these I get involve the $25 pack and pulling 2-5 event packs for the other two stars so using cites will get you a 30+ second advantage.
Wait for the next new 3*. Anyone who ranks high enough for the 3* has a chance. But you'll need to do serious prep and guess what items will be needed to have as much already built as possible. For FTM, the difference between quick build + equip and equipping an item you have will be the determining factor. And if you have to warp 10 or replicate anything you've already lost.
I'd like to get an FTM one day, but I guess it will have to be a 4*-5* then. There's no way I can tap fast enough to make it in 2 minutes, not even with a better connection or device
That's the dabo wheel. You can win the lottery and get a shot at FTM before everyone else does.
If memory serves, when the game first came out this wasn't officially tracked. People were just posting in the forums. So when the feature was added, they just accepted the forum claims. Pretty sure several people people were FTM, but never went on the forum to stake a claim.
Same here. I was FTM on Botanist Keiko and Dabo Girl Leeta but would have zero chance to FTM someone now.
Since the new 'event format' went live in October of 2018 where you win the featured gold for the next week, there have been 78 full feature events with a new crew to win. As stated previously ,when DB does the server push to make the packs for the event live on Wednesdays, the new Purple crew is added to the vault, and at the same time, the new Gold that is the reward for the end of the event is also added.
When a gold or purple character is added to the vault/profile screen, that generally means they are also fair game for the Dabo loot tables. I say 'generally', as the exception to the rule is Fusion crew, Gauntlet Legendaries, Voyage exclusive crew. The database table for that particular crew card is flagged where it is not eligible for the Dabo loot table, so you shouldn't be seeing them there.
So, since October of 2018, there have been roughly 78 instances where the reward Gold card is available on Dabo up to 5 days before public distribution at the end of the event. With that, every person who logs into the game and plays has an opportunity to see that Gold crew on their Dabo table as the top prize...but it is a very fleeting opportunity. There are, at any given moment, over 370+ Gold crew cards that are eligible to show up and be in that one top left corner spot. It's apparently random.
So, in order to get said crew, you have to check your Dabo, hope that out of 370 options, the one given to you is that new shiny new crew, and then you have to have the expendable DIL and cites to make it happen. Yes, there is even strategies to this, using the ad spin to either refresh your wheel entirely to get another stab at that 1 in 370 chance, or using the ad spin as a 'free spin' to save DIL late in the wheel game.
Also, if you're bold enough to try this, you have to weigh the cost vs rewards when it comes to timing - are you trying to win this new crew on Thursday morning, or is it Sunday night? Has someone else already bought their Dabo and gotten FTM, thus making your attempt futile? It's a total gamble, like most things.
At the end of the day, of 78 or so opportunities for people to do this, it has been done 40 times. 38 times, the event ended, the new gold crew was distributed to 1500 players, and there was no FTM name stamped at that moment. Almost 50/50. It happened 6 times in 2018 (only 2 months), 25 times in 2019, and 9 times so far in 2020.
Further, of the 40 times it has happened, 22 of them have been a 'first timer' which is to say they have never gotten a FTM credit. 18 of them have been by players who already have 1 or more.
Looking at the other 38, the ones that were still up for grabs at the end of the event, only 5 times did the person who took the claim on the FTM not rank in the top 50 of the final leaderboard - meaning they used 4 cites or 3 and the $25 DYS. 26 of the remaining 33 people got the FTM after placing in the 10 of the event. No one has gotten it from finishing in 6th or 11th place yet. Finally, out of the 38, only 8 of those went to 'First Time' claimers. So, just looking at the numbers, it is more likely to gain a FTM credit from Dabo than it is to rank high and rush the attempt at the end of the event.
The final stat we will look at is the overall FTM community - 259 individual players across 4.5 years have made their everlasting mark on the back of a card. Of those 259:
- 166 have only 1 credit to their name, or 64%
- 42 have managed to nab 2
- 16 have managed 3 FTM
- 11 have either 4 or 5
Beyond that, the group who have more than 5 is 24 total players.6 players have 20 or more. 3 of those 6 are no longer active.
Paladin27 holds all records with 112 total, as of today's Dareth. Captain Sisko [AA], who stopped playing at the end of 2018, is 2nd all time with 82.
FTM is now the meta-game for me. I have cleared all achievements, and I have maxed all collections, and managed to collect all available crew, until that pesky no good 3* EV Suit Tuvok happened. I have 46 FTMs.
I basically collect cards at this point, and clear dailies. Not much else for me to do. As the meta-game that interests me, I try and diversify my FTM collection. Right now, I have one from every available series, except for The Animated Series, which are the least available cards in the game (only 7 of 880)...so that's a personal goal. Also I 'only' have 4* and 5* crew - I'd really like a 3* or 2* (I doubt they will ever add new 1* crew) but the market on those is soooo heavily cornered by a few people that I would never have a shot - I simply cannot beat their times.
So instead I try and 'collect' vanity - meaning I want really awesome cards that are top skill, or iconic representations. Also, I want, eventually, my name on all the bridge crew of TOS/TNG. I'd also like one of each of the major series Captains, which also begins my personal debate of just who the hell *is* the Captain in Discovery?
Iconic representations (ones that you see from still images of the TV show posted all the time) I feel pretty good & done with - Wrathful Kirk, Cheesecake 7, Conflicted Sisko, Desperate Riker....I am happy with those.
From a 'Captains' collection standpoint, I have a big gap. I have a Kirk and Sisko, and Spock, but I lack Picard, Archer and Janeway. Killy's name is "Captain' but that's a stretch. Bridge crew is even harder, for TOS i need a Chekov and Uhura, TNG I lack Picard, Worf, Geordi, Troi and Crusher.
Many, many times, the new event Legendary has been on my Dabo wheel and I didn't bite - because it was late in the window and someone probably already did it (spoiler alert - everytime they had) or it is a 2 skill crew - I don't waste money or cites on 2 Skill crew.......
....unless it's a Tuesday and they drop on the first pack. And even still then, I've had them drop on the first pack and left them for Paladin because I didn't want my name on it (Human Torres for example).
This is all very hot-air filled, but I'm trying to give you a perspective of a player who only plays to chase these new cards and stuff like this - because what else am I going to do with my time?
I am one of the 22 first timers, which I did for fun. I passed on Anne Mulhall because it was already Sunday and I passed on Mirror Detmer because I had no desire to spend the resources to clear the board and immo her. Ba’ul I had no reservations because it was noon on Wednesday. I feel lucky to have had 3 shots at it.
That’s cool. I had just one shot with Q as God but couldn’t get him in the number of pulls I had dilithium for. I am ok with that.