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Cards That I though would be Top Voyagers, but are rarely used in reality :(
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Human Saru
Barry Waddle (Frozen)
Mok'bara Crusher,
Mirror Culber (Frozen)
Prisoner Kim
Humbled Archer (Frozen) and
Torpedo Surgeon McCoy (Frozen) *#
Quick note: My best Voyage un-aided is, 11hours 44 minutes and 20 seconds. My next best is 11:19 and 3 seconds. I hit 11 plus regularly at ease.
*# Torpedo McCoy only suffered due to me having 2 cheescake sevens) he just never got a look in.
Barry Waddle (Frozen)
Mok'bara Crusher,
Mirror Culber (Frozen)
Prisoner Kim
Humbled Archer (Frozen) and
Torpedo Surgeon McCoy (Frozen) *#
Quick note: My best Voyage un-aided is, 11hours 44 minutes and 20 seconds. My next best is 11:19 and 3 seconds. I hit 11 plus regularly at ease.
*# Torpedo McCoy only suffered due to me having 2 cheescake sevens) he just never got a look in.
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Torpedo McCoy also gets seats, he also sometimes gets seats in Skirmishes, due to his instant-damage combined with accuracy.
In voyages I try and match all traits, even at the expense of a small amount of skill.
Torpedo McCoy gets less use than his stats deserve, but Cheesecake edges him out and then I usually select a second crew that fill skills differently from him (EMA, Reno, Soji, Pulaski).
Similarly, Qod gets much less use these days than he once did - just doesn’t hit enough traits, and I tend to lean toward higher starting AM over raw power.
Edit: worth noting that these are “first-world” problems. All of the cards we’re mentioning are only faded for us because our rosters are good enough for that to be true. Newer players should not be deterred from picking/citing them.
Human Saru probably should get more Voyage use but if he's not Voyagin', he's Shuttlin'. Still my best Exobiologist by a klick.
Torpedo McCoy is decent but he has some very strong competition. Unlike Seven he at least has Exobiology and Jury Rigger.
I don't really keep stats but there's not a lot of crew that gets used regularly. DaVinci is probably at the top since for the longest time he was my only solid Hologram, Innovator or Prodigy. I'm still weak on Holograms but Queen Po recently gave DaVinci some vacation time.
If I had to pick a crew that should still see more use its Caretaker. For some reason Desperate almost never comes up when I need an Engineer.
Especially Kim‘s rare use was a surprise to me.
Count Of All Voyages
Barry Waddle 69
Spock and I-Chaya 60
Twilight T'Pol 43
Mycelial Culber 39
Adira Tal 37
Kahless the Unforgettable 37
I find that she's just far enough down the list that I tend to forget about her when selecting my crew manually, but the Datacore Voyage Tool recommends her pretty frequently. She's fallen out of the Top 10 overall best Voyagers recently, but she's still a great contributor for me.
nice
This is the most intelligent post in the thread so far.
Haha, did not even noticed it.
Thanks for your great Voyage analysis sheet! I'm addicted to it.
Your Edit is very true. New Rosters definitely benefit from these crew. Plus I also forgot about Q. I froze him too some time back, tempted to do the same with Dereth now sadly 😔
Interesting. I have them all, Spock and I-Chata get alot of use funny enough. Twilight T'pol I froze a long time ago. Adira doesn't get used as much as I thought she would ( got duped Stranded Quarks) and as for Kahless I was very late to the party 🎉. I had him at 2 stars only for AGES, using him as Gauntlet exclusively. I only cited Bom up this honour sale, so will check him out ☺️👍
Yessss. And I duped her, Ouch. She doesn't get much use unfortunately. If I do use her it's normally in reverse ie on Science Seats, not Command
Eewwww. Do you mean what I think you mean 😳 I didn't understand, so I Googled atm 69 to see if there was a different meaning, (I meant Antimatter) The website I was taken to I can never Unsee 🤮🤮
These 3 in particular, especially Crusher and Kim, would go on an abnormally high percentage of voyages if you were to use the Datacore calculator. It favors tanking 1 or more tertiary skills so those points can be allocated to the others, and Crusher and Kim are a perfect combination of high power, AM traits, and skill order to fill out the last couple of slots after the calculator figures out how to set up the top 2 skills. Human Saru has a lot of skillset competition among top voyagers, but Survivalist and Costumed allow him to match traits most cannot.
Barry Waddle would do a lot more work for me if I did not have duplicates of Prisoner Kim. It makes sense that he is the most-used for a lot of people, but his raw power is a tiny bit lower than Kim, so he doesn't get seated for me unless he matches a trait that the system can't fill another way.
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@Jurist @Ivanstone I'll look into defrosting him
Previously I would try to fill out my Voyages with high AM and let it go 10 hours. Waddle and Saru have lots of traits so they saw use.
Recently I've been using the calculator to try the Moonshot setting. I have noticed that my high stat crew still gets some work. Waddle and Saru end up going anyways.
I don't have any real alternatives to Waddle. Dexa is close but she's only 3/5. Saru has plenty of competition but you can seat 6 CDSc crew in a Voyage so its rare he doesn't get to go.
Same; I target duration exclusively now, which really limits the pool of crew Datacore ends up recommending. Multiple sets of top-end duplicates are often recommended. I have 2x 12-hour+ voyages (the 3rd known player with multiples, but have been stuck at 2 for almost 2 months
Human Saru makes some when traits align, but not as many as Datacore would probably want.
I also rarely, if ever, use Profit Sarah Sisko, despite everyone knowing she's a top card.
Breen Kira makes fewer seats for me these days.
Lastly, Gary Seven just doesn't stand out as much for me.
On the flip side, my absolute MVPs are the triple copies of FOB or Mycelial Culber. They find voyages where all 6 copies are manning a station.
Every roster is different, so every answer will be unique.
Though I only have 28 legends and 101 SR maxed.
PS: The biggest surprise to me is that Lieutenant Sahil has only been on one of seven voyages since he's gotten immortal.
Xahean Adira has a lot of competition from folks like FO Burnham and Picard and #1, but I'm still surprised they aren't on more voyages. Even CMD/SCI they often aren't needed. I don't regret spending the cites, though, given their event potential.
Dereth may not be a great voyager, but he's niche enough I expected to use him more. I suppose it really comes down to traits. Dr. Pollard is very similar crew: niche, strong primary MED, weak secondary. But Pollard usually gets a antimatter boost and Dereth does not. (I also have for more strong MED voyagers in SCI than I do in CMD, which may be why Pollard is more likely to travel).
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