2023 Timelines Resolutions
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Inspired by the '22 topic of the same name, I have decided to lay out my 2023 Timelines Resolutions. These may seem tame to many of you as I have been away for a while, but hopefully these will be useful goals nonetheless.
1) Get to regular 12hr Voyages. I haven't even done one yet, but a lot of that is an unwillingness to keep an eye on a potentially failing voyage. This year I would like to get to the point where every voyage is going to 12hrs.
2) Get to 900 frozen crew. Only at 680 right now, so this may be a very long shot. Would be happy with 800 to be honest.
3) Do all of this without breaking the bank!
1) Get to regular 12hr Voyages. I haven't even done one yet, but a lot of that is an unwillingness to keep an eye on a potentially failing voyage. This year I would like to get to the point where every voyage is going to 12hrs.
2) Get to 900 frozen crew. Only at 680 right now, so this may be a very long shot. Would be happy with 800 to be honest.
3) Do all of this without breaking the bank!
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1. Complete a 12hr voyage for all 30 skill combos. I've done 9 so far.
2. Complete my TOS main cast immortalization goal from 2022. I have 8 cards remaining that need 22 stars.
3. Inspired by the TOS goal... Immortalize all in-portal DS9 main cast 5* cards. I have 21 cards remaining that need 63 stars. (Yikes.)
Like the TOS goal before it, the DS9 goal will be aspirational rather than attainable in its first year, but it will give me a strategic purpose for those times when things are less engaging.
1. Collect everyone from Far Beyond The Stars
Chances: High. I didn't get Willie Hawkins from his 6 pack, but the moment he enters the portal he's my first pull, and then I'll have everyone (so far).
2. Collect all the dogs
Chances: Unknown. I missed Camping Archer and Porthos both times they were available, but a portal update will fix that. The problem is Puppy Janeway. I didn't shell out the big bucks for her, and I have no idea when she'll finally be in the portal. I feel like it could be a while.
3. Get a 12 hour voyage
Chances: Low. I constantly sail past 10 hours, but 11 is still infrequent, and my personal best is 11:26. 12 hours feels like a stretch right now.
4. Immortalize 100 legendaries
Chances: Questionable. I'm sitting on 71 right now. Finishing one every other week seems tough, but doable.
5. Immortalize half the crew
Chances: Medium. I was surprised to see I'm up to 47% (618/1313) but it seems like such a hard climb.
6. Finish another Grand Slam
Chances: Medium. That's my name for it at least, when I can immortalize a character at all 5 rarity levels. I've done it with Spock, Picard, and oddly enough, Neelix. My best chance now is with Jadzia, with Riker and Odo other possibilities.
7. Send more interesting voyages
Chances: Guaranteed. One thing I like to do when I'm bored is send out theme voyages. I did my first single character one this year with 12 Picards, something I'd been wanting to do for a while. I also sent one with 12 non-humanoids, and one with 12 guest starring actors I know from other shows. I'd like to dream up a few more other fun ones to do.
Collection Objectives
*Maintain 100% on DS9-centric collections ("Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang," "Our Man Bashir," and "Play Ball!"). Hoping for a "Far Beyond the Stars" collection this year. For that, I still need:
-Julius Eaton
-Roy Ritterhouse
*Maintain 100% Ezri, Odo, Jadzia, and Kira
-Need the brand new Surrogate Kira and the upcoming Jadzia Shan started a thread about recently
*Immortalize all crew from Star Trek VI. Currently need to finish:
-Admiral Cartwright 3/5
-Chancellor Gorkon 2/5
-First Officer Chekov 1/5
-General Chang 4/5
-UFP President Ra-ghoratreii 1/5
How are you planning to achieve this?
Seventy percent of the crew immortal.
I'm sittin at 819 immortal, 62.04%, right now due to some fortuitous pulls and some citation use this week. I switched to finishing more golds than purples early in 2022, because I'm gaining on the super rares. I'm missing four and have sixteen needing stars. Only five of those are the Portal- two need one star, two need two stars, and one needs three (Hansens).
January- 5* x9 & 4* x5 for 828/1326 (62.44%)
February- 5*
March-
April-
May-
June-
July-
August-
September-
October-
November-
December-
Ten crew for each skill over 1700 base.
Security is there at 1716 at tenth place. Science is my problem child. It's at 1638. The Portal update really helps by adding my missing scientists. I will need to combine Retrieval, new crew, and buffs to get this one, but I did it with Med.
Have an immortal gold of each series regular for events.
I got my mains, now I want to round out the main cast. it's a short list in most cases:
TOS- Scotty, Sulu, Chekhov (I know I'll finish a Scotty soon)
TAS- M'Ress and Arex
TNG- Yar and Wesley
DS9- O'Brien, Bashir, and Ezri, and Odo.
VOY- So stubborn- Chakotay, Torres, Tuvok, Kes, Neelix, and Kim (Human Torres needs two stars. It have a Chakotay, Fury Kes, and several more of Torres FE)
ENT- Reed!!!
DSC- Lorca, Airiam, Detmer, Tyler, and Nhan (I need to check the cast list for the series to figure out it I'm missing someone and I'm close on Mirror Detmer- 2*s.
PIC- Raffi and Mutation
Lower Decks and SNW have pretty big lists yet, but I have good chances of getting them this year. I made great, great progress shortening the list in 2022 and made a fantastic start in 2023.
January- I knocked Stamets, Odo, and Narek off the list.
February- Added another Janeway to my pool and should add two Siskos.
Get another crew from Gauntlet.
I got two last year, so one is likely. I won't get greedy and expect two.
I picked up Bartender Guinan from the Bartender pack, so I did get one the weird way.
Regularly place in the Top 1500 and get my Top 250 achievement.
Went 22 in 52 last year. Almost half. I'm aiming for 30/52 and my achievement
January-
Get all the Voyage combos over ten and a half hours.
Slow progess, but I should get an antimatter boost from my Bridge this month.
1 - Get Frantic McCoy from Fleet Boss Battles
2 - Get 12-Hour Voyages regularly. Let's say twelve 12-Hours - one a month.
3 - Win a Gauntlet Round.
4 - Get Steeler Nation Fleet Starbase to Level 120 (active donors welcome!)
5 - Finish Greens and Blues on Nightmare Alt
6 - Balance game screen time with physical activity once I recover from Covid.
Similar to last year's with a few changes due to successful completion of 2022 resolutions.
80 YEARS?! good googaley-moogaley! I have 3.5 years, but I changed the Honor required to 10,000 instead of 50,000 because I wait for honor sales, although I get a deficit of 4 stars when I get a new peep instead of staring a peep, at least I'm not looking at 80 YEARS, only 16 (when I changed it back to 50k)!!! YMMV LL&P
I'm going to immortalise all super-rare rank event crew the week I get them, rather than leaving them at 3/4 for a year.
I also plan on finishing my (current) voyage crew.
Portal is not shrinking, so I will do the same for events in which I participate. 🖖
This would've been easier to answer a week ago
I got Camping Archer and Porthos out of retrieval, now it's just waiting to see when Puppy Janeway goes into the portal.
I feel like not only am I not making progress, but I'm getting worse. Need to rethink my strategies here. I did have one fluke voyage that got me to a personal best 11:42 a couple weeks ago, but I'm not even cracking 11:00 on a consistent basis.
In the last three months I've gone for 71 to 79. At that pace I would reach 103 by year's end.
I've gone from 47.07% (618/1313) to 48.11% (348/1347). At that rate I would reach 51.23% at year's end.
This hasn't been a big priority, but it turns out I backdoored one. I was close with Jadzia, having 1-4 star versions done and needing a couple of stars on a 5*. I haven't finished her off yet, but with having Esteemed Curzon Dax FFFE it means I have completed a Grand Slam for Dax. That counts for something I guess
I've played around a little with this, but right now I've got a bit of a roster crunch that makes things more difficult.
I forgot to add one when I started this, finally immortalize a gauntlet exclusive. I don't know if that will ever happen, the only one I even have at 4 stars is Locutus, but I'll keep trying.
Hasn't happened yet.
I've retrieved Julius Eaton and a second star for him. Still don't have Roy Ritterhouse. Since my original post, they've added Night Writing Benny Russell (won a 1/5 in his event) and Darlene Kursky. I'm on pace to win her, though how many copies is up in the air. I'm ready to cite her the rest of the way to immortality.
Surrogate Kira acquired and immortalized, along with Symbiont Pool Jadzia. Still in the process of trying to win the aforementioned Darlene Kursky.
Finished Admiral Cartwright and General Chang. The others remain as they were. They also added Chief Engineer Scott. Irrespective of WRG's flavor text establishing him as being from VI, the artwork is unmistakably from II. I don't regard him as necessary for my collecting purposes.
1) I didn't define regular. I got my first 12hr Voyage on Jan 26th and have 8th in total so far. I think regular meant more often than not, so not there yet. To be fair I am not super active, so it's probable I'm only getting 4hrs of Voyage a day. If I played more often this number would be higher. It's good progress though.
2) 731 so far. I say frozen, but I meant immortalised. On track for 800, but not 900 which was expected.
3) I bought a lot of the disco offers when I came back because it was just good value (about €2/legendary), but since then, just the monthly campaign 3 times and 1 monthly card. I'd buy the Leap year offer if it came up, but other than that happy to stick with just buying the premium campaign going forward.
1. Hasn't been a crew slot sale in Q1. They increased max to 1060
2. Honor ship at 5/10
3. Only missing 54
4. Now missing 3.... I am not happy
5. Have 16/56 done.....
6. So far so good
7. Currently at 65%
8. At 109 years
Half way thru 2023.
1. Maxed crew slots to 1060 last sale. Recently they just released 25 more, but hasn't been a sale.
2. 2 Honor ships now........ 1/10 and 5/10.
3. Down to 9 crew. Next Portal Update will potentially add 11 more.
4. Down to 2 missing....
5. 21/59
6. Modifying this as we have had 2 events with the reward 5* already immed. Currently, I have placed top 750 for new/non immed events.
7. 937/1387 = 67.5%... time for the stretch goal.
8. 95 years, 2 months, 5 days.
Arrrgh. I was cruising along just fine, had everyone, then they made Albert Macklin the super mega ultra premium track. I'm cheap, so I never buy that track. Do I break open the wallet, or wait who knows how long to keep my collection complete? On the last day of the campaign I broke down and bought it
Still in a holding pattern here, waiting for Puppy Janeway to hit the portal.
Was starting to get totally discouraged on this one, then just today got to 11:39. Maybe it's coming?
From the end of March to now I've gone from 79 to 93, plus I'm sitting on three gold citations. This one is practically a done deal.
Just like the first quarter of the year, I've increased by 1%. I'm at 682/1387 (49.17%). This is looking better and better.
I picked off a pair here. CPD Riker gave me the chance to add him to the list since I already had the first four, and I finished off Honey Bare Jadzia to add her. That give me six total, counting Jadzia and Dax separately since I previously finished Dax off with Curzon.
No progress here thanks to a pretty big roster crunch. I've now solved that by doing something I never would've dreamed of when I was starting out, freezing a batch of legendaries. The idea of an immortal gold being useless to me would've sounded like nonsense back in the day, but that's how mature the roster has gotten.
No progress on this. RNG hates me
Immortalized Julius Eaton and Darlene Kursky. Night Writing Benny Russell remains at 1/5. Still do not have Roy Ritterhouse. Since my last update, they added Albert Maklin as the ultra premium crew member in a campaign. I elected not to spend $25 so it'll be quite awhile before I get a crack at him, I expect.
Currently completed! In fact, I've also been working on Esteemed Curzon Dax, who would get me to 100% on all existing Daxes.
Currently completed -- excepting the aforementioned Chief Engineer Scott whom I maintain is clearly from Star Trek II, not VI.
Top 31 so far...
USS Roddenberry lack 915 schematics, Ni Var lacks 1325. That's gonna be a close call.
Done, level 25.
Done, TACO Mayweather, Dereth, Demo Scotty, SF Phlox.
Done, 12h about 50% of voyages.
Now at 655, not gonna happen.
Now at 678, close call as well.
Guinan still missing.
I haven't counted, but not gonna be a problem with the honor coming in from FBB.
No change here since no new characters were introduced in the last 3 months, still got them all.
Puppy Janeway was my first pull after the portal update, so I've gotten to 100% here too.
After resisting forever, I finally joined a fleet a couple of months ago. I really should've done it sooner, I don't know why I was such a holdout. One place it really helped was on voyages. I'm not a 12 hour regular by any means, but I've now gotten there a few times, with a best of 12:30.
I hit 100 on the nose early last week to finish this one off, and did it in style. More on that later.
This one is slowing down a bit and becoming pretty questionable. After making good progress earlier in the year, I only went from 49.17% (682/1387) to 49.37% (707/1432) over the last 3 months. I'll need to pick up the pace.
No progress on this one over the last quarter, and I don't expect there to be any for a while. The only 3 eligible characters left are Odo, Chakotay and Wesley, and I'm not close on any, so unless there's a 4/5 giveaway on one I won't be finishing any more of these any time soon.
This one has been on the back burner for a while.
I've had plenty of high finishes in the gauntlet, but early last week I had my first win in years. And with that, the first loot box finally ended years of frustration and gave me my very first 5th star on a gauntlet character. It was Armus. And with that I killed two birds with one stone, because that was also by 100th immortal legendary. Pretty nice pull for me!