There are 60 ships in the packs.
If there is 1 ship I want, there is a 5% chance it appears in a behold
So I need 20 packs to average 1 that will have the ship I want
It's 1800 schematics to go from level 9 to 10
The behold has 300 schematics
So I need 6 beholds with the ship just to go from 9 to 10
That means I need to open on average 120 packs to go from 9 to 10
At 150 dil a pack that's 18,000 DIL
18,000 DIL just to go from 9 to 10
If my ship is less than 9, it will cost even more
The ships are way too expensive to get to a point where they are usable.
Before this sale, I did Dabo my schematics, most of the time it's okay, but last time I burned much more than on this sale. We always know what's in Dabo, but this doesn't necessarily saves us from empty pockets.
On the downside of these beholds we don't know what we get via the beholds. It depends on how much unfinished ships you have. But we had worse schematics sales, so I appreciate this offer and took a couple of chances.
Most ships in the game go unused anyway. I have no idea why people care about maxing out any of the new ones -- as long as you've got the top ships for Arena, Fleet Boss Battles, and Skirmishes, everything beyond that is purely window dressing and nothing more, as I see it. Unless, of course, there are plans for future events to make use of more than just a small handful of ships. Otherwise, I'd just as soon have a cryo-like feature where I could put ships into "dry dock" and remove them from my active roster.
as long as you've got the top ships for Arena, Fleet Boss Battles, and Skirmishes, everything beyond that is purely window dressing and nothing more, as I see it.
Top ships always shifted. I already see people countering the dominating Negh'Var (which broke D'Kora dominance) with a very particular ship, which is of course vulnerable to the few other different ship classes around.
And in the Captain's Division I'm countering the Mirror-NX with good success, although it's not so easy like Negh'Var vs D'Kora, because you must have very fast fingers for it, but I was so tired of combatting the Mirror with a Mirror.
The other issue is voyages, the handful of traits that are only covered by a single 5* ship (Gorn, Raider, Freighter etc). I'd love to get some of those up to 10/10, but not at these prices.
I'm personally interested in seeing if the Tactical Cube can replace the Arty for FBB Hammer Time. With it's built in Heal, it might be possible to use one Healer and three Sledgehammers in FBB.
Which can reduce the needed runs to finish the Rewards Point and save Valor for the next FBB. So, getting it to Ten helps. At least it is now in the Portal since this update.
And, as Chaos said, it would be nice to max out some of the Ships that are the only matching Trait for Voyages.
"The truth is like a lion; you don't have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself."
I'm personally interested in seeing if the Tactical Cube can replace the Arty for FBB Hammer Time. With it's built in Heal, it might be possible to use one Healer and three Sledgehammers in FBB.
Which can reduce the needed runs to finish the Rewards Point and save Valor for the next FBB. So, getting it to Ten helps. At least it is now in the Portal since this update.
And, as Chaos said, it would be nice to max out some of the Ships that are the only matching Trait for Voyages.
Yeah if you have a max or nearly max bridge you only need one hull repair card. I use Seven, Son of K’Vok, Vox, Chances Taken Kirk, and Goodgey. It rocks.
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There are 60 ships in the packs.
If there is 1 ship I want, there is a 5% chance it appears in a behold
So I need 20 packs to average 1 that will have the ship I want
It's 1800 schematics to go from level 9 to 10
The behold has 300 schematics
So I need 6 beholds with the ship just to go from 9 to 10
That means I need to open on average 120 packs to go from 9 to 10
At 150 dil a pack that's 18,000 DIL
18,000 DIL just to go from 9 to 10
If my ship is less than 9, it will cost even more
The ships are way too expensive to get to a point where they are usable.
Before this sale, I did Dabo my schematics, most of the time it's okay, but last time I burned much more than on this sale. We always know what's in Dabo, but this doesn't necessarily saves us from empty pockets.
On the downside of these beholds we don't know what we get via the beholds. It depends on how much unfinished ships you have. But we had worse schematics sales, so I appreciate this offer and took a couple of chances.
And in the Captain's Division I'm countering the Mirror-NX with good success, although it's not so easy like Negh'Var vs D'Kora, because you must have very fast fingers for it, but I was so tired of combatting the Mirror with a Mirror.
Which can reduce the needed runs to finish the Rewards Point and save Valor for the next FBB. So, getting it to Ten helps. At least it is now in the Portal since this update.
And, as Chaos said, it would be nice to max out some of the Ships that are the only matching Trait for Voyages.
Yeah if you have a max or nearly max bridge you only need one hull repair card. I use Seven, Son of K’Vok, Vox, Chances Taken Kirk, and Goodgey. It rocks.