Alternatives to CAB Tools / Big Book for Crew Ratings?

Athenethor

Hi everyone,

With both https://cabtools.app and https://bigbook.app seemingly down or no longer maintained, I was wondering:
Are there any active or updated alternatives for evaluating new crew stats and usefulness?

Those resources were incredibly helpful for planning crew pulls and event strategies, so I’d really appreciate any recommendations if something similar is out there.

Thanks in advance — and live long and prosper!

Seven Constanza

Datacore has started providing a data score for each crew. It’s not a complete replacement for the big book as far as written evaluations but I’ve found it useful.

DScottHewitt

Seven Constanza wrote: »

Datacore has started providing a data score for each crew. It’s not a complete replacement for the big book as far as written evaluations but I’ve found it useful.

I miss the Big Book. But, DataCore gets used a lot. Fleet Boss Battles. Upcoming Crew. Comparing Quipment options when trying to decide "Is Crew A or Crew B a better choice to Immortalize?" That last one takes a little more work than if the Crew Info in-game showed Quipment for Crew we have not Immortalized. Like one Crew might have better numbers unQuIpped, but the other might max out higher, if they can use better Quipment.

PavelHr

Datacore gets you voyage rank, obtainability, ship skill and collections easily. That pretty much covers everything you need. I do miss the creative descriptions of crew on the Big Book but there was a reason it went through multiple writers including I think already shutting down once before it was fully cancelled, it takes human volunteering and was too much hassle.

enigma starlord

I see more cards on datacore for a Far Beyond the stars collection for today but I don't remember seeing an announcement.

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Big book was a fan created love song for the game, and the creators fell out of love with the game and broke up with it. Such is life.

I honestly wonder how much the loss of big book hurt sales. It used to be a free hype machine for the developers. People used to watch the weekly streams and get excited about the newest crew.

I remember at the time, there were many many full and competitive fleets, all of them with a whale of two. Things have really, really changed.

DScottHewitt

enigma starlord wrote: »

I see more cards on datacore for a Far Beyond the stars collection for today but I don't remember seeing an announcement.

Announcements have sometimes been delayed recently.