Expedition Events
ZenthaneX
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Hey all! I'm fairly new to the game (5 or so months) and next weekend will be my first expedition event. I've read the wiki entry on them but I'm not 100% sure exactly what to expect. Any info you guys can pass on to me would be greatly appreciated.
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You can "start" a ticket whenever you want, and run missions for as long as you have available crew. Each time they do a node, they take "fatigue", which continues to accumulate until they've basically for no strength. (Think about it like cumulative Gauntlet fatigue until the next refresh.) And if they fail a node then they get even more fatigue.
Each set of missions has crit levels, just like normal away missions. And each time you crit a node, you get VP. Event crew get more VP when they crit a node.
Once you select the crew for that mission node... tap tap tap through the animations. After you've got three stars in each, just tap your way through. You can complete three tickets in about an hour. That's why I always laugh when people think Expeditions are time consuming. They're actually the easiest, quickest events to play.
I much prefer the new format, its far less tedious/frustrating to play.
Jim
However, once that is done, it's 10-20 minutes per ticket to complete all the nodes on all the difficulties, and there is essentially 0 value to redoing nodes once they've been critted.
*Maximum VP =
Main "High"/"Best"/"Pack" portal crew exhaust at 5% per successful node and get double the VP for crits. (Mirrors Picard, Beverly, Mayweather, and Uhura)
"Small" bonus/"variant" crew fatigue at 10% per node, and and get 50% bonus VP for crits. (Mirrors everbody else, regular Beverlys, Mayweathers, and Uhuras)
Maybe they are faster today, but I still remember them when they first came out. Holy donttakeyoureyesoffyourphoneforastraighthour misery.
Lilac Erosion
7TH Tactical Wing
Maybe the irony is that we play because we’re Star Trek fans, those hopeful idealists that like to think things will get better when we raise valid concerns about fairness and balance, etc and we forget that DB’s greed openly mocks the values espoused by the franchise they have a license
-Lord Wizzlestix IT
If you crit, you get the star. Period. You can still pass but not crit, in which case you do not get the star.
If I recall correctly, event crew get 2x the amount of VP from getting the star. Bonus crew get 1.5x the amount of VP from the star. Both get one stack of exhaustion from completing a node, while non-bonus/event crew get 2 stacks from each node.
Protecting the Galaxy's Future from itself
Chief Intelligence Officer
Thanks for the clarification on crits and VP.
Lilac Erosion
7TH Tactical Wing
Maybe the irony is that we play because we’re Star Trek fans, those hopeful idealists that like to think things will get better when we raise valid concerns about fairness and balance, etc and we forget that DB’s greed openly mocks the values espoused by the franchise they have a license
-Lord Wizzlestix IT
Since ur done, „cancel attempt“ and u have the chance to start a new ticket.
Not intuitive at all. It sounds like we'd lose our VP and everything. For clarity it should be changed to "finish ticket" instead of "cancel".
~· Fly with the Subspace Eddies! ·~
Yeah, it seems we bring this exact point up every time there's an Expedition event, but DB still hasn't gotten the hint that it's confusing as all heck to people who haven't played this type of event before.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"
Yes, you have to put a load of time and effort on it. I consider it a welcomed challenge, after its almost 7 month after the last expedition event.
One word. One lousy word, and DB can't be bothered to spend 3 minutes on a text search and update.
Are you sure you are not confusing it with a Galaxy event? ;-)
Then...it gets dull.
Exactly this. It's a pain to figure out the first ticket to maximize VP. You're learning where crew should have gone in the second ticket, and the third ticket is dialing it in.
After ticket #3, it's brainless tedium wasting time scrolling down to your crew that constantly change positions after being used, but are the only right choices.
On a brite note, I scored #1 in the Admiral Division a little while ago. So that was cool. One of my personal goals checked off.
This is why they don't get featured often.
Everybody pines for them, desperate for something new. But the fact is the event is painful.
Unfortunately all the events are tedious and tiresome after the first day, so we forget what level of pain that unseen event is.
Then they finally give us the event, and we don't play because it hurts to do so.
Which is why I find them fun, but best served as part of a hybrid
Yeah I'm hovering outside the top 100 without min/maxing or having Mirror Crusher. Deciding exactly how hard I want to go on this.
Edit: bought one pack and got Mirror Crusher. Guess I'm pot-committed.
My question, is there any reason to do normal or elite missions, if you can pass the Epic’s? Or should I cancel my ticket after finishing the epic, missions ... and just ignore the normal and elites missions. As long as I have the crew to do it. Or do you have to pass all missions, at all levels, before you can get the next set?
You actually don't have to pass any missions at any levels in order to move on to the next ticket. You can do so at any time you wish.
To your earlier question, the reason to do the Elite and Normal missions after you crit all the nodes on the Epic missions, is for the VP there. Each new ticket, the stars return and give you more VP. Now, by the time the last Expedition event rolled around, I was so tired of the grind that I ran through each mission once and didn't bother getting all the stars, and I believe I even left several of the Normal missions untouched in a number of tickets. (Which, of course, isn't a particularly effective way to rise up in the ranks, but at that point I was just over it.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
~ Data, ST:TNG "Haven"