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My 73 Hour Voyage

Althea BiermontAlthea Biermont ✭✭✭✭✭
edited January 2018 in The Bridge
I decided to run a Voyage until I got all 6 of the Voyage exclusive crew. Since there are 36 different dilemmas, it was possible it might take 72 hours if RNG was bad. Well, RNG was bad. I was either unlucky or they weigh the odds of a non-exclusive crew dilemma higher than one that could result in exclusive crew. 14 dilemmas lead to exclusive crew and 22 don’t. Out of the 14 dilemmas that lead to exclusive crew, 8 of them fell into the final 9 dilemmas. I still had anti-matter left after the 36th dilemma so kept going an extra hour (73 total) for more drops

The results:
6 Exclusive Purple Crew
18 other purple crew
13 blue crew
14 green crew
1020 gold trainers
74 purple trainers
34 blue trainers
206 purple replicator rations
4 blue replicator rations
716 two-star components
31 one-star components
22 zero-star components
2148 Honor
383,900 credits
5822 Chronitons

The cost was about 14,800 dilithium. I say about because I forgot to write a couple down so made estimates based on the cost before and after the missing couple. It’s also going to take 1 day, 5 hours and 12 minutes to return!

Was it worth it? I’m not sure, but I did it!

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  • Althea BiermontAlthea Biermont ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • Congrats 🎉
  • {DD} Capt Jello{DD} Capt Jello ✭✭✭
    edited January 2018
    RNGesus Althea... congrats... and condolences for such a brutal Voyage. So the question everyone is trying to figure out is will the Voyage-specific crew drop again for you or do you have to get 18 citations to FF those 6 crew?!? Let us know if you get any of them again.

    Also, hopefully you have some other chrons for the event... those 5,800 chrons will make it back just before it ends, and it takes hours to get up the ranks.
  • Data1001Data1001 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2018
    So the question everyone is trying to figure out is will the Voyage-specific crew drop again for you or do you have to get 18 citations to FF those 6 crew?!? Let us know if you get any of them again.

    Shan's message said: "4 new Voyages exclusive crew have been added as on-time rewards." Was there confusion because of the obvious typo, which of course should have been written as "one-time"? Did people really try to figure out if there was actually something called an "on time" award? :p

    The only possible question I can see is if the original Voyage-only crew of Col. Worf and Fierce Guinan are also one-time only. I would guess that they are, just like the four new ones, but I guess nobody from DB has specifically mentioned them, and no players (as far as I've seen) have confirmed that those two original crew don't drop more than once.


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  • Well done, Althea. I, appropriately, managed to get the clown from a 7 hour voyage.
    I just press any choice that comes up without even looking at the dilemma so it's possible to get these crew if you are an idiot and/or have no dilithium too.
  • Althea BiermontAlthea Biermont ✭✭✭✭✭
    The wiki was really useful to know exactly which choices to select for each dilemma
  • 15k dilithium for 6 purple exclusive crew? Mmmm, no thx. :#
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  • You are an absolute gem, both for the guts to do it, and the information that you've provided :)
  • JhamelJhamel ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2018
    The problem is, you will need 6 x 54'000 Honor to FF those 6 special purrples and especially Guinan and Worf aren't worf (pun intended) the effort of spending 108'000 Honor just for them alone. Their stats aren't good enuff and only two skills. As for the other four, at least they got 3 skills and they are somewhat decent to do voyages with once they're immurrtalized.
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  • Capt. ChaosCapt. Chaos ✭✭✭✭✭
    They do indeed appear to be one-time-only. Once I got Thot Gor, the next two times I hit that same dilemma only blue crew dropped.
  • Thanks for doing this to show what rewards are to be expected from a 73hr voyage.
    Though at nearly 15k dilithium, I personally won't be doing it.
  • Interesting, thanks for posting this Althea.
  • This is great. I suppose if I ever amass 15k dilithium I might give this a run. Just dropping 1100 on the 20hr run was enough.
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  • Althea BiermontAlthea Biermont ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yeah, it was quite expensive to do but I'm actually glad I did it, both because I got all 6 exclusive crew and because it helps give an idea of what rewards to expect since the longer the run, the closer to the average the rewards become.
  • Althea BiermontAlthea Biermont ✭✭✭✭✭
    The problem is, you will need 6 x 5'400 Honor to FF those 6 special purples

    I'm sitting on almost 340,000 honor right now so I'm not worried. I'm in no hurry to FF them since I'm guessing there will soon be a way to get more copies.

  • Captain_WhoCaptain_Who ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wanna do another one to prove we don't get the exclusive crew a second time?
    :tongue:

    Good work, thanks for the data!
  • PallidynePallidyne ✭✭✭✭✭
    Wanna do another one to prove we don't get the exclusive crew a second time?
    :tongue:

    Good work, thanks for the data!

    I've hit the two of the dilemma crew drop points several times and only got the character drop the first time. (Lucien and the Clown)

    I'd be surprised if one of the 4 didn't show up in an event this year.

  • Althea BiermontAlthea Biermont ✭✭✭✭✭
    One tip I would give to anyone who wants to try this is don't worry about the total points for each of the 6 skills. It is much more important to get the bonus for having the correct trait. If you have the correct (2500 point) ship with the correct trait (+150) and then the correct trait on all 12 crew (+300) you have 2,950 anti-matter per refill. I only had 2,750 for my trip and realized I could have saved a lot of dilithium if I had done 2.950.

    Having the right traits on all 12 crew might mean you can only go 4-6 hours before your first refill instead of 6-8 hours. The cost for that first refill is minimal compared to having extra anti-matter on each refill.

    It seems to take 2,600 anti-matter per dilemma once you start failing all of them. With 2,950 it means you get that much farther before the needed refill. In the end it cuts out a few refills doing it with maxed anti-matter.
  • JhamelJhamel ✭✭✭✭✭
    Althea, sorry I meant 6 x 54'000 Honor (324'000 Honor total). You're sitting on 340'000 Honor ... that will all go away just for the 6 voyage-exclusive crew then. ^^
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  • Althea BiermontAlthea Biermont ✭✭✭✭✭
    Althea, sorry I meant 6 x 54'000 Honor (324'000 Honor total). You're sitting on 340'000 Honor ... that will all go away just for the 6 voyage-exclusive crew then. ^^

    I’m in no hurry to FF them. I’ll wait to see if they become available via some other method before using Honor :)

  • Thanks for doing this and sharing the results.
  • PallidynePallidyne ✭✭✭✭✭
    Althea, sorry I meant 6 x 54'000 Honor (324'000 Honor total). You're sitting on 340'000 Honor ... that will all go away just for the 6 voyage-exclusive crew then. ^^

    I’m in no hurry to FF them. I’ll wait to see if they become available via some other method before using Honor :)

    Same here, I've also only got 2 of them. Im in no hurry to get all of them at this point either so only letting some take a parking spot.
  • Althea BiermontAlthea Biermont ✭✭✭✭✭
    I’m so glad I finished this before they did the forced recall. I would’ve been so upset after spending that much time and do lithium to have a force recall make me start all over. I would’ve definitely been asking for a refund of every bit of the dilithium so I could start again!
  • DScottHewittDScottHewitt ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm glad you finished before the forced recall, too.

    Congrats on the haul.


    Scott


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