Admiral Division - How to maintain Rank?
Jim Steele
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So having played until 12 midnight (UK Time), I managed to get up to 5th in the Admiral Division, enough to get 120 schematics, or so I thought.
Wake up in the morning to find myself down at 2500th position and only get 100. This keeps happening to me.
Is my maxed out Bird of Prey with all Legendary characters not enough? (Only 2 are 4/5*) or am I just doomed to failure unless I become an insomniac due to the games rubbish AI and timezone issues?
Jim
Wake up in the morning to find myself down at 2500th position and only get 100. This keeps happening to me.
Is my maxed out Bird of Prey with all Legendary characters not enough? (Only 2 are 4/5*) or am I just doomed to failure unless I become an insomniac due to the games rubbish AI and timezone issues?
Jim
DB: Do Better
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Usually I try to hit the achievement around lunch time (CST) and save my remaining tickets for late afternoon or evening just to keep placement if necessary. I only do 1 ticket each in the other divisions because I don't feel like keeping around superfluous cadets or fighting BorgSpherapolooza.
For a specific tip, never leave instant damage characters like T'Kuvma and Chaotica on your ship overnight. Those ships are easy pickings and rarely even penetrate my shields, as you just cloak on them.
Also, try ending the night at a lower rank like 200. It seems to garner fewer attacks. The multiples of 500 (top 10, 500, 1000), I always drop very fast.
Maintain rank around 350-500 and you'll stay there for a few hours if you're top 50 you'll lose rank in mins to 1500-2000
I use the ISS Enterprise with three 5/5 and one 4/4.
To echo Wizz: Maybe try a different ship?
Yes, you can as I mentioned in my post above. I can count on one had the number of times I've woken up with a rank lower than 1000 in the Admiral's Division.
Get the right ship with the right crew and don't trust the numbers. I've tried with crew that get a stat of 20 or 21 and they're horrible compared to crew with a stat of 17 or 18.
With the lower bands I play once a week and I don't slip at all as I expect most people do exactly the same as me
That's funny because I seek out the ISS and D'Kora with my BoP and kill them very easily. The lack of a cloak is a death blow for it's defense and they get pummeled very easily. The smartest move, perhaps, is to use a different ship and crew for overnight, but I don't know the right strategy just yet.
I use a BoP myself and actively hunt down Borg cubes. If you have a Degra and you use him at *exactly* the right time you can pretty much guarantee to blow them up, often before your shield fails. It's usually quite violent but always fun!
This. I usually fight the arena battles last thing at night and stop when my BoP reaches 400-600. That usually holds me a top 1% position overnight. Occasionally I drop outside of it, but I'd say 80% of the time I get the 120 schematics no probs. The higher you go, the more you're chosen for other people to stomp on.
FWIW: I use the HMS Bounty with Crell Moset, Captain Scott, Rura Penthe Reed, and 1701 Jadzia.
I miss the times when we had the Borg Sphere and Hirogen Warship schematics as prizes, since then all the ships in the arena are ones I've had FF'd.
So arena for me now is nothing more than part of the daily mission to get the 200 honour.
I just tap the arena battle to start and let it fail because it's not a fun part of the game so no need for me to put in actual effort to it. When the ship schematics roll around again to ships I need schematics for (e.g. Shenzhou, Hirogen Warship, Borg Sphere, K't'inga, T'Ong, USS Discovery) then I'll put in a bit more work, but I still think the arena is one of the poorly done parts of this game, there is absolutely nothing exciting about it.
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Amenities include wifi, fully-functioning holodecks, a full-service bar, 3 party decks, a Trill spa, and a business centre.
Fun fact: The ships are propelled by bouncy castle technology.
It's just the same 4000ish people trading places, day in and day out. Each successful ticket you run pushes you 435ish spots closer to #1. And then the moment you rest, someone across the world just refreshed their available opponents and randomly, blindly chose you. And you fell.
I run an NX-01 which, with me at the controls, will not lose a PVP battle. I can take #1 in my sleep. It cuts through any Cube, any BoP, any ISS.
Put it on defense and it sinks faster than the Titanic. Which took a few hours to sink.
Reset for the Arena battles is 5.50am UTC so if you want to guarantee your position you need to be up about 5.30am UTC so you can grind to your desired position, then I usually run an extra battle (even if I'm where I need to be) in the last couple of minutes so that my ship is 'busy' as reset approaches and so can't get sniped.
I've done this for the last few months with great success.
A maxed 5* ship + crew ability + your timing. The BoP is the most predominant ship. Look at the leaderboards and see what other's are using for crew in the ship you want to use and go from there.
On the bright side, it finally got competitive again, at least in admiral. For a while there I didn't have to play daily and would still rake in the schematics.
Anything with Borg Tuvok on the Bounty should get you #1 fairly easily. Cloak through their attacks and unleash heII for 15 seconds. Mirror Phlox and 1701 Jadzia/Formal Wesley are nice complements to Tuvok that you may have.
T'Kuvma is the worst character that commonly appears in arena, so don't feel bad for missing out. I target ships with him every time and never lose.
Getting #1 for 20 seconds and spending 2 tickets to reclimb the rank is just a waste of daily tickets and your time. Aim for top 250 and you won't have to run another ticket for the rest of the day
This has been my plan for a while now, yet in the last two days I've been getting dropped down below 2000 in a matter of hours. It **tsk tsk** and I haven’t made any changes that would explain it.
NX class schems have more competition in the division once the rewards are changed back to schems that you can get in regular packs there will be less competition amongst the top 1%