My 20 hour voyage

Capt. Chaos

The stars were right yesterday, so I took the plunge.
2575 initial AM
Skills:
DIP 10096 (Primary)
SEC 11111 (Secondary)
6884 CMD
3839 MED
1932 SCI
1499 ENG

Checked the estimator (thanks, Chewable C++ !) and the 20 hour cost was 1237 dil with six refills.

Refill 1 @8:18 100 dil
Refill 2 @10:43 129 dil
Refill 3 @12:44 153 dil
Refill 4 @14:44 177 dil
Refill 5 @16:45 202 dil
Refill 6 @18:46 226 dil
Total 987 dil

Recalled at 20:48 (return time 8:19)

Loot includes
Crew: 2 purples, 3 blues, 8 greens
Trainers: 264 gold, 84 purple, 40 blue
Credits: 105600
Replicator Rations: 38 purple, 16 blue
Lots of 2*/1* junk
Chronitons: 1382

At least that's done.

Miles "Coffins for Cardies" O'Brien

Not a bad haul, could have done with a few more purples I suppose.

Looking at that I really wish they'd give you a random legendary crew after the 20 hours though. Gives people an incentive to keep on dropping dilithium to extend the voyage.

Althea Biermont

Just a tip for if you decide to do it again. I did a 73 hour voyage and wish I had thought of this before starting it. The total amount for each skill doesn't matter for a long voyage. By the 8 hour or so mark, you fail every hazard (and most long before that). The biggest dilithium saver is the total Anti-Matter.

So, even if you have lower totals for all 6 skills as a result, make sure you match the trait for all 12 crew slots. That gives you a bonus of 300 anti-matter. Also, make sure you are using a 2500 AM ship that gets the 150 AM bonus. That will give you a total of 2,950 Anti-Matter with each refill.

The amount of Anti-Matter used between dilemmas once you start failing them all is 2,600. With your 2,575 you have to refresh more often. The 2,950 maximum means you carry over 350 AM toward the next dilemma. That means approximately every 7 refills will get you one extra dilemma for no extra cost. Over the course of all 36 possible dilemmas (if you wanted to do all 36) that eliminates FIVE refills. That is a significant dilithium savings.

For example, if your skills are all low enough where you start failing everything after 4 hours, you are still much better off than if your skills are high enough to take you 8 hours. Yes, it adds 2 extra refills to your voyage on the front end, but it still saves you 3 refills (instead of 5) overall.

Capt. Chaos

Though I doubt that I'll personally do a "run the table" voyage, that's excellent advice for those who want to try that.

Pa

Did the 20 hour voyage too and got 6 purple crew of which I could use 2 (had the other already FF).

How much dilithium would a 73 hour voyage cost? I think I'm going to save my daily dil up for this.

(HGH)Apollo

Not sure the 20 hr voyage is worth it, 10k honor just isnt enough.

Ivanstone

(HGH)Apollo wrote: »

Not sure the 20 hr voyage is worth it, 10k honor just isnt enough.

~1300 Dil is roughly the same as two packs. Those packs might get you something good but it will very likely only get you ~1500 honour. You're also getting a tonne of chrons, a tonne of components that you don't need to spend chrons and other fun stuff.

Its a pretty solid deal if you haven't done the achievement.

Commander Sinclair

(HGH)Apollo wrote: »

Not sure the 20 hr voyage is worth it, 10k honor just isnt enough.

It is if you have 90K honour and want Kahless really badly! lol

~peregrine~

In one of the first Voyage threads, someone (I forget who) posted that in 1 hour, there will be 40 hazards + 140 log entries = 180 “ticks”, at 20 seconds/tick. Upon failing every hazard, that works out to 40 x 30 = 1200 + 140 = 1340 AM/hour, or 2680 every dilemma.

If I can find that post, I will edit this one with a link. 🖖🏻

EDIT: I forgot to account for rewards, so my numbers are probably inflated. I usually just divide by 23 & watch the last 5 minutes like a K’Vort. Anyway, the post is too long to quote here, but here’s the link to the sticky:

https://forum.disruptorbeam.com/stt/discussion/175/tool-voyage-estimator-help-us-gather-data#latest

Pa

For a long voyage it is more important to have a ship and crew with all the traits than to have high primary and secondary skills. The skills will eventually always fail (after 3rd or 4th dilemma).

Commander Sinclair

I believe it is equally important to have all the traits filled for MAXIMUM AM, and try to get as many skills at peak proficiency.

I just ran my 20-hour voyage, and it only cost me <800 Dils, rather than the almost 1200 the Voyage calculator said it would. That is because I maxed out the AM by traits to the stretch between failures could last longer. I got to the final 20 hour dilemma with 124 AM to spare.

[BL] Q

This is what I was willing to spend on and chrons I'm sure if DB checked a pre nerf and post nerf spending on my account they'll notice a slight reduction in payment