Congrats to those 3 VIP 0
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Congrats to those 3 persons from the VIP Zero Heroes fleet. They finished above my 13th (top10 all3?), and blew by me and my 990 "specials" (or about 310k) that I turned in at 90 mins to go mark
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I wouldn't be surprised if the faction part of the event put them at a disadvantage. You need to save a lot of DIL to buy the third and fourth shuttles which is extremely hard if you are VIP 0 and with only two shuttles you struggle to be competitive.
Although you are technically correct!
Expeditions are really the F2P friendliest event format, but it's hard to know that if you weren't around for that brief stretch in the second half of 2016 when they were actually a thing. Expedition hybrids are entirely too different to be used as a helpful frame of reference.
But back on point, I tip my hat to the three VIP0 players who ranked so high in this event! I know there are players who enjoy the format, and maybe you're some of them. I personally despise it, so I have an even stronger admiration for anyone willing to scratch and claw their way to the top. Kudos!
I'm also reminded that once upon a time on the old forum, I once proposed there ought to be a separate VIP 0 event rank chart. Someone immediately scoffed that it was ridiculous and then we'd have to have a chart for every VIP level and every captain level and blah, blah, blah, totally missing the point that playing as VIP 0 is its own game and ought to be honored as such. Plus, having been VIP 0 myself for my first year, I would have appreciated being able to see how competitive I really was against my own true peers.
A ranking you could see for each vip would be great, even if it didnt get rewards. It would be fun to see how you place among your peers.
What do you mean? Top 10? A great number of free players place top 1000 in faction events.
Wow, that's pretty incredible. I've only managed top 500 a couple of times, but consistently in about the 800 range.
I would honestly like to know how as I struggle to get top 3000 with three shuttles and time boosts. I don't pay Dil to bring shuttles back quicker so reached the threshold of what I could manage with my resources
A good crew of 4*s and the mega event 5*s will get you top 1000. Really, it's just a matter of having a ton of bonus crew and packing the shuttles with them. Keep building up your cryostasis vault, get that 4th shuttle, and you will see progress.
Bonus is sticking it to the man on the way we're not worthy
You can reach top1000 even with 3 shuttles, it takes maximum effort, forget the overnight shuttles and keep sending them every 3 hours. A good squad leader is a must, also focusing your resources on leveling almost exclusively the bonus crew you'll need. During the event, level the threshold crew as fast as you can. No need to spend dil or using too many time boosts.
With all leftover chrons and trainers immortalize as many 1* and 2* crew as you can, included tons of duplicates Yeoman Rand or Harry Kim. I don't regret buying trainers with honor just to buy the 4th shuttle quicker.
I picked up my fourth shuttle at the start of the last event, and I went from struggle to get into the top 3000 to finishing in the top 1000. The last shuttle made a world of difference. With three shuttles I had more event crew than seats to fill, even with four shuttles I only need to use a non bonus crew once or twice depending on skills.
Thanks for the advice. Levelling a load of 1* and 2* is something that I plan to do after I have cleared out my back log of FF 4* (I tend to save crons for the galaxy events so levelling crew takes longer as I often just use the Warp one option to get items)
In all events I usually try to level the threshold crew as quickly as I can, and I will typically buy packs for faction missions to ensure I can FF the threshold character (which gives me an extra day to level them before the event)
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That is incredible, considering I can't even manage a top 1k anymore (see crew in sig; yes I know all the tricks already).
edit: referring to shuttles; see hidden quote.
Immortalizing another copy of a crew you've already immortalized counts toward the number immortalized? I thought it was just unique crew immortalized.
A person could, in theory, immortalize Yeoman Rand 350 times and get all the achievements for crew immortalization, while the vault counter would read "001/501"