Why do you extend voyages?

Seven of One

I'm genuinely interested as to when and why players extend voyages. I'm now mostly hitting 6 hours comfortably and often 7 hours. In the last 10 days I've extended a couple of times I've 'felt' they were really good voyages, and true enough I've had several 4* crew drop (really far more than just super rare for me, at one point I thought 4* crew on voyages were just a myth!) I also extended another that was quite chron heavy. I constantly have voyages out and still find it hard to tell if its a good voyage or not. I see some players extend only if they forget, some if they have 4* crew outside of dilemmas, some not at all.
If you're F2P do you ever extend voyages?
All answers and comments appreciated

Shy Khan

Achievement

I'm F2P, and I've only extended twice - once because I wanted the 10hr voyage achievement, and the second time just because I accidentally let a voyage expire that had some valuable crew drops I needed.

I've been advised in the past that voyage extension is the best use of spare dilithium after buying shuttles, but I frankly find that it's better to save up for crew slot sales and expand available space for when the RNG actually DOES give you useful crew during a voyage. The times I extended resulted in no useful crew drops in the extra time - better to just rely on the 6-8 hour range I can achieve organically. Otherwise you're just gambling.

Banjo1012

I never extend them, I always use dilithium to early recall them

Gib - Admiral Mariners

4* crew

I extended mine to get all the Voyage only crew, or for the achievements. I will not be extending until there is a change in the voyage only crew, or another achievement.

Zetterbeard

I forgot about it

I only extend if I forget about it and the rewards justify the dil (I won't extend if there are no 4* crew when it fails).

Ironagedave

4* crew

Largely in the hope of getting 4* crew to ff but honor, components and chronitons are also of main interest as well to maintain the levelling process.

Jim Steele

I don't extend voyages

Since the nerf I tend not to bother. I have even just abandoned them after 8hrs only getting 300 chrons and no purple crew

Commander Sinclair

Chronitons

I only extend now to build up a cache of Chrons. Whether saving up for Galaxy Events, or much needed high end crew building which requires 18-24 chrons per pull, or 15-18 with supply kit, building Gold crew takes millions of chrons!

Data1001

It really depends. If I'm gearing up for a Galaxy event in which I'm going for rank, I'll extend Voyages for the chrons. Sometimes I do it because I tried to squeeze out a few more minutes and forgot about it until it ran out of AM. When they first came out with the achievements, I extended for that. Most recently, I ran one 50-hours to get the very last of the Voyage-exclusive crew. When I'm not needing chrons or crew (and may be wanting to conserve Dilithium), I don't extend at all — just recall right after I complete the 8-hour dilemma.

(CSF) Jesus Is Lord [••••]

I don't extend voyages

I used to extend them but since i have all the voyage crew, and finished all the acheivments i dont extend

FutureImperfecta

I very rarely extend since the major Nerf that was told to us to be minor prior.

The only time I extend I'd when I get a voyages that gives drops in the very generous range, closer to hire they used to be.

I used to extend several times a week easily..
Sometimes a couple times per day.

Now I've only extended once in the last several weeks and that was today. 4, 4*s. 1 by dilemma, 3 random. Good chronitons also, so I let it die and revived it with in seconds.

I hope your metrics picked that up db.
That it wasn't an accident but a deliberate action to give you income for a generous reward.

Hungry Dog DDM

4* crew

Usually it's because I've forgotten it. But I'll say 4* crew. And if I'm being honest I'll never turn down the chrons.

Dirk Gunderson

I forgot about it

I will extend if I get 4* crew outside of dilemmas but most of my extensions are because I forget to set a timer when it is close to failing.

Dr. Creon (¥SA)

4* crew

I usually extend for the 4* crew. I did a few times in the past to finish off the achievements and once (maybe twice) because of chronitons. But, if I see a 4* crew before my antimatter runs out, I am more inclined to extend it.

S14 Bri

Other not listed here

I chose other because it’s kind of a mix of all of the answers.

My priority is
1) Chrons
2) Rep rations
3) Crew (usually for airlock honor)

If I fall just short of 8 hours, I’ll extend the voyage if I can get an extra two dilemmas for one refill.

Also, I will speed up recall of voyages sometimes to coinside with my shuttles coming home, so I can send out voyages before the shuttles with all of my best crew. (I always prioritize voyages over shuttles outside of faction events).

Voyages has really made this game a lot better.

[10F] Belle'Anna

I run voyages constantly. I'm not f2p but I don't spend much, just the monthly card. My main interest, excitement generated, is from the dropping of super-rare crew. I will extend once, maybe twice, if they are dropping between dilemmas. Most times my voyages run to 8 hours now, so I don't need to check them too frequently, I'll set an alarm if I need to.

However, because I do all my leveling at the weekend during events when I drop a supply kit, I find my chronitons naturally filling up more than I use them. I've got quite a stash now, waiting for a decent galaxy event or two. So realistically, whole I don't track them any more, these voyages are crucial for chroniton collection.

Also, replicator rations. Nowadays I seem to be relatively stocked up from pre-nerf levels and they still tend to grow more than I use them, and I replicate 6 times a day, sometimes gold items.

The rest I have never tracked, but I'm over-endowed with trainers and I'm sure all the item drops make a difference.

We mustn't forget the honor though, I pick up at least 500 on a run, sometimes up to 1000. That's not bad for a daily freebie.

So to answer your question, I rarely extend for anything except for super-rare crew. But I do that much less than I used to, since the nerf, because previously I could grab a few super-rares and a hell of a lot more chrons to go with them. Nowadays the drop rate is much decreased, while still useful, I can use my dil to better effect (or simply more fun, truth to tell) by pulling event packs, which I tend to do on faction events or any where I'm not guaranteed the 4/4 by hitting threshold.

Lady Gaghgagh

I don't extend voyages

I never extended mine for except for the 20 hour achievement. But I definitely used to put some dilithium in if I accidentally ran out of AM when I thought I could inch by to the next dilemma but actually couldn't. However now since they nerfed voyages, I don't bother and just abandon the voyage if I run out of AM (which is rare thankfully). Now if voyages were like they used to be where I could net a nice 700-800 chrons from an 8 hr voyage then I'd be more liable to use my dil again to refresh.

Rocpile

4* crew

I usually only *need* to extend when I forget, but I only do so if there is 4* crew in the rewards already.

Webberoni

Other not listed here

Although I will extend voyages if I forget about them, that rarely happens. The main reason I extend voyages is if doing so will result in 2 additional dilemmas (ie: voyage will naturally last 7:50+, and extending will allow me to hit both the 8-hour & 10-hour dilemmas), which is good value for my dilithium (ie: 2 more chances at 4* crew, lots of extra chronitons and other equipment).

MirrorMartigan

I don't extend voyages

I dont extend my voyages because I'm trying to stay free to play unless I have Google Play gift cards.

Althea Biermont

Generally I don't extend voyages. I did a 73 hour run once just to get all the voyage exclusive crew, but other than that I only extend if I forget and run out of anti-matter and already received a ton of purple crew/chronitons. Otherwise I'll just forfeit it and start a new voyage.

They could easily design it so you could specify an anti-matter cap that says to end the voyage when the anti-matter gets down to a certain level, but they'll never do that because they are counting on people to forget and then extending it so they don't lose out on their drops.

It's the same reason they haven't put confirmations on most purchases that use dilithium. They are counting on the people who accidentally buy stuff not putting in support tickets for a refund.

[SSR] GTMET

Chronitons

I extend when I have the right mix of traits that can lead to huge runs. For example, with CMD/SEC, I can get the top 2 traits to over 13,000. This way, when I extend, I get nearly 4 hours more run time and usually 2 more dilemmas. This is worth hundreds of chrons, honor, replictors, and a chance at more crew. For 90 dil, this is the best price in the game.

Banjo1012

[TFA] GTMET wrote: »

I extend when I have the right mix of traits that can lead to huge runs. For example, with CMD/SEC, I can get the top 2 traits to over 13,000. This way, when I extend, I get nearly 4 hours more run time and usually 2 more dilemmas. This is worth hundreds of chrons, honor, replictors, and a chance at more crew. For 90 dil, this is the best price in the game.

That’s a great point

Skizzy • VIP0 • §ë

Other not listed here

I really like the chrons, but I'll only extend if I make it to the 8 hr dilemma before refilling and at least one 4* crew has already dropped. I've had too many voyages fail at 7 hours 55 minutes + that it seems purposeful rather than random, and I'm rarely looking at the game at the exact right moment, so I pretty much abandon anything that doesn't make it to 8 hours now.

JayBeezy

I don't extend voyages

I try to run two 6-hour voyages per day. As such, I never extend. I'm far more likely to spend a little dilithium on a quick return.

Captain Q

I don't extend voyages

OP: Why do you extend voyages?

"Because it was there..." (Kirk, James T)

GhostStalker

I forgot about it

I don't extend unless I miss the recall and there's crew. At this point in the game, I rarely need the chronitons as much as I need actual crew to work on. I've abandoned a lot because they didn't have any dropped 4* crew before they ran out of AM.

I only spent DIL on a return by accident, on my FIRST ever voyage way back when they started. I didn't know what was happening and I thought I had to pay to get the loot. Once I figured out how dumb I was, I never did it again.

Secret Journey

Replicator rations

There are occasional voyages where 3 and 4 * rations go big...also for multiple choice 2) I forget and 3) chrons

~peregrine~

4* crew

What @[10F] Belle'Anna said.

Travis S McClain

4* crew

After I extended long enough to get the last achievement, I stopped extending unless a 4* I want has already dropped--never in blind hope that one might. I've stayed caught up on my crew since March, and I'm almost always threshold-and-out in Galaxy Events, so I have the luxury of not having to care about anything else in the loot table.

sorinev

I forgot about it

Except for hitting 10h and 20h achievements, my only reason to ever extend a voyage has always been "oops..."