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Expeditions - how much grind is too much?
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Just curious how many times you all generally replay missions within an existing ticket after getting 3 stars across the board before saying screw it and firing up a new ticket.
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Thinking of doing the same. Replaying missions after getting the rare reward just doesn't give enough VP to be worth it.
Not if you don't intend to participate in the Galaxy portion. Trying to get the threshold rewards then be done with it.
But you're right. If the galaxy phase wasn't coming up, I would be way more into grinding during this first phase.
every ticket from then on - start at epic far right and work my way back right to left across each level to collect rare rewords. cancel attempt and repeat till tickets exhusted
If I use all tickets along the way, should be able to exceed 400K on free tickets alone in phase 1. Probably do shuttles out of habit. Minimal participation in galaxy phase to get community rewards. I'm not a fan of burning chrons to rank top 1K and get dumped out in the last 10 minutes.
DB went back to the old way to crit nodes without telling us.
You need to crit a node to get the rare reward. It is possible to pass a node w/o critting it. In those cases, you would not have gotten a reward under the old or new rules for expeditions.
They changed expeditions to success being crit.
If you do not believe just look in forum for complaints when they changed it to automatic crit.
Also it would be nice if bonus crew were always at the top.
Also it would be nice if I could flip sorting from low to high to get past the early rounds.
Also WTB one MED node for Bashir.
Incorrect. As was said in your engineering thread, they changed crit to guaranteed drop of the rare reward. You still need to hit high enough to crit.
EDIT: Event notes from when the change was made.
https://forums.disruptorbeam.com/stt/viewthread/63383
Nice catch
Personally, I'd amend that slightly: Galaxy hybrid events ruin everything. Faction/Galaxy hybrid = the faction phase is made pointless (if you're going for rank). I've finished phase one of a hybrid in the top ten, then dropped below top 1000 after less than 12 hours of the Galaxy phase. Kind of disheartening — but it was the last time I wasted speed boosts on phase one of a hybrid, I'll tell you that.
Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing.
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yep, after 6 tickets (the initial 3 and 3 from thresholds) I'm at 305K points already. After the server reset gonna use 2 more to hit the top threshold... in less than 24 hours of the 6 day event... Well more time to celebrate the mid-summer and stuff I suppose lol
I do all the stars and then reset the ticket. I don’t do extra runs for the little bit of extra VP.
After the first run I work through them backwards. I write down who I use on what node and then just keep that handy with each ticket instead of figuring out who to use each time
What would be easiest is if you could 'heart' certain crew like you can in your crew quarters. So much needless scrolling to find Leeta & Riker!
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My memory failed me again, though it is not helped by the infrequent expedition event.
You all of course are right. What I was thinking of is when they made the bonus VP rewarded whenever a Crit happened and not just for event specific crew.
Thanks for the tip - this is my first real Expedition (didn't know what the heck I was doing back during Christmas, and didn't have the time to figure it all out). Saved me so much time.
I like that it's easy, but holy crap I can't imagine going beyond threshold on an expedition event.
Cheers. Expeditions have changed a ton over their history and, I think, mostly for the better. It's hard to keep all of their evolutions straight.
I might do tomorrow morning’s tickets on Elite as well as Epic but I am confident that I’ll clear all of the thresholds before the Galaxy portion starts.
People start their tickets at all times throughout the day. Different time zones, different work schedules, etc. so there are new tickets being started all the time.
I totally get that, but everyone has the same number of tickets and each ticket provides the same possible number of VP from rare rewards, right? I'm just amazed by the number of people who have anywhere from 2x to 10x more VP than I do at this stage of the event, since I've gone through all of my daily tickets + the threshold tickets and mostly maxed out the rare reward VP on every run. That's a lot of low-return repeat plays.
An extra ticket only costs 20 dilithium so a lot of people are buying the tickets
Oh, that's the part that I missed. Of course it shouldn't surprise me that DB sells tickets.
Faction/galaxy hybrids are manageable for me. The reduced duration of the Galaxy portion at least gives me a chance to finish top 1000. Now that I'm done leveling crew (more or less) maybe I'll try a pure galaxy event in the future.