Congrats to everyone that battled for top 1500 in this event. That was the most competitive one in recent memory and players were having to pull out all the stops to make it. Special shout out to several new names on top of the leaderboard that got personal best rankings!
Usually I can only get every crew in the game immortalized after a mega, but with the new reward structure it gets hairy sometimes. Usually I can get this screenshot once every 2-3 months. Thanks to the art delay, I got it again. So for the next 10 minutes, all crew in the game immortalized.
Well done on that - I am getting tantalizingly close. Missing 6 that aren't in the portal though. Closer and closer...
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It was a rough one. I ended up at 1604. I'm guessing some people even did threshold and out over a LD crew.
I got behind after sitting in traffic for over an hour a mile from home, because someone went flying through a 35mph zone and popped over a hill, hitting someone pulling out of a restaurant parking lot after Sunday dinner and flipping their car. I think the guy survived, thank God. We got rear ended there a couple years ago, when we stopped just over the crest of the hill, to let a car turn into the car parts place next to the restaurant.
It's a bad area there. Lots of side drives, a couple streets, et c., hidden by hills and curves on a stretch of the urban section of highway that is TWO FEDERAL highways merged for about two miles or so- US50 and US421. Lots of accidents and no good bypass streets. Sigh.
W.W. CarlislePlayed since January 20, 2019Captain Level- 99 (May 9, 2022)VIP 14Crew Quarters: 485/485Most recent/Lowest- Anbo-jyutsu Kyle Riker (1/5* Lvl 30) 5/29/23Immortalized x-866 5* x184, 4* x 490, 3* x91, 2* x62, and 1* x27Most recent Immortal - Tearful Janeway 4* 5/25/23Current non-event project- Improving my Science base skill. Retrieval Project- Mestral 1/5*
I know! I have around 50 singles, so I'm going through to see if I did Dabo and decided to pop a couple. Sometimes I get good components and I needed some. First one was the 3* Booth by and that was number two. I'm thinking I got my first Attach is the same way. Might have been a 10x, but it was a basic.
W.W. CarlislePlayed since January 20, 2019Captain Level- 99 (May 9, 2022)VIP 14Crew Quarters: 485/485Most recent/Lowest- Anbo-jyutsu Kyle Riker (1/5* Lvl 30) 5/29/23Immortalized x-866 5* x184, 4* x 490, 3* x91, 2* x62, and 1* x27Most recent Immortal - Tearful Janeway 4* 5/25/23Current non-event project- Improving my Science base skill. Retrieval Project- Mestral 1/5*
This has been a big week for me! With the Honor Sale, I was able to finish up the last crew for the Cultural Figure and Tribble collections. Then on Friday, with my latest CR, I was able to max out the Physician Collection. All of these mean I have come as close as I'm likely to ever come to having the collections fully done*.
Also, with the drop of Displaced Mommy Burnham, I have reached my 1000th unique immortalized card!
And finally, with today's daily reward of Tam Elbrun, I now have all the SRs in the game. That has been a goal of mine for years.
All this, in the same week!
* - As you can see, I have the cards for the Gauntlet, but it's TKK; I don't have the Caretaker. I'm not thrilled with the idea of citing up the brand new Gauntlet crew, as I'm expecting to get plenty of drops over time.
I decided to spend ten or fifteen million credits to get some bonus honor (It never did seem quite right to get honor for dismissing crew, let alone for "airlocking" them, but I digress) but I got this gem after a few pulls. I'm very pleased since it gives me another immortalized crew.
The accomplishment story:
I started STT in Oct 2016. Until April 2021, I sent daily shuttles with the intent that they would succeed. I optimized my strategy around using 2-skill crew for shuttles so that I kept all my 3-skill crew available for voyages. I farmed from every faction. It worked well for me. But...
The faction tanking idea was always in the back of my mind, so I finally decided to try it out, starting with Section 31. Per datacore, it was going to take 800 shuttles to tank. Daunting, but I completed it in due course. Naturally, Section 31 didn't get a faction bonus for months after I was done, so I still wasn't sure that this (being tanked) was a thing I wanted to be doing. I went ahead with another faction anyway, figuring I could always resume my old ways if I ultimately didn't enjoy the tanking strategy. And then I did a third faction, and then...
Skip ahead to June 2022, and I have finished tanking all 15 factions after 14 months of intentional failures! [ Insert golf clap sounds here ] Fed was last - it needed 1500 shuttles but the recent string of mid-week OEs has been quite useful for completing this faction.
The question:
For those of you with fully-tanked factions, what do you do after your dailies are done? I've spent nearly 6 years sending out shuttles every time they (and I) were ready. It's a habit, perhaps even a compulsion. Now I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense anymore. Do you still send shuttles all day long, or do you just do enough shuttles to complete your personal/fleet dailies and then wait for the next day to arrive?
The question:
For those of you with fully-tanked factions, what do you do after your dailies are done? I've spent nearly 6 years sending out shuttles every time they (and I) were ready. It's a habit, perhaps even a compulsion. Now I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense anymore. Do you still send shuttles all day long, or do you just do enough shuttles to complete your personal/fleet dailies and then wait for the next day to arrive?
Unless there's a Faction or other event (e.g. Endurance or Midweek) that calls for shuttle missions, I typically do 8 shuttles a day to hit the daily requirement and that's it. Some of those I'll use boosts on, if the possible reward is needed, but not often. I don't waste tokens on the dailies, either.
An accomplishment and a question.
For those of you with fully-tanked factions, what do you do after your dailies are done? I've spent nearly 6 years sending out shuttles every time they (and I) were ready. It's a habit, perhaps even a compulsion. Now I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense anymore. Do you still send shuttles all day long, or do you just do enough shuttles to complete your personal/fleet dailies and then wait for the next day to arrive?
I quit sending shuttles altogether for a while as well (unless I needed to quick farm up some holoprograms), then rethought it.
I have since un-tanked a few factions. Some factions are unlikely ever to win a faction. Those tend also to be the ones without valuable/highly-used common drops that one might farm with tanked shuttles.
So, I run those for the component drops. Of those unloved factions, some provide more-needed components than others. The steady stream of "cheap" 3* and 4* components makes it worth still sending them out. I've got a huge backlog of crew to level, and it helps to save chrons.
I say "cheap" because people have mentioned the merit cost. It's about 10 merits per flight, and I use some of the 1000+ 9-hour double boosts to offset that.
I scroll down a bit before filling shuttles to avoid top voyagers so I'm not shorting myself there.
If you've already leveled all of your crew, components are no longer desirable, and you're truly endgame, though, the only thing that shuttles bring in of value is credits. If you've enough credits for all of your Crew Retrieve needs and would just be converting them to honor with basic packs, then just save the trouble and spend the merits on crew pulls (beyond what you save for rounds of tanked shuttles each time full Factions come around).
None of my factions are tanked and I do well enough. I crew my Voyage before I launch shuttles, so I have my best for the Voyage and the shuttles do fine. I may lack the time assistance, but I've got the wealth of successful shuttles.
W.W. CarlislePlayed since January 20, 2019Captain Level- 99 (May 9, 2022)VIP 14Crew Quarters: 485/485Most recent/Lowest- Anbo-jyutsu Kyle Riker (1/5* Lvl 30) 5/29/23Immortalized x-866 5* x184, 4* x 490, 3* x91, 2* x62, and 1* x27Most recent Immortal - Tearful Janeway 4* 5/25/23Current non-event project- Improving my Science base skill. Retrieval Project- Mestral 1/5*
I've never actually tried for a 12 hour voyage, but I got this yesterday. I almost forgot to recall and when I saw how long it was, I let it go to 11 hours and 45 minutes.
I had a "double luck".
1. I've got a rarity constellation from scans. (I thought that it was available only as event reward.)
2. I've got a legendary polestar when I opened it.
I spent the legendary polestar to get my first Defensive Phlox for gauntlet.
@EnderW, I’m happy and sad for you at the same time. (I’m sure I’m misquoting it, but I’m thinking of Real Genius when Lazlo hears about Knight acing the test and failing anyway.)
Well, I think I can safely declare I finally "caught them all."
Granted, there are three that aren't technically "out" yet, and I have a couple of weeks to let the TempDetJett stars drop organically... but I think it's fair to say I've immortalized all the crew now:
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Well, I think I can safely declare I finally "caught them all."
Granted, there are three that aren't technically "out" yet, and I have a couple of weeks to let the TempDetJett stars drop organically... but I think it's fair to say I've immortalized all the crew now:
Congrats. I’ve done it 3 times. You can get them all on a Wednesday when this week’s pack is available and the announcement of next week’s event is delayed for whatever reason. More improbably and using much dilithium you can if you are very lucky at the Dabo table.
Congrats. I’ve done it 3 times. You can get them all on a Wednesday when this week’s pack is available and the announcement of next week’s event is delayed for whatever reason. More improbably and using much dilithium you can if you are very lucky at the Dabo table.
Indeed. I do watch dabo like a hawk now - I've never won it, but I've never tried to clear the board. I would, if say, Barge Torres popped in there right now, but I haven't been so lucky!
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My first 12hr voyage!
I’ll post the full details in the Roykirk thread when the voyage gets back, but I’m celebrating tonight. Debriefing can happen tomorrow.
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Well done on that - I am getting tantalizingly close. Missing 6 that aren't in the portal though. Closer and closer...
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I got behind after sitting in traffic for over an hour a mile from home, because someone went flying through a 35mph zone and popped over a hill, hitting someone pulling out of a restaurant parking lot after Sunday dinner and flipping their car. I think the guy survived, thank God. We got rear ended there a couple years ago, when we stopped just over the crest of the hill, to let a car turn into the car parts place next to the restaurant.
It's a bad area there. Lots of side drives, a couple streets, et c., hidden by hills and curves on a stretch of the urban section of highway that is TWO FEDERAL highways merged for about two miles or so- US50 and US421. Lots of accidents and no good bypass streets. Sigh.
Well, that didn’t take long. A bunch of Badgeys a.k.a. Mok’bara Worf.
A moment ago I was listed as #1 on all three, had to reload to make a screen shot, but this is still pretty good I think
-- Dr. Zefram Cochrane, around 2073
Took Reno.
Daaaaaaaaaamn! That's wild.
Also, with the drop of Displaced Mommy Burnham, I have reached my 1000th unique immortalized card!
And finally, with today's daily reward of Tam Elbrun, I now have all the SRs in the game. That has been a goal of mine for years.
All this, in the same week!
* - As you can see, I have the cards for the Gauntlet, but it's TKK; I don't have the Caretaker. I'm not thrilled with the idea of citing up the brand new Gauntlet crew, as I'm expecting to get plenty of drops over time.
Not just once... But TWICE!
In the same set of end-rewards.
One after the other.
Ranked 28.
Tease! I don't even get two in one YEAR! That is epic.
The accomplishment story:
I started STT in Oct 2016. Until April 2021, I sent daily shuttles with the intent that they would succeed. I optimized my strategy around using 2-skill crew for shuttles so that I kept all my 3-skill crew available for voyages. I farmed from every faction. It worked well for me. But...
The faction tanking idea was always in the back of my mind, so I finally decided to try it out, starting with Section 31. Per datacore, it was going to take 800 shuttles to tank. Daunting, but I completed it in due course. Naturally, Section 31 didn't get a faction bonus for months after I was done, so I still wasn't sure that this (being tanked) was a thing I wanted to be doing. I went ahead with another faction anyway, figuring I could always resume my old ways if I ultimately didn't enjoy the tanking strategy. And then I did a third faction, and then...
Skip ahead to June 2022, and I have finished tanking all 15 factions after 14 months of intentional failures! [ Insert golf clap sounds here ] Fed was last - it needed 1500 shuttles but the recent string of mid-week OEs has been quite useful for completing this faction.
The question:
For those of you with fully-tanked factions, what do you do after your dailies are done? I've spent nearly 6 years sending out shuttles every time they (and I) were ready. It's a habit, perhaps even a compulsion. Now I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense anymore. Do you still send shuttles all day long, or do you just do enough shuttles to complete your personal/fleet dailies and then wait for the next day to arrive?
Unless there's a Faction or other event (e.g. Endurance or Midweek) that calls for shuttle missions, I typically do 8 shuttles a day to hit the daily requirement and that's it. Some of those I'll use boosts on, if the possible reward is needed, but not often. I don't waste tokens on the dailies, either.
I quit sending shuttles altogether for a while as well (unless I needed to quick farm up some holoprograms), then rethought it.
I have since un-tanked a few factions. Some factions are unlikely ever to win a faction. Those tend also to be the ones without valuable/highly-used common drops that one might farm with tanked shuttles.
So, I run those for the component drops. Of those unloved factions, some provide more-needed components than others. The steady stream of "cheap" 3* and 4* components makes it worth still sending them out. I've got a huge backlog of crew to level, and it helps to save chrons.
I say "cheap" because people have mentioned the merit cost. It's about 10 merits per flight, and I use some of the 1000+ 9-hour double boosts to offset that.
I scroll down a bit before filling shuttles to avoid top voyagers so I'm not shorting myself there.
If you've already leveled all of your crew, components are no longer desirable, and you're truly endgame, though, the only thing that shuttles bring in of value is credits. If you've enough credits for all of your Crew Retrieve needs and would just be converting them to honor with basic packs, then just save the trouble and spend the merits on crew pulls (beyond what you save for rounds of tanked shuttles each time full Factions come around).
1. I've got a rarity constellation from scans. (I thought that it was available only as event reward.)
2. I've got a legendary polestar when I opened it.
I spent the legendary polestar to get my first Defensive Phlox for gauntlet.
Negative: I’m now at a point where I can have three FF’ed Begolds in one 10-pack.
Granted, there are three that aren't technically "out" yet, and I have a couple of weeks to let the TempDetJett stars drop organically... but I think it's fair to say I've immortalized all the crew now:
Ov (Overall) | Vo (Voyage) | Fa (Faction) | Ga (Gauntlet)
Sb (Ship Battle) | Bt (Boss Battle Traits) | Co (Collection) | (Cd (Cadet)
Congrats. I’ve done it 3 times. You can get them all on a Wednesday when this week’s pack is available and the announcement of next week’s event is delayed for whatever reason. More improbably and using much dilithium you can if you are very lucky at the Dabo table.
Indeed. I do watch dabo like a hawk now - I've never won it, but I've never tried to clear the board. I would, if say, Barge Torres popped in there right now, but I haven't been so lucky!
Ov (Overall) | Vo (Voyage) | Fa (Faction) | Ga (Gauntlet)
Sb (Ship Battle) | Bt (Boss Battle Traits) | Co (Collection) | (Cd (Cadet)
I’ll post the full details in the Roykirk thread when the voyage gets back, but I’m celebrating tonight. Debriefing can happen tomorrow.
First time I got a triple behold: 1 Super Rare and 2...count 'em....2 Legendary. This off a 10-pack from the campaign tier.