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I got six characters (have resisted making a Discovery character). Three Fed, three KDF. So I can’t afford to put any of them on the sidelines just yet. In fact I’ve been trying to avoid getting to that point in STO. Four of the characters have maxed their Commendations, two (Delta and Jemhadar) are working on it. They’d be closer to done by now, but the whole “desktop started impersonating paperweight” thing put me behind on a lot of my “busy work”.
My KDF characters all Counterband farm. I have noticed a surplus of Counterband build up, but I’m uncertain what the proper ratio of KDF to Fed are just yet. Sending them back up into space from Qo’nos so as to use the security officer is a bit of a few minute hassle that adds up across all characters, but one trick I find that works well is to station my Romulan KDF aligned character on New Romulus; less sectors to cross, and he can check for recruitment missions for Romulan and Reman bridge officers.
Everyone does Admirality, everyone does Counterband with the Security agent. KDF also send prisoners to the labor camps to suck up their prisoners. Two “new” characters are still doing general Doffing, including colonies, and getting their R&Ds to 15. I’m debating on if I’ll do the grind to 20 on them. Everyone is still working on T6, with Gama Rep still needing to hit T5 on one character.
When I was still farming holiday currency I had them all just DOFFing in Q’s Wonderland, similarly with Risa and the Horgan Hunt. This makes the holidays a nice change of routine, even if it hurts the Dill income.
Currently this takes over and hour to handle dailies. This is including the daily holiday race. Once the Reps are done I expect things to lighten up considerably, but still batting close to an hour. Biggest time sinks are the Counterband farm and Admiralty, and on days when I need to take an “off day” for RL reasons I will skip them both. As stated, I have an surplus of Counterband, so I can afford to do this; the biggest concern is to make sure those 20 hour cool downs get checked close to the same time each day.
I’m not certain how things will change as the roster of characters grow, but I’m not planning on making any characters just mules so until the “new” characters catch up to everything but R&D, it would take a recruitment event for me to roll more. Goodness knows I have a backlog of ships that need their masteries on every single character.
I understand that there are more Federation characters, but considering I do my best to keep my Fed and KDF sides balanced (and my Jem character will be KDF) I feel I must shed a single tear to this three to one imbalanced.
Guild Wars 2 is my other MMO, so I’m a big fan of the account unlock part of the system. If I have any worries it is the uncertainty on how many skill points we can gain compared to how many skills there are to acquire, and if the two are unequal will they require retrain tokens like our current skill system. Answers to those unknowns could really spoil a net positive.
I have the Zen for it, though I’m certainly not going to shell out actual cash. I picked up lifetime, and that is enough for… well a lifetime for me.
Though this pack is surprisingly worth it’s value just on the ships. The T5 and Cardassian ships are account unlocks, but in an indirect fashion so are the Jem’Hadar ships. That “unlocks for the rest of the account once mastered line” doesn’t apply to the Ship Trait like would be reasonable to expect. Instead it applies to the ship; the devs are making this fact clear on both the forum and on Reddit. That makes six T6 multifaction unlocks and two T5 multifaction unlocks… plus two premium races, and one uniform. I’m buying this on Zen, but I am most certainly buying it because that is worth it on so many levels.
By the way, how much of a delay is there normally between the release of the expansion and when these things get put into the C-Store? I wasn’t paying close enough attention during Agents of Yesterday to notice if it was on release or not.
…I’m going to have to keep whatever I threw together before this was posted, because some of these colors are just next to impossible.
Well, no. Scratch that. Literally are impossible.
On the Romulan Belt (Romulan Klingon Side if it matters) B16 is a hideous rose color that completely clashes with the entire point of the blue suit, not to mention it’s third color slot only goes up to B1.
Shoe Armor Suit (on once again Romulan Klingon) cuts out at F16.
Which is almost a moot point as even on the Fed side the pants just don’t match the jacket at all. But the official fleet color references should at least have color references that work.
