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Great to see a new fleetmate with an interest in the KDF side of the house. The 44th is a great fleet with lots of helpful members; I’d be helpful too but I’m not especially savvy at game stuff 🙂 .
If you were a fed player first and foremost I’d tell you that the KDF starbase is a much better location to survey the galaxy from unless you are a fan of gardening 😀 . We haven’t got the interior design project complete yet but when it is it will be awesome. Since you already know this to be true, welcome.
44th assault is by nature a slower burn project than 44th fleet. We have made great progress in spite of having a fairly small team and I’ve had a good bit of fun. It’s nice to hook up with the rest of the team for a fleet mark event and make projects happen; I’ve learned a bit from the others along the way.
Hmm, When I posted earlier I wasn’t sure about the fleet marks as I hadn’t noted an improvement in my total. Just the same 24 was tagged as a fleet something or other event so I was hoping. Oh well, still would be nice to get some some high end treats to take to market. Who knows If I’m really fortunate something I would really like for one of my characters might drop; this would be even better 🙂 .
I’ve been playing starbase 24 to level my newest character and to earn a few FM as I go (I think I’m earning FM). I have got a couple respectable items (they are level appropriate so what I’ve received is not mk11). I intend to keep at this to VA and if the prizes seem alright I’d prefer it to the confusion of Kerrat (my “favorite” frustrations being buggy probes all Pegasus-phased into objects and shooting chunks out of my ship when I can’t reciprocate and the invisible probes that do the same).
Thanks for the tip! 🙂 That’s something to look forward to.
Is that a safe question to answer? I’d rather not be responsible for encouraging foul habits 🙂 . The safe answer is the odds of getting something useful are quite reasonable; More so than they have been with previous incarnations of boxes. I wouldn’t say the useful thing will necessarily be a ship.
I”ve picked at the odds though I haven’t completed my “plan” because the drop odds aren’t as high YET. More than a few fleet members have mirror ships (I haven’t unboxed mine because I’m uncertain of their fate until I’ve played the odds to the bitter end) and there is a single Tholian Cruiser out there.
Unless somebody has a nest egg of Lobi from the last event I doubt anyone can give you a “hands on” review of the recluse or fighter. It is a possibility there is a closeted box fiend somewhere who could comment on these but they haven’t yet been forthcoming about their “problem” with their peers 😀 .
@Sargon: Congrats 😀 . Are you going to fly it or sell it? If I was in your situation it would be a very hard call. As a sci ship I think the layout/set up is hot but aesthetically it does nothing for me. Either way you could have a solid end game ship if you ever wanted to pursue a career in the sciences (it probably flies a bit like one of the faster cruisers) or you will be able to make yourself rich.
@Cross82: I wish I was more jazzed about the fleet ships. Before I saw the statlines I considered joining a fleet as a means of getting one. When I saw the stats I was rather underwhelmed. By the time I had joined the 44th I’d learned about fleet mods, single character unlocks and tier 5 shutouts and as a result I’m far more discriminating when I look at them. I’m at the point I’m thinking being part of the fleet was the prize and the ships are a dubious honour.as a addition I opened boxes 8-10 the other evening. I was fairly certain I’d made my money back on the projected 30 before now I figure it’s in the bag.
5000 fm bonus x2
point defence/jump console x1Box 10 saw the pd/j cross faction console. Sold off to a klingon player this one could net a good payout. I tend to avoid gimmick consoles because they take up a slot that could be used for something more directly associated with my total build and they all seem to suffer from long cooldowns which make them unattractive when I compare them to BOff powers. I may hold this one for myself because it would feel pretty good to obliterate a rash of tractor pets in the blink of an eye before punishing their shocked owner. If there is anything that has market value apart from the tholian vessel this could have the potential to be the second place item. Got a 2 million quote on the mirror ships. I’m not surprised they are a bit low but 2 million is okay cash. If more appear in the next 20 I’m pretty sure I’d hold the the one I prefer but as it stands a science geared cruiser sounds like it might get my fed engineer out of mothballs: who knows?
@sargon: I started playing just before the cardassian boxes were introduced. I never tried them and having them cluttering my screen just made me mad. When the next wave arrived I took a note from the ferengi they were themed on and realized playing the speculating game might reduce my frustration with their constant appearances.There are no certainties playing the lock box game. I wouldn’t trust my “luck” any further than I could throw it. Me getting the tholian “ultimate prize” is an impossibility but hitting a couple of the lower laying fruit on the tree will enable me to improve the quality of my characters for a fairly low investment into the game. I guess if I’m probability challenged (more PC than unlucky ;)) I can lower my excpectations and not be as likely to take it to heart or subscribe to the, “it must be in the next one” mentality that is so hurtful to some people.
@latinumbar: No question I prefer getting what I pay for. If I was set on a particular item I wouldn’t touch lock boxes. Because I am foolish enough to have many characters getting little tickets items to distribute among the many is just as good as one “super prize”.There are some ships that interest me; But not too many. Since I favor my science officer I am interested in a few of the science ships. Looking across the shipyards as they were I think this class of vessels sort of fell by the wayside. The interpid improvement is a tier 5 so I won’t hold my breath on it’s arrival. My other two fed characters are both got spoiled with a carrier escort so I don’t think they are needy.
I really like my klingons but a first glance I’m not jumping up and down. The nausican destroyer looks fairly impressive and the criusers have non garbage truck turn rates so that is nice. I’m glad the B’rel got a little hull buff so I can’t see ditching it for either of the new birds. The Hegh Ta doesn’t do anything the B’rel can’t do and the other ship though it has crazy bridge seating is a little too much glass cannon for my liking (with all the potential combinations with those universal chairs because of it’s laughable hull it is most likely going to be wasted as blink in blink out torpedo boat BOO!
Im relatively new to the STFs. I’m about a month into doing them infrequently. My participation has been with PUGS and on Normal Space exclusively.
I haven’t found it too bad. I had heard so many horror stories about them I avoided them for my first 4-5 months of play. Whether a secondary was accomplished or not it tends to be dependent on the group as a whole. I mostly play science so I tend to move the crowd control jobs. More often than not the degree of coordination between teams I’ve been involved with is pretty random.
I’m guessing the 10% rule is more commonly implemented at the elite level. I never ran into really abusive or ignorant people, just monor stuff. The worst was a pretty messed up team that was all over the place where one guy piped up after the fact and gave everyone a tonguelashing. I replied that if he wanted to play leader a good time to have done it might have been the onset of the mission.
Personally I’m not confident enough that I’d want to tell other people what they should do. I like it when a more experienced player commands the fleet and assigns tasks or gives a prompt. There are too many times I’ve been left scratching my head and wondering what went wrong when a secondary goes red that I should be in command.
My “main” has a vet set and mk 11 gear but so I’m wondering if I’d be read to try elite with some coaching. I have never tried ground except for story missions and an accidental PvP a couple days ago (I thought it was a space PvP challenge and got stomped 15-6 by a guy who was 10 levels higher than me 🙁 ). Not a big fan of ground but it would be nice to try and earn cool costumes 🙂 .
