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I was checking out the prizes in each tier and after doing so I noticed you really can’t do worse than break even. If you take the phoenix upgrade into account. Usually we use superior tech upgrades when upgrading our gear. one of those costs 1075 dilithium to use and gives 12,800 tech points. The Phoenix upgrade has no dilithium cost and gives 51,200 tech points. That’s exactly 4 times the tech points. So taking the dilithium cost of the usual superior upgrade times four gives a cost of 4300 dilithium.
That means for 4500 each Phoenix box, the worst outcome of opening one being an uncommon token. And a Phoenix upgrade costing one uncommon token. The 4500 dilithium cost of the box is negated by the 4300 dilithium worth of upgrade you get with the remaining 200 dilithium basically being explained away by not having to use your crafting mats or ec to obtain the 4 superior upgrades it would take to exactly equal the Phoenix upgrade.
If you buy the 10 pack of Phoenix boxes they only cost 4000 per box. Making the outcome an actual gain.
Something I’ve noticed since the big patch is that it’s now very worthwhile to do one of the daily ground missions on New Romulus each day. With the daily bonus you used to get 720 dilithium and 75 marks. After the patch with the daily bonus you get over 1000 dilithium and 85 marks. I beam down each day and just do the staging area mission. Takes just a few minutes and the returns are pretty good.
A note about the daily at the fleet research lab. Even if you’re on a fairly fresh toon with very few R&D materials I’ve found that if you can manage to do the daily once, the blue quality materials you get after completing it can usually be sold on the exchange for more than what it will cost to replace the lower quality mats required in order to do the daily again the next day. Between this and the New Romulus daily I mention above, you’ll pull in about 2250 or so dilithium a day on each toon for minimal time and effort. With admiralty and doffing thrown in on top of that it significantly cuts down on the 8k per day you’ll want on each toon.
I logged in when the server was back up. Got in and went to check out the graphics options and redo all of my settings. Everything was working well until I turned on lighting 2.0. I immediately had a ctd and it would freeze on the loading screen every time I tried restarting. Force verify and safe mode didn’t help. Tried uninstalling and am in the process of reinstalling now.
The layout looks nice and the functions all seem to work smoothly. If I were to give criticism it would be that we had a great deal of pictures in our gallery that have either been discarded or access to them isn’t available. I remember a fleet contest just a few months ago to replace the main page pictures and those all appear to be gone now. The gallery may not have been utilized much but for those who wanted to take a trip down memory lane or just see a history of the fleet in pictures it was nice to have.
I’m certain it was a great deal of work overall and an exercise in frustration at times. Thank you for all of the time and effort put into this project.
Have to throw my hat into the ring on this one. I love a screenshot contest. And it certainly helps that I adore the T6 Constitution.
edit: Looks like you have to right click my image and select “open image in new tab” to see all of it. I can never remember how to get the whole image in a post, sorry.
I currently run 13 toons. There are several benefits to having multiple toons. First, as everyone has said, dilithium farming. With KDF pulling in way more contraband than Fed you can of course turn in contraband for dilithium. Personally, I use contraband as a way to make more ec. I let my contraband add up until a dilithium weekend is announced. That makes the demand for contraband go up and I can sell each stack of contraband for approximately 12 million ec. Even with dilithium weekends coming significantly more frequently than they used to I tend to be able to accumulate 5 stacks (give or take a stack) between dilithium weekends.
This leads to my next point on why I prefer getting ec for contraband over dilithium. With 13 toons I can refine 8k dilithium per day on each of them. I don’t, mind you. But I do average 8k refinement per day on 7 of them. Another 3 average 4k refined per day. While the final 3 average 2k per day. So on a normal day I refine around 74k dilithium. With that much coming in I don’t need the dilithium that contraband turn ins would get me. With admiralty my average daily refinement has gone up but I prefer to err on the side of caution so I continue to quote my pre-admiralty numbers.
Outside of wealth generation there’s of course the bonus of always having another toon with a different playstyle available for those days when you’re bored of the same old same old of your main. I’d just make the suggestion that when upgrading gear you should focus on one toon at a time. Get one completely upgraded as you’d like before starting on another. As new gear comes out that you want to upgrade you can always revisit a toon to upgrade one or two more new pieces for them. Spreading out upgrades over multiple toons at the same time draws your resources too thin and doesn’t give you a feeling of progressing on any of them.
I’ll readily admit that part of the reason for my disappointment in them is that at the mention of coming T6 flagships, I was hooked. I imagined them to be innovative. They’d do something with them that they hadn’t done before. They’re flagships. So I expected them to be unique. But honestly, look at every T6 variant of a ship that was already in the game at T5 and there’s a pattern. They are often nearly the same in every aspect. More hull, the addition of a hybrid seat, and a starship trait is usually all the T6 offers over it’s older T5 version. They followed suit with the flagships as well.
My main is a tank and I have a collection of ships that are good for tanking on him. The Yorktown is going to be a decent tank so I will probably pick it up for that reason alone. But I will certainly not be picking up a 3 or 9 pack as I had initially intended. I’d really hoped to see some good starship mastery traits too. Something that would make me rethink the 5 that I currently use.
I also wish the Sojourner skin and Yorktown skins were switched because I LOVE the look of the Sojourner. But at least I like the Yorktown’s look better than the Endeavour’s. Something about the Endeavour’s saucer that feels wrong to me. But of course that’s about what pleases my eye and has no bearing on performance.
Ok. So, Borticus has released an official statement regarding the changes to kemocite. It’s kind of a mixed bag. Still a kick in the shorts to all those that paid so much ec for one copy of klw1 that they could have bought a ship instead. Looks like it won’t be coming back as it was but it will be better than it is now.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/44zszf/an_official_response_from_borticus_regarding/
Just got done watching a live stream where they were discussing the change to kemocite. Borticus was in the chat and stated that he knew nothing about changes to kemocite in the last patch and said he’d look into it. Something else he mentioned was that we all know that many times when something gets changed like that and isn’t shown in patch notes that it’s often a bug. So this raises my hopes that kemocite will get set right again. Fingers crossed.
There’s been no confirmation yet from Cryptic as to whether the “nerf” to kemocite was intentional or not. It’s of course entirely possible for it to be intended (while keeping the change out of the patch notes), but as we’ve seen numerous times before it’s equally possible that Cryptic broke one thing while trying to fix another. If that’s the case we could see it restored. At the very least I hope that they will revisit it to tune it up a bit. That said, it isn’t useless. I still have it slotted on a couple of builds simply because I seem to end up with one pesky ensign tactical slot leftover after slotting all of my other abilities. So, instead of putting in something that’s not going to benefit me I slot kemocite. It does still debuff. Even if at present it’s damage is greatly reduced. Better than nothing in that case.
I see. I was going to suggest something a bit pricier than what you are looking to pay. I don’t like being stuck in one room while using my computer so i only buy laptops. Usually would buy something around $600 and in a year it would be incapable of running anything new. So three years ago I decided to dig up the extra money to buy a more powerful laptop. My thinking was I could pay $600 for one again that would really only last me a year or pay in the range of $1500 and get something that should be able to run everything new coming out for 5 years. I ended up spending $1400 and three years later it’s still running everything on max settings. Most recently I’ve played Guild Wars 2 and Star Trek Online both on highest settings without so much as a hiccup. So I’m thinking getting another 2 or 3 years out of this one isn’t out of the question. I did recently look at what I could get for a comparable price if I were looking for a replacement now. I found another laptop from the same company that made mine for only $1200 or $1300 that was easily twice as good as what I use.
I’d hate to see you forced out of the game by such an unfortunate problem, so I hope you’re able to sort things out in time.
@Lhivera wrote:
It’d be awesome to be able to run STO at max graphics settings, but cost is the primary concern, since I won’t be using it for anything but gaming, if I actually do this.
I’m just curious what you’d consider your budget to be if you were to look for a pc to use for gaming?
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