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sennahcherib
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Currently, my main has 16 specialization points, all the spec trees are filled. Each time, that I earn a new spec point, it is not added to the pile. what happens to the xp earnt? and why, the spec points are not added to the pile?
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No idea how you have 16 extra. Perhaps they are from Featured Episode reward boxes and those don't count? I really have no clue.
Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
If a new Specialization is released you can immediately spend those 16 Points on that Spec. When you earn Spec Points after a new Spec releases you can fill that Specialization completely and go beyond by 16 Points. After that you will gain no more Points but will get the Dilitium.
If the next Specialization is released and you have less than 16 extra (say 3) that 3 then becomes your 'zero' point base and earned Points above 3 after you completely fill in that new Specialization will award Dilitium instead.
I hope that was not confusing.
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That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
You only start earning that 2,880 Dilitium in place of Spec Points once all Specializations are completely filled. Currently that is 198 Points.
You can always 'store' boxed Spec Points that are awarded for things like Featured Episodes, just don't open them if you don't need the Spec Point at this time.
16 is YOUR zero base now. If you don't want that high a zero base after the next Specialization is introduced, basically you will have to stop playing that Character after that new Specialization is filled in until the next Specialization after that is introduced. From that point on your zero base is zero and after that Specialization is filled in you will begin getting that 2,880 Dilitium per Spec Point.
Just a note. When you are at max Spec Points, the Federation Admiralty Campaign 10 of 10 Assignment will NOT award 2 Spec Points but 5,760 Dilitium instead. It seems a bit of a rip off at that stage in comparison with the 30,000 Dilitium awarded by the 10 of 10 for the KDF or Ferengi Campaigns.
Personally, given how much Dilitium is thrown at us in this game, I would rather bank Spec Points for later to speed up completion of a new Specialization.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
impossible, she is my main and favorite character. Now, i know why I have 16 points stored.
yes, my main has already a ton of dil. curiosity was the motivation of my question
Originally spec points past the maximum (all specializations completed) were converted to 2.8k ore. That was changed so that spec points could instead be accumulated. The points were then later changed back to the 2.8k ore conversion instead of accumulating *BUT* the points players had already accumulated during that in between time were not converted, effectively increasing the amount of spendable specialization points even though there was nothing to spend them on without the next released specialization. The part that ties in to ltminns' zero base idea is that points earned above the spendable specialization points are now converted to ore, but that number is not the same for players who managed to accumulate points during the in between time which would explain why he emphasized YOUR zero base. My main has 28 unspent points (with all current specializations maxed) so when the next specialization comes out I'm pretty much done with it. Assuming I complete it any new points will go back in to my unspent pool until 28 is reached after which they will be converted into ore again. If, for some reason, I decided to pass on the specialization my unspent pool could potentially reach 58 points before conversion resumes.
*For some reason I seem to remember there being three transitions instead of two where we accumulated, converted, accumulated, and converted but the number of transitions isn't that important.
Then they realized that people could max a Specialization right after it released so they began awarding Dilitium again as the 'exploit' was closed. Only certain people could accumulate more based upon their zero point.
I have a Character at 27.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
While at first it seems like its a good boost for your dil, it really isn't there are other and better sources for it and specialization points will always be needed in some shape or form.