I like to post good news occasionally and, given the fact that it took me almost a year and four motnhs [including my downtime] to achieve this, I'm very very happy!

Tomorrow I'll be outfitting my ship with weaopns and then it's off to the Devidian missions!

Everyone watch for the U.S.S. Salvatore, Registry Number NCC-91840! (Exploration Class Retrofit)

Live Long and Prosper!
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In my opinion you should craft the high level rare Tetryon Beam Arrays and Quantum Torpedoes, I swear by them.
I should also add congrats
I've never really tried crafting, so I'm not sure how to do it. hehe
You'd need to farm red anomalies from Delta Volanis to craft schematics, and then purple anomalies from B'Tran Cluster (Vice Admiral) to get your rare Mk XI equipment and Aegis tech, then craft on Memory Alpha
Thanks!
That's what I'm doing, I'm creating a Fed for each career path, it's pretty rewarding, you have to change your play style to suit whichever career you're playing
Any kind of red and purple anomaly or do they have to be specific ones? And how many of them would I need?
I appreciate the help on this; I guess you could call me a "crafting virgin". LOL
Any of the 3 purple anomalies will do, for a full list of what you need, check out the R & D Progress in the drop down menu. to craft all the gear you'll probably need all of them, the gear itself costs a lot of anomalies, but if you scan for anomalies in the cluster and explore systems as well, you should have all you need in about 6 or 7 hours of playing
Oh, and I forgot that you'll also need the rare trace scans as well
I never noticed the anomalies having dıfferent colors...... I just scanned and hoped I got something good.
Congrats by the way on your achievment. I would also say spec for Tetryon weapons and quantums. Tets bring down shields pretty fast and the quantums tear up the hull. Of course this all depends on your play style too. You should have a couple of respec tokens by now so just play around wıth dıfferent set ups to fınd what you thınk works best for you.
Thanks for the congrats and the advice!
Guess it was a good thing I got the Lifetime Sub, then! hehe
T0 go along with crafting, if this hasn't been alread said, ya'll need to have a vertain skill level in R&D skills to craft upper level items, I think around 1400-1500 R&D process to craft Mk X, Mk XI, and the Aegis set. Each item ya craft will give ya a set number of points. Each schematic is 10 and the crafted items give different ammounts depending on what is being crafted. like 20 for uncommon Mk II and I think 30 for rare MK IV items (been a while sine I've looked at it).
Oh yeah....it takes a LOT of planning and TIME!
Thanks Captain_Zero, I had forgotten to add that