Ok if you have not started you are in for a costly adventure.
Lets say you wake up and start New Years day. If you set your alarm every 20 hours you should be able to get 15 runs min before the 14th - that's assuming they are not extra kind and extend it to the 17th patch day.
15 x 40 = 600 pics
So you need 400 pic's - how much will that cost.
Ok you get about 5 lobi per box and 4 pics per ?Q?s Appreciation Package?(5 lobi each)
so you will need to open approx 100 keys to get the Lobi required
going rate for keys on the exchange is about $1.2 million for a total of $120 million EC
Or from the Zen store it will cost 11,250 Zen
Of course every day you miss the cost will go up!!
Full cost of the ship would be 250 Q packs or 1250 lobi
1250 lobi/5 per box = 250 boxes
250 boxes = approx $300 million EC
250 keys from the Zen store will cost over 28,000 Zen
Yikes
My advice would be to buy 10+ C-store ships instead or A Jem Bug - or a Galor+D'kora+Temporal ship + a few other things
Good luck
Edit: I should note that the odds of getting the grand prize from any lock box are about 1/180 plus you get a lot of other stuff you can sell - that will reduce your overall EC cost.
P.S. If you have over $250 U.S dollars to blow on a ship we need you in our fleet!!
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unless the breen ship is heading over the lobi store.
If you stick to Ferengi Lock Boxes (up to twenty lobi cyrstals at times) it is plausible. However, at this point, it would be costly.
Sorry.
On average it should cost you $115 dollars US to obtain the Breen vessel from scratch, using only minimum figures.
That is only 2 Q pic per Appreciation Box & 4 Lobi Crystals per Lockbox.
The $115 dollar US price tag stems from the premise that you'll be purchasing Zen with real money.
The amount will differ in a player's favor because it is more than likely that upon opening a Q appreciation box and lockboxes, you'll probably get some 6 pic figures in there, while Lobi returns anywhere from 4 to 10 Crystals.
At least they got to feel special for 3 weeks before most people get their ships this week. That's how they will justify the cost in their heads. :eek:
The madman here I wonder about is Stark2k - running this thing on 45 toons?? That would drive me to drink!!!
how he does this thing every day straight for 2+hrs is a mystery!
http://images.cryhavok.org/d/14032-1/Pics+or+it+Didn_t+Happen.jpg
God, lvl 60 CW. 17k.
Assuming no failures that is 1145 runs!! - and I would say running it 2hrs+ a day on 45 toons your going to slip up at least once per day just from bordom or tired fingers - so i would put it at 1200+ runs
Just the thought is Mind Numbing!!!:eek::P
All too often I quit playing after the races.
By the way all my Fed toons -1 got their Breen vessel on Sunday (12/30/2012
All my KDF toons -2 got theirs on Monday (12/31/2012)
The +2 toons on my sec account will get theirs within the week.
The 3alts on my Main that need the races, by next week.
Trust me half way through the races I thought of giving up many times - but now that the bulk of my toons have it, its a huge sigh of relief.
My last 5 alts should be a walk in the park.
ha
A friend messaged me to get me back into the game, dropping the news that I could get one of the ships I've always thought looked pretty cool. Unfortunately for me, after I logged in and did the race a couple of days, I realized that doing it once a day would be 24 days only on the characters with which I chose to go for it.
My alarm will be attempting to help me pick up that extra day thanks to the 4 hours I might be able to gain between now and the 14th. :P
I definitely don't want to spend any real money.
equal parts cynical and helpful