thank you all again for the continued guidance and hints and outright help.
Today's, early today for Me, question is Lobali crystals. I understand they are basically another recognition thing, ISH. My question comes in that I wonder if they are truly worth much to Me. I spent a few zen and got a V lock box and master key and opened them up and I find that with each of the random items there were 4 of these crystals in every box. While chasing down the daily Omega particle for Q I wound up at a starbase that had a place called the Lobali traders (or something close to that) that will basically take these crystals as currency and lo and behold one of the things they can be used for is buying Qmendations (10-20 for the cost of 5 crystals)
My point is, suddenly I have the potential to cut down on the number of days it would take to complete the quest and get the ship.....so do the crystals hold a future or current value to Me other than taking up an inventory slot?
the dyson sphere mark is just like the nukara mark. It is currency you can spend for gear after level 50.
Honestly its mostly a joke. 1 mark... you need *several thousand of them*. If you used the tribble daily for a year and STILL were below level 50, your 365 marks would be a good starting point and save you about a week of work at 50. But you probably will hit 50 within a month or two, and the # of marks earned by tribble are gonna be worth .... 1 day's effort ...
LOBI are *valuable*. Wasting them on Qmendations which can be had for doing a daily quest is a serious waste of this currency. LOBI are had from 2 sources:
- opening lock boxes, which is expensive (either in real money, or in game money, they cost)
- rare special events give a few free every year. By a few, I mean, a new ship costs 900 lobi. You get less than 50/year for free, if that.
If you buy a cannibal tribble or two, you can keep the tribbles from multiplying too much. You can also sell the tribble carcass on the exchange.
For anyone who doesn't know, the reason tribble carcasses aren't trash is because KDF can convert them into GPL. I think it's 5 for 1000.
That's why I like to keep one live tribble on me, so when I pick up all that junk food from wandering around, I can get a horde of tribbles. Then I put my seed tribble safely away, and unleash a half dozen cannibals to clean up. Then I send the lot over to my Orion and have her turn them into GPL.
the dyson sphere mark is just like the nukara mark. It is currency you can spend for gear after level 50.
Honestly its mostly a joke. 1 mark... you need *several thousand of them*. If you used the tribble daily for a year and STILL were below level 50, your 365 marks would be a good starting point and save you about a week of work at 50. But you probably will hit 50 within a month or two, and the # of marks earned by tribble are gonna be worth .... 1 day's effort ...
LOBI are *valuable*. Wasting them on Qmendations which can be had for doing a daily quest is a serious waste of this currency. LOBI are had from 2 sources:
- opening lock boxes, which is expensive (either in real money, or in game money, they cost)
- rare special events give a few free every year. By a few, I mean, a new ship costs 900 lobi. You get less than 50/year for free, if that.
They are not a joke. You only need 15 to do the hourly or 30 for the daily rep projects. Also you can convert marks to dilithium, each mark is worth 10 dil. And the solonae tribble gives a big crit bonus, while the nukara tribble gives a big radiation damage resist buff. Both are good even if you ignore the mark. No, you're not going to pay for a new engine by petting a tribble, but that doesn't mean they are worthless either.
As for lobi, they are the consolation prize in the lockbox. The lobi store has some amazing stuff. The new vaadwaur cruiser, for example, has possibly the most powerful ship trait in the game. There are gear sets and costumes and pets as well.
The lobi for qmendations is a really bad deal. Only do it as a last resort if you're going to miss the ship by like one or two days and you don't want to wait a year to finish.
My personal recommendation is to only spend lobi on things that are bound. For example, there are weapons (an undine wrist blaster, or ferengi energy whip) that bind on pickup. Or last years dyson destroyer. Other things can be bought on the auction house, like the voth light soldier costume or the vaadwaur costume, or the pets. In general it is easier to earn energy credits than lobi so buying the items on the ah is easier.
To do the math, the vaadwaur costume costs 150 lobi. At 4.5 average per box that's 33 keys worth of lobi and those keys could be sold to earn 82 million ec.but the vaadwaur costume only costs ~28 million ec. Far cheaper to buy on the ah than spend lobi on it.
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Today's, early today for Me, question is Lobali crystals. I understand they are basically another recognition thing, ISH. My question comes in that I wonder if they are truly worth much to Me. I spent a few zen and got a V lock box and master key and opened them up and I find that with each of the random items there were 4 of these crystals in every box. While chasing down the daily Omega particle for Q I wound up at a starbase that had a place called the Lobali traders (or something close to that) that will basically take these crystals as currency and lo and behold one of the things they can be used for is buying Qmendations (10-20 for the cost of 5 crystals)
My point is, suddenly I have the potential to cut down on the number of days it would take to complete the quest and get the ship.....so do the crystals hold a future or current value to Me other than taking up an inventory slot?
the dyson sphere mark is just like the nukara mark. It is currency you can spend for gear after level 50.
Honestly its mostly a joke. 1 mark... you need *several thousand of them*. If you used the tribble daily for a year and STILL were below level 50, your 365 marks would be a good starting point and save you about a week of work at 50. But you probably will hit 50 within a month or two, and the # of marks earned by tribble are gonna be worth .... 1 day's effort ...
LOBI are *valuable*. Wasting them on Qmendations which can be had for doing a daily quest is a serious waste of this currency. LOBI are had from 2 sources:
- opening lock boxes, which is expensive (either in real money, or in game money, they cost)
- rare special events give a few free every year. By a few, I mean, a new ship costs 900 lobi. You get less than 50/year for free, if that.
For anyone who doesn't know, the reason tribble carcasses aren't trash is because KDF can convert them into GPL. I think it's 5 for 1000.
That's why I like to keep one live tribble on me, so when I pick up all that junk food from wandering around, I can get a horde of tribbles. Then I put my seed tribble safely away, and unleash a half dozen cannibals to clean up. Then I send the lot over to my Orion and have her turn them into GPL.
Better is to have a Klingon apt take them. Either to turn them in for thousands of latinum or to bake them into tribble kebabs or baked tribble.
They are not a joke. You only need 15 to do the hourly or 30 for the daily rep projects. Also you can convert marks to dilithium, each mark is worth 10 dil. And the solonae tribble gives a big crit bonus, while the nukara tribble gives a big radiation damage resist buff. Both are good even if you ignore the mark. No, you're not going to pay for a new engine by petting a tribble, but that doesn't mean they are worthless either.
As for lobi, they are the consolation prize in the lockbox. The lobi store has some amazing stuff. The new vaadwaur cruiser, for example, has possibly the most powerful ship trait in the game. There are gear sets and costumes and pets as well.
The lobi for qmendations is a really bad deal. Only do it as a last resort if you're going to miss the ship by like one or two days and you don't want to wait a year to finish.
My personal recommendation is to only spend lobi on things that are bound. For example, there are weapons (an undine wrist blaster, or ferengi energy whip) that bind on pickup. Or last years dyson destroyer. Other things can be bought on the auction house, like the voth light soldier costume or the vaadwaur costume, or the pets. In general it is easier to earn energy credits than lobi so buying the items on the ah is easier.
To do the math, the vaadwaur costume costs 150 lobi. At 4.5 average per box that's 33 keys worth of lobi and those keys could be sold to earn 82 million ec.but the vaadwaur costume only costs ~28 million ec. Far cheaper to buy on the ah than spend lobi on it.
Turning them into food requires living ones, and only a specific one, right?
Too annoying to try and gather a specific tribble.