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F2P guys how long has it taken you to hit 3000 ZEN

hojain2020hojain2020 Member Posts: 417 Arc User
edited April 2015 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Hi guys, (vets {pre-2014} dont bother with this post) Just wondering Its taken me 6 months with one main and 3 new Delta recruit alts to accrue enough DIL for 3K zen -- this is apart from
1.) A competitive t5-u or t-6 ship you may have decided to spend the 30 to 60 dollars from
2.) expenditure to be competitive at advanced ques that is you can do atleast 30k in ISA ... (this can include loads of things so i wont bother to list em)
3) earn enough dil to respec captain skills to something that fits your ship and build.
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  • lingeringsoul888lingeringsoul888 Member Posts: 509 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    my first 2000 Zen took forever, 6 months.

    Then I got myself 2 other alt characters to grind with, my next 2k took a month because I REALLY wanted to buy something.

    now I have 3k zen sitting there playing the market as I don't have any urgent need for it.

    to gear up a ship.............that look hell of a lot longer, took me 6 month to learn the fine art of building a ship. Took forever to level up the R&D to craft stuff.
  • stf65stf65 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    at 8,000 dilithium per day you can make over 1,000 per month using 1 character. It takes about an hour to do a dinosaur hunt and make your 8k.
  • hojain2020hojain2020 Member Posts: 417 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    lingeringsoul888 wrote: »
    my first 2000 Zen took forever, 6 months.

    Then I got myself 2 other alt characters to grind with, my next 2k took a month because I REALLY wanted to buy something.

    now I have 3k zen sitting there playing the market as I don't have any urgent need for it.

    to gear up a ship.............that look hell of a lot longer, took me 6 month to learn the fine art of building a ship. Took forever to level up the R&D to craft stuff.

    Ahh nice good to know they are a few f2p peeps still here!
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  • hojain2020hojain2020 Member Posts: 417 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    stf65 wrote: »
    at 8,000 dilithium per day you can make over 1,000 per month using 1 character. It takes about an hour to do a dinosaur hunt and make your 8k.

    whats your gear/traits you put on your character to be a contributor to the dino hunt?
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    2-3 days or so. Plus longer to refine it of course, but the grinding done in a few days. You don't have to cheat or anything, you just find something that makes a good return on playtime investment then wait till a dil weekend and treat it like an assembly line over and over and over. Weekend ends, you have enough dil to run on for a couple of months of playing only what you want. Work smarter not harder, as they say, and I certainly wouldn't work hard at this game.
  • virusdancervirusdancer Member Posts: 18,687 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Would take around 9 days to make 3000 Zen at the current Exchange rate...about 90-100 minutes a day.
  • hojain2020hojain2020 Member Posts: 417 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    2-3 days or so. Plus longer to refine it of course, but the grinding done in a few days. You don't have to cheat or anything, you just find something that makes a good return on playtime investment then wait till a dil weekend and treat it like an assembly line over and over and over. Weekend ends, you have enough dil to run on for a couple of months of playing only what you want. Work smarter not harder, as they say, and I certainly wouldn't work hard at this game.

    yep! plus the turn in 500 repstuff for 5k dil at 5 seconds has helped immensely too in rep stuff. this Delta Recruit thing has helped me considerably as well too. Hope cryptic adds a few more of these encouraging little benefits in the few years ahead. Its fun to earn a bit from the game ..makes me really want to spend a bit on something I like without the wait ;-)
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  • kozar2kozar2 Member Posts: 602 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Run 2 KDF alts to gather Contraband and send 2/3 of it to your 2 fed toon. All for 4 toons should hit 8k a day. If you have a fleet mine you can refine 500 more dil each day per toon. BTW the KDF doffing takes about 20 minutes for both toons a day.

    So you should make 32,000 dil a day (34,000 is possible)

    1 Zen=225 dil

    142.2 zen a day

    21 days to 3000 zen
  • demonicaestheticdemonicaesthetic Member Posts: 3 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    hojain2020 wrote: »
    whats your gear/traits you put on your character to be a contributor to the dino hunt?

    The dyson ground zone doesn't require special gear or traits, just the willingness to go there and shoot the lizards, and the smarts to figure what has to be done in each area to capture it, and the patience to spend an hour or 3 in the zone racking up dilithium ore, from the area payouts, silo payouts, bonus, and from cashing in your voth cyber implants, you can make enough ore to keep you refining for 2-3 days in a couple of hours.
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  • hojain2020hojain2020 Member Posts: 417 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    virusdancer wrote: »
    Would take around 9 days to make 3000 Zen at the current Exchange rate...about 90-100 minutes a day.

    Im averaging 290 minutes on days im free from life lol !! and im only playing about 4 alts with only 2 making their quotas of 8k dill lol. I do spend lots of time rubbernecking the forums ..especially the flotilla part of the 3 factions.
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  • fatman592fatman592 Member Posts: 1,207 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    With 8 characters, running only 1 round of doffing a day (my current laziness), and assuming no additional sources like reputation hourlies...

    3000 x 225 = 675000 dilithium
    3000 x 8 = 24000 dilithium per day
    675000 / 24000 = 29 days (rounded)

    Again, that's one doffing cycle a day. Doing two cycles and reputation hourlies pretty much gets near cap. With just that slight additional effort I can shave that time down to ten days. Slow and steady wins the race, also having a large stockpile helps.

    My 8 toons are nothing compared to some people. I wouldn't be surprised if they generated 3k Zen a day.
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  • sunfranckssunfrancks Member Posts: 3,925 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I can usually make around 500k Dilithium a month with my main chars.

    Though with the conversion rates as they are, I am holding onto the Dilithium I have until it goes down to a more reasonable level...
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    hojain2020 wrote: »
    (vets {pre-2014} dont bother with this post) Just wondering Its taken me 6 months with one main and 3 new Delta recruit alts to accrue enough DIL for 3K zen -- this is apart from

    oddly enough im a vet pre-2014. been around since late 2010, but ive never had the chance to top 3k zen before. just so you know. im not a grind type of person, i never have been.

    i used to spend time online to enjoy it until the disaster site that season 8 was that came along, now its just wasting time on the game.
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  • mrspidey2mrspidey2 Member Posts: 959 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    Approximately three weeks.

    CA Event rakes in some serious amount of dil if you run it on all alts. So that makes 14 days of farming and about 7 more days of refining.
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  • ryugasiriusryugasirius Member Posts: 283 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I'm aiming for the Delta pack (I'm roughly halfway there, but i'll probably sneak in some €20 cash when I'm almost there, so I need pretty much exactly 5k ZEN), so I've crunched some numbers.

    With 4 alts, and no grinding (just doffing, doing the easy dil stuff like path to 2409 trivia and quick reputation queues for hourly rep tasks, and playing the game), I make some 25k dil a day.

    To get the 650k dil (current exchange rate) it will take some 26 days. Unless I somehow find enough time to start more alts and finish the 1st episode arc (I still have some open slots) :P
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,009 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I am a vet (2011) but I am also f2p now. I found that the hourly rep projects in maxed reputations are really worth the investment if you have alts with maxed reps and some marks to spare.

    One hourly project in all lvl 5 reputations nets you roughly 2000 dil on one char (~350 per rep x 5 = 1750 plus one 500 dil marks project). If you have 3 alts with maxed reps running the hourly project on all of them nets you 8000 zen across your account for one hourly project that runs while you are off doing something else (even log off the game). If you do that four times a day (just log on for five minutes to start the projects) you make 32k dil per day, plus if you happen to play anyway everything you make via contraband doffing, STFs or episodes anyway. The dyson BZ is also the most efficient dil farm in my opinion.

    Rates are pretty high right now, I am glad I converted my dil for the 5000zen iconic ship pack when it was below 200 :D
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  • fiberteksyfirfiberteksyfir Member Posts: 1,207 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    With my multiple kdf contraband farmer-prisoner takers during yhe week i do one round of turn ins a day each plus three toons maxing 8k (this is during the week ill do more contra on the weekend) i average around 40k a day at that rate it takes about two weeka a little less however i max if theres something i really wanna go for so its possible to get about 100k a day if i really want it (probably more if i include my feds) so less than a week if i am really trying assuming i dont already have a decent pile going (i try to keep at least 200k banked)
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I think in most days I acquire less than 8,000 dilithium. Across several characters.

    I will never spend Dilithium to get Zen. :)
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  • boredpeonboredpeon Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    I quit the game for a few years. When I came back the other day I had 20,000 zen. Lifetime subscription was a bet I lost. Still have not played enough to cover the original $250 cost.
  • fiberteksyfirfiberteksyfir Member Posts: 1,207 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    boredpeon wrote: »
    I quit the game for a few years. When I came back the other day I had 20,000 zen. Lifetime subscription was a bet I lost. Still have not played enough to cover the original $250 cost.

    Thats $200 plus numerous perks, bank slots, couple free ships, char slots, various other perks. Even not playing you've made it back, maybe not the exact cash to stuff ratio you're looking for though..
  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,009 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    fiberteksyfir wrote: »
    Thats $200 plus numerous perks, bank slots, couple free ships, char slots, various other perks. Even not playing you've made it back, maybe not the exact cash to stuff ratio you're looking for though..

    True. If you're disappointed with the game itself and the way it went, all that stuff doesn't really help. I am actually glad I never got a LTS, I just subbed for a few months when it was still P2P.
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  • generalmocogeneralmoco Member Posts: 1,634
    edited April 2015
    hojain2020 wrote: »
    Ahh nice good to know they are a few f2p peeps still here!


    Hey... I'm F2P too :).

    To answer the title question.

    5,000 Zen in about 12 months... This is because I was not in a hurry!
  • kamuii2kamuii2 Member Posts: 231 Arc User
    edited April 2015
    With about 10 chars you can make close to 350 zen worth of dil per day. So it would take about 8.5-9 days to get 3k zen.
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