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Winter Event Question

From what I understand the Breen dreadnought costs 1000x Winter Prize Vouchers (2015) getting that from the Fastest Game on Ice. Does anyone know how many days it will take to get that amount? I know we have something like 45 days for the winter event but like in my case i probably won't be able to start playing until next Tuesday, would there still be enough time to get it?​​
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  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,921 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    You get 40 a day so you need to run it 25 times. SO yeah...if you can't play till tuesday you'll have plenty of time
  • nccmarknccmark Member Posts: 1,084 Arc User
    And it's fun and only takes 3 minutes per run each day. Best "grind" in the game.
  • officerbatman81officerbatman81 Member Posts: 2,761 Arc User
    Tis true, once you know the trick its better than flying high.
  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    lianthelia wrote: »
    You get 40 a day so you need to run it 25 times. SO yeah...if you can't play till tuesday you'll have plenty of time
    nccmark wrote: »
    And it's fun and only takes 3 minutes per run each day. Best "grind" in the game.

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  • indysharkindyshark Member Posts: 1,557 Arc User
    Are the commendations character bound? Can I run it on all of my characters to get it faster since the ship is an account unlock?
  • sheldonlcoopersheldonlcooper Member Posts: 4,042 Arc User
    indyshark wrote: »
    Are the commendations character bound? Can I run it on all of my characters to get it faster since the ship is an account unlock?

    No, you must do it 25 times on one character.
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  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    indyshark wrote: »
    Are the commendations character bound? Can I run it on all of my characters to get it faster since the ship is an account unlock?

    No. But you just have to run it once daily on one character. (Which would technically equal the same amount of time spent.) You can spend Lobi to get the favors and reduce the amount of days you need to play that way.
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  • indysharkindyshark Member Posts: 1,557 Arc User
    What is the lobi cost ?
  • admrenlarreckadmrenlarreck Member Posts: 2,041 Arc User
    You can always buy it with Lobi. (The winter currency whatever they are calling it)
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  • shrimphead2015shrimphead2015 Member Posts: 537 Arc User
    Thanks everyone for the prompt replies. It's a real relief to know I won't be too late!​​
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  • tempus64tempus64 Member Posts: 806 Arc User
    indyshark wrote: »
    What is the lobi cost ?

    If it's like the summer event, you'd get 2-6 vouchers per 5 Lobi. I worked it out that if you average 4 vouchers/5 lobi, you'd need to spend 1250 lobi to get it first day. Far more than the most expensive lobi ships.
  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    You can get it lobi if you have it to blow like that. I sure don't so I go with the race. It usually takes a few mins, unless you have to restart it. Once you get the hang of it, its really easy. You can get it in 25 days if you do it each day. I usually get mine around closer to the 30th day of the event due to Christmas season. So my play time gets limited around that time.
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  • dakotadahotnessdakotadahotness Member Posts: 170 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    I see people saying you can run one character and then claim with 40 vouchers on alts.

    I am unable to claim on my alts with 40 vouchers I wonder if this is a bug. I see in Zone chat I'm not the only one with this issue.
  • jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
    The option to claim the ship for only 40 vouchers will only be given to you once one of your toons has "purchased" for the full price of 1,000 vouchers. Once that is done, then when you slot the event project for your other toons it should only require 40 vouchers. If you already slotted the event project for all your toons, then you must cancel the project because they will all require 1,000 vouchers. Then re-select the project and this time it should only require 40 vouchers.

    Any project you cancel will mean the vouchers applied to that project will disappear. Not a big deal since you only need to do the race one more time for each of your toons.


    I am not sure if the people in Zone Chat are confused, or if there is a real bug with the ship voucher system in this event. I only returned to play STO recently and it seems like I will be short 40 - 80 vouchers so I'm gonna have to spend some Lobi to buy the vouchers I need so that I can get the ship.
  • bobbydazlersbobbydazlers Member Posts: 4,535 Arc User
    edited December 2015
    I see people saying you can run one character and then claim with 40 vouchers on alts.

    I am unable to claim on my alts with 40 vouchers I wonder if this is a bug. I see in Zone chat I'm not the only one with this issue.
    jaguarskx wrote: »
    The option to claim the ship for only 40 vouchers will only be given to you once one of your toons has "purchased" for the full price of 1,000 vouchers. Once that is done, then when you slot the event project for your other toons it should only require 40 vouchers. If you already slotted the event project for all your toons, then you must cancel the project because they will all require 1,000 vouchers. Then re-select the project and this time it should only require 40 vouchers.

    Any project you cancel will mean the vouchers applied to that project will disappear. Not a big deal since you only need to do the race one more time for each of your toons.


    I am not sure if the people in Zone Chat are confused, or if there is a real bug with the ship voucher system in this event. I only returned to play STO recently and it seems like I will be short 40 - 80 vouchers so I'm gonna have to spend some Lobi to buy the vouchers I need so that I can get the ship.

    you don't need any vouchers to claim the ship on your alts, as soon as you claim the ship with your first character you should be able to claim the ship for free with your alts.
    anyone having problems i would say
    1 > make sure you have claimed and unpacked the ship with your first character, you will need a free ship slot to be able to do this, you may need to discard a ship that is reclaimable or move a ship to dry dock to free up a space.
    2 > make sure you have unlocked the winter store on your alts, you do this by first visiting q's wonderland where you will receive 1 winter item if it is your first visit, you need to run a special reputation event project using this winter item to unlock the store, you must do this with every alt you have.

    once you have access to the winter store on all of your characters and can claim the event ship with them you are then free to discard and reclaim the ship whenever you choose to do so and as many times as you like.
    you claim the ship and reclaim if dismissed on all of your characters by opening the event store with the tab in your reputation interface and reclaiming the ship from there.

    one extra thing, once you have unlocked the ship with your first character you can if you wish run a daily event rep project on every one of your characters and get 40 marks for 40 vouchers.
    so if you have claimed the ship today you should have about 20 days of the event still to go, if you run the race every day on every character you could gain 800 marks of your choice on each of them.
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