It's all relative but in the past, it was impossible literally to level a ship's xp outside of Argala and Gerren. No literally. You actually got zero XP for doing anything anywhere else. Over time, they made things slowly better so that we had more options besides just Argala. So considering that I'll still be able to level my ship XP without dragging my ship to Argala for the 3,000th time, I'm quite content with it. Even if it takes 2 hours instead of 45 minutes. That's not a big deal.
Well, this is an interesting claim, considering that I've never done Argala, and have done all of my leveling on dozens of ships by doing anything anywhere else.
It's complicated and I admit that I conflated two things above so I'm not correct in my comment that you quoted. Argala always was the far and away best way to earn ship xp but it used to be way worse of a time/reward difference than it is now. Right now, I can level ship xp in argala about 2-3x faster than I can anywhere else. But back in 2015, that was more like 10x faster in argala than just playing the game normally. TFO's give better ship xp rewards now and are more generally in line with ISA and using TFO's by themselves or in conjunction with regular story game play and/or patrols is perfectly viable even for the ship xp grinder type of player like me.
Where I was wrong was saying you get literally no ship xp anywhere else. The conflation that occurred is that at the time, (2015ish) specialization xp gains were nerfed pretty much everywhere outside of the delta quadrant. Argala and Gerren became the go-to spots to earn specialization xp before the days of admiralty. So my fault for conflating and making that statement.
When you see "TRIBBLE" in my posts, it's because I manually typed "TRIBBLE" and censored myself.
The next season is called “Awakening”, and patrols are getting a revamp! They will function like mini-TFO’s. They will all have interesting mechanics and last about 8 minutes.
Honestly, I'd prefer it if they got rid of the starship mastery mechanic entirely. You buy a T6 ship, you get a fully leveled ship and a trait. End of story.
yes, this mechanic should be modify.
most of the time, I don't have the good build for levelling a mastery, and it is really a pain in the a... , the best example is the grind for the trait of the temporal dread. And like building a good build is too expensive, I buy TRIBBLE from the exchange; and the levelling is not funny at all.
when we have unlocked a starship trait, it should be available for the account.
Don't you just move your entire loadout to the new ship - boffs, traits, and all? With only minor adjustments, my current build easily ports to a new ship to level it in Argala ADV or ADV TFOs (though I prefer to wait until I've done a few runs and know I will contribute).
I only ever fine tune a build if I decide to keep flying it after leveling mastery - saves time, effort, and resources.
The next season is called “Awakening”, and patrols are getting a revamp! They will function like mini-TFO’s. They will all have interesting mechanics and last about 8 minutes.
Honestly, I'd prefer it if they got rid of the starship mastery mechanic entirely. You buy a T6 ship, you get a fully leveled ship and a trait. End of story.
yes, this mechanic should be modify.
most of the time, I don't have the good build for levelling a mastery, and it is really a pain in the a... , the best example is the grind for the trait of the temporal dread. And like building a good build is too expensive, I buy TRIBBLE from the exchange; and the levelling is not funny at all.
when we have unlocked a starship trait, it should be available for the account.
Don't you just move your entire loadout to the new ship - boffs, traits, and all? With only minor adjustments, my current build easily ports to a new ship to level it in Argala ADV or ADV TFOs (though I prefer to wait until I've done a few runs and know I will contribute).
I only ever fine tune a build if I decide to keep flying it after leveling mastery - saves time, effort, and resources.
That don't work for every build and every ship because some ships can't equip certain items and some Items are locked to certain ships (example - Vorgon ships console set is Vorgon ships only).
> @baddmoonrizin said: > salazarraze wrote: » > > It's all relative but in the past, it was impossible literally to level a ship's xp outside of Argala and Gerren. No literally. You actually got zero XP for doing anything anywhere else. Over time, they made things slowly better so that we had more options besides just Argala. So considering that I'll still be able to level my ship XP without dragging my ship to Argala for the 3,000th time, I'm quite content with it. Even if it takes 2 hours instead of 45 minutes. That's not a big deal. > > > > > Well, this is an interesting claim, considering that I've never done Argala, and have done all of my leveling on dozens of ships by doing anything anywhere else.
Mee too, and just with Defence of SB 1 advanced or Borg Red Alerts.. so i must be unique!
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Where I was wrong was saying you get literally no ship xp anywhere else. The conflation that occurred is that at the time, (2015ish) specialization xp gains were nerfed pretty much everywhere outside of the delta quadrant. Argala and Gerren became the go-to spots to earn specialization xp before the days of admiralty. So my fault for conflating and making that statement.
That don't work for every build and every ship because some ships can't equip certain items and some Items are locked to certain ships (example - Vorgon ships console set is Vorgon ships only).
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> It's all relative but in the past, it was impossible literally to level a ship's xp outside of Argala and Gerren. No literally. You actually got zero XP for doing anything anywhere else. Over time, they made things slowly better so that we had more options besides just Argala. So considering that I'll still be able to level my ship XP without dragging my ship to Argala for the 3,000th time, I'm quite content with it. Even if it takes 2 hours instead of 45 minutes. That's not a big deal.
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> Well, this is an interesting claim, considering that I've never done Argala, and have done all of my leveling on dozens of ships by doing anything anywhere else.
Mee too, and just with Defence of SB 1 advanced or Borg Red Alerts.. so i must be unique!