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R&D and Junior Officer Weekend

foppotee#4552 foppotee Member Posts: 1,704 Arc User
https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11482263

We’re pleased to announce the return of the Research and Development Weekend! This event will run from December 24th at 8AM PT (17:00 CET) to Monday, December 28th at 10AM PT (19:00 CET), and features several bonuses throughout STO that will give Captains of all levels a leg up advancing their rank in the Research and Development school(s) of their choice.

For those Captains looking specifically for extra help with their projects, all R&D packs throughout the game will give out an extra 25% of the items they currently disperse for the duration of this event. Queue R&D Material Reward Packages (Normal, Advanced and Elite) will reward 25% more R&D Materials and have a chance to reward a Catalyst.

Alternatively, Captains wanting to advance through Research and Development schools as fast as possible should seek out Harvest Nodes, located in mission maps throughout STO, which will not only disperse 2 extra R&D Materials each time they are used, but will also reward 10 Dilithium Ore and have a chance to give out a R&D Catalyst during this event.

For all Captains that work on a Research and Development project during this weekend event, those projects will reward an extra 50% of the appropriate Research and Development School XP. This includes projects to make components as well as those to make items.

From December 24th at 8AM PT (17:00 CET) to Monday, December 28th at 10AM PT (19:00 CET), we are running a special weekend event where you can earn Bonus Commendation XP by completing any Duty Officer assignments!

To those junior officers who work tirelessly in cramped Jefferies Tubes, perish namelessly on away missions, or provide the endless streams of reports and analysis necessary for a starship to function – this event is dedicated to you!

During this event, you’ll gain a 50% increase in all Commendation XP earned by completion of Duty Officer assignments. You don’t need to do anything special for this bonus – it’s automatic.

Receive a FREE* special Purple quality duty officer with a unique active roster power by speaking with your duty officer contact. For Starfleet officers and Romulan allies, this is an engineering Exocomp duty officer; for KDF officers and Romulan allies, it is a Reman duty officer.

*This is not available if you already claimed it the last time we ran the event.

Duty officer packs** opened during the event will each have a FREE additional Green quality or better duty officer inside. This only applies to C-Store purchased packs, not to those awarded during rank-up, from recruitment assignments or mini-packs. Also, it applies only to packs opened during the event, even if they are purchased prior to the event.

**The packs included in this offer are: Delta Alliance Duty Officer Pack, Gamma Quadrant Duty Officer Cadre, Reinforcements Duty Officer Pack, Fleet Support Duty Officer Pack, Romulan Survivor Duty Officer Pack, Fleet Support Duty Officer Pack, Klingon Empire Duty Officer Pack and Federation Duty Officer Pack.

The Academy particle scanning events are now part of the Junior Officer Appreciation Event! Visit Starfleet Academy or Klingon Academy during the event and speak to Professor Meyer or Commander B’Tama. Pick a cadet to train, then engage in scanning particles all about the academy grounds. As you scan and capture particles you’ll help to train the cadet, and in exchange your faction will release a new random Duty Officer to you. The more particles you scan, the better the quality of the officer you can claim!

Scan a minimum of 5 traces to be rewarded a Common Duty Officer
Scan a minimum of 25 traces to be rewarded a Uncommon Duty Officer
Scan a minimum of 50 traces to be rewarded a Rare Duty Officer
Scan a minimum of 75 traces to be rewarded a Very Rare Duty Officer

Remember, additional reserve roster duty officer slots (in increments of 25 and 100) are available from the in-game C-Store, for up to a maximum of 500 reserve roster spaces.

Have fun, and try not to send too many duty officers to Sickbay!
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  • ironman7#2509 ironman7 Member Posts: 38 Arc User
    "Receive a FREE* special Purple quality duty officer with a unique active roster power by speaking with your duty officer contact. For Starfleet officers and Romulan allies, this is an engineering Exocomp duty officer; for KDF officers and Romulan allies, it is a Reman duty officer."

    I thought you suppose to get this when you do scanning part in junior officer appreciation event? You meant that we don't need to do that and we just talk to any duty officer stationed at starfleet academy/klingon academy nowadays?

    Thanks for the clarification.
  • foxrockssocksfoxrockssocks Member Posts: 2,482 Arc User
    "Receive a FREE* special Purple quality duty officer with a unique active roster power by speaking with your duty officer contact. For Starfleet officers and Romulan allies, this is an engineering Exocomp duty officer; for KDF officers and Romulan allies, it is a Reman duty officer."

    I thought you suppose to get this when you do scanning part in junior officer appreciation event? You meant that we don't need to do that and we just talk to any duty officer stationed at starfleet academy/klingon academy nowadays?

    Thanks for the clarification.

    No, the scanning gives you a random DOFF. There is a specific unique one you can get for talking to the NPC, I think its a Reman for KDF and an exocomp for Feds.
  • phoenixc#0738 phoenixc Member Posts: 5,459 Arc User
    Unfortunately I think I am a little to crispy to do the JOA part this time (it is hideously grindy), though I might try it on just one character sometime this weekend. I don't want to push it and get burned out before the anniversary stuff though, which is why I have been taking it easy with the Winter Wonderland event and only doing a few things each day.

    I doubt that I will cycle though all my alts for the R&D part of it this time either (though usually I do) because of skating on the edge of burnout like that. Hopefully they will repeat this in a few months when I am less crispy around the edges.
  • ironman7#2509 ironman7 Member Posts: 38 Arc User
    "Receive a FREE* special Purple quality duty officer with a unique active roster power by speaking with your duty officer contact. For Starfleet officers and Romulan allies, this is an engineering Exocomp duty officer; for KDF officers and Romulan allies, it is a Reman duty officer."

    I thought you suppose to get this when you do scanning part in junior officer appreciation event? You meant that we don't need to do that and we just talk to any duty officer stationed at starfleet academy/klingon academy nowadays?

    Thanks for the clarification.

    No, the scanning gives you a random DOFF. There is a specific unique one you can get for talking to the NPC, I think its a Reman for KDF and an exocomp for Feds.

    Thank you! That is much clearer now. :) I didn't have that exocomp so I will bag one then. :)

    Thanks again for your clarification. :)
  • garaffegaraffe Member Posts: 1,353 Arc User
    Why in the world is it is Reman for KDF? My Fed allied Reman captain should be able to get the Reman DOFF...
  • foppotee#4552 foppotee Member Posts: 1,704 Arc User
    That Junior Officer Appreciation (JOA) event is very grindy especially since it is paired with a "random" reward DOFF, if it was a definite selectable optionreward I'd probably consider it worth the grind.

    Getting the free Exocomp &/or Reman DOFF(s) is highly recommended since so easy, just remember it has to be done for each toon.
  • ambush#5204 ambush Member Posts: 16 Arc User
    edited December 2020
    Scan a minimum of 75 traces to be rewarded a Very Rare Duty Officer
    Which in the past took long enough, now with More people per instance it's going to take longer,

    They thought that one through didn't they :/
  • foppotee#4552 foppotee Member Posts: 1,704 Arc User
    Scan a minimum of 75 traces to be rewarded a Very Rare Duty Officer
    Which in the past took long enough, now with More people per instance it's going to take longer,

    They thought that one through didn't they :/

    Agree & valid calculation, can be a very long equation at that lol
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