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When I'm in the star clusters I regularly see people skipping over the unknown systems trying to race each other to anomalies. Just a little FYI: unknown systems have anomalies too. You dont have to actually accept the mission, you can just warp in, grab up the anomalies, and warp out. Sometimes you get 4 different spawns in a fairly small amount of space, and its also your own little private instance so you dont have to race anyone :D
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    When I'm in the star clusters I regularly see people skipping over the unknown systems trying to race each other to anomalies. Just a little FYI: unknown systems have anomalies too. You dont have to actually accept the mission, you can just warp in, grab up the anomalies, and warp out. Sometimes you get 4 different spawns in a fairly small amount of space, and its also your own little private instance so you dont have to race anyone :D

    And when farming, the "Scan 5 anomalies" are a godsend. (Except when you're looking for energy and it gives you 3 physical and 2 technical instead.)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Yeah, but the loading screens are going to hurt their Anomaly-per-Minute rate, didn't you know? :rolleyes:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Yeah I do this too. As mentioned, the scan 5 anomalies missions are very nice for this. I also like Aid the Planet missions. They usually have 4 anomalies, plus I can get DXP and some pocket change from selling the item they give me. The only ones I abandon are enemy confrontations in space. For things like base investigations however, I just snag the anomalies and then warp out. Seems to work very nice for me.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Lantesh wrote: »
    Yeah I do this too. As mentioned, the scan 5 anomalies missions are very nice for this. I also like Aid the Planet missions. They usually have 4 anomalies, plus I can get DXP and some pocket change from selling the item they give me. The only ones I abandon are enemy confrontations in space. For things like base investigations however, I just snag the anomalies and then warp out. Seems to work very nice for me.

    Even on the enemy confrontation, the NPCs wont spawn until you click continue. So you can just downsize the window and do as you please.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Really? Very nice, I didn't know that. Thanks! Even more anomalies for me now mmm.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Even on the enemy confrontation, the NPCs wont spawn until you click continue. So you can just downsize the window and do as you please.

    This may be true for Federation side but it is not so true for Klingon side. Anytime you get a mission to destroy asteroids or derelict ships, the spawns are there even if you minimize all pop ups.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I found that even if you accept the mission, it will adjust it's difficulty to match your level. It is a good way to get BOFF points. I found that out the other day in the cluster by Sol system. Also, if I remember right there is an accolade associated with each exploration zone for doing 15 explorations in each cluster, so it is not a total waste :eek:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Elric71 wrote: »
    I found that even if you accept the mission, it will adjust it's difficulty to match your level. It is a good way to get BOFF points. I found that out the other day in the cluster by Sol system. Also, if I remember right there is an accolade associated with each exploration zone for doing 15 explorations in each cluster, so it is not a total waste :eek:
    The first bench mark is 15 but the full accolade and title are at 70 i believe.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I just camp an anomaly spawn point and when other people scan theirs eventually mine will respawn. Easy way to farm while I'm doing other stuff.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Even on the enemy confrontation, the NPCs wont spawn until you click continue. So you can just downsize the window and do as you please.

    I suspect THIS is the reason they call you the Grand Nagus! Always finding ways to maximize profit...

    I do have a sneaking suspicion that this trick doesn't work 100% of the time but in that case they usually don't spawn on top of you - unlike a few Borg ships I can waggle my finger at... :( (this is to my memory which I do not claim to be faultless)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    I would do the mission rout for farming, but the constant load ins and load outs just for a few anoms drives me nuts.

    I am not a huge fan of all the instancing as it is, but I deal with it lol.

    Thanks for the tip btw.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited January 2011
    Lantesh wrote: »
    Yeah I do this too. As mentioned, the scan 5 anomalies missions are very nice for this. I also like Aid the Planet missions. They usually have 4 anomalies, plus I can get DXP and some pocket change from selling the item they give me. The only ones I abandon are enemy confrontations in space. For things like base investigations however, I just snag the anomalies and then warp out. Seems to work very nice for me.

    Why abandon?

    If you truly want to abuse the system, keep the missions. Just leave 'em. It'll create a nice bunch of boxes on the right side of the screen. Then just go from mission to mission, looting the anomalies and leaving them long enough for the server to dump the map.
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