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eldiora
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Has anyone seen one of those assignments that should put Doff Xp when you are over tier 4 towards Fleet Marks?
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This is correct.
Heretic made the contact and assignments before his departure, but they were never properly hooked up in-game. We'll be adding them soon, and they will appear on Starbases. Watch patch notes for an update.
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So where are these special assignments? What is their rarity? Where do these assignments appear? A Fleet Starbase contact that trades CXP for Fleet Marks makes more sense than searching for assignments that only appear once a day.
Thanks for the heads-up.
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It should be present at the SB without the need to unlock it or at worst a very early unlock (hopefully not too expensive).
After all, do we have to unlock the ability to play Starbase blockade? Or Starbase incursion? Well, this was always advertised as one of the main (and few) ways to earn fleet marks and also is the only use for CXP after maxing all categories.
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Borticus said "This is Correct" to a statement that references the inclusion of this contact in either t0 or t1 starbases. So the contact will either be there right off the bat, or when you hit t1, which isn't too long of a grind. (t0 is better, and I hope that is what plays out)
Also, you do not have to unlock the blockade etc. Those are found in the PVE queue, which is now the button to the right of the DOFF button, under minimap.
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A single event (10-15 minutes) can net 30-32 marks. Getting 30,000 CXP takes far longer. Hopefully Cryptic will do some math and figure out a fair and proper reward.
Can you give us any more details?
Are they only available at the Starbase?
If so, what tier do they unlock for?
How rare will they be?
What is the cooldown, if any?
In general what will the exchange rate be between CXP and FM?
Thanks!
But we will have to see how its setup.
My preference would be a permanent Doff contact at tier 0 of the starbase that hands out those missions like the turn in contraband. Turn in 1000 doff xp for 10 marks, duration 1 hour and you could have 1 of each commendation category running and no cooldown.
For someone who who is capped out, 550,000 Exp at 1:100 gives you 5500fm -> 275,000 Fleet Credits
For something you've already done, can be done again, and takes minimal effort VS actively grinding fleet marks (Doffing takes minimal effort, 30-40 minutes split over 2-3 periods per day to be the most efficient) and can easily be done along side actively grinding marks.
Sure it takes longer, but it also consumes less playtime overall, its a big sandwich game. And while grinding EXP you can choose missions that also give you other things that contribute towards the base.
1:100 would be very generous.
Consider the fact it will be another 5-6 months before we can even see the "Elite" tier fleet gear (Not advanced MK XII Ultra-Rares) thats plenty of time to grind marks, especially when it starts taking more to level the starbase, everyone will have a chance to contribute even in HUUUGE fleets by tier 4.
I can see over a characters life time, maybe having to spend a total of 5-700k Fleet Marks to get everything you could possibly want (This is based on assumptions, we don't have the numbers for elite gear) barring of coarse ship collectors or other special interest. You don't want to give people too many credits to spend.
well its not in the patch realesed on july 23 on trible. Any news when it would be realesed?
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Pray it doesn't end up like the BOff trait of Leadership. Still broken after 4 months since it was "fixed internally".
We believe we've finally settled on a balanced solution, and these assignments should be hooked up and activated in the very near future.
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I'm hoping to be pleasantly surprised, but I'm not putting too much hope into it.
10k:1 would be very disappointing. I expect the exchange rate to be disappointing, but I'd still be disappointed. I'd be able to make marks much faster by doing the daily five mark mission at the starbase. So it would be pretty much useless, although I would cash in my commendations for a few marks every long now and then.
1,000:1 would be better, but still fairly slow. I could work with that. I'd prefer something like 500:1.
100:1 would rake in the marks pretty fast, so I really don't think the devs would give us that.
I'd be comfortable in the 1:250 to 1:500 range.
Look at it this way:
2 Ground runs/half hour ~40 Fleet Marks = ~80 Marks/Hour
For the following CXP Conversions let's assume the person has all 11 categories capped so they will have 330,000 CXP to convert. Also, lets take the player that only plays for from 2 - 4 hrs per day and all they do are 4 ground missions per hour.
Ratio - #Fleet Marks ~Active Hrs - Active Days Equivalent
1:100 - 3,300 ~ 41.3 hrs - 10.3 - 20.6
1:150 - 2,200 ~ 27.5 hrs - 6.9 - 13.8
1:200 - 1,650 ~ 20.6 hrs - 5.2 - 10.3
1:250 - 1,320 ~ 16.5 hrs - 4.1 - 8.3
1:300 - 1,100 ~ 13.8 hrs - 3.4 - 6.9
1:400 - 825 ~ 10.3 hrs - 2.6 - 5.2
1:500 - 660 ~ 8.3 hrs - 2.1 - 4.1
1:600 - 550 ~ 6.9 hrs - 1.7 - 3.4
1:700 - 471 ~ 5.9 hrs - 1.5 - 2.9
1:800 - 413 ~ 5.2 hrs - 1.3 - 2.6
1:900 - 367 ~ 4.6 hrs - 1.1 - 2.3
1:1000 - 330 ~ 4.1 hrs - 1.0 - 2.1
(Sorry for how it looks but seriously we cannot create simply tables in this forum???)
Now given this we can readily see that 1:100 through 1:200 are too imbalanced as the active playing equivalent might take as long as it would to get 30K CXP in all categories again. We can also see that anything above 1:500 does not leverage the continued use of the DOFF system enough and really should not even be considered. I know I would not even bother using the conversion once, let alone repeatedly and I am a heavy DOFFer. So I think the sweet spot is between 1:250 - 1:500 as it leverages continued use of the DOFF system enough by providing a nice bonus, but actively grinding the ground missions still pays more dividends over time. The closer it gets to the 1:250 and 1:300 mark, the more likely I am going to use the exchange. At the 1:400 and 1:500 marks I would use it occasionally, but only when I have all 11 categories maxed again.