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caliban149
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In game I keep seeing people boasting in the chat channels about earning multiple millions (3,4,5 etc) of EC from the Tour the Universe event. I simply don't see how this is possible so thought I'd start this thread to share some tactics and maybe learn a trick or two.
My experience of the event is thus:
I usually run it with Borg engines, DI and RP and I have about 7 points in driver coil.
This gives me a standard speed of about Transwarp 26.2 and with slipstream speed of about 37.
I'm not the fastest thing in space (largely due to not having maxed driver coil) but I'm not too far off.
I use the following route.
Green lines represent the shifts in position that go with zone transitions
Orange lines are the bits I tend to do in slipstream (nice long straight bits).
Doing this I can usually get round 4 and a bit times, each circuit take me just around 12-13 minutes.
Each full circuit gives 50,000EC/area so 350,000EC total
I usually manage to squeeze a further 150-200,000 in from the partial circuit.
Giving me a total maximum of around 1,600,000 EC from the event.
Now I must be missing something pretty significant if over double that is possible. . . going round 8+ times in an hour. I suspect some bull is being spouted but I'm open to having missed something.
Also I do see quite a few ships that are almost matching me for speed that DON'T have the Borg engine effect. As far as I'm aware Borg engines and Asynchronous Warp Field are the only two item related things that boost speed in sector space. . . . and Borg Engines are better. Am I missing something?
My experience of the event is thus:
I usually run it with Borg engines, DI and RP and I have about 7 points in driver coil.
This gives me a standard speed of about Transwarp 26.2 and with slipstream speed of about 37.
I'm not the fastest thing in space (largely due to not having maxed driver coil) but I'm not too far off.
I use the following route.
Green lines represent the shifts in position that go with zone transitions
Orange lines are the bits I tend to do in slipstream (nice long straight bits).
Doing this I can usually get round 4 and a bit times, each circuit take me just around 12-13 minutes.
Each full circuit gives 50,000EC/area so 350,000EC total
I usually manage to squeeze a further 150-200,000 in from the partial circuit.
Giving me a total maximum of around 1,600,000 EC from the event.
Now I must be missing something pretty significant if over double that is possible. . . going round 8+ times in an hour. I suspect some bull is being spouted but I'm open to having missed something.
Also I do see quite a few ships that are almost matching me for speed that DON'T have the Borg engine effect. As far as I'm aware Borg engines and Asynchronous Warp Field are the only two item related things that boost speed in sector space. . . . and Borg Engines are better. Am I missing something?
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Unfortunately i seem to have misplaced the map for that partial lap...
The absolute fastest speed possible in sector space is Warp 43.28, requiring Driver Coil 9x, Diplomatic Immunity, Raiding Party, M.A.C.O. Impulse Engines Mk XII and a Critical Success in Assignment: Perform Antimatter Containment Leak Drills.
http://www.stowiki.org/Ability:_Quantum_Slipstream_Drive
EDIT - realized this is just in slipstream. Not sure how it measures overall time vs the Borg engines. Maybe a theorycrafter can shed more light.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpfbJLLbczs
Ah I see, so my skipping Romulan space and losing 50k EC you can streamline things.
Very useful, I will try that!
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A Romulan Strike Team, Missing Farmers and an ancient base on a Klingon Border world. But what connects them? Find out in my First Foundary mission: 'The Jeroan Farmer Escapade'
No, you get the credits instantly upon completing the objective but you're still gonna have to retake the quest from him so you can repeat it for more money.
Hmmmm.....
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I will post a picture of my route when I get home.
Recently, I tried some partial routes for comparison purposes. I travel from ESD straight down to Eta Eridian, across towards Klingon space (for the 50k EC Klingon sector), U-turn it back across Eta to Defera space (a quick 50k), back to Eta, up to Sirius to the Transwarp Gate into Borg and Undine sectors (50k each), drop the mission, and transwarp back to ESD. I can do this route 5 times in an hour, for 1 million EC.
The big time killer here is traversing down from ESD to Eta. Once I get 1000 more Diplomacy xp, I'll be able to transwarp directly from ESD to K7, saving me some valuable time.
Also, take the Azura mission before you start. Then you can use the mission transwarp to go from Borg space back to just-outside the Sol system, saving the transwarp cooldown timer.
That route is based off mine and another racers research during F2P Beta, which is the route that was later added to STOwiki.
But later we discovered a MUCH FASTER route, which involved Mission Transwarps and (I'm not joking), can get a total of 6 Laps (providing the server is cooperating, up to 6 Laps + 4 Sectors). This yielded more than 2.1 million EC (minus Transwarp Expenses) and over 900 CXP per race.
This method doesn't really necessitates the need for the Odyssey's Advanced Slipstream, but Borg Engines and DL + RP Buffs do help add to shed off an extra minute off the time and can work on any ship. And you only need a green Astrometric's DOFF to get the Transwarp Cooldown to under 8 minutes for the final jump from Pelia back to Earth.
I'm slightly confused with this route.
Step 3. If you change instance to go in Beta Ursae and get put onto the other side of the block, did it count the Bajor sector?
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Me too, 5 blocks on that route. How many times per hour ? If 6 then thats 30 blocks, still short of my 3X12=36 without mission transwarps or other such nonsense.
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On that route, the point is to get to Defera/Orellius, not to get Cardi Space counted. To get Cardi Money, you'll have to have completed Alpha Trianguli, Zeta Andromedae, AND Beta Ursae. You can see there is no route going into AT or ZA.
Honestly, I don't think doing the race by this method is any better than running the full race since you get the racing bonsues.
The point of it is to do those sectors which are very quick, that is why there is no Romulan, Cardassian and Fed completions
Eta space is just 1 long run
Pelia is just 1 sector
Borg space is just a quick swerve in the centre and Orellius is just up and hang a quick right
to do all the other sectors takes a lot of time which can be used for doing more quicker runs
http://i173.photobucket.com/albums/w71/Bishop149/TourRoute.jpg
is similar to what i do , but i can only do one lap per tour
If you're in a fleet you can use the transwarp to the fleet starbase.
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