Should we keep our salvage/prototypes?

momaw · October 2012

Given the major shakeups coming in season 7, is it worth keeping chips, salvage and prototypes since apparently these will no longer be used in any meaningful way? Should I start liquidating my savings while I can still get something for it?

anazonda · October 2012

Let me just quickly pitch in here:

Last time this question was asked, the Community Rep said: "Yes... Quick... Spend your emblems (the Dil of the day back then) as fast as you can, or you will loose it all"...

Those that did what he said will almost certainly agree with me, that it was a bad idea, as they lost out on THE Bridge Officer, and massive amounts of Dilithium.

centersolace · October 2012

anazonda wrote: »

Let me just quickly pitch in here:

Last time this question was asked, the Community Rep said: "Yes... Quick... Spend your emblems (the Dil of the day back then) as fast as you can, or you will loose it all"...

Those that did what he said will almost certainly agree with me, that it was a bad idea, as they lost out on THE Bridge Officer, and massive amounts of Dilithium.

On the plus side, do you think they'll bring those back? <Hopeful>

carcharodon1975 · October 2012

anazonda wrote: »

Let me just quickly pitch in here:

Last time this question was asked, the Community Rep said: "Yes... Quick... Spend your emblems (the Dil of the day back then) as fast as you can, or you will loose it all"...

Those that did what he said will almost certainly agree with me, that it was a bad idea, as they lost out on THE Bridge Officer, and massive amounts of Dilithium.

Problem right now is that there is no one in Cryptic we can trust,we have been mislead/misinformed too many times.

pwebranflakes · October 2012

As Jeremy and I posted in another thread, wait until you read the blog about the conversion next week before deciding

then you can decide for yourself

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

betanem · October 2012

pwebranflakes wrote: »

As Jeremy and I posted in another thread, wait until you read the blog about the conversion next week before deciding

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

Please put the blog up tomorrow, alot of people want to see it.

anazonda · October 2012

IN fairness... Wich I forgot to mention: BranFlakes was NOT the Community Rep back then... So im not looking at him.

pwebranflakes · October 2012

betanem wrote: »

Please put the blog up tomorrow, alot of people want to see it.

It won't be up tomorrow, but will be at some point during the week. Once it's finalized, it has to get localized in French and German (like all our blogs

) and then we'll post.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

betanem · October 2012

pwebranflakes wrote: »

It won't be up tomorrow, but will be at some point during the week. Once it's finalized, it has to get localized in French and German (like all our blogs ) and then we'll post.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

Break out the whip, to motivate them to get it done faster.

diogene0 · October 2012

betanem wrote: »

Break out the whip, to motivate them to get it done faster.

Even if it's supposed to be a joke, you're takling about whipping people so that they work faster for your little comfort.

You don't see that anymore even in china. :eek:

azurianstar · October 2012

Like Branflakes said, wait for the Blog to see the conversion.

But personally, if you got Tech to turn in to unlock part of the costume, you best do that before S7.

Also, be smart to spend the Prototype Salvage you've been saving on Ground and Space [Borg] weapons while you can. Because they are going to charge is like 10,000+ Dilithium and marks for them, plus the months you will be spending unlocking the Tier 5 Omega Reputation.

Personally, I still think this is a cheap move by the Dev Team to do that to everyone. And they should rethink the system while they can. Because this is highly unpopular with the majority of players.

sean2448 · October 2012

pwebranflakes wrote: »

It won't be up tomorrow, but will be at some point during the week. Once it's finalized, it has to get localized in French and German (like all our blogs ) and then we'll post.

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

I started some of reputation It is easy just variation of fleet system

i looking forward to se how much I will be getting

danielpenfold · October 2012

I can not wait till it come out this week at all!!

jexsamx · October 2012

If you ask me, it'd be smartest to save it all and use it as a boost through the grind.

The exception would be costume pieces. If you're holding on to proto tech of any ground set and don't already have both corresponding items, you're better off buying the items now. It'll save you some cost down the line, something like 36k dil IIRC.

I don't think I'd bother intentionally grinding STFs for loot to feed the system now either, though. But that part I'm sketchy on; I'm waiting until the blog to decide on that for sure.

atatassault · October 2012

pwebranflakes wrote: »

As Jeremy and I posted in another thread, wait until you read the blog about the conversion next week before deciding then you can decide for yourself

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

When you say "next week" Do you mean the Work Week of the 22nd, or the 29th?

timelord79 · October 2012

I don't know. The Mark cost doesn't seem that high. It seems considerably easier to get marks than dilithium to cover the gear costs.
And since the projects have a pretty long waiting period, it makes sence to get a dilithium headstart instead of a Mark boost.

jellico1 · October 2012

It could be weeks or months before you can
Earn your way back into the STF store
Under the new system.

I plan on using my prototype salvage to make
Sure I have the weapons I ( think ) I will need
For any build changes

I hear the purple Borg torpedo offices will no
Longer be available as well so I'm going to get
3 for each of my characters.

I may gamble with the rest of my salvage for the
New currency

diogene0 · October 2012

You might want to keep your edcs and rare borg salvages and techs for some omega marks or dil, at your conveniance. That's your decision but you have time for this, season 7 is far from being ready.

My advice though would be to get some good old STF [borg] gear with your proto borg salvage since one of the purposes of season 7 is to get rid of the current free system to put all these items behind the reputation walls in a brand new dilithium store. Otherwise, the current stf loots and stores would stay in game, wouldn't they?

Every single borg weapon, space or ground, should cost 14k dilithium AFAIK, so you may want to get an alternative weapon proc, in case of a nerf of your current weapon type. We've seen that for phaser and polaron recently. Consequently a secondary weapon set is a good investment. My advice would be an antiproton set since there is no AP weapon loot in game (so the only access are the dilithium store, the fleet store, crafting, and... The STF store), if that's not your current weapon type.

Use all your proto techs for set parts you don't already have, and get every single part of the borg set, since every set part will cost 36k dilithium (confirmed by Borticus). Hurry up to run Assimilation (undine front) to get the borg console if you don't have it yet, no one know if it will stay in the current loot table for this mission, since this console is a part of a new set.

Currently your most valuable ressources are proto techs and salvages since they will allow you to completely ignore the "new" omega fleet store, so make good use of them. The rest is junk and won't make a huge difference.

domjot · October 2012

Hope they have the return of the Veteran Bridge Officer Form so I can get a few of them.

centersolace · October 2012

domjot wrote: »

Hope they have the return of the Veteran Bridge Officer Form so I can get a few of them.

Me too. Me too.

khayuung · October 2012

I'm a casual player (I bought the game, played a month, then went back to a certain MMO, came back for F2P and spent much of the last year doing nothing but doffing and dicking around... I mean, exploring deep space :P) so I haven't done much in terms of STFs. It was the announcement about the coming change to rep that I decided to grab the retro set first.

Now, along the way I picked up some XI maco/omega gear, a Q torp and a AP turret without much EC cost. As things stand I'm lacking just the MACO deflector to complete my 'ideal' XI space set. I'm currently grinding Donatra for turrets and already I've got 2 RBS sitting in bank to be turned into another turret. Very soon I'd be kitted out in T4 rep gear and that renders much of the coming gear meaningless to me.

Once I attain full T4, should I continue to grind for tokens?

kingdoxy · October 2012

Just gonna grind infected elite lots of time so I have borg tech to spare when the change happens. I say most folks should just do the same.

lucianazeta · October 2012

So the gist of it is, get it now because it'll only cost more later no matter what?

Thank the nine divines for having a full XII ground set already.

grtiggy · October 2012

diogene0 wrote: »

Even if it's supposed to be a joke, you're takling about whipping people so that they work faster for your little comfort.

You don't see that anymore even in china. :eek:

i know right.... i mean the only place that practices this is in the deep programmer pits of EA..... come to think of it, it kinda makes sense seeing the direction this game is going atm....

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toiva · October 2012

diogene0 wrote: »

You might want to keep your edcs and rare borg salvages and techs for some omega marks or dil, at your conveniance. That's your decision but you have time for this, season 7 is far from being ready.

My advice though would be to get some good old STF [borg] gear with your proto borg salvage since one of the purposes of season 7 is to get rid of the current free system to put all these items behind the reputation walls in a brand new dilithium store. Otherwise, the current stf loots and stores would stay in game, wouldn't they?

Every single borg weapon, space or ground, should cost 14k dilithium AFAIK, so you may want to get an alternative weapon proc, in case of a nerf of your current weapon type. We've seen that for phaser and polaron recently. Consequently a secondary weapon set is a good investment. My advice would be an antiproton set since there is no AP weapon loot in game (so the only access are the dilithium store, the fleet store, crafting, and... The STF store), if that's not your current weapon type.

Use all your proto techs for set parts you don't already have, and get every single part of the borg set, since every set part will cost 36k dilithium (confirmed by Borticus). Hurry up to run Assimilation (undine front) to get the borg console if you don't have it yet, no one know if it will stay in the current loot table for this mission, since this console is a part of a new set.

Currently your most valuable ressources are proto techs and salvages since they will allow you to completely ignore the "new" omega fleet store, so make good use of them. The rest is junk and won't make a huge difference.

Pretty much this.

I've been going through my toons and checking whether they got the full Assimilated set, and complete MACO, Omega, KHG sets if possible.

Now I have to make a list of weapons I might need (or want to use) in the near future and get them for my salvage.

EDCs and possibly some remaining techs (quite a few of these, I guess) and salvage will be ready to either wait for their conversion to Omega marks or be sold for dilithium. Depending on the blog post we're all waiting for.

zeuxidemus001 · October 2012

pwebranflakes wrote: »

As Jeremy and I posted in another thread, wait until you read the blog about the conversion next week before deciding then you can decide for yourself

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

I just hope we don't get hosed in the conversion... There are some characters I'd like to start from the start of the new system but then others hoping they have a fair conversion due to I've already gotten 90% of what I saw on tribble for rewards.

ericsonxx · October 2012

I havent been paying attention very well, so I might as well ask, should I just cash these in on my characters now and pick up whatever with them? I have enough on some chars to pick up a full set of each MACO and Omega, so, plus various borg ship weapons. So, should I just use them up before the new system hits?

wraithshadow13 · October 2012

I can't remember if it was Borticus,tacofangs, or branflakes, but one of the forum frequent team mentioned in another thread that there would be a developer blog about itcomin out soon and that we should "read that before making a decision" I dunno when it's coming though as i'm kind of in the same boat. I'm worried that with how much of a grind this game is, it's not going to be worth the time and effort spent in STF's adding it to the reputation system.

partizan81 · October 2012

Cash out. "Dilithium is King" will be the name of the game in Season 7, and unless the exchange rate for Omega Marks is something obscenely high (consider that current elite STFs get you 60 marks per match), you should run-not-walk to Commander Roxy and get your payday.

dkeith2011 · October 2012

Cash out while you can still get something useful.

I can't imagine the conversion will be anything but laughably bad.

Should we keep our salvage/prototypes?

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