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imadude3
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i want to buy a jem'hadar heavy escort carrier off the exchange and the price is 70,000,000 SO for anyone who have ever grinded that amount how long would it take me with the various options in the game?
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At level 50 it's not that difficult to make hundreds of thousands, if not a million, a day, even with the truncated Tour. There are also existing Foundry missions that will put a bunch of ECs into you pocket - at least until Cryptic gets around to fixing that exploit too.
There's also things you can buy for Zen that you can sell on the Exchange. I generally grind enough Dilithium to buy a 10-pack of Keys a week. So that's around $14 million per week if I want to go that route.
How on earth can you grind so much dil to buy a 10 key set per week? Please tell me the magic of this?
thats 48k of dil
multiplied by a week...336,000 dilithium
divide that by 114 (an aribitary figure based on current z/d prices)
2974z, with a little left over
...of course to do this means you have to grind dilithium, a lot - which to do so via certain methods requires ec aplenty - but that will cut into your key profit (or you can go the other method and invest time)
Either way, theres no easy method to that, other than gambling on lockboxes to give you a ship to sell (of course theres lobi for the ships as a bonus...)
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EC is the easiest currency in the game to earn. Far more-so than dilithium or marks. Just gotta find a market and corner it.
Example: I don't mind sharing this as I can no longer be bothered to do it. 10 characters picking up NADORC = 10 artifacts every 4 days = ~17.5 artifacts per week. It takes at most 15 minutes to pick up the mission 15 times.
That's what, 20m EC per week if you power them up. Peasy.
Kirk's Protege.
1. By the time I find a market, it's in a stage at which I can't corner it.
2. I only have 5 characters, and have very few supplies to do NADORC with.
3. I have even less stuff to power the artifacts with.
So, I stick to running STFs for dilithium whenever I need it, which can yield nearly 3 keys or a ship module within 2 days of maximum refining, and even some of the cheaper T5 ships in 6 days.
I should, however, make it a habit to do the Academy dailies, as they can allow me to stockpile decent quantities of dilithium without any effort, before I even know I need it.
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How I do it:
Dedicated effort, and a basic working knowledge of the exchange.
Play the ec farming missions in the foundry. You'll cap your daily drops to 60 items, roughly generating anywhere from 250K-500K on average.
I grind the exchange; i look for under priced items, but them for scrap or for resale. Some days I get nothing, but others I will gain easily 500K just for 10 minutes effort. Occasionally I stumble upon mispriced items, and generate millions.
Fill every duty officer assignment on every toon; this generates the necessary resources for powering artifacts.
If NADORC is available when I play (20% of the time) I generate artifacts and power them. This gets me 1-4 million ec per week.
Sell the drops i generate during the dill grind. This swapping between 4 toons means I can pretty much grind dill non-stock.
Fleet credits - buy doffs, and sell. I'll dump 100K fc into doffs for my fleet, and 500-100K fc for myself. This gets an average of 25K per doff.
Rommy doff tac officers. Ive manage to get 4 so far, each sells for about 1.5 Million each.
My first Hundred million took about 30 days @ 4 hours a day without selling keys.
this ^
it's easy to net 500K+ with a character in a quick 5 minute run a day. Even more if your lucky to get a purple item to sell from the drops.
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For 2-3 hours play I usually hit the cap on 4-5 characters.
Once you've been doing it this long it's not so hard. Mostly ESTFs, if you have lots of characters capable of doing them, and run with good teams, each run is only 4 minutes or so. You can just do a set, move characters, do another set, move characters, etc.
S'pretty easy tbh. Plus one of my characters has dil claims from opening boxes to get lobi. That's 5k in 2 minutes.
Kirk's Protege.
Asylums, supports, haggles, officer exchanges, suliban cell ship missions, flight training, console fabrication (the dept. head one), nadorc, warp core fabrication etc... still provide tons of steady income.
Rares and Very Rares of MkIII-MkVIII go for 100k ec, or lots more, quite frequently. Players level so fast through mission content, there aren't a whole lot of them floating around unless players like me are farming them.
And many if not, dare I say, a majority of new toons, are made by existing players who have the EC to burn on low level TRIBBLE they don't need.
... Lol not me, but , guildmates;)
I cannot do the tour of the universe thing. Not enough time. Thing is I always prefer ground STF and on those the gear is nothing big EC wise.
I would love to get the elachi escort at least for my KDF. She has no special ship (lvl 50 or fleet version). I think that ship could be an excellent final ship for her, but difficult to get specially when you have no EC. Tried to open a few boxes.. just got duty officers and lobis.
With grinding?
Lets say it cost 60 mil EC:..
And you get 400k on one day grind.
Thats 150 days ... 150/30 = 5 months... thats steep.
The price for the ship has probably risen by that time since new ships come out and the old one becomes more rare.
I don't find any of the ships so superior as to be worth it though. Maybe the JHAS, but that thing's busted. I probably wouldn't fly it out of principle. I'd rather spend 10 mil on good Doffs than hoard money toward a lockbox ship.
Oh I don't think its fun .. I absolutely hate it. I would rather just play content but 1. there is not much new Cryptic related content in terms of mission. I am really missing the FE releases,... I know.. there is one coming soon. But thats what I think its fun.. dare to say it but i am actually looking forward to the new dyson sphere. 2. Getting a VA ship is just another type of grind which is equally expensive and difficult to get.
The difference is I want a Wells and Elachi escort. Its really sad they are so difficult to get with a drop rate of only 0.1%. It would be ok if only the keys wasn't so difficult to get for a player that can only login at about 2 hours a day,.. not counting weekends which i do have more time from time to time. Its also sad that once you get those ships.. if you are so lucky... they are not account bound. I am afraid that with account bound they will probably be even more difficult to get.
But having that said I will probably keep opening boxes ... as much as I can.. and save up 800 lobis so i can buy it. I am not sure if this is the case.. but I think its a good thing you can eventually buy the ships you want on lobi - store.. or otherwise you end up opening boxes with no end in sight.
Speaking of which.. when you buy the ship in lobi-store does it become bound directly or only until you open the box?
EDIT:
Say you get 4 lobis per box.. thats 200 lockboxes you have to open. .. *sighs* there is no end in sight. How on earth am I going to get 200 boxes and keys... he he well, sometimes you get more than 4 .. so maybe it won't be that bad.. *hopeful*
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200 boxes *1.5 mil = 300 mil.. wow.. its cheeper to buy on exchange.
Only when you open it. You can buy the lobi ships on the exchange. That's what I'm planning to do instead of using keys for lobi. I'm gunning for a Monbosh myself, have saved up to 22m so far. Long way to go, but it's better than opening boxes from what I've been told.
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If the two methods of obtaining the ship are buying keys and opening boxes vs. buying keys and selling them on the exchange, you are statistically likely to get a better deal by selling the keys. Assuming the only thing you're interested in is the ship, and not any of the other stuff that comes out of the box.
I think that over an extended period of time opening enough boxes the loot that comes out pays for the keys. It depends on the box, and the relative value of stuff that comes out vs. its drop rate. It's very tricky so I don't mess with it. Other people have done the math though and determined that, for example, the Cardassian box is a good one to gamble on. Don't know how the recent boxes compare.
you either, spend real money on keys.. open boxes hope you win or, sell the keys and buy the ship or, grind for months to get the EC to buy the ship..
of course they arent going to make getting the ship easy.. it will devalue the lock box keys.
with that said, 3 or 4 chars can make 70m within a month..
just do the foundry spotlight per char every day.
then grind some dil to get keys.. turn in CB and do dailies..
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If you're lucky you can get a very rare mk xii tac console and make at least 10 million.
Of course you have to be prepared for the PvP side of it but that's part of the fun.
I thought the exact same thing, because I've been wanting a Jem'Hadar Dreadnough Carrier for the past 4 months and I'm no where near getting the insane 86,000,000 to buy one.
That's the only reason I got pissed off and brought a Atrox (which isn't as cool as a JHDC).
So far I've only acquired 37 Lobi crystals, after using 600 zen on lockboxes. I've also wasted 5,000,000 Energy Credits on buying Lockbox keys. Yes, I tried to earn enough Lobi Crystals to buy the ship instead of buying it from the Exchange.
I've accepted the these 3 facts:
1. Unless someone gives me 96,000,000 Energy Credits I'll never have it.
2. Unless Cryptic stops this Lobi nonsense and sells it for regular Zen, I'll never have it.
3. Unless someone sells a JHDC for a realistic price while I"m on the Exchange, I'll never have it.