The best dil gathering habit you can develop is to chill out, sit back, and stop trying to get everything done in a weekend. The game ain't going anywhere any time soon and if your fleet is in danger of flaking out on you, go join a better fleet.
You don't have to be a hamster on the wheel to enjoy the game.
The best dil gathering habit you can develop is to chill out, sit back, and stop trying to get everything done in a weekend. The game ain't going anywhere any time soon and if your fleet is in danger of flaking out on you, go join a better fleet.
You don't have to be a hamster on the wheel to enjoy the game.
+1
It definitely pays to avoid getting into the "I WANT IT NAO!!" mindset - enjoy the journey for what it's worth.
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The best dil gathering habit you can develop is to chill out, sit back, and stop trying to get everything done in a weekend. The game ain't going anywhere any time soon and if your fleet is in danger of flaking out on you, go join a better fleet.
You don't have to be a hamster on the wheel to enjoy the game.
This is such good advice. Not just here but for any game, and truthfully for life as well.
This is such good advice. Not just here but for any game, and truthfully for life as well.
Hell yeah it is. Cryptic should make me a guru title!
But yeah, Cryptic's general play style is very similar to a fast-paced console action game with quick advancement. So when the mild MMO aspects show up, everyone thinks it's a terrible grind hell. MMOs are slow and steady types of games.
Not just slow. Slllllooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww...w...w... Seriously. Go play PWI to level 30 to see true grind. You'll come back here and laugh at the Rep system.
I actually googled this question just out of curiosity and came across this thread, haha.
Anyway, most of the stuff mentioned here is cool, especially the passing contraband from KDF to FED toons, that's practically dilthium just for scratching your bum, (I've been doing that a while now; ? Passing contraband on that is, not just scratching my bum)!
I'm surprised that for Fed characters no ones mentioned the 3 set of the easiest and quickest missions via Ambassador Surah and the Defera, they're only daily, but the lot only take about half an hour 40 minutes and that's over 2000 dil to start your day off nice, get bored and do a Borg invasion in the same area too.
The two KDF Pi Canis sorties are canny; being worth 960 dil for each set, and if you can complete all the optional mission parameters there's another 2400 in it for you at the end.
Along with the rest of the advice on this thread, you should have Ferengi dilithium bling in no time!
"The best dil gathering habit you can develop is to chill out, sit back, and stop trying to get everything done in a weekend. The game ain't going anywhere any time soon and if your fleet is in danger of flaking out on you, go join a better fleet"
You don't have to be a hamster on the wheel to enjoy the game.
I'm so used to facebook I spent 5 seconds looking for the like button to this reply before I realized where I was! Haha
I think farming dilithium should be done with only 1 more alt, nothing more. The time you waste on farming dilithium with only 1 alt is already too much. I am assuming u want to progress in the game as well, so, u cant do both things with 10 alts, thats just impossible.
Its better to use just 1 alt to do various dilithium missions , for example ->
1. Eta Eridani (traelus repair + shamar + defense contract) about 1000 - 2800
2. Beta Urase (dilithium mine) 1000
3. Tau Dewa - Nimbus III - about 1000-1500 dilithium
3. Return contraband (doff assignment in ESD) - 2000
4. Explore strange new worlds - 1440
This is my basic usual run about for my alt and my main (plus my main have the fleet dilithium mission, other ones)
Those are basic dil missions (there should be more, but i cant remember now), now depend on what advanced is your alt, cuz some other dil missions (like the Deferi ones, for example) are only available to higher levels or when u complete some game-end episodes.
When the events were on, i used to do the academy event , with 2000-3500 dil rewarded + path to history other 460
With 1 alt, you can gather 8000 dil per day, trade it for zen, then pick up your main and withdraw, and sell zen again. U will have more than 16000 refined dilithium per day. But if you use more than 1 alt, well u will be using all your game time in that, since you will not have time to do almost anything else. And you will need high level to advance in some dilithium farming missions.
Its really easy for a KDF to cap daily. 1 fast foundry (the key here is to do one in under 1/2 an hour and closer to 15 min, not the 2.5 hour stuff), ~2k. 15 min to clear a defense mission, ~1400, there are 4 of those. 2 or 3 turn in contraband daily for 2k each. Prisoners at 1k each for 10, a byproduct of getting the contraband. And that is just the surface stuff -- with 2 contrabands a day and 1 foundry, that is 6k so do one more thing and call it good each day -- less than an hour to hit the limit.
I'm surprised that for Fed characters no ones mentioned the 3 set of the easiest and quickest missions via Ambassador Surah and the Defera, they're only daily, but the lot only take about half an hour 40 minutes and that's over 2000 dil to start your day off nice, get bored and do a Borg invasion in the same area too.
they'd been bugged since the new season patch was applied (like two months?)
Probably the fastest, most farmable way to get dilithium nowadays is the Dyson Sphere Battlezone. You get dil for capturing points, dil for participating in a zone clear (V-Rexes), and more dil for clearing the daily missions and the hourly "Kill Voth" mission. Especially if you run a full set of dailies and a zone clear on multiple characters, you can rake it in. If you don't need anything more from the reputation, you can cash out all the marks you got for even MORE dil.
This is all assuming of course you're competent enough on the ground to go in there and not get smacked across the map, but the Voth aren't that tough. Just find some other players and follow them around if you're not confident to go it solo.
What's a good way to do it. I have 11 toons and I suppose I could make at least 1440x11=15840 a day, doing either Explore Strange New Worlds, or We need Breathing Room, very time consuming though, and I'd only to make, about 150, or 160 zen a day doing this.
Fleet actions seem to be the way to go, and ideally you'd want all your toons to be VA level 50 or the highest General Rank to get all of them. But, this would also take forever, I have one VA right now, and the highest ranking Alt I have is Lt Commander.
Can you recommend a good level I could get them to, say when he will have 3-4 fleet actions he can do? If I could get all my toons to have 3, I could alternate, work on another toon while the others are having their fleet action timers cool down.
ISE+KASE+CSE+exchanging marks+BNPs reward plenty of dil per toon with 20 min or less of work.
Doing exploration is only good for accolades at this point.
What's a good way to do it. I have 11 toons and I suppose I could make at least 1440x11=15840 a day, doing either Explore Strange New Worlds, or We need Breathing Room, very time consuming though, and I'd only to make, about 150, or 160 zen a day doing this.
Fleet actions seem to be the way to go, and ideally you'd want all your toons to be VA level 50 or the highest General Rank to get all of them. But, this would also take forever, I have one VA right now, and the highest ranking Alt I have is Lt Commander.
Can you recommend a good level I could get them to, say when he will have 3-4 fleet actions he can do? If I could get all my toons to have 3, I could alternate, work on another toon while the others are having their fleet action timers cool down.
First of all, make use of the events. Do a spotlight mission from the foundry during event and cash in. 2400-3600 dilithium.
Mine dilithium during event in your fleet mine and ferengi mine. 6k dilithium.
CE and SB24 are quick bonus dilithium stf.
ISE+KASE are good dilithium sources. CSE is too vulnerable to idiot failures.
3 missions in Eta eridani. quick dilithium
If there's a daily involving warzones, do 3 quick kerrat. Bonus is it makes the klingons happy.
And the defera space daily missions also give nice dilithium rewards.
That's the basic and quickest way to grab dilithium aside from the obvious "turn in contraband".
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You don't have to be a hamster on the wheel to enjoy the game.
+1
It definitely pays to avoid getting into the "I WANT IT NAO!!" mindset - enjoy the journey for what it's worth.
This is such good advice. Not just here but for any game, and truthfully for life as well.
Hell yeah it is. Cryptic should make me a guru title!
But yeah, Cryptic's general play style is very similar to a fast-paced console action game with quick advancement. So when the mild MMO aspects show up, everyone thinks it's a terrible grind hell. MMOs are slow and steady types of games.
Not just slow. Slllllooooooooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwww...w...w... Seriously. Go play PWI to level 30 to see true grind. You'll come back here and laugh at the Rep system.
Anyway, most of the stuff mentioned here is cool, especially the passing contraband from KDF to FED toons, that's practically dilthium just for scratching your bum, (I've been doing that a while now; ? Passing contraband on that is, not just scratching my bum)!
I'm surprised that for Fed characters no ones mentioned the 3 set of the easiest and quickest missions via Ambassador Surah and the Defera, they're only daily, but the lot only take about half an hour 40 minutes and that's over 2000 dil to start your day off nice, get bored and do a Borg invasion in the same area too.
The two KDF Pi Canis sorties are canny; being worth 960 dil for each set, and if you can complete all the optional mission parameters there's another 2400 in it for you at the end.
Along with the rest of the advice on this thread, you should have Ferengi dilithium bling in no time!
You don't have to be a hamster on the wheel to enjoy the game.
I'm so used to facebook I spent 5 seconds looking for the like button to this reply before I realized where I was! Haha
Its better to use just 1 alt to do various dilithium missions , for example ->
1. Eta Eridani (traelus repair + shamar + defense contract) about 1000 - 2800
2. Beta Urase (dilithium mine) 1000
3. Tau Dewa - Nimbus III - about 1000-1500 dilithium
3. Return contraband (doff assignment in ESD) - 2000
4. Explore strange new worlds - 1440
This is my basic usual run about for my alt and my main (plus my main have the fleet dilithium mission, other ones)
Those are basic dil missions (there should be more, but i cant remember now), now depend on what advanced is your alt, cuz some other dil missions (like the Deferi ones, for example) are only available to higher levels or when u complete some game-end episodes.
When the events were on, i used to do the academy event , with 2000-3500 dil rewarded + path to history other 460
With 1 alt, you can gather 8000 dil per day, trade it for zen, then pick up your main and withdraw, and sell zen again. U will have more than 16000 refined dilithium per day. But if you use more than 1 alt, well u will be using all your game time in that, since you will not have time to do almost anything else. And you will need high level to advance in some dilithium farming missions.
This is all assuming of course you're competent enough on the ground to go in there and not get smacked across the map, but the Voth aren't that tough. Just find some other players and follow them around if you're not confident to go it solo.
ISE+KASE+CSE+exchanging marks+BNPs reward plenty of dil per toon with 20 min or less of work.
Doing exploration is only good for accolades at this point.
First of all, make use of the events. Do a spotlight mission from the foundry during event and cash in. 2400-3600 dilithium.
Mine dilithium during event in your fleet mine and ferengi mine. 6k dilithium.
CE and SB24 are quick bonus dilithium stf.
ISE+KASE are good dilithium sources. CSE is too vulnerable to idiot failures.
3 missions in Eta eridani. quick dilithium
If there's a daily involving warzones, do 3 quick kerrat. Bonus is it makes the klingons happy.
And the defera space daily missions also give nice dilithium rewards.
That's the basic and quickest way to grab dilithium aside from the obvious "turn in contraband".