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Dyson Battlezone Command Credits, please describe them precisely.
realisticalty
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I'm trying to understand what credits are - I -thought- they were awarded for taking and holding control points but after rereading the mission text it seems they are something you need to actually pick up?
Please describe precisely what they are and where they can be found by someone who is colorblind, and are they exclusive to you or does everyone vie for the same credits?
Thanks!
Please describe precisely what they are and where they can be found by someone who is colorblind, and are they exclusive to you or does everyone vie for the same credits?
Thanks!
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And what is 'Star Trek'?
As a previous poster stated, they're just like coins in a Mario game. They drop (literally, appearing to fall in from the sky) after certain kills and after an area is captured.
And yes, they're free-for-all. Whoever is fastest gets them, and everyone else gets hosed. And like anything exploitable in any online game, there are people who will follow "actual" players around solely to scramble for these Mario Coins while the player who actually did the work to make them appear is finishing off straggling enemies.
The other way to get them is to defend capture points. If you kill a mob attacking a capture point, any command credit icon you run over will give you 4 instead of just 1.
You need 20 for one daily and 120 to finish the "call reinforcement's" daily.
They also go away from your inventory after a set amount of time, so you can't pick them up one day to use the next day.
LOL I was trying to figure out where I have seen that before and voila you made my brain rest. This is Super Mario space cadet
I'm pretty sure you only need 80, or at least you do if you complete the mission by beaming in a single lackey.
Have they changed that? Used to be the one that would give you 100% in one shot was beaming in the captain reinforcement for 120.
Yeah, they reduced it over the complaints about players who (still, since nothing was done about the real problem but only about its symptoms) run around vacuuming up Mario Coins to the exclusion of all else, making it hard for the the people who actually made them spawn to get them and complete their "call in reinforcements" daily.
...are you frelling serious?
Who thought this was good MMO game deisgn?!?!
Why would anyone play anything but an Escort in that zone, then?!
Currently cruising the Pi Canis Sector Block...
...it's not space, it's ground. And it's not even that important. You just need them for two quests that give a few marks and some dilithium, of which you can get plenty without even doing those quests.
You actually need 60, a Lieutenant grade NPC and a Ensign are enough to complete the daily.
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Because it's a ground map, where Eng turret-spam rules.
I've been doing the battlezone heavy for a few days and that's the very first one I actually remember seeing.
I will have to look carefully the next time I take a point to see how close they fall, where they fall, etc.
Keep in mind that you only keep them for two hours before they vanish from your inventory
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For kills, they generally drop close to the target. For taking a point, they scatter all over the area. As in, anywhere inside the dotted outline on the map that encloses the capture point.
I pick them up for the purpose of calling in useful reinforcements where they are needed... I know, such an idea is weird.
My bad.
Still...bad implementation. If it's needed for a quest, it should be awarded to everyone in the area who contributed.
Currently cruising the Pi Canis Sector Block...
Very much like. In fact, those exact tokens from the Bumble Snow Monster drop when you take down a "Voth Supply Runner" dinosaur, this is where they came from.
Oh, "bad" is just the tip of the iceberg, unless they were deliberately going for that "Super Mario Trek World" feel.
This is because your fleet has upgraded the 2 projects that lower the credits needed. For anyone without those upgrades, then it is a lot more still.
Calling a Lieutenant for 40 command credits contributes 83% towards completion of the daily call reinforcements mission. Then calling an Ensign for 20 command credits completes the daily. (you don't have to call them in that order, of course)
Don't waste all the command credits on Ensings and don't waste your time saving up for reinforcements above Lieutenant rank, if you're looking for quick completion of this mission.
Once a Point is in Allied control, they can be spent to summon additional reinforcements, expect for the Transporter points, which cannot be reinforced.
Not sure how effective the summoned reinforcements are at stopping the Voth from retaking a Point. It may be better to call in 2 Ensigns over 1 higher rank, but I have no idea. If there are enough people on the map not just stood around waiting for the V-Rex, the Voth retaking points won't be a problem. But I have doubled back to one of the 1st Points I've captured to reinforce rather than the current one.
As you progress upgrade the Fleet Spire the reinforcements costs will go down.
DO NOT PICK UP THE COMMAND CREDITS AS THEY WILL GIVE YOU COOTIES!!!!
If you want to actually be helpful in the battlezone after finishing your quest, keep summoning reinforcements. If you captured a point with other players, take what's near you, and don't be an a-hole. If you solo captured a point, or if the other players don't seem interested in collecting them, grab them all. Check your reinforcements interact and see what you can call in. Ensigns are kind of a waste on their own, try to save up and at least call in a Lieutenant or better. Calling reinforcements helps keep the point from being retaken, which results in faster zone clears, and everybody profits. Having a Fleet Spire leveled up will give you command credit discounts which make this easier to do.
Wow ok so they fully halved the amount you need. That's a lot!
Used to be 120 no fleet, 60 with fleet.
Now 60 no fleet, 30 with fleet.
And here i've been still getting 60. Silly me.