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How do you choose your grinders?

rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
edited January 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
So, we will be grinding away soon enough for some truly promising looking ships.

While there is a legitimate discussion to be had about that grindiness, there is a perfectly good thread for it elsewhere.

In this thread, I'd like to solicit your views on how we choose which toons to grind things on.

Last summer at Risa, I tried to grind out six of those lovely coervettes. Sadly I burned out and only completed three.

This winter, I tried out four, which seems to be a good number.

It may be worth mentioning at this point I have 14 toons....lol

I know one of the grinders, my Fed main, who is the official ship collector.

One of the others will be my KDF main, and the third my Romulan main.

Science, engineer and tactical, in that order.

Which leaves me one more to run.....

What criterion will you use to choose which toons to grind for this ship on?
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  • greyhame3greyhame3 Member Posts: 914 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I tend to grind thing on my main. Largely because he's the one I play the most. Others I tend to play till 50, do a bit of the rep grind, and then they get left so grinding ships on them doesn't make sense.
  • jimqqijimqqi Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Grind everything for everyone.
  • pjlietz1pjlietz1 Member Posts: 41 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    I mainly grind ships on my main fed toon and my main Klingon. But I will be getting them on my fed Sci and Rom Sci as well as they are awesome!
  • duncanidaho11duncanidaho11 Member Posts: 7,980 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    For me grinding is a two-part question. The first is simply appropriateness. Is it appropriate for character X to have item Y? The Risian corvette for example wasn't something I wanted for my KDF engineer but for my FED science officer it was a suitable choice that filled an empty niche in that toon's shipyard. The second part is an optimization problem. For how many characters can I grind before what I'm grinding becomes absolutely intolerable? That'll vary depending on the nature of the event, if I'm busy with other things, how interested am I in STO at the moment, and the quality of the reward. The crystalline event way back got me through three toons, and I suspect I'll be able to get through four on the 4th anniversary stuff. Who I select though of the six I have is probably just going to come down to an ordered list of which I play most.
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Efficiently, parking characters in the correct areas, working quickly on just the timer so everyone's CD is at roughly the same time, getting the minimizing the actual time required. The irony of course is that its so burnout-inducing that during grind times I don't really do much anything else, just log in and do my chores, then log off again. If the idea is to get me to stick around to spend money, its actually counterproductive.
  • erei1erei1 Member Posts: 4,081 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    Efficiently, parking characters in the correct areas, working quickly on just the timer so everyone's CD is at roughly the same time, getting the minimizing the actual time required. The irony of course is that its so burnout-inducing that during grind times I don't really do much anything else, just log in and do my chores, then log off again. If the idea is to get me to stick around to spend money, its actually counterproductive.
    This.

    I try to have everything for all my characters.

    As for spending more, I spend less during grind time, because I'm too busy grinding to do anything else.
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  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    jimqqi wrote: »
    Grind everything for everyone.

    This covers me as well. All 10 characters get one of their own.

    It's..."just the way I am." I do this knowing full well it's likely that only 3 characters will ever use them, but, just in case I get an itch for some reason everybody's got one available.

    -shrug-
  • rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    aloishammer wrote: »
    This covers me as well. All 10 characters get one of their own.

    It's..."just the way I am." I do this knowing full well it's likely that only 3 characters will ever use them, but, just in case I get an itch for some reason everybody's got one available.

    -shrug-

    I'd love to have the time and the sanity, but sadly lack both, to do all 14 toons.
  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    rinkster wrote: »
    I'd love to have the time and the sanity, but sadly lack both, to do all 14 toons.

    I got the time. The sanity...well, that's admittedly questionable. :D
  • revandarklighterrevandarklighter Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    Actually I don't know....

    I have about 16 or 17 characters, I'm not even sure.

    The obvious choice would be to grind it for my 3 mains. A kdf and fed tac and a rom eng.
    But then this is a science ship.... so it would make sense to grind it fore science characters... Since they might not eben be useful on engs and particularly tacs. Problem is, mine are kind of "iced" right now (and a romulan sci is yet to be created...), I aim to play them at one point in future when I have done the majority of grinding marks with the other ones....
    Then there would be my... well kind of secondary fed-eng, who is the only (from an rp perspective) "real" federation officer.... seems useful to get it for him too....

    So ultimatly.... thats FAR to much characters to make the grind. I have no Idea on wich one of those I really want to go for the ship... and knowing myself.... I might end up not getting them at all because of that^^
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  • twamtwam Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    reginamala78 wrote: »
    Efficiently, parking characters in the correct areas, working quickly on just the timer so everyone's CD is at roughly the same time, getting the minimizing the actual time required. The irony of course is that its so burnout-inducing that during grind times I don't really do much anything else, just log in and do my chores, then log off again. If the idea is to get me to stick around to spend money, its actually counterproductive.

    Again, this ^

    Didn't play for 2 months after last year's Winter Event (got ship on 11 characters). Didn't participate in the Summer Event, really, because I was celebrating my holidays. Limited the number of characters for this Winter Event, but still haven't really played since finishing that grind. I really prefer to just pick some stuff to do on a per day basis, as well as on which character to do that on. Strongly urging me to do the same thing over and over again for a longer period of time pushes me towards other games.

    *shrug*

    That's ok. Been here for a longish time now. There's plenty for me to enjoy, with the Steam holiday sales just over, too. Maybe it's time to move on for a while. Can always come back later, if so inclined. It's just that I can't imagine that's Cryptics design intention.
  • firekeeperhufirekeeperhu Member Posts: 416 Arc User
    edited January 2014
    i'll grind out with my tac toons (or maybe not with all of them, just my main tac), and my romulan sci. my fed engineer feels fine in his fleet avenger, and my fed sci is doing great in a vesta.
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