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Starfleet Academy waste of time? But I need doffs
stesha1492
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Does everybody do this at Starfleet Academy?
1. Beam down to a far-off, random location (every location is near nothing and up to 3 people are standing there wondering how far they need to run to get anywhere
2. Run to the Vulcan Personnel Officer
3. Run to the Tellarite and Andorian in an alley. Are they ketracel-white dealers back there? Makes no sense
4. Run out of the alley to the front door. Why no back door?
5. Run to unnamed personnel officer while avoiding Ferra, who I rarely need to interact with. Ferra SELLS PEOPLE and not even Orion slave girls
6. Run to Viala to get the Lore assignment. Just ask me the question or better yet, ask me ALL the questions so I don't have to return here.
7. Climb on, over or into the computer to remove a chip from it. Really?
8. Test your knowledge by having the Gamepedia lore page open. Who knew that Keiko led the Andak project (unless you read a ST: DS9 novel with only 25 reviews on Amazon) Hey, Cryptic, if you want some more trivial trivia, I wrote an unpublished short story revealing that self-sealing stem bolts are just a euphemism for mechanical sex toys for androids.
9. Run back to Viala to collect a tiny award. (If I had a Ferengi character, he would never do this TRIBBLE for profit)
10. Run to the Mail/Exchange/Bank to mail the useless chip to another character because they are worthless on the exchange.
11. Beam up, while thinking this is a recurring nightmare. The horror of returning to college to cheat on an exam where you lost textbook.
Warning: Tongue in Cheek
1. Beam down to a far-off, random location (every location is near nothing and up to 3 people are standing there wondering how far they need to run to get anywhere
2. Run to the Vulcan Personnel Officer
3. Run to the Tellarite and Andorian in an alley. Are they ketracel-white dealers back there? Makes no sense
4. Run out of the alley to the front door. Why no back door?
5. Run to unnamed personnel officer while avoiding Ferra, who I rarely need to interact with. Ferra SELLS PEOPLE and not even Orion slave girls
6. Run to Viala to get the Lore assignment. Just ask me the question or better yet, ask me ALL the questions so I don't have to return here.
7. Climb on, over or into the computer to remove a chip from it. Really?
8. Test your knowledge by having the Gamepedia lore page open. Who knew that Keiko led the Andak project (unless you read a ST: DS9 novel with only 25 reviews on Amazon) Hey, Cryptic, if you want some more trivial trivia, I wrote an unpublished short story revealing that self-sealing stem bolts are just a euphemism for mechanical sex toys for androids.
9. Run back to Viala to collect a tiny award. (If I had a Ferengi character, he would never do this TRIBBLE for profit)
10. Run to the Mail/Exchange/Bank to mail the useless chip to another character because they are worthless on the exchange.
11. Beam up, while thinking this is a recurring nightmare. The horror of returning to college to cheat on an exam where you lost textbook.
Warning: Tongue in Cheek
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beacsue:
1. I have all the Doffs I need
2. Whats the Quiz reward again 400-something? Yeah... it's not like I get more dil for more entertaining stuff in the game... oh wait... I do.
480 can easily gotten one of many ways at Level 50. At level 5, not so much. Same with the doffs. Unless you're feeding a starbase, white quality doffs aren't needed at level 50, but at 14, they can be handy.
I find the Academy serves a pretty decent purpose for a social zone in-game, it provides basics for low level characters (and those who want to take advantage of the free doffs otherwise).
MORE to do there though, that is welcome for all social zones. Some short dailies pretty much everywhere would be a good thing.
I do this daily, except for the DOff missions since I have no more room for more DOffs. On 20+ alts. Takes me all of 1.5 minutes per alt. 480 Dil and a chip that is usually worthless, but lately has been making me a nice stack of EC. In the last week I've sold 2 of them for 4 mil+ and dozens of others for more that 100k each. And those are the ones that any new alt doesn't need to use to get the accolade.
Granted, I've also deleted hundreds of the chips, but for 45-ish minutes of 'work' I get more than 10K dilithium and some ok amount of EC.
I'm good with that.
Set a man on fire and keep him warm for the rest of his life.
This is absolutely true. 480 dilithium and 3540 Expertise in maybe 90 seconds is probably the best payout/time for either of those things in the whole game.
1)doff recruitment missions. That EC adds up when you sell them.
2)breaking down green doffs into commons and selling those.
3)480 daily ore for doing nothing.
4)most of the good farming foundry missions start there.
5)as a highly decorated veteran of many Starfleet campaigns it is easy to pick up cadets
why would klingons want to waste a lot of time always returning to kronos for officer replacement
while the romulan can get some alian officers transfers in space tai wadu sector block while still having the option to return back to romulan space dock for officer transfers and kdf kronos ports or starfleet earth port for kdf or starfleet officer transfers
it would be nice and more star trek canon if there were a more of choice between getting in the field officer transfers and going to base for officer transfers.
It's usually the first thing I do with all three characters.
With my fed it's a good place to start setting doff assignments as I can transwarp to earth, beam down immediately, do the test for easy dil, beam straight to sector, check if "inspect civilian freighter" is available whilst heading to the ds9 sector (now thankfully no longer being stopped by my boff asking if I want to go to the delta nebula), pick up the trade assignments and turn in contraband at DS9 (and maybe change my ship/costume) then head to the flight dil mine for the three assignments in there and it lets me transwarp to the fleet starbase then the embassy where I can quickly do the fleet mark assignments, I'm now on romulus so am well placed to do rep stuff.
With KDF it's a little more annoying because you have to return to the loresinger after (or just leave it and pick up the dil next time you come in) but the bank/exchange in the academy is less out of the way in first city so then I only need to run to hand contraband and am immediately free to beam up to sector space and seek out marauding assignments on the way to tau dewa to do any reps that need doing.
He does too! There are a couple female Orion entertainment BOFFs he sells.
"The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of play." - James T. Kirk
Traelus Satellite Repair.
I like this, even though only new players would probably use it.
That mission takes around 8 minutes or 480 seconds vs 90 seconds for the Academy.
more dailies and duty officer assignments throughout the game would be good. it would make the game far more interesting to wander around in.
some random short missions, maybe the 5-star foundry missions triggering as you pass their start points would be fun too.
So basically if she were named Lt. McHardofhearing I'd be very, very happy.