Master keys: Are you kidding me?

delliboy · February 2016

I had some left over Master Keys and well I decided to put them on the exchange. I'm a free to play player (for the moment) will be going life time soon and not even ten seconds later all three master keys sold. I earned a cool ten million energy credits. Is it really that easy to make energy credits on this game? I gave the credits to my new Federation Science Officer and I decided that I'm going to do a drain build on him.

lordsteve1 · February 2016

Stuff like keys always sell pretty much instantly if you undercut the lowest price listed.
There are players spending all day watching the exchange to snap up cheap listings and relist them for higher prices.
If you want more money from them you need to list them for more but be patient. But for a quick 4-5 million EC nothing is quicker than selling a key.

seriousdave · February 2016

Basically, yes if you invest in the right things. Stuff like keys, ship modules & stuff are a dead solid investment since there will always be a demand for them, especially after a new boxes & lobi stuff hit the shelves. And having the dil exchange up at 300 additionally helps to keep EC price for zen stuff up.

samt1996 · February 2016

I wouldn't call grinding that much dilithium easy...

Hope you have the EC cap increase or you just lost a lot if money.

delliboy · February 2016

I know my new toon has 150k in dilithium and I plan to try and upgrade his crafted gear hopefully to Epic before he hits admiral and hopefully by next week, put him in the anniversary ship .

lopequil · February 2016

I wouldn't worry too much about epic if I were you. There's only a few bits of kit where it's really worthwhile, like certain warp cores. If you are going to upgrade stuff don't forget to start with low level gear to maximise your chances of a rarity increase.

samt1996 · February 2016

Yes MK XIV very rare is plenty for almost everything. The only thing I would bother upgraded to epic are consoles and weapons, and if you plan on having epic weapon it's cheaper to just buy them with EC or get them at UR and upgrade over time so you don't have to worry about getting a bad mod on upgrading. Most consoles are easy to upgrade and pretty damn cheap, wait for an upgrade weekend and 100-150k dilithium will be enough to get a full set of five fleet tactical consoles to epic.

But again it's a small difference and not needed unless you really want too.

garaks31 · February 2016

be aware of the ec cap. if your haven't unlocked the ec cap in zen store .every ec above 10mili you earn goes to quarks bajoran war orphans fund ...

spiritwalker1969 · February 2016

garaks31 wrote: »

be aware of the ec cap. if your haven't unlocked the ec cap in zen store .every ec above 10mili you earn goes to quarks bajoran war orphans fund ...

minus the customary Ferengi service charge at 99.999999% of course

jaguarskx · February 2016

delliboy wrote: »

I know my new toon has 150k in dilithium and I plan to try and upgrade his crafted gear hopefully to Epic before he hits admiral and hopefully by next week, put him in the anniversary ship .

If you grind omega particles to ultimate craft Omega Tech Upgrades, then you do not need to use any of your 150k dil. However, it can be rather monotonous to play that mini-game over and over again for a long period of time. I spend up to a few hours grinding away at the game because I have a lot of gear I want to upgrade.

Epic gear is nice to have, but not really necessary and it can be expensive to get gear to that point. While I am generally happy with Ultra Rare, I too feel the pull of going Epic just because it is the absolute best. But for the most part I would say marginal gain compared Ultra Rare.

If you really want to get all your gear to be Epic, then my suggestion would be to just upgrade all your gear to Mk XIV Ultra Rare, then go back upgrade them Epic as time and resources permits.

mirrorchaos · February 2016

next time i got a stipend coming its going on a fleet module, those sell for 15m+ ec each. i already spent the last stipend on dil when the prices were above 300z. made a cool 150k dil out of that, the most i have ever gotten on this game.

i dont care about money or currency in general, so it will likely be spent fairly quickly. rather be poor and happy, just scraping by each time, makes things fun.

goodscotch · February 2016

Only 10 million for 3 keys? You probably could have gotten 12 million, but you would have had to wait longer. Keys being sold for 4 million each isn't uncommon. Quite often when I've gone to the Exchange to sell a key, the going lowest price has been 4.25 million. At that point, it's easy to drop a key on the market and get 4 million in seconds.

opekis · February 2016

i remember the time when they actually cost about 1.5m ec...

seriousdave · February 2016

mirrorchaos wrote: »

next time i got a stipend coming its going on a fleet module, those sell for 15m+ ec each.

Haven't been browsing through the exchange lately but damn, now I now where my stipend will also go once it arrives next week.

delliboy · February 2016

Yea sadly like I said I haven't brought he cap increase though I am seriously considering spending 10 more dollars to get it but I want to put some more EC on my other toons. Oh the decisions I have to make

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lianthelia · February 2016

Well if you're going to go life then there is no point in buying it unless you plan to sell more stuff...once you sub or LTS, you automatically get the cap unlocked.

Master keys: Are you kidding me?

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