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pryor
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Instead of buying R&D Materials off the Exchange for EC, please tell me that there is a place where I can go to mine these elements or just buy them with ZEN
Argonite GAS
Plekton
Dentarioum
RUBIDIUM
Beta-Tachyon
Z-Particals
Need I go on, I pretty much need them all.
Argonite GAS
Plekton
Dentarioum
RUBIDIUM
Beta-Tachyon
Z-Particals
Need I go on, I pretty much need them all.
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admiralty missions and advanced queues award em. some maps have mining points don't remember if any of them give the very rare mats.
if I stop posting it doesn't make you right it. just means I don't have enough rum to continue interacting with you.
There are also nodes on mission maps you can mine, but they're random and only rarely you will find a blue one, never a purple one, they're acquired from adv/elite queues or the exchange.
The purples are pretty easy to get as they are set in stone rewards and are rewarded from advanced or elite stfs. Admiralty can also get you a nice chunk as well.
However the Blue mats Rubidium/Beta-Tachyon and Z-Particles can be a bigger challenge to obtain as these dropping from any R&D boxes are subject to that horrible Dark Lord of the Sith RNGebus. Admiralty does reward them but not that great.
With the blues if you have the EC buy them off the exchange if you can
Also do not buy the C-Store boxes they are slaves to RNGebus and unless part of a promo rewarding lobi or a chance of a ship stay well clear.
Hello rubber banding my old friend, time to bounce around the battlezone again, where are all my bug reports going?, out of love with this game I am falling, As Cryptic fail to acknowledge a problem exists, Shakes an angry fist, And from Support all I'm hearing are the sounds of silence.
For VR, as already mentioned, Admiralty and Advanced queues.
Otherwise you'll require to do Duty Officer missions or Admiralty helps quite a bit more if you do it regularly and have a lot of ships. Still you're able to run out quickly if your making a lot of upgrades or craft items so you may require buying some on the exchange or purchasing R&D packs in the CSTORE depending how often you craft or what your trying to do and how often.
They are a bit inconsistent with this Project in that it requires a slot, where things like the Fleet Mine assignment that refines 500 Dilitium daily, does not need a Boff Assignment slot.
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You can also pick up ~100 Fleet Marks and then ~100 Nukara Marks on your first two runs of the day, (assuming you haven't already collected the daily bonus elsewhere), and then ~50 of one or the either on your 3rd and subsequent runs of the day, if you're hammering it that hard.
Just remember that Energy weapons do about 5% of their usual damage against the Crystal Entity. You need to pack torpedoes and exotic damage. Gravity Well works wonderfully against the clustered enemies.
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
I hear this a lot from folks who only know terrible-paying grinds and assume everyone else is also getting paid the same amount of dil per unit of grind time.
The reality is a good number of folks are getting paid far more space cash than these types of folks believe is possible per unit of grind time. Worse, they tend to be so hostile to this revelation, it's best for everyone to not even try to correct their misunderstanding.
They can be crafted year round.
Ok, I phrased that badly. The scanning can only be done during the event, which greatly restricts the supply. Crafting doesn't matter much when you have no materials to craft with.
No matter how many times I hear this argument, it never fails to get any less ridiculous.
Sure, it's phrased differently from time to time, but the bottom line argument is the same. You compare the rate at which you earn Dilithium in game and put an hourly value on that as if you were being paid to do a job. Then you compare that rate to the rate of the average minimum wage job and use the obviously favorable comparison to cite your point that it's smarter and a more efficient use of time to just 'throw money at the game.' You thing blow up the comparison to a ridiculous level and use the incredibly lop sided results as a justification of your flawed argument.
This tactic is called "Reductio ad absurdum" or 'reduction to absurdity.' You're comparing money made at a job to rate earned in a video game.. which is supposed to provide entertainment. You're comparing a job to a recreational activity, two things that do not compare 1:1 and using this as the basis for your argument.
No one ever said you should just slave away in the Dilithum Mines, in fact.. most people know that's probably the single most inefficient and most importantly.. boring method that STO offers for earning Dilithium. People who know earn Dilithium through normal game play. They find the game play that they enjoy, the game play that's fun and they play it. That's the point of this entire game you block head, to play and have fun. You earn Dilithum while you're playing and you use that Dilithium to get the things you want. It's earned through normal game play.. through things you are supposed to find fun.
What you're doing is paying money to NOT play this game. What Napalm suggested is a way to make your game time also benefit you in a profitable way when it comes to obtaining gear. You countered with the ridiculous argument that it's better to just sit back and pay money to not have to play the game just so you can get items used.. to play the game.
Your argument is beyond ridiculous and entirely build on a B.S. comparison between two things that do not compare. You then use that as a basis to stretch your argument to ridiculous extremes and use it to 'prove your point.'
Seriously.. just stop asking questions if this is how you're going to continue to respond to the answers and good advice you're given. You're embarrassing yourself.
There is a popular misconception that the key to DPS in this game is just picking the right gear. That assertion is completely false, it's a craft that takes time to learn and even longer to perfect.
By just paying your way through and avoiding actually playing content and learning how to use your abilities, you're going to end up with a very expensive ship that you simply don't know how to play properly.
With the way so many folks seem discouraged and hostile toward DPS, only to go on and on about "pay to win" gear, I can't rule out the possibility they in fact desperately want high DPS to be the direct result of owning expensive things, rather than being the result of an understanding of game mechanics.
Projection is a powerful thing.
So is this the equivalent of meeting me by the monkey bars after school? Is that what you're trying to do here?
I'm not a PvP player, I have actually never played PvP in this game. Unlike you, I'm not just going to claim I'm good at it when I have never actually done it. If we were to team for PvE content though and parse it, I would absolutely eat you alive. Not that I'm that good, you're just so bad.
Honestly, I have been here long enough and played with enough people around here that I have nothing to prove to you. I could out DPS you by triple and you still wouldn't learn. Just keep throwing your wallet at the screen superstar.. you'll get there eventually.
But seaofsorrows is right. He would probably eat you alive in PvE. Especially if you've only been playing a few months and are only throwing your money into the game to get expensive trinkets that will do you no good if you don't know how to use them.
Like I told the other guy who turned his nose up at what I do, I go into the game to have fun, not fight other players. Sometimes not even to run missions. I do what I feel like doing and don't bother anyone else. Tease me all you like about it, won't bother me none cause the opinions of people I don't know don't matter.