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farming particles

cyther77cyther77 Member Posts: 90 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
In particular, in my case, z-particles. I have 4 toons that all have 20th level in cannons, with with all of them I can make 46 superior cannon tech upgrades every 15 minutes, if they have the components needed to make them.

I've been buying z-particle stacks off the exchange, but want to know what's a good way to get Z-particles. Costs be about 20 mil for a stack of 999 z-particles, and right now I can sell a stack of 100 superior cannon tech upgrades for 7.3 mil, I also need beta-tachyons which are cheaper, craylon gas, and rubidium, but I still think I'm making profit making the upgrades, I sell for more than I buy them for.

I remember the exploration clusters, we no longer have, where I could farm from nodes in missions, but those are gone. Doff missions take time to complete, I wonder if there's a faster way to get z-particles, if there's anything like that anymore.

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  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    Not sure what you get specifically but Salvaging Items rewards different types of particles in addition to the Salvage. That would be slow. You may also get some with the Research Lab Daily Craft XP Mission.
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  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    Honestly, I have never tried to just farm a particular type of particle.

    Between Salvaging and running Advanced or Elite Queues I just always seem to have plenty of everything. Most Queues that you run give you a pretty good amount of Crafting Materials.. that's where I get the majority of mine.
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  • emily#7094 emily
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    I usually run Argala and just salvage everything. Keeps me well supplied.
  • cyther77cyther77 Member Posts: 90 Arc User
    edited April 2018
    seaofsorrows wrote: »
    Honestly, I have never tried to just farm a particular type of particle.

    Between Salvaging and running Advanced or Elite Queues I just always seem to have plenty of everything. Most Queues that you run give you a pretty good amount of Crafting Materials.. that's where I get the majority of mine.

    enough to get several (or maybe many) stacks of 999? I'm guessing by "plenty of everything" you don't need/want them in those quantities.

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  • postinggumpostinggum Member Posts: 1,117 Arc User
    Best way to craft is buy the materials, craft, sell, reinvest some and pocket profit. Also have a spreadsheet so you know when its cheaper to make the R&D components or cheaper to craft them, sometimes that market gets flooded with components and its best to buy completed parts. On that spreadsheet list all the upgrades, components and materials.

    After a while you should become EC rich enough that bothering with all that is too much effort, then take you fortune and invest it in things long term, start flipping stuff short-medium term or selling upgraded fancy gear for fancy prices to fancy fellas( its easy to sell the right omni for 100m if you've got 40m to invest.)
  • salazarrazesalazarraze Member Posts: 3,794 Arc User
    Particles drop randomly. There's no good way to farm just one of them.
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  • cyther77cyther77 Member Posts: 90 Arc User
    salazarraze wrote: »
    Particles drop randomly. There's no good way to farm just one of them.

    Unlike in most other MMO's, you can go out and farm in the field, can't do that in this one.

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  • valarauko43valarauko43 Member Posts: 227 Arc User
    In sector space there are Abandoned Ships, Unexplored Nebula, and Comets (Unnamed, I think) which drop random particles.
  • cyther77cyther77 Member Posts: 90 Arc User
    azrael605 wrote: »
    > @cyther77 said:
    > salazarraze wrote: »
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    > Particles drop randomly. There's no good way to farm just one of them.
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    > Unlike in most other MMO's, you can go out and farm in the field, can't do that in this one.

    Indeed it's much easier in this game all you have to do is run admiralty.

    that's still slower, just going out and mining rocks, chopping trees, fishing etc, would be a lot faster. Rather than waiting for HOURS for admiralty missions to complete.
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  • ussvaliant#6064 ussvaliant
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    R&D farming died when the old star clusters were removed and Cryptic placed R&D Mats into the Doffing system, Admiralty, Lockbox and C-store which all happen to be RNG which sucks more than a 100 cheap hookers. Even going into missions is RNG on what R&D mats might be generated. Salvaging is also RNG.

    How about placing specific R&D mats in bundles in either the dil store or the GPL store to suck some of that excess GPL off us ?
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