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A Week of Admiralty Bonus
foppotee
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https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11484233
Starting this Thursday, we’re launching the Admiralty Bonus event! From February 18th at 8am PT (17:00 CET) to February 25th at 10am PT (19:00 CET), your Admiralty missions will give out bonus rewards! During this special event, you’ll find that all of your assignments give out double Campaign XP, allowing for faster progression, no matter who’s missions you’re completing. Get in good with the Ferengi, serve the Federation or the Klingon Empire, or help rebuild the Romulan Republic. In addition, all Tour of Duty missions will award bonus Dilithium Ore during this event!
We hope you enjoy this special event, Captains. Command your fleet to take to the stars!
Most welcomed & appreciated, thanks Cryptic.
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The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Admiralty actually rewards a decent amount of dilithium, and when you have a farm it's more rewarding than actually playing the missions
That being the case, I've decided that I'm only going to play the stuff I want to play for the FUN of it (like episodes I enjoy) and simply use my alt-farm to earn the dilithium I need.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
You're right, this event does basically nothing.. at least for characters trying to progress through Admiralty Ranks. The daily caps render this 'event' pointless.
During this event all of the 'Tour of Duty' admiralty missions reward like 2k dilithium each. There are 4 of those (Fed, KDF, Rom, Ferengi) and depending on the number of alts you have, it adds up quick.
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
You have a valid point which I missed.
"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 haven't had to level a campaign in awhile (my Gamma recruit? Or was AoY after that...), but I definitely remember maxing out the day's XP on just one run of missions. Crits give more too, don't they?
(and also, when I was deliberately working on leveling the campaigns, I'd skip 90 pointers and focus just on higher-value ones.)
Now, all that said, last time we tracked it during the Admiralty Bonus Week, it seemed to allow for about double progress before cap kicked in. But we don't know for sure, and didn't track that closely.
Is it possible that only the "normal" Campaign XP counts towards cap and the bonus does not?
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Yeah I looked at it this morning and see that all the missions are giving 2000-5000 cxp. I guess the 90-700 means something else or I guess I don't know. But yeah you can get the 10,000 in one go. I kind of quit admiralty with the nerf a couple years ago or just because I have too much of everything. But a cool reward for this event would simply be removing this cap for a week.
"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'd think a good stable of ships & Pass Tokens would be required/beneficial so new players probably would be lacking in those categories.
I've also heard instead of Pass Tokens sometimes using shuttles or smaller ships just to bypass the Admiralty mission to fail it & get it out of the way as quick as possible, but again if a new player you won't have many open mission slots so that will create a choke-point.
Also, if I remember correctly the Admiralty doesn't open it's doors till level 52?
That's my approach to Admiralty. The rewards for the regular missions just don't do it for me. Look! A box of prisoners or colonists? Crafting materials? Latinum? I'll throw the Tanius at a rich ore assignment just because they're pretty rare and the 1x cards I'll actually try to crit since I use those enough but the things that only really interest me are the Romulan upgrades and the fleet vouchers (soloing a colony has eaten all my refined dilithium for the last three years).
So my goal is to cycle through as many non-ToD assignments as possible to get to the ToDs. Log in, start a bunch of 15-45 minute assignments with small craft expecting to fail and then do other maintenance items, move on to the next character and repeat. Then I can actually play the game for a while doing whatever event thing is going on or work on endeavors. Before I log off I cycle through all my characters again, acknowledge all the failed assignments (although one would be surprised at how many still pass and those colonists boxes still manage to accumulate) and get rid of as many of the long 3-4 hour assignments as each character can using those same small craft that have already finished their maintenance.
It's a strategy that works for me and I typically have two ToDs going when I log off.
Thanks for the insight! I'll have to give it a go a couple of times this week.
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