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corinthalas
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Let's hear it for the least useful bonus! So many ships, so few assignments they can actually complete alone! It's like a no-prize!
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The T5 Scimitars that buff sci or eng find a lot of use, the tac one not so much. Two of my favorite ships for loner missions are actually the T4 Romulan ships which are great fits for some of the low end missions and common event modifiers as they give a pretty even spread ~30 to all.
When you're just plowing through missions to get the next Tour to spawn, a low mission with a big +stat Event could be cleared by one of these +One Stat ships or by a Ignore +Stat From Event ship. But maybe you don't have those, or you want to save them for a +100 event. /shrug
So, yes. It's very situational, and others aren't. Still, they can't all be perfect all the time. /shrug
The Magic Trio of Kobali Samsar, Ferengi Nandi, and Breen Sarr Theln are nice since they feed off each other. Samsar is maintenance per tac and sci, Nandi is mantenance per engie and sci, and Sarr Theln is maintenance per Engie and Tac.
Oh I missed this comment. It really depends. Most -maintenance ships are pretty useless. However, real good combos come from multiple ships that have -25% maintenance per class when that ship is the same class.
For example, the Buran and Qoj both are engineering ships with -25% maintenance per engineering ships. You put them down with a third engineering ship and you have a combo where the Buran is giving -50% maint for the Qoj and ship 3, while the Qoj is giving its own -50% maint for the Buran and ship 3. That indeed adds up to -100% maintenance and works exactly like you think, the combo is instantly available afterwards. One of the better 'ship 3' selections for this combo is the legendary Oddy card that makes that combo give out 100+ to all stats.
Whether you run it on a tour assignment to make sure none of the ships are on cooldown for tomorrows tour assignment or use it on little 15 minute assignments, its a great way to make sure you have those ships available immediately again and again.
There are similar combos possible with science and tac ships as they all have -maintenance ships for their own class.
I usually use 3-4 cards daily with the solo bonus stat.
All three T5 Oddy: 58/20/20 + 25 Eng; 54/24/20 + 25 Tac; 54/20/24 + 25 Sci
Maquis Raider: 35/56/35 with 20 bonus Eng and Sci
Caitian Atrox: 26/14/50 +20 SCI and TAC
A ship whose stats are 18/30/ 54 +15 all (I only remember where it is on my list)
These are the ones that come to mind quickly. I use a few others less frequenty, as well, when these are in use or maintenance.
If you are just logging in, filling admiralty, and disappearing for a day or two then "saving ships" might seem like a strange idea, but it happens.
No, my command cruiser bonuses of +35 to a stat while alone are not my favorites, but I probably get as much use out of those as I do for the "+X per ship type" bonuses when the ships are the same type... A science ship that gives me a bonus to science for more science ships, for example, is double-bad to me.
Science is already my highest score, and now if I stack more ships with that same highest score I get a bonus to that highest score? Great, but most missions want some other numbers, and rarely does a mission look like "30/30/200" or whatever, and if it does then that high outlier is usually a result of a modifier and I would be better off just using a ship that negates the modifier rather than stacking a bunch of other ships.
They can help with missions that randomly pop a single stat. I've used them with things like +35 tac when a mission goes from 25-80 tac. It doesn't always work to 100% but a lot of the time I can get it in the 90's % chance. They are useful if you need to get through smaller missions fast.
It's good for low end mission that you only want to grind past if you aren't using tokens.
I have a low amount of ships. If I can get a 97% win chance to a mission I just want to grind through to get to a daily then it's very useful. Even with more ships it could help use less ships for greater crit chance on better ones.
Example:
25/25/25 mission
Open it becomes:
25/80/25
Because of event stat mods.
My klingon ship card goes from 25/55/25 to 25/90/25 with plus 35.
Bird of prey T6 is a good example. It's 33/54/21 with +35.
It becomes 33/89/21 and gets around 97% chance to win.
Uh... in my experience... that's not the case. If it says it gets bonus stats for being alone, like the VSS Tanius, that means alone. No other ship. Not even a shuttle. Otherwise it loses the bonus because its not alone.
Base stats for the Tanius is 53/39/43. When alone... its +50 all stats, which bumps it up to 103/89/93. Throw in so much as a shuttle with it, it drops back down to the base + the shuttle stats.