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djgiggles1972
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This endeavor needs to be either gone or put more in the game. There has to be more patrols in the galaxy that that you can beam down and explore the planet like there was in the past when this game came out. I've been flying through the Beta Quadrant trying to find a system that i can scan ground materials for this endeavor. I am not going to pass on this and waste a token on cause I am buying tokens to complete my endeavors.
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You will not find ground materials in space, they are only on ground maps.
Accept the mission 'Sphere of Influence,' and travel to New Romulus.
Start the mission and you will beam down.
There will be one node right there in front of you as soon as you enter, harvest that.
Run to the back area, and there is a 2nd node over by one of the consoles on the upper right side of the map.
Beam out.
Repeat as many times as you need.
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
And yes, as others have noted, there are several EASY ways to complete ground materials.
Complaint for nothing, do a tiny bit of homework.
Most of the early mission drop at least 2-3 per map. Where Angel's Fear to tread almost always has one in the infirmary and one or two in the mess hall. I've found up to four in Diplomatic Orders and 6 running Researcher Rescue.
Got a waypoint set for the Deferi doctor mission. (forgot the exact name). Two on a map.Collect, beam out, repeat
One at the bar, one at the cell block. Where is the 3rd?
Or just the first Fed mission. You may not get six nodes, but it can also be done quickly.
If an Endeavour needs to be removed, it's either defeat Tzenkethi or Hur'q on the ground. For those there are actually very few options.
Tzenkethi and Hur'q are only available on the ground through episodes. That's not freely available, not when you compare it with, for example, the 'kill X drones' one or most of the 'kill X ships of species Y'-endeavours.
Ideally, they should make it such that all TFO's can be completed through the queues. It's the fastest way to get to a large number of enemies. That isn't the case right now and it's a serious drawback.
The fact that some Endeavours take longer because they require more than one TFO to be completed, isn't a problem.
Tzenkethi Front launches reasonably fast during most part of the days. Same with Bug hunt. What might be a problem is long cooldowns and waiting times if you need more than one of these.
So I wouldn't support removing these type of endeavours. A better solution might be to combine them and make it 'complete three TFO's' with Iconian, Gamma and Lukari TFO's (and maybe other ones like Delta and Romulan) all being eligible for progress.
The important thing is that there need to be sufficient options available. They shouldn't all be very quick to complete; there's nothing wrong with players having to work a bit for progress.
Fleet Alert, Crystalline entity, Starbase incursion are all not part of the system.
There is no 'use x number of drain abilities' endeavour. No 'capture 3 points in battlezone X' mission. No mission that encourages players to complete the Officer of the Watch missions at fleet starbases. No missions that tell you to earn a particular resource, start a specific duty officer assignment, complete Romulan patrols, craft a certain piece of equipment...
And so on.
There's a lot of content that could be included in the system. That would also help reduce the chances of getting the same annoying, more demanding Endeavours.
And an added benefit would be that some lesser played content became more readily available for those that want to play it but are now endlessly waiting for it to launch.
But of course, as with most systems, this one was launched and never really updated anymore (besides removing some rewards). Like with many systems. When's the last time we had a Doff update, an Admiralty one or an effort to make cross-faction armada's finally a thing? There's a very solid solution here by bringing more of these loose systems together and incorporating them into the Endeavour system. As with everything though, they probably need more resources to do this. Which, sadly, seems to apply to almost every request now.
That is the one I use most often for that endeavor on characters the mission is available for because there are so many resources available, and it goes fairly quickly (also I can cancel it without regret if I have a really bad time crunch since it is one of the starting ones, so the character has already done it before).
I find Armistice to be quicker than Home for the ground one, since you don't need to do the quite long space battle at the start. It might be longer when you need to get 120 kills though - I'm not sure.
This. You don't have to finish the missions, just get what you came for and leave.
There's only two harvest nodes. I use that one all the time for that endeavor.
Once you've beamed unto the dread you can just beam out and back in. No need to repeat the space battle.