The one thing worth mentioning is late 20s, early 30s, single faction can simply get too hard! Dual faction keeps these hostile dailies within difficulty and warp range. If people haven't unlocked Pike yet, grinds are very painful! Often folks resign themselves to not finishing the daily and worse not getting that loyalty badge.
I started playing this game in late June 2022. Wanted to dual faction, however found it difficult and am working on Federation first and have 4.7 million with them. I am currently level 29 as of 14 Nov 2022. There is much to learn in this game and I suspect that for those that have only an hour a day to dedicate to this game, watching one 30 video a day to help learn cuts play time down to 30 minutes. Good luck getting anywhere in 30 minutes a day, even an hour a day play time is not enough for those that are learning.
Greetings UltimateDjz from 137's [LOST] Trismegistus :) Just want to point out that you left out the step 1 in this strategy - the augments ! So I camped for about 3 months at Ops20 to max out my Kehra, since i allready decided to skip both the Vahk and the Kuma and go straight to the level 26 faction ships - just 1, and then to the 28 - the Saly. So while camping, I maxed out the shards for the augment officers, therefore starting to stack up on my TP's that early on. Now I'm Ops27, camping again, locked klingons and working on the feds, while doing rare armadas twice a week for that daily full pull on the rare armada chests for Saly bps AND stacking on uc and rare gas and crystal for the same Sally. Starting with the augments is far easier than it is with the faction creds because there's really very little to spend the mined data on apart from the officers, and yes I did that regularly not just during officer recruit slb events ;) I have 2 friends, 1 is Ops30 and just discovered TP's, and the other is fresh Ops15 after maxing his baby jelly, and whom I've taught this exact method - buying faction recruit tokens every single day, as well as the relocation tokens from alliance store. Doing this daily insures a smooth transition from early 20's to late 20's in terms of officers, to increase effectiveness towards armadas, therefore armada credits, therefore ship bps, therefore better raiding resources to invest into leveling up everything else. So it adds up ;) Great video, keep up the good work !
1st. Amazing. Been kinda doing this, but will step it up. 2nd. That’s what you get Djz for letting 5nakeEyes edit your videos. Last min of video is the best!!
Hello UltimatDjz. This is the best Video I have ever seen on STFC. I have watched all videos from all Cc for STFC. I will be watching this a lot times in weeks to come. Greets DonyTheRat. Server 142.
Good and informative video. I won a lot of events with this method. Now at ops26 im pulling sally and d3 bp's like crazy with the faction credits but after i finish them, back to officers. Borg refinery and the new prime charged nanoprobe refinery also helps cut the time of getting these bp's by a lot.
Love the transporter patterns. When I first unlocked the transporter patterns and realized that I had collected all the shards from a rare Klingon officer, I started buying up Fed and Klingon recruit chests like crazy in order to get the patterns to unlock Pike. Kirk is the only Epic from the two stores I don't have maxed. In the recruit event from two weeks ago, I opened enough Klingon chests to max Gorkon, then spent the patterns to get 6/10 to tier 2.
Great video again DJz. I skipped 32s, I can vouch that there is no need for them at all. I also made the decision that my epic would come from my third faction because of all the faction credits I was unable to spend while I was hated. It took months off saving for the Augur.
Great video lots of useful advice for everyone but I would advise saving credits for your lvl34 ship a bit earlier, most people wont get the required credits unless they save from ops 28 ship if they also want to promote officers. I would keep pulling fed credits until you max spock though
definitely some good points. keep in mind too though that faction credits CAN come from armada chests, faction hunts, various events, and even some battlepasses. so there are other ways to get "injections" of faction credits as you progress. even borg/vidar refinery!
At rep lock, 10 million and a maxed Vidar with Borg Credit research done you can get 600 Factions credits, 350 credits for Scouts, 200 from the Daily Rep spending event and 230 from your 4 faction dailies for a total of 1380, yeah, if you start at OPS 34 it will be a bit of time, 130 days to unlock a lvl 34 faction ship but it is doable. If you do all of the dailies and buy the 7500 recruit tickets it will run you 1020 of the 1380 credits so you will still generate a bit of extra credits per day. If the Arc events continue paying out well in credits and we keep getting Apex and Faction Hunt events it won't take much to save up the needed credits for the Epic ships.
that's still fine! you gotta remember, dual factin goes EXACTLY half as fast so doing them one at a time isn't a bad thing, but i like the extra fac credits and speedups that come out of doing the dual path quickly. you get double up front instead of one then the second.
Wow DJ. Ty for the tips. Shout-out for rev duece for talking about you. I was a big fan of RD but now I'm hooked on your teach vids. I made some mistakes in buying intrepid when I should be using it on the ENT. I love the brel. IMO. I'm still 35 and dual faction so now I'm gonna start grinding Klingon and Fed traders to push ROM faction in positive. Unless there is a faster way Borg store helps too
another point would be to have people pull awoken augment chests at an early stage as a good source for transporter patterns before they can max their faction officers
what i do is every 3k faction pull is at least 1.5k TP and every14 days at 3k each is 42k each so a total of 126k pulled so about 60k+ TP every 2 weeks and after your epic ship can go crazy on all 3 love this loop and if lucky enough for a full epic even every month can trade TP in for epic shards
Very useful information. I am one of those that disagrees with you on the ships, but only because I'm a long grinder in the game. It typically takes me 6 months or more to go up a level.
well, i started to late with this long term targets ingame, I got my Enterprise and my Augur right in time at ops34 and stopped at 100/150 of the D4, just for the Collection, but feeling rly dump now after I learned my next lesson from you. additionaly, it hurts to realize I wasted some more credits at my BRel and Green Goblin, also just for the colletion,too. Anyway, full throttle now for officers and there no doubts why I'm Not competitive enough due to lacking in officer .Much appreciate your vid and already shared at my alliance, to teach the lower lvl to start earlier 😇
I saved the Discovery pulls during the Disco arc for the related recruiting events, but there's only limited value to saving them now, especially if you still need spore drive parts. Since AP has become a regular event on Sundays I'll spend them first any time we get heroic recruiting events. I'm currently 5.6M rep away from the tri-lock and it's driving me crazy not being able to cash in the other two faction dailies, especially since I can't avoid doing the mining ones without crippling the resource generation I need. But I spent the latinum to get Chen maxed and now my Saladin can grind in higher areas, so it will go faster...it just still SEEMS slow.
For me, the rating of the faction recruit packs: Fed Recruit Packs: 9/10 Klingon Recruit Packs: 7/10 Romulan Recruit Packs: 5/10 Federation is BY FAR the most important. The only burning officer that actually works for burning officer abilities is Georgiou, and she's not in the Romulan packs Gorkon crew is good in the 20's, gets outclassed in the 30's. but comes back in the 40's (when PvP battles get a lot shorter again). However the best Hull Breach officer is Lorca, so not in the packs
the rating doens't matter as much as what the end result is. regardless of their "contents" they all eventually yield transport patterns, so maxing those cores is a side effect. if you don't like the officers, use them for stats below decks!
The officers in the faction recruit packs don’t really matter... it’s all about getting the transport patterns (and officer do) so you promote the epic officers you want.
Agree... And don't agree! The reality is that you need factions credits for ships too, therefore you cannot always afford to target all factions. Federation are the OP faction in this game until level 40+ (so for 98% of players), they have the best two ships in the game (Saladin and Enterprise), and the best officer set readily available in faction recruit packs. Therefore, you need to prioritise who to go for, and then my ratings are relevant. If the game give you enough tokens to always pull recruit chests AND save for ships in the 20x OPS level, then I would agree with the "max them all" mindset, however the game doesn't, so you have to prioritise
@@jameslewis1608 not true, maxed morale (Bones, Kirk, Spock) is arguably the most important PvP crew to get in the game. It's the ONLY elite crew that a low spender can realistically max. And Spock is also not available in transportor patterns. It is very relevant to ensure you focus on the correct factions for officer recruits
I advise starting dual faction grinding at ops 13 to 15. Want to be tri locked by ops 31 Should have your 28 faction ship already bought by ops 25. 34 faction ship takes longer and pain in the butt, but should have b4 going ops 36
i agree dual faction grinding alot of work but worth it i went rom and fed got the kumari can take you to ops28 easy collect your lv28 ship for me the centi the sally is to crystal heavy but not saying not to go for it and that can carry you to the epic which for me was the enti that i got and how did i get all the credit i did not get the recruits from the faction store but once i got the centi and respected i then started collecting the rom recruits fed ones after i got the enti and its cloak
Tbh your right in what you say we have a lvl 32 who doesn't have Khan yet so will share on alliance DC Sally definitely the way to go and rare ships I built 2 and I regret it I've wasted at least 2 teirs of an epic ship twice 😭 I have all 3 epics and also I agree Auger the best ship
Nice video discussing factions officers... how to you manage the independent grind? I did a similar "buy every day" from Aug Store to add Aug officers to this strategy and have all the shards I need to upgrade most of them to max but am completely stuck bc independent creds take so long to get... Max Vidar pulls from borg refine and aug store every day only snag a couple hundred per day. Factions you can go grind out scouts for a nice boost but theres nothing like that for independents
yes, indy credits are also a bottleneck, but as i put in a previous podcast, i don't promote every officer everytime they're eligible, ESPECIALLY if it's an indy officer, or if that officer has an ability i don't care about or never use. so many of my borg officers are NOT promoted, so i had a good stack of indy's available. also, i make that a priority in event stores. i buy 5k from every event store i can. it's my first purchase.
Great video! If only it was this easy to win this event on each server 😕 I've been doing the same method for a while (ops 39s as well). Spending 300k faction recruit wouldn't get you to top 10 on my server.
Realizing now I have messed up; I am almost ROM locked at level 28; but enemy in Fed and Kling space...what do you recommend I do to get out of Fed ENEMY status?
Great video DJ. What does it take to max an officer to stop getting more shards? Collect a specific number of shards only, or does it require spending officer XP, credits, and command badges to promote and level them up too?
nope just the shards! so promotion is NOT necessary! just accumulate the maximum number of shards and you start getting TP patterns (rare/epic) or officer xp (unc/com)
I"m only level 35 and I'm already over 30 million rom rep, meaning I cannot do the daily mining ore mission. Reckon I should drop back down below 30m until I'm higher, for more faction credits?
maybe take a look at LCARS 2.0 to find out what the faction credit requirements are for your next promotion and save that many. i woudln't banka bunch. BUT also depending on what officer that is, i may not recommend you promote it. just depends on which officer it is.
absolutely! you'll have officers far and above more advanced than peole who don't. and after all, long after you get rid of that kumari, and graduate beyond the saladin, you'll STILL have those officers.... the kumari will be lonnnnnng since forgotten
I am level 33 and triple-locked already. I was doing all 3 faction dailies for the credits and speed ups. Then I started focusing on dual faction Fed and Rom to start getting to Celebrated. But if I understand what you said in this video, do you recommend I wait until the late 30's and continue to do all 3 dailies?
oh lord yes. at ops 33, you're still 5 levels away from dark space, and once you get to 30 mil faction rep your dailies FORCE you into dark space to mine g4 materials. i would just enjoy triple daily rewards til you get closer to ops 38/39 and THEN choose to start your rep grind. it goes decently quick too. especially once you get going past 30-50 mil. enjoy all those speedups and faction credits. bank em bank em
Very helpful video. Please DJ, post the name of the grinders paradise for those of us still relatively new to the game (I just started playing this year). Thanks.
for grinding fed rep, tygokor is the best one. it does need a well developed sally as the warp range is high, but i'll post some others. i gotta go back and find my list! lol
Great video, The video was longer than normal but well worth it. I was doing that in my low 20s for feds and klingons.. stopped for feds at 24 because I was tiering Enteprise Spock and McCoy to T4 and then the TOS arc came and got TOS Uhura to T4 and full pulls on Marcs. Feds credits were wiped out, but I am saving up again for when I hit 28 to get that Sally. I'm in good shape 15K almost at ops 27 and started getting sally bps in armada chests. That should save even more fed credits.
oh heck yeah! you're doing great! yeah the vid was longer than i intended, but it hit a very broad "path of progression" angle that i wanted to display. i'm so thrilled to hear that this is working for you ALREADY!
@@jameslewis1608 i love my ent too... BUT i also love my augur HAHA and depending on how long you plan on sticking at 39, i would only build 1. if you plan on camping there for awhile, then maybe 2. i did build two and i love using them both, but i've beenops 39 for over 6 months now lol to answer your question though, just like i mentioned for approaching 28, as you APPROACH34, you wanna start sving the faction credits for you chosen ship. but hoepfully by then you're locked in 2 reps, and workin gon the third, so you can get the faction credits for all 3 factions at that point, accelerating your growth even more.
@@jerrynovotnik i know i know, lol i keep hearing it. but i also can handily win leaderboards. it's a trade off. lol ops 39 is the high end of most brackets. PLUS i wasn't quite done with my pre 40 progression. i hadn't yet maxed my mayflower and lego for the g4 common i need. my research isn't yet maxed, and my buildings (generators and vaults) are still playing catchup since i'm gonna need those for ops 42. so i've been playing some catchup before i push the button.
@@UltimatDJzPlayz Just push the button xD. Leaderboards are fair point, but you'll have to move some day anyway so the problem can't be dodged and the more you wait the bigger lead others are making on you with G4 and other rss:) You can hover at 40 and play catchup too. Maybe it would be worth a video, for many this is a scary step and the pros/cons are worth discussing. The grind for G4 commons, lat, and steel, etc. Love your content btw.
i dunno that i would buy all three, at least not until much later. i DID invest in two of them, and i'm pretty satisfied with 2 of them. you dno't have to spend ALL faction credits on them either, some of them can be earned in armada chests, but yes, i HIGHLY recommend faction miners when you can. but if i remember right, they're pretty cheap too.
@@UltimatDJzPlayz Thank you sir. I was thinking about only buying the Kvort since you always need crystals for miners and interceptors. what level should i wait for to get the kvort? late 30s?
ehhh i do't wanna say bad. BUT, the brel uses gas, and so does the ent. and i think the ent has to be the endgame for ops39 and down. HOWEVER, if you're dual faction with fed and klingon, IF you're sitting on enough mats to get that bortas to t8, then it can do the same thing as the sally as a grinder ship (although it's slower) so you can sink everything into the enterprise. feel free to pm me on discord if you need some more specific pointers based on your account level and rep levels!
Any news on more officer being added to the transport patterns, from the survey's the CC's did for Scopely couple of month ago? complete agree on using this method and I won the recruit SLB the other day for 3 rd time doing this, but started saving credits for my epic at ops 30s, I'm nearly ops 34 now with 125 bps for my epic, I'm double faction locked but not going to get the 3rd positive until my epic ship bps grind is done, so just under a month left to grind for bps. Also do you know anyone do duel faction grinding to 1 billion mark?
no updates on TP store yet. other than they're working on it. so we'll see what happens. i do know a few people dual grinding to 1 bil. they talk about how difficult it is to keep it balanced cause the hostiles are so much more imbalanced at the higher levels. they claim it can mathematically be done, but requires tons of grind, and careful balance.
hahaha i DID love my brel WHILE i flew it. it was just not enough time for what i spent on it. 32 to 34 is NOT a ton of time. and not only that, but the brel is an explorer, and i spent gas on it, gas that my enterprise desperately needed. it was not a good investment of mats/rss.
@@UltimatDJzPlayz The cynic might think that you had a meeting with Scopely this week and transporter pattern changes are coming Mwaahaaa! (dracula laugh)
You mentioned that the Recuit SLB only occurs once every 11 days. Is there a pattern to the daily events? I've asked around before, and was told they're random. Also, what about the officers who aren't in Faction packs/Patterns?
the officers that are not in the faction packs OR transporter store i still rely on the premium and ultras for those. i don't hold them forever! the 89k i had in the video is wht i had saved up cause we haven't had a recruiting arc event for awhile. but i'll blow those on a recruiting leaderboard in an arc typically that rewards for all officer shards. that's where i'll continue to get those, plus some from missions, events, battlepasses, etc. and sometimes i even BUY SOME lol shhhhhhhhhh i didn't say that out loud ;) ps, there is a pattern! hit me up on discord and i'll set ya up with the schedule!
no, i spend them cause i know i can reaccumulate them quickly as you saw, plus if we get supplemental events, like the officerrecruit sms heroic, i usually do those too, and if there's something arc related.
is the vidar able to do all the daily grinding up to 39 hostiles? that USED to be the saly, but my experience is diff, as i didn't have the vida when i was coming up.
But it is "mathematically possible" to be positive in all 3 factions. It'd be slow and stupid, but if you never hit any faction hostiles and did faction armadas you could be positive in all 3 factions. Not sure why anybody would do this but you could.
So im a 20 w dual factions locked so dont ever think us smalls cant do it. I would have disagree with you a on dumping so much in faction credits simply over 2 facts 1 takes 4 ever to accumulate them and need them for officer promos 2 officer exp is impossible to accumulate dont care how much u grind separatist not enough time in the day rare and epic officers over lv 20 requires millions in exp just go up 1 lv.
as an ops 20 it's very very scaled. as you level up the amounts you'll get in xp are much much much larger. BUT there's still a major shortage, that's no doubt. i have several officers aiting on xp. even your accumulation of faction crdits will get better, through vidar, through the rep events, and through scouts.
@@UltimatDJzPlayz Was just going on your Math that in 11 days you got 82.5K Klingon credits to get to 275K therefore something like 35 days still a good strategy
I am a new player (lvl 21 in four weeks so far), and these types of guides are invaluable to new players like me. I cannot thank you enough 🙏.
The one thing worth mentioning is late 20s, early 30s, single faction can simply get too hard! Dual faction keeps these hostile dailies within difficulty and warp range. If people haven't unlocked Pike yet, grinds are very painful! Often folks resign themselves to not finishing the daily and worse not getting that loyalty badge.
I started playing this game in late June 2022. Wanted to dual faction, however found it difficult and am working on Federation first and have 4.7 million with them. I am currently level 29 as of 14 Nov 2022. There is much to learn in this game and I suspect that for those that have only an hour a day to dedicate to this game, watching one 30 video a day to help learn cuts play time down to 30 minutes. Good luck getting anywhere in 30 minutes a day, even an hour a day play time is not enough for those that are learning.
Greetings UltimateDjz from 137's [LOST] Trismegistus :) Just want to point out that you left out the step 1 in this strategy - the augments ! So I camped for about 3 months at Ops20 to max out my Kehra, since i allready decided to skip both the Vahk and the Kuma and go straight to the level 26 faction ships - just 1, and then to the 28 - the Saly. So while camping, I maxed out the shards for the augment officers, therefore starting to stack up on my TP's that early on. Now I'm Ops27, camping again, locked klingons and working on the feds, while doing rare armadas twice a week for that daily full pull on the rare armada chests for Saly bps AND stacking on uc and rare gas and crystal for the same Sally.
Starting with the augments is far easier than it is with the faction creds because there's really very little to spend the mined data on apart from the officers, and yes I did that regularly not just during officer recruit slb events ;)
I have 2 friends, 1 is Ops30 and just discovered TP's, and the other is fresh Ops15 after maxing his baby jelly, and whom I've taught this exact method - buying faction recruit tokens every single day, as well as the relocation tokens from alliance store. Doing this daily insures a smooth transition from early 20's to late 20's in terms of officers, to increase effectiveness towards armadas, therefore armada credits, therefore ship bps, therefore better raiding resources to invest into leveling up everything else. So it adds up ;)
Great video, keep up the good work !
The DJz method is still awesome. I have cleared about half the Transporter Store with it
1st. Amazing. Been kinda doing this, but will step it up.
2nd. That’s what you get Djz for letting 5nakeEyes edit your videos. Last min of video is the best!!
HAHAHAHAHA i died laughing at it. i love when he's creative like this!
@UltimatDJz Playz 😎
Hello UltimatDjz. This is the best Video I have ever seen on STFC. I have watched all videos from all Cc for STFC.
I will be watching this a lot times in weeks to come.
Greets DonyTheRat. Server 142.
THANK YOU! that's awesome fr you to say, adn thanks for watching! i hope this has some long term benefit for you!
Good and informative video. I won a lot of events with this method. Now at ops26 im pulling sally and d3 bp's like crazy with the faction credits but after i finish them, back to officers. Borg refinery and the new prime charged nanoprobe refinery also helps cut the time of getting these bp's by a lot.
5nakeyes, GREAT WIN over dj! DJz, great video. Officers are indeed, FOREVER!!!!
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hahahahaha, yes it was a very good win.
Love the transporter patterns. When I first unlocked the transporter patterns and realized that I had collected all the shards from a rare Klingon officer, I started buying up Fed and Klingon recruit chests like crazy in order to get the patterns to unlock Pike. Kirk is the only Epic from the two stores I don't have maxed. In the recruit event from two weeks ago, I opened enough Klingon chests to max Gorkon, then spent the patterns to get 6/10 to tier 2.
6/10 is a great officer!
Great video again DJz. I skipped 32s, I can vouch that there is no need for them at all. I also made the decision that my epic would come from my third faction because of all the faction credits I was unable to spend while I was hated. It took months off saving for the Augur.
yeah getting that third faction is always the toughest cause you have to sit out of that rep event for so long; it hurts!
I love listening to youf stuff at work in the morning when you drop new content. Keep up the great work!
thanks so much!
What an eye opener. Glad I found this video. 👍🏾
Great video lots of useful advice for everyone but I would advise saving credits for your lvl34 ship a bit earlier, most people wont get the required credits unless they save from ops 28 ship if they also want to promote officers. I would keep pulling fed credits until you max spock though
definitely some good points. keep in mind too though that faction credits CAN come from armada chests, faction hunts, various events, and even some battlepasses. so there are other ways to get "injections" of faction credits as you progress. even borg/vidar refinery!
At rep lock, 10 million and a maxed Vidar with Borg Credit research done you can get 600 Factions credits, 350 credits for Scouts, 200 from the Daily Rep spending event and 230 from your 4 faction dailies for a total of 1380, yeah, if you start at OPS 34 it will be a bit of time, 130 days to unlock a lvl 34 faction ship but it is doable. If you do all of the dailies and buy the 7500 recruit tickets it will run you 1020 of the 1380 credits so you will still generate a bit of extra credits per day. If the Arc events continue paying out well in credits and we keep getting Apex and Faction Hunt events it won't take much to save up the needed credits for the Epic ships.
Ty, wish I had this info last year. I did Each one seperately.
that's still fine! you gotta remember, dual factin goes EXACTLY half as fast so doing them one at a time isn't a bad thing, but i like the extra fac credits and speedups that come out of doing the dual path quickly. you get double up front instead of one then the second.
Wow DJ. Ty for the tips. Shout-out for rev duece for talking about you. I was a big fan of RD but now I'm hooked on your teach vids. I made some mistakes in buying intrepid when I should be using it on the ENT. I love the brel. IMO. I'm still 35 and dual faction so now I'm gonna start grinding Klingon and Fed traders to push ROM faction in positive. Unless there is a faster way Borg store helps too
another point would be to have people pull awoken augment chests at an early stage as a good source for transporter patterns before they can max their faction officers
that's a great idea! i didn't even think of those! augments, even the mudds chest! GREAT IDEA!
Thanks to your video DJ..i got 2nd place in the last recruit SLB and added another tier to my Pike 😊
woooooot congrats!
what i do is every 3k faction pull is at least 1.5k TP and every14 days at 3k each is 42k each so a total of 126k pulled so about 60k+ TP every 2 weeks and after your epic ship can go crazy on all 3 love this loop and if lucky enough for a full epic even every month can trade TP in for epic shards
I love it, gonna try this method
Very useful information. I am one of those that disagrees with you on the ships, but only because I'm a long grinder in the game. It typically takes me 6 months or more to go up a level.
Oh my god amazing I did not think of this. Thank you. 🖖🖖🖖
Hope it helps!!!
How did you know I needed this video.
ESPN ;)
well, i started to late with this long term targets ingame, I got my Enterprise and my Augur right in time at ops34 and stopped at 100/150 of the D4, just for the Collection, but feeling rly dump now after I learned my next lesson from you. additionaly, it hurts to realize I wasted some more credits at my BRel and Green Goblin, also just for the colletion,too. Anyway, full throttle now for officers and there no doubts why I'm Not competitive enough due to lacking in officer .Much appreciate your vid and already shared at my alliance, to teach the lower lvl to start earlier
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thanks so much! sorry for my delay in responding, but thanks for watching the vid!
One of the most valuable stfc vid anywhere. Well done sir.
wow thank you!!!
Cool idea to max officers faster. Thanks.
you're welcome!
I saved the Discovery pulls during the Disco arc for the related recruiting events, but there's only limited value to saving them now, especially if you still need spore drive parts. Since AP has become a regular event on Sundays I'll spend them first any time we get heroic recruiting events.
I'm currently 5.6M rep away from the tri-lock and it's driving me crazy not being able to cash in the other two faction dailies, especially since I can't avoid doing the mining ones without crippling the resource generation I need. But I spent the latinum to get Chen maxed and now my Saladin can grind in higher areas, so it will go faster...it just still SEEMS slow.
Yeah finishing that third lock is def a grind.
Great vid!
For me, the rating of the faction recruit packs:
Fed Recruit Packs: 9/10
Klingon Recruit Packs: 7/10
Romulan Recruit Packs: 5/10
Federation is BY FAR the most important. The only burning officer that actually works for burning officer abilities is Georgiou, and she's not in the Romulan packs
Gorkon crew is good in the 20's, gets outclassed in the 30's. but comes back in the 40's (when PvP battles get a lot shorter again). However the best Hull Breach officer is Lorca, so not in the packs
the rating doens't matter as much as what the end result is. regardless of their "contents" they all eventually yield transport patterns, so maxing those cores is a side effect. if you don't like the officers, use them for stats below decks!
The officers in the faction recruit packs don’t really matter... it’s all about getting the transport patterns (and officer do) so you promote the epic officers you want.
@@jameslewis1608 you got it
Agree... And don't agree! The reality is that you need factions credits for ships too, therefore you cannot always afford to target all factions. Federation are the OP faction in this game until level 40+ (so for 98% of players), they have the best two ships in the game (Saladin and Enterprise), and the best officer set readily available in faction recruit packs. Therefore, you need to prioritise who to go for, and then my ratings are relevant. If the game give you enough tokens to always pull recruit chests AND save for ships in the 20x OPS level, then I would agree with the "max them all" mindset, however the game doesn't, so you have to prioritise
@@jameslewis1608 not true, maxed morale (Bones, Kirk, Spock) is arguably the most important PvP crew to get in the game. It's the ONLY elite crew that a low spender can realistically max. And Spock is also not available in transportor patterns. It is very relevant to ensure you focus on the correct factions for officer recruits
Thx for information, great video, keep it up , helps us to enjoy the game and progress 👍
thank you!
I advise starting dual faction grinding at ops 13 to 15.
Want to be tri locked by ops 31
Should have your 28 faction ship already bought by ops 25.
34 faction ship takes longer and pain in the butt, but should have b4 going ops 36
I like all those ideas! Get a jump start! You’ll be more ahead later on!
Great vid, thank you for sharing
AAWESOME! THANKS!
the best content i ever seen and the best content creator!
Shucks thank you!
i agree dual faction grinding alot of work but worth it i went rom and fed got the kumari can take you to ops28 easy collect your lv28 ship for me the centi the sally is to crystal heavy but not saying not to go for it and that can carry you to the epic which for me was the enti that i got and how did i get all the credit i did not get the recruits from the faction store but once i got the centi and respected i then started collecting the rom recruits fed ones after i got the enti and its cloak
Great video very helpful! I had to make an edit to my comments. Best ending EVER
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I have been SOOOO lost in regards to this subject THANK YOU!!! LOL
You’re welcome!!
I will apply this plan but I messed up early in game but I will grind
i know this is an old vid but im close to maxing ghrush my first one and what is the conversion rate per shard to transporter patterns
🤯🤯Always great information!!!
THANK YOUUUUUUU
Love my sali- skipping intrepid. Lvl 35. Single faction. 1 at a time thanks.
Been doing that for a long time. Nice to see the video stayed up what happen with the last 3 you took down. Hot water from scopley? 😂😂
hahahaha NO hot water from UA-cam ! copyright problems lol sorry for the trouble. i think we got it fixed up now!
Tbh your right in what you say we have a lvl 32 who doesn't have Khan yet so will share on alliance DC Sally definitely the way to go and rare ships I built 2 and I regret it I've wasted at least 2 teirs of an epic ship twice 😭 I have all 3 epics and also I agree Auger the best ship
LOVE MY AUGUR! lol
Great info
Nice video discussing factions officers... how to you manage the independent grind? I did a similar "buy every day" from Aug Store to add Aug officers to this strategy and have all the shards I need to upgrade most of them to max but am completely stuck bc independent creds take so long to get... Max Vidar pulls from borg refine and aug store every day only snag a couple hundred per day. Factions you can go grind out scouts for a nice boost but theres nothing like that for independents
yes, indy credits are also a bottleneck, but as i put in a previous podcast, i don't promote every officer everytime they're eligible, ESPECIALLY if it's an indy officer, or if that officer has an ability i don't care about or never use. so many of my borg officers are NOT promoted, so i had a good stack of indy's available. also, i make that a priority in event stores. i buy 5k from every event store i can. it's my first purchase.
Great video! If only it was this easy to win this event on each server 😕
I've been doing the same method for a while (ops 39s as well). Spending 300k faction recruit wouldn't get you to top 10 on my server.
Ouch. Sometimes I miss the event or do lose (like I did to snake eyes in this one) haha
At 37 - I totally agree, I play like you. However how did you max the Borg officers because of refined nano wall? I need 500k to up one officer ?
I only have ONE and that’s cause I didn’t promote the smaller ones. 7,8,9 and 1 are all t3 only. So no major nanoprobe investment on those.
Belak is the rom system good for grinding Roma for Klingon/Fed pts
Realizing now I have messed up; I am almost ROM locked at level 28; but enemy in Fed and Kling space...what do you recommend I do to get out of Fed ENEMY status?
Kill Klingon Traders Exclusively... as high as you can hit
~ 5nakeEyes
Great video DJ. What does it take to max an officer to stop getting more shards? Collect a specific number of shards only, or does it require spending officer XP, credits, and command badges to promote and level them up too?
nope just the shards! so promotion is NOT necessary! just accumulate the maximum number of shards and you start getting TP patterns (rare/epic) or officer xp (unc/com)
Holy wow!
I"m only level 35 and I'm already over 30 million rom rep, meaning I cannot do the daily mining ore mission. Reckon I should drop back down below 30m until I'm higher, for more faction credits?
oh definitely. you won't need that rep for a long time. dfeinitely bank those faction crdits drop that rep!
Awesome vid, and loved the snakeeyes edit at the end 🤣🤣🤣. What do you use for the regular recruit events?
i will still use the faction recruits, UNLESS i'm ready for somethin specific from the transporter store, then i'll use patterns there.
Your awesome and awesome video
"This is not a short-term plan. You're gonna wanna watch this video again in a couple weeks. Again in a month." No kidding!
Should I still save faction recruits if still maxing all the officers in the chest?
maybe take a look at LCARS 2.0 to find out what the faction credit requirements are for your next promotion and save that many. i woudln't banka bunch. BUT also depending on what officer that is, i may not recommend you promote it. just depends on which officer it is.
Nice video
I'm ops 25 and been wondering if I should be doing this
absolutely! you'll have officers far and above more advanced than peole who don't. and after all, long after you get rid of that kumari, and graduate beyond the saladin, you'll STILL have those officers.... the kumari will be lonnnnnng since forgotten
@@UltimatDJzPlayz I was told to ignore the Kumari in favour of saving rss for the saladin, so only using the Vahklas :P
Nice ty.
I am level 33 and triple-locked already. I was doing all 3 faction dailies for the credits and speed ups. Then I started focusing on dual faction Fed and Rom to start getting to Celebrated. But if I understand what you said in this video, do you recommend I wait until the late 30's and continue to do all 3 dailies?
oh lord yes. at ops 33, you're still 5 levels away from dark space, and once you get to 30 mil faction rep your dailies FORCE you into dark space to mine g4 materials. i would just enjoy triple daily rewards til you get closer to ops 38/39 and THEN choose to start your rep grind. it goes decently quick too. especially once you get going past 30-50 mil. enjoy all those speedups and faction credits. bank em bank em
This is perfect. Just triple-locked and have been struggling with what to do next. Thanks for the great info!
Very helpful video. Please DJ, post the name of the grinders paradise for those of us still relatively new to the game (I just started playing this year). Thanks.
for grinding fed rep, tygokor is the best one. it does need a well developed sally as the warp range is high, but i'll post some others. i gotta go back and find my list! lol
@@UltimatDJzPlayz thanks a lot DJ. I'll be grateful for that list as faction grind seems to be my biggest challenge
@@UltimatDJzPlayz And please let's know when you post the list of best systems to grind in from ops level 25+
Great video, The video was longer than normal but well worth it. I was doing that in my low 20s for feds and klingons.. stopped for feds at 24 because I was tiering Enteprise Spock and McCoy to T4 and then the TOS arc came and got TOS Uhura to T4 and full pulls on Marcs. Feds credits were wiped out, but I am saving up again for when I hit 28 to get that Sally. I'm in good shape 15K almost at ops 27 and started getting sally bps in armada chests. That should save even more fed credits.
oh heck yeah! you're doing great! yeah the vid was longer than i intended, but it hit a very broad "path of progression" angle that i wanted to display. i'm so thrilled to hear that this is working for you ALREADY!
Hey DJ great video. What do you recommend at L34...Enterprise or officers to use the faction credits?
Ent is priority... it will carry you through to the jelly
@@jameslewis1608 i love my ent too... BUT i also love my augur HAHA and depending on how long you plan on sticking at 39, i would only build 1. if you plan on camping there for awhile, then maybe 2. i did build two and i love using them both, but i've beenops 39 for over 6 months now lol to answer your question though, just like i mentioned for approaching 28, as you APPROACH34, you wanna start sving the faction credits for you chosen ship. but hoepfully by then you're locked in 2 reps, and workin gon the third, so you can get the faction credits for all 3 factions at that point, accelerating your growth even more.
@@UltimatDJzPlayz you are missing on a lot of G4 unc/rare and on ton of steel/trit from events by hovering at 39.
@@jerrynovotnik i know i know, lol i keep hearing it. but i also can handily win leaderboards. it's a trade off. lol ops 39 is the high end of most brackets. PLUS i wasn't quite done with my pre 40 progression. i hadn't yet maxed my mayflower and lego for the g4 common i need. my research isn't yet maxed, and my buildings (generators and vaults) are still playing catchup since i'm gonna need those for ops 42. so i've been playing some catchup before i push the button.
@@UltimatDJzPlayz Just push the button xD. Leaderboards are fair point, but you'll have to move some day anyway so the problem can't be dodged and the more you wait the bigger lead others are making on you with G4 and other rss:) You can hover at 40 and play catchup too. Maybe it would be worth a video, for many this is a scary step and the pros/cons are worth discussing. The grind for G4 commons, lat, and steel, etc. Love your content btw.
Hey DJ, should we spend faction credits to buy faction miners?
i dunno that i would buy all three, at least not until much later. i DID invest in two of them, and i'm pretty satisfied with 2 of them. you dno't have to spend ALL faction credits on them either, some of them can be earned in armada chests, but yes, i HIGHLY recommend faction miners when you can. but if i remember right, they're pretty cheap too.
I would not and have not use faction credits you get the bps from grinding and armada chests. Currently 1 maxed horizon and 1 kvort is all i need.
@@UltimatDJzPlayz Thank you sir. I was thinking about only buying the Kvort since you always need crystals for miners and interceptors. what level should i wait for to get the kvort? late 30s?
i like the the info kitty
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so my plan to reach to lvl 32 to get the berell is bad and i buy the sally ?
ehhh i do't wanna say bad. BUT, the brel uses gas, and so does the ent. and i think the ent has to be the endgame for ops39 and down. HOWEVER, if you're dual faction with fed and klingon, IF you're sitting on enough mats to get that bortas to t8, then it can do the same thing as the sally as a grinder ship (although it's slower) so you can sink everything into the enterprise. feel free to pm me on discord if you need some more specific pointers based on your account level and rep levels!
Any news on more officer being added to the transport patterns, from the survey's the CC's did for Scopely couple of month ago? complete agree on using this method and I won the recruit SLB the other day for 3 rd time doing this, but started saving credits for my epic at ops 30s, I'm nearly ops 34 now with 125 bps for my epic, I'm double faction locked but not going to get the 3rd positive until my epic ship bps grind is done, so just under a month left to grind for bps. Also do you know anyone do duel faction grinding to 1 billion mark?
no updates on TP store yet. other than they're working on it. so we'll see what happens. i do know a few people dual grinding to 1 bil. they talk about how difficult it is to keep it balanced cause the hostiles are so much more imbalanced at the higher levels. they claim it can mathematically be done, but requires tons of grind, and careful balance.
b'rel for life, b'rel is love! ^^
hahaha i DID love my brel WHILE i flew it. it was just not enough time for what i spent on it. 32 to 34 is NOT a ton of time. and not only that, but the brel is an explorer, and i spent gas on it, gas that my enterprise desperately needed. it was not a good investment of mats/rss.
Fantastic Video. Really mad you made it. Please keep these tips to your(my)self! :0)
hahahahahahahaha, i released this one a year ago (march 2020) and we haven't really touched on it since, players need a reminder! haha
@@UltimatDJzPlayz The cynic might think that you had a meeting with Scopely this week and transporter pattern changes are coming Mwaahaaa! (dracula laugh)
You mentioned that the Recuit SLB only occurs once every 11 days. Is there a pattern to the daily events? I've asked around before, and was told they're random.
Also, what about the officers who aren't in Faction packs/Patterns?
the officers that are not in the faction packs OR transporter store i still rely on the premium and ultras for those. i don't hold them forever! the 89k i had in the video is wht i had saved up cause we haven't had a recruiting arc event for awhile. but i'll blow those on a recruiting leaderboard in an arc typically that rewards for all officer shards. that's where i'll continue to get those, plus some from missions, events, battlepasses, etc. and sometimes i even BUY SOME lol shhhhhhhhhh i didn't say that out loud ;) ps, there is a pattern! hit me up on discord and i'll set ya up with the schedule!
@@UltimatDJzPlayz Oh, it's one of those secret things, eh? You'll be hearing from me...
This is a comment. Its helps the UA-cam algoritme.
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Right now I am respected by Klingons and enemy of The Federation and Romulans. I am trying to fix that though now.
if your maxed already with one faction, you COULD bring the other two up at the same time as a dual faction growth!
DJ did you spend your transporter shards because you know 5 of 10 is not being added we voted for nothing?
no, i spend them cause i know i can reaccumulate them quickly as you saw, plus if we get supplemental events, like the officerrecruit sms heroic, i usually do those too, and if there's something arc related.
Vidar can carry you to epic ship
is the vidar able to do all the daily grinding up to 39 hostiles? that USED to be the saly, but my experience is diff, as i didn't have the vida when i was coming up.
@@UltimatDJzPlayz yes can kill 39s and 40 explorers easily with pmc i still use vidar for dailies rather than enty and its faster than sally
But it is "mathematically possible" to be positive in all 3 factions. It'd be slow and stupid, but if you never hit any faction hostiles and did faction armadas you could be positive in all 3 factions. Not sure why anybody would do this but you could.
Not while GROWING. But once it’s locked you can do it cause the rep can’t go any lower.
@@UltimatDJzPlayz There's no negative rep from faction armadas, only positive. So I don't know why you'd do it but you theoretically could.
So im a 20 w dual factions locked so dont ever think us smalls cant do it. I would have disagree with you a on dumping so much in faction credits simply over 2 facts 1 takes 4 ever to accumulate them and need them for officer promos 2 officer exp is impossible to accumulate dont care how much u grind separatist not enough time in the day rare and epic officers over lv 20 requires millions in exp just go up 1 lv.
as an ops 20 it's very very scaled. as you level up the amounts you'll get in xp are much much much larger. BUT there's still a major shortage, that's no doubt. i have several officers aiting on xp. even your accumulation of faction crdits will get better, through vidar, through the rep events, and through scouts.
wise feline
Thank you!
So wasn't 11 days to 275k 😅😅😅
no i had some carryover from the previous cycle. and the number will vary for everyone depending on how many officers in the faction chest are maxed.
@@UltimatDJzPlayz Was just going on your Math that in 11 days you got 82.5K Klingon credits to get to 275K therefore something like 35 days still a good strategy
Hahaha well im negative dual faction grinding lmao
LOL
that darn snake eyes HAHA