Starfleet/Klingon Strike Group

Hello all,


I've just started levelling another alt (KDF science), so when I hit level 12 I thought I would see if could craft anything useful with the new crafting system.

Keep in mind since the revamp I've only been running the 20 hour xp craft on a couple of captains and have managed to get a couple of skills upto level 10 with some others about level 5.

Overall crafting the components was ok but would be nice if you could select how many you needed, but with a 5 second cool down it wasn't the end of the world.

MK IV items had a 15min cool down I think it was, I made a DBB, couple of DHC, turrets, a shield and a rifle. Ship weapons all come out very rare and everything thing else was rare.

I'm pretty pleased with it so far, should save me some credits and keep my low level alts with good gear until I can make top MK items.

Anyone else done much crafting?

I have played with crafting a lot. I have also spent a lot. I was doing the 20 hour ones as much as possible and then they patched it so we could only run one of them in each tier at a time.

I chose to spend dilithium (zen) and EC to buy items and craft that way. If you can get your hands on the level 10 gear, the 5 hour run is far more lucrative than the 20 hour; it is more than double the value plus you can get the occasional crit bonus.

So if you level items vs. time crunchers, but keep them at the max level +15 you have a good shot at gaining bonus rewards.

I'm also at level 12, almost level 13 on beams. I could do exactly what cryptic wants and spend some more $$$ to do it, but I'm not worried about it yet. When I get it there, I'm more than happy to craft items for anyone in the fleet

I'd love to see others adventures so far. I'm pretty excited by the new system, I'm not excited by cryptics blatent greed, but I still like that they made crafting meaningful again

I'll put in the first request. I'll need a Omni Polaron. When you get to 15 let me know what parts I need to craft for you. I'm 15% into Level 9.

No, typical cryptic offer no meaningful help on this one, but this is a very good guide, credit to Ver for finding it:

https://ufplanets.com/showthread.php?44634-Crafting-FAQ

Thanks for the link.

I am at level 15+, so if you guys need lvl 15 beams, send me an ingame email or chat me up

Let me know what items you need and the fee to craft an Omni. Need a Poloron.

Here is a picture of what is needed:

https://redditjs.com/r/sto/comments/2d5r...r_a_fleet/


Quite a lot of discussion ahaha. But I am happy to do it. The big expensive ones are the Isolinear*s.
Here's the Breakdown from most to least expensive:
(*you can buy ALL of this on the exchange):

• 3 Isolinear Chip
  
• 4 Isolinear Circuitry
  
• 2 Power Surge Regulator
  
• 2 Firing Sequencer
  
• 2 EPS Conduit
  
• 2 Emitter Module
  
• 4 Targeting Interface
  
• 4 Focusing Lens
  

(*to make these yourself):

• 3 Isolinear Chip = ea. - 4000 Dil | 3 Plekton | 5 Argonite Gas | 30mins
  
• 4 Isolinear Circuitry = ea. - 500 Dil | 1 Radiogenic Particle | 4 Dentarium | 20mins
  
• 2 Power Surge Regulator = ea. - 5 Rubidium | 3 Beta-Tachyon Particle | 30secs
  
• 2 Firing Sequencer = ea. - 3 Z-Particle | 2 Rubidium | 20secs
  
• 2 EPS Conduit = ea. - 3 Tritanium | 2 Thoron Particle | 3 hexafluorine Gas | 15secs
  
• 2 Emitter Module = ea. - 3 Verteron Particle | 2 Tritanium | 10secs
  
• 4 Targeting Interface = ea. - 2 Hydrazine Gas | 3 Magnesite | 5secs
  
• 4 Focusing Lens = ea. - 2 Hydrazine Gas | 2 Trionium Gas | 5secs
  

The Project takes 20 Hours to complete. I recommend purchase of some catalysts (up to TWO) for increased chance at an ULTRA rare. I am 100% very rare as-is.

I am willing to rush the 20 hours with a dilithium dump (cost is 18,000 Dil); but you have to trade something worth 18k dil. I do not mind the 20 hours if you don't!

These stats apply to all of the Omni-ANY damage type weapons.

Thanks

Cost of items (Mats, on 8/17/14):

beta-tachyon < 2500 ea.
rubidium < 15000 ea.
z-particle < 16000 ea.
hexafluorine < 700 ea.
thoron < 640 ea.
tritanium < 2700 ea.
verteron < 450 ea.
magnesite < 700 ea.
hydrazine < 700 ea.
trionium < 700 ea.

Cost of items (Mats, on 9/15/14):
beta-tachyon < 1987 ea.
rubidium < 10000 ea.
z-particle < 11000 ea.
hexafluorine < 800 ea.
thoron < 750 ea.
tritanium < 2800 ea.
verteron < 590 ea.
magnesite < 500 ea.
hydrazine < 500 ea.
trionium < 500 ea.
Plekton 399999 ea.
Radiogenic 19995 ea.
Dentarium 449999 ea.


Mats needed to make base beam R&D items:
1 Power Surge Regulator = 3 beta-tachyon & 5 rubidium (5961+50000 = 55961)
1 Firing Sequencer = 2 rubidium & 3 z-particle (20000+33000 = 53000)
1 EPS Conduit = 3 hexafluorine & 2 thoron & 3 tritanium = (2400+1500+8400 = 12300)
1 Emitter Module = 2 tritanium & 3 verteron (5600+1770 = 7370)
1 Targeting Interface = 3 magnesite & 2 hydrazine (1500+1000 = 2500)
1 Focusing Lens = 3 trionium & 2 hydrazine (1500+1000 = 2500)

Here is the cost for all relevant items raw from exchange on 9/15/14:
focusing lens = 5,000
targeting interface = 7,500
emitter module = 10,000
EPS conduit = 10,000
firing sequencer = 50,000
power surge regulator = 50,000
Isolinear Circuitry = 1,500,000
Isolinear Chip = 4,150,000
Catalyst: +10 Skill Rating = 150,000
Catalyst: +25 Skill Rating = 845,000
Catalyst: +50 Skill Rating = 2,800,000

A Nice way to gain XP quickly is to build items, at the highest level possible without using Dilithium. The best option would be Mk X Beam weapon.
Needs 1foc & 1tar & 1emi & 1eps & 2fir & 2pow = Mk X BEAM antiproton =
Nearly 350k per Mk X beam, plus the time to create it.

You can craft lower level gear at less cost, and shorter time, but you would need to be at the console the whole time to make it worth your while. Otherwise the 6000xp options are your best, but worth 50% less than any crafted item. (this is in relation to cost vs. time).

If you consider the current exchange rate of Dil. to Zen and Zen to Keys:
Keys = 2,450,000 (and 1 key is 125 zen not on sale)
Dil-->Zen = 182/1
Then 1000 Dil == (22750/107.69) = 107,693 E.C.

An Isolinear Chip = ea. - 4000 Dil | 3 Plekton | 5 Argonite Gas, so this is (430772 + (3*399998) + (5*535000)) = (430772 + 1199994 + 2675000) = 4,305,766
An Isolinear Circuitry = 500 Dil | 1 Radiogenic Particle | 4 Dentarium, so this is (53846 + 19995 + (4*449999)) = (53846 + 19995 + 1799996) = 1,873,837

Observing both the prices on these items and the prices of the mats themselves for each item to build, its sensible to do a little homework before building anything at all. Its also clear that supply and demand will play a role for anyone looking to make a profit.

Now on to OMNI-DIRECTIONAL

(*to make these yourself):

• 3 Isolinear Chip = ea. - 4000 Dil | 3 Plekton | 5 Argonite Gas | 30mins
  12,917,298 vs. bought @ 12,450,000
  
• 4 Isolinear Circuitry = ea. - 500 Dil | 1 Radiogenic Particle | 4 Dentarium | 20mins
  7,495,348 vs. 6,000,000
  
• 2 Power Surge Regulator = ea. - 5 Rubidium | 3 Beta-Tachyon Particle | 30secs
  111,922 vs. 100,000
  
• 2 Firing Sequencer = ea. - 3 Z-Particle | 2 Rubidium | 20secs
  106,000 vs.100,000
  
• 2 EPS Conduit = ea. - 3 Tritanium | 2 Thoron Particle | 3 hexafluorine Gas | 15secs
  24,600 vs. 20,000
  
• 2 Emitter Module = ea. - 3 Verteron Particle | 2 Tritanium | 10secs
  14,740 vs. 20,000
  
• 4 Targeting Interface = ea. - 2 Hydrazine Gas | 3 Magnesite | 5secs
  10,000 vs.30,000
  
• 4 Focusing Lens = ea. - 2 Hydrazine Gas | 2 Trionium Gas | 5secs
  10,000 vs. 20,000
  

This is a grand total self craft cost of 20,689,908 on 9/15/2014 for very rare.
This is a grand total self craft cost of 26,289,908 on 9/15/2014 for ultra rare.
The PURE purchase mats from exchange cost is 18,740,000 on 9/15/2014 + 5,600,000 for the ultra rare bonus items if you buy them.

very rare omni-beams sell on the exchange as low as ~9 million.
ultra rare omni-beams sell on teh exchange for as low as 28 million.

Looking at the odds, and noting that you get ~66-75% chance at ultra rare success with the 5.6mil boosts, it is not unreasonable to craft the ultra rares. With a little care, you can turn a 2mil profit, but even if you dont, the experience you gain is 12k, very nice to have. If you have dil, and a few rares, the cost goes way down. Either way.. thats the numbers as they stand today.

Note... you cannot use the solene omni-directional along with one of the crafted ones, (same category), but you can use the omega kinetic cutting beam.