The Envoy is an advanced ECS freighter with significant improvements over its older cousin, the J-Class. With more cargo holds and better internal systems, the Envoy is equipped for deep space expeditions.
Star Trek Fleet Command ship description
Casual Tips is meant to be a regularly occurring feature of Casual Nerdery. This morning I noticed I had posted my previous tip a week ago. A week seems like a good interval. Tuesdays seem like a good day to do this. Casual Tip Tuesday.
Making it so.
Regular: reg·u·lar adj. 1. arranged in or constituting a constant or definite pattern, especially with the same space between individual instances. 2. recurring at uniform intervals.
This regular feature is going to bounce around quite a bit. Today we will be doing a casual tip for a casual mobile game, Star Trek: Fleet Command.
The game is pretty enjoyable if you’re a Star Trek fan, or if you enjoy base building and resource gathering style games. While it’s free to play, they make their money off of microtransactions which give you loads of resources and in-game currency.
At a certain point in the game you will find yourself starved for specific types of resources, or your ability to collect – refine, in-game – certain types of resources will be time-gated. You can only perform the action once per day, or once every 10 hours, for example.
There is a way, however, to convert your Grade 2 materials into Grade 3 materials and you can do it through your building, maxing out, and then scrapping, one of your early Survey ships, the Envoy.
In order to fully upgrade your Envoy, it is going to cost you approximately the following (not taking into account any research that helps reduce costs):
- 1.6 million Tritanium
- 123,000 Dilithium
- 3,000 Grade 2 Survey Parts
- 1,000 Grade 2 Common Gas
- 5,300 Grade 2 Common Crystal
- 1,000 Grade 2 Uncommon Crystal
This will tier your Envoy up to Tier 7, which is the max. You will also need to level your ship up to level 35 in order to get the most bang for your proverbial buckage. This is an easy enough task. You can either: spend your Ship XP resource to level it up (if you run out, you can buy some using the in-game currency latinum.) OR, send your Envoy to level 20 or 21 hostile system to mine. Your ship will be attacked repeatedly, and you will end up spending some resources on repairs, but the amount is negligible considering you will be able to save your XP and save your latinum for other projects.
Once your Envoy is level 35, scrap that puppy and collect your sweet sweet (approximate) rewards:
- 416,000 Tritanium
- 31,000 Dilithium
- 118 Grade 3 Common Crystal
- 64 Grade 3 Common Gas
- 33 Grade 3 Uncommon Crystal
- 18 Grade 3 Uncommon Gas
- 1 Grade 3 Rare Crystal
- 1 Grade 3 Rare Gas
- 74 Grade 3 Survey Parts
- 7,800 Ship XP
There must be a Rule of Acquisition that covers this. I don’t have the lobes for business, but this is one transaction even I can see the profit in.