Monday Megathread - your weekly "dumb question" thread

[u/Sputnik1_1957]

Post all the questions you may have about anything STO-related. PC? Console? Everyone's welcome to post their questions here.

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Stay safe out there and happy flying!

[u/hexhunter222]

I have so many Q's this week, I'll just post 4, sorry for the wall of text

R&D Weekend coming up, anything I should do to make the most of it?

Gamma recruitment, I've already got a jem'hadar tac gamma recruit, I reckon I'll make a sci or eng this time around to get that t6 rep, other than that is there any benefit to making and playing a new gamma recruit?

I've recently returned to my original main I abandoned a long time ago, I have 36 Featured TFO Rewards, I can get 36 Enhanced Universal Tech Upgrades or 36 spec pts, are the tech upgrades better value?

Plus I have a ton of old r&D mats, like pre 2014 system particle traces etc. I can convert them to current r&D mats or I can sell them on the exchange, some of them are worth 2 to 5 mil ec a piece. I don't know what I'll get for converting them. What's the most value, selling for ec now, converting then selling the rarer items or converting and using the items?

[u/westmetals → u/hexhunter222]

The account wide portion of the Recruitment rewards are one time unlocked, so creating a second Gamma Recruit will not be beneficial (you can’t unlock a second set of Gamma rewards for your other characters)… except that one or two of the Recruit-only rewards (I am thinking of the Experimental Starship Upgrade here, but there may be more) actually have account wide benefits when applied.

This is also true for Temporal and Klingon recruitment events. Delta has three qualifying factions and some of the account unlock tasks are faction specific, so to get all the rewards unlocked you need three Deltas.

[u/fereldenvstamriel → u/hexhunter222]

1. Best time to run 20h r&d xp projects and those bonus ones from the fleet lab. Otherwise, you'll just get more materials from queues.

2. T6 thing is obtainable even w/o extra chars, otherwise the only benefit is more char-based rewards for progress. When they got in ntroduced, X tokens were worth some, but given how often we have RAs, I am not sure it's worth to make a new toon just for that. If you are leveling up a fleet, a gamma recruit does reward a substantive amount of fleet resources (marks, holding components etc) tho.

3. You don't have to spend them now. Best use i prolly progress in featured events that take them, esp if all the options are a pain in the ass. Otherwise, tech upgrades but keep in mind those don't have quality upgrade chance, so they are best for one specific purpose, leveling up an item you already got to epic before mk xv.

4. Selling, maybe some collectioner will buy some. Otherwise no matter what you get it'll be less worth, r&d materials are plenty and it's hard to ever run out.

[u/hexhunter222 → u/fereldenvstamriel]

Best time to run 20h r&d xp projects and those bonus ones from the fleet lab

I try to do those daily anyway though I often skip it on my alts, I'll be sure to check that off account wide during the weekend

T6 thing is obtainable even w/o extra chars

Honestly I think I have a character at T5 Nukara rep, don't know why I thought that would be necessary

Also thanks for the help.with 3 and 4. I don't think these can be used for event progress, would that they could, can always use the extra Dil, but I can still make use of the tech upgrades next upgrade weekend.