- What level do I need to be in order to get swarm missions?
- Swarm dailies will start showing up at operations level 15.
- Should I get the *insert ship name here*?
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- Franklin
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I highly recommend it. It will be able to punch far above its weight class on swarms.
You will be able to spend far less time and resources repairing this compared to another warship that will be able to kill the same swarms.NOTE: Once you max this out, you can scrap it for the Franklin-A, which is even better.
- Vi'Dar
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If you want to kill Borg, then this is the ship for it. Period.
This will also let you have access to transwarp tokens and lucrative resource tokens. (required to access certain systems) - D'Vor / Freesha
- It's really the only ship I can recommend for latinum mining. If you like latinum, this will give you a few hundred extra every day.
- Botany Bay
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You need this to get access to the augment faction officers.
As far as whether you should get it, that's a hard sell, but it's not a difficult ship to get. - Stella
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This is the rogue faction ship, and you can definitely play without it, but there is going to be a lot
of things in events plus some daily loot and research that will be more difficult or impossible if you don't
get this ship.
NOTE: Don't buy this with cash. Head to the Hints & Tips page to find out why I say that
- Discovery
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This is also little more difficult of a sell.
It has some special abilities that are nice, but not especially helpful in general.
What it does give you is the ability to use the Discovery refinery, which can provide some fair loot every week. There will be events to kill hostiles and travel with the Discovery abilities, and the higher tier your Discovery is, the better the loot is.
- I don't plan to spend any money, is there even a point in upgrading the Treasury building?
- Yes. Even if you never use it for loot, it increases the base and protected cargo capacity of all ships.
- I don't plan to do anything with incursions, is there even a point in building the Subspace Relay building?
- Yes. Just building it gives you a 5% bonues to Defense Platform damage, plus 2% warp speed and 8% Hull Health. Plus, if you do upgrade it, those bonuses go way up.
- What is the point of the holodeck if I don't plan to buy pattern buffers?
- This is also where the current event arc missions become available.
- How do refits work?
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Once a refit is unlocked, its buff is always automatically applied to all eligible ships you own.
You can also apply them specifically to a ship for the visual effects, but this doesn't affect the buff itself. - Why would I want to transfer servers?
- This can allow you to join the same server that a friend is playing on, so you can play together, or against each other.
- How do I transfer servers?
- Up through level 12, you can do this one time, via a Novice Transfer Token. This probably isn't worth doing unless you know what server you want, just randomly picking won't help much.