Does anyone run Crystalline Catastrophe anymore?

[Evangeline_Blue]

As I recall, this was a really quick way to get Fleet Marks. Now, it seems people only run Defense of Starbase One, which takes longer.

Does anyone know why no one runs the Catastrophe anymore? Does it not give as many fleet marks? (As I recall, it did.)

Thanks in advance,

Eve

[cap-boulanger]

It's not eligible for the "random" setting as that only works on 5-player runs.

[Evangeline_Blue]

Gotcha! Thank you!

[Grendel_the_Wise]

It takes so long to get the queue going for it. The only way if it is a endeavor mission to do

[Jorgas]

do a parse and join the lower DPS channels, type "please que CCA"- never takes me more then 60 seconds to get a quepop.

[Evangeline_Blue]

More juicy tid-bits! Thanks!!!

[Eggy]

The fastest TFO out there is probably Infected - the Conduit. Usually queues quickly and, depending upon the other players (some are armed for bear!), it can go pretty fast.

It rewards Fleet or Omega marks.

[Evangeline_Blue]

Thanks!!

[cap-boulanger]

To elaborate a bit more, the TFO menu has a "random" button, you just get to select difficulty - either normal or advanced (there isn't an elite).

It works kinda like the single rider line at a roller coaster - the game will auto assign you to fill out a group. But it can be ANY 5-player TFO. Space or ground, etc. (The filter tabs on the bottom of the TFO screen get overridden.)

In addition to the TFO's native rewards, you also get a box containing 50-250 marks (of your choice) for Normal, 70-350 for Advanced, and the boxes also contain 10x the amount of marks in dilithium ore.

The TFOs like Crystalline, Dranuur Beach Assault, the various Competitive ones, etc. that take numbers of players other than 5, are not eligible for the random selection. (Most of these take 10, there's one or two that take 20).

[x1Heavy]

I still run it. The problem is some years ago the Devs removed the number of players waiting to do a PvE mission. You used to be able to pull up the server screen in that part of the game and join the ones that have 4 of 5 in it etc. And avoid the ones with zero people waiting.

In that particular scenario I drive to the top of the battle room above the Crystal and then bombard it avoiding everything around it down below for the most part.

[Evangeline_Blue]

Thank you, both!

[Omega Man]

I run it with the jelly fish and 8/10 times i will get first place, just by sitting at 9.99km in tank mode and moving 0.02k back and forward when it cycles to fire. lol

[Evangeline_Blue]

Depending on which character I am on, I do that also.