Hey there Tribblemakers!
With the New Phase 3 out and the Warp Core at Level 3, there are LOTS of new things that are catching players attention and I wanted to shed a lil more light on those that we are seeing most.
Let’s jump in and take a look at some of the main questions we are seeing and the answers we have so far on them.
TRANSPORTER ENERGY
For most players, this seems the sorest of spots. Per TinyCo, they once again increased the drop rates on them. So if they drops were not so favorable before, they should be getting better now. Please give them a try and let us know what kind of results you are seeing in the next few days. Let us know if they have improved for you. We would like to know how much YOU see them change over a few days.
PHASER ENERGY
Per the images from the game, Geordi and Klingon Chris have ability to drop Phaser Energy. In speaking with TinyCo, these options will be coming. Will update once we see them hit the game.
Tasks are live for them! 😉
PHASER BATTLES
Many are wondering just what the deal is with the drops. A complete post is on its way, but in the meantime… make sure you have as many items as possible in the targets when they turn Red. The more in that area, the better the payouts you will get. Especially if one of those items is the Petercraft. (To date 4 is the most I hit with one shot.)
FYI… the task “A Ship Without Picard Part 5”, requires you to shoot 10 Asteroids. The Challenge was you were supposed to hit the Circular Ones like in the task itself, but a change is coming to make it so ALL hit will count.
Update to the Phaser Battle questline is live now! 😉
SEEING DOUBLE CHRIS
While Klingon Chris is busy with one of his tasks, it seems he has another trick up his sleeve. To be in two places at once. Lol. (Many report seeing it while Klingon Chris is busy with “Spar with Bat’Leth” Regular Chris is hanging out at the Griffings jumping around.) TinyCo is well aware of this. However, this is just a visual glitch so it is not as important as other issues they would prefer to prioritize. So… enjoy the sillyness. (FYI… not everyone will see this.)
Thanks Andrew for the pic 😉
STARFLEET XP NOT ADDING
This is something we have seen throughout the life of the game. The Event XP Bars do not seem to be moving. (Saw this with the regular Game Level XP too.) This is just a visual thing. Some items show the progress faster than others. No worries though, as long as you see the Icon “Flash” and light up when the XP drops know it IS still adding. Though visually you may not see it. TinyCo is well aware of this.
NOT GETTING ENOUGH XP
Many Players have reported that gaining Starfleet XP is slow going. TinyCo is observing this. We do not know if they will make any adjustments just yet, but just know they are aware.
In the meantime, utilize the options in the game to see if it helps give you the boost you need in SF XP. Purchase a few more decorations. Send Characters that drop SF XP on short quick tasks repeatedly. Purchase any Buildings you may want that will give SF XP and have daily drops of SF XP too that will help now and in future. Create items in the Replicators that will help drop SF XP.
BREWERY MATERIAL DROPS
In order to STOP the Materials dropping for the Brewery, you not only have to create one of each item but the additional items as several have “Limits” of more than one each. So Materials will keep dropping until you get them all to those “Limits”. I know this is causing frustrations for many as you feel it conflicts with Event drops too. This is information directly from TinyCo on this one…
“Multiple item drops don’t affect the drop rates of each item. In other words, you won’t get one item instead of another. Brewery drops won’t override Star Trek drops.”
As always, if you feel you have an issue that Basic Troubleshooting is not resolving or you are unable to find an answer for, you can ask us or if needed… Contact TinyCo for further support. 😉
There you have it. A spotlight on some of the main concerns we are seeing in the game. Did these help you? Noticing any changes in your Transporter drops? Let us know.
~Bunny
Family Guy Addicts 
Is there a reason why the item drop on planet missions is mostly low?
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Depends who you send and what you are trying to get.
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Ahhh okay. Thanks!
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I have troi unlocked and am working on locutus now and trying to get starfleet lois and many items require clearing borg. I havent seen any borg but am still getting trekkies and tribbles. When will i see the borg? Thanks for your help
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I think you guys are right when you stated everyone freaks out in the beginning of events, I sat this because I am definitely one of those people! Lol but I’m being patient and i enjoy that the brewery hasn’t closed yet, it gives my characters a chance to level up without being useless! The xp gain is slow for this event in my opinion I tripped when the core upgrades are available before I can even do it but you guys are right it’s a much longer event, so far so good! I love it 🙂
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Bunny help, I had just unlocked Troi earlier today and had her clearing Borg. I made it to the second Borg clearing where you need to clear 5 and quahog wise I’m to the point of unlocking mayor west which I believe is on part 2 where I need to send Brian to eat Italian. I had done the recent update and now poof, I keep getting connection error and retry screen but yet the bar is fully loaded as is the music for in game and I can’t get back in to the game. Please help, I’m at a loss here.
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Re: STARFLEET XP NOT ADDING
In the past I also observed no movement of the meter and I didn’t level up as expected.
I just created the Casket Ejector, which is supposed to pay out 800 SF-XP from crafting. It levelled me up one level as expected (was 7 bars into SF lvl 5 – am now almost 5 bars into SF-lvl 6 [referring to the 9 bars meter in the main menu]). So it both added the SP-XP and it shows the progress in the meter.
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Just the opposite for me…was almost half of the way through level 4 and remained that way..took a few more days and some the 32 drops from the ale bar, before they changed it, to get to level 5. When I collect energies, I still see them collecting towards items already replicated, and I’m not seeing the Kirk bar that others have reported…
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That didn’t happen for me either. I finally got to level 4 on Saturday, built the Casket Ejector and, nothing. I just made it to level 5 at 4am today, it the Casket Ejector had gave me almost a full level it wouldn’t have taken 5 days to get the rest of the needed XP.
I’m 3 ore away from another Casket Ejector, I’ll be taking before and after pictures this time. If it boosts me through level 5 then that’s great but I’m going to be annoyed at it not counting for level 4. If it doesn’t work again it’ll take me until sometime next week to hit level 6.
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I just made another. Twice to confirm. Again. For like the 9th time.
Before XP Bars…
After XP Bars…
Thanks to all these times I’ve confirmed it now by making them… Level 4 to now almost 10 was a sinch. It’s definitely showing up not only on the XP icon that pops out when you make it (it shows +800 as it collects), but the bars are registering too instead of delayed. Mine normally didn’t register right away, just a flash… then while I was tapping away BAM it jumped all the sudden to another level. I went up 3 levels in one day making them. Now it’s showing right off.
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I can’t find Quagmire? Last time I saw him he was giggity-strutting in space (got a screenshot) but now when I click on his task on the Enterprise it sends me to Quahog and vice versa. Quagmire, where are you!!!
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Try tapping him from Facespace
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HAHA I was able to glitch him into the Enterprise as well. He even glitched outside the ship and took him a lil while to walk himself in
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So far my only problem has been with the green energy (the ones Bonnie gets from the 6 hour task). I’ve been sitting on the Romulan Ale Sommelier/Get One Energy task for two days with not a single drop. Otherwise, everything else has been…okay. Right now Bonnie is going crazy with the batteries, but I have two of the Enterprise rooms that makes those drops. Still…really rare it drops anything at all.
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Just build over the Super Rad Cargo Bay and then place the SRCB in another Enterprise room. The room will spit out a Syth Ore once complete. A lot of us have been swapping rooms with this method to get guaranteed drops
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anyone else still stuck with warp core level 2? I’m an avid player and while i feel like i’m getting the warp crystals much faster, and not having any problems getting the chocolates now (waiting for my team to come back and i SHOULD have the last 4 I need to unlock Troi) I feel like i’ve fallen so far behind despite my best efforts that i’m not going to be anywhere near where I should be come the end of this event. Is anyone else as far behind as I am?
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Hang in there. Others are in same progress as you. Just keep at it and you will be there.
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Recieved 6 transporter energy yesterday (omg!), but that was with playing all day. So now I have 8! Today I have only a few hours to play, so we will see how it goes. 🙂 A definite increase, that’s for sure. Also, I got 4 chocolate bars yesterday, finally! Not sending Peter has helped me, I’d say! Will be sending another team away for them in a couple hours, then see what they give me when I return from work 9 hours later. So glad its getting easier to get a few things I have been struggling with, I am way behind! Catching up a bit is starting to seem possible. Thank you Bunny and Alissa for putting up with my crap the past few days! You two are awesome! All your advice and my experiences may help my boyfriend as well, who is only on SXP 2, catch up a bit when he actuallly has a free minute, too. Thanks, again!
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Transporter drops are still terrible. Mort seems good but the rec rooms seem about 12%. Didnt get but 1 all day yesterday and everyone in the game is focused on that and these chocolates. Got two this morning but when yu got 3 characters on it and two rec rooms. It seems like a bust. Will try for chocolates later and almost to level 4 but of course, no Deanna. Hopefully she isnt a barrier to other rooms but she seems to be. Im not worrying about the stupid transporters as I get nothing for all my time. Maybe by the time I get to level 8 I may get her. The event really is the worst ive seen bcuz of this and these transporters. Is ther some need to get other items like the klingon emblem before, I cant waste energy on it. They dont seem to do anything themselves.
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So I unlocked the bridge, but have no new quests have triggered. Am I doing something wrong?
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You may still have some quests left you need to complete from the prior phase first. What ones do you have open still in your task menu?
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Klingon Chris and Geordi have netted me back to back chocolate. Yeah!! Finally energy drops are better so I now have a chance of unlocking Troi.
Suggest a consolidated tips post. I know things have been changing, but something like crew combinations and results for transporter would be helpful.
Finally, what happened to the nerd crew members? I haven’t seen any in a couple days?!?
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There is one spot… post your results on the Transporter posts for the planets. Then others can see what was successful for you. 😉
Nerds go and Borgs arrive
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I still have nerds, what do I do to get borg appearing?
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Complete all the questlines from Phase 2 and trigger Phase 3 ones.
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Well, I am officially giving up on getting Deanna Troi. Even with the “increase” in drops I have only gotten enough transporter energy to send two away teams. Two. And of course neither one of them came back with chocolate. I’m just going to wait until I unlock level 4 and start working on the other stuff. I love the game, but wow, certain aspects of this event have been kinda poopy.
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Don’t know what I’m doing wrong but I am not getting chocolate to save my life. Have 4 and play Almost hourly And can only send maybe once a day due to blue energy drops still being crappy, better but still UGH. Getting frustrated
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I love this game along with my simpson tapped out 😄
Borg finally appear….😞 cant clear till get quagmire outfit…cant get that till core updates in 3 days…we really have to wait 3 more days? Course longer probably to unlock his outfit…..wish we could have more drops but make them less. Do we really need 40 of an item? Hope i can get it all before event ends…..anyways…Love the games Tiny Co😀
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You can clear them with Troi if you have here too.
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Oh cool, i didnt see she could do that. Noticed Worf clears borg to…thank you
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Awesome! transporter energy drops have increased!
Now I can have yet another go at getting the last batch of chocolate to unlock Troi in about six hours when hopefully I’ll experience 2 TE drops, otherwise I’ll be trying again in 12, I estimate.
It wouldn’t be so bad if Troi was not required to progress the main quest line (be councillor task). Oh no, started positive and started getting gloomy, I must turn that around.
I am loving the phaser mini game, it’s something different and there is something satisfying about destroying things and having good consequences result!I am keeping my eyes peeled in case there is a Meg Craft, that would be really exciting!
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Woo hoo!!! Finally! Ohhhh so good to be able to move on from that TE sinkhole! deanna now has lots of work to do, and I’m looking forward to playing on.
It was good to still be able to move on with Lois and Locutus drops in the meanwhile though.
For me, I used Geordie and K Chris only on all tries and got choc 3/6 trips. Order: success, success, fail, fail, fail, success.
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Troi doesn’t clear her. Unless I’m missing something when I click on a Borg she pops up with every other task to do; clearing a Borg is not an option. Same with Worf.
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Most disappointing event so far for mainly because the potential was so huge! But it’s taking so long to unlock characters/star fleet levels/ I’m bored. Drop rate is agonising. I only visit about once a day now as opposed to every few hours like I used to. it just frustrates me too much now.
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I agree, this event had huge potential and is quickly becoming a major disappointment. The game is constantly crashing when I’m in my Quohog and when visiting friends. Like you bad drop rates and slow progression has me logging in just a couple times a day now as opposed to every few hours.
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First time commentor 😊 long time reader haha. Thanks to the ladies for the posts. Totally helps out. I am all the way in south africa. Just a question. Is the xp on the casket ejector a glitch? Does tinyco know about this and are they looking into it perhaps? 800xp and the bar only lights up, with no movement at all. I bought the romulan statue just before that and got 30 xp and the my xp increased with one bar. So there must be an issue with the 800xp??
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Hello there far away neighbor. 😉
As listed in this very post, it’s only a visual thing. I’ve checked n discussed it all with TinyCo as well as checked it in my game by letting it be the only source of XP. Up to Level 9 almost now. As long as the XP flashes, it’s applying
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I am actually enjoying this event, but drop rates are bad bad bad.I see some players getting really frustrated, and I have said this before….. THIS GAME IS MEANT TO BE FUN, CAN TINCYCO PLEASE PLEASE REMEMBER THIS, PREMIUM PLAYERS WILL PAY FOR EXTRAS, BUT STANDARD PLAYERS SHOULD STILL HAVE A DECENT GAMEPLAY AND NOT PENALISED FOR NOT SPENDING CLAMS. IT DOES SEEM LATELY THAT WE NEED TO SPEND CLAMS TO HAVE ANY CHANCE IN THE GAME AND I THINK THAT IS WRONG. Thanks.
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AAAHHHHHH LOUD WORDS!! 😉
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Be nice if more people in quahog can help with quests drops. Some of these items you need so many like 35 or 40. At this rate not gonna be able to unlcock eveything before event ends….quahog people are bored….lets give em some jobs.
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I completely agree. I have Santa Claus, Bitch Stewie, Jasper, Barnaby and Phineas, Cheryl Tiegs, Ida Davis, Jillian, John McClane, Olivia Fuller and Barbara Pewterschmidt all not doing a dang thing. I just send them on the longest task they have to keep them out of the way. It’s a shame that I spent perfectly good clams on some of these characters just to have them go to waste. Now, I think twice before spending clams on anything and often do not for fear of this same issue.
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Which brings us to the sore spot of these events. An earlier comment mentioned that the event is long and you have plenty of time to unlock characters. Indeed, but for the past few events now I have unlocked them close to the end. I’ve lost count of how many quest lines I’ve missed due to the event ending soon after unlocking this and that character. That’s my main beef with taking “forever” to unlock characters in events.
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Ok. Got Sexy Sarong Herbert earlier today. Looks like I will have Locutus unlocked before Starfleet Lois due to getting better drops for Locutus than for Starfleet Lois. I don’t get how people aren’t Starfleet Level 4 already. I am level 8.5 and will most likely hit level 9 before Phase 4 goes live.
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Do you remember your away team to get Sexy Sarong Herbert? Also, does he do anything useful or just earn DC/XP?
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Are people still room swapping? Crews quarters has dropped life energy every time so wondering if it’s detrimental to keep rebuilding this room. Getting groceries from the Borg though so not a major problem
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I’m still swapping. Saves me the frustration of a zero drop on a room. Plus, you’re going to need buku Life Supports and Synth cubes for Kirk towards the end. I also find it satisfying that something is going on while waiting for characters to complete actions.
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I stopped swapping the crews quarters today and I have had groceries drop 3 times. From swapping since Thursday I haven’t had anything but life support energy
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I room swapped a couple and got more drops.
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I just wish that if you already have the room, that the swap didn’t take the extra build time AGAIN to “make it so” (see what I did there?). But seriously why do we have to wait another build time for a room we already built to swap it?
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Yeh I’m still swapping just to get Transporter and Phaser energies. Crew quarters only drop Life for me now because I grabbed everything else, but still try to keep those out. I only focus on swapping for the TE and PE and if the other rooms are needed to move things around, so be it.
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Welp…while blue energies do drop a bit more frequently (emphasis on “a bit”), the transport mission rates haven’t raised the rate for chocolates. I still haven’t gotten Deanna Troi.
But here’s the kicker: If you get the next Warp Core level, you can unlock Locutus and Starfleet Lois, both of which have items that can be acquired by clearing Borgs. However…Borgs don’t spawn unless you have Deanna Troi and cleared the mission questlines, so if Borgs haven’t arrived on your Enterprise, this means you haven’t finished Deanna’s questline.
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I have had borgs in my game since I upgraded to the newest warp core. Which was the day it went live. I only just unlocked Deanna this morning. Not entirely sure what triggers them, but its not her.
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Did you unlock the bridge? Trigger the questline? All in the main post.
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