Hello There Clammers!
Star Trek has arrived in Quahog! And with this third phase you’ll unlock Locutus, Starfleet Lois & blow stuff up!
During Phase 3 several questlines will popup in order to help you understand the event ahead, and prepare our Tiny Quahogs for travel to the Enterprise! Working your way through these questlines will help you earn more Dilithium Crystals and XP to help you better move through the event, and buy Enterprise items!
So what are we waiting for? Let’s take a closer look at the main questlines for phase 3 that you’ll encounter…
A Ship Without Picard is the main questline for Phase 3. This is the one that’s required to move onto 4.
A Ship Without Picard Pt. 1
Peter starts
Unlock the Bridge- requires Warp Core Level 3 and 25 Life Support Energy
A Ship Without Picard Pt. 2
Peter starts
Learn About Phaser Battles- we have details on this here
Have Troi Work as a Translator- 6hrs, Earns 20
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Start Building the Weapons Locker Enterprise Room- Costs 500
, 6hr Build
Blow Up 1 PeterCraft- Use Phaser Energy to Blow up PeterCraft
A Ship Without Picard Pt. 3
Peter starts
Earn 1 Synthesizer Ore
Craft the Romulan Ale Sommelier Station in the Replicator- Requires 4 Life Support Energy, 2 Synthesizer Ore & 1 Transporter Energy
A Ship Without Picard Pt. 4
Peter starts
Build Romulan Statue- 350![]()
Have Starfleet Peter Recline in the Captain’s Chair- 6hrs, Earns 5
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A Ship Without Picard Pt. 5
Peter starts
Clear 40 Tribbles
Clear 10 Asteroids
Have Ferengi Mort Check Blood Pressure- 14hrs, Earns 35
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A Ship Without Picard Pt. 6
Peter starts
Have Klingon Chris Battle Cry- 4hrs, Earns 15
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Have Riker Sit Down, Riker Style- 8hrs, Earns 25
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A Ship Without Picard Pt. 7
Peter starts
Send an Away Team to Cespoolus- Requires 1 Transporter Energy
Get Romulan Warbird from Cespoolus (Bunny got it by sending Chris only, I got it by sending Troi, Peter & Chris)
A Ship Without Picard Pt. 8
Peter starts
Build Riker’s Quarters Enterprise Room- 700 ![]()
Have Geordi Examine Computers- 16hrs, Earns 40
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Unlock Locutus- Collect STUFF to unlock him. Here’s what’s required:
10 Duct Tape (Extra Rare)– Earned By: Clear Borgs OR Get from Riker’s Quarters OR Make Guinan Mix Space Drinks
40 Batteries (Common)- Earned By: Complete Cespoolus using the Transporter OR Make Bonnie Chug a Bottle of Wine OR Make Starfleet Lois Get Frisky int he Tubes
10 Scrap Metal (Uncommon)- Earned By: Make Riker Play a Round of Poker OR Make Joe Raid Personal Weapons Stash OR Make Herbert Be a Peeping Tom
35 Laser Pointers (Rare)- Earned By: Blow Up PeterCraft in the Phaser Battle OR Make Bathrobe Quagmire Start the Flash Frenzy
A Ship Without Picard Pt. 9
Peter starts
Reach Starfleet Level 6: Senior Chief Weapons Officer Rank
Upgrade the Warp Core to Warp 4
An Endless Battle Pt. 1
Peter starts
Clear 2 Borg- x2. Use Deanna or Worf to clear the Borgs.
An Endless Battle Pt. 2
Peter starts
Clear 5 Borg- x5. Use Deanna or Worf to clear the Borgs.
An Endless Battle Pt. 3
Peter starts
Clear 10 Borg- x10. Use Deanna or Worf to clear the Borgs.
An Endless Battle Pt. 4
Peter starts
Clear 15 Borg- x15. Use Deanna or Worf to clear the Borgs.
Lois to the Bridge Pt. 1
Peter starts
Create Starfleet Lois- Collect STUFF to unlock her. Here’s what you’ll need:
5 Space Groceries (Uncommon)- Earned By: Get by Clearing Borg! OR Get from Crew’s Quarters
25 Felicium (Rare)- Blow up PeterCraft in the Phaser Battle OR Make Chris Battle Cry
30 Ear Pieces (Common)- Complete Nom-Nomulus using the Transporter OR Make Bruce Be a Good Listener OR Make Jerome Grow his Fro
Make Starfleet Peter Recline in Captain’s Chair- 6hrs, Earns 5
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Have Klingon Chris Battle Cry- 4hrs, Earns 15
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Lois to the Bridge Pt. 2
Starfleet Lois starts
Have Starfleet Lois Rage Shoot- 8hrs, Earns 25
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Have Geordi Regain Focus- 6hrs, Earns 20
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Lois to the Bridge Pt. 3
Starfleet Lois starts
Have Starfleet Lois Lead Cadets- 12hrs, Earns 35
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Have Riker Sit Down, Riker Style- 8hrs, Earns 25
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Lois to the Bridge Pt. 4
Starfleet Lois starts
Have Starfleet Lois Engage in Holodeck Romance- 4hrs, Earns 5
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Have Troi do Sexy Yoga- 4hrs, 15
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And that concludes the details of the Phase 3 Star Trek Walkthrough!
What are your thoughts on Star Trek Week 3? Which characters have you unlocked so far? Thoughts on the questline? How about the Phaser Shooting? Sound off in the comments below, you know we love hearing from you!








Wow, these missions are really impossible. I don’t have Deanna Troi because I miss 8 chocolates; I don’t have Klingon Chris because I still miss 4 dictionairies; can’t clear Borg without miss Troi; etc etc. How can I ever manage this?
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To get Klingon Chris quickly use the room swap trick for guaranteed drops. It may slow you down gathering other items for a day or so but it will get Klingon Chris done and you can put him to work.
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Long time reader, first time commenting. I have been playing since last summer. I still don’t have Troi so I am stuck. I have 0 chocolate! I sent Chris and Geordie 3 times already, I keep getting cubes. I tried sending Peter, Chris and Geordie one time, still got 2 green cubes. I don’t want to buy the chocolate as I want to save my clams for later in the event. Getting dissapointed…
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Don’t send Peter. Keep trying Geordi and the Klingons. It may take a few times, but they yield the most from all the comments we are seeing.
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Any chance of them letting us use Patrick Stewart or George Takei to help out with those pesky laser pointers and felecium, which don’t seem to every drop anywhere? It would be cool to have some Star Trek help from Star Trek people.
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We will have to see what’s up their sleeves next.
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✨Almost got Locutus needing only like…20 more Laser Pointers lol 😔
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Lol then you’re doing goood sweetatt! I still need 22
Challenging one right? 😉 I think I might stay up late tonite and try to catch up to you. No, just kidding. 🙂
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why is the Pawtucket Brewery still in the game? I still have characters competing for items ( Herbert/Lois) ????? I can’t seem to get rid of it ???
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I sent Peter on his own and got the warbird at the second attempt.
Edging ever closer to unlocking Lois and locutus. Only a few felicium and laser pointers to go
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Ok, just so I have this straight… Because of the horrendous drop rates for energy, I am still only on frame of mind pt 4, and Come to your senses pt. 4. These tasks have to be completed BEFORE I get the Ship without a picard questline? I was able to unlock the bridge, and get to warp core 3…but have not seen the ship without a picard questline start to get any phaser energy because the regular character drop rates are deplorable.
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Cespoolus:
I’ve tried Chris or Peter or Troi and every combination of 2 or all 3. The only thing that lights up are the useless Dilithium Crystals. Only the first Red bar lights up for the Batteries or Skimpy Herbert. ?????? I got 25 Batteries from Bonnie alone so not worried about them, just want Herbert. however, I did manage to get the Romulan Warbird
Nom-Nomulus:
I’ve tried from 1 up to all 7 characters. Dilithium Crystals where in the Green, Phaser Energy just barely in the Orange. Earpieces 1 Red and Synthesizer Ore had 2 Red. ?????? I got 28 Earpieces form Bruce and Jerome alone. This planet has nothing on it worth using TE for.
I agree with Bunny. The trick to the Phaser Battle is to hit combos.
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Is anyone getting the std::bad_alloc error?
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Restart your device. I get it off n on all the time on my GS4. Restart clears it
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Why the deuce does it take Riker 12 hours to go #1? Is there a reference to that from the series, or just an odd, random task length?
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Some people just take longer. 😉
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That’s what she said.
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Ba dum dum tissssssss
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Since TinyCo responds to stats, can you guys create a pole in advance of the next phase? Or a post where we can all report how far along we are? Many thanks.
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After all the basics are done, we will look at it again. I am already seeing increases in drops and task/character completions in the comments. Now it is just fine tuning the players styles or combos to get better odds. But we will see how today plays out first. 😉
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Increase in drop rates? What a joke. Felicium and Laser Pointers are 25/35 and only the space battle (which unfortunately your combos didn’t help me with) Chris, and Quagmire drop….Tiny Co has ruined this game in a clear cash grab…people still struggling with Deanna and Chris will never catch up. I’m contemplating dropping out completely, which is a shame since it’s my go to time killer
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Sorry if you are not seeing them. I am along with many others. It has improved.
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Anyone else bad for turning Bonnie into a raging alcoholic all for the sake of some batteries?
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Yeah, when the medical bay opens I think Dr.Crusher needs to give Bonnie a liver transplant. Maybe it could be a task that drops laser pointers.
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Someone wrote somewhere regarding Bonnie: “This *female dog* is pickled!” Now I can’t get that phrase out of my head when I send her & yes, I do feel bad! 😦
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Any tips on receiving batteries from Cespoolus? I have yet to find a combination that moves the bar beyond a half of a red bubble. I have Chris, Lois, Peter and Deanna all available. Thanks
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Nope. Just luck right now.
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Two days to go and I havent even unlocked any of the characters let alone started on the quests. This event is a failure. Great in concept, terrible in execution and it all started on day 1 with the tribbles. I seriously recommend TinyCo take a step back and re-think how they go about putting out events. It seems like they arent even testing their game before roll out. I got two people started on this game because of this and they have given up due to it being too frustrating and too slow.
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Wohoo. Just got Starlet Lois done. Only 6 more laser pointers and Locutus is mine.
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A pox on you and your family Jamie. A horrible horrible pox! A may a passing witch turn you into a newt. And may you never get better! …in case there is any doubt, this post has been filled with nothing but sarcasm to this point. Congrats on getting Lois. I’m starting to believe I’ll never get Locutus or Lois. Even when I head into the ‘shooting’ minigame, and destroy 3 things at a time, I never get drops for them. So rare drop energy + rare drop item = sad itemless Erik.
Eventually I’ll get the 6 remaining batteries from Bonnie.
But the 19 laser pointers?
or the 15 Felicium?
Not unless something changes with PeterCraft & Phaser Energy.
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Hi!
I just started playing the game a about a month ago. I’ve been messaging TinyCo since March 15 and have yet to receive a response. I got a message yesterday asking if I still needed help, I replied yes… and nothing. So I sent another message this morning (about yet another issue)… and now all of my previous messages have been erased? Is this normal? I’ve never had a company wait so long before responding to messages!
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What is the issue?
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1) I’m missing 3000 dilithium from their earlier promo (buy at least 9.99 in clams and get dilithium free)
2) I accidentally sped up Locutus this morning and wasted 171 clams. Was planning on using those for a premium character.
3) Sometimes my character tasks don’t “stick”… I’ll send them to do something, exit the app.. come back later, and the character will be waiting for a task although I just gave them one. Has set me back a few times while collecting items.
4) My app has been crashing like crazy lately.. minor issue compared to the other three
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Outside the speeding up… most of your issues seem memory/connection issues. You can try a few basics to help combat that.
Do not exit your game quickly. Allow it time to properly update and sync before jumping out. To force this, visit Ollie’s before jumping out to force the game to sync your final few tasks you did before exiting.
Check your connection, make sure it is good strong signal
Make sure this is the ONLY app running on your device (I use a program to kill all other apps before starting this one). Multiple apps will just drain the memory more and cause lagging and crashing issues
This is a high impact and activity game. That means there is a LOT going on and will push your device to its limits. To help combat this, store items in your town that you are not using. Especially animated ones as those drain the most memory. Try to keep all Characters not in use on indoor tasks as outdoor ones also drain memory.
I see this happen in this game as well as others.
As far as the Dilithium, contacting them again was a good thing. They are a bit backlogged but you should get a response in 3-5 business days on your issue. Even if its an automated response, make sure you respond back as if you do not the system will assume issue is done and pull you out of the system to make room for others with issues. So if you just messaged them again, give them some time to respond. 😉
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Thank you for your very well written response! I also play TSTO and frequently swap between the two without closing either one of them. That may be the source of some of my issues.
I finally got a response from TinyCo. No luck on the clams – I really wish the tribbles were isolated away from premium buying options. My over zealous tribble tapping finally got me in trouble 😦
But again, thank you. I appreciate your contributions to the site. It really is a lot of help.
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The not sticking issue may be because you don’t have the required room in the game. You may have it in your inventory. I had this issue sending Peter to the space crapper and it took me a few tries to realize I had swapped out the crapper in those crazy hazy days of room swapping
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Hi Diane, I noticed it with the wine chugging action and Chris’ battle cry. I wish it was as easy as room placement. I was double and triple checking my players for a while!
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What’s going on with phaser energy? I had two characters on that task overnight, plus 2 weapons lockers, and the only 1 that dropped a phaser crystal was the Starfleet Academy. So 5 things with a 6 hour run time, and only 1 crystal from a guaranteed drop. How are people that didn’t buy the academy getting any?
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I got both weapon lockers and 2 characters getting it around the clock and I get about 5 a day, only need 13 laser pointers and 17 felicium.
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So I think I’ve come across a glitch that is keeping me from even trying for Herbert’s costume. If this is a known issue please let me know how to proceed. Thanks in advance for taking the time to help!
I have not won Skimpy Sarong Herbert yet he is not available as an option to win on Cespoolus – the only icon that it shows I have a chance of is the Crystals x15. Again, I have not won Skimpy Sarong Herbert nor is he available as a possible option to win.
Any advice is greatly appreciated!
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As with Mort in the Replicator, or any other Costume, you an only create ONE at a time in Al’s… so while one is in there creating… any others will lock out to avoid a massive glitch (they ran into this during Comic Con event and now have a fail safe built in to prevent it). Once the costume in Al’s is done and you tap the checkmark, all the other Costumes will unlock again… in Mort’s and Herberts case… reappear. No glitch. 😉
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Just the reply I needed. I have been creating Falconer Peter for the last 6 hours so that makes perfect sense. Thanks for taking the time to type out a response 🙂
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No worries. 🙂
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My Skimpy Sarong Herbert is gone as an option from Cespoolus as well. I have not won him and he is not in Al Harrington’s to create either. Definitely a new glitch.
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NOT a glitch. See my comment you are responding to. It is how it is supposed to be. If they do not shut down (since they’re an auto-create) you would have your game shut down and not be able to get in. It caused a massive game lock out for many players during Comic Con Event. So they made it so there will never be a conflict again in Al’s. So as intended to happen in game play since July 2014. Again…NOT A GLITCH. 😉
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Closed my game and did a hard close and he is now back as an option for Cespoolus.
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I thought he might have gone away and assumed he was a limited time only thing. Glad to find out why he’s “missing” I was almost really disappointed! 🙂
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Tinyco…why the *insert F word* should i keep buying premium characters when i get no advantage with them whatsoever? Never have i seen a more lacksadazicle event to date. Quinan extra rarely drops scotch tape & drops orange gems at the same rate as the freemium characters. Worf hasn’t been anything special neither. Malcolm in the Middle Dad always dropped item needed as did Fillion. If we spend $$$ we should have an advantage over freemies. I know they read these sometimes so thus why i wrote it here.
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Keep them to the What the Deuce please. The Helpful posts need to focus on helping others, not a venting location. 😉
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Phaser energy drops seem alright, its the chance for laser pointers and to a slightly lesser extent the felicium (because you have 2 chars that suppliment it) that needs to be adjusted.
I need 10 felcium and like 21 laser pointers, and I’ve been ignoring all side quests, have both premium characters, leforge and diannia, and room swapping.
I get perhaps 2 felicium and 1 laser pointer with 9 phase shots (always hitting peter, and 2-4 total items). This morning I got just 1 felicium and 0 laser pointers for the 6 I raised overnight.
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Yes, we are all experiencing a shortage of laser pointers (well, except one), as was predicted by many of us from day 1. The bag of coke, um felicium, is also a problem for most. There is always going to be one item that takes longer but TinyCo never seems to get the balance right.
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I have found if you hit Peters head it rewards you most times. Easier said than done but a central hit in the face gave me felicium or laser pointers most times. Hit the body of the ship and you only get gems.
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I hit the right side of the body and got a laser pointer. Usually, I focus more on making sure I have a few asteroids in the cross hairs along with Petercraft. But I will try to zonk him in the nose next time and see how it goes 😉
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I’m having a similar problem- 45 PeterCraft kills and 1 laser pointer and 2 felecium. My Klingon Chris drops the felecium pretty much 70% of the time, but he’s got a lot of side missions. Considering the high number of 24-hr quest tasks, I’ve been ignoring them for the most part, and doing useful stuff instead. Until yesterday, I’d gotten nothing at all from clearing Borg, but then got 3 space groceries in a row today. I totally get that this is a longer event, but they’re really spacing it out with limited options to getting things done, which kind of makes it feel like a chore here and there, and Star Trek TNG is one of my top favorite all time TV shows. I love the new Enterprise area of the game, but I think they’ve got their timing a little off. Fortunately, they’ve been good in past events at figuring it out. Also, in past events they’re not always ready to go with the next phase when it’s supposed to launch, so I get the feeling that having players not be ready at the launch time is a way of avoiding that issue. I’m like 20% through Starfleet level 5 with no hope of making 6 by Thursday evening. Now if they’d only get rid of those **** tribbles, I’d be happy.
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You want them to get rid of the best source of free clams in…well… as long as I can remember? Why? 😉
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Has this happened to anyone else? I haven’t seen any complaints, but my quagmire has been missing for 2 days. I clicked on Locutus to use his mission there, and it just takes me to the edge of the enterprise screen, and if I try to access him though the questline in the main town, it just takes me back to the enterprise…
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I have seen a few others. What was the last task he was doing?
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I think he disappeared when i hit ‘make quagmire start the flash frenzy’ but it didn’t start.
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They sent a patch to prevent it happening any further. Please message them from your game and let them know yours is lost in space already and they should be able to help.
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Mine was Mia for at least a day, but I just figured I had messed something up. If I have one true issue it’s that when the game breaks and they know-they should notify, fix and make adjustments (ie if I missed 24 possible drops for a rare- reward me 5 or so pointers). I can’t keep track of what I’ve earned and who is where etc.
other issues are frustrating but not real complaints like this type. I’ve logged several for this event. Most have self resolved but I wonder what I’ve missed out on by not tracking my balances somewhere.
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😭 still trying to get chocolate for troi , I feel so behind like always just unlocked the bridge yesterday
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Many are still working on her or just getting her. You are bout the same. Has the combo of Geordi and the Klingons worked?
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I just got her this am. Think I sent chris 3 times and maybe geordi once. I got very good drops once I earned the blue balls for the trips (I held off until I had earned enough for 4 trips- and they changed drop rates so that benefitted me a lot).
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Just unlocked Lois but still need 7 more laser pointers for Locutus. Wondering whether I should use Lois for phaser energy or get her questline out of the way????
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I say load up on Phasers. They’ll help you get Locutus.
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If anyone is just reaching level 5, let me just tell you that the Casket Ejector will get you to level 6 right away. Just to help you get caught up 🙂
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Ok, so I just need to complete “a ship without Picard part 8” before Thursday night to be ready for next phase. So I should concentrate on getting Locutus.
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love the work you guys do think its a fantastic job for the work input and stress saving you do i think tinyco should make you a golden clam award to celebrate one year old x
these walkthroughs and task guides do help a lot
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Oh god just reached part two of Herbert’s quest and it requires Chris to do his 24 hour task for the third time this event 😦 he’s got felicium and Orange energy to drop! With my very best Gob Bluth impression: Come on!
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You can hold off on it. It is a side quest so not important. 😉
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This is for Tiny Co:
This Event is great, but Clamers complain about the same thing over and over again: stuff dropping too rarely.
Although Clamers complain and Tiny Co seems to listen, the same problem arises for every new update, until enough of us complain.
Guys, Laser Pointers and Felicium are buzz kills.
Been working hard on them, still only half way there.
At least if there was an easier way to collect them from blowing up the Peter Craft?
Also, why do we have so many one day tasks when we need the same characters to work at unlocking stuff?
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If you want to direct something at TinyCo… put it in a post they are more likely to focus on. 😉
FYI… it is NOT complaining that gets their attention. It is stats. Facts and stats. Things like our polls. Companies function off of Numbers, not complaints 😉
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Sure thing. I will write to them.
Thanks!
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I play a lot and I’m about halfway to level 7, but I’m not even going to be close to unlocking Locutus (currently 14/35 laser pointers) or Starfleet Lois (currently 11/25 Felicium) when the time comes to upgrade the warp core. They don’t drop often enough from character tasks or phaser battles (not to mention the fact that Chris is needed for the only Felicium task AND to get phaser energy) and phaser energy comes too slowly for me to get enough shots in by the deadline, even if they always dropped.
I’m disappointed that we’re still having balancing problems with this event.
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Do what you can. As you can see, this Event is something out of the norm for many players. I was surprised how easily I got the items in the Phaser Battles. I hope it stays that way. There really are no “deadlines” either. Mainly just hit the XP and you move on.
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I only have 4 laser pointers in my B game despite Quagmire trying non-stop and phaser battles. In the A game, only 15. I’ve gotten very very little from phaser battles. Felicium is almost as bad. This is the first event that I’ve really had trouble with. I’ve always been ready to move on to the next phase in prior events. Not so this time. I just get further behind.
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Have you tried the combos that worked for me?
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I tried them, but even the combos often just drop xp and dc.
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Even shooting PeterCraft in the head?
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I try, but coordination isn’t my strong suit. I’m finding this rather difficult.
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Glitch alert!! I’ve just finished unlocking star fleet Lois and I keep getting the following error whenever I press the freakin sweet button:
Error – Trying to transfer a character that doesn’t exist.
Any ideas??
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Are you trying to unlock her aboard the Enterprise? If so, jump down to Quahog and try again.
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Yeah, I was. Did as instructed and she unlocked fine. Thanks 🙂
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😉 Welcome.
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Thank you guys for the post, it’ll help me a lot. Troi’s chocolate addiction set me far behind in this event. I just unlocked her yesterday, so I’m trying to catch up with her questline. It seems I have a lot of work to do, so I am not allowed to sleep until all questlines are up to date (any help from TC shall be greatly appreciated).
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I need 9 Felicium and 14 Laser Pointers for Lois and Locutus to be caught up. I suppose there’s a chance of getting there by the Thursday update. should be close anyway
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The quest lines have taken a back seat this week to keep everyone on phaser energy duty. These laser pointers and baggies of Felicium are elusive as heck. If I keep the current pace, however, I may be able to unlock Locutus sometime Thursday afternoon & Lois in the interim. Keeping my fingers crossed it works out.
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Any ideas for correcting a “Placeables out of bound” error message. Have uninstalled and reinstalled the game already. Help please!!
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Usually that does it. If not, TinyCo.
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Can’t seem to progress in this event have only just reached level 4 despite checking in every few hours. I can’t understand how it’s become so unbalanced after xmas event worked so well. Still I’ll keep chipping away at it until it ends as it’s only a game and is fun to play as a little time filler. Excellent work on the site it’s always a first reference point before pressing anything.
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Each event is different. This one is interesting to say the least. Just keep at it and see what happens. 🙂
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Ha! IMHO christmas without premium characters wasn’t easier. The fights against Yeti had to be timed well before he reset and get enough snowballs to unlock the things (especially Jesus :)). Well it did not depend so heavily on drop rates, so it was more predictable. I also have to say that the premium characters were probably overpowered, they gave an extra opportunity to fight, more damage and I think they needed less time. So premium player had Jesus unlocked probably after the first few weeks, where I needed until new year, if I remember it well. Still it was fun and challenging until the last minutes for me!
This time premium characters only give another opportunity of drops at the same rate, nothing more. So it is going for all in a slower pace and the content lasts longer than 3 days each phase. And still they are not artificially blowing the content up, I think the content is great and much more than other games are offering.
People are often complaining about that there is nothing to do, now there is so much to do and it’s wrecking their nerves and start worrying about the future content. Well, they shouldn’t worry, on the one side TinyCo has been generous so many times, or admitted a failure and changed it. On the other side, since they stated so many times everything is working as intended, they have plan for this event, if they believe it or not.
I wonder what is the higher stress factor: A low drop rate, or a slower pace in a event. I mean, are people more happy with constant drops but consequently higher amount of stuff to collect (see Yeti fight), or very rare drops and less amount (this event).
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I just now unlocked the purple chick..just now..I sent only chris and the black guy with the glasses on his face…on the away missions..took me 4 times and just now unlocked her…progress has been made..it is what it is..
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I unlocked the bridge before I unlocked Troi. Doesn’t seem that the “ship without picard” quest ever started for me because the 2nd part of the quest you need Troi for so it should be in my list and it’s not. any ideas?
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Did you finish all of Phase 2 questline?
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every drop rate is terrible on this event. I send my team 4 times looking for chocolate bars and nothing!!!!!
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What team? Did it include Peter? Best results are Geordi and the Klingons.
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sorry about might not be on right place, but should i update to latest version iOS 1.7.5?
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My iPod Touch is working fine off of it.
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Thanks for the info. Been pretty much ignoring the quest at the moment to do other stuff. That being said I am only 1 felicium away from getting Starlet Lois and 6 laser pointers away from Locutus. Hoping to be done both today. Then need to get Skimpy Sarong Herbert and Bat’leth Battle Arena. Can’t wait to see what next week brings on top of Vulcan Quagmire, Beverly Crusher and Sick Bay.
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Bunny what will happen to tasks on the enterprise for example rikers task think deeply will not be a problem but playing poker on an elevator will go away since its on the enterprise will they give us an elevator will we get it spread across different buildings what will happen will troi be forced to shop for clothes the rest of her days?
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I can do a lot of the outdoor tasks in Quahog already. The others I am sure they will find a way.
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Riker needs a chair because watching him sit is HILARIOUS!!!!!
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Lol it is.
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I mean after the event what will happen to indoor tasks
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They can be reassigned whether to a room, building, or other location they can just transfer it to. We will just have to wait and see.
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I still have not gotten the quest A ship without Picard. What opens it? I have been on stage 3 since it began and this story line has not popped up.
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Where are you in the questline from Phase 2? Did you finish all those?
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Well I guess it looks like that Locutus is a alt for Picard after all and not a different character (like Patrick Stewart is), they just released them in reverse order which is something I don’t think Tinyco has ever done before. It will be interesting to see how this event turns out and what other surprises Tinyco has up their sleeves.
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You mean that Locutus IS a Character. 😉 And until Picard is released, we will have to wait and see what happens. There is no way to know how or if Picard is gonna play into it. Maybe Locutus will turn into Picard. Maybe Picard will be a Costume for Patrick. Until it happens and goes live, that’s just speculation. 😉
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Lol. I see the silhouette of Picard next to Locutus on his Facespace page and all of his comments on Facespace are Picard’s words and not Locutus. So it tells me that they released Locutus first as part of the story and that Picard is going to be the final storyline unlock prize. So it is not speculation it is what I see that is already in the game with the silhouette, just like for Vulcan Quagmire and Talosian Stewie. 😉
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Phase 3 is less frustrating than Phase 2. Though I still feel I won’t get Locutus (laser pointers) or Starfleet Lois (felicium) before the next Phase unlocks. I only reached Starfleet Level 5 this morning, and I’ll be grinding Starfleet Peter’s 1-hour task because that seems like it’s the biggest XP payoff. Are there any other ways to really bank XP before the next phase?
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Mainly the Casket Launcher… but that takes Materials.
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Wow, what a jump! Thanks for the tip – level 6 in a snap!
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You’re welcome. 😉
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I agree with this comment exactly. Not as bad as Phase 2 (actually quite enjoying it!), but I am only half way to level 6 and halfway through the felicium and laser pointers. Drop rate is ok, but you need so many!
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Ps: am sure the casket launcher didn’t give 800 xp! It said so but the bar barely moved in either view even after a restart!
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See the Glitches and Clarifications post in regards to that. 😉
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The romulan ale bar also drops 800 xp at first too, but it’s also a building and cost less materials than the casket launcher. I felt better spending a varied amount of materials than 10 cubes and an extra building will help more in the long run. I bought two which brought me up to level six.
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Then they changed the XP on it as it did NOT drop 800 XP on the Bar before when built. Only the Casket did.
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Just tested it again. Bar only drops 200 XP, but a good boost to XP as well.
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I likely won’t get either either. By Thursday, but, the collection method is much less frustrating.
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Just a quick question how do find Borgs to clear?
Duct Tape is extra rare and I have 3 Riker’s quarters and stil 1 duct tape after 3 days -_-…
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Troi should have the task available if they’re there. They’ll be enterprise only.
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Ah, that explains it. I don’t have Troi. It takes forever to unlock chocolate via Wai lota IV. or to get those blue orbs… To bad, this could be a fun event, but it’s more a waiting and patience kind of thing..
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Borgs start to appear after “Frame of Mind Part 8”
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I see. Thanks. I’m still at part 5. Need energie to go to Oh’NoS
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At least for the duct tape the room swapping method works pretty well since it is extra rare. Just keep rebuilding rikers and you’ll get all ten shortly. Laser pointers are another issue
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I find this quest line poor. it takes forever to get things to unlock characters. You get quest that don’t get you things. But you have to do them to complete the story line and unlock more stuff you can’t get. They should make this quest line longer, it’s end on april 30th, give it to more months at this rate…
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Just try to swap the rikers room as it takes 8 hours to build therefore you cab get 3-6 tapes in a day.
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oh, I need to swap them. I just waited… thanks for the info
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Has anyone else asked the developers at TinyCo if they could possibly let us keep the Starship Enterprise after the event. And thanks for another great walk through.
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It’s been asked and TinyMatt has answered it over on the Q&A
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Thanks for the response I missed that article. But wish it was better news oh well can’t get everything you want.
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What about Talking Command quest line? It appeared yesterday…
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Didn’t appear in my game, unless it came up late.
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I think I got this last night too. Is it the one where Riker is doing a number one?
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Yup. New questline. It is a side one, so not part of the main quests.
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I was on A Ship Without Pickard pt.7 and Lois to the Bridge pt.1 when it appeared. All the rest quests were done.
Taking Command pt.1
– Have Riker Take a Number One (12h)
– Have Riker Think Deeply (2h)
(got 10 crystals & 10 xp)
Taking Command pt. 2
– Have Riker Play 3D Chess (16h)
– Have Riker Play a Round of Poker (6h)
I’m on the pt. 2, so I don’t know yet whether it ends here or continues…
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More info on it coming up. 😉
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Just showed up late last night for me. Started with riker having to take a number one :p
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4 new mini questlines. Info coming soon. 😉
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Wow that’s alot bunny the marathon was great I got through all of season 1
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I’ve still only got 4 chocolate bars for Deanna Troi. The drop rates for both them and the transporter energy needed to get them have been abysmal, and nearly every questline I have left now requires Deanna to progress. This has been the most frustrating event so far.
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I am with you. ..i have been fighting for chocolates for troi with no luck. .. and i can’t advance through the questlines without her. .. 😦
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Try Chris and Geordi. Worf too if you have him
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I have 4 as well, after only sending Chris and Geordi the 3 times, hoping to do a 4th time tonight, kinda holding off on everything and doing stuff on the main questline that opened up for me, since I know I can advance in that. Might have all the chocolate bars by next week..hopefully. Definitely been quite the struggle.. As for transporter energy, the only way I have recieved more than 2 a day is to play all day, but can’t do that at work. Good luck!
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I honestly think, for the first time ever, that TinyCo made a mistake. The laser pointers and felicium to unlock picard and lois are too many for the drop rate. Even more for picard, that is the necessary for the main questline. People usually complain a lot with no reason, but I use a lot of timers to never have any char idle, they are all going for the phaser energy or the item needed itself, and I’m half away from both new characters.
I’m a little disapointted with TinyCo. They kindda corrected mistakes at drops and amount of itens needed before when it was not needed, and this time when it is obviously in need of correction, they are mute.
Also, the phaser energy drop rate seem to me that has been lowered a lot since monday.
I played a lot of other games before, and every time the producers get too greedy, they usually lose control of the game. Hoping that TinyCo realize that before it is too late.
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Also, tried all the combos to get the new outfit for hebert, and it’s really outrageous the chance to get him. I’m about to give up on him ’til the next phase.
(Sorry girls I know that this may not be the correct post for this comment, but these are my thoughts about the phase 3)
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For me… it was singular Characters that got the items. Not combos. And tried the Phaser Battles again today, still same kind of results as those in my post. Still a lot of items dropping out.
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I am doing phaser battles just like you did, and lesser than 50% drop rate.
At trying to get hebert, I’m trying with one character only. Yesterday was chris x8 and troi x8. Today I tried Peter x10. Not even half of them gave the 15 crystals, that was an OK chance. Frustrating, really 😦
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I have to agree, the laser pointer drop rate is terrible and with only one character that can get them. The part battle is impossible to get them on. Truly the first time I’ve been disappointed, it’ll probably be another week at this point to get enough laser pointers since I’m not quite half way yet. Also I feel freemium players pain cause I feel like buying worf helped greatly in getting chocolates for troi. I really enjoyed this event but it some parts have been pretty difficult.
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Did you try some of my tricks for Laser Pointers in the Phaser Battle post?
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Yea I read that. To be honest it doesn’t seem to increase the drop rate for those items. The felicium has an ok drop rate regardless of combos. Laser pointers I think I’ve gotten maybe three from it and I’m always getting some sort of combo. To honest tho the phaser battle is very time consuming it can take a couple minutes before getting a good shot at a combo and not have a guaranteed drop. I had eight tried saved up last night and only got 3 feliciums.
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Thanks for the post Alissa. Those laser pointers and felicium bags are hard to get. Cant unlock Locutus and Lois until the next update. Spent 200 clams for extra Room and for starfleet academy (to get phaser energy), but it will take forever… Wont buy more in this event.
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