LAST EDITED ON Mar-17-14 AT 12:44 PM (EDT)
>You could probably get your hands on Voth antiprotons on the exchange
>though. So, this weekend turned out to be fairly lucrative, in a few ways.
I had an unbound Tier XI blue antiproton beam sitting in my bank (reward from "Sphere of Influence," which I was setting aside to eventually put into an intermediate antiproton loadout before I decided to go polaron for the time being on the Margrave). When I was checking out the Exchange on Saturday, I noticed that there were a half dozen or so of these around, going for 750K EC and up. So I put the one I had up for 750K EC, and it sold within minutes.
A bit later, I did another check, and saw a lone Voth antiproton weapon of some kind or another going for 850K, when most of them were going for well over 1 million. So I snapped it up and relisted it, immediately, for 1.5 mil.
Then, my wife and I went out for a bit, to run some errands and take advantage of the nice weather we had this way on Saturday, and when I'd gotten home, it had sold.
So, after pondering this for a bit, I took some spare Zen I had left over from a belated birthday gift and bought a ten-stack of master keys. I took a ten-stack of Voth lock boxes I had knocking around, and, out of those, picked up three different Voth weapons out of it: two space weapons and a ground weapon. (Also a good bit of Lobi, and some nifty duty officers, which is why I didn't just put the keys up on the Exchange -- I had a few goals in mind for this.) Those went up on the Exchange for about 5 mil EC between them, and I've still got a purple Voth duty officer that I'm debating about whether to keep around for doff missions or put up on the Exchange as well. (She's not one I'd slot as active -- I forget exactly what her ability is, but it's a space one and doesn't compete with the technician boff CD ability, or even with the torp CD reset proc I have in the other two space slots.) All of that was enough to:
- Fit five purple Mark XI polaron beam arrays on the Margrave. (One of the fore weapon slots currently has a blue Mark XII Protonic-Polaron dual beam bank I got from a Dyson reward pack; the 90-degree arc of fire is a limiting factor, but when I hit the CDs for both it and the Dyson torp when I've got the right facing, things die.)
- Upgrade the remaining green-quality Tier X consoles I had knocking around to Tier XI or higher, blue-quality or higher.
- Pick up a few more lock box keys off the Exchange to round out the Lobi to trade in my Mark XI Jem'Hadar Space Set for the Mark XII version.
- Do some first-pass gearing for my just-hit-Vice-Admiral Caitian engineer, S'erro. (Got her to 46 or so thanks to the XP boost weekend, and the rest of it was basically just doff missions while hanging out in ESD.)
And I've still got about a million EC floating around the various characters.
I made some noises towards our fleet admiral about the provisioning, and he was mildly surprised to find that we were out of the personal provisions. So that's been slotted in the queue, but gods only know when it'll actually come up, and how long it'll take us to finish it, since I need to make sure I keep enough dilithium around to capitalize on it.
"Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis."
- Kenneth Boulding