User:BrooklynKnight/AccoladeFarming

Some Accolades take a very long time to earn. For those cases the Accolade community has devised various strategies to earning them as quickly as possible. Although I've had a hand in creating some of these strategies the truth is they are crowd-sourced and credit goes to the entire community.

Mission Timing
There are two timers that keep track of the Dailies. Server and Personal. The Server timer resets every day at 8am Eastern. Your Personal timer resets 20 hours after you've accepted a mission. If you accept a pvp mission early enough after the start of the Daily Server Cycle then it's possible to do them twice in a single day. If you've held a mission in your log for more then 20 hours, so long as the same mission is available when you complete it, you'll be able to do that mission again immediately. In this fashion many Accolade Hunters do the missions twice on a given day.

Example: You've picked up To the Front Lines (Vice Admiral - Daily) at 8am Eastern. So long as you complete the mission by 4am Eastern the next day you can pick up and do the mission again.

PVP Accolades
In order to earn the No More Heroes, Neutral Zone Master, Frenzied by the Fray, Hero, Demolitions Expert, and Reserve General Accolades you must complete their respective missions (Pacify Enemy Heroes/Leaders, Reclaim/Restore the Neutral Zone, Into The Fray/To The Front Lines, Dominate the Heroes/Leaders of the Enemy, Raze Enemy Headquarters/Secret Headquarters and Claim Enemy Reserves/Emergency Reserves) a total of 70 Times Each. Each set requires PVP set in a Warzone, Arena or Capture and Hold Scenario. Along the way you'll earn other Accolades at 15 and 35 Completions as well. With normal PVP earning these Accolades would take a prohibitive amount of time. Here are the strategies for earning these accolades as quickly as Possible

- Capture and Hold -

Open the PvP Que Menu and click Challenge to create a Private Challenge. Select Shanty Town and set the Station Health to 10. Though this only requires 2 people on either team it goes faster if Red has at least two. After everyone is joined click Start.

Once the mission starts you want to score/capture in this order. Red Scores 3 in the Center, Blue Scores 7 at Primary Base, Red Scores 7 at Primary Base. Rinse and Repeat with new Challenge as many times as required.

Doing the missions via this method gives you credit for 2 victories per run allowing you to complete the Daily in 2 Cycles instead of 3.

- Arena -

Open the PVP Que Menu and Click Challenge to create a Private Challenge. Select Assimilated Cruiser and set the Kill Count to 5. Although this method only requires two players it will go faster with 2 or 3 volunteers on the Blue Team. Before the mission starts pick a volunteer(s) for the Blue Team. The volunteer should remove all armor and shields. They will not attack and be prepared to click respawn as fast as possible.

Once the mission starts the Blue Player(s) should remain still at the spawn point. Allow Red Team to flank Blue Team and commence the killing. Blue Players should respawn in the same spot and keep getting shot. Rinse and Repeat 3 times for Mission Completion.

- Warzone -

There is no current private method of completing this mission. You must go to Otha or Kerrat and complete through 3 cycles of the zone to complete the mission. If you're doing Kerrat team up with other accoladers to distract probes and spheres while someone scans. That should increase the speed of mission completion.

- Kill Accolades Ground -

Open the PVP Que Menu and click Challenge to create a Private Challenge. Select Assimilated Cruiser and set the Kill Count to 100. Although this method only requires 2 players it will go faster with more players on either side. 3v3 is ideal for the fastest results. As with Arena Dailies the Blue Volunteers must remove Shields and Armor and be ready to respawn quickly. The Red Team members should be using split beam or mini-gun's that do not have knockback. They may also use AOE's that cause damage such as Plasma Grenade. The goal is to damage each blue team volunteer once before they die to "tag" them for credit for the kill. In this way all red team members can get between 85 and 95 kills per round. This works for both Federation and Klingon Kill Accolades on the Ground.

Exploration Accolades
- Federation Exploration Zone Accolades -

To earn the various Federation Exploration Accolades tied to the Nebula/Exploration zones you must complete the "Explore the --" Mission 70 times for each zone. Along the way you'll earn lesser accolades at 15 and 35 completions.

Each Nebula has a random selection of missions that range include combat or diplomacy. Since the missions that include combat tend to take a lot of time they are ignored. Each "Explore the -" Mission requires you to complete an exploration mission 3 times. The fastest way to do this is 3 "Aid The Planet" or ATP missions. In order to avoid the lengthy process of continuously searching for "Aid The Planet" missions players gather in an Exploration Team.

Here is how Exploration Teams work. Each member of the team must invest time to find and accept 3 separate ATP's per nebula/exploration zone. The player must speak to the planet and offer to deliver the supplies and then exit the mission before delivering the supplies. With the mission in the players log it may now be "shared" with other players on their team no matter where the original player is. In this way players share ATP's with another. Each player has 3 missions per sector and completes another players mission one after another to complete a 3 mission cycle and complete their mission.

-How and Why This Works -

There is a 25 minute timer on the "Explore the -" Mission that triggers upon pickup, each individual ATP has a 5 minute timer from the time it's completed. The exploration team process takes advantage of the timers. Player A completes Player B's ATP's one after another, then flies to a second sector to do the same. By the time Player A completes the ATP's the original mission will have reset and they can return and do it again. The more players on the team the more ATP's in a given sector a player will have to chose from. With good team work and organization a team of 5 can do one another ATP's for hours in a cycle by going from sector to sector one after another or in some other pattern.

- Cost -

This method of earning Accolades is not free. Each ATP requires 10 or 20 Units of various trade goods depending which sector is being done. You can place stacks of each trade good in your personal bank and they will automatically be withdrawn when you complete the mission.

- Bonus -

This process has the added bonus of generating a large amount of Diplomacy XP very quickly allowing a player to earn all 3 Diplomacy Accolades and access Transwarp in a short period of time.

This process also generates a large amount of gifts which can be sold on the exchange.