ABOUT SHUTTLE EVENTS

One of the most annoying events I can think about are the Shuttle Faction events, as soon as you hit the 3 hour clockcounter it can take ages to get the next prize.
Well I brought you today a mini guide to this shuttle events with tricky tips.

For starters:

Faction events will show up on purple inside the faction shuttle menu

There are at least two kinds of faction events:
-feeding one faction with missions
-feeding three factions fighting against each other (better ones)

When you complete a mission the clockcounter to complete mission will start rising
It will start from 30 secs to 1 min > 2 min > 5 min > 10 min and so on until you hit 3 hours which make things extremely slowpaced.


Tips:
As soon as the event starts use your shuttles to send your weakest lower level characters to complete the missions, that will be more than enough even with level 1 crewmates, help using your skillbuffs to hit the 98-99% of success rate if needed.

Send your 2 free shuttles and wait for the to come back after 30 secs, BUT DO NOT complete or retrieve the prizes (this is very important):
By doing this you will not be able to get the crew you sent but you will be able to RECYCLE the shuttle and keep the clockcounter on 30 secs (Nice).

Now you can recycle your two shuttles, you wnt be able to retrieve your crew but the shuttles will be active.

You can do this until two things happens:
-You have sent all your crew available. (keep in mind missions may require from 1 to 5 crewmates)
-You hit a maximum of 15 mission PER FACTION.
This means that you can recycle shuttle for a maximum of 45 active missions.

when you don’t have anymore crew to send or you hit the top 15 mission now is time to retrieve your teamcrew. The shuttle menu will show all completed missions from left to right in order of start. This means if you followed this guide your most competent crew will be in the far right next to the common missions. Start retrieving only one team, by doing this the clock counter will start rising like shown before, (30 secs >1 min >2 min > 5 min etc)

Because of the top 15 mission mechanics and the retrieving rising clock mechanic you can only start this phase ONE shuttle at a time, if you clear your 30 secs mission hastly you will soon find yourself with the 3 hours clockcounter (pretty bad :\ )

During this phase try to spend your weaker clockbuffs (5 mins-10 mins-1hour) over and over, use your best suited crew, recycle the shuttle till you hit the 3 hours barrier.

when this happens now is time to retrieve all of your crewmates it wont make rise the clockcounter anymore beyond 3 hours, and now is the time, if you have spare shuttle tokens to spend them here.

Now you can play normally but I suggest you:
If you have few crew try to send one shuttle at a time with your best crew and a skill buff so you can be around or over 93-95% success rate per trip

If you have a lot of powerful crew then try to spend your best clockbuffs ASAP but keep an eye on success rate higher than 93-95%

During worktime or sleeptime you can take advantage of boxbuffs that double your rewards, but keep in mind they will rise the counter to complete a mission to 6-9 hours and wont rise your success rate too much so keep an eye on this.

I hope this tricks serve you well, enjoy.


Play long and prosper.