Events/The Discovery

### Details

Mycelium Spores can be mined from the following 15 systems, and are dropped by hostiles from those systems. Mycelium Spores can then be

*cultivated from the new refinery that creates Cultivated Mycelium. Collect Spore Drive Components from the new events store to upgrade the USS Discovery and improve its instant warp ability.*

*More information will be added soon.*

Anomaly Systems:

Level 23 Systems (level 21, 23, 25 hostiles):

* Amagi
* Arcadion
* Babishta
* Esteria
* Izanami
* Jizo
* Netron Alpha
* Netron Omega
* Salara
* Tenzen-1029

Level 28 Systems (level 27, 29 hostiles):

* Cada-X
* Dis
* Nalomas
* Risette
* Sae

You can acquire the necessary blueprints of this beautiful USS Discovery ship from the Battle Pass. Commanders have the chance to acquire this ship through the Battle Pass, but if you’re in a hurry, look for packs from the store to speed-up your progress.

The USS Discovery provides a significant Mycelium Spore mining bonus of 2100% and gives commanders a significant advantage when participating in the new Anomaly Events.

During the new Discovery Arc, you can participate in a new type of event called Anomaly Events. Use the USS Discovery (or any other ship yet the USS Discovery will be more efficient at these events) to jump to systems that will be randomly announced in the game and kill the hostiles that will be pouring into those systems. These systems will be available for a short period of time so make haste with the USS Discovery’s jump technology to catch them in time.

Taking part in these events will unlock many amazing resources to choose from. Compete in solo milestone events called Anomalous Phenomena / Chaotic Space and you’ll have a chance to win Discovery Refinery tokens. These tokens can unlock an array of awesome things
Minor Commendations: These are shards that can be redeemed from any of the Faction stores (Klingon, Romulan or Federation) for officer badges
Speedups
Discovery Recruit Token: Use these to unlock all the Discovery officers
Spore Drive component: Use these to upgrade the Warp drive component of your USS Discovery. This will decrease the cost of Mycellian needed when instantly warping whilst also increasing the USS Discovery’s warp range!

Videos by: FortisSTFC

## Q & A

**Panic on the 09/08/2020 @ STFC Discord**

Q: Costs to spore jump?
A: - Don't have the exact numbers yet but when upgrading the warp component with a special resource called a spore drive you will reduce both cost and warp range

Q: what ops level for the ship?
A: I'll need to check that but should around mid - late 20s

Q: And we get discovery free to play?
A: Yes you can get the ship through the free BattlePass

Q: What resources can be mined from the anomalies?
A: Mycelium. You'll have to mine it and then refine it. You'll then get Cultivated Mycelium that will be used to power the Discovery and use the instant warp function

Q: Will the new battle pass have a cost ?
A: Nothing changes, there will be a free pass and a paid one

Q: Is it unlimited jumps?
A: As long as you have the resource and warp range yes you can jump but there will be a cooldown which I need to double check

Q: How do we get the discovery
A: Through the BP

Q: Is there going to be a new research tree?
A: Nope

Q: How much will the discovery cost?
A: Don't have the exact numbers but it won't be expensive in terms of resources to build it. Very similar to previous Event type ships

Q: Does Federation research add to Discovery?
A: Nope

Q: Is it available through the free part of the battlepass?
A: yes

Q: Will the new officers be easily obtainable, or some only from winning events?
A: By completing the solo milestone events you'll be able to obtain an item that you can then redeem at the new event store in order to obtain the said officers

Q: Do we need to mine mycelium?
A: If you want to use the instant warp function then yes

Q: Will we lose the mycelium as it is a living being?
A: \*wondering\*

Q: build cost of the new ship and officers cost would be great to know
A: Trying to get them asap

Q: Does the discovery allow deep space travel?
A: No, it's only available to go into G3 space

Q: for people that can't sit around and wait all day for the 7-10 minutes events, is there any point in playing the event?
A: Absolutely a necessity if you want to upgrade your Discovery. With doing these events you'll get a currency that you can redeem in the event store for
1. Officer shards for the new officers
2. an Item to upgrade your warp drive of the discovery that'll reduce Mycelium cost AND increase warp range
3. YOU CAN NOW OBTAIN OFFICER BADGE SHARDS WHICH YOU CAN REDEEM IN YOUR FACTION STORES

Q: Will full discovery ship bps be available through battle pass or do you need to buy packs ?
A: Free from the BP

Q: It is good to expanded battle logs for 300 but Could you sperate the battle logs like "PVP" / "PVE" / "Station" like?
A: good point, the team is looking at a mutlitude of ways to have the Battle Reports more intuitive. Will pass this along

Q: can we look into adding Captains Georgiou and Lorca as Officers?
A: Maybe

Is the Discovery gonna be an explorer? And when the hell do we get a UI overhaul?
A: Don't have the exact type but will let you know. for the UI part

Q: Are the missions pretty much the same kind of things (pay someone something, go to another waypoint, kill a yellow ship, kill x amount of hostiles, return to base), ... or are there new mission modes coming down the pipeline?
A: I wish I could say it's COMPLETELY different yet it's kinda the same narrative. But, yes, the team is looking into ways to make missions more elaborate when it comes to different mechanics

Q: The new events will require Discovery to participate?
A: Yes and no. Some will some won't. I mean you can do all the events without the Discovery, but the Instant warp will give you a massive boost in the events

Q: Will new ships be for players level 20+ or be spread out for about every ten levels going up to 50? Second, will leveling ships and the station become less resource dependant so more players can reach the higher levels?
A: The new ships are always for players roughly 25 - 28+ but I need to check exact numbers. Ship leveling will always be objectively based on itself regardless your level

Q: WHAT WILL BE THE MAX WARP RANGE OF THE NEW SHIP AND POWER
A: Good point, need to check but this will go down when upgrading it

Q: Is there a daily limit of how many times discovery can use its spore drive?
A: Not that I know of, if you have enough Mycelium you can warp but there should be a CD which I need to double-check

Q: that new ship discovery is strong to beat iss? What is maximum warp? Could travel on dark space? Please answer
A: No, it's power is specific to the event itself, Maximum warp I need to check don't have the exact numbers, No only G3 space for now

Q: Will there be an event store to get officer shards?
A: Yes, the same store for all the Discovery items where you'll be able to redeem them through the shop

Q: Does the instant warp limited to specific system? Any limit how many instant warp we can do? Any expendable material needed to do instant warp?
A: No G4 systems, also if you need a warp token to go to a system then you won't be able to warp otherwise it really depends on your warp range

Q: Will have have new dailies?
A: Wookie Not that I know of for now but they are being adjusted

Q: Will watching the tv shows help understand the officer abilities?
A: Sure but the best part is that it allows you to get your head in the narrative and immerse yourself even more with its gameplay

Q: Is Discovery g2, or g3?
A: 3
Q: Wait, the warp range is reduced as you upgrade?
A: yes

Q: Oh, yay. Yet another ship to not be able to get.
A: Wrong, you can obtain this ship for free through the Battle Pass

Q: Why was discovery chosen over the other series?
A; It's right now the most relevant and up to date but hold on because more will be warping in

Q: why start with the worst star trek series, and where the hell is my Defiant
A: Not really I loved this series, sure Nostalgia sets in with other series

Q: Should we expect to be able to play this afternoon or will the glitches last way into tomorrow?
A: If all goes well then yes

Q: can the sequence of battlepass arc rewards please be rotated so that 3\* Ore is not always the last and biggest 3\* payout? It would be useful if 3\* Crystal and 3\* Gas sometimes paid out the biggest
A: Good point will pass it along

Q: Still not seeing app updates available...
A: They will come in time, during the day

Q: How many officer badge shards for a badge?
A: Don't have the numbers yet but you'll see once patch hits in your stores

Q: Have you all considered adding Borg, Ferengi, and Eclipse dailies similar to the swarm dailies to give people a reason to use these new ships after the story arc is completed?
A: Yes, dailies are being revamped

Q: compensation for no final gauntlet? We grinded a lot to get there
A: I don't have any info on the gauntlet but will let you know once I do

Q: Will mining spores (sentient life) for the drive reduce reputation of every factions?
A: No

Q: Will yalla make it easier to obtain the ISS Jelly with this new big release
A: Not that I know of

Q: You need to be level 21 to build it, its an explorer type and max warp range is 30. I suggest you watch DJs video on it
A: I don't think it's that low, it should be higher BUT I'm still checking

Q: Is there going to be a new sparkly animation for spore drive warping?
A: \*smirk\*

Q: can you activate the spore drive in discovery?
A: Yes, it's instant warp

Q: Will we be able to instantly warp to any system in game if the warp range is the same as the ship?
A: yes

Q: There are so many bugs in the game. You really need to focus on that before adding more content
A: Did you read the patch notes?

Q: How on earth are we supposed to keep mining different things & killing different types of ships
in order to keep progressing these specific ships?
A: well that's more content for you

Q: is this update merging servers? It's taking a long time
A: no just a ton of cool stuff being added

Q: The amount to do in this game is becoming a joke, now another thing to mine and grind, really! Try reducing requirements for everything to give us more time
A: You can pick and choose if you want to participate in these events or just do the regular stuff. Players need new content because we're balancing hardcore player base with the casual as well and every player wants to progress at their own time

Q: Will there be any Mirror Universe content in forthcoming arcs?
A: Not that I know of

Q: what is the player advantage to this content? Officer badge shards. Anything else?
A: Officer badges, resources, a new and cool ship to experience, new missions, speedups, A SUPER COOL NEW SHIP

Q: Are there any Discovery Armadas?!
A: No

Q: As new content is introduced, how does scopely plan on keeping old content relevant? I noticed green michael burnham starts off with more damage in her officer ability than Carol, an epic.
A: Super good point and this is how the team will be needing to balance out older to new. Usually we don't unbalance old content
- All this will be cleaned when the Q&A is over so that you can read it at your own leisure

Q: When we can see ally cargo on base and crew and cargo at ships? Also would like to switch available crew on ship before engaging on battle.
A: Yea this is a super good point and something the devs are actively working on to fix

Q: Will this include a new faction or any addition to items in the faction store?
A: The only main thing being added to the faction stores is the ability to get officer badges through shards

Q: Can mycelium be mined by normal miners and is it much slower?
A: Correct

Q: Any plans to add a scroll bar and overall stats to combat logs? Also icons for buffs and debuffs
[3:22 PM]
would be cool
A: Overall logs are being looked at. The 300 Battle Logs is just a start

Q: Why do you have to mine mycelium when stamets grew it. shouldn't there be a special place inside your base where you grow mycelium?
A: Yea narrative wise it makes sense but gamewise it kinda doesn't. Will be interesting to see how it pans out in the future and if it does get added into our base

Q: FYI: Mycelium, you farm it NOT mine it.
A: Sure but now it's a mining mechanic

Q: Do you have to mine mycelium with the new ship, that will break the roe rulebook?
A: You don't HAVE to mine it with the new ship. The new ship just has a 2000% mining rate for Mycelium so... yea.. it's better if you do
will there be a release of arc event schedule like there was in in outlaws arc
should be

Q: Also why the redundancy in discovery officers? It may not be my favorite of the treks but it has more officers than Saru and Burnham. Seems like kicking off an event with two officers being doubled isn't the best way to do things. Could have had tilly, lorca, lieutenant tyler, etc etc.
A: There are more to come. This is not the only arc of Discovery we're facing

Q: Where is the last part for the multi week gauntlet events?
A: Don't have an update on that yet

Q: Not specifically disco related, but when can we sort officers alphabetically.....
A: Team is looking at various ways for officer / Crew loadouts

Q: And, we get a stable game that doesn't crash before new content? Or can we get some downtime between new content?
Not really fair, game stability has gone up and up for the past few releases
how do you expect to keep active player when you add more and more ships but getting G3 materials is hard and no improvement on refinery. More and more players left the game because of that...
A: We're constantly adding ways with which you can obtain G3

**YOU CAN BUILD THE DISCOVERY AT LEVEL 21 - YES YOU WERE RIGHT;**
THERE IS NO COOL DOWN FOR JUMPING, THE ONLY LIMITING FACTOR IS MYCELIUM

Q: how do the spores work, do you mine them or is it like the tribbles where they multiply based on what you have?
A: They act as a usual mine

Q: Is the Disco a warship class and do you use the Disco to mine the mycelium?
A: Explorer and yarp

Q: Could you please explain what the "All types of Exchange Armadas now have a guaranteed Spawn rate in all Exchange systems." means? Does it mean that all types of eclipse armadas in the system are constantly available?
A: Yes and there will be a constant spawn rate, not randomized

Q: any weekly events for mining Mycelium, like the Latinium ones?!
A: Not yet, maybe after the arc

Q: any plans to give us the rest of the Harrison shards?
A: Don't have an update on that sorry

Q: What will be the use of Discovery after the event is over? Can you list a few uses ?
A: The Discovery Arc is not only 1 there will be more and it'll be used the same way the other Event ships are YET the instant warp can also tie into strategic game mechanics as well.

**SUMMARY:**

Q. Will the USS Discovery be available for the F2P Player
A. Yes it can be obtained through the Free Battle Pass BUT if you are in a hurry you can get it earlier via the packs from the store

Q. At what level can you build the Discovery and what type of ship is it
A. 21, Explorer

Q. Why Mine Mycelium?
A. Because it allows you to use the Instant Warp function of the Discovery

Q. How does instant warp work
A. Warp anywhere. Limiting factors - > Warp range, having enough Mycelium. THERE ARE NO OTHER LIMITING FACTORS

Q. Why do the Anomaly events
A. Gives you an item that can be used in the new event store where you can find
1. Speedups
2. Component to upgrade the Discovery to decrease the cost of Mycelium usage
3. Officer badge shards that can be redeemed through the faction store
4. Officer shards used to unlock the Discovery

Q. What are Anomaly events
A. Read the patch notes

Q. Can you do the events / Mine Mycelium with other ships
A. Yes of course BUT using the instant warp and the ship's 2000% Mycelium mining bonus gives you an edge