Prelude to Build Review by Jo4play
INTRO
This will be the start of a new series, in which i will be taking a build submission and making up my opinions and ways to improve. The limits are those you set up yourself. So if you want me to build a top of the line build expect a top of the line pricetag. But if you are one of those who want their build to just work, i can find a lot of ways to make it work.
FORMATS
In order to make this as simple as possible i will include accepted formats for submissions as well as the must list things i want to see before i can go into it:
1. TYPE OF BUILD: What do you want me to do with it, what role do you want it to play, i will try my magic on everything but can't promise you it will work or that i am a subject matter expert. But hey i will try my best
2. PRICETAGS: I have divide builds into 4 categories:
- FREEDEEPS assumes you can get your hands on mission gear, occasional exchange and low rep items and a couple of cheap things.
- CHEAPDEEPS assumes you are willing to push to the reputation gear to the decent side(more expensive), take expensive exchange items and more involvement
- AVREAGEDEEPS assumes you are willing to buy Z-Store items/ships, high end fleet and rep gear, exchange items up to the moral limit
- BIGDEEPS assumes you are ready to invest into lobi items/consoles/ships, pay lumpsums of EC for consoles and ships, this is the final frontier, the P2BeTheBest frontier
3. CURRENT BUILD: There are a few ways I will accept your submissions in this part, 3 to be exact (titles on 2 and 3 are different color for a reason aka they are hyperlinks :
- SCREENSHOTS: This will be the most tedious of them all, you have to capture screenshots of everything, and i mean EVERYTHING, doffs, boffs, traits, ship status. While it might be the quickest, it is the least detailed, so will take me and you time, since i need to see a lot of stuff
- SKILL PLANNER: This method utilizes a lot more detail, so i can see much more, you can fill more, but is somewhat crippled, but quite easy to use, just remember to save your build in the end. This method will decrease the possible additional questions you might get, as opposed to screenshooting
- STOBUILDS TEMPLATE: This is one of those i tend to like as well as they give me tons of info, more or less spreadsheets you can download and use to save your builds, very versatile, but take a bit of skill in Excel to set up quickly. Also very likely to lower additional questions as you can add loads of commentary of yours
4. Additional Items: Since i assume that there will be a load of things you might forget to add to the list i will list some common things i will need to judge correctly
- Rep Tiers
- Unslotted starship traits
- Unslotted space traits
- Any decent doffs you consider might be viable
- Possibility of a respec
- Unlocked ships you consider might have useful things (like event ships, lockbox ships, z-store ships etc)
- possible means of contact (in-game,discord,site)
- Any gear you consider decent/valuable
- Your own commentary
- Specifying faction it belongs to
- Maybe a thank you
Conclusion
We have came to the end, now only I have to think of a way to submit these, I guess replying to this thread or pm in discord might be the viable ideas for now. Maybe in the future we will find a more permanent solution to this problem. Thank you for reading this thread, i hope to see your submissions soon.
Jo4play,
Signing off