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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 170648" data-attributes="member: 3745">So I'm on the PC which doesn't have tournaments, but the strategy choices for a 20 minute game intrigued me enough that I gave it a shot by just running a stopwatch timer myself.There's three distinct ways to go: the spinner, Borg multiball, and Final Frontier.  I played one game targeting each.Here's the fast way to max the spinner.  Always take warp 4 obviously.  First bang on the Time Rift targets to get the spinner up to 1.6M so you only need four doublings to max it.  Go to warp factor 8 once (for the EB) and 7 twice, intentionally draining after each (do NOT reach warp 9), so you can take warp 4 on each new ball and quickly get to 7 for the doubling again.  I maxed the spinner within four minutes this way, then just shot it continually for the rest of the time, winding up with 22 billion at the 20 minute mark.  Borg Multiball started once from stray shots but didn't really help me hit the spinner any more often.Borg multiball: I think it might be correct to drain out from the first two instances, then start collecting jackpots at the third once it reaches 100M.  I made five Borg Multiballs within the 20 minutes, doing very well on the last for fifty or so jackpots, ending up at 28 billion total in the 20 minutes.Final Frontier: I shot really well on the missions, including the double artifact from Search the Galaxy.  After collecting each mission artifact, I shot warp factors while waiting for the mission time to run out, hoping to max the spinner, but that was probably a mistake as I wasted a couple minutes in warp 9 modes.  Anyway, the mission and warp factor artifacts plus two from holodecks added up to 12 artifacts in 12 minutes before Final Frontier.  Then I managed to get through all the missions again, by skipping holodecks and actually intentionally draining out of Rescue to avoid waiting for the timer.  So I started Final Frontier a second time just as my 20 minute clock ran out during its intro animation!  The score was 22 billion before Frontier started, 26 including the starting bonus, and 29 billion after the (rather lousy) Frontier.Conclusion: All three routes are surprisingly close, but Borg Multiball probably wins overall.  Frontier needs you to be really good to reach it twice with a ton of artifacts, while there's quite a bit more margin to spare in the Borg Multiball approach.  The spinner doesn't quite keep up with the other two plans.</blockquote>

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