Five star shortcuts impossible without P2Win consumables?

[AtomicMew]

I'm talking about the "20 shards/sec for 2 minutes" objective. Nevermind the 25 orthons goal, where they won't even spawn until almost the very end (since you need to use your shards almost immediately).

Let's assume your group is amazingly coordinated:
-You somehow manage to activate all the small extractors immediately.
-5 minutes - 300 shards, activate your first large.
-86 seconds - activate your second large
-50 seonds - activate the last large.

At this point, 7.5 minutes (at the very bare minimum) have passed and you only have 8.5 shards/second going (at the very maximum). You have 30 seconds to ramp that up 20 shards/second, which is impossible since upgrading one large takes another 35 seconds (which puts you only at 11/sec).

Am I missing something? Or is it really that you need to spend Turbine Points to obtain full favor from this challenge?

[ZeroTakenaka]

I'm talking about the "20 shards/sec for 2 minutes" objective. Nevermind the 25 orthons goal, where they won't even spawn until almost the very end (since you need to use your shards almost immediately).

Let's assume your group is amazingly coordinated:
-You somehow manage to activate all the small extractors immediately.
-5 minutes - 300 shards, activate your first large.
-86 seconds - activate your second large
-50 seonds - activate the last large.

At this point, 7.5 minutes (at the very bare minimum) have passed and you only have 8.5 shards/second going (at the very maximum). You have 30 seconds to ramp that up 20 shards/second, which is impossible since upgrading one large takes another 35 seconds (which puts you only at 11/sec).

Am I missing something? Or is it really that you need to spend Turbine Points to obtain full favor from this challenge?

If I remember right, it costs 75 shards to upgrade a small to lvl 2 that'll upgrade the 0.25 shard per second from a lvl 1 small to a 1 shard to second for a lvl 2 small.

[AtomicMew]

If I remember right, it costs 75 shards to upgrade a small to lvl 2 that'll upgrade the 0.25 shard per second from a lvl 1 small to a 1 shard to second for a lvl 2 small.

Yo naga. But you are wrong, I think. I believe the upgrade puts them at .5 only. Don't have access to the challenge, so I can't check though.

[Glenalth]

Yo naga. But you are wrong, I think. I believe the upgrade puts them at .5 only. Don't have access to the challenge, so I can't check though.

If I remember correctly, all 4 smalls at level 2 will give you 3/second total.

edit: Also, I wouldn't be surprised if they added at least a couple minutes to this one.

[Qaliya]

If I remember correctly, all 4 smalls at level 2 will give you 3/second total.

This is correct. The rates are small 0.25/0.75 for tier 1/2, and large 2.5/5.0/7.5 for tier 1/2/3.