Using Stars

the Stars briefing:

  After you earn and hoard 57 Trophy Booster stars, buy three Trophy Boosters in a Hall of Trophies sale for 500 Victor Medals each, then click the stars to gain 120 permanent ranks.  While you gain and hoard your TB stars and VM, use your other catch up prizes to gain rank and Elder God. There are few shortcuts...

The deets

(This redundant version still needs editing.  AG)

 The game will give you 57 [Trophy Booster] stars maximum as directive prizes to fill the 60 Trophy slots in ToK and Cath. You have to buy three or more. If you pop all your TB stars first and buy the last three, they cost 42 000 VM in the Hall of Trophies. Better: buy the first three to ten during the HoT sale at 500 VM each. If you buy TBs but fail to fill all 60 slots before the current inavsion ends, you have to buy more in the next invasion to complete the slots.

You CAN buy Trophies Boosters any time and as much as you like.  The sale happens every 8-9 weeks. A promo screen will advertise their "50% off" Trophy sale, as will your N-screen, Cath, ToK, and [Hall of Trophies]. Click thru any of them them to reach a purchase screen.

  Used  [Trophy Boosters] Stars show as little gold diamonds under your five Tower of Knowledge and five Cathedral trophies, found under your Might number. Clicking a Trophy shows two boxes in each: the left black diamonds fill gold with trophy stars and show the might each left diamond gives. Your ten trophies have counterparts in your Hall of Trophies, showing the same numbers of black and gold diamonds.

 You can get up to 10 Trophy Stars at the cheapest price if you've applied none:  Any extras convert to 3 Million credits and 5000 KoE each, a nice bonus if you've VMs to spare. You can buy all the Boosters you want at any time, but they get more expensive the more you've used.

If you already used TB stars up to 7, you can still buy three at the low 500 VM sale price when you find and buy them for the three empty Trophies. If you've used more than 7, start hoarding stars and VM now.  You still can buy three at the lowest price you can on sale, then use the rest. Compute your VM cost of adding one star to each of your three least-filled trophies in HoT, then divide by two for the sale price. Start saving.

If you buy stars, but don't completely fill your Might Trophies by invasion end, you'll need to buy three more next invasion to fill your 60 spots.  Each invasion start makes SF re-compute how many stars you need to reach 57, counting all you have and spent and bought against the total it will offer you in Directive prizes this invasion. Invasion end time shows in your K>Aelion>Invasion>More screen

To Do list

When you are certain you can get all 57 Stars total by THIS invasion end,
 #1 Buy three or more +25 Might for three different trophies in the Hall of Trophies, best bought during the half-off sale every 8 or 9 weeks... 
 #2 double-click every Star in your bag (for about +2 Ranks each). 
 #3 Keep earning and clicking Stars from daily directives as they arrive.

   Timing relies on 1) when the HoT sale hits and 2) gathering the last of your 57 catch-up Stars before this invasion end.  A player can get 4 to 6 stars a week during their catch-up.  If you can do the math and really like your odds, go for it.  If not, play it safe and wait for the next invasion and sale.

 Even more of SkyForge will unlock for now because your catch-up is complete and your Rank is at the current Trial Rank.  It will stay above Trial Rank as you get new catch-up Science and Followers each invasion.

In great detail:

 If you have enough Trophy Booster Stars of the 57 maximum you can get from Directives in your inventory (in your bag or already used in ToK and Cath) ... to get all 57 by the end of the current invasion (schedule visible at shift-K>Aelion>Invasion>More screen),...

 You can buy the cheapest [Might +25%] during the [Hall of Trophies] half-off sale (occurring about every 9 weeks) from three or more of the ten trophies in your [Hall of Trophies] ...  for 500 [Victory Medals] each (only if you've used zero to seven stars already.  The cost rises if you have already used more).  

  Those three [Might+25%] plus the 57 stars the game gives are the 60 you need to fill your ToK and Cath Trophy slots.  If those slots are partially unfilled, your Trial Rank becomes unstable, disappearing at the start of each invasion, while major bonuses and abilities fail you.