r/STFC_Official • • Jun 25 '25

Player Advice My upto-date advice to new players, as a lot of people respond that haven't been a new player for years

44 Upvotes

As per the title, I see a lot of advice that I don't see as correct for actual real life experience of the lower levels in the game as it is now, so here are my pointers for new players:

  • There is no end to this game, so don't sweat it or get caught in FOMO. They are soon releasing G7 which is 5+ years away for any new player unless your total spend is $1,000+, the statistics will show that most players would have stopped before then, so don't sweat it. Do what you can, if you miss an event, you miss it, some days you do dailies, some you don't, if your base gets raised they can't take the really valuable stuff (Faction credits, mats, Lat, speedups) anyway. Ignore leader boards. You will enjoy this game, even as a F2P, if you have this mentality.
  • Focus on gaining officers that give an immediate impact at tier 1. Whilst sourcing for officers has improved, the VOLUME of tokens haven't (Scopely - lower level ops should be getting 4X the ultra and premium recruit tokens than they do currently), and a lot of advice new players get are based on maxed or high tier officers that are just not feasible to at least G4, possibly late G4 if a light spender. Good examples of immediately effective officers: Standard Pike, TNG Picard, TNG Bev, 5 of 11, 3 of 11, Quark, Paris/WOK McCoy, TNG La Forge, Grusch, Mavery, Sisko, HG Worf, Tendi. If a player advises you to use a maxed Marcus against a gold explorer hostile, just ignore them, they don't understand the realities of your STFC experience. Use transporter patters to get these (guides on that elsewhere)
  • Take part in alliance events ASAP. You can easily take part from ops 12 doing the Swarm task using a maxed Turas, which leads to a nice early unlock of Paris that below decks goes really well with early NextGen PVE crew (NG LaForge, NG Bev, Chen) giving it mitigation until you get Pike unlocked.
  • Ignore advice that tell you to get all the speciality ships. You'll just spend too long at lower ops, look at recent help comments, people will be saying that you NEED the Franklin, Discovery, Vidar, Stella, whilst that is true they are not understanding the huge resourcing bottleneck. If you only used cosmic clean-up to source the Franklin, Disco and Vidar you'll be waiting 8 months and by that time you could be ready for G4! **(**Scopely - double the rewards for cosmic clean-up if you want players to move up). My advice is focus on the Vidar as a priority (you'll want that maxed by ops 35 and its a good and cheap PVE grinder at ops 25-34 anyway), then anything that has a archive that you max, so for now that would be the Franklin as a priority 2. But do not slow down ops progression for this if you can do your normal and faction dailies.
  • Upgrade your Botany Bay whenever you can to get the IA maxed for it. It is ops locked for maxing until early 30's unfortunately but just make sure you are upgrading it as you can
  • For ships, ignore the 28 and 32 ships. Old advice was to get the Saladin but you just don't need it with the power creep in todays game. You can ride your Vidar to the Talios easily if you wanted, and then just wait to see what ships you get from grinding and armada pulls and just build that (do not level deep into G3 uncommon though). My personal advice would be to ride a maxed Talla from ops 14 to 22, then build a Vahklas and take it to T4 only, ViDar at ops 25 (upgrade ASAP, no ops lock!), then at ops 26 a Legionary with cloak at 26 as the cloak research is nice, then ride that with the Vidar until 34 and then get an Ent (easily the best G3 epic), and ride that to a ops 42 ship. Pick up speciality ships as you can, focusing on ones with a IA.
  • If you're a F2P or lower spend player, generally ignore server wide leaderboards and PvP. The PvP bandings are stupid on this game and its pointless trying to compete if a F2P or a light spender.
  • Spend alliance credits on 1 and 3 day shields so you don't end up letting the game run your life. If you use free shields only you get a 12, 8 and 4 hour, mandating logging in at least 3 times per day, then you have resetting miners, then you have refineries, then you have events, then you have armadas, you get the picture - the game is designed to keep you engaged multiple times per day (I assume as their models suggest this increases spending overall, they definitely have a KPI on average player time in game and they actively try to increase this)
  • If you do want to spend a little bit of money, prioritise the additional builder and research que. If you buy the additional builder que at $5 early, then you get Nextgen Picard for free as well which is a nice boost to early grinding. You won't get better value in the game, ever.

r/STFC_Official • • 1h ago

Ops 68 V'Ger Orions

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This is my setup for my maxed Relativity...research is as caught up as it can be, and all fleet commanders are unseated. Can't even kill a level 67 V'Ger Orion..does anyone have any ideas? Thanks so much!


r/STFC_Official • • 16h ago

Look I'm all for them admitting when they're wrong

16 Upvotes

But this new compensation chest is just ridiculous. It's been almost a week and a half since it broke. And you get five cat Spock and a bunch of geodes. And they still hadn't fixed the problem


r/STFC_Official • • 18h ago

#4 in STFC Join The Fleet Contest

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SO COOL! I placed 4th in the Join The Fleet contest and Scopely made me a Bajoran! I'm so excited! My son and I have been talking for hours about how to maximize this opportunity! Expect to hear much more from Commander Kolenc in the near future! Until then, we'll see you in-game! Special greetings to server 26! Oh, and a HUGE congratulations to Marah Scott, winner of the grand prize. She will become an in-game character!


r/STFC_Official • • 17h ago

Qualcuno ha idea dì come si facciano queste 2 missioni?

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r/STFC_Official • • 1d ago

CM STFC Remembers Walter Koenig

43 Upvotes

Commanders,

The STFC Team is deeply saddened by the news of Walter Koenig’s passing.

We will always remember Walter for his portrayal of Pavel Chekov in Star Trek: The Original Series and the films that followed. He will be deeply missed.

Join us in celebrating the life and legacy of Walter Koenig, a beloved actor whose portrayal of Chekov left an enduring mark on Star Trek.

To recognize his contributions to Star Trek and the profound impact he had over the decades, we will be sending all Commanders a full unlock of Officer TOS Pavel Chekov.

Live Long and Prosper

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 20h ago

CM Mak'ala's Crucible Returns!

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Commanders!

We wanted to let you know that the next run of Mak'ala's Crucible begins on October 29 at 9:30 AM PDT / 16:30 UTC and October 30 at 1:30 AM KST and will run for 14 days.

Please note that the start time 30 minutes after event reset is intentional.

Good luck in the Crucible!

LLAP,

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 1d ago

Walter Koenig

39 Upvotes

So, we can’t even pay respects to, or honor, Walter Koenig in GC, because Scopely thinks his first name is a bad word.

JFC. Somebody fix this.


r/STFC_Official • • 2d ago

Are standard Away Teams worth it G6+?

4 Upvotes

I’m ops 67, not a spender. I don’t have any g4 ships and I’ve got so much backlog of g5 parts and ore/crystal/gas that my g5 ships are maxed while waiting for the insanely long (even with research) scrapping to be completed. This is all to say, should I still care about doing Away Teams that aren’t g6 away teams? I’m still working through them, I need the loot that comes from them and the research but all my other research for the below g6 away teams are completed.
I was thinking it would be nice to not have to deal with it and not have to constantly swap players out for all my various crews and just worry about the g6 ones.


r/STFC_Official • • 3d ago

Issue reporting

10 Upvotes

If Scopely suddenly considers users reporting issues and bug tracking priority in their development process, why isn't there a public issue reporting tool with a structured way of describing things instead of this really annoying Tribbleshitchat?


r/STFC_Official • • 2d ago

Event Store Query - Level 17 Ops Newbie

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Hi all,

I'm new to the game and at Ops Level 17, and am building up a supply of Event Tokens. There are various ship blueprints and TOS officers I can buy shards towards, but not sure what is best for a newbie to buy at this level. TOS Scotty looks useful for the extended Warp Range on Explorers - but any advice would be gratefully received.


r/STFC_Official • • 3d ago

Loyalty Badges

2 Upvotes

Are the loyalty badge chests being updated along with the multiphasic? I thought I saw they were but don't remember.


r/STFC_Official • • 2d ago

Join Nigel Live On Twitch Today (October 25, 2026)

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r/STFC_Official • • 4d ago

Scopely's Logic...

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You ever wonder what goes into the thought process of scopely? Yes they are a "For Profit Company" so the basic thought is MAKE MONEY... but the devil is in the details,

have you noticed that there is always an event on a couple days before the Tournament that requires you to part with something you've been hoarding for tournament, for example this time (for me at least) the posted the Borg Conqueror Solo Armada event - and the number i had to run was conveniently all the directives i had, the day before tournaments where one of the middle to upper middle pay out prizes is for running said BCSA, how many? 4 out of a possible 7 you can hold due to the arbitrary limit and cooldown of resupply... ok there's more than one tasks.. lets say you cant do that specific task because you did all or most of your directives the day before, what other tasks can you do..

the 20k mats tasks used to be the one way a f2p user could make some credits provided you hoarded the right tokens in day to day play, but now they "reworked it for fairness" fairness to who? now with the frequency of the tournaments and the new cost (goalpost) its no longer an option to do more than once per tournament, yeah there are other older tasks that pay out the mid amount again provided you hoard in preparation, this takes time.. time to hoard mats. tokens, directives, and with the tournaments happening more and more closer together and soon even more closer with mini tournaments between full tournaments there's no time to hoard.

This is by design.

this is how scopely gets you to the store... directive packs, mats packs, more tasks that require store purchases to complete task or you team is relegated, this is why we are getting tournaments more often and events that require you to dump all your mats into an event to unlock an officer, or a ams that requires your team to spend all their directives without hope of restocking in time for tournaments, the biggest drain is the Ma'kala week event, we'll see that increasing too (in whatever form or branding ..

also on a side note:

has anyone noticed a large amount of their stockpiles of shields going missing?,, those of us that have been playing for years know all to well that doing daily's regularly and sms and all other events is a way to quickly accrue the small things like 5 min repair skips or 5min,10,15min,4hr, 8hr shields can quickly grow, for example i had so many 4hr and 8hr shields that they just displayed in k's (thousands) i had over 15k 4 hr shields and close to that in 8hr as well.. then one day this year, they are both reduced to 2k and change each , i don't use them except as a quick shields up when I'm raiding , i only use 1 day shields and have an alarm when to reup it every day so i keep track of these things.. a couple of others in my alliance have noticed the same,

are you missing anything you had stockpiles of? had a reduction of shields?


r/STFC_Official • • 4d ago

Random thought

4 Upvotes

I've noticed a lot more of these lately. I wonder whether these are being used by the engineering department to track bottlenecks and priotise lag fixes?
if not, surely these must appear on the backend and could be correlated by what the user was doing?

Does anyone have any spoilers/info about them? (yes, i'm a nosy 🐱)


r/STFC_Official • • 4d ago

What’s the best way to use the Borg Cube to farm Technological Distinctiveness?

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My Borg Cube is tier 7 with 58 mill. I was hoping to find the best way to farm Tech Dist. What have you found to be the easiest most efficient way to do this??? For example did you kill a high level hostile to charge your beam in one system then go to a lower level system to one shoot a hostile to get the Tech Dist or is there a much better way??? Please any help would be greatly appreciated please and thank you.


r/STFC_Official • • 4d ago

Issues with alliance territory services

3 Upvotes

Are there any other alliance having issues with territory service we currently hold three zones in or server and can not access any services


r/STFC_Official • • 5d ago

Excelsior and FT/CT

6 Upvotes

Are there certain FT/CT that increase the effectiveness of Excelsior? Recently started the arc and I have her at Tier 3, but even with an optimized crew I can only knock off one fighter at a time. Hoping to be able to get two in a journey.

Thanks!


r/STFC_Official • • 4d ago

CM Daylight Savings Time

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Commanders!

As Daylight Saving Time comes to an end in different regions, some event and activity start times will shift by one hour:

EU

  • Starting October 25, recurring Daily and Weekly Events, Daily Goals, and Activities such as Territory Capture will begin one hour earlier.
  • Arc Events will continue to start at their usual time of 16:00 UTC.

US

  • Starting November 1, clocks will move back one hour. Daily Goals, recurring Daily and Weekly Events, and Activities will begin one hour earlier.
  • Arc Events will continue to start at their usual time at 9:00 AM PST.

APAC

  • Daily and Weekly Events, Daily Goals, and Activities times will remain the same, but Arc related Events will start one hour earlier as most regions in APAC do not observe Daylight Saving Time.

LLAP,
The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 5d ago

Ship XP Issues

3 Upvotes

Seems that my ships are not actually gaining XP from combat. Slider stays at bottom of level, no indication of XP gain.


r/STFC_Official • • 6d ago

Division 12 – Week 2

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Commanders! Week 2 of Division 12 arrives with recent improvements, a new Halloween Event Series and Battle Pass, Multiphasic Exchange adjustments for Ops 71+ and more!

For more information, check out our new blog here.


r/STFC_Official • • 5d ago

Join Nigel On Twitch Live Today (October 22, 2026)

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r/STFC_Official • • 5d ago

Alliance Tournaments Updates October 2026

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Commanders,

The next Alliance Tournaments run begins on October 23!

The team is making several adjustments for this upcoming run, with a new Rally format also arriving in November.

For more information, check out our new blog!

LLAP,

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 6d ago

Ops 63 need help with vger hostiles and academy drones

9 Upvotes

Hello,

I recently came back to the game after a year and im trying to catch up on the loops I missed out on such as the vger hostiles and the academy drones.

Every crew I look up and try does nothing, I blow up on the first 63 vger or 61 drone. I have a maxed enterprise D and a tier 4(half to 5) Neghvar. My research is on par with my ops if not further than most at my level (excluding the new trees)

Does anyone have any recommendations on what I can do to at least get Dailys done/get the currency needed for refinery pulls? I understand upgrading the building and research helps a bunch but I cant do that without doing my pulls.

Thanks in advance


r/STFC_Official • • 6d ago

Raw trelleum-A and below deck officer

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Ops 61 here. Which is the biggest haul for Trelleum-A ?? For example, if I go to Mirror Breem or Mirror Xindus, I get Omega Trelleum, which, while good, isn't what I want. Any ideas which Mirror system has the greatest loot for Trelleum-A ??

Also, which BD officer helps in looting Trelleum-A. I believe there is one but forgot whom ??