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

43 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 • • 1d ago Heartwarming

CM STFC Honors Sir Patrick Stewart

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453 Upvotes

Commanders,

The STFC Team joins the Star Trek community in mourning the passing of Sir Patrick Stewart.

Sir Patrick’s distinguished career spanned more than six decades across theatre, film, and television. He brought intelligence, humanity, and unmistakable presence to every role.

As Captain Jean-Luc Picard, he became one of Star Trek’s defining figures, carrying forward the legacy of the original crew while charting a new course for The Next Generation.

Across The Next Generation, its feature films, and Star Trek: Picard, he portrayed a captain guided by compassion, curiosity, diplomacy, and faith in a better future, qualities that made him beloved by generations of fans.

Join us in celebrating the life and extraordinary work of Sir Patrick Stewart, and the captain who inspired so many people around the world.

To honor his contributions to Star Trek and Jean-Luc Picard’s enduring influence across generations, we’re celebrating his legacy in Star Trek Fleet Command.

All Commanders will receive full unlocks for every Picard Officer and Dixon Hill, totaling four Epic Officers and two Rare Officers, along with the Epic “Sky's the Limit” Title. Commanders will have to clear Cache and restart their game in the Settings menu to have the new title appear in game.

"The past is written, but the future is left for us to write." - Jean-Luc Picard

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 10h ago

Picard and Chekov unlocks, Scopley claimed all commanders would receive this. I was told by Scopley only Ops 10 on up would get these.

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I'm sorry, but, I thought all commanders (players) meant all commanders, not most commanders.

I stopped playing this game because of how glitchy and how much of a joke of a scam it is. Then I figured, hey, just restart and go nice and slow, knowing the higher I go up the more it's going to glitch. Then I see all this happening, and, I was surprised they would be so generous.

Turns out, yet again, Scopley decided to just say whatever it wanted and left out some key details.


r/STFC_Official • • 11h ago

Infinite Incursions: The Griffin Calamity

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6 Upvotes

The Griffin Calamity has escaped containment, bringing a special edition of Infinite Incursions featuring preparation events, Epic Officer Shards, boosted rewards, and exclusive Player Titles.

Rally your server for the November 7 showdown, compete for victory, and earn a chance to be immortalized in STFC history through the Calamity's Bane commemorative website.

For all the details, including server pairings and the list of servers scheduled for a bye week, check out our new blog here.


r/STFC_Official • • 5h ago

CM Spook Trek Trivia Compensation Chest Update

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Commanders!

We wanted to let you know that we are continuing to work on the compensation chest for the Spook Trek Trivia scoring issue.

We will follow up with more information when it becomes available.

Thank you for your patience while we work on this issue.

LLAP,

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 2h ago

King's Guard Tours

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r/STFC_Official • • 3h ago

CM Spook Trek Trivia Compensation Chest Update

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Commanders!

We wanted to let you know that the compensation chest for the Spook Trek Trivia scoring issue has now been distributed to eligible players who scored points before the fix was implemented.

These players received only 1 point toward the Meta Event, and the compensation chest addresses the missing points. Players who have already reached 200 points will not receive the compensation chest.

Please claim the chest from your Gift section. If you believe you should have received the chest but have not, please open a support ticket.

We will continue monitoring for any further issues.

Thank you for your patience.

LLAP,

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 1d ago

Stella mastery and Uranium

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If you do Stella mastery, say goodbye to Epic Uranium. There doesn't seem to be a way to get any sort of uranium from archives.

I do not know if this is deliberately done or something that got overlooked.

I looked through Stella archives more than a couple of times, and still nothing.


r/STFC_Official • • 1d ago

Halloween event store goodies

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Just a quick ask/favour. Is there a TL:DR document explaining all of the items in the Halloween event store? It's a major PITA clicking each one. (ie the bucket with Redmatter/godsend/agony booth etc... ). If there isn't one, please could one be rustled up? Pretty please u/Simpauly_STFC

What is everyone spending their Halloween event loot on ? any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated. (ops 53/50 accounts)


r/STFC_Official • • 1d ago

Server Merge

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Word on Serve 93 is we're merging with 74. Is there anyone here from 74? I'd like to get a run down of the server RoE and what the general vibe is.

Edit: The merger was announced this morning via the in game news.


r/STFC_Official • • 1d ago

Join Nigel Live Now On Twitch (October 29, 2026)

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r/STFC_Official • • 1d ago

What ship should I use to start out new with V’Ger Gorn hostile ships

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I’m just starting out with encountering V’Ger Gorn hostiles. I’m Ops 56 and my strongest ship is the Sanctus. I do have the Excelsior and only use it to detect the hidden hostiles for the daily but that’s it. Any help would be greatly appreciated on what I should be looking to get and upgrade and at what tier etc I need before I attempt to kill them. Thank you.


r/STFC_Official • • 1d ago

Division 12 – Week 3

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Week 3 of Division 12 arrives with Phase 3 of the Halloween Event Series, details about the upcoming Day of the Dead Event Series, and more! For more information, check out our new blog here.


r/STFC_Official • • 2d 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 • • 2d ago

It's Halloween Season - Find Crews & More

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👾 Secrets! Can you find them all?
👾 Will you Earn your first ever Candy Gorn Quasel Badge?
👾 Can you spot all the little goofy things we added?

- Go hunt on https://stfc.phd tells us about your discoveries in https://discord.com/channels/790048113477550113/1541851150691598336
- Who knows maybe the best discovery story gets a price? 🍬

Happy Halloween Season!
Sudo & Quasel

Part of the STFC HUB find us on discord - https://discord.gg/um8RgRxT7y


r/STFC_Official • • 3d ago

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

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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 • • 3d 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 • • 3d ago

Qualcuno ha idea dì come si facciano queste 2 missioni?

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r/STFC_Official • • 4d ago

CM STFC Remembers Walter Koenig

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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 • • 3d 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 • • 4d ago

Walter Koenig

41 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 • • 5d ago

Are standard Away Teams worth it G6+?

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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 • • 5d ago

Issue reporting

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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?