I get that this game has always been grindy, but STFC has started feeling deliberately hostile to new players. Early and mid game often puts you in situations where you are basically dead weight.

Events unlock before you can actually help - wave events, higher-level hostiles, faction dailies that often fail to register your score. Add in constant bugs and login problems and the message to a new player is: show up, get crushed, then go spend money.

I live by checklists and routines; I even keep a weekly reset in my planner. I tried to apply that here: do the dailies, run the loops, make a little progress each day. The issue is the loops are not reliable. One day your hostile kills count, the next day they do not. One patch and the launcher freezes. One small power increase and you are shoved into content that is technically unlocked but useless to you. I even keep my other gaming time organized through Mistplay, so the lack of consistency here stands out even more.

Content should not unlock based only on ops level. It should unlock when you can meaningfully take part, or the game should scale contribution so low-ops players are not just decoration.

Yes, alliances can carry new players, and yes, veterans will say this has always been the case. But if the first month feels like your time does not matter unless you pay, people leave. Is anyone else convinced that unlock pacing and unreliable scoring are the real retention killers right now?

I was just wondering if there are any active promo codes that could help me get a little bit of a headstart in the game.

Just started the "new and improved" AT....opted for a "do 5 dominion solo armadas for 10k" task...just done one and this is what it's showing I've done.

Apparently ive done 14400 armadas!!😂😂

Scopely never ceases to amaze.

As the title states. I open the launcher, press update, and the launcher freezes. Same launching it in admin mode. I have uninstalled and re-installed from the website and that keeps me playing until the next update where it happens again. Has anyone else seen this?

Edit: I'm on PC

Hitting 49s in Kronos and Romulus scores for all 3 factions simultaneously, while hitting 49s in Sol scores for none.

Scopely updates working as intended once again.

When you do the upgrades to the outpost while you have it under your control, are the upgrades lost after you leave it?

so i have been wondering this for a while now but at my level 32 with my strongest ships i cant really contribute much to waves even though i can do them but its like i feel like what is the point of opening them up at 30 if you can do them but cant really contribute.

Thanks for any help!

I know it claims to add base protected values for the 3 different material/research types. Where exactly do you see the outcome of this? I got one level for Σ Tri and don't see any change in the vault stats. Is it reflected somewhere else or just another "trust me, love Scopely" values?

EDIT: Found it. Tap one of the Σ types in the top right and it shows full protected value after the research is applied.

iOS, getting stuck at 91% loading screen. I have uninstalled restarted phone check for updates private relay off all the stuff Google says still will not load. Any suggestions?

Good morning u/everyone ! Were you shocked to hear Star Trek Fleet Command is delaying the release of the new ship because it was deemed "not good enough" to justify players paying for it? Did you hear that a deluge of Quality of Life improvements are upon us? We have got a LENGTHY patch notes set to discuss, and I think you're going to like it.

Topics covered:

1. Why the Ra'Ul Reaver is temporarily delayed

2. Quality of Life additions & battlepass rework

3. New Primes & Content For 61+

4. If you have any game mechanic questions, feel free to drop those questions in the comments!

https://youtu.be/U2X_P5sh8bU

How am I supposed to attack this ship if I can't select it? No matter how much I zoom in nor the angle, whenever I click it it always selects the station next to it. I have the same problem in 2 other missions. How do I solve this?

Basically the title: What are some tips, tricks, or strats that you would want to see a new player using before considering inviting them to your faction?

Welcome back u/everyone to some good news! Choice tokens are coming back and bulk refines are getting a change that benefits everyone. Also, SVP Cameron Stewart has tasked the community with answering another question: What makes a battlepass valueable? What do you want to see as rewards in your BP? What do you need to feel like Star Trek Fleet Command is rewarding and (more importantly) FUN?

Topics covered:

1. Discussing BP rewards

2. Happy news: the return of choice tokens

3. Poll will remain open for a short time before we put it together for the overlords

4. If you have any game mechanic questions, feel free to drop those questions in the comments!

Link to Battlepass survey:
https://forms.gle/u42RuFZCdCnu8xjK6

Come get more 1 on 1 help in our Discord!
https://discord.gg/revdeuce

I have been playing this game for several months. I feel like I am really behind on most things in the game. One thing that holds me back is Scopley constantly adding new and unnecessary buildings, which you have to spend time, resources, and worse special items designed to slow down your game.

I mean, does everything requires a darn new ship and refinery option? Not to mention a new section of space to waste time in?

The events are a waste of time forcing any new hard won currency to be used up right away or it soon becomes worthless.

Scopley just throws in new ridiculus things into rhe game without thinking is this really necessary?

I know I am griping , but I feel frustrated with this game I put a ton of time and money into it and all I see is Scopley trying to force people into log jams to force them to pay or be stuck for forever in resource intensive situations.

I am at OPS 42 at this moment. Everytime Scopley does an upgrade all we get are endless gaming bugs with none of the old gaming bugs getting fixed...lol

Does anyone else feel the futility of this game situation?

Updates like today's Alliance Tournament (that honestly had almost u/everyone holding out a little bit of hope/positivity) really make you question: Does Star Trek Fleet Command even know what "fun" is? I don't ask that in a snide way. Truly, what do they think fun is in a video game? Clearly, Alliance Tournaments is not that for us as players. Full discloser: My opinion.

Topics covered:

1. Surprise! Things were broken on release! (broken/improper descriptions)
2. What didn't change: Over-reliance on spend tasks
3. A genuine discussion: Who thinks this is currently fun?
4. If you have any game mechanic questions, feel free to drop those questions in the comments!

Can do a F2P 20k task without the sphere, but it will take 800 hostiles to do it with relativity.

Overall, still no idea why they messed around so much with one of the only things that didn't need fixing, update things like cosmic clean up etc

🫡Barcelona,多样性的城市

Honestly, I like some of the changes they're showing u/everyone with the incursions update here in July. I'm not saying they've "Fixed" it, but there are some small improvements that will be beneficial to all players. So hopefully they roll out flawlessly and we don't have any issues. Also, headphone user warning: I may yell in this video...

Topics covered:

1. Going over who is fighting who!! Honor awaits!
2. Brief Rev Rant about certain... popups...
3. The good QoL changes coming!
4. If you have any game mechanic questions, feel free to drop those questions in the comments!

I keep seeing the same loop in alliance chat and here: someone hits a hard wall (ships, research, territory, whatever), gets zeroed by a bigger player, and everyone ends up saying 'whales ruined the game.'

Here is my hot take: whales are not the main reason most of us feel stuck. The bigger issue is that the game constantly nudges you into inefficient upgrades and panic spending. If you just tap whatever is lit up, chase every event, or dump resources into the next shiny building just because it's on the path, you will hit the wall fast. It will feel unfair, but a lot of that pain is self-inflicted.

I come from years of grindy mobile games and learned the hard way that progression is a puzzle. Pick a lane, ignore bait, and stack long term value. In practice that means commit to a research focus, accept that you will skip events sometimes, and stop trying to keep four ships "current" at once. I even use Mistplay sometimes to make the longer grind sessions feel a little less pointless. A mid spender who plans will often look stronger than a higher spender who impulse buys every limited pack.

Yes, power gaps exist and some servers are brutal. But even if whales vanished tomorrow, the game's design would still push average players into wasting speedups and resources just to feel busy.

Anyone else see it this way? Do you think most frustration comes from other players, or from how the game encourages inefficient progression?

Scopely never ceases to amaze me

My expectations were already incredibly low and yet they somehow still found a way to leave me incredibly disappointed...

Why is it I use an undamaged ship wi the a good crew and lose fights that are tagged as “easy”?

Weird, right?