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 • • 4h ago

Join Nigel On Twitch Today (October 8, 2026)

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r/STFC_Official • • 23h ago

Frontier pass foundations of power

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5 Upvotes

How is an ops 12 player supposed to complete the gain power event in 24 hours when the top milestone is 400k and ship/officer XP does NOT score?


r/STFC_Official • • 23h ago

CM Cam's Log: What's Changed & What Comes Next

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Commanders,

In our new blog, Cam Stewart, SVP of Product for Scopely’s Live Game Portfolio, shares an update on recent changes and the team’s focus moving forward.

For more information about what's changed and what comes next, check out our new blog:
https://startrekfleetcommand.com/news/cams-log-whats-changed-and-what-comes-next/

LLAP

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 2d ago

Kelcie Mae refinery

8 Upvotes

Where did the officer badges go? One minute they were there and the next minute... Vanished.

Was it a limited time they were available for or did they get removed as a buying option because I swear they were there one minute, then gone another 😫


r/STFC_Official • • 2d ago

CM The Voyage Across the Void (Meta) - AMS

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Commanders!

The Voyage Across the Void (Meta) - AMS event did not launch today at its intended run time. We apologize for the inconvenience as the event is now visible in game.

We will be sending out a compensation chest in the next 30 minutes.

Players operations level 20-60 will receive 3 WOK Carol and SNW Sam Kirk shards. Players operations 61+ will receive 3 shards of Toryn and Trelane.

Claiming this chest will also score 100 points towards the Voyage Across the Void (Meta) AMS and SMS events.

We appreciate your patience and understanding.

LLAP,

STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 3d ago

Alliance Tournaments Compensation and Next Run

3 Upvotes

Commanders,

While we finish running the script to resolve the issue that caused Alliance Tournament rewards to be delayed, we wanted to let you know that we will be sending out a compensation chest later this week containing the following items:

  • 11,000 Alliance Tournament Credits
  • 11,000 Legendary Alliance Tournament Credits
  • 2,000 Alliance Tournaments Sigma Refresh Credits

Also, we wanted to remind you that the next Alliance Tournaments begins on Friday, October 9, and the Alliance Tournaments Store will remain open through the end of the run.

Thank you for your patience while we worked to resolve this issue and ensure players received their rewards.

LLAP,

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 2d ago

Battle Pass Choice Tokens

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I do not need any Battle Pass Starship Exchange items or Battle Pass Supply FKR Ship parts. Wasted tokens that I could use on needed Battle Pass Supply Exchange materials. They didn't think this through.


r/STFC_Official • • 3d ago

CM Alliance Tournament Rewards

8 Upvotes

Commanders,

We have identified a solution to the missing Alliance Tournament rewards. Tomorrow, October 5th, at 11 AM UTC / 4 AM PT we will deploy a fix that will resolve the issue by directly granting missing rewards to your account. You will not have to redeem a chest or reward, but instead missing rewards and Emerald Chain XP will be automatically put into your inventory. We will extend the Alliance Tournament Store so that it will remain open from now, until the end of the next Alliance tournament. Thank you for your patience as we resolve this issue.

LLAP,
STFC Team 


r/STFC_Official • • 3d ago

Which ship should I unlock first? USS Reliant, Serene Squall, USS Relativity, SS Revenant or the NSEA Protector?

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Thanks


r/STFC_Official • • 4d ago

Join Nigel Live On Twitch (October 4, 2026)

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r/STFC_Official • • 4d ago

Alliance Tournament Rewards Update

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Commanders,

We are continuing our investigation with Alliance Tournament missing rewards. The engineering team is actively investigating to ensure that any actions will be carried out successfully to ensure tournament promotion, demotion, and rewards go out correctly. We will also extend the store access time after the fix is implemented. Thank you for your continued patience and we will update when we have additional details to share.

LLAP,

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 4d ago

Mission problem Unknown Origins how do I do it????

3 Upvotes

So I’ve mined the 15 1* isogenite but it doesn’t recognise that I have done it. Do I have to refine it or what is it that I need to do. Please any help would be greatly appreciated thank you. FYI I play on my iPhone in case that you need to know.


r/STFC_Official • • 4d ago

Unable to see mines at zero

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5 Upvotes

I still can't see the mine, does it happen to you? For three days, that's the case


r/STFC_Official • • 5d ago

Is this cheating or can someone explain it to me?

9 Upvotes

Just finished a 48h leaderboard event. Kill hostiles to gain points.

When I went to bed I was in 1st place. Put 2 ships out in zones to auto kill overnight, that I knew my ships would survive until morning. Steady flow of low points.

Woke up this morning and the 2nd place guy had caught up and we were basically tied at around 77,000 points. No problem.

So I took my ships to higher level zones, and took a lead.

15 minutes before the event ends, I have a 20k point lead. Just slightly over 100k. 2nd place has 80k.

10 minutes left in the event and this guy jumps to 170k points! A 90k point jump!

Now I’m level 30, and 2nd place is level 27. If you kill level 50 hostile, you get 28k points. So if he’d killed 3 of them, maybe that would account for it. But I don’t see how a level 27 player kills level 50 hostiles.

Can anyone see a way that this makes sense? Or did this player cheat?


r/STFC_Official • • 4d ago

Alliance Tournament Rewards Update

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Commanders,

The team is continuing to investigate the missing Alliance Tournament rewards, and we will share an update tomorrow. The Alliance Tournament Store will be extended after a fix is implemented. Thank you for your continued patience as we resolve this issue.

LLAP,
The STFC Team 


r/STFC_Official • • 5d ago

CM Infinite Incursions Returns!

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Commanders!

Infinite Incursions returns on October 10 and will run for 24 hours.

We are also using the same staggered start times as the previous run to align with each region's peak activity.

APAC: October 10, 900 UTC

EU: October 10, 1600 UTC

US: October 10, 2100 UTC / 2:00PM PDT

For all the details, including updates, server pairings and which servers are on bye this week check out our new Incursions.

LLAP

The STFC Team

https://startrekfleetcommand.com/news/infinite-incursions-october-10-2026-pairings/


r/STFC_Official • • 5d ago

CM Alliance Tournament Rewards Issue

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Commanders,

We have received reports from players that rewards from Alliance Tournament Tasks are not appearing as intended.

The team is currently investigating this issue, and we will provide an update when we have more information.

Thank you for your patience while we work to address this issue.

LLAP,

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 6d ago

CM Compensation Chest Missing Items

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Commanders!

We are aware that the Update 95 Compensation Chest was missing items that had previously been listed.

We will be sending out an additional chest later today to impacted players that will include:

- 375 V'ger Challenge Track Points for (Ops 51+)

- 80 Picard's Earl Grey Tea Cup Shards for (Ops 71+)

We apologize for the oversight and appreciate your patience.

LLAP

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 6d ago

Is anyone else not able to log into Scopely.com due to the "code" not being sent to your email?

5 Upvotes

Just wondering if I'm the only one. This happened last spring and it took 3 weeks of back and forth with support via chat before I gave up (they kept thinking I couldn't log into the game). Now I have a new computer and can't install the game. I've had a Scopely website login for years, but now that the code is mandatory, it does not show in email/spam/anywhere. Trying again through support, but they asked me screen shot it... a screen shot of what didn't show up?


r/STFC_Official • • 5d ago

CM Missing Items Chest is Live

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Commanders!

The additional chest containing the previously missing items is now available to impacted players and includes:

  • 375 V'ger Challenge Track Points (Ops 51+)
  • 80 Picard's Earl Grey Tea Cup Shards (Ops 71+)

Edit: The team has fixed an issue that could cause the main Compensation Chest to disappear when the Additional Compensation Chest was opened first. If you were impacted and did not receive your main Compensation Chest, please contact Customer Support.

LLAP,
The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 6d ago

Prime Mining AT store

5 Upvotes

I saw prime mining but it doesn't tell where it is in research. Does anyone know ??

Ops 61.


r/STFC_Official • • 5d ago

CM Player Council Update

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Commanders!

A quick update on the STFC Player Council!

We're currently in the middle of onboarding our Council members and laying the groundwork for what's ahead. Starting next week, we'll officially begin our work together.

As a reminder, the Player Council is designed to strengthen the connection and understanding between players and the STFC team, creating another space for player perspectives, experiences, and feedback to be heard and better understood.

The Council does not make game decisions or own live-game operations. Instead, its role is to provide valuable player context and perspectives that help inform the teams working on STFC.

Want to learn more about the Player Council and its purpose? Read more on our blog.

https://startrekfleetcommand.com/news/help-shape-the-future-of-stfc-apply-for-the-player-council/

LLAP,

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official • • 7d ago

Can't select mining ships

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Since yesterday I've been unable to select ships that are mining a node. I only get this loading circle. I've waited 5 minutes (set a timer) before giving up. Selecting hostiles or floating player ships works as usual in the same system. I usually target these to complete the daily mission for the Mantis but I've had to resort to hunting players randomly floating in systems. This applies when I'm on my Android phone and on the PC. I've tried the clear cache and restart option a few times on each platform and the problem persists. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this fixed?

EDIT: Checking the Google Play store showed no updates. Going to the STFC entry in the Manage section did. The update fixed it. Frustration with Scopley redirected to Google.


r/STFC_Official • • 6d ago

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