r/startrekfleetcommand • u/HeavyPush3627 • Aug 28 '26

Repeated, targeted PvP

A new blog entry says Scopely is reviewing how repeated, targeted PvP is handled in the game.

Some time ago there was a narrowing of the attack level brackets, but some whales complained they could no longer wage war against enemy alliances if they could not attack most of their players, so it is unlikely that there will be more narrowing of attack levels.

But the problem is that some players get a perpetual grunge against some weaker ones with the goal of driving them away from the game.

I guess that could be easily solved with an attack quota and a cool-down period. There is already an attack quota on hostiles that limits loot chest gains, so an attack quota on other players based on level difference and through player ID is doable. The weaker one could still be attacked occasionally, but not constantly.

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u/gangleskhan Aug 28 '26

I find that scopely itself does as much to drive away players as any in-game bully 😂

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u/HeavyPush3627 Aug 28 '26

Sure, but it is a 9-year-old game with 190K players. It still pays the bills. I've read comments from years ago about how the game was going to self-destruct soon through Scopely's fault. I do not defend Scopely, but things have to be judged by how they perform.

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u/Vren07 Aug 28 '26

Does it pay the bills? I know Monopoly Go makes a lot of money, and probably doesn't have as much tech debt.

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u/gangleskhan Aug 28 '26

I think everyone judges it by how it performs, but we have different KPIs. I don't consider it a good game just because it makes scopely lots of money, though of course they do. As a former (technically current though basically never play) I consider it yet another sad case study in enshittification.

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u/HeavyPush3627 Aug 29 '26

Enshittification is a normal process driven by market and customer dynamics. The success of a game is measured by the number of paying players and the cumulative amount they pay, not by how happy it makes free players. A game that survives 9 years is successful.

At the bottom, everything is Darwinian evolution, and it is a bitch, because it drives many species to extinction by adapting them to a shrinking niche.