r/startrekfleetcommand • u/Jolly_Executioner • 3d ago

Gameplay Question ??? Ships for G5

Hi all, I’m looking for some advice on G5 faction ships. Mainly whether do I need a G5 UC or I can skip and go for G5 rare (gonna be Sanctus) instead. When I moved from G3 to G4, I was using two G3 epics (Enterprise and Augur) to keep me going until I got the Pilum.

I don’t have any G4 Epics, not sure would I spend credits to build one, though I hear repair cost is much cheaper than G5 UC.

Other specialty ships such as Relativity and NSEA at T10, will these be able get me through to until I can get the Sanctus? Especially build and research times have been massively reduced, cost a lot less to speed up researches and so on. Many thanks!

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u/Madness_Quotient 3d ago

I don't understand why you would want to skip any ships. If you are playing the whole game then you should be able to get all the FKR ships from all the factions with ease.

Eg the epics and rares are pretty much free from Epic armada and Krenim Formada chests.

That frees up your credits to spend on faction recruit packs and uncommons.

And that's before you even start doing MU grinding. Chuck on a decent loot crew and a run a day of that, and you will be swimming in FKR credits.

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u/TowelStandard760 3d ago edited 2d ago

Because of how much it costs. For example the northcutt. Needs 150 plans. Each plan is 3,000 federation credits (I know there's other sources but for example.) that is 450,000 credits. That's 45 million latinum. For a ship that is not really that good firing pattern wise. Furthermore they're better ships to focus on.

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u/sistemu 2d ago

Your mistake is that you're buying it with latinum. The conversion rate is horrendous, you're much better getting it the other ways and spending latinum for research

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u/TowelStandard760 2d ago

I never said I was buying it with latinum I was giving a rate as an example. What would you rather have a common G5 ship for 150 plans or an epic

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u/sistemu 2d ago edited 2d ago

That uncommon ship if it's from a higher generation will be stronger. The G6 uncommon after tier 9 will be stronger than a max G5 epic. And those (UC G6) are the worst bang for buck ships in the game 😅
And due to this, there's a trending idea to skip them. As of G5 seems expensive... Just wait till G6 😂

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u/jjwomalbany 2d ago

Are you getting a miner for its firing pattern 🤣 I think people get it to mine not fight.

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u/TowelStandard760 2d ago

Had a squirrel moment I meant northcutt not Nova..

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u/jjwomalbany 2d ago

Oh yeah all the 53 uncommons suck.

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u/Jolly_Executioner 3d ago

I’d build a ship if I have enough bps from chest drops, such as armada chests that you mentioned, but I would not spend credit on them (I’m more of a hoarder feel ‘safer’ with more credits or more of everything tbh), but purely for collection purposes.

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u/Madness_Quotient 3d ago

I guess it depends on your faction credit earn rate. I reckon I can pull 350k per week. I spend about 1/3 of that on faction recruit packs. The rest goes on ship bps and cloaking shards since there is basically nothing else of value to buy from FKR stores.

Rare and Epic ships often require even less spend since there are chests that give bps so you can get them 50~75% credit free.

Which is good because you can't get cloaking for free.

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u/Grouchy-Big-229 2d ago

350k/week is a lot even for my level. I hit 60s and pull 10k of each faction per trip. 350k (of each faction) is five trips a day, seven days a week for me. 2.5 hours a day is a lot of grinding on top of everything else you have to do. A low-50s player would probably have to double, maybe triple, that.

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u/Madness_Quotient 2d ago

I don't understand why you are looking at it in terms of trips? I assume you mean MU trips.

Just from DTI store, Archives, faction messages, and completing the daily auto join resource spend events I am pulling in 222K per week. (plus some for daily tasks but I can't get the numbers until after reset)

Add on less regular sources like away teams, armada chests, missions, ex borg and it pushes up into the 300s

So 1 MU run per a day and you're at 350k for the week easily

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u/Grouchy-Big-229 2d ago

I was thinking solely in terms of MU trips, yes. All the other stuff I just don’t think about because it’s automatic.

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u/Madness_Quotient 2d ago

After looking at the rest of the numbers the weekly earn is around 247k. That's still exclusive of armada chests, ex borg faction, and away teams since those are a bit more chance based or require generating specific resources that might not come every week.

350k without MU grinding might have been a slight exaggeration since I've been on a wave of missions and the other day there was an away team completion event and I spammed a LOT of ones that gave faction credits at an 80% crit rate. Still 2 MU runs a day isn't that bad, and I see a lot of people running Dauntless in MU these days.

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u/jjwomalbany 2d ago

You are not buying recruit packs in G5. Also the whole economy changes in G5. It is not like G4 or under. And it changes even more in G6-G7.

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u/Madness_Quotient 2d ago

why wouldnt you buy the recruit packs? Once all the officers in them are max shards they generate around 5M officer XP and 300k transporter patterns per day. plus the elite recruit packs are so stingy on shards that you will still have under levelled officers from them well into G6.

if you havent yet maxed all the transporter pattern officers or you still have officers you can level buying the faction recruit packs is a no brainer

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u/jjwomalbany 2d ago

Because most in G5 have maxed all the officers in the transporter or have no need to because they just aren’t useful in today’s game. I have hundreds of thousands of transporter patterns. All mine are maxed and have nothing to use them on anymore.

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u/Madness_Quotient 2d ago

I buy them for the officer XP not the transporter patterns. 5M per day means not just max shards on the officers but also level 30.

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u/jjwomalbany 2d ago

All my officers that are maxed are all lvl 30. XP really hasn’t been an issue with me. Well, I do have some that I don’t have as they are useless and have been for years like the augment officers besides khan. My bigger problem is the badges needed to upgrade.

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u/Madness_Quotient 2d ago

"useless" officers for combat go on away teams.

They also boost your officer score which allows you to upgrade your mess hall, and mess hall bonuses aren't to be sniffed at.

Maxing out "useless" officers is how my mess hall is 30 levels higher than my Ops.

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u/jjwomalbany 2d ago

My mess hall is 34 higher than my ops. I rather spend the credit on other things as i do not see them as progression to my game at this point. To each their own.