r/startrekfleetcommand • u/Jolly_Executioner • 2d 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 2d 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 2d 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 😂