Top 5 Mistakes Most Players Are Making In Star Trek Fleet Command | Focusing On Efficiency (Fun!)!
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- Опубліковано 3 лип 2024
- The first mistake was playing Star Trek Fleet Command! Ha, just joking, I actually love this game (truly), which is why I've spent the past week talking to hundreds of players. You know what I've learned? So many are making basic mistakes they don't realize they are whether due to outdated or just bad information that's been passed on to them. Well, I'm calling on @everyone to not only watch this video for 5 Big ones I've seen a lot lately but to provide your own advice in the comments for all players!
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1. Rev's Top 5 Mistakes, what are yours?
2. The VALUE of Ultra Recruits, is there any?
3. The POWER of a top tier alliance
4. If you have any game mechanic questions, feel free to drop those questions in the comments!
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I agree with all these suggestions EXCEPT needing to be in the best alliance you can find. Let's say you're 40 and you join the #2 alliance on the server whose average level is 48. You won't be able to join their armadas, you won't be mining where they're mining and if they PvP you'll be an afterthought. You'll end up getting frustrated by not being able to take part in much of what they're doing and might start feeling pressure to level up faster or start buying packs to catch up. That's just not fun.
Rather, you want to find an alliance where you're like 10th best to around the middle of their average power. That way you'll always have people to armada with and you'll be sharing the same progression with many of your alliance mates, which makes the game far more fun than just getting some extra loot as a hanger on in a top guild.
I fell into this trap for a few months...was in the #2 alliance and was out of my league. Moved down to #6 alliance and having much more fun!
You need to find the right culture... I came back to the game after 3 years off, so I'm way underpowered, but I have no trouble getting into armadas. We call ourselves in, and the one running will star the first 4-5 to call, unless they specifically need power. I'm in one of the top 5 alliances on my server (arguably 2nd or 3rd) and don't get left behind on much. They've helped me progress much faster than I would have without them.
Dang I’m in this situation right now. Lvl 32 with mostly lvl 40+. It’s a pain to do armadas.
On my server usually to stay in the top 2 alliances you need to participate in the alliance events at the very least and get a score that shows you made an effort.
My biggest mistake starting out was leveling up too quick. Wanted the boost of the higher levels but ended up underpowered.
I now wait to level up until all research, upgrades n buildings are maxed.
that's a slow roll and not something you really need to do. As long as you can take out your level's daily swarm requirements, you are good to start working towards the next OPs level.
See, I disagree with the need to be in a top alliance. I’ve seen too many players leave for one and then leave the game or end up just bouncing around from group to group. Find a group you enjoy playing with; otherwise the grind takes over.
As long as you're not in a dead alliance or one where the members are just looking out for themselves, a helpful, active alliance increases the enjoyment you get out of the game 100 fold.
Agree - be competitive but relationships are key.
You have to be in an active helpful alliance, and you don’t want to be the biggest player or the most knowledgeable player. The social aspect matters, but your relationship to your alliance is either symbiotic or parasitic. Staying because of loyalty cost me a huge amount of progress.
@@H..M.. don’t disagree…I changed almost two years ago and it was the best thing I could have done.
Powerful alliances are very expensive to contribute... Especially 50 times to complete a task or event
Another exception to Dual-Faction Grinding: Once you get to 10M on all three, you need to TRIPLE-grind and stall until you get to Ops38; the next tier up (30M) jumps you to 4* mining, which you can't get to until Ops38. So take advantage of the time and triple-faction it to scoop up all the faction credits you can.
If you are low level or new, buy the Chen Tlann 20$ pack if it shows up in your store. Those characters have lasting value.
Nice tips, appreciate you pointing out there are a lot of "money wasting " deals in the Shop
I think another pitfall newer players fall into is not working on the specialty/event ships: slack on Stella you miss out on important efficiency researches; don’t dust off your Vi’dar lose independent credits which are such a pain to source; and etc.
Stella Grind is so soul crushing, makse me wanna quit the game. I de emphasize for sanity
facts. but at the same time. grinding the Franklin is pain
@@trevorbjorklund6893same. I hate it so much. Ops 38 but M score 12. Hate it.
Is the sourcing for the Disco/Frankie/Vidar still all using the same weekly event currency? One thing I would've liked to've known when I started out was that that was the case so I could've saved up the currrency for Vidar bps first rather than chuck them on the Disco because that pops up first
@@SimonWitt they do (also sarco and amalgam in that list)
Creating a plan and sticking to it is one of the best things you can do in this game. Want that Pilum make a plan to get to it, that will help keep you focused on the goal and not bouncing for this new feature to this feature.
Another mistake is not asking bigger players to drop from an armada so you can pull resources that you need, most are happy to help, i`ve never been refused a request
rotate your grinds, don't try to take on the world in one day. as for me at lvl 35 there is so much to grind you have to focus on one or two per day to max out production so you don't need to hit it again anytime soon. kind of like working out when you have leg day, push day, pull day. do your dailys and then focus on 2 grinds and do them thoroughly then do 1 or 2 different ones the next day. make time to opc hunt especially in territory space. there is nothing like free rss @RevDeuce loves it and so do I. keep up with your research and don't "outkick your coverage". some people level up too quickly and either bottleneck on rss or fall behind on research. there is nothing wrong with camping at certain levels to catch your breath. remember not only research but your buildings and ships also need rss. try to plan ahead accordingly. don't be afraid to mine in token space. of course try to time it for an event like mining monday but its so ez to get a crap ton of a resource in one long trip which frees up your dock space and time to do other things.
I agree. There’s players on my server that try to do all the different grinds daily like ex borg, dominion, swarms etc. I think doing 2 or 3 of those grinds daily helps from getting burned out from all the stuff. Rotating what you grind I think helps in the long run.
@@mariaortega2022 I would say some grinding should be part of any game but just like WOW it’s become more of a chore than fun. I’ve scaled back my gameplay due to work and other time constraints but I’m ok with taking the slow way, ftp. Coordinating daily’s with events of the same challenge really helps.
I just recently learned that your opc cargo, if killed by a hostile, is kept and still put into inventory...for years ive been trying to grind borg/swarms/etc to the last possible one before popping and then flying the return trip home so my cargo would count...so much wasted time on return trips🤦
Same. Learned that recently at ops 35. Also learned if you lose a pvp fight, the other ship gets your entire OPC cargo even if they don't have room
Correct! you only lose the cargo (goes into space) if it's in PVP. OPC vs a hostile just sends it all home!
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@@JulienVanierno just what they can hold
@@nutznchocolates56 correct if they attack you. But if you attack someone and lose, they will get your entire OPC cargo. That's one way people trade resources.
I think another mistake is trying to do too much, there are so many avenues to the game.
I concentrate most on Dominion, i bought the Defiant as i was ops 38 and didn`t have a 34 ship. It has helped me so much, I`m ops 44 now and use Dominion to get 4*uc ship parts and materials(2k-4k per day), not to mention all the boosts from Dominion research.
For context, i went from 0-44 in less than a year thanks to my bro getting me into the number 2 alliance in our server, but I do suffer from poor officer levels due to too many officers available in ultra recruit, so maybe time to double the shards or halve the cost, or ideally both lol
Yep.
Dual faction is worth it!!! It's slow and tedious but it is so worth it. It also helps in dailies, making it so much easier to finish. Just mine for both or just one, swarms, help alliance and the open gift chest and you are practically done. A lot of the times they count towards the event also. Events have 24 hours before reset so if doing swarms and there's a event do your swarms until you finish them stop and wait till dailies reset to do it again and hopefully this finishes off the event if not just keep going since dailies can be done along events only twice. This helps make dailies not seem like a chore. Another thing is not collect on away missions so quickly, save some of them for events. Most away mission rewards aren't that great so saving them isn't hurting much plus the officers you're using are ones I don't really use. Refinery, you have to stay on top of it, make sure you are doing them religiously, especially the material one. You get to pull every 9 hours or so, every little bit helps. Try to get 5of11 as soon as possible, she helps tremendously, I add her to the bridge with Jaylah to grind on swarms and within 2 months I got my Franklin fully tiered and ready to be exchanged for the 'A'. She helps so much in getting them other currencies also, like them nanoprobes, actian venoms, and others. Quick sure fire way is to get them transporter patterns and the fastest way is to max rep your augment faction then pull constantly from the augment chest. quickest way to get maxed out officers in rares and epics but the second chest contains only rares and I maxed it out pretty quick. It's how I unlock 5of11.
Top mistake is not planning long term. Pick your first G3 Epic ship at level 14, that will dictate the factions you pick and to save credits and resources it can influence your second faction and ship selection along the way.
My goal is to have the faction reputation, faction credits and some resources saved so I can unlock and upgrade select ships as soon as I am allowed.
Plan 6-12 months out.
I'm a new player. My brother has been playing for years and I finally caved and started as well. I am completely addicted now lol. Glad to have found this channel!
Welcome aboard!
Dual faction is so important. If you progress ops slowly, the faction rep will grow too fast and the daily goals will eventually get beyond your means. Plus the ship repair speedups are really nice. I just passed 100k 30 minute speedups.
It helps to do stuff before bed and let things repair for 6 hours while I sleep.
Stupid question, how does one duel lock faction. I'm right now killing as many Klingons as I can. My federation is 4, 513,347. My romulan is -356,286. My Klingon is -2,000,000. Yes screwed up. But I am trying to fix it I think
@@daddy0798 you should continue to hunt those hostiles. But also stop collecting federation daily goals (mining and hostiles) as well as not join the daily fed rep event.
The main goal is to get to a positive number with the romulans as quickly as possible because then you get their daily goals and rep event. Look for romulan missions that pay out rep and do those until you are +500 rom rep. At that point you’ll get the event and daily.
On w you get those, only turn in the romulan rewards for the daily and only join the romulan rep event. Do this until your fed and rom rep are normalized. Then you can start doing both and bring them both up at the same time. Just keep watching their numbers and adjust as needed (do or don’t do events to adjust rep levels)
One little disagreement on the be in the n1 alliance is you have to be a reasonable lvl to be in them. No point a lvl 20 being in an alliance full of lvl 40/50 players as really this would be hard for them to help and guide them.
Different events etc.
One of the best packs I’ve ever spent dollars on was a ticket pack. You get so much more resources in those tickets plus an officer token
As tftp i do most of them. But those armadas take way to much time. I know it is a thing i have to do. I liked the video. And bajoran materials refine is also a good tip. You can get much more unc ore crystal and gas every day. Gives more resources then an arc if you pull every day
I definitely agree on all points. I play in the same manner. I've especially noticed moving from the second highest alliance to a 6-7 ranked alliance that my former teammates are progressing significantly quicker. Winning alliance events pays out a lot in the long run.
Thank you for this list. It’s satisfying to hear that I’m doing the right things to progress well.
I have been enjoying the game. trying to get the 5th Spock is holding me back. I can't level up without him. currently doing tasks for levels, 13,14,15,16, 17-20 are untouchable. I'm around 8500 limping around. Started smashing dailies.
really appreciate you taking the time to go over simple things like this.. I am a slow to lvl guy who is actually having a great time playing at a low level with no sense of urgency to level up as I am enjoying enjoying playing and doing great because i follow your advise
Great advice Rev, as a leisure player I'm happy in my rank12 alliance, I dual factioned up to the first lock then I've been camping in the mid 30s doing as many dailies as I can stay awake for!
Good to hear!
Outstanding video, Rev. Been playing several years and still benefited.
Thank you for the video. Just started playing about 2 weeks ago and have been looking for information to get me up to speed. This has helped, I have subscribed. Been loving the game so far.
Welcome aboard!
As always, I enjoy your videos and input. Agree with all your points. # 6 could be save away team credits for a future ship blue prints that may like to get 🍻
I save officer recruits for when the daily events - heroic recruits come around, they are fairly often and have a decent payout in the 40's.
Pretty much agree with most of what you said. Though my current alliance has dropped to 6 to 7, I still believe loyalty has some value. I totally agree with your take on spending, I'm going to actually look at those extra research and building queues. 😊
amazing as always Rev
Always the best info. Thanks Rev😅
Great tips - I agree x5. Amendment to #3: if you don’t have the power to join the biggest alliance (or they don’t like you), the most active alliance (probably still top 5 in power) is the second best, not necessarily #2 in power. There are lots of alliance grind events (killing hostiles and so forth). Also, for #4 I think prioritizing at large is a bigger opportunity. Plan the day by starting with the event with the most important rewards first and working your way down (multitasking when possible of course). One huge mistake is doing ticketed events for resources that you could just raid instead of waiting for ticketed events that pay out officer shards or event store currency.
La forge is great for solo armada loot
Thank you very much. You have confirmed what I painfully learned the hard way.
i see way to many people rushing thru leveling up there ops and skiping the reasearch! BIg Mastake!!!
I didn't even buy any Borg consumable and I've had 4 out of 5 upgrades with a supposed 75% success rate fail and it's supremely annoyed me and turned me off that whole branch. It takes so long to source that stuff and to fail 80% of the time on a 75% success rate item...
I try to stay ftp but things like extra drydocs research buildings and repair cues are a bit much to resist. If I can get any primes for free I'm happy to grind for them.
Great Vid Rev!!! Thanks for the awesome info!
Glad you liked it!
Great tips. I made quite a few of those mistakes in the baby stages of the game several years ago.
Great vid Rev, as always.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks Rev!
One of the biggest mistake i see, is players dont realize you get free multiphasics when buying from PC client or the web. Many people (including me) have bought several packs just to find out that there was a thing called multiphasics….
i cant say what mistakes players make but what u said makes sense and ty for the video and LLAP Rev Deuce!
Server 100 boi. Love the shoutout. Thanks Rev
I really appreciate your insight
Thanks Rev 👍🙂 Making Adjustments Now, Even though I'm Level 46, I May Still be Able to Grow Better In the Game in the Future.
Thanks Rev for me you lead me in a good direction
Well I was using geordi for a while on my solo armadas and it was super helpful to add onto what the defiant already gets. Using him as capt makes for a decent second loot crew to run for solos
Solid, real great tips Rev👍😘
Getting into a big alliance may not be the best advice. They do screen who they take in. And the stakes are high.
Find a active mid range alliance first. They will take you in and help you. When you get a chance to join one of the big one you can take it.
Glad you enjoyed!
There is another big mistake that you can easily make: is to focus on too much at the same time in this game. There are so many ships and buildings in the game. I have some alliance members who want to build everything and get angry that they have too low resources for it.
This would have been very helpful a year ago when I started. Especially the dual-faction. Top alliance one- meh, maybe best rewards, but usually made of low-grade humans.
Good vid Rev
Ive been focusing on fed just because it where everyone goes. No one said about trying dual just because of how long it takes etc. either way, just means ill be on the game for much longer :D
Its actually easier to single grind the factions . once you get your 1st faction lock you can quickly catch up doing the others without worrying about damaging your rep with your locked faction
@@claytonparris432 that's my plan. Getting close to the first lock
Good stuff Rev.
Much appreciated
Once scopely put in the freebooters I rushed to 38 for the research. I am done with my dailies in maybe 10 minutes plus my overnight miners.
bigger alliances do bigger armadas, and those are great resources for rss
You've made me so much more of a contender, thanks rev....🖖
My pleasure!
Thanks Rev, you have confirmed what I believe to be true.
I kinda disagree on the dailies vs events/battlepass. Some dailies are very important like titan, mantis Qs.But if it was between killing swarm and doing my battlepass. I'm doing the battlepass. Also I've seen single daily events that give a better payout than the weekly/monthly chest. One of the trivia events recently comes to mind. Got more gas from that in 15 min than I think I had earner fro. Other sources in the preceding 2 weeks
I think you are right I myself value uncommon materials higher than repairs or frequency modulators, but lower ops level players should focus the dailies. Lower level players are going to need those repairs, reputation, credits and shields. At low level you are going to have to complete the swarm and faction dailies to get the 12 hr shield which actually can be a pain point for new players.
Yeah I've been neglecting dailies for years but since I've gotten out of being homeless and now have access to internet I've kept up with dailies.
lagniappe…I love it. Don’t hear that very often anymore.
Working the faction recruits and then the TPs is super important at OPS 46 I have 11 Maxed epics 20 Maxed rares, 15 rares at T4 and 8 epics at T4 .... it's no joke what u can do pulling faction recruit tokens every day
Good tips. You've said it before but I've used ATM to unlock and promote epic officers like Data and TOS Spock and Fluffy
Good stuff! Fluffy is m ybiggest away team officer I still go after.
hey rev, speaking of dailies - i invested in the freebooter research, and now i finish my lvl 40 dailies in less that 10 minutes, and that's with warp time. i have to hit 3 lvl 45 FBers, and 4 lvl 40-43. that's it. 7 hostiles. i cannot recommend it more to do that freebooter research!
You need the time to do armadas
Dual faction: I started grinding the Klingon faction after i got to my first (10m) lock on the romulans. By this time i had maxed out my Vidar and have been using the charged nanoprobes in the Borg refinery to buy Klingon faction rep. It's going really good, the ease of getting the probes to refine is quick, and the rep is very affordable. Grinding rep that way is way faster than grinding NPCs. I am Level 36, my Talios upgrade is "whenever" i feel like it, i will probably put more probes into that after i'm at 10m Klingon rep. Meanwhile my dailies keeps my romulan faction score going up towards the next level, but it isn't nearly enough to counteract +100k klingon faction rep purchases.
Big up S100!
I really hope they fix the ultra recruit tab. Wish there were more discovery like tabs. I want to upgrade Cath but she’s mired down by all the officers in there.
Whoa dang! I'm already doing 4 of 5 right!
Heck ya!
Where was this video a week ago? I just hit 30 and was an ultra token saver. Great info though, now I know how to proceed in the future
Alliances can implode because of armadas, we had one that because the head of the aliance tried to have armadas strictly for lower levels but because of the constant bickering over who got a slot and because ashe felt scamed by Qs trials, they disbanded the aliance
I used to put just the strongest players in my A ship and I did this up until lvl 26 and then I learned how to use officers currently really a part-time 41
Amen!
Your videos are so fucking valuable. Unbelievable xD thanks again!
Great video as always. Can you tell me what is the purpose of the Allegiance Tokens?
I feel called out. 😆
1the common thread is think long term. It's not a game that most play for months, it's years.
Think about where you want to he and work back from there. For example, I wanted a maxed Ent so I saved tickets and went all in when gas was available. Little things like that keep the progression moving forward which for me as a f2p, brings satisfaction with my game
Ha! The purple help in top right was bugging me. I play on touchscreen tab and kept wanting to prod it.
At 12.40, he hits it slyly while talking.... ohhh, It was satisfying. I need help. Hehehe.😂
right now i'm ops 49 camping and building up for ops 53 and triplegrinding faction. have around F/K/R 450k/500k/380k credits, so in the end, when i'm ready having all 3 starter g5s and at least 2 novas should be possible. having some kind of long term goal helps having fun in this game. seen it often that people bought themself to the top and than they had no fun and quited
I just seam to go going around in circles , and not really getting anywhere !
If you buy the 300 faction cr3dit everyday and save them for say a month u can pick and choose 1 officer event to place high in. Dont waste faction creds on elite its garbage. U can spend small yet save creds to buy ships n such and still save officer pulls 4 events
good video
Rev, its been a long time since you produced a video on dual faction grinding could you produce a new one that is specifically targeted for how to faction grind upwards past respected?
This game is adding more and more players😂 Well it’s losing even more. Rev is always a roller coaster when it comes to his loyalty to the devs.
Never been loyal to the devs. This is a smooth brain comment lol.
1:30 Whats your player name on 97?!?! Thats my server!!!!!! Come to ACES - the one with the accent mark.
We started a alliance when we didn't know anything... I'm riding it out with them, I had multiple opportunities to leave
I see an ultra event in the near future!! 🤣😂🤣😂
I think you missed an important one. When a player levels up without completing the research available in each level, they grow faster but not stronger. I’d rather be a really strong 21 than a really weak 31that can be beaten by the strong 21.
on my Opinion and I might be wrong: I won't describe not being in a top alliance as an mistake. If I play a game I also want to lead sometimes and the most top alliances you won't lead...
Wait till reset for dailies, combine events with dailies, saves time
I WANT THAT HAT!!!!!!!
Triple faction grinding is the best.
There is a benefit of being in alliance with weyes. You don't have to do much because they will do it but even when you do some, you get a lot of rewards. Too bad I hate the big alliances on server 80 all of them.
I’m level 28 and I don’t quite understand this whole Double faction grind Not to mention, two of my factions are in the negative
Server 97 getting called out! Where are my fellow 97 degens? 😎
Anybody from {AA} here? 😁
50 k 30 min speedups? That's not much, I've got 175 k :D
About events vs dailies - I kinda disagree. Events pay out much more resources then dailies. And over a course of a month they pay waaay more G3 and G4 mats then 7 day and 30 day chest. And don't get me started about refinery. So if you can do events - do them, especially those that have a good payout.
Also - you don't need to actually do all dailies, just do enough to get the loyalty badge.
Just a comment on dual faction grinding. It works very well, until you hit the 10 mil border. After that it get's nearly impossible to take too factions to the 1 bil lock. I tried it with fed and roms, just to get the Vorta Vor and proceed with my first faction, the feds. I reached that goal. Now I am back at 10 mil with the roms, because of the slow progess proceeding both party side by side. I choosed now the feds to finish the 1B and will do the same to the roms afterwards. I spoke to many larger player in my ally and the did it the same way. It looks to be the easiest way to approach all fact's to the next lock. (btw. #camping at lv. 42 now)
It's really not hard. If you are hitting traders in sol, Kronos, or Romulus. Just pick the one with the ship you want and grind. Don't bounce from 1 to the other.
I’m not having that hard a time either. Got glorified with Roms and Klings right now. I’ll have them both locked before I hit 46.
I dual grinded Rom and Feds to the 10 mil mark; started to do the same towards the 1bil mark but it became painfully obvious that I can lock each individually quicker than trying to do both at the same time.
"officers are forever" and "many of the officers you'll never use" 🤣
But they are forever, even if their abilities become obsolete they can potentially be useful in Away Teams for bigger payouts or as a stat stack below decks.
@@DemetriDawnyep. I put them on ATA and on my miners.
I Aligned with the Romulans and I am so far away from Kilngon and Starfleet I am not sure how can duel faction grind.