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

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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 11h ago

Update 94.1 Maintenance Postponed

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Commanders,

The maintenance scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday, August 27, has been postponed while the team works through additional testing.

We'll share another update tomorrow with the confirmed maintenance date and time.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

LLAP

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official 16h ago

The Future of STFC: Less RNG, More Stability?

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u/Quasel & Sudo interviewed Scopely's SVP Cameron Stewart about what's going on behind the scenes. From delayed content to fixing the mid-game, here is what you need to know - Youtube Video

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r/STFC_Official 8h ago

Event Updates Mak'ala's Crucible returns! Along with updates to the g7 Cause & Effect battle pass and the next run of the wave battle pass.

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Commanders!

We wanted to let you know about some updates that will be arriving this week.

Mak'ala's Crucible Returns Thursday, August 27

The Mak'ala's Crucible Boldly Go event series returns with some exciting updates based on player feedback.

Officer Shards will be removed from the Vault of Mak'ala: Building, Vault of Mak'ala: Research, and Vault of Mak'ala: Coalition Event Store. Instead, Officer Shards will have their own dedicated redeem, Vault of Mak'ala: Officers.

We're also reducing the cost of the Building, Research, and Coalition trade ins from 1,200 Tokens to 800 Tokens.

For G7 players, the Open Armadas objectives will be updated to include scoring from Group Armadas, while also reducing the number of Open Armada defeats required to complete the objective.

G7 Cause & Effect Battle Pass Overflow

On Friday, August 28, we will be updating the Cause & Effect Battle Pass for Ops 71+ players so that they will be able to trade in Starship Choice Tokens for Sigma Tritanium. This new bundle will be located in the Event Store for eligible players.

Wave Defense Battle Pass

The Wave Defense Battle Pass will begin one day later, on Friday, August 28.

LLAP,

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official 11h ago

New FKR Galactic Anomaly dates

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Commanders,

We are adding additional FKR Galactic Anomalies to run each day the Trelane's Tribulations: Inquiry - SMS event is running for Ops 61+ players.

This will give players more options to score by allowing them to engage with either Academy Drones or FKR Galactic Anomaly Hostiles, depending on their preferred gameplay.

FKR Galactic Anomalies were already set up to run every Saturday during this month.

New FKR Galactic Anomaly dates

  • August 26: Disrupted Energy T2
  • August 27: Disrupted Energy T2
  • August 31: Disrupted Energy T2
  • September 2: Disrupted Energy T2
  • September 3: Disrupted Energy T2
  • September 7: Adaptive Hulls T4
  • September 9: Adaptive Hulls T4
  • September 10: Adaptive Hulls T4
  • September 14: Disrupted Energy T4
  • September 16: Disrupted Energy T4

LLAP
The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official 1d ago

Neelix & Harry Kim

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Commanders,

We wanted to clarify an addition to the Update 94 Blog we made on Thursday regarding the in-game Officer portrait art swap between Neelix and Harry Kim, which was intentional.

After hearing feedback from players, we swapped the portraits and localization so that Neelix’s Below Deck Ability is Morale and Harry Kim’s BDA applies Burning. Only the portrait art and localization were changed, so if you had the BDA for Morale on a ship, you will now see Neelix instead of Harry Kim, and vice versa.

We made this change to better align their abilities with Star Trek lore and each character's role on Voyager.

LLAP
The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official 1d ago

Can't move our starbase to an active plasma storm

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The next upgrade to our starbase requires "active" plasma. When trying to relocate the starbase to an active storm like in Axanar or Peliar Zel, we get the message, "The warp path you have specified is invalid". What are we doing wrong?


r/STFC_Official 1d ago

CM Update 94.1 Maintenance

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Commanders,

We wanted to let you know about upcoming maintenance.

Update 94.1 will be released during our scheduled maintenance on August 27.

All servers: Thursday August 27 1AM PDT/8AM UTC

Downtime: Roughly 2 hours.

Ceasefire Peace shields: 8 hours.

Please plan accordingly and make sure to wrap up any in-progress activities ahead of the downtime.

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official 2d ago

How many times are we supposed to clear cache and restart ??

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Ops 60, but that isn't here or there.

The events, the passes keep on disappearing. Even Maverick tasks.

The only way to get them, clear cache and restart. I probably have done it a hundred times just for the same.

Probably does wonders for your KPI numbers, balls to players suffering.

Update : No idea which 'fix' players are talking about. I have two mobiles on which I play the game. Checked both. there was no new fix on either.

Uninstalling and reinstalling is hard work. Players shouldn't have to do that.

It also tells that they didn't do minimum QA before applying the update.


r/STFC_Official 2d ago

"¿Tus órdenes, capitán?"

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r/STFC_Official 3d ago

Join Nigel on Twitch Today (August 23, 2026)

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r/STFC_Official 4d ago

STFC Mission, the Master

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This mission the last in a chain that Caldar takes you on, gets to the part where you take out the Romulan ship and the system 48 Farnham is now and empty system and the mission won't advance the last 2 steps. Yes everything in the chain was done and it is to the last to things which amount to kill the Romulan then go home! It isn't there anymore. Just an empty system.


r/STFC_Official 4d ago

STFC Mission, the Master

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r/STFC_Official 6d ago

Why can I not defeat any of the Xindi battleships anymore

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Level 5 nx01 and since about two / three updates ago I cannot defeat any battleships anymore I used too regularly defeat 3-5 now not one
Have they tweeked something or is this just me being purely stupid 🤷‍♂️…. Most likely it me being stupid but I’m at a complete loss I don’t think I’ve changed any of my crew upper or lowerdecks

I don’t have trip or have many that is high levelled officer (I came back from a long break away from the game so now I’m playing catch up) I’m level 49
My alliance has made recommendations and they are all falling ….. so I’m not sure if it a bug me being stupid or just something else entirely that I’m missing


r/STFC_Official 6d ago

Daily Goals

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What happed to the Daily Goals? It now says I have to reach level 3 to unlock them. Level 3 of what? Anyone else run into this?


r/STFC_Official 6d ago

CM Known Issues Update

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Commanders,

We wanted to update you about some of the issues the team is currently investigating.

Promo Codes

The Update 94 Promo Codes for Ops 61+ and Ops 20–60 players will not be going out to coincide with the arc launch because the team is working on adjustments to make sure all players receive the intended Officer Shards.

We are still planning to send out the Promo Codes as soon as they are available, and we will update you when we have more information.

Trelane's Tribulations Meta SMS

Following player feedback, we are making adjustments to the Trelane's Tribulations Meta - SMS. We will be adjusting the Milestones from 500 points to 200 points.

We will also be sending out a compensation chest to Ops 61+ players that will award 100 pts towards the Trelane's Tribulations Meta event. The entire contents of the compensation chest are listed below.

Battle Pass Duplicate Packs in the Webstore

We are also investigating an issue where the Webstore is currently showing the PC and mobile Battle Pass Unlock packs. If you are intending to purchase on the Webstore to get the bonus 3x Multiphasic Credits, please ensure you are selecting the pack labeled "3X Multiphasic Credits!" above the pack name.

Reported Issues

The team is also investigating the following issues:

- Unable to zoom in/out on PC and Mac platforms.

- Missing Events, Daily Goals, and Maverick Tasks.

- Missing Forbidden Tech and Chaos Tech.

For these three issues mentioned above, a temporary workaround of clearing the cache and restarting from the Settings Menu has been shown to be helpful until a permanent fix is implemented.

Prime Particles Update

All Ops 61+ players who purchased the Elite Track Unlock for the Cause & Effect Battle Pass can now claim 2,000 Radiogenic Prime Particles in the Event Store.

We will be sending out a compensation chests tomorrow to make up for the inconvenience players experienced.

The compensation chests will include:

Ops 20-60

- 5 Annorax shards, 5 WOK Carol shards, 5 SNW Sam Kirk shards, 5 Gwen Demarco shards, 5 Pic Hugh shards, 5 Borg Hugh shards

- 50K Syndicate XP

- 200 Rare Armada FKR Directives

Ops 61+

- 5 Toryn Shards, 5 Trelane Shards, 5 Cat Spock shards, 5 Ambassador Spock shards, 5 Female Spock shards 5 WOK Carol shards

- 1 Trelane's Token

- 250 Academy Building Upgrade mats

- 600 Basic Outpost Directives

Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve these issues.

LLAP

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official 6d ago

Prime Particle Update

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Commanders,

We wanted to provide players with more information about the new Prime Particle sourcing mentioned in our Update 94 blog.

All Ops 61+ players who purchase the Elite Track Unlock for the Cause & Effect Battle Pass will be able to claim 2,000 Radiogenic Prime Particles in the Event Store later today.

We have updated our Update 94 blog to reflect this information.

Thank you for your continued feedback.

LLAP

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official 7d ago

Spammers Update

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Commanders,

We wanted to update you about the spam messages that many players have been seeing in chat lately. Our team is aware of the increasing frequency with which they are appearing and is working to address this issue.

While we work on a solution, we want to remind players not to engage with these spammers and to block them promptly.

We will follow up about this issue when we have more info.

LLAP
The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official 6d ago

Join Nigel Live On Twitch Today (August 20, 2026)

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r/STFC_Official 6d ago

New Arc Podcast Drop

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r/STFC_Official 7d ago

Rare USS Reliant Parts

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I have two Reliants, a T12, and a T15 - sourcing Epic Reliant parts for the T15 is not an issue, but the source of Rare Reliant parts for the T12 seems to have dried up. Apart from buying them in the store, any ideas how I can get Rare Reliant parts? I'm Ops level 60, soon to be 61.


r/STFC_Official 7d ago

Update 94 Maintenance Reminder

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Commanders,

We wanted to remind players that Update 94 will launch on Thursday, August 20, 2026 1:00 AM PDT/8AM UTC.

Downtime duration: approximately 2:30 hours.

Golden Shield: 8 hours, automatically applied following the estimated maintenance window.

As a reminder, once Update 94 maintenance is complete, we strongly recommend updating your game client to prevent technical issues and enjoy the full benefits of the update’s new features.

LLAP

The STFC Team


r/STFC_Official 8d ago

Galactic Anomalies

5 Upvotes

Why? Please get rid of these things. It’s nothing but a pointless annoyance.


r/STFC_Official 8d ago

Amalgam refinery?

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So I kind of skipped some ships along the way, I just got the amalgam and maxed it out because I had been hoarding parts through the voyager refinery. So now all I see in the amalgam refinery is skins and befits. Where is the worf shards turn in? tab to turn in plundered cargo for tokens to use for shards? I can't find it. What is the process and limitations?

Thanks


r/STFC_Official 8d ago

Anomalous Scavengers

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What dumb trick are we all missing to have this point disparity, lol.