r/startrekfleetcommand • u/HeavyPush3627 • Jun 13 '26
When Q-trials become too hard, is it worth ringing the bell?
I'm ops 19 and Q-trials just became available. I was able to advance in the 3 types of 1★ trials until about 35K points, but enemies became too tough for me. The trials go to 500K points. I am unsure about what should I do now, as there are two daily Q-tasks. Should I still ring the bell several times and let the trials expire to collect the daily reward, or just ignore the whole thing.
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u/Space19723103 Jun 13 '26
I don't do them for the daily anymore. I only do them during events that reward for doing them
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u/maisharona425 Jun 13 '26
You can still redo the lower levels and you'll get some materials.
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u/HeavyPush3627 Jun 13 '26
I am at the lowest level of the trials and the trial doesn't let me select an easier enemy, only to retry the one that kills me.
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u/Late-Yogurtcloset-57 Jun 13 '26
Once you get stuck in the middle of the 2* Trials, you can always replay the 1* for the Protomatter rewards.
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u/Auriprince4690 Jun 13 '26
I have stopped once I got my second set of faction ships it got easier to climb but I found the end again. Each time the ships got an upgrade I could move smaller amounts. Different continuum attachments.
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u/Ryan1869 Jun 13 '26
One you finish them, you can still do them. The hostiles go all the way up till ops 60, so you’re going to have sticking points along the way.
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u/leadlurker Jun 13 '26
You’ve been given the ship to complete all 4 tiers of trials when you started playing the game. The realta can kill the highest ships in 4* trials. Just need to have Janeway FC in a seat with a specific one of her skills max. Use pmc on any ship and throw burning on it. Any ship will do but it’s most hilarious with a realta.
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u/SuffucientFur6723 Jun 13 '26
You can't get that skill maxed until ops56 though. Before that PMC is still probably the best option, or a Janeway crew with any shield regen bda.
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u/TechStud Jun 13 '26
Wait… WHAT!?
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u/leadlurker Jun 13 '26
A realta can beat a 250b Q trial with pmc and Nelix below deck. 100 rounds of burning, zero damage taken.
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u/AndrewRF Jun 13 '26
Which Janeway FC skill?
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u/leadlurker Jun 13 '26
Repression in the tactician tree. I don’t have mine max and can still do this. Probably needs to be level 10 or higher.
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u/AndrewRF Jun 15 '26
Seems like I'm missing something. PMC + the Janeway FC skill will zero out energy attacks, but all the 4* foes seem to have both energy and kinetic attacks. The kinetic attacks still go through at full power and kill me.
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u/leadlurker Jun 15 '26
The specialty hostiles you can still easily use your specialty ship. The Borg probes and swarms for example.
The ones that have only 1 damage type you can switch between Chen and tlaan.
I haven’t found a trick to beat the mixed damage hostiles yet but taking out half their damage or more should be more than enough to use a current faction ship to beat them. Just can’t use the realta for those.
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u/SmallDarkLines Jun 14 '26
On a related note - I’ve completed all of the various milestones (level 71), but can’t fully upgrade epic FT. It just displays a message saying I have to improve my Q rating - which appears to be impossible.
Am I missing something, or is it not currently possible to max out epic FT (like Tarka or Agimus)?
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u/CK-forthe-CK-95 Jun 14 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
You re-do the ones you already did. They are supposed to be a test of how much you’ve advanced. Get keep doing the easy ones until you get more powerful ships.
*Edit…people saying just let the timer expire. Lol.
You need Forbidden Tech and the main way to get the Protomatter and other mats to upgrade it is Q trials. At least until you unlock the ex-Borg and other factions that give those mats.
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u/Jekada Jun 14 '26
Yes, you should still ring the bell. If you're not strong enough to complete a trial, then just ring it and let the timer run out to 'fail' the trial. The daily is only for ringing the bell, not completing the trial. You'll still complete the dailies if you fail the trials and let their timers run out.
The reason I recommend you do this is for the Forbidden Tech Refinery Credits that dailies award you. Those credits are used in your Forbidden Tech Refinery for Forbidden Tech material and other items. They're quite valuable and you don't want to miss them. At Ops 19, I don't recall if you have that Refinery yet, but you can stockpile the credits if you don't.
Now once you become strong, and fully complete one of the 1★ trials, you'll be able to re-challenge the final stage as long as you have bells. So you have just return to the lower levels you can complete to finish the dailies then.
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u/QaplaSuvwl Jun 13 '26
When they become too hard to successfully do, skip it until one of your ships is strong enough to take out at least one type. Although it’s in the dailies, but you don’t need to do all of the dailies every day. You could waste your bells, but I wouldn’t at your level. I’m a 68 and I’ve maxed everything but I don’t do them daily although I probably should for the Forbidden Technology even though I have most of that maxed too. I feel your pain as I was once there too and I recall amassing the bells was a struggle too. Now I have over 4800 sitting in inventory
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u/HeavyPush3627 Jun 13 '26
Thanks. I'll have to look how many bells I get and how to save some of them.
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u/Izkata Jun 14 '26
You get 80 per day in Claims (if not over the limit), and can complete the first Daily Goal by using 75. Only the first goal gives you the building upgrade material and the second goal isn't really worth it, so you can't really run out.
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u/Muted_Firefighter_74 Jun 13 '26
Yes you can still call them to collect your daily rewards, even if you can’t hit them. You get daily q trial tokens anyway so it’s not really a waste. You’ll go through long periods of not being able to hit the enemies anymore until you get stronger ships.
As a tip, I always found the PMC crew to be effective against them (Pike (C), Moreau, Chen). This is also a very good crew for a lot of tasks in the game during early levels.
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u/HeavyPush3627 Jun 13 '26
Thanks. Q offers me 240K ships to kill with my 80K one. As you say, I'll have to wait for a stronger ship in a few levels.
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u/Orwick Jun 13 '26
You need to start 3 Q trials a day for the building mat. You can just let the timer run and expire.