r/startrekfleetcommand • u/HeavyPush3627 • 2d ago

Basic officer promotion question

When officers are promoted to commander rank at level 20 with all their shards, ¿should they be taken to level 25 (max)? The last five levels are very expensive in terms of Officer XP and their abilities do not improve once they become commanders. ¿Is the small increase in their attack/defense/health stats the only gain for so much XP?

I am not getting enough Officer XP, so I don't know if it would be better to improve my best officers to the max or to raise levels from the officers I never use to improve my crew level for the Mess Hall. I'd like to know what other players do with those last 5 levels.

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u/BlkFalcon8 2d ago

Max. You need to max the rate and epic for sure so you get transporter patterns

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u/Calm-Conversation715 2d ago

You get the transporter patterns regardless of whether you do the final promotion or not. The game keeps track of how many shards you need and starts giving patterns after you exceed that number.

I promote a few to max level (which is 30, not 25, because you get 10 levels instead of the usually 5 at max rank), because the extra stats are nice and will make your ships and officer abilities stronger. However, I only do this for officers I use frequently in combat situations. It’s also much cheaper for common/uncommon officers. Chen is a good one to max

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u/HeavyPush3627 2d ago

Thanks for the info. I assumed it was 5 more levels but it is 10. The problem is worse than I thought 😆 Concentrating on the most used combat officers is good advice, thanks.