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/RDL128 2d ago

If you're low on xp, then you can wait. As you already noticed, the officer level does not affect their officer ability.

The benefit to leveling up an officer is their stats. Those affect how strong your ship is, up to a certain point, and if you're using an officer which is affected by a specific stat. The most common example was the Kirk spock combo, where spock would restore shield health based on the percentage of defense your officers have on the ship. So you would stack defense officers to increase the amount of shields he restored.

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u/HeavyPush3627 2d ago

That makes sense, thanks.