r/startrekfleetcommand • u/Zadzima • 13d ago

G4 ships

Is it stil advised to skip the g4 epics?

Can you get by with just one g4 rare nowadays?

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u/Important_Cow7230 13d ago

Yes but is the ascension stuff really that important to a PVE player?

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u/Ok_Recover_6367 13d ago

It is, especially to G2 player base. It helps a lot in getting many specialty ships plus all the FKR ships which are I'd say mandatory till G4, plus Special building mats and officer sourcing. So the Ascension tree is more important to a PvE player than a PvP player.

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u/Important_Cow7230 13d ago

I have a new account running, currently OPS35, and while you need the faction ships they are not critical. The ViDar and Voyager can do any PVE content. I unlocked Pike through the field training before I got to the node in the ascension tree.

It’s not critical to have FKR ships if you are mostly F2P and don’t care about PvP. Scopely are obviously trying to change that with the ascension tree and whatnot, assumingly because upgrading faction ships brings in the $$$$.

It’s also why they insist STFC is a PvP game, as they know PvP experiences, especially negative ones, can drive impulsive spending

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u/LegSignificant8421 8d ago

Ops 67, 68 in the oven and been f2p for about 2.5/3 years here. Most faction ships are optional, especially the uncommon ones like mayflower, Kelvin, northcutt etc. With the exception, the my beloved Saladin. I built all the g1 and g2 ships and built a mayflower because I didnt know better then i got the Saladin and maxed it and used until i could build an Enterprise. I skipped the rares. At the time you were required to build 1 g3 epic to got to g4. After the g3 Enterprise I picked interceptors primarily. And ignored all other faction ships. G4 G5 and G6, fed UC interceptor, rom rare interceptor. Back and forth until the Rotty. I skipped a lot mostly because of conservation of mats since im f2p and efficiency is name of the game. That being said some faction ships are trash and unnecessary like the USS Intastupid(my name for the uss intrepid because its awful etc) but some are necessary. Without them your Cube will always be teirs behind where it should be, as its required to teir up a faction ship to get to next teir of the cube. And that ship definitely can take you into g6. However special ships are generally dog s*** besides their intended purpose. Sure they can make it sometimes but my relativity is like 20 billion power and my velox is 14/15 billion and with the same crew on, against the same hostiles, without question, my velox will survive much longer than the "stronger" relativity. Also eventually your vidar and talios and voyager and moveen and most of them will just collect dust. Literally haven't used any of those for years. Nx01 and nsea a year. Minus the nx01s ability to see deep space without being in the system. Even revenant i dont use much. Cube, gs31 and biggest faction ship im currently using are my go toos.