#💡-strategy-zone

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wary kernel
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Oh hey, new channel. Key strategy, the game is better with friends. Or at least a helpful alliance 🙂 If you're still in a starter alliance you join at the start of the game, if it's not active, consider looking for another one that will have people to help you with armadas, questions, etc.

lofty marsh
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hello all

copper sapphire
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👋🐾😺

copper sapphire
sour lantern
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You need to get Dare 105 here they know a lot and always happy to share. Not me though I don’t know enough

vernal osprey
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Number one strategy: avoid the cash store
Number two: find a good alliance you like to hang out with
Three: It's okay to ignore events and entire loops to reduce your daily time in game
4: Don't get too mad when people hit your ships
5: Use cargo protection crews on your miners to discourage them being blown up
6: Don't forget the game is made up of pixels on your screen, it isn't that important
7: Use PMC (Pike Moreau Chen) for everything until you get better crews
8: PMC is still good for Q Trials even for high level players
9: Don't go for every single faction ship, only get one per shipyard level and skip the G4 epics if going straight to G5
10: PvP will always suck, don't spend money trying to get better on it, focus on your crews and grinding officer shards

alpine matrix
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Should pmc be in that order, assigned left to right, With Moreau as captain?

vernal osprey
burnt orbit
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What I've always focused on since I started was to make sure that whenever I level my ops up, I complete as much research as I can to ensure I have a decent package added to my core foundation. Too many players think that just be leveling up quickly makes you stronger...

I'm level 66 (just turned), but am able to compete against those up to 69, because of the research adding a nice pretty package on top of my ships power and crew abilities.

You'll also find it less of a struggle to hit those bigger hostiles/armadas and reap the rewards.

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Oh and you'll probably find yourself in MU more than any other faction or token specific space.. as long as you use that time wisely you'll reap the benefits more than anywhere else.

fluid dragon
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MU is the fastest, easiest way to gain faction rep and parts for all three battleship types.

fluid dragon
alpine matrix
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What is MU

teal crescent
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mirror universe

rocky wraith
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Remember PM will always work even on 70`s. Chen/cath won’t work past lvl 50 hostiles. PM/E-data is effective for many 51+

dapper cargo
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What better than pm Janeway ?

rocky wraith
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Janeways wins t4 vs t4. Due to officer stats alone

rocky wraith
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So many options with PM. Depends on what you need. Pike boosts them some

dull lily
copper glen
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Am stuck at a Q trial. Need to kill a 60B ship with my 2B Ent-D. Am level 60. Tried with PMC, Cerritos and Max fortified with FC Janeway seated and FC Lorca skill set at hostile damage and failed. Any suggestions?

eternal mauve
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i do this 3 without repair... dont know the problem with a 2b ent D...

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maybe research or below deck?

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show in yor battlereport... i have a 68b explorer thst have 1 energy and 4 of 5 kinetic weapons... then pmc dosnt work... try pm e data

silent sigil
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PMC, PMT/PCT, PM anno are the 3 main crews I would try for q trials. PM Spike vs balosians too.

rocky wraith
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PMC is useless without proper support below deck Period. When someone says try PMC and make sure u have FC Jane….

They assume you are legit below

silent sigil
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yeah, for q trials it's, what, Hugh Torres neelix Kim chapel pichugh(if not a 0 DMG hostile) etroi odo?

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buff enough and you don't even need hugh

rocky wraith
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Up to the point where PMC is the best way (0 damage)

No buffs!
The process is simple. Equip PMChen. Hit the trial. Swap Chen for Cath/tlann. Hit it again. One is more rounds than the other .
Book em Dano
Max fortify/cerritos/blah blah

Very very important. Only do one at a time. Always max titan. Because if you have any hull damage going into next one, it will count and you will earn less points than you would if you were fresh.
Those points add up and make it faster in the long run.

late lion
limpid pilot
eternal mauve
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annorax works... if you dont 1st round death^^ try 57b with 1.1b sanctus... hardcore dmg kills me in round 1

silent sigil
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if you have FC Janeway especially, see if PMC or PMT can do a better job of preventing first round death.

rocky wraith
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Have to ask. What has changed in 4* trials in the last year and a half? Are silents, etc in there now?

silent sigil
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I don't think anything permanently changed.

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silent & especially lately others snuck in and then were removed

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I believe it's just fkr, swarm, probes, and acatians

rocky wraith
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Or Chen of course. Beat all 3 types with rot

eternal mauve
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round 1 kill the 2 before

scarlet prism
eternal mauve
eternal mauve
# copper glen Ok thank you!!

dont work below 100b... after the 100b power of qs test that combo with pmc works... the 60b have more kinetic than energy... pmc works on energy only

rocky wraith
# eternal mauve that dont wotk below 100b

Only works on the way to the final 4* lock IF the ship shows no ability. Those are the pure PMC ones. You may see one, then a normal one after. Just pay attention to them

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They sneak one in occasionally before finishing the 1b I think it is, then the climb from the 1b to the 6b lock is pure PMC

eternal mauve
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yes youre right... that way is on all 3 explorer interceptor and battleship the same

rocky wraith
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Also. If you beat one of the hard ones and have hull damage. And see a easy Pmc one, I recommend going home. Repair. No buff needed on those.
But any hull damage you enter next one with counts against your points. Even though that 2nd one gave no hull damage, it counts against score because you had hull damage when that battle ended.

scarlet prism
eternal mauve
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and if you crack the barrier (110b+) you need pmc and neelix below...

copper glen
scarlet prism
scarlet prism
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Soap 1 uping me 😂 🤣

rocky wraith
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😂

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We need a smaller ship to test. Getting old

scarlet prism
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How small?

rocky wraith
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Not sure what’s smaller than a realta

runic trellis
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my tier one orion corvette is

rocky wraith
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We need like a once a month special RSLB. Just something fun for a change.
“Deal most damage to any ship using Monaveen”. For instance. Everyone hits what they want. Highest damage in any round counts. Kinda like the other. But must use a certain ship. And deal as much damage as possible in one rd. Against whatever they want

pallid rune
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What will you do when Syndicate hits Lvl 55?

  1. Will you continue to save up Syndicate XP in hope for future use and spend faction store credits on it?
  2. Will you ignore syndicate xp then
meager hull
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Who

mellow hawk
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fix please 🙏

balmy temple
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Big warrior scopely 😂😂😂🍷🍷

dapper cargo
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Yeah I’m confused

celest rock
balmy temple
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Any my ship stuck in warp 😂🤣🤣🍷🍷🍷

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Big warrior 😂🤣🤣

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NCC can you defend station???

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My situation

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Only when you have mission can atack station rules

celest rock
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Ok I only understood one part of that 😂 but i think maybe you’re on the wrong discord

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Also that is a pic from an incursion… incursion doesent happen till Friday so I’m confused is that a month old pic?

balmy temple
sour lantern
balmy temple
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One day 😂😂😂

terse bridge
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In the Starbase Research tree most bonuses say "assault" is that purely for attack of another alliance Starbase or also for Armadas?
Same for Kira Nerys abilits?

silent sigil
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assault is just attacking a starbase

silent sigil
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that's probably meant to be Changeling Kira, not Kira Nerys. good spot

wooden kite
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oh yep absolutely

mild sigil
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Will there be Star wars x star trek Fleet command?

runic trellis
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also, you'll only be invincible for the 4* ones, 3* Qs still do a bit of kinetic

main anchor
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are 4* ones

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ok, I will upgrade this ability, My researchs are higher for lvl50

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are higher... are completed

runic trellis
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ok to be more precise: 4* after around 900m assessment you'll be invincible

main anchor
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and between? 😅

runic trellis
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smallest ship i've seen get there was a sanctus

main anchor
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meanwhile*

runic trellis
main anchor
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Pike, Moreau, T'lan?

runic trellis
main anchor
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I can won it with all buffs and cloaked ship. But this without cloak, I failed

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but the next

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60% of crit. I tested with Yuki, Gaila and Troi but bad

runic trellis
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you really want a t5 torres and the nova squad damage reduction for those

main anchor
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who are nova squad?

runic trellis
main anchor
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I missed

dense relic
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Ia this pure energy or still some kinetic? Crits do on both 0 dmg

runic trellis
somber viper
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the closest we had though was star wars commander which sadly shut down years ago

mild sigil
somber viper
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idk id feel like that'd be rather strange

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a crossover like that

last radish
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I'd be more partial to a Stargate crossover personally...

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We do have the galaxy quest crossover but thats logical.

vernal osprey
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I feel like Orville is the next closest or the ship and crew from the two Black Mirror episodes

silk magnet
mental flame
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HeLp! What power is required to take out the Lv45 Vanguards?

Ops46. Strongest Ship, 84M protector. Tried Tolra-Toli-Gwen, and Nesmith-Gwen-Toli and am barely doing 5% hull damage.

Is this just not possible at my level?

inland mural
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I've seen a lot of reports of extreme difficulty for players in your level range trying to beat these. It's probably possible for your cohort's strongest players with buffing, but your 5% seems far off. You can try it again, double buffed + lorca fist + SloanFC + cloaking, using a crew like PB Gwen if you want to see how close you can get.

soft falcon
rigid jetty
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Yep, gimmick ship power is generally bad power, especially at low to middling tiers. They have outsized defense or health ratings but very low damage output in comparison to faction ships.

Sure, it lets you punch up on generic hostiles a lot because it can soak up more damage and you can usually crew to minimize damage taken, but against newer hostiles and against armada targets they just can’t put enough damage on target to do anything worthwhile.

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They’re a bad crutch small ops use to abuse the warp range and think they’re getting better rewards on group armadas where they end up being 5% or less of the power in the group, not realizing if they just flew armadas with their faction ships and hit appropriate targets with people/ships in their size range they’d get more loot, and maybe learn something about crewing, what perks work well together without having officer group synergies, and so on.

indigo crescent
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That is false

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Doesn't matter your ship size starter chests are always juicy

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The higher the better 100000000% of the time

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If you can reach to start higher you should or your depriving yourself of loot

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That's all assuming you have someone around to blast it for you

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For my peeps I am said boogeyman

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Raw armada cargo loot is abismal at best especially when hitting within up and coming faction ships which reach considerably lower than stuff like the voyager which has extra loot research for armadas

rugged kiln
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Do Hurak epics have a third weapon that fires in round one?? Tryjng to lower my dmg slightly so that my third weapkn fires, but if they also have a third weapon I will die

rigid jetty
# indigo crescent Doesn't matter your ship size starter chests are always juicy

Not compared to some of the shared loot drops on various things, especially fkr armadas.

People hitting a 52 mada with their faction ship without gimmick range help and ships close to size are going to get far better loot than popping a 60 and getting swamped out with only 3-5% of the power in the group because of a warp gimmick ship like an nx.

Blanket statements are a fools folly.

dull lily
indigo crescent
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I use my baby jelly for most armadas up to lvl 39 past that it's my saladin

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They don't lose

short granite
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No win scenario is possible

dull lily
dire bridge
# indigo crescent If you can reach to start higher you should or your depriving yourself of loot

Exactly! It’s how most lower ops get ahead. There is nothing worse then u being an Ops< 38 and spending your hard earned rare and epic directives and have a way overpowered alliance member join your armada and then they get all the loot. They can negate that once ops 38, deep space unlocked, Voyager etc and hitting g4 / g5 armadas for the starter chest. Most people aren’t selfish and are happy to help u kill said armada and you hope that once the player is higher ops that they do the same in return.. that’s how my alliance plays it anyway

dire bridge
# indigo crescent They don't lose

Only issue is most ppl are not smart so they send their most powerful ship to a low armada which helps no one. I’m ops 55, I’ll always help ppl in my alliance kill whatever is best so they get the loot they need. I’m guessing everyone that hits Xindi rare armadas might need a bit of help initially? You may have, who knows.

hot peak
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armada ninja eviscerator has shown me that damage dealt affects armada loot not ships power. test siskoed eviscerator. fkr madas not specialty ones

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captain vemet negates augment exiles death ray. still need some shield piercing n iso defense but this is the way to get to augment superior faster n safer ae surveys are the best source of epic hijacked splicers(augment credits) and rep

trim goblet
hot peak
inland mural
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Use a sarco, and ask an alliance member to duo with you using a smaller power ship, but higher damage output.

runic trellis
pseudo plinth
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So is this the area to find trivia answers?

timber bison
unreal bear
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Those are for the first one through five... We need 6 to 10.

inland mural
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The very last message in the channel has the answers to all 10 questions.

waxen bronze
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I just hit syndicate 55, but the cost to get to 56 seems crazy high. Is it designed to take 5-6 times longer to get to the next tier or am I missing something? None of my pulls seem like they increased to match the much higher tiering requirements.

silent sigil
waxen bronze
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Ok just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. Thanks for clarifying!

silent sigil
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the daily xp pull becomes pretty significant fwiw, if you have both (f2p) primes

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I'm getting iirc 210k from that alone, or so

waxen bronze
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Which two primes?

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I’m getting about 54k

silent sigil
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prime syndicate spike in station (costs dolamide) and prime syndicate XP in galaxy (particles in the tournament store)

waxen bronze
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Hmmmm….i must be missing something else…I’m DEFINITELY not getting 200k+ from my daily pull…

silent sigil
waxen bronze
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Ohhhhh ok. I literally just moved up to 55 so hopefully I get a nice surprise in the am lol! Thanks for the help!

waxen bronze
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You were right! Thanks again!

west compass
silent sigil
surreal pawn
lyric hill
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the alliance tournament store has the particles for one, and the other is with dolamide

obtuse zodiac
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Can someone advise which CT they think is better to invest in? I'm divided between the Chrono Deflector and the Godsend. I ahve a bunch of CT materials I want to use for today's event. I've already got the Chrono Deflector at level 34 right now I think, and my Godsend is pretty low.

dull lily
obtuse zodiac
indigo crescent
dull lily
indigo crescent
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I leave my pvp tech on my ent and I swap my CT for the unimatrix shielding when I do pvp and the chrono when I'm doing pve

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My rot gets the cascade mirror or when I do pvp the q cannon which I need to max out still (rev refinery didn't give me that til abiut a month ago and the temporal conduit a couple weeks ago so those both need some work

rich sky
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Seems to work…. Is there a better crew for this?

cedar escarp
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Ditch Spock. The Enterprise will regen shields far more than spock will ever do.

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Hence the shield health on your screenshot

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Compare that to your normal shield health

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Enemy had khan, so you can sub in Pon for spock if you have them

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But overall, good kill

surreal pawn
rich sky
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ok nice, trying lorca and pon soon

rich sky
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Could work out something better for my valdore….. but what?

celest rock
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Anything 😂

rich sky
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this crew works better than the enty crew lol, problem ist i dont have the su crew

mild sigil
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USS Applepies and USS Enterprise vs TOS Cylon basestars

rich sky
runic trellis
lament gull
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Max Rom and Max Dukat hitting stations, 450% extra shots? 🤔

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how is anyone to defend against that?

inland mural
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I was hitting a 70's station the other day in incursions and his guns were hitting 22B damage into the hull after reductions. Seemed like it would be pretty difficult to break into that.

runic trellis
lament gull
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Dukat adding 300% more shots on that i find unstoppable

runic trellis
inland mural
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If you still have the battle log, let me know how much the guns were critting you for.

runic trellis
inland mural
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There are a lot of things wrong with that fight and certainly not indicative of a 70 who really doesn't want to let you into his base.

runic trellis
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this was the damage my koskarri did to a normal 70 in round one

silent sigil
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The above is extremely correct in that, currently, it can be challenging or impossible to survive the opening shots from a base to start to damage them, given sufficient research, officers, building levels, ships, and such.

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Actually impossibility is - if ever reachable - the place for the biggest players in existence and thus temporary

timber bison
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yeah, during incursions 2 shotted a 69 with full miners docked, with an 18b cube. while i've had 60s make me bounce.

silent sigil
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but you can certainly make it far easier; FC Lorca and Kras to stop free rounds (and repairing your defense platforms which fundamentally I just don't believe 6 were shooting that rotarran if any) are all vital

lament gull
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but still 450% shots against bases seems game breaking

silent sigil
dull lily
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That ops67 is an ops64 base.

silent sigil
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the first thing presents a very high barrier to entry; you must survive an initial onslaught to do damage

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the second means that extra shots do not get you through the serious limiter of one cracking faster (8 ships+ 6 platforms = 14 weapons, minimum)

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having big ships in station defense only matters if they can absorb more than one entire weapon before dying, or if their damage output is meaningful

fresh spire
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That’s why you need rom/prime

silent sigil
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wellll
Yes, but those don't work if they have the counters

runic trellis
rich sky
runic trellis
rich sky
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Let me look in arenas tomorrow

ripe plank
rigid jetty
mild sigil
wicked forge
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How is defined whether someone is attacking or defending on pvp if both click the button

chrome coral
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Last person who hit the attack button is the attacker

wicked loom
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I’m at ops 35 and haven’t maxed my baby Franklin yet. If I go to 36, will the swarm dailies go up in difficulty? I can hit lvl 32s no problem, but 35s are a challenge.

wicked loom
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Found a chart and it looks like the 32s will still be needed for the first 3 dailies

runic trellis
rich sky
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I could still do my dailies with lvl 32 swarms lol

mighty pulsar
mild sigil
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When will there be Star wars x Star trek Fleet command? I am so Impatient!

dull lily
winter mountain
safe grove
# mild sigil When will there be Star wars x Star trek Fleet command? I am so Impatient!

Hopefully long after I’m dead.. and preferably significantly decomposed, enough to stop me turning in my grave.
In fact, to avoid specifically the risk of this, I’ve just this moment decided to opt for cremation and my ashes being shot into space to be both incapable of turning in said grave, but also far enough away that the news of this never even reaches my ashes…

rich sky
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Ummm was it his bad attacking? How do things like this happen?

edgy wind
rich sky
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Is the mirror crew better than the morale crew for the enty? I don’t have Kira yet but I have su pic and data

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And which crew should I use for my valdore? Looks like freeman or su crew or what else?

rich sky
terse bridge
rich sky
terse bridge
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But MU Picard and Data are strong early pvp crew already, expecially if you got below deck officers to match as well... you can add a different pvp officer for 3rd bridge officer

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Like Khan

rich sky
terse bridge
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MU Picard + MU Data + Khan
Below: Borg Queen, Icheb, DeMarco, 7/9, S31 Georgio,...

rich sky
terse bridge
rich sky
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That’s the best I can get

dusty wyvern
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Does anyone know where I can find the Scoring Caps vs OPs level for the TC Trailblazer event?

hot peak
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i dont have that one can you share a screenshot? sometimes you can scroll down in the text in the middle

mellow hawk
wind cloud
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Where can I see how much Apex-barriere my ships have and how much Apex-shredder I can apply?

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This whole Apex-concept is completely intransparent 😡

dense relic
ripe plank
celest thorn
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Apex shredding is also a P1 away teams research node.

fringe ether
fringe ether
winged cairn
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My Strategy … no Money für Bull💩

severe crag
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We All need
Anti-Faction Exocomps for FRK
That turn's Player's "" Hostile "" for 3/5 Hours so we all can Grind during the Night

rich sky
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Would also be useful for big players

shy bloom
rich sky
mellow plover
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new g6 armadas have 20k apex barrier....what even provides shred vs armadas? There is new research for it but far down tree!

rich sky
mellow plover
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@[SEC]TriSlave what research outside of the Maverick tree gives any apex shred? It will take a long time to reach the research in the Maverick tree

rich sky
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Huh good question, I can’t help with that sorry. Maybe mirror or other primes

lyric hill
shy bloom
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Fairly new level 63 player with 2 low tier G6 ships and a mid/high G5 epic. I can kill 2 level 58 Borg Conqueror Solo's per hull with my 3 best ships unbuffed. What is the chance that I can take a 60 with all 3 ships max fortified with a defiant and ceritos buff on 2 of them? Don't want to risk the directives if it is hopeless since I am hanging by my fingernails on to the top 5 slot, but if there is a good chance, I might risk it.

tall shadow
maiden raptor
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Excelsior ship research has some pve stuff.

shy bloom
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Killed 3 level 60's on one hull with T7 Negvar, T5 Akira and T12 Enty D. All triple buffed with 700% worth of Armada damage exos (300% personal and 400% alliance). Poofed on the 4th. 3 best armada crews (Sisko, Chakotay, Tolra), and with the extra spots on the Enty's below deck took all 3 Voyager buff crew.

edgy echo
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rigid jetty
heady apex
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I asked AI for strategy advice for the game based on all the moving goal posts Scopely has been employing.

I guess a bunch of my STFC friends came across the same strategy.

pine ingot
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global thermal nuclear war is a whole different game not tied to a super computer running defence strategy's,,, good film that war games

wicked loom
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Does the Leslie nerf affect the cheese crew for Xindi levels near 40? I thought it said he still worked below 70, but I can no longer kill lvl 40 Xindi battleships. Before I could kill 4 or 5.

timber bison
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The 10 round cap is ignored

unique steppe
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I progressed in ops based on killing vger orions, and now with the the Leslie nerf I can no longer kill them. That's some real bull 💩

echo citrus
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Does anyone know in a 61 duo if the team kills all the 61s in wave 1 but let’s the Venari through, then in wave 2 kills the repair drones and the 61s and lets the 62s through can the central entity survive?

tall shadow
craggy carbon
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Or not do duos and ignore the academy completely like most other people

dusky carbon
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I would engage if I could. Im a 68 with a level 5 building. To start the loop Id need to spend a week only killing hostiles, so thats a NO GO to me... But if you can go for it...

echo citrus
near plover
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Should I aim for all three g6 rare FKR mining ships? How high should I level them up?

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(currently ops 66)

marble pulsar
# near plover Should I aim for all three g6 rare FKR mining ships? How high should I level the...

You will need a couple, as you go to G7, so do the early G7 mining. It is up to you if you want to have 1 of each type, or several of the same. At that point the ship ability for bonus material mining is not that huge. But if you plan to mine G6 materials then you might need various hazard resistances, so having them from different factions can be nice.
For me, I have built 4 Divitae, and it worked fine too.

near plover
marble pulsar
brisk hawk
near plover
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finally, after 3 weeks or so, finished the vor'cha scrapping

lament gull
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not worth it was it

near plover
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A tad bit disappointed. Was hoping for better G6 output. Oh well.