The Basics of Star Trek Fleet Command
First of all, you’ll need to download the game for either iOS or Android. You can do that by clicking my link here. Once you’ve downloaded the game, you’ll see your base, your first ship, and see your first missions. However, since this is an extremely complicated game, it can be really easy to get lost. So I’ve put together some of the basics of Star Trek Fleet Command to help get you started.
The game itself is set in the Kelvin timeline of the 2009 movie version of Star Trek, and the subsequent sequels.
Your Base
Your base in space is where everything begins. It’s where your resources are stored. It’s where research is done. You strengthen your base by building and upgrading the buildings on it, and by doing research. This will help you build stronger ships, produce more resources, and even help you fight off attackers (eventually.)
Ships
Your primary method of gaining resources, winning battles, completing missions
Your first ship will be the Realta. You’ll use it to explore the space around your base, complete your first missions, do your first mining, and work towards leveling up and building your next ships.
As you play the game, you’ll be able to unlock and build bigger and bigger ships. Like the Saladin, or the Enterprise (pictured below.)
For a guide to ships, click here.
Officers
Unlike ships, you’re not going to outgrow your officers. They make your ships much, much more effective, and learning how to use them and combine them will make the difference between winning and losing battles and events. They each have different abilities and give your ships different bonuses. They can help you in combat, assist you in mining, or even help your ships go faster and farther.
Research
Completing research will help your ships get stronger, faster, and more durable. It’ll make your base stronger. It will reduce the time that your buildings take
Daily Goals
You’ll find these by clicking in the little yellow circle with the exclamation point in it at the bottom left-hand side of the screen. I try to finish mine before I finish my coffee.
Daily Events
You’ll usually have two of these at a time. They usually involve recruiting or promoting officers, upgrading your station, spending resources,
Missions
The storyline of the game plays out in missions. You find these by clicking on the same little yellow circle with the exclamation point that you clicked on for your daily goals. You’ll be given tasks of varying difficulties. They could be defeating ships, exploring the galaxy, donating resources, leveling up, or something else altogether.
Relocation Tokens
These things. You’ll need them to move your base, and moving your base will be very, very useful for you.
You’ll use them to get closer to your mission objectives, events, and resources. Eventually, you might wind up using them to attack other players, defend a teammate, or escape another player who’s after your stuff.
Use them wisely.
Factions
For the purposes of the game, these are Federation, Klingon, and Romulans. And Augments (sort of.) Think of them as countries. If you do things for them that they like, like completing missions or blowing up their rivals, you’ll gain favor with them. The game calls it “reputation.” A higher reputation with a faction means that they’ll sell you stuff in their faction store and that they might not try to kill you when you enter their space. Which is nice.
Mining
Using your survey ships, you’ll mine resources and materials from “nodes” scattered across the galaxy. Officers like T’Pring, Stonn, and Barot will help you in mining. There are also specialty ships like the D’Vor for mining raw latinum (the Star Trek version of gold), and the Botany Bay for mining data.
Combat Triangle
This is the combat triangle, and mastering it will be very useful for you in the game.
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