Star Trek Fleet Command 12+

Bully Magnet

The game itself is fun and can be challenging. Reasonable storylines based on various Star Trek genres with good, though often laggy, graphics.
The downside is this game caters to spending. Yes, you can grow and advance without dumping money into it, but at a snail’s pace with very few rewards. Consequently the whales who dump tons of cash - and I am talking tens of thousands of dollars, advance rapidly and build monster ships that are maxed out. What makes it worse is that they can and do hunt weaker, much lower level players who don’t stand a chance of surviving a battle, in order to advance their players killed rating in strength in the leaderboards.
By Scopely allowing this to happen it makes weaker players spend more to advance and get stronger quicker. In reality, the whales continue to grow and spend as well, you will NEVER be free from being hunted and destroyed. You will spend your resources repairing ships sitting in dock.
Scopely needs to limit the ability of PVP to plus or minus five levels between combatants. It is ridiculous and completely unfair when a level 54 player with a ship with over 400M power be able to destroy a level 39 player whose strongest ship is only 3M power.
It is obvious that Scopely loves the big spenders, despite the fact that they target and bully weaker players, ruining the quality of play.

Developer Response ,

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Great Strategy Game

I’m comparing the game to other strategy games like it, so the 5 stars is relative. There are things I don’t like about it, but comparatively speaking, it’s the best mobile strategy game I’ve ever played. (I’ve spent a lot of time playing Game of War: Fire Age and West Game as well as STFC.)

First, I love Star Trek, so I’m biased right out the gate. Other things I like that separate it from other games: they give enough free peace shields per day if you do all your daily tasks to stay shielded 24/7. There are limits, especially for low level players, on who can attack you. Until you get higher level, only players within 2 levels of you can attack you. You NEVER run out of stuff to do. In fact, the more you play, it can get downright overwhelming how much there is to keep you busy.

That being said, there are downsides. Like other strategy games, it’s impossible to be a top player without spending. There are a lot of f2p players who enjoy the game a lot, and you can do everything, but it just takes A LOT longer. I’m one of those who spends a little, and I’m in the mid-range as far as power. Of course, there are whales who spend thousands who you’ll never be able to compete with. However, my server, and I believe most if not all servers, have player-organized/enforced Rules of Engagement that limit bullying and sheer domination by p2p players.

A game for long term players

I have had this game for over 2 years taking a long break in middle and coming back to it. And i have become a daily player of the game. I rate this game highly because it does its job as a game, it’s fun and intriguing and the hiccups it has does not discourage me from playing. A lot of players complain that in order to get ahead you need to spend a lot on in store purchases and that’s not the case, this is a strategy game that is meant to be played long term, I’ve spent maybe $40 on this game but they’re few console games that only cost $40 that I’ve spent this much time playing. There are players that are wildly more powerful than me and I’ve talked to them and they don’t spend a fortune, they just play the game the way it’s meant to be played. One thing that really stands out to me about this game is the online players, I’ve never played another game where the online community was this well organized with their alliances. Most of the players are older and Star Trek fans and they appreciate what the game is about and the respect they have for other players is different from any other game I’ve played. Even after all of this time playing I am still learning new things about this game and that can be said for few games. I throughly enjoy playing Fleet command and will continue playing for the foreseeable future.