Star Trek Fleet Command 4+

I've been reading the reviews of players only playing 1 week to 3 months complaining about how terrible this game is. I began playing Thanksgiving 2018 currently 1yr 8months and at level 32. In this time I've spent under $1k which averages less than cost of games for a console. Yes it was frustrating at the start because it was rushed to market but comparatively starting the game now vs 1yr ago is hands down 100x easier. The fact that it's a strategy game and pouring your resources into the wrong area at the wrong time is 100% on the player it took me several months of getting my rear kicked to find my grove to stop it. As well with any online live games there are people that think they're tough hiding behind a screen name making others lives miserable because they are small people sadly they tend to spend small fortunes to be the jerks and I almost feel bad for them because they've missed the whole point of strategy about being smart enough to dominate intellectually rather than monetarily. I could be a whale and have before but ended up quitting that game because there wasn't any more fun being untouchable. This all said I didn't give 5 stars because the cost for packs in the store and the mats required for upgrades at lvl33 don't cover it. $99 pack won't cover 15-25% of a single ship upgrade making the ships worth better than $5k or more at that rate. It is fun though frustrating but be ready for a long term play

The game is extremely fun to play and addictive in the beginning it’s easy to upgrade and you can pretty much gain all the resources necessary endgame to upgrade but it is a grind my recommendation would be to join a very good alliance from the beginning that supports you teaches you about the inns and outs of the game and even help you gain resources and protect you against bullies in the game because let me tell you this game has lots of bullies in it that constantly attack weaker players one of the things I would add in this gameWould be Easter egg like prizes that would be random of course but would encourage players to stay in and play to try to get these where the prices would be extraordinary allowing them to advance things like 100 hours of speed ups or combination of speed ups big swaths of resources instead of little tiny ones that feed you with a bird dropper people want to advance that is in our nature and if it takes them five weeks just to try to get it shipped to compete less people are going to stay in the game and play but all in all I give it five stars because it is a lot of fun and the possibilities are pretty much endless

I’ve been playing this for little over a month now and it’s been a lot of fun, exploring the universe, the missions and building up my station has been enjoyable and the alliances have been nice and so for there’s been little grieving from other players and alliances which have been fun. But sadly all that has come to an end, with the release of the new event the alliance wars. It’s made the game pretty much unplayable. Within the time so far I’ve watched entire sectors that were once filled with people now empty besides these high level players that swoop in to kill any ship in the area, they have a 4-5 level on an of the other ships in the area and we can’t even mine with out a ship being hit not even 5 minutes out. Before there was a stable but easy truths with players not to attack ships unless at war or over capacity, but now it’s just chaos. Players aren’t leaving there bases now out of fear of being attacked. There’s no way unless you pay to have any level of protection. Just a little bit ago I was chased from three different sectors by higher levels ships in level 13 they were 15-16. Even after I jumped to a lower level area I still found 15 in 10-11 level areas attacking any ship they find. So unless you have a high level ships or you are willing to pay money for temporary protection there’s almost no point in playing right now after level 10.