Good afternoon and good evening @everyone and I hope you’re having a great Monday! I recently completed by F2P path to unlocking Sloan in the Section 31 store and I’m here to break down why everyone should take advantage of this fleet commander. Waves take coordination of a good alliance, but the rewards can be huge! So, let’s discuss why he is one of the best routes for F2P to go in Star Trek Fleet Command
Topics covered:
1. Sourcing FC Sloan and the potential hurdles (waves/credits/etc.)
2. How to get more slots for commanders
3. Each of Sloan’s abilities
4. If you have any game mechanic questions, feel free to drop those questions in the comments!
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Still 60 shards away from Sloan unlock
Pretty close to unlocking Sloan. I would love a FC upgrade event!
I've not done a wave in ages. Grinding and real life getting in the way.
Thanks again Rev .
I think the need to run a FC upgrade event !!
I got 20 bp i been using my 31 tokens for favors and that sick talios skin
Ds9 is my personal favorite too
Maybe if we could ever get another Fleet Commander event I would get excited for Sloan, but since the last one was over six months ago and they've obviously decided to just heap on content instead of developing what's existing, I'm pretty sure they've just abandoned Fleet Commanders.
Did you mean Kirk's Warp speed, when you said impulse?
Comment section to me is a little hot. Didn’t realize there was so much hate for waves. My alliance was into waves virtually Day 1. I’m almost halfway to Sloan.
doing the research first in that faction tree, and it's hard to play wave unless on PC which is not always available with busy life style so Sloan going to take forever for me
I miss silent hostiles and swarmadas….
Unfortunate for me there's just other stuff there is to do I will just have to be patient until I catch people doing waves , easier when you have other members of other allies including your own if that's going to be done , the game does have other stuff that has to be work on before too many people can really get to the waves at this time , plus we all know they have another Park to this mirror 🪞 because this is just part 1 there's bound to be a part 2 possibly a 3
Wonky warp timers? It only takes 15 minutes to get anywhere😂
Sorry haven't touched this tree since it was launched tried for the first three weeks when it didn't work and just never payed it any mind after that
People on my server only do waves. when the waves events come up
10 days
i have less sloan shards than the example claim picture …. 🤣 ops 51… got to get working on those shards…
Only lvl 45 here, but there is so much things to do in the day that grinding Waves (which are pain) is not always on my priority list. I do "daily", but then only spending currency on building and rep. Sloan was not near on that list. If I would push building, rep, Sloan, particles and Talios skin I would spend too much time on one thing daily. Not sure how much time in the day I should have.
had him for a good month now and he has done wonder to game play
Sloan is great, had him for a while and makea upgrading FT a lot easier. We really could do with an extra FC slot though than what's currently available since we've got more than originally offered
Another week to go before I get him. I went for the tally skin first which looks pretty but obsolete as I don’t farm probes anymore. Wish you bought the video out earlier then maybe I would have already 😂
Haven't done a lot of waves. I've barely started, but I think he looks good.
Rev is correct that DS9 is the best, and that SNWs is gunning for that title!
DS9 was on its way to cancellation.. if it weren’t for the cross interest in Babylon5… and the Dominion war mirroring the war vs the Shadows.
TOS is the best series. I much prefer stand-alone episodes where you can just catch one on and watch it without having some large season-long story line to keep up with.
The answer to your question: I have not been pursuing Sloan because I’m not really a fan of Waves. Also, a video idea: how exactly does the game change when you level up to 40. I prepped for months to level up. Met all my goals for the level up except 1 (I didn’t unlock the ISS Jellyfish). Used the 90 days to upgrade final levels and research. Thought I was prepared. Realized in about 10 minutes how different game is at level 40. I don’t remember any video about playing level 40 with new numbers and new currencies. Just a thought for a future video.
I know i should work on this, but waves irritate me and now we add in a 20min mirror run per day on everything else so it a pain.
FTP’d Sloan immediately because he’s so good. Do you even FTP, bro? 😜
I still have 24 days to go to unlock FC Sloan
The real part that hurts is his skill points. I'm Ops 36, so I can only do the first 3 rows of his skills, but just to get the Always-On skills to their ops-max will cost me 4750 points, which is ~150k S31 Credits.
I like Sloan a lot. The stuff I focused on was rep increase, hostiles loot, and particle and tradecraft efficiency. I also have 1 in QuickDraw Raiding.
Brilliant abilities. Sooooo hard to get enough wave credits to get enough skill points… In the meantime, at least the initial levelling up gets you enough to max out the most delicious things, like the Forbidden Tech efficiencies! Mmm. He overtook Spock as my second slot. Good stuff.
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DS9 is number 1, I agree about SNW having a good shit with a good run
One of the most bizarre things of the FC trees are that they all have a power associated with them, but none of them actually increase your overall power. I wonder if this is intentional or just another bug?
I like Sloan from Ferris Buehlers' Day Off, but this Sloan is great too
not yet
Thx Rev.
got sloan and working at making him better. good info Rev. DS9 cool too, IDK, Voyager is still one of my favs
It is impossible to consistently find 5 folks for a wave defense that won't kick you out. So, no…I don't have Sloan.
I have Sloan and agree he is an excellent FC. The discount on FT tier and level ups is very helpful as the costs here are huge!
Good tips thanks. Been trying to figure out for some while which FC to level next. Main is Kirk. But just unlocked the second Command slot. So will use Sloan as per your advice. 🙂
Question: After the 6H timmer for on duty is up. Do you always have to un-seat the FC then pick the FC again and press the green Confirm button? That's what I've been doing. But if you play a lot it's several times a day. Including now if you have more than 1 FC it will double up the number of clicks.
unlocked Sloan a few weeks ago. Have not really upgraded or unlocked much with him. Kinda waiting for an FC event
Thanks for the basics. Still confusing, but not your idea to make it as such
Way behind on Sloan… about 2 months away!
-Shawn
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Is it just me or do his base piercing and mitigation stat skills not actually work?
I think players that don’t like waves are adverse to “active” gaming. One of the few times in STFC you get to have rapidly changing and advanced battle techniques to succeed on the fly in this game!
what is the order of FC to get? in your Opinion.
Best to Worst