How To Crew Vs Yellow Mission Hostiles In Star Trek Fleet Command | Monaveen Source Cost Revealed!

If you play STFC then you're with @everyone in having to fight yellow hostiles in the game. Or, as I affectionately call them, Gold Hostile Bosses! With so many officers in the game it can be confusing for veterans and new players alike to find what is the most effective strategies. SO, let's cover some basics of what DOES work.
Topics covered:
1. ITS FIXED: Cost of the Monaveen redeem + actually being able to pull it. (yes, it's still locked behind only 3 Territories, which STINKS!)
2. Basic crews vs gold hostiles
3. Why some crews work, and some dont
4. If you have any game mechanic questions, feel free to drop those questions in the comments!
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[@slagdaricus]

Game design: Territories should be a fun, vibrant part of the game with ownership changing every week. Most servers: We've had the same alliances owning the same territories since the dawn of time.

[@nvanattia]

And then they basically do nothing to change territories...

[@jonathanscheib6480]

Which is how it should be. Its dumb to change your territory.

[@foamslinger2787]

Territory Capture has been a blast for me on my server since the patch.

[@erichelms3153]

Exactly! The only way to win at territories is spend $$$

[@d3m0nrhino77]

@@erichelms3153🤦🏻‍♂️This is not the way…

[@EmperorSztoid]

Double intros?

[@PrimeDirective91]

🌈 🌈 Double intros all the way man

[@BrianJRuiz]

FANCY fancy INTO into MUSIC music YEAH yeah!

[@micontrafa]

Helped me beat my Combat Training 51 boss. I'm at Ops 39. Thank you!

[@ObeZoneX]

Hey Rev, I’m surprised your not talking about how bad that epic officer event was. That trend is news worthy to the community.

[@SkywalterDBZ]

This video just shows that if Gold enemies are different than red enemies... that the game needs to do SOMETHING to make this clear as I would never have guessed it worked that way. Why? well just clicking on an arbitrary system where I have a gold enemy sitting, if I click on them it says right at the top "Hostile Captain". Yes, that's right, the gold enemy is referred to as a Hostile in game with a capital H. Therefore the game itself is calling it a hostile. Meanwhile the red enemies are called something specific without the word Hostile. Moreover, (and I am NOT faulting you for this cause I've had to edit this message multiple times just to make sure I don't use the word hostile in the wrong spot, because its natural to want to type/say) even YOU in this video keep calling them "Gold Hostiles" ... which, is just kinda funny since your own terminology is undermining the message you are trying to deliver. If I were to critique this video, I'd have said you should never have uttered the phrase "Gold Hostile" at all especially when in the same breath you call them "not a hostile". Anyway, I'm calling out Scopely here, not you. The game need to treat reds and golds the same OR put into EVERY ability mentioning hostiles a parenthetical (not counting Gold Bosses) or something.

[@ChiefDoc-kg3dn]

I think there should be a color code added to every officer saying what their abilities work against. Could even just use a red font for the word hostile, blue for player, green(?) for armadas, solo armadas (color?), yellow for mission bosses. Or just a color dot on their power description that shows if it works against multiple types.

[@SkywalterDBZ]

@@ChiefDoc-kg3dn Basically yes. They honestly need to straight up ditch the term hostile and just use it as a generic term to describe all enemies (they're all "hostile" right) and instead use NEW terms ... much like how another game might use Minion, Lieutenant, Boss, etc .... this game can put out color coded key words to clearly mark what is what

[@scottstout7595]

The fact that the Pickle is locked behind TC, which only the most wealthy of the spender alliances own, is a giant middle finger from Scopley to us, the players

[@eddiecharles8170]

Hostile limits is the worst thing to happen

[@douglasreid7511]

I’ve written off the pickle. As far as I’m concerned it doesn’t exists since it’s basically unobtainable. In other questions: Any idea why exchange armadas aren’t respawning? On 188 anything over about level 34 just aren’t there. Occasionally one will pop up but in general, barren systems. Also, tell them to stop lying about TC lag being worked on. We’ve had TCs in the last week that were like playing slideshows WITHOUT even any combat going on….

[@MorphedAU]

Double intro! Woohoo :) Thanks for this rev, did not realize this!

[@vreel241]

thanks Rev, did nit realize gold hostiles were different from hostiles.

[@assitantbill]

Sure f2p has to work hard to get 3* tc or be part if a bigger alliance.

[@jadziadax1969]

To me, “non-player hostile” should include mission hostiles… that’s really misleading

[@GH-ub7qz]

i love killing non player armadas... haven't found player armada.... scopes employees are buffoons

[@nutznchocolates56]

It is a hostile

[@instinctart2548]

My favourite for missions (especially in early levels) is Kumak/Nero/D'Jaoki

[@FullMetalTuna]

you should point out that Janeways description would include yellow hostiles. (even though it doesn't)

[@nickm9102]

That is part of the problem, all of the current mission combat crews are characters that have been around for years. They want you to be dependent on the power of the ship. It costs a lot more to upgrade ships than it does to train officers. There are several that should work based on their description but have been deliberately blocked from use. This is abundantly clear in Armadas. (Obvious example Tal) Armadas have the abilities that should work and a good size special circumstance list that don't work even though they should.

[@Loremaster69]

I wouldn't say this game loves new players, in fact I would say the opposite, June's content was all about level 40 and above. What they have done is made "some" low level content easier, because the TIME gap between new to veteran players is IMMENSE!!!!

[@majorsam1400]

Have always used the Yuki/Khan/whatever Charv/Kang/Marcus works best against the ship type. Love it!

[@nutznchocolates56]

yep my goto

[@paulofilho6304]

8 Pulls of 18 = 144 + 6BP we get fron quest on arc 1 = 150 BP. Hope we get an event with meta rewards 50 Mon BP!!!

[@diamond1323]

I use Bev Data and Kang/ Char / Marcus for gold hostiles works really well.

[@ryanrmcshane]

Bev is hostiles and armadas only.

[@Nevets1970]

Server 700? Really? No Way there’s 700 US servers. How about merging some, like with older servers, maybe 43?

[@Bleachguy2023]

say you dont have khan and vs yellow explorers can you go yuki marcus and zhou and go with full synergy also with the new crews added you could use harry kim with kirk spock bones or would he be pointless and if you have hugh could use with khan or would that be pointless ?

[@dupre7416]

I want to hear Rev's wife say, "I'll guild your pickle if you say that one more time".

[@nvanattia]

It would have been nice to see some offical announcements regarding the Pickle service issue.

[@endermwatts]

Yeah noticed they made announcements about other issues but not the fact that the Monaveen BP’s don’t work. A guy in my alliance was told by customer service that it didn’t work because that feature wasn’t supposed to be live yet. He immediately submitted another ticket.

[@Gray137]

Too bad that the Monaveen is gonna be hoarded and there is no alternate sourcing for it

[@wayneterrag500]

New territory shake up is nothing then the same alliance just retaking there old territories back nothing has really changed and the sourcing for monaveen sux

[@christinafitzgerald3876]

Well we don't even have the option to get chests for the monaveen

[@wernherlehanie7313]

Anyine bothered asking them when they will fix zoom function that stops working constantly or are we not supposed to put Scopely on the spot??? Need more content on what they are doing to fix issues. Feel luke I am something they stepped in. Poor form.

[@RevDeuce]

Been asked for years. No response for me to give (that players want to hear)

[@bobbyconkers2000]

So rare to see Yuki(c), Zhou, Harrison mentioned, but I've always found that the best. Try it if you haven't! (Yuki, Zhou, Kirk on an Ent is also really good.)

[@jamesschofield6452]

🤣🤣Yep. It's very rare to see Yuki(c), Zhou, Harrison mentioned because no one uses it. It doesn't work. Zhou requires Morale to work

[@bryanthiga3198]

For me the most valuable officer in the game is Ash Tyler at tier 5. If the target is burning, add 100% of your crew's attack to damage (cumulative). No restriction on PvP or hostile only or Armada or mission boss, he works on everything. If my ship can fit 200k officer attack, each shot my ship fires is 200k stronger than the previous round and critical damage and isolytic is applied on that.

[@street35z]

Hmm. The game needs a filter for crew members for different types of enemies. One for hostiles, one for armadas and one for mission bosses?

[@RevDeuce]

I wouldn't trust them to know what those are, if we're being honest.

[@sarumda]

Great video and helpful indeed... I do wonder with all the new ships and officers. Do you really need the 34 anymore... I don't have mine yet no enterprise or augur. I do have the defiant, mantis, vidar (soon the tal). I am ops 37..kinda crazy...but is it truly needed with all the research added.

[@joshfighter]

I have been known to use Kirk, Zhou, Data and TNG Picard, TNG Worf, TNG Data works ok

[@johnbogers1950]

kirk nero gorkan works great olso

[@edmundangel5947]

I have found that Nero, D'Jaoki, and Tyler works very well to gold hostiles. Perferbly on a battle ship.

[@christophergorton1284]

max pull for jelly was 12.5% of the ship max pull of pickle is 9% so there is that :(

[@ursamajor26]

It really should be behind a 2*, IMHO, but why would Scopely do things that made sense..

[@twovictorhamradio]

You mentioned against explores and interceptors, what about against battleships?

[@Paul-qz9dq]

Charvanek

[@twovictorhamradio]

Got it…Charvanek and Kahn, but who as captain? Both yuki and five have their specific abilities that work but is there a specific Captain that’s better to use against battleships?

[@chrisjones4571]

My suggestion to fix TC and alliance bullying. Have an automatic diplomacy setting. It is optional. The way it would work is an admiral would set their alliance to automatic. All alliances would be set to neutral. For each day no one in your alliance is hit, for any reason, anywhere, that alliance would move up a tier at midnight. If anyone from your alliance has hit them, or they hit anyone in your alliance, that alliance moves down a tier. If an alliance moves down to war, war is automatically declared. There is a 2 week period where open warfare occurs. After 2 weeks, there is an automatic 3 week cool-off period where no one from either alliance can hit each other, anywhere, for any reason. There is a plethora of things you can do to make automatic war better than just a tag. I would recommend all systems with an enemy station are visibile. When using voyager ability on an ebeky ship, it is free. When using the mantis sting on an enemy ship, it is free. A 500% boost to base damage when fighting the enemy. A boost to the amaglam when raiding (at least 2x up to 5x). If killed by an enemy ship, a 75% reduction for repairs, time to repair and costs. The apporpiate miners all have a free automated defense buff. With the new iso, you could do specific iso buffs. You could even an an artificat that gives a boost during war. This will allow alliances to duke it out for a couple weeks and then have a cool off period. No alliances would be required to follow thos but if one alliance sets it, it applies to those hitting them. This solves the problems of whales/trolls. It also makes war more interesting. It adds a new layer of defense for TC. Do you assist that ally and risk a war or do you stragetically use war to prevent them from attacking you during a takeover. There are soooo many options you can use.

[@Quinnstonshires]

Some good ideas, but impossible for scooply to pull off.

[@GH-ub7qz]

they don't have people capable of programming that

[@nickm9102]

Here is bigger issue, aside from the power creep out the ass, you get to a point that the griefer alliances that attack everyone because they can will effectively be locked out of the game for three weeks with your plan. Those people usually have more money than brains and spend it in game. 3 weeks no play= 3 weeks no money to Scopley. This will NEVER BE CONSIDERED let alone happen.

[@chrisjones4571]

@nickm9102 so you are assuming they would go to war with everyone and not spread it out going alliance to alliance to alliance? Despite have a lot of money, most of these players are not dumb. They just like showing off how much $tronger they are.

[@d3m0nrhino77]

It amazes you all think griefer alliances are the spenders 🤣😂

[@jamesbell7696]

Are Q's challenge ships (pinks) considered reds when it comes to officers?

[@foamslinger2787]

I've tested and they appear to count as Hostiles for whatever reason. PMC works great

[@nickm9102]

Yes, it seems like in order to make it easier for them to create they used existing templates. All of which appear to have been pulled from the red Hostile templates.

[@vassagood]

I love low level tips.

[@yolohansolo6136]

For a game wanting new players it's really hard to ever catch anyone who has been playing 4 years I should have started on a new server

[@shazbots]

Don't mind that the same fancy intro played twice. 🙃

[@bluedoggraphics1743]

It's cheaper just to have bought the Pickle out-right.

[@mancalledtommy]

Thanks for the basic reminder videos, helpful as always!

[@dalecheck2455]

Nice vid. Now ba ck to watch inv your birthday stream 🍻

[@disposable_hero1725]

Double Intro music YEAHHHH!

[@howardthompson7661]

need vid best armada crews starting at 25 and q5levelx

[@chrisschmidt3409]

Have you looked into starlink F comcast

[@JohnF-cp8cb]

What about Yuki Zhao Kirk?

[@nutznchocolates56]

did you try it? How does it work 🤔

[@DirtyFrenchBastard]

where do Q's strial hostiles fall on that enemy spectrum?

[@AbslomDaak]

They count as reds so PMC will work, though they can be weird where Q trial swarms might not be kinetic damage.

[@kindred84]

No one talking about 5/k/s?

[@nickm9102]

That's likely because that is more likely to be considered a loot crew than a combat crew.

[@kindred84]

@@nickm9102 damage reduction with shield Regen? Ok then

[@babyred1407]

Thank you Rev

[@flozano2004]

So... Q trial hostiles work like red hostiles or like golden hostiles?

[@RevDeuce]

Reds :)

[@nutznchocolates56]

They are regular reds.

[@michaeljesse2339]

Back in the day, the go to mission boss punch up crew of choice was Yuki/Khan/Gorkon. Lots of options in todays environment though

[@jlperk88]

best crew for heavy miners in capital systems?

[@MadmanLink]

If you have the Augur run Bev, Mudd and T'Lann. Run a mix of health and defense below deck.

[@nutznchocolates56]

depending on your ship and ops. there are two Types. the regular trader which is an energy based weapon system, you can use pmc. if Goin after the heavy duty trader then Beverly (blue) Cath, or T'laan and Mudd the skinny one. I forget the ops but it might have been thirty five?

[@hebburncurly]

Yuki Zhou and Khan - boom

[@oleonard7319]

depends on the ship

[@danielcoulthardjr6608]

Do Goldies work the same as the Q Trial bosses?

[@mazrimtaim1]

I wonder that as well. Been trying to work my way through the q ones and am stuck on some

[@nutznchocolates56]

those@@mazrimtaim1 they just reds

[@xxMDxx]

Hey Rev. We lost an incredibly loved member of server 138 today. A week ceasefire has been called here. Please do a respect to Taramouse 🙂😪😪

[@adrianhaines9806]

What about Q trial hostiles?

[@foamslinger2787]

Hostile

[@nickm9102]

Treat just like a Red until they change something.

[@barkman1739]

Thanks for the video!

[@nutznchocolates56]

Yo!

[@barkman1739]

@@nutznchocolates56 🖖

[@richardneufeld545]

Thanks for the pickle update. I've decided to skip this entire arc as the only thing that I find of interest is the desealing rods. When STFC moves away from cartoon characters I'll consider a greater interest again.

[@dracon79]

your lucky you get it all, Scoply is a company which exists through a capitalism system, I don't understand this free to play garbage, you want something free move to a communist country and let me know how that works out for you.Good Game Empire use to be like Starfleet Command free to play with packs of course, after years , not enough people paying so now if you play that game you have to watch a 30 sec ad video if you don't buy a pack once a month.

[@nickm9102]

It's quite possible that they wanted to double dip and that is what hurt the game. There are several simple program games that are little more than a platform to sell ads you can tell that is the case when every action in the game requires you to sit through at least ad first. And when you buy the "opt out" for ads it only applies to the random ones inserted every few minutes. But not the one required to end/start the level.

[@JimBattaglini]

Talking way too fast and your descriptions don't make sense since there are no officers that I've encountered (level 41) that work especially well against golds. AND - I've been using PMC against them for the most part just fine, depending on ship type. That said, they are getting tougher now that I have reached a "higher" level, but I still use Pike (who is closed to max), Moreau (who IS maxed) and another officer according to the opponent triangle. For instance, most recently, I used Pike/Moreau/Nero on my Augur against a Hostile Captain in another battleship and won - if only by a narrow margin. It is getting harder, however - and it would be appreciated if you could clarify a couple of points... Primarily, you describe the Golds as Hostiles but don't explain why an officer whose desription says he/she works on Hostiles does not work on the GOlds. I don't see what the difference is' to me, a Hostile is a Hostile.

[@dennislaur2515]

It's been so long since I cared to do missions in the game that when I do do a mission, my ships just over power the gold hostiles with what ever crew I had used last. The game has lost its seance of challenge because of the push for new paid content. Time to go back to the app store and remove some stars from my review of the game.

[@nickm9102]

They have also deliberately lowered the difficulty of the combats in new missions. From what I have seen the new missions are around half the power of missions designed in the first three or so years.

[@chaunceykavanagh6621]

Rev once again helps me out!!!!