Understanding Research! | Tips & Tricks to find the good research in Star Trek Fleet Command

[@fantasytavvy688]

Been playing for three years and didn’t notice some of those icons. We appreciate your dutiful efforts at keeping us educated

[@rickmarr8784]

I notice all those but never knew what some of them meant till now. They need more refinery research like increase efficiency to get more uncommons and rares. The payout currently just pales in the cost of upgrading things, I'm getting 7 each time and I have to pay thousands to upgrade. If it wasn't for events I might be waiting months just to upgrade a single part on a ship or just one building.

[@fbknight710]

Awhile back I started an excel chart to track my research, next lv level power increase, cost, time, prerequisites and other stuff. It's a pain in the behind to setup but once it gets going, it works great for me. I am able to plan how to finish research events with minimum excess points and what to do next to get to what I needed. I even have a chart for buildings now. For those who like to plan ahead this is a good way to go

[@DirtyHabit_1ofMany]

I’ve been playing 1 week. This video was easy to unravel in 10 seconds - ‘best research. Prime. Requires real money in game. End video ‘ Thanks.

[@brockschneider2490]

Very good video, quite informative and simplified. And yes get busy with that outlaw tree!!

[@scottmassey5509]

THIS is the video I've been waiting six months for. Strong work. Glory to your house...

[@geeemm135]

i cant point out how important the ship bartering researches are when it comes to upgrading the ships, especially the 4 star ships like the jellyfish. this makes a ton of difference

[@bernieblasko4473]

I have seen these icons but had no idea what they was for thank you Duece.

[@edwardsoto7046]

All the time I’ve played I’ve never noticed the small emblems in the research tree. Thanks Rev

[@VictorMTaveras]

Back in the day when there were "only" 7 research trees lol simpler times

[@Zoomer-lw4qo]

You're right Rev, I've been playing for over 2 and a half years and there are some things in here that I've never noticed like the $ on efficiency research. Also I also don't put much love into the Stella tree and never noticed the part efficiencies there. I'm going to max them and that'll save me a lot of parts on my Valdore I'm getting thoon.

[@markoconnor7163]

Great vid - you're right I've been playing 3 years and never paid any attention to all those little icons in research... thanks for this will help a lot of players :)

[@RevDeuce]

Great to hear!

[@TheCircuitJunkie]

Kudos, I didn't realize the little images!

[@zachsilvis5187]

Rev, you showing us your Outlaw research tree just makes me cry inside.

[@RevDeuce]

Makes me cry on the outside

[@keldsvendsen]

Super well made. Several things that I have not noticed before. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video.

[@RevDeuce]

You're very welcome!

[@kevinwilliamson7158]

Been playing several years ago, I learned about the $ one a few weeks ago on one of your live streams from someone in chat, never really paid attention to look for other icons before. Now I know to look for those.

[@elvishards8161]

The symbols truly help to scroll through the trees to get what u want quicker than the words,symbols are a quick efficient way of getting info across at a glance

[@adamlangford2849]

I've been playing 3 years and am ops46, I hadn't noticed some of these, thanks Rev :)

[@RevDeuce]

Glad to help!

[@dalecheck2455]

Another good video. Research the f as much as you can. Game gets better by it ✌️

[@jonathanmoore7096]

Can’t believe I never noticed those icons before! I also recommend people look at the ones that speed up research and construction. Save on speed ups and latinum down the line.

[@thirdeye3152]

Good video rev. 42 ops and maxed efficiency has saved my 10s of thousands of uncommon and rare. It takes time but the long term investment is completely worth your effort.

[@stevzor]

brilliant video mate, I'm lvl 41 and this was a great refresher for things to keep focus on.

[@RevDeuce]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@chemsol1]

I get the same perpetual circle at the beginning of the video.....except everywhere. It's been over a week and no word from tech support. Thanks for the video. I didn't realize research was color coded outside the primes🖖🏻

[@quincypierce4906]

Another great video. And I have never noticed that. Been playing since the beginning.

[@stormtrooper1096]

Great video as always Rev. Thanks for explaining this. I'm posting the link to my alliance's discord so the newer members get these nice tips

[@RevDeuce]

Awesome thank you!

[@NICKisPiP]

100% true, never noticed the little icons

[@peteraxelson574]

Love the new intro!

[@mercatero13]

Thx rev I needed that see you on the discord.

[@codymoore4726]

Why do some researches have the latinum "shadowed". I have the latinum to go ahead and buy the research but unable to do so. Whats up with that? Do I need to be a higher level player?

[@matthewhorton2156]

My outlaw is similar don't worry. But slightly further along, not main focus, but top row beta particle is component research annoying me.. But need to get 2nd Stella past the rare bump and max my first, takes way too long constantly doing a lvl 4 Stella.

[@Lee.b190]

Yep I didn’t notice the little symbols 🤣🤣

[@Glasklar87]

Nice video. How can I get the 2nd Alpha Particle for Stella research?

[@barkman1739]

Thanks for the video, Rev!

[@RevDeuce]

My pleasure!

[@XHunter442]

Ty for the amazing video! LLAP!

[@RevDeuce]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@1Dshot]

Thanks for explaining this little things like that. That kind of info can help tremendously. Would love to see more on this kind of thing. How to complete missions, or how to go about grinding resources/officer shards, etc. Also, how do you have 3 researches going at once? I only see a slot for an extra that needs to be purchased from the store for $19.99

[@RevDeuce]

By purchasing them

[@1Dshot]

@@RevDeuce Oh so you can purchase it more than once? Even though it says "2nd builder (permanent)"?

[@skullofdeath]

Just killed a 6m exchange trader with my kehra and love your videos💪

[@cesaravina8759]

thanks Deuce, always helpful, I want to ask about eclipse armada power we need it for an epic level, my alliance needs that. thank you for all your videos

[@jacobnightingale4310]

Another handy video by Rev. But why at ops41 is Rev research on Frequency Mods Cost Efficiency not even maxed yet, I managed to maxed mine by op33.

[@ThumperFly75]

Please suggest to $copely to add a sortable list of all currently active, incomplete research for each tree...anything that has a green arrow, grey arrow, add a sort by power, timeframe, cost options...the trees are so big now it's nearly impossible to keep track of what you need to research next. we need a research search option now!

[@ctmyers74]

It would be great if it would tell you how many points you could get for completing a research for events before you start researching

[@uhwutroe5734]

There are now only 4 primes not paywalled in the game, although g5 materials are beyond your average f2p player at this time, everything else is theoretically grindable. The ungrindable primes are about cloaking and on the away teams research tree.

[@drake7490]

If I recall correctly the Treasury makes the Away Teams Prime Research Particle thingys available at level 40+.

[@goosem944]

@@drake7490 I thought that was for tc

[@matthewhorton2156]

Tc tree working on getting lvl 7 efficiencies atm it's a long prereq route taking time.

[@krugerjm]

It funny how fed rom and Klingon are also color coded in the same color scheme as the attack defense and hp nodes.

[@pierre-lucpiette538]

For the lord of god… I’ve been playing since the beginning of the game and I’ve NEVER noticed the little money / level / red colour of the icon and what it could mean…. Shame on me and THANKS REV!!!!!

[@robertosanchezjr385]

I love the video but how about a scrapping guide to help players maximize their cost of improving Ships before scrapping them later for materials. For example I scrap my Stella at Tier 3 level 10 so that I could get Stella particles

[@PlXNIN]

I think one of the most crucial researches that all of these videos never mention is the 'iso deflector shield' it is the ONLY research that reduces damage in pvp, so unlike other damage increasing researches where 20% increase actually means something like 0.2% in practice, a 10% damage reduction by iso deflector literally means 10% reduction, so it is a true game changer in pvp combat. And you need iso resin for it, which is not readily accessible by everyone.

[@esblack2354]

Thanks Rev! Does the Frequency Modulator research you mention work for both Franklin and Franklin A?

[@RevDeuce]

Just the Franklin!

[@niclasangerman4216]

I never eaven saw 'or looked at'' the dollar sing before. And ive been playing almost 2 years....

[@justinj369]

They need to add Apex Research Medals to the faction store. There isn’t a way to get these other than Apex events which are few and far between these days.

[@mercygrace9687]

I noticed the icons, and color schemes, but didn't really know much about them. I knew they were important, but no1 ever told me y. Unrelated note - space cowboys? Really? What about all the ladies who play this game to? We TOTALLY need recognition to. 😁

[@RevDeuce]

Ha, it's an indirect reference to Cowboy Bebop (Anime) I started doing when I first started the channel.

[@mercygrace9687]

@@RevDeuce I've never seen that anime.

[@robertl30]

So, in summary, all the research is important, do them all. Got it.

[@RevDeuce]

Nope, didn't say that at all lol. Quite a bit is useless!

[@alvinadorno6105]

In the rouge tree you didn’t talk about the choices you need to make and the ways to get the particles to open different trees

[@boardjock42]

It just takes soo much time and speedups, but worth it.

[@USCTom]

I would love a way to have all researches in a sortable list. Such as by least time to complete, lowest resource cost, etc.

[@davelowry123]

I'm hoping that there's a research tree for ALLIANCES. It has three choices, but you can only ever progress down one of them, so that your alliance has a particular flavour and style. It should be funded by the progenitor territory capture resources too.

[@3wzfm606]

How do you have 3 research trees? I'm assuming 1 is bought. But Is there a level you get an extra one?

[@RevDeuce]

2 were purchased.

[@justQthx]

I never knew about the dollar sign

[@ProBreakers]

1 month research times....I'm ops 20 and don't know I want to even continue now seeing that waiting down the road.

[@tarkus42]

Rev IS the better guide to STFC! (...with the exception of the outlaw tree!!!) 🤣

[@solsupreme7773]

Rev can you please assist me with something that has me stumped..I am level 35 player with every building up to level and almost all research is up to level and I have prime officers and prime survival and 3 territory buffs peircing enhance dodge enhance and advanced damage buffs all active at time this level 33 person with 1 to 2 levels lower research and building bonuses less than mine beats me in battle using Lorca,Capt.Tilly, HG worf....and I don't understand how I lose when all my stats are higher than theirs his Lorca is a teir 2 by the way...i got them to send me screenshots of their research trees so i can see if anything they had advantage on me with... nothing is at or above mine it is all 1 to 2 levels lower...please help me understand how they win

[@myke4liberty]

If you can’t get into a decent alliance like I can’t on server 71 then you are pretty much screwed on territory research and you might as well quit the game, right?

[@RevDeuce]

No. You can still get particles through the iso-resin refine.

[@Joenzinator]

I keep running into people 3-4 levels lower than me, with identical ships more powerful than mine. It must be research, but I can't figure out which ones I'm missing.

[@roycotton5264]

Kind off trick but why they still have us in BOTTLE NICK with G 4 gas ord and cristal we need for Building up City and all Ships

[@jeffreyalanwong]

Ships come and go… crews and research are forever!

[@Paulostore]

Alliance station research

[@vassagood]

Do your Dvor research!!

[@cpfisher89]

How high is your M rating Rev?

[@RevDeuce]

46/150

[@cpfisher89]

@@RevDeuce I'm 85/160, ops 39 and BP only spender. Tried to focus on the other elements of that tree as some good efficiencies in there. Found the Stella gets noticeably better after M50 so hopefully just around the corner for you.

[@casadrasouza9134]

É verdade mesmo

[@joelblair8339]

Need another way to get apex medals.

[@ColonelFusion]

I didn't know that all pew-pews were red.

[@oregonbry]

1. What is the formula for "improves cost efficiency"? No idea what I'm actually getting. 2. "Explorer Firepower" - critical hits do increased damage up 1%. ONE PERCENT?? Sounds like the lamest increase ever. Seems like even a 20% damage increase is barely noticeable. Am I missing something?

[@SkuldB]

I don't want to play the bad guy but honestly, I find your overall research level to be quite low. I'm lvl 37 f2p and I have a lot more research done. Use the latinium Rev you have a ton of it !

[@-Nightmare-64]

Scopley just screwed the FTP play in the game by having two Away Mission, missions. They know we have to use speedups in order to complete the mission and now by adding a second one, it forces you to buy speedup packs in order to finish and worst of all it's where you need the tokens to help finish the Arc. By doing this, the free vault is now in jeopardy. Please address this.

[@MrJrio11]

@deuce steel , trit and dilith . Regarding these materials as what’s important or good rewards is a delusional joke. Refined uncommon is and always have been a issue but you wanna keep actions like the basic materials you get always in abundance is great……..NO. Shame ….shame…. Shame……shame……shame…….shame……shame…….shame…….

[@RevDeuce]

I'm not sure I understand the purpose of this comment, as several of the researches I refer to directly reduce the cost of uncommons?

[@MrJrio11]

@@RevDeuce there is no big difference , stop acting like that solves the equation…it dosent at all. Not even close.

[@RevDeuce]

The changes result in literally thousands of UC reductions, depending on what we're discussing upgrading? There is a HUGE difference between maxed out efficiency researches and those who have done none at all.

[@gnomevoyeur]

Research is good. It can take a long time but speeding is cheap with latinum. I don’t understand why Rev has saved 1.4 million latinum but kept his research so pitiful.

[@Deadli5ne678]

😂

[@michaellewis1395]

Materials and dependencies on prerequisite research are the issues I'm having.

[@kevinlkirby]

Shame lol

[@bradcutler6213]

Dude you are way behind on research lol. Get on that