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Facebook Games:StarFleet Commander Review

Written by:  • Edited by: Michael Hartman
Updated May 18, 2011 • Related Guides: Facebook Games | Facebook
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Starfleet Commander allows you to develop up resource mines, research technology, build ships, and attack players on the game map. This Facebook game features some unique features such as the ability to use robots to help power your mines, buildings, and ships. The game also features missions you

Starfleet Commander Basics

Starfleet Commander
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Before you get too excited Starfleet Commander is not a Star Trek game, it has nothing to do with that series. This game is similar to such space based browser games such as OGame and features much of the same content. The objective is to use your resources to build defenses, production, and powerful starships to destroy your enemies on the game map. You can join alliances and fight against other teams or go at it alone. Starfleet Commander is a very well put together Facebook game and is a lot of fun to play.

Playing The Game
Rating Good

Starfleet Commander
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Playing this game is very easy and your first goal is to get your mines up and running. You have three resources you need to mine for including iron, crystal, and hydrogen. You will start with a few basic ships which will allow you to complete missions and gain some valuable resources early on. If you add some Facebook friends to your game you will unlock more missions but this really isn’t necessary you can play the game on your own as much as you like. To do most missions you will need a cargo ship so it if gets destroyed by someone you will need to build a new one to continue doing missions. Once your resources are built up you can move onto other areas of the game. You should work on production and research first before building ships in the game.

Advancing Your Game With Technology
Rating Good

Doing research is a big part of Starfleet Commander and it will help you to unlock new technologies, ships and buildings. A nice feature of research can be found on the bottom of the page where it will tell you the requirements for the next tech and this feature can also be found on the shipyard page. You can also find out what you need to advance by checking the technology tree too which is found at the “tech” icon. You have many different technologies you can research such as shields, armor, better weapons, drives, and espionage with each tech being further enhanced as you level them up. Only one research technology can be completed at a time and you need a research facility before you can conduct technology upgrades.

Your Shipyard
Rating Excellent

Starfleet Commander
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The shipyard provides the production for your ships and you have many different ones to chose from. You start with a basic cargo ship with fighters, probes, advanced fighters, cruisers, colony ships, battleships, and destroyers becoming available as you upgrade. Each ship has its statistics just below the image of the ship. You will need a significant amount of resources to build ships so you should research a colony ship and get more planets as soon as possible.

Missions
Rating Excellent

There are several missions you can take in the game such as raids on mines for more resources, ship destruction, debris field cleanup, recons, escorts, and plundering. All these missions require crew points that you can get by bringing your friends into the game or using droids that you can build in a factory and using them as crew points. The ability to use droids is handy because not everyone playing this game will have enough Facebook friends to complete the missions with. If you check the tech page it will show you the requirements you need to unlock the missions.

Droids
Rating Excellent

Starfleet Commander
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Starfleet Commander features droids which can be built to help your mines produce more, provide crew pints to unlock missions, help with research, and speedup building construction. You can build these droids in the factory and then assign them where you like. The crew droids aren’t assigned anywhere they act like a Facebook friend and will generate a crew point for you to help complete missions. Crew droids are great to have if you can’t come up with enough Facebook friends to unlock missions.

Overall Gameplay
Rating Excellent

Starfleet Commander
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Starfleet Commander is a lot of fun to play but like many browser games you need patience because things take time to build. This is a very casual game you can take your time with and not rush it. The graphics look decent for a browser gamebut don't expect anything stunning like EVE On You can add your friends to help you with missions and send them gifts of resources. The game also allows you to create an alliance or join an existing one to battle it out in teams. The buddy list will help you to keep track of your friends playing the game too. I enjoyed my time playing Starfleet Commander and you will too.

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Oort Jan 21, 2010 8:43 AM
Whining Cheaters
Yah ... that mass-suspention thing. Seems a lot of people were running cheat scripts through an app add on called grease monkey which was 100% detectable.

And thus the whining began.

I've had 2 game issues where I needed to contact support and both issues where cleared up very quickly. 1 of them was an incoming fleet were all the ships vanished and every single ship was replaced within hours of the report.

SFC Jan 13, 2010 4:40 PM
Capricious administrators
Starfleet Commander recently suffered a publicly admitted mistake of mass-suspending players suspected of 'bot playing due to a bad script [lol] on their side.

They only admitted their mistake about a day later, but that does not stop the in-flight complaints to Facebook and BBB.

In reaction to the complaints, Blue Frog Gaming proceeded to ban players who had made such complaints

Be forewarned about jumping into such a game were you will spend a lot of your time fighting the administrators, and not the game.
Mark Jan 13, 2010 10:49 AM
Playing on Blackberry
I have the tour and I would like to contuine my game play but I cant do anything except pretty much view the main screen is there a way to play the game on the Tour?
 
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