Community

Although Starfleet Commander allows players a certain level of single player experience, it is mostly a game that promotes interactions between its players. As such the game incorporates a few in-game tools to make those interactions easier.

Buddies

Buddies are the in-game friend system. You can add someone to your buddy list via the galaxy view, or from the Buddies page if they are already part of your crew. Buddies allow you to Group Defend and Group Attack without being part of an Alliance. It also makes it easier to message them and compare your Rank. Other than that, they do not serve other functions and do not provide an advantage.

Note: Facebook friends that accept your invite and become part of your crew are not automatically added to your buddy list. However, you will find them listed at the bottom of the buddies page for an easier invite.

Messages

This is the in-game message system. This includes messages between players, as well as game messages like battle reports or transports.

Messages can be opened by clicking on the subject, the content will be displayed and the messages below it will still be visible. Each message is displayed in it's own row, with a check-box, the message sender if it is from another user, the subject, and the timestamp.

To keep things organized, the messages are divided in the following sub sections:

• All: Displays all messages except the ones you sent to other players.
• User: Messages received from other players.
• Battle: Battle reports.
• Espionage: Espionage reports.
• General: General game messages like transports, deploys or colonization reports.
• Sent: Messages you sent to other players.

Alliance

An Alliance is a group of people joined together for protection, trade, war and diplomacy. Joining an Alliance will give you an alliance tag and access to an alliance message board in game. All alliance features can be found by clicking on the alliance button in game on the menu bar.

Benefits

• Alliance tag identifies you as belonging to an alliance to all other players.
• Private message board to co-ordinate with alliance members.
• People that probably help you if things go bad.
• Group Defend and Group Attack without being buddies.

Creating

If you are not already a member of an alliance, then clicking on the alliance option will immediately prompt you to make your own by entering an alliance name and an alliance tag. Assuming you chose a unique name/tag, your alliance will be formed with you as leader.

Joining

If you clicked on the alliance option you would also notice the ability to search for an alliance. A search will result in a list of alliance names, tags, and # of members. Clicking on the name will bring you to a page where you can apply for membership. WARNING you can only apply for membership to one alliance at a time. If you are already applying to an alliance, you can not apply to any other until you leave the alliance or cancel your application.

You can also click the tag next to a person's planet to get to the join page, and some alliances will send you the link if you ask them on the forums.

Ranks

There are 3 different ranks or membership levels in an alliance:

Member

As a member you can:

• Access the message board.
• Make posts.
• View the Member Roster.
• Group defend or attack with alliance members without becoming their buddy.

Officer

In addition to all the member benefits, an officer can:

• Approve new members.
• Remove members.
• View and create officer only topics on the alliance message board.
• Sticky Topics on the alliance message board.

Leader

The alliance leader has all the benefits of an officer, with the additional ability to: *Promote/demote members to the officer rank.

• Create and approve declarations of War and NAPs.