Quick Start Guide

Starfleet Commander is the game of intergalactic conquest. Though the possibilities in building your empire are endless, there are three main things that all emperors will do. They are:

1. Build up planets to get resources. 2. Use those resources to produce ships and defenses. 3. Use your ships to steal resources from enemies and smash their fleets.

This article will help you get started on these basic first steps.

Step 1: Solar Plant

The first thing you are going to do is build up your home world to give you some resources on an ongoing basis. The means you need to build your mines, but to get them operating they will need electricity which comes from your Solar Plant, so this should be the first thing you build.

Click the link in the nav bar that says "Mining Facility". You can see all of the available mines here. Scroll down to where you see the Solar Plant and click the link that says "Build".

After you've clicked build, you should see something similar to the following, indicating the Solar Plant is being built:

Step 2: Missions

You can see that the Solar Plant is going to take a couple minutes to build. In the meantime, click where it says "Missions" in the Nav Bar. This will take you to the missions page, where you can see a couple laid out for you.

The very first one is called "Raid an Unguarded Ore Mine". This is a mission in which you send an Atlas Class Cargo to raid an enemy ore mine that has no defense. Click the button that says "Start".

Now you have to choose what ships you want to send on the mission. You start out with only one Atlas, so choose that (either by typing "1" in the box, or by clicking the "Max" button or the "Select All" button. You've now chosen your fleet, so click the "Dispatch Fleet" button and send your cargo ship to pick up some mines.

You'll immediately see a timer start counting down from 45 seconds. That's how far away the enemy mine is, so your round trip time will be 90 seconds. For maximum production, you'll want to head back to the missions page each time one ends and start another.

Now we've got a little time to wait for our Atlas to come back, so let's head back to the mining page.

Step 3: Ore Mine

By now your Solar Plant is probably finished. Because we're mainly concerned with building now, and buildings take more Ore than anything else, the Ore Mine is the most important early on, so let's start by building one of those.