U.S.S. Fleming

Notes

Teryh's skill tree is similar in many aspects but lacks a few features compared to my engineering captains. Because tactical captains get no inherent power management, I've taken points to buff up weapon power. I've also skipped Drain Expertise, mostly because it's of no importance, and the other being there isn't any case for me to use Drain Scaling powers on her. There is often a case to use Energy Siphon but it doesn't normally find room in bridge officer layouts to make it worthwhile enough to spec into DrainX when the points could instead be spent on EPG or power.

27 vs 26 Point Tactical ultimate

There is some comments floating around about people moving back to the 27 points in the tactical branch for the cooldown reduction on Focused Frenzy. I maintain that this is a negligible effect and and good builds should already have and maintain proper cooldown reduction chaining. Therefore the cooldown reduction from Focused Frenzy should be redundant and therefore ignored. Unless you can maintain Frenzy the entire run (in which case all members have agreed to specifically build conditions and timings before hand) this point is wasted in the sense that the extra unlock will at most times be of unimportance, Therefore 1 point can be moved for utility to Science or Engineering .

Hull Restoration vs Hull Capacity

Once again I took a point in hull restoration. While the same argument as in Jayiie's skill tree doesn't quite hold up, as a tactical captain there is a distinct lack of healing innately available to her. As such taking that last point does help in scaling healing things up.

Shield Regeneration

While Teryh's primary goal isn't to tank, this last point in science does get her to the next unlock for +10% max shield capacity. While not a massively important stat, shield regeneration is statistically anomalous and adds a huge amount to shield regen in just the first point (more Information on shields can be found here). As such, I have taken the single point. If you want to take the final point of EPG or something else such as power or hull capacity feel free to do so.

Starship Weapons

Weapon Notes

To counter the Hydra, I wanted to try an SS build with mostly beams and I think this is perfectly fine. Radiolytic weapons are a bit of a splurge here in that they are a lockbox weapon but you can substitute anything you might want. The added phaser damage when a target is under 25% hull is nice but most things don't live very long past this so while it might seem like a really big increase in effect it's probably not on very long.

Console Notes

As mentioned, IPDMs are a choice here; you can direct swap all of the Explorers for Phaser IPDMs, and maybe its because im OldSchool™ and like really big Crit numbers. TRINITY actually points towards IPDMs here showing a 6% increase, and due to the theoretical 115% critical chance and 700% critical severity in combat it would probably be better. However the moment you change this to a non-tactical captain it instantly swaps to favoring the Exploiters by 2% so…take that what you will.

Bridge Officer Notes

Best Served Cold here is really just to help keep Diametric Focus triggered being able to spam it once every 15s. It also transitions into Temporal Tunelling nicely (which actually beats out EWC here in a simulated environment). Alternatively, you can swap the Ens to an engineering seat, move the EPtE1 here and use Pilot Team for more maneuverability.

Personal Traits Notes

There isn't much to change here in terms of utility. If playing on a tactical captain trait always try to slot A Good Day to Die (not confusing at all there's a starship trait, mission, and personal trait with the same name). As well more people would want to run controls to take advantage of Unconventional Systems. I feel the platform lacks the opportunity cost to be able to afford slotting the powers to gain the trait.

Budget Tweaks:

For budget players who want to save some EC, there's a few standard traits that could be used:

• Point Blank Shot - Episode Reward from House Pegh - scaling damage based on distance to target from 2km to 6km.

• Operative - Innate Trait - +1% CrtH +2% CrtD, this isn't spectacular but if you lack any offensive traits you can use it.

• Bulkhead Technician - Innate trait - this provides +10% Maximum Hull capacity and can be used as a stand in for durability consoles

• Living Hull - Episode Reward from "Surface Tension" - +15% hull regen in combat

• Redacted Armor Plating - Episode Reward from “The Renegade's Regret” - +30 all DRR when hit from behind or sides

• Regenerative Control Synergy - Episode Reward from “Of Signs and Portents” - Grants +45% hull regen when using a control power for 10 seconds

Starship Traits Notes

As I mentioned at the start, I think Diametric Focus is an Emergency Weapon Cycle killer. I don’t think EWC will fall out of favour as it's so easy to use, plus we still want to keep EPtW alive for the power and damage buff. However, as an example, EWC + Temporal Tunneling isn’t as good of a combo as Diametric Focus + Temporal Tunneling is on paper. The struggle is that the latter requires a little more investment into the build needing enough tactical powers used to keep it up, and one slip the entire stack falls and then EWC takes over. I am personally going to start redoing some math on many of my builds to see if EWC is something to be replaced.

Miscellaneous

Something that we try to teach is how to read a ship, understand what are the important parts, and then apply it to other ships so you don't need a build for your specific ship. You can either copy or adapt from another ship as needed instead if there’s one that can run the same build or is close enough. The important parts of this ship are a combination of Cmdr Intelligence Seat ,  while also having 5 fore weapons, the ability to run a Lt.C Pilot power. Consulting Fleffle's Sortable List with those filters, that gives us:

• The Terran Hydra Intel Destroyer is an almost carbon copy, the only change is higher mobility for lower durability and a forced tactical seat this build takes anyway.

• The Breen Keth Sarr Intel Courier is a raider so is missing a seat but has very flexible seating as being all universal. I would recommend

  • Cmdr Tactical/Intel TS1 APB1 OSS3 SS3

  • Ens Tac DT1

  • Lt.C Eng/Pilot EPtE1 EPtW2 FHA2

  • Lt.C Sci HE1 PO1 GW1

This also moves you somewhat away from unconventional systems so if possible replacing Heart of Sol with To Hell With Our Orders.

• Being a cruiser, the Kelvin Timeline Constitution II Intel Cruiser trades an experimental for a fore weapon. We need to instead take a turret, I would recommend a Crafted, a Sensor Linked, the Advanced Inhibiting, or the Trillithium for its haste. This would also need to have its seating redone, I would recommend:

  • Cmdr Eng/Intel EPtE1 EPtW2 OSS3 SS3

  • LT.C Tac/Pilot KLW1 CG1 FHA2

  • Lt.C Tac DT1 APB1 TS3

  • Lt. SCi (uni) HE1 PO1

  • Ens Sci TracBeam1

• The Orion Orchid Intel Warship takes 3 forced engineering seats but this can be made up with in other areas by taking this 3rd seat as a heal.