Guides And Tips: Resources and Help for Players (Updated 2024-02-06)

Captain Idol

This thread is a compiled list of resources and tools that can help players of all levels. If you have a guide you want featured send me a DM and I'll add it to the list.

Video Guides:
The Trek Time Team (with Automaton_2000 hosting) has produced four essential video guides for new players on Timelines, essential watches!

https://www.youtube.com/embed/videoseries?list=PLfdEkLeNC5i3dzD1qMCmtuCJMwYrXojBf

Timelines Talks - The ongoing Talk Show for all thing Star Trek: Timelines!



Discords:



If you don't know what Discord is, it's a chat tool designed to bring gaming communities together and Timelines has a couple of Discords communities represented.

Star Trek: Tilting Point: The official Discord for Star Trek: Timelines and Star Trek: Legends, run by Tilting Point themselves. Very friendly group of players willing to help and discuss all things Timelines and Legends.

Star Trek Timelines Discord: Another Timelines Discord hosted by Stellar Ice and KingLouie. Contains discussion about Wiki data entry and a number of useful bots for getting information on crew and stats. Join the weekly episode viewings too.

Trek Time Discord: Discord server for the #1 Premium, Exclusive Talk Show for all things Star Trek Timelines. Contains show chat as well as Timelines discussion. Also is the hub for 12 hour voyagers, Nightmare mode and our STA streams.

STT Community Core: This is the server for any community tools as well as the main discussion point for anything relating to the Datacore. If you have any development experience or interested in functions of the Datacore check it out.


New Players

The Datacore: A very good resource for crew information as well as behold helpers and voyage calculations. Features comprehensive information about all crew in the game and analysis on your own roster. The voyage calculator is one of the most essential tools in the game.



The Big Book Of Behold Advice: A large colated Tier list of all crew in the game alongside informative notes and relative rankings. Also features handy Gauntlet feature and top captain's lists.


The CAB Crew Power Ratings Tool: The CABs Guide to crew rankings and ratings.


Star Trek Timelines Wiki: Community led wiki of all information about Timelines. This should be your first stop for any information about the game. Everything from crew stats to event information is featured here.


Travis S McClain's Guide To Crew Management And Dismissal Decisions: A guide on who best to keep and who to show out the airlock. Ideal for new players looking to free up some crew slots.


Exo Event Guide: Exo's guide to event types and how to effectively participate.


Dilemma Options (From The Wiki): A quick link straight from the timelines wiki, a list of all Dilemma options presented in the game. Bookmark this, you will refer to it a lot.


Cadet Challenge Reference Sheet: A small sheet of essential cadet crew needed to complete each mission. Very handy for new players.



Crew Analysis:

The Timelines Backend Stats Super Hyper Edition: A comprehensive list of all crew stats in the game. But also features Pair/Triplet Data and many other extraneous statistics.


Captain Idol's Datacore Analysis Sheet (CIDAS): My own sheet for taking a Datacore import and extrapolating lots of data from your own crew roster. A good tool to finding out where you might be lacking a certain skill set. Also features a Voyage Calculator and custom Collections. Now 5.0!


The "Do Not Airlock" Checklist: The latest version of the DNA List, a guide aimed at helping overcrowded rosters decide who should be kept.


Captain Idol's Voyage Analysis Sheet (CIVAS): A manual entry sheet for keeping track of who is and isn't making the best use of voyages for your roster. Essential tool if you want to manage crew slots and airlock/freeze those who are not making themselves useful


Captain Idol's Collection Analysis Sheet (CICAS): A comprehensive guide to all your collections, including analysis into which crew will fill multiple collections and how close you are to filling them.


Resource Management

Chronometrics [CAB] Beta 1.2: Dangevin's extremely useful tool to work out how best to farm equipment for both crew equipment and Galaxy farming.

IonDust's ISM Management Tool: A very handy sheet for working out the most optimal use of your ISM.


Take My Chrons, Please!: A tool to help you spend and/or waste your chrons to build up the right inventory by BBBinx.


Fleet Boss Battle Tools

CAB Fleet Boss Battles Helper: A tool from CAB to help find the best crew to aid with FBB combo's.

Mu'ad Dave's FBB Combo Tool: Another FBB Combo Tool from Mu'ad Dave.

FAST (Fleet Arena, Skirmish and Team Tool): A more comprehensive look at ship abilities for finding the best setup for your ship battle lineup.


Reference:

Automaton_2000's Tanking Shuttles Guide: Interested in Tanking Shuttles for fun and profit, look inside! Highly advised for every player.

Faction Mission Rewards List: This is a quick guide to all the items you get from faction missions.

Darth Skippy's Ultimate Farming Guide: A big sheet filled with all the farming locations for items.

Crew & Ship Abilities Sheet: A comprehensive list of all crew members ship abilities and bonuses run by [10F] Prime Lorca

All Crew 1-4 and 1-5 by Darth Skippy: A run down of all crew stats that are single star fused.

Galaxy Events Mission List: A perfect guide to rerun galaxy or hybrid missions. Find out how much it takes to build certain combinations and optimise your event strategy.

Seven Of One's Skirmish Prefarming Guide: A handy guide to which missions to focus on when farming items in Skirmishes for Galaxy events.

Travis S McClain

Great work, @[10F] Captain Idol! Two quick things: 1) Wasn't there a Gauntlet calculator once upon a time? Is there one now? 2) In the blurb for my little guide to crew decisions, would you be kind enough to include a notation that it features a flowchart made by @Data1001? I like to give credit where it's due.

Sven Lundgren

Travis S McClain wrote: »

Great work, @[10F] Captain Idol! Two quick things: 1) Wasn't there a Gauntlet calculator once upon a time? Is there one now? 2) In the blurb for my little guide to crew decisions, would you be kind enough to include a notation that it features a flowchart made by @Data1001? I like to give credit where it's due.

There is sort of one in the Crew lvl 100 stats spreadsheet.

Captain Idol

Travis S McClain wrote: »

Great work, @[10F] Captain Idol! Two quick things: 1) Wasn't there a Gauntlet calculator once upon a time? Is there one now? 2) In the blurb for my little guide to crew decisions, would you be kind enough to include a notation that it features a flowchart made by @Data1001? I like to give credit where it's due.

Sorted and @SvenLundgren is correct about the L100 sheet.

Travis S McClain

Thanks, but I meant an app that calculated the odds of a specific match. Someone devised one way back when the Gauntlet debuted. You typed in the min and max of both opponents and whatever crit chance they had, and it showed the probabilities of outcomes on a graph. If memory serves, someone else devised another one based on a different mathematical system. Or maybe it was just back and forth talk in the same thread about how to perfect the one app?

EnderW

Travis S McClain wrote: »

Thanks, but I meant an app that calculated the odds of a specific match. Someone devised one way back when the Gauntlet debuted. You typed in the min and max of both opponents and whatever crit chance they had, and it showed the probabilities of outcomes on a graph. If memory serves, someone else devised another one based on a different mathematical system. Or maybe it was just back and forth talk in the same thread about how to perfect the one app?

Wasn’t that in the iampicard app? I just remember it being mentioned; I never used it.

Sven Lundgren

The iampicard app did have that feature, nothing is currently available (that I know of) has that feature. The Crew lvl 100 stats spreadsheet just has the ability to find 45%, 25% crew when you give it the traits.

Captain Idol

Added in Cadet statistics into the Big Book Of Backend Data. A full Cadet Book update is in the works too.

guest_1216856279855104

I lost my 6am pst Chrition refills, how do I get them back? And the Ferengi goes from levels 84 on one box and the next is 494, how do I get a patch to fix these?

Captain Idol

guest_1216856279855104 wrote: »

I lost my 6am pst Chrition refills, how do I get them back? And the Ferengi goes from levels 84 on one box and the next is 494, how do I get a patch to fix these?

Not quite sure what you mean here? There is no patch for this game other than updates as this is a mobile game. And what Ferengi? Factions, Nagus Brunt?

Wildstar19

Not sure if this has been like this before, I don't see something similar, but I've completed what I'm calling the Farming Guide.

It catalogs every piece of equipment, component, and ship schematic available in the faction shuttles, the cadet challenges, the episode missions, and the distress calls. This is for only after you've completed all the required nodes for each.

I've acquired all the information from the Wiki, so if something's missing, my apologies, and please let me know so I can correct my master sheet.

Again, I know this info is posted on the Wiki, but not in a sortable, handy, easily accessed, offline source.

If you don't need it or like it, or think I've duplicated already finished work, sorry, just ignore this.

Hopefully this will help someone. LLAP.

https://1drv.ms/x/s!AsncERq1gLWhhDC5IhVAubyhmDYa?e=4BI48v

Captain Idol

Darth Skippy wrote: »

Not sure if this has been like this before, I don't see something similar, but I've completed what I'm calling the Farming Guide.

It catalogs every piece of equipment, component, and ship schematic available in the faction shuttles, the cadet challenges, the episode missions, and the distress calls. This is for only after you've completed all the required nodes for each.

I've acquired all the information from the Wiki, so if something's missing, my apologies, and please let me know so I can correct my master sheet.

Again, I know this info is posted on the Wiki, but not in a sortable, handy, easily accessed, offline source.

If you don't need it or like it, or think I've duplicated already finished work, sorry, just ignore this.

Hopefully this will help someone. LLAP.

https://1drv.ms/x/s!AsncERq1gLWhhDC5IhVAubyhmDYa?e=4BI48v

It shall be added!

Jenos Idanian

Under the Cadet Advice section - the Cadet Challenge Reference Sheet:

• I noticed you can download to add starbase/collection bonuses, but it only seems to include those for proficiency, not for base. Do you need to manually change the base stats for those crew you own?
• Does this include recently-added 2* and 3* crew?

EDIT: for background, I’m unfreezing crew to finish off the last handful of cadet nodes.

Captain Idol

The Little Book Of Cadet Advice has now been upgraded to 2.0!

Wildstar19

My fleetmate @DavideBooks and I were discussing that all of the links and sheets and info provided by everyone here is based on FFE stats. There's nothing just dedicated to just FE at 1 star.

So I've created a new file that lists all 4 and 5 star crew, with their skills at 1/4 and 1/5 FE respectively.

It also includes rankings for Shuttles, Voyages, and Gauntlet for each card at the 1/4 and 1/5 level.

This should come in handy for Behold choices, plus, for many of us, the 5 star crew often stay at 1/5 for a long time, so this is a more accurate view of their daily usefulness instead of seeing their 5/5 skills.

Anyway, I hope this helps someone.

https://1drv.ms/x/s!AsncERq1gLWhhDI-U36NOHb1XM4c?e=DzndSX

Captain Idol

I shall add it. Somewhere I have a 4/4 vs 1/5 sheet I need to work on too which would be good for comparisons.

Tachyonuk

Travis S McClain wrote: »

Thanks, but I meant an app that calculated the odds of a specific match. Someone devised one way back when the Gauntlet debuted. You typed in the min and max of both opponents and whatever crit chance they had, and it showed the probabilities of outcomes on a graph. If memory serves, someone else devised another one based on a different mathematical system. Or maybe it was just back and forth talk in the same thread about how to perfect the one app?

There was the Incredible Gauntlet Odds Recalculator. I have a (not-working ) link to the old forums, otherwise I have no idea where I got it from - it's a simple exe that I'd be happy to upload to my dropbox if anyone wants it. I rarely use it as I have IAmTosk's Crew Management tool, which is IAmPicard without the ability to input into the game - it just advises. You can get it here.

Sashenka

Is there any of these links that have something like, just a top 50 list of best crew for voyage?

Captain Idol

Sashenka wrote: »

Is there any of these links that have something like, just a top 50 list of best crew for voyage?

yes the L100 Sheet or the Big Book Of Backend have that.

Seven of One

You didn't add my skirmish sheet and now I'm sad

Captain Idol

(10F) Seven of One wrote: »

You didn't add my skirmish sheet and now I'm sad

Link?

Seven of One

[10F] Captain Idol wrote: »

(10F) Seven of One wrote: »

You didn't add my skirmish sheet and now I'm sad

Link?

Shouldn't you already have it on speed dial?

Seven of One

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11mE8QWWFgdvIU9o9WyrABUPAdU7Qul4Ow1M6R3MUPKY/

Captain Idol

(10F) Seven of One wrote: »

[10F] Captain Idol wrote: »

(10F) Seven of One wrote: »

You didn't add my skirmish sheet and now I'm sad

Link?

Shouldn't you already have it on speed dial?

My spreadsheet speed dial is mostly just the same sheet but with notes such as "why the hell is this not working", anyway it's added now!

~peregrine~

I still use my former Admiral’s sheet, double-side printed & monochrome, because I respect her & my old fleetmates for their effort to compile it. I use Seven’s sheet also. All of these community resources have helped me become a stronger player.

Captain Idol

I've re-updated my Big Book Of Backend Sheet (which served stats for the Big Book and other sheets) and renamed it to the "Timelines Backend Stats Super Hyper Edition" purely as there is pretty much every statistic on a crew you could want in there.
Also it's now a lot faster for me to update. I shall however continue to make it prettier.

joshurtree

Thanks for creating this. Any chance of adding archetype ids? The reason I ask is that I've create a script to import data from Disruptor Beam directly to Google Sheets (Source available at github.com/joshurtree/STT-Datasheet-Updater). I already use the Timelines Backend Stats Hyper sheet for some of the infomation needed.

It largely replicates the data provided at Datacore so that it can be used to update Do Not Airlock and your Datacore analysis sheet in far fewer steps. However I'm having a problem with frozen crew as only their archetype ids are provided by Disruptor Beam. I need a source to map them to the actual stats. Any help would be much appreciated.

Josh

Captain Idol

guest_1224473163842560 wrote: »

Thanks for creating this. Any chance of adding archetype ids? The reason I ask is that I've create a script to import data from Disruptor Beam directly to Google Sheets (Source available at github.com/joshurtree/STT-Datasheet-Updater). I already use the Timelines Backend Stats Hyper sheet for some of the infomation needed.

It largely replicates the data provided at Datacore so that it can be used to update Do Not Airlock and your Datacore analysis sheet in far fewer steps. However I'm having a problem with frozen crew as only their archetype ids are provided by Disruptor Beam. I need a source to map them to the actual stats. Any help would be much appreciated.

Josh

Interesting. Not me personally but @TemporalAgent7 might be worth speaking to for any Datacore information.

TemporalAgent7

You don't need the extra step of texteditor.co and so on, you can get the data from the server directly from your google script. Here's a spreadsheet I created a while back based on the IAmPicard Google Sheets add-in (since deprecated), see the code in there (it adds a pane for logging in and so on): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Q-X-kWhjdMSkq93g6TIWNKAusyGXSsGCxbyWBEGGZk/edit#gid=0

It should be easy enough to integrate in any spreadsheet (although none of the bigger ones like Idol's or the DNA shown interest because people are wary of running scripts).

It may need to be updated as I don't personally use it and haven't tested it in a while.

Captain Idol

TemporalAgent7 wrote: »

You don't need the extra step of texteditor.co and so on, you can get the data from the server directly from your google script. Here's a spreadsheet I created a while back based on the IAmPicard Google Sheets add-in (since deprecated), see the code in there (it adds a pane for logging in and so on): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18Q-X-kWhjdMSkq93g6TIWNKAusyGXSsGCxbyWBEGGZk/edit#gid=0

It should be easy enough to integrate in any spreadsheet (although none of the bigger ones like Idol's or the DNA shown interest because people are wary of running scripts).

It may need to be updated as I don't personally use it and haven't tested it in a while.

Wow this is quite snazzy!

joshurtree

I avoided direct login due to the message on Datacore about problems attempting it. The login system seems completely shot anyway. I lost my first game when it refused to accept any login attempt (wouldn't even send me an e-mail to reset the password) . My current account is linked to Facebook but now my screen name is stuck on guest_xxxxxxxxxxxxx. Maybe I'm just cursed.

However the code supplies exactly what I'm looking for to get details of frozen immortals and has some other goodies to get my teeth into. So many thanks for that. Got a remote exam starting in two hours so I'm going to have to somehow resist digging in for a day.

Josh