Stay up to date with the latest features, improvements, and fixes in FastTrek.
On Hostile Hunt, Keyword Hunter, and Passive Grind, you can now select Ship Abilities to be used when available:
The GS-31 cooldown is determined by its Tier setting in Settings > Ship Behaviour > Abilities.
For the Titan daily I recommend enabling the ability with Hostile Hunt set to 1 total kill in a low-level system, since it doesn’t track the number of activations.
I am pleased to confirm the release of FastTrek 2.0.
This is a major rewrite of several core functions, which has been in the works since March and in live-testing since around June.
FastTrek is a toddler now. It was born in 2022 as a rough Python script with a single hostile hunt automation and mining that could clear a mine but not find its way back. As it had grown ever more complex, the rudimentary programming techniques from 2023 were coming back to bite: Adding something new was starting to take weeks or even months instead of days, with significant risk of breaking something old.
The new engine has been designed from the ground up to provide better multi-ship coordination, new branching options, increased reliability, easier extensibility for new modes, and is backed by 1000+ new automated tests.
The scheduling and territory editors can be previewed, but schedules won’t fire without a subscription upgrade. That’s easily done via the Billing Portal, and as ever you can downgrade at any time if you don’t like it.
But trust me: you will :)
I wanted to put even more into this, and I could tinker forever. But it has become much more difficult to maintain the old version than to continue moving forward.
These are still planned:
Ship Abilities in Hostile Hunt/Keyword Hunter/Passive Grind:
Outposts
‘Winner’ rewards collection
Khan / Augment Champion Loop
Daily Webstore Mission Key collection
Some form of native Remote Control
(eventually) MCP server for control with your choice of AI agent
Added Group Armadas to the Solo Armadas automation.
They are clearly labelled in the armada type drop down and segregated into 14 new groups, all prefixed with *Group - *:
Where a group spans multiple factions, you’ll be able to use the system dropdown to find Armadas for the desired faction (added in 1.18.17).
Rarity is filtered as normal, and the system selector will only show systems with the selected group and rarity.
Ship limit: Obviously, the limit is only 1 of your own ships. Should you combine this with Solo Armada Support to send another ship, FastTrek will join both, and as per game rules, only the strongest (by power) will be chosen to participate.
I have made a significant effort to improve the dock position calculation when the game is resized or side chat is used.
Settings > Advanced > Auto-adapt docks to game window width is now enabled by default (it was opt-in before).
Hurray, with 94.1, bulk collection is available to everyone without the unfair 7-day login streak.
So this update removes all individual faction store options.
Faction store is now entirely bulk-collectable, so please set up your options in-game. FastTrek will only ask you to select which stores to visit. All are enabled by default.
Gift collection will now do a bulk collection first, then pick up any remaining solo gifts. This is way more streamlined and allows for the automatic collection of the Optical Diode conversion, as well as 7-day or 30-day chests that couldn’t be collected otherwise.
It is therefore worth setting up bulk collection in the game for your gifts.
If you noticed Scopely’s help pages opening randomly and multiple times, this was thanks to a new game bug they had introduced in the latest update. The game didn’t go back to the menu after collecting individual chests.
FastTrek would then continue to try and collect the same thing again, leading to a “transaction error”. And unfortunately, due to not knowing what to do with it, it ended up pressing the wrong button, opening help.
This primarily affected the Away Teams / Claims Section.
Although Scopely have now fixed this bug as of 1st September, FastTrek can now figure out when the game is in this state and will return to the menu after collecting. If for any reason it does get the transaction error popup, it will now close it correctly and return to the menu.
The system dropdown now shows faction tags for each system. You can also search for tags, e.g. try “FKR” (systems will are three major factions), “FED”, “BRG”, “VGER”, “GOR” or “SULI”.
FastTrek now has the option to spend Latinum on repair resources (such as Tritanium). This can come up for example if you are in late-G5 and repair a ship that requires G6.
To enable this option, go to Settings > Ship Behaviour > Repair and enable “Use Latinum to buy resources”.
Please note: If the setting is disabled (default), repair and any further automation on the same dock will not be possible. The automation will then end with a notification.
Fixed the long-standing issue of the ‘repeat’ selector at the bottom always showing ‘Forever’ instead of the actually-selected repeat option.
Changes in this update:
This update:
This update focuses on the Community Mod to enforce certain settings, including zoom presets, to provide a consistent experience for all players.
Inconsistent settings have been causing issues with rift navigation and missed clicks for some players.
For background, if a system is zoomed out too far, physical click windows become much smaller. This vastly increases the chance of the game placing the click on an unintended target or hostiles moving too far relative to the computed location.
Keyword Hunter is also affected by zoom, as it expects hostile names to be (just) visible when it runs.
Please review the above link, which shows what is expected and enforced.
Includes mod version 1.1.2.1 to fix STFC crashing on startup.
To install the mod update, click the notification (bell) icon in FastTrek’s top left corner and click the link.
On Windows this will install the mod and start the game.
On MacOS it will download the patched version for you to install manually.
If you recently updated the community mod, you may have noticed the new transition screens that replaced the black ‘Preparing’ screens.
Unfortunately, some players, including myself, have noticed that the game can get stuck mid-transition, and in addition the ‘Preparing’ screen no longer triggered a restart.
This version of FastTrek will automatically disable the transition in the mod. If it isn’t reverted to black ‘Preparing’ between screen loads, it should apply the next time the game restarts.
Added options to prioritise targeting for:
Adding priority means those targets will be preferred, and you can select more than one.
Elite selection is given a higher preference than type selection, as its primary use will be to grind for the recently-introduced G3 Ascension Resarch Tree.
Please also note that Elites priority and the existing ‘Avoid Elites’ options are mutually exclusive.
Examples:
| Target Selection | Priority Selection | Order of preference |
|---|---|---|
| Any | Interceptors | Interceptors, others |
| Interceptor or Explorer | Explorer | Explorers, Interceptors |
| Any | Interceptors, Elites | Elite Interceptors, other Elites, non-elite Interceptors, others |
FastTrek now attempts to collect the challenge track as part of Dailies.
One of the annoyances about using an STFC mod has been that mouse and keyboard became unavailable. Direct Control aims to address this by bypassing your mouse and keyboard. Read the link to get started.
Woohoo! Finally, with Update 91 Scopely have added a bulk faction store collection option. It is unlocked if you maintain a 7-day login streak in the game.
FastTrek will now use this in-game bulk collect feature when it is available. It will fall back to the previous one-by-one method if you miss a day and the streak resets.
Please make sure you set up your bulk collection within the game. On the next collection (which you can trigger manually), FastTrek will visit that faction and bulk-collect.
Some notes and possible quirks to watch: