‘Passive Grind’ mode has been available since version 1.4.0 of the FastTrek Bot for Star Trek® Fleet Command.
When you autogrind in certain systems, your ship will eventually be destroyed by the chasers.
With the FastTrek bot for STFC you can have the ship repair automatically and be sent back to continue gaining XP. This allows you to sit in higher level systems to make your passive grind more efficient.
When and Where do Chasers Attack?
There are some systems where you will be targeted by hostile ‘chasers’ as soon as your ship enters. This includes:
| Augment (Data) Systems | Bounty Hunters, once you reach a certain reputation with the Augment faction |
| FKR Systems | Fighters/War Coalitions, etc, in higher level faction systems, or when you have “negative “Enemy” reputation (below -500) with the respective faction |
| Texas Systems | Texas Class Sentries will attack your Monaveen |
It is common for players to park their ships in one of these systems, which means you’ll be attacked about once a minute, and the ship will gain Ship XP and loot automatically. You won’t need to actively click anywhere, hence Passive Grind.
It’s a great way to level up ships like miners or support ships, which don’t normally see combat, or those that require millions of XP. The Feesha and Titan are prime examples.
Hijack Detection
As of FastTrek version 1.5.0 you can enable an option to detect “Hijacks”. This is what I call it when another player kills your chaser. Some do this by accident, others do this on purpose to annoy.
Now we no longer care, because with Hijack Detection enabled, FastTrek will monitor your ship and if it hasn’t seen any battle for 5 minutes, FastTrek will recall/reposition the ship so that it will once again be targeted.
