Star Trek Online Catch-All

I dunno, I've enjoyed the pvp I've done. Just dipped my toe into it a while back, but it didn't seem so bad.

I enjoyed my time with STO over the weekend.

I fired up a newb Romulan that ended up allying herself with the Klingons at Lieutenant (level 10). I was really disappointed with the new ship options made available to me at level 10. I guess the ships available to the Federation characters are the only ones with stronger delineation between Science, Tactical, and Cruiser options.

I also created a Klingon and found myself feeling the same as the Romulan ships. The look of my new ship was great but I preferred the performance and layout of prior ship. (aside from the extra weapon slot) My Klingon ship I felt the most devastating tactic was to act like a big turret. When an enemy was in range, I cut engines to 20%, pushed my shields forward and blasted the enemy to pieces and throwing a shield repolarization when necessary. I found I could pick off one of the enemy ships before his 2 friends closed 1500 clicks to be in weapon range.

I think I much preferred the nested figure 8 (instead of circle) strafing of the Federation ships. I guess the tactical ships you could probably play successfully like my Klingon "turret" and the cruiser can't help but be only a bit more mobile than a turret =( But I really liked loading up 270 degree phaser banks and a mine loader in my science vessel when the game launched.

It probably won't be that bad, but I'd just rather not have to redo the federation content. It does seem like it will be a bit different if the starting quests for the Romulan and Klingons are any indication. I am pretty sure my launch character made it to or was spitting distance from tier 4 ships. Man I do not know what came out a few months after STO launched to keep me from getting my tier 5 Gryphon. (loved the look of that ship!)

I probably have a stray STO account that didn't get migrated over to when Perfect World bought Cryptic. So they are using my Neverwinter account which had no STO attached to it. (I cannot keep track of all my mmo accounts that I have abandoned for 6-12 months or more)

You can level up fairly quickly via the PvE instances (fleet defence, gorn minefield, etc.) and the deck officer system which starts at L10.

fangblackbone wrote:

I probably have a stray STO account that didn't get migrated over to when Perfect World bought Cryptic. So they are using my Neverwinter account which had no STO attached to it. (I cannot keep track of all my mmo accounts that I have abandoned for 6-12 months or more)

I had the same problem. I just went back to STO and I could not, for the life of me, figure out how to get it to recognize my launch day account since both it and my Neverwinter account use the same e-mail. So I decided to start over fresh. Actually doesn't bother me as they've changed so much since I last played. I had a max level Federation engineer with multiple high-end ships so this time I'm heading down the Klingon path to try out the carriers. From the description is almost sounds like a pet class though it could end up being nothing more than the space version of the ground engineer who deploys turrets. Guess I'll see.

I saw where STO has a online gateway like Neverwinter does but it seems like all you can do is look at your character and ship stats. I was really hoping I would be able to manage duty officer missions from there. I'm assuming there's no way for me to do that outside of the game itself?

I only just realized that there was a Mac version out so I gave this game a try.
This is not an easy game to get into. The Klingons seem like more fun than the federation but the acting is so bad.
I don't know if it's just a Mac thing but for me it takes way to long for the game to actually start. I will try it a few more times, but the startup time seems to create an annoying barrier to play.

It's Star Trek man. I know a lot of the actors have incredible chops when it comes to acting, but it's more about camp and tropes than anything.

Yeah, I just finished up a part over the weekend that had the actress who played Tasha Yar. She wasn't a great actress in the show and her voicework wasn't any better. That being said, it's still nice to hear the voices of the real actors now and again to help with the immersion. They have a lot of those little touches that make you feel like you're in an episode of one of the shows. The title of the "episode" you're playing coming up in the Star Trek font when you enter a system, even the character select screen showing your bridge officers posed around you, your ship in the background and "These are the voyages of..." tagline. Of course I've been playing a Klingon this time around so it says "these are the battles of..." which is another tiny thing to help put you in the mindset of your character. I feel like the game has aged nicely though I still get the occasional bug in a mission and I feel like they've put way too many ships behind the pay wall but other than that, I'm really enjoying my second go-around with this game.

I'm a lifetime sub, so while I never really worry about the paywall, I can see that being an issue for folks, particularly the really iconic ships, like the Defiant.

And the fact that the ships are 10-20 bucks a pop? No thank you.

Kehama wrote:

Yeah, I just finished up a part over the weekend that had the actress who played Tasha Yar.

Denise Crosby. One more of those and we'll take away your Trekker card.

Kehama wrote:

And the fact that the ships are 10-20 bucks a pop? No thank you.

Well, if you are willing to farm the dilithium (in game currency) you can eventually convert it to enough Zen to get a ship.

You can also (again if you are willing to farm) convert credits into keys to open boxes and accrue lobi crystals (or just plain buy a ship off the AH).

Finally, if you are in a fleet you can opt for the fleet conversion stuffs which are relatively cheap as zen and get on of the tier 5 fleet ships.

Farming enough Dil for a particular ship isn't that annoying a burden, speaking as a strictly F2P captain who plays very occasionally and isn't in a fleet. Its almost trivial for a Klingon, in fact, due to the raiding missions you can send your officers on. I trade most of the contraband over to my Fed captain, who turns it in for dilithium. And since the Klingon can put the dilithium up for trade to earn zen which can then be used on any character, I don't feel like I'm lacking options for fun ships to fly. If anything, I have too many fun ships right now.

Its getting enough dilithium to gear out the ships that gets annoying. Less so now that I've worked most of the factions up, true, but still more so than just getting the ship.

I just hit level 30 and the last time I'd really played the game was before the zen store so I guess I just haven't started really churning out the dilithium yet. I think I've got around 700 or so at the moment and zen was going for 130 dilithum so I just saw it as needing 195k dilithium for a mid-tier ship and if my current pace stayed true it would take about 278 weeks to get that much dilithium. I'm assuming the pace of dilithium income will start to pick up?

Significantly. At 50, on my klingon captain, I can easily earn way more than the 8k a day you are allowed to refine as a F2P captain. Its not as easy for the feds, but still very doable. There are a lot more options for the level 50 fed/rom/klingon captains to earn dilithium. Various daily missions, such as the ones in the Dyson sphere, the 5 man task forces against the Borg, and sending duty officers off on various missions can rack up a lot of dilithium - either as direct rewards or indirectly, such as gaining contraband to turn in for a large lump sum of dilithium. The Academy daily can be done in a few minutes, and gives 480 dil. The reputation grind can generate a lot of dilithium.

Basically, just play, level up and don't bother trying to get any ships with dilithium prior to 50. You will outlevel everything long before you can gather enough to afford it.

Also at max level (at least as a Fed) you can get a few dailies that relatively quickly get you to the daily cap of what you can refine for dilithium.

Yeah, hitting your cap in the Fed isn't all that difficult either. With our guild, you can also do the mining for dilithium missions too for a little extra pop. There's also the Excavation daily quest you can complete that's worth a whole buttload of dilithium since you get two daily quest credits for it and you can get the in queue credit for it.

Is anyone in a Klingon fleet that they would recommend? I hit 50 yesterday with my Klingon character though I'm still going through the quests in the order they feed them to you. Just finished up the Dyson Sphere quests with Tuvok. That was two missions nearly back to back where they had me try out different ships for that mission only. Though I realize it's a blatant sales tactic, I liked being able to try out stuff I might not have used otherwise.

Now to figure out what I'm going to work towards next. There's a ship on the exchange that I'd really like to get hold of but it's 90 million EC and right now I'm at 900k. Guess I'll have to research it and see if there are any other ways I can get hold of it. I suppose I can also work on some rep grind stuff or maybe dip into some foundry content. I'll probably keep leveling my Romulan and Federation charcters until their stories all come together. It was definitely odd, as a Klingon character, having dialogue later in the game where my senior officers are telling me we have to save the innocent civilians or that they've called on the Federation for aid so we have to help them. They'd tack on a "Q'pla!" at the end or something but you could tell it was definitely not written originally as a Klingon storyline.

One thing to note is that F2P captains have a hard cap of 10 million EC max. Of course you can buy an increase to that limit to 1 billion for just 400 C-Points in the store...

Have a gwj Klingon side. But I'm not sure how active it is.

EDIT: GWJ Fleet that is. But I haven't played in months. I'm sure it's still there though, but not sure who else has access to invite.

So I've been going back and forth with Cryptic/Perfect World/Arc support on regaining access to my old launch day Cryptic account. The short of it is I had apparently missed a window when STO went over to Perfect World to have my Cryptic account brought over. Now, because the account I've been playing STO with was also used to play Neverwinter, they can't merge my old Cryptic account. In order to regain access to my old account they had to attach my old Cryptic account to a new e-mail address that has never been used by Cryptic or Perfect World, reset that password, then create a new Perfect World account with a new e-mail address that has no games attached to it at all. Once I did that I then had to update their customer service with the two accounts info so that they can attach the old Cryptic account to the new Perfect World account. So soon I'll have two active STO accounts with a max level captain on each though only one will get access to all the veterans rewards. At least I'm assuming my old captain will get access to them... Not really sure it was worth the hassle.

*edit*
Okay... so you only get veteran rewards for the amount of time that you had an active gold, aka $15 a month, subscription, not the age of your account. Silver level and free players get no veteran rewards. Oh well.

How about lifetime subscribers?

Lifetime subscribers automatically qualify for all veteran rewards.

I was able to log in with my old character for the first time last night and the differences I noticed from my purely free acount were the following: double the starting inventory space, bank space was the same, I seem to be able to have more active ships before hitting the cap, I don't think I have the 1m limit on EC, and had about 3 times as many active bridge officers though that could just be because they were active previously, not sure if a new character on that account could have so many officers.

I know not a lot of action going on in here but just downloaded and want to give it a shot since I love the Star Trek universe.

sjam613 wrote:

I know not a lot of action going on in here but just downloaded and want to give it a shot since I love the Star Trek universe.

Guild is still going on game, Captains with Jobs.. just let them know you're part of the Gamers with jobs crew.

BlackSheep wrote:
sjam613 wrote:

I know not a lot of action going on in here but just downloaded and want to give it a shot since I love the Star Trek universe.

Guild is still going on game, Captains with Jobs.. just let them know you're part of the Gamers with jobs crew.

Thanks will join!

Sorry newbie thing but search for Captains With Jobs under Fleet and nothing comes up. Is there a different way to do it?

Never mind figured it out.

Very nice, look forward to seeing you on.. if you have problems getting on, just PM me through steam when I'm around and I'll be happy to add you.

Thanks I will dig through this thread but for me the controls in the space area has been tough.

Enjoy the game since I love the world but piloting a ship so far has been a drawback.

I find driving via mouse in space works best, also you can set weapons to autofire so you are not routinely hitting those hot keys.