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Star Trek Online Free to Play |OT| Boldly freeloading where others have subbed before
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They fight?
You get a free ship every 10 levels till 40, then you look into other options, fleet ships, earning and buying zen ships, or buying them from the exchange.
All ships can use non combat pets that just follow you around. If you want pets that fight then you have to fly one of the carrier ships.
Thanks for the help guys. So since I'm a tactical officer, escorts are my best bet right? My first free ship I got a cruiser and did fine with it but it took a bit to kill things. Now with my 2nd ship I got a escort and that things rips dudes apart. I also got a Ambassador class from doing a mission, is it worth using right now or should I stick with my escort.
Nikkuthulu
Member
That depends on what you're enjoying. If your escort is decked out in cannons, and you love zipping around.. switching to the Ambassador class could be a bit of shock. At it's heart it is a cruiser but the 4 front and 4 back is a really really nice set-up and could easily make something devastating. Could make a really nice beam boat if you like broadsiding things, or even 4 beams + 4 turrets would be fine. The two trade-offs would be the obvious cannon damage loss since it can't equip it.. but you'll gain more survivability and some decent science powers if you like those.
Really comes down to what you style of ships you enjoy. The thing I appreciate about this game is that any ship can work with any captain type.
Really comes down to what you style of ships you enjoy. The thing I appreciate about this game is that any ship can work with any captain type.
As Nikku says its all about what you enjoy, you can make any ship work. The escorts with cannons will tear things apart much better than the Ambassador can but on the flip side the Ambassador can survive better.
Tactical captains will work well in any ship so just choose a ship that matches your style of play.
As far as escorts go I'm a fan of the Fleet Tactical Escort Retrofit. Its pretty easy to obtain and with 5 tactical consoles it can put out a lot of damage. It doesn't hurt that the Defiant is my favourite ST ship as well.
Thanks to the Tactical Variant + Chevron Seperation, beam boating is working really well.
I don't go under 90 weapon power from what I see.
Which brings me to another question. 125 is the max power for any system, right? So what happens when you go over that cap? It feels like it's doing the damage that it should for 125 power, but the drop isn't more significant.
I don't go under 90 weapon power from what I see.
Which brings me to another question. 125 is the max power for any system, right? So what happens when you go over that cap? It feels like it's doing the damage that it should for 125 power, but the drop isn't more significant.
Nikkuthulu
Member
To my knowledge 125 is the 'soft' cap for power wise, but the hard cap is 160? Maybe 165, but 160 sounds right. Something in that range.
Anything over 125 is effectively like a safety net vs drains, mass weapon use etc. But as far as determining statistics from the value like weapon damage, it will only calculate up to 125.
Anything over 125 is effectively like a safety net vs drains, mass weapon use etc. But as far as determining statistics from the value like weapon damage, it will only calculate up to 125.
WhiskeyDiver
Member
So how active is the Gaf guild in STO? I'm thinking about leaving mine since the activity is sporadic at best. My tag is Zilara@Salonius
Also, here's my baby until I can finally afford the VA Artimage/akira refit.
Also, here's my baby until I can finally afford the VA Artimage/akira refit.
I'd say we were fairly active these days. Plus we joined up with a Klingon fleet a while back so we now have a KDF fleet you can join.
Big patch coming to Tribble today - hopefully on the production version of the game soon:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=746101
All the playable ships in the game:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=746101
All the playable ships in the game:
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Dove in for a few hours on a whim a couple days ago. I continue to love this game for just how dense the earnest fan-service is. Case in point: I love how the new Romulan ships have their own kind of "black hole implosion" destruction animation
So pretty much any ship that has been seen is in the game?
lastplayed
Member
What's with the deep space encounters? Every time I enter one I instantly get the message "Well done captain, we've defeated them!", and there's no objectives or anything.
Nikkuthulu
Member
Yeah. All the ships work really. Just comes down to a decent build with a good player behind the wheel not making like.. a skittles boat or something.
As for the deep space encounters.. they can get seriously bugged and not reset when they should. Usually someone completes the mission, and then leaves yet it doesn't reset. Sorta like how sometimes on a Red Alert Borg you can zone into an already complete instance.
As for the deep space encounters.. they can get seriously bugged and not reset when they should. Usually someone completes the mission, and then leaves yet it doesn't reset. Sorta like how sometimes on a Red Alert Borg you can zone into an already complete instance.
Infected is the easiest space STF to get the optional; Khitomer is the easiest ground STF.
Next time you're on, get one of us to help out!
lastplayed
Member
Just been messing around and created some posters for my three main characters. They all feature the captain and away team.
You can earn Nukara Marks by either running missions on... Nukara (in the Eta Eridani sector block), or any other mission involving Tholians. Azure Nebula Rescue and Crystalline Catastrophe both have Nukara Marks as optional rewards.
Sax Russel
Banned
I was actually kind of surprised (and thankful!) they didn't make any of the reps a massive dilithium sink too.
Fleet upgrade grind lol
Sax Russel
Banned
Oh yeah, but I never for a second imagined that would stop them from adding a personal one too =P
GungHo
Single-handedly caused Exxon-Mobil to sue FOX, start World War 3
I opened this up again a couple of days ago... wow they changed the UI a lot. I have a rear admiral (45), but I have no idea how to play her any more, nor do I remember what the skills do or where I'm supposed to apply points. I left when the Galaxy X was released, so haven't even used the Duty Officer interface, etc. Same thing for the Klingon captain. Will probably do what H-town mentioned and create a newbie Romulan to learn the ropes again.
You'll need to leave that fleet before I can invite you...
Alright, I'm out of the old fleet.
Affeinvasion
Member
I'm bummed that I didn't find out about the re-run all featured episodes thing until it was like half-over. I blazed through the Romulan and Dominion story missions after having only bothered to the Klingon chapter originally. Ran out of time while doing the Borg chapter and missed out on the Breen chapter which I was really looking forward to. Oh well.
You can do the missions anytime you just miss the unique reward. Don't worry about it too much as they'll re-run them again in the future.
Sax Russel
Banned
The Risa stuff is actually pretty fun. The jetpack is implemened really well, I think, both in terms of controls and the traversal. I'm also impressed the whole thing isn't some big cash grab with C-store stuff everywhere. Maybe playing MWO has made me too cynical =P I only wish there was a bit more to do/the island was a bit bigger, but overall a nice summer event.
Affeinvasion
Member
I got 40 pearls doing the jetpack event with the loaner jetpack. Assuming that same pace for pearl acquisition, it would take 25 days to reach 1000. It sounds tedious, but is definitely possible over the course of July.
Affeinvasion
Member
seems very Thunderball
Sax Russel
Banned
After a lot of Horga'hn hunting...
Wheeeeeeee~
This thing is so fast and handles so well, compared to the 50 favor one. It's basically like a sports car vs an overloaded van, no exaggeration.
I really hope this is kind of a test launch for the floater, and like with the enviro suits, we'll get some more content in the future to play with them.
Wheeeeeeee~
This thing is so fast and handles so well, compared to the 50 favor one. It's basically like a sports car vs an overloaded van, no exaggeration.
I really hope this is kind of a test launch for the floater, and like with the enviro suits, we'll get some more content in the future to play with them.
been there. they've added a ton of stuff since launch
it might be better to start a Romulan character if you have an open slot, and play through on that guy for a while, so you get tutorials on all the new stuff.
Sax Russel
Banned
So I was doing a Fed Fleet Alert during a bonus marks event yesterday. I wanted to squeeze in one more while the event was running, but there's a 30 minute cooldown on queueing for it again after you finish, and I'd be a bit short on time. So, my heart weighed down with deep, deep guilt, I left early, figuring when the 30 min was up I'd have just enough time for one more before it ended. And then. I noticed I didn't have the 30 min CD.
You don't get put on the cooldown when you quit early. What. Cryptic what are you doing.
So you join a Fed Fleet Alert. Within the first ~4 minutes you get 42 fleet marks. At this point you have two options.
1) Leave and immediately requeue and get another 42 marks in 4 minutes.
2) Stay for another ~4 minutes to get 10 more marks and incur a 30 minute cooldown on repeating the mission.
...L O L
You don't get put on the cooldown when you quit early. What. Cryptic what are you doing.
So you join a Fed Fleet Alert. Within the first ~4 minutes you get 42 fleet marks. At this point you have two options.
1) Leave and immediately requeue and get another 42 marks in 4 minutes.
2) Stay for another ~4 minutes to get 10 more marks and incur a 30 minute cooldown on repeating the mission.
...L O L
Sax Russel
Banned
Haha, no alts -_-
Sometimes I'll type something out, to the effect of everyone should be leaving early, since you can just requeue without the mission on CD /wave! Really I should just keep that ready to paste =P
Some Google shows me that it's been this way for (at least) months. How hard can it be to have the game slap a CD on you when you leave. All this time I saw people leaving I thought they just didn't want to deal with the final siege group wave, and I kept thinking "Pfft 30 min CD what else are you going to do, might as well get the 5 marks." Feel silly now XD
Sometimes I'll type something out, to the effect of everyone should be leaving early, since you can just requeue without the mission on CD /wave! Really I should just keep that ready to paste =P
Some Google shows me that it's been this way for (at least) months. How hard can it be to have the game slap a CD on you when you leave. All this time I saw people leaving I thought they just didn't want to deal with the final siege group wave, and I kept thinking "Pfft 30 min CD what else are you going to do, might as well get the 5 marks." Feel silly now XD