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Star Trek Online Free to Play |OT| Boldly freeloading where others have subbed before
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Hover your mouse over the weapon icon on your hud while you're in the ship and it'll show you the arc.
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Deleted member 10571
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Thanks for the code! Can't order the game on Amazon.com though, but at least I should have a fancy new uniform now :>
Also is the Tag "ingamehandle@username"?
An example of diminishing returns I was talking about for this F2P
As I got to Vice Admiral, level 50, the highest rank you can get in the game thus far on the Federation side... all the gear that you were used to in the higher Marks that give you like better weapons/shields/bonuses get smaller and smaller to the point you don't benefit from all the energy credits you spend to get that gear after the fact.
I was under the impression that by getting to Vice Admiral, I was due a new ship credit like I had at every other rank upgrade, but no... since the F2P, you get jack squat. You get the "permission" to buy a new ship with Cryptic Points like those Retrofit ships like the Defiant or the Enterprise from All Good Things future etc, but not an actual ship token to get one of them for free like you might have before the F2P.
Not trying to turn people away from this game, but adjust expectations accordingly or find some other fun things to look forward to when playing this game.
As I got to Vice Admiral, level 50, the highest rank you can get in the game thus far on the Federation side... all the gear that you were used to in the higher Marks that give you like better weapons/shields/bonuses get smaller and smaller to the point you don't benefit from all the energy credits you spend to get that gear after the fact.
I was under the impression that by getting to Vice Admiral, I was due a new ship credit like I had at every other rank upgrade, but no... since the F2P, you get jack squat. You get the "permission" to buy a new ship with Cryptic Points like those Retrofit ships like the Defiant or the Enterprise from All Good Things future etc, but not an actual ship token to get one of them for free like you might have before the F2P.
Not trying to turn people away from this game, but adjust expectations accordingly or find some other fun things to look forward to when playing this game.
Welcome.
I believe that's right.
Mine is Jommi@jdizzle220. I'm an Andorian Engineer and I'll be looking to play a tank role. If you see the U.S.S. Masamune, say hello!
This game is SOOOO awesome so far. The character creation is the best I've ever seen in an MMO so far. It kills FFXI, FFXIV, WoW, and the SWTOR character creators (those are the only MMOs I've played). It gives you as many variables as the avatar creator in Playstation Home, except the end result is not an ugly monstrosity.
We really need to make a fleet! It looks like there aren't really different servers is that right? It didn't ask me which server I wanted to join after making my character.
I don't remember if you ever got a ship for Vice Admiral. I think it makes more sense to not get the highest tier ship just from leveling up, it's like high end loot you should have to grind out some raids to get one.
If you're annoyed with buying gear, don't buy gear. Just turn up the difficulty setting so the drop rates on enemies improve and pew pew your way to upgrades.
So you have to earn dilithium from missions or finding it, and you are allowed to refine some limited amount of it per day to refined dilithium that is the highest currency in the game?
Is it used to buy anything from vendors? Or is it just for trade on the C-Point exchange?
Do you have to manually allot dilithium to be refined each day (so log in every day to use your allotment)?
Is it used to buy anything from vendors? Or is it just for trade on the C-Point exchange?
Do you have to manually allot dilithium to be refined each day (so log in every day to use your allotment)?
Yes! Are some of you guys subscribers? I heard you can't make a fleet on a free account until you've played 20 hours, is that right?
Dilithium auto refines up to 7 days I believe. Some vendors take it; you can buy items and ships, and once you have ranked up a commendation category (diplomacy, science, military etc.) you can buy Duty Officers too. So its designed to be useful in of itself, otherwise who'd buy it for C-Points?
I still subscribe, so don't worry about fleet rules. We just need 5 of us online at the same time.
I still subscribe, so don't worry about fleet rules. We just need 5 of us online at the same time.
The thing about those supposed vice admiral ships... their specs are in some ways less than the ships you get at rear admiral
The only bonus' would be the extra consoles that give you weird abilities like a cloaking device or a saucer separation or something but you may get less consoles on the bridge or a weaker hull or something
The only bonus' would be the extra consoles that give you weird abilities like a cloaking device or a saucer separation or something but you may get less consoles on the bridge or a weaker hull or something
BigJonsson
Member
Ummm
I'm trying to download this but the download is going super slow, I'm using the client from the STO website
Any other places to get this?
Edit - Ok, now its up to an ok speed, but not great
I'm trying to download this but the download is going super slow, I'm using the client from the STO website
Any other places to get this?
Edit - Ok, now its up to an ok speed, but not great
Being a previous subscriber but ran out over a year ago, when I came back 2 weeks ago I noticed I was given some free cryptic points as well, but it was more like 800 cryptic points...in retrospect, I wished I hadn't spent it so quick so that it woulda halved my journey to get enough points to get that Defiant retrofit.
What did you spend it on?
TurtleSnatcher
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Y'all shoulda been there earlier
They actually had Q show up... he was at Earth Spacedock near the Admiral Quinn's office... if you talked to him, he could turn you into different creatures, albeit for a limited time span. You could also visit the Q Continuum but as seen as a winter wonderland (this was most likely a Christmas Holiday hold over) and compete for prizes in a race of sorts... the ultimate being a chance to win a full on Jem'Hadar Attack ship you could pilot.
They actually had Q show up... he was at Earth Spacedock near the Admiral Quinn's office... if you talked to him, he could turn you into different creatures, albeit for a limited time span. You could also visit the Q Continuum but as seen as a winter wonderland (this was most likely a Christmas Holiday hold over) and compete for prizes in a race of sorts... the ultimate being a chance to win a full on Jem'Hadar Attack ship you could pilot.
Whatever, I'll be there for the next Christmas event.
Jem'Hadar ships aren't that good looking.
They do look pretty nifty. I'm still hoping for a "Starfleet Grey" material to be made available for the Vulcan D'Kyr science vessel I bought. There was a bit of a debate at the time they released it, with some saying it shouldn't be available as it was years out of date, and others (like me) saying it should just be a regular Starfleet ship with Starfleet colours that was built to Vulcan design aesthetics.
DiscoJer
Member
Since it's not on Steam yet I decided to try the downloader until I saw that it was Pando!
So that's your answer - basically it's a torrent, not a direct download. How is it in this day and age that all these F2P companies are so cheap about bandwidth? Not just fly by night companies - Turbine, this, and now NCSoft, too.
The worst part is, once it's downloaded Pando doesn't uninstall itself, it keeps running in the background uploading. So be sure to remove it when it's done.
There are no servers as such to chose from. "Holodeck" is the main play shard. There's "Tribble" and "Redshirt" shards which are for public test builds, but you need to opt in to them and right now there's only a couple of minor differences between them and live.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
OP is way too clustered (sorry).
Is it a ships-based MMO like EVE or is it similar to SW:TOR?
Is it a ships-based MMO like EVE or is it similar to SW:TOR?
It's ~60% ship based, the rest is ground based, so both?
Ship combat is much more fun and actiony than EVE, travel is faster than EVE, ground is fairly standard MMO fare except you can choose to use free aim instead of auto-target if you want Mass Effect 1 style combat (you aim, but dice rolls still affect accuracy). Also, you get to bring your bridge officers with you to the ground as your Away Team back up, so you can solo most of the missions since you'll have every class with you and can give them orders, also kinda ME1 style. No dialogue wheels though.
There is a difficulty setting, raise it for better loot drops and tougher enemies.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Thank you for the summarized reply! Guess I will download it when I head home. 
BattleMonkey
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Eh I wouldn't say 65-70% ship based, lot of quests are heavily ground based and take up majority of said quest, especially lot of the games original quest lines which had long stretches of nothing but fighting waves of mobs. Even many of the smaller side generic quests involve a bunch of ground combat with a quick beam up for a short battle in space. It's really quest dependant, and when actually taking part in MP aspects being ground/space based is generally up to player preference.
I'd still say it's more ship than ground, so maybe 60% then?
BattleMonkey
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Only for the fact that most of the time you simply are just floating around in your ship. Actual quest content varies though in how it's split. Outside of quests, players have little reason to leave their ship.
Well you have to leave your ship to deal with merchants at space stations.
I enjoy the variety that mixing up space and ground combat gives the game.
BattleMonkey
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You only have to do that once in a while, most of the time you just stay in your ship, game doesn't really have "social hubs" or places where many players gather. And they space based merchants let you avoid having to dock anywhere to sell off stuff. I think they tried to Alpha Memory into a hub in a sense by forcing players to go there for crafting originally, but now that is not going to be needed either.
Why can't I use my ship's sickbay as a sickbay instead of going to a Starbase? Make it more expensive if you have to, but if the only difference between the sickbay on my ship and a sickbay at a Starbase is the presence of an NPC, let me recover from injuries by going to the bridge and traveling down to sickbay in the turbolift.
Having to go to a starbase to recover from injuries is a death penalty.
Obviously, but the time it takes to travel to your bridge, down the turbolift and to sickbay is roughly comparable to the time it takes to click "transwarp to Earth spacedock" and go to that sickbay. There's little downside, and it makes the interior of your ship somewhat useful.
EDIT: heck, if you want, make it so that Critical Injuries have to be cured at a spacedock, because "we don't have the facilities necessary" or something, but let Major and Minor Injuries be curable in Sickbay.
Make an official suggestion then. Maybe they'll add it down the road.