star trek online

One of the bigger fleets, Jupiter Force is fairly casual friendly last i heard, I'ld suggest my own but we're not entirely active as a group at the moment. Probably wont be until the new Rom faction comes out.

That will change on tuesday with the launch of the romulan exapansion(free), the KDF will be given a 1-50 mission ark, explained here.

Speaking of which - launch trailer

The ambassador class, like all cruisers takes quite a bit of getting used to, with the slow turn rate. If you need any help, if Im on just gimme a shout @revenis

Each ship falls into a different class, escort, cruiser or science.

Escorts, like the defiants generally are glass cannons, high turn rates with alot of forward facing firepower but are squishy as hell. est armed with dual cannons/heavy dual cannons.

Cruisers, like the galaxy class, tend to have slower turn rates, more often than not, these will be the tanks. Usually best armed with beam arrays.

Science, tend to be hybrid ships of the above, they have by default a higher shield modifier aswell as the ability to target ship subsystems.

There is a 2 other classes, Carriers and Warbirds, both sides have access to carriers, but depending on the type, depends on how they are outfitted.

Warbirds, have the 3 main classes... but bewarned the turn rate on the bigger ones is comparable to carriers... (ie they dont turn, the universe turns around them). Alot of people are complaining about this, however its fine, the romulan battle cloak gives a massive turn rate increase ( from 4.2 to 20+)

One main thing, never mix and match different class of energy weapons eg phaseer, disrupter, plasma and so forth. For each different type that you have equiped, you loose -5 weapons power pershot. There are exceptions to the rule, with hybrid weapons.


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Addtionally ships lean towards what class of character you have, tacticals tend to go for escorts, engineers for cruisers and science for science, that is not to say that you cant choose anyship, at higher levels, there are hybrid ships.

for example cruisers for feds, you'll get a choice of either a star cruiser or sovereign class ship, one is slotted for engineers, the other leans more towards tactical.

To put it simply, the ship you fly is purely based on how you like to play

VinLieger wrote: »

Im the same went fed tactical but really just plodding along doing missions and picking up dilithium. No idea what weapons i should be going for that are best suited or if i should be crafting everything

I'll dig out a few guides when I get home from work, but the one thing I will say, don't bother with crafting, it's not worth the hassle.

in general, though i do have a couple of builds that can handle the power reduction for 2 types of weapons, on ships. On the ground this makes no difference.

Large update coming on thursday, lots of bug fixes apparently along with the new dilithium mining outpost for fleets. Which has some nice shiney upgrades for ship.

http://imgur.com/a/d3kvS

shiney new ship today for romulans - http://sto.perfectworld.com/news/?p=930741



I'm guessing early release and patch day is due to Independence Day on Thursday.

All being in a fleet does for you, is, unlocks starbase defense/invasion missions in the group que. Of course doing these with coordinated groups will be far more rewarding than pugs. And depending on the level of the starbase depends on what extra gear you would have access to.

character rank can be increased through missions, fleet actions, pvp, and through the duty officer mission system(though this does not give out large amounts of xp)

starbase rank and the reputaion tiers are increased through completing associated projects

Gold membership gives, costume sets,costume slots, shipslots, 2 faction ships per faction, pets, access to captains lounge(instance), automatic dil refining( can do 7 days if you havent logged on in that time, 99 billion credit cap, account bank slots and priority queing.

All but the last four depend on veterncy, and the prioity queing is the only thing that you cant keep unsubbed ( can pay to have the credit cap unlocked in the store)