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Hey I have to ask how does the Borg bridge officer work, do you get to pick the officer's race or is it preset?
i believe you can choose between klingon and human. but i dont have it myself so i can be wrong.
YOu can mostly solo the game, true. But the most fun is to be had in a team of 2-5 players. Try it out, you'll see.
It's always a female engineer. Klingon or Human depends on your allegiance to the Federation or the Empire.
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Let's see:
PvP Matches
Deep Space Encounters
STFs
... that's about it.
See, STO is more like a single player game where you can meet up with others online. It's an MMO, but not really an MMO in the traditional sense.
I don't know, what you've described there is also how most people play most MMORPGs until endgame. And for that matter, how half of 'em play endgame.
Most people don't group through their leveling in WoW, either; it causes you to miss a lot of storyline. They solo level, and group for instances, heroics, and raids.
STO is the same; there's just not much endgame raiding yet other than 5-man equivalents of Heroics. Yet.
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The biggest difference between WoW and STO is the instancing. WoW has dungeon instances but players can still meet up anywhere on the server. STO does it everywhere, and it's difficult to stay in a group with STO as the instances don't really recognize groups, they just split you off.
I think you can get it if you pay for a yearly subscription to Star Trek Online.
Nope, there was a limited time offer some time back, but now the only way to get it is to buy it on the C-Store. It's 240 Cryptic points to buy it for one faction (either Federation or Klingon, and you get it for all characters of that faction.) That's three US dollars worth of c-points.
True, but it's a zillion times more fun playing with others. Which is why I stopped playing, since I couldn't convince anyone else to play it!
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Very few people are members anymore. It's a shame really. Hopefully they'll pick up in population.
Otherwise you can buy it in the C-Store. I got mine because of the special Amazon edition I bought.
So....my system rebuild seems to have gone well. I was surprised that I didn't need to call Microsoft to re-authenticate XP on a totally different motherboard/cpu/gpu. I just hit "authenticate", and it was done. It was an OEM disc.
Anyway, I'm sure I'll be giving STO a go fairly soon. I personally hate the box art and am wondering if there's anything to the retail version that makes it worthwhile over downloading, which last I checked was for $20. Is there a manual that's worth another $20-30 to have lying around? I tend to doubt it but thought I'd ask.
Anyway, I'm sure I'll be giving STO a go fairly soon. I personally hate the box art and am wondering if there's anything to the retail version that makes it worthwhile over downloading, which last I checked was for $20. Is there a manual that's worth another $20-30 to have lying around? I tend to doubt it but thought I'd ask.
Nope; all the box gets you (assuming standard edition, not collector's) is whatever "bonus" item that retailer carries, and nearly all of those can also be purchased in the C-Store now.
The manual is online.
The manual is online.
^ thanks. I've been following the saga of this game since the Perpetual days and am looking forward to it.
No. Your starting ship is always the same. Once you hit Lt.Com you can choose between the three tiers. Again, no "class" restriction. However, I would say that you get more of a boost to certain abilities by using the ships that match with your captain. A science officer will get more out of a science ship, for example, then a tac officer. But that doesn't always mean it's better, just depends on you really.
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