Giving STO Another Try

[Tirius]

^^ It should be noted that those are the rewards for the event campaign of 2021, so you'll have to play multiple events over the year to unlock those. The singular rewards for this event alone are as follows:

• Molor’s Flaming Sword (and Account-Wide Unlock for Reclaim)
• 25,000 Dilithium Ore (once only)
• 3x Featured TFO Reward Boxes (once only)
  • Each gives a choice of 1x Specialization Point or an Enhanced Universal Tech Upgrade

I might go and run this on my Dominion recruit - I think he still has an outstanding task for running X amount of queues. The Klingon recruit only has tasks for random ones and queues v Romulans and humans, so that will not apply here.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Well crap! Looks like both Grym and Onna, from Drozana and DS9, respectively, have disappeared, only a few days after I finally found out about the Phoenix Prize Packs. You can still buy them from the Dilithium Store, but the daily freebies are gone. [grumble]. At least, this is on XBox. Don’t know about the other platforms.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^They will appear again.

Well my Klingon is doing well, all 2500 melee and cloak kills completed, all missions done, now the really fun part, random TFOs were it puts you into the same TFO 4 times in a row, so I think someone needs to point out the definition of random to Cryptic. lol

 

[Tirius]

^^
I got my melee task done as well, and the missions and the admiralty goal. Cloaks are on hold while I collect traits from a few non-Klingon ships that don't have a cloak, but I got in about 2000 already. As for the grind, doffing on marauding... and the endeavors are going to take a while. I rarely run TFO's, and even less on random, so I'm ok with that bit. There's quite a few I've actually never run at all. Also got most of my reps done, with the last one ready in 2 days. Those account reward boxes with marks from the other recruits really stack up nicely.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^^Yeah the rewards are very nice, i am on the home straight with on the last one at the half mark on random TFOs.

 

[Egyptoid]

I enjoyed the MMO game somewhat, but I wish there were actual RP groups there.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

I enjoyed the MMO game somewhat, but I wish there were actual RP groups there.

I think there are. Just not sure where to look for them.
I ran an RP fleet on the side once for a little while.

The MO was to play a task force dealing with the refuge fall out from Romulus destruction.
Well, years later Star Trek: Picard happened.
I was ahead of my time.

 

[Phily B]

I haven't played it for 6 or 7 years, just decided to install it on Steam.

Can I just make a new character like in WoW rather than have to figure out where I was up to before lol?

 

[137th Gebirg]

Well, sure. I think you have slots available for like 8 characters or something like that (upgradeable to more slots for a fee, of course). There's a special thing going on right now if you create a new Klingon character, with extra account-wide features and such, so you might want to consider that if you start up again. Not sure on the details on that - others here may be better-informed than I in that regard.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I haven't played it for 6 or 7 years, just decided to install it on Steam.

Can I just make a new character like in WoW rather than have to figure out where I was up to before lol?

It's like riding a bike again, won't take you long to get to grips with it again, but the first thing you need to do as Gebirg said is make a Klingon recruit and complete the tutorial, that way you get the bonus of all ships being open to all your charactors, and you don't need to rush the Klingon to level 65 as there is no time limit once you have made one.

But if your stuck or need some help drop a line here as i and a few otehr here are in the UK.

Plus i might add the game has changed big time in 7 years and mission wise you can see where you were up to know on your old toons as the interface has come on leaps and bounds from back in the day, much easier to keep track of stuff now.

 

[DaystromDropout]

My computer doesn't support it and I was strongly considering getting another computer jsut to play it. Then I thought to myself "I could do this and be out 400.00, or I could get new brakes for my ship or tires for that matter as my computer does everything else just fine"
I'm convinced that these MMO's have secret partnerships with hardware developers in order to get people like me who enjoy holding on to old things that work just fine being placed in a position where we have to buy new stuff.

 

[matthunter]

My computer doesn't support it and I was strongly considering getting another computer jsut to play it. Then I thought to myself "I could do this and be out 400.00, or I could get new brakes for my ship or tires for that matter as my computer does everything else just fine"
I'm convinced that these MMO's have secret partnerships with hardware developers in order to get people like me who enjoy holding on to old things that work just fine being placed in a position where we have to buy new stuff.

MMOs tend not to be since they WANT as wide a player base as possible. It's FPS games and the like that demand multiple GPUs and enough RAM to service a flock of ewes the size of Portugal.

STO isn't that demanding graphics-wise (especially if you turn the effects down to lowest settings) - how old is your PC?

 

[Haggis and tatties]

My computer doesn't support it and I was strongly considering getting another computer jsut to play it. Then I thought to myself "I could do this and be out 400.00, or I could get new brakes for my ship or tires for that matter as my computer does everything else just fine"
I'm convinced that these MMO's have secret partnerships with hardware developers in order to get people like me who enjoy holding on to old things that work just fine being placed in a position where we have to buy new stuff.

This game is 11 years old and can run on really old hardware with no issues, it will even run on ancient Windows XP and its hardware, and it can be scaled to meet your PC power, but what are you PC specs that this can't run?

 

[Coops]

I'm going to take a look at STO on my Xbox next weekend. My only issue with online play is that, whilst I don't consider myself antisocial, I'm not a fan of mixing it up with folk I don't know when gaming. GTAV - So many griefers I find it unplayable, RDR2 - not as bad but still irritating, various F1 games - people crashing into you for the sake of it and so on and so on.

Be honest, is STO worth my time or is it going to leave me annoyed?

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

As long as you don’t queue into specific group missions or are also offense by the mere presence of other people with wildly different character styles, you’ll be good. You can play 95% of the game alone.
And even in group missions, you don’t need to interact much if at all.
The game has like 2 small areas for pvp, that’s it.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

I'm going to take a look at STO on my Xbox next weekend. My only issue with online play is that, whilst I don't consider myself antisocial, I'm not a fan of mixing it up with folk I don't know when gaming. GTAV - So many griefers I find it unplayable, RDR2 - not as bad but still irritating, various F1 games - people crashing into you for the sake of it and so on and so on.

Be honest, is STO worth my time or is it going to leave me annoyed?

You don't get griefers in STO, the most you will ever come across are either players who are still learning the game or the rules to a certain TFO, or someone who is AFK, but most PUGS are completed without any issues, i just ran 150 randoms for the Klingon recruit reward and i would be hard pressed to think of say 5 were maybe the run had someone afk or the run was bugged, but i can't think of a way someone could grief as TFO run.

 

[Coops]

Thanks for the responses, I'll see you out there....thataway...

 

[Phily B]

What about the money aspect? I see there is no longer a subscription. I don't mind spending 10-15 quid on a MMO every month, but it was usually just the sub.

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

What about the money aspect? I see there is no longer a subscription. I don't mind spending 10-15 quid on a MMO every month, but it was usually just the sub.

You can still subscribe if you want.
Gets you some quality of life stuff, like character slots, bank slots, a zen stipend (for microtransactions that are sometimes not that micro), and more.
Or you can just spend you money on the Zen Store directly.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

What about the money aspect? I see there is no longer a subscription. I don't mind spending 10-15 quid on a MMO every month, but it was usually just the sub.

If you were to buy the LTS when it was on half price sale you then get half of that money back instantly in stuff like slots, ships, charactors, and extra goodies, then over the next year you get a 6000 zen stipend every 12 months, so it would take you 18 months to get back that LTS cost, then they are paying you to play the game.