– The ONLY choices you are locked into at character creation are your race, your gender, your traits, and your career path (tactical, engineering, science). More slots are available if you have a lifetime or yearly subscription, and presumably you can buy more from the STO store when it opens. When you unlock klingon, you get a third slot. Note: Due to length, I have to split this up into multiple posts. Also if you see anything that is inaccurate please post about it too. If you see anything I have missed, please reply and I will try to add it to the list. I have tried not to include direct spoilers about missions here.
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The goal of this is not to be a guide to any specific area of play, but rather a collection of tips, advice, and FAQs about how to make the most of STO’s gameplay.
I started this for members of my fleet on our own forums, but I wanted to post it here because I think it could benefit everyone as well. Also once your character in the Federation reaches level 6 you unlock the option to create a new character to play as a member of the Klingon faction.Star Trek Online Tips for New Starship Captains by Trace_Thorne I enjoy leveling and definitely getting loot so I like it fine. It doesn’t stop me from doing the missions. Yes I do get frustrated about having trouble moving or targeting. Maybe because I have seen worse I do not know. The ground combat (away missions) are not the best and really one of the complaints about the game I have heard. That is real cool and there are different beam weapons of course that is also good fun. You start off with photon torpedoes, but now I have plasma and quantum torpedoes. I do enjoy upgrading my weapons to better torpedoes. The PvP games are ok, but sometimes waiting on a game to start can be annoying. I really enjoy it! Especially in fleet battles with many other ships on both sides. The space combat in this game is excellent. Everyone you can sell it to might be a little different on the cost they would buy it for, but moving on. You however can sell items in your inventory.
That why I can save more energy credits which I believe you do not even get from missions right away. I typically got all my things from completely quests or loot. On the Earth Starbase there are places to get weapons and other gear as well. The bridge officers have to have a certain amount of skills but that should happening when you “Skill Up” you crew or character. once you get your second promotion (Lt Com). You can also promote your bridge officers from Ensign to Lt. You go out on missions (quests) space missions and away missions to level up. Once you get promoted for the first time. Having played the first few levels in the beta I was able to enjoy the beginning of the game even more. Once finished, you go back to the Sol system (earth starbase location) and there an Admiral will promote you to Lt and give you your own ship in this time of war. Once done you beam back to your ship and finish off the remaining Borg in a space battle. All the other Senior Staff have been killed and you beam aboard another starship to help clear the Borg off that ship. The game starts with you on-board a starship fighting the Borg and you are the highest ranking officer. The character creation process is not anything spectacular but it gets the job done, in my opinion. Also you can buy a Klingon or Ferangi to play as a Federation officer from the Cryptic Store. You have 6 or so outfits with many choices of customizing the outfit using colors, etc. This time I created a human male (bald like me) and enjoyed the outfit choices.
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This reminds me of Odo from the DS9 series who was an unknown species because he did not know where he came from or what he truly was. So in the beta I created an “unknown” alien. There are five federation species to choose from as well as a six “unknown” class of species you can create yourself. You have fives choices of species when creating your character and you can only be Federation. The retail game and the beta start off exactly the same.