What to do now?

omegaher0

I have a level 50 Engineer with a Star Cruiser and I am not sure what to do now... Since I am at max level (so are all my officers), there's no need for xp. I have been trying to play some of the other missions for the story, but it's just getting me as much as it used to. Abbout the only reason I keep playing is saving up dilithium for the excahnge so I can get enough Zen to get the Galaxy-X.

And I know about the STF missions but to be honest, I am not all that interested in the special Borg or Mako equipment that much (I DID spam the Dominion mission for a full set of Dominion parts for a ship, but that's it really). I have been thinking of starting a Kilingon character and seeing what it has to offer, but I'm not sure...

azurianstar

Well if you aren't interested in doing STFs, perhaps try Accolade Hunting?

Or go try the Foundry and make your own stories?

bohiap

Even if you don't want to grind STFs for the uber rare Mk XII ground set you still get dilithium and EDC for each run. EDC can be converted to dilithium.

As has been suggested there is also foundry missions.

There are also the fleet missions and the defari and nukara zones. You can play them even if you're not in a fleet. You'll get fleet marks, which may be useless to you at the moment, but you might want a pile of them later. At the very least you'll get gear that you can sell to a vendor ( in rare cases the exchange) and get EC.

zerobang

there are a thousand (ok more like a dozen...) things you can do in STO, just pick a goal you want to reach, any goal (!), and go for it.

you got all your doffing categories maxed yet?
collected 400 purple DOffs ?

accolade hunting completed?

join a fleet, build a base and do fleet stuff with them?

finished all fleet actions at least once?

beaten all story missions on Elite ...in a Constituition class ....and melee combat only?

there is foundry story content (missions don't give much in return in terms of dilithium or items, but if you are in it for the story it might be for you).

....PvP ?

Start another ALT with a new build? (i have 11 by now and it only now starts to get real repetitive in terms of skills / builds)

......

miloguy

I kind of felt similar to op but now just love to fly around
do some stfs when I want and I am working on a foundry but it aint easy

I could just spend hours on my bridge , or in my ready room or wander the ship,
pretending im a real captain!!

sometimes tho i wish there were more than just the Vice Admiral to aim for

szim

In the end it's just either grinding for dilithium, grinding for fleet marks, grinding for Borg tech, grinding for Reman datalogs or doing what you've done so far. Fighting in space and fighting on ground. Crafting is not worth the effort and PvP is nothing to even speak of.

The problem is that leveling up happens much to fast. If I could I would multiply the experience necessary for reaching level 50 by ten. What's the point in buying lower tier ships when you can reach the next rank in one evening of play? For me playing STO is about reaching the next level and flying the next ship. That's why I have 6 chars at level 50. But since they are I hardly play them anymore.

omegaher0

szim wrote: »

The problem is that leveling up happens much to fast. If I could I would multiply the experience necessary for reaching level 50 by ten. What's the point in buying lower tier ships when you can reach the next rank in one evening of play? For me playing STO is about reaching the next level and flying the next ship. That's why I have 6 chars at level 50. But since they are I hardly play them anymore.

That's MY issue! Once I hit max level, it kinda losses it's appeal for me. There's no reason to keep going for experience and since the parts doon't interest me that much (unless I get the Dreadnaught), there's not much point except to make another char and start over.

Also, since the higher tier ships are so much better, there's no reason to go back to the lower tier ships and play them them more. I barely got to play with my Excelsior class before it was time to upgrade again. I had thought about going back and playing with it more, but that would only be gimping me.

ikenstein1

Cyptic games have always been light on end game content. It was the same with City of Heroes. Once you got the spider to level 50 you had completed the game. There are 3 five man raids and half a dozen pvp maps. That is the sum total of STO endgame.

vestereng

I actually play stf elite in a lower tier ship because somone said you "can't get away with just anything" on elite.

Like when you show up for your first ground elite fresh on level 50 as a sci and can tank it easy, what's the point of grinding for better armor

Me personally I am getting my F2P carrier tomorrow night and I don't know where I will go from there.

Luckily I enjoy the combat in itself, especially ground, and don't need something to grind for to keep me interested, although I will admit to watching youtube on my laptop while I farmed for "Tiny".

Some of the stuff I do to keep it fresh is change weapons and abilities but as everyone said stf has by far the biggest rewards unfortunately making mostly everything else a semi waste of time.
So it's basically down to farming dil for shop items and if there isn't anything on there you want I don't know, are you ready to play 500 fleet missions for + 7.2% extra damage ?

grouchyotaku

omegaher0 wrote: »

I have a level 50 Engineer with a Star Cruiser and I am not sure what to do now... Since I am at max level (so are all my officers), there's no need for xp. I have been trying to play some of the other missions for the story, but it's just getting me as much as it used to. Abbout the only reason I keep playing is saving up dilithium for the excahnge so I can get enough Zen to get the Galaxy-X..

Note: If you get involved with a Fleet and Fleet Starbase development, some projects have a requirement to 'donate' your 'expertise' to finish the project...

Likewise with the Duty Officer system, there is a console on the Fleet Starbase that lets you convert CXP above the Tier 4 threshold into Fleet Marks for Starbase projects. This gives you the benefit of dropping a level capped Doff assignment category so you can once again earn CXP. And the Fleet Marks donated to Fleet Projects will generate Fleet Credits, which can be used to purchase high end ships and gear from the Fleet Starbase vendors...

commanderkassy

ikenstein1 wrote: »

Cyptic games have always been light on end game content. It was the same with City of Heroes. Once you got the spider to level 50 you had completed the game. There are 3 five man raids and half a dozen pvp maps. That is the sum total of STO endgame.

Not anymore, though I guess it sort of makes sense. Cryptic sells it, the new dev team makes it ten times better. There's a pretty huge and growing end game in CoH these days.

thecosmic1

ikenstein1 wrote: »

Cyptic games have always been light on end game content. It was the same with City of Heroes. Once you got the spider to level 50 you had completed the game. There are 3 five man raids and half a dozen pvp maps. That is the sum total of STO endgame.

It's a lot more complicated then that. Cryptic, essentially, had to stop production on new material for a year to convert the game to FTP - and did so with a staff of 20 rather then the current staff of 45. That's a year where we could have seen more FEs, more STFs, changes to PvP, etc.

It wasn't just about Cryptic not liking end-game content.

jayfresh11

I felt the exact same way when I reached level 50. I began to play stf missions, and also began playing foundry missions. I suggest playing the foundry missions, there are tons of them, and a lot of them are pretty entertaining and enjoyable to play. I know focus heavily on foundry missions, and am thinking of creating a mission myself.

syberghost

commanderkassy wrote: »

Not anymore, though I guess it sort of makes sense. Cryptic sells it, the new dev team makes it ten times better. There's a pretty huge and growing end game in CoH these days.

Of course, that's not a "new dev team" at Paragon; that's the same old dev team, minus a couple of folks; and some (most? all?) of those "couple of folks" are gone from Cryptic now too.

They never went through the upheaval the current folks did, of the Atari brain drain followed by the PWE "all hands on deck" effort.

omegaher0

Well, I decided to keep going JUST to get enough dilithium for the Galaxy-X, with a random story here and there.