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Gold Membership trial -which benefits do you get to keep permenantly?

shireknightshireknight Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited February 2014 in The Academy
I've been waiting for a sale on the lifetime membership deal however in the meantime yesterday I purchased a months gold membership in order to get a bigger inventory and unexpectedly found I have now also inherited four extra Bridge Officer slots as well which I'm hoping I will get to keep after the month is up.

Can someone tell me please which Gold member benefits do you keep once the month expires and which do you lose please? :)
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  • ursusmorologusursusmorologus Member Posts: 5,328 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    You will lose the Energy Credit cap upgrade, and you will lose the extra character slot if you dont create a new character to fill it. I am pretty sure everything else remains.

    You should level up any alts you have planned now. Gold chars get accelerated Exp gains, and you can run an alt up to lvl 50 pretty quick with the bonus (you can also get "skill bonus" tokens on the exchange, to further speed it up). More importantly, gold toons get free respec token at every 10 levels, which cost 500 zen otherwise.
  • admrenlarreckadmrenlarreck Member Posts: 2,041 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    You will also lose the extra BOFF slots for going back to silver, If you fill them up, they stay however if you want to add any more as a silver with the extra slots from gold you have to purchase the four slots that the gold gave plus the extra slots for whatever boff you want to add Same goes for characters. and the extra ship slots you get as well.

    Any EC you earn over 10 million will remain you just cannot gain more ec untill you have dropped below the ec cap.

    Pretty much the only thing you get to keep, are any respecs you earn by leveling up, the Account bank, and the extra bank and inventory space.
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  • shireknightshireknight Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Thanks a lot guys I was only really after the extra inventory and bank slots but I'll make sure I fill the Character and the Boff slots before the months up to tide me over until the next Lifetime membership offer comes around -hurry up Perfect World I want my Lifetime Veteran goodies :o
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  • diotwdiotw Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    I would also recommend looking on Amazon and buying a copy of the Collector's Edition. I got one for US$15, which is basically the price of a month's subscription, and as well as that one month of Gold status I also got the physical stuff (art book, 2409 badge) and some bonus in game content too (Red Matter Capacitor, TOS Constitution Class, Riviera Tribble, and Targ pet).
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  • bejaymacbejaymac Member Posts: 448 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    You don't go from being Gold back to being Silver, otherwise you would lose all of the Gold perks, instead you end up as a "ex-Gold" as you will have days listed under the vet system. This means your existing characters get to keep everything they have unlocked except for the EC limit, and any new characters you make after you stop being Gold will have access to some of the Gold perks, ie the account bank, all 10 Boff slots and all ship slots.

    <-- ex-Gold with 10 days vet, thanks to an alienware promo back when STO went F2P, I got two rows in the account bank when they first created it, and every character I've made since that promo expired has all Boff and ship slots when they hit 50.
  • nagrom7nagrom7 Member Posts: 995 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    You will also lose the extra BOFF slots for going back to silver, If you fill them up, they stay however if you want to add any more as a silver with the extra slots from gold you have to purchase the four slots that the gold gave plus the extra slots for whatever boff you want to add Same goes for characters. and the extra ship slots you get as well.

    Any EC you earn over 10 million will remain you just cannot gain more ec untill you have dropped below the ec cap.

    Pretty much the only thing you get to keep, are any respecs you earn by leveling up, the Account bank, and the extra bank and inventory space.

    I think I managed to keep the extra boff slots on my toons, and even the ones I created after ending the sub. Weird.
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  • shireknightshireknight Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    diotw wrote: »
    I would also recommend looking on Amazon and buying a copy of the Collector's Edition. I got one for US$15, which is basically the price of a month's subscription, and as well as that one month of Gold status I also got the physical stuff (art book, 2409 badge) and some bonus in game content too (Red Matter Capacitor, TOS Constitution Class, Riviera Tribble, and Targ pet).

    Ah dammit checking the UK stores I can only find a gold version http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Trek-Online-Gold-Edition/dp/product-description/B002WTAQBA/ref=dp_proddesc_0?ie=UTF8&n=300703&s=videogames it has some good stuff but it doesn't sound anywhere near as good as yours.
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  • doffingcomradedoffingcomrade Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    GOLD MEMBER BENEFITS YOU KEEP:
    Any upgraded boff, bank, and inventory slots stay.

    GOLD MEMBER BENEFITS YOU LOSE:
    1B EC Cap
    Any future toons do not gain upgraded bank/inventory.
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