So... I created a 23c character, because I love the original series. THAT is the Star Trek I grew up with, and playing in that era is a delight.
However, I've now leveled to the point (doing the same three missions over and over ad nauseam) that I can no longer DO the missions, trapped as I am in a tier 1 ship. I can fly the Pioneer, or I can fly the tier 1 Constitution. NEITHER is capable of taking on multiple Romulan ships, let alone Na'kul ships, so I'm left with only one mission - Babel.
But, I saw a light and got a mission from Daniels at Galornden Core to defeat a doomsday machine. Ok, careful flying around had the machine killing off the enemy ships for me, so I was able to zoom in at full impulse and shut it down. On leaving that mission, I found myself in the 25c zone. So, I set course for Sol to see if I could get some gear to better equip my ship. It's still going to be tier 1, but maybe I could make it more viable.
However, I couldn't go ANYWHERE. I couldn't enter Sol, Sierra, Drozana, K7... not even Vulcan or Risa.
So, I feel I'm stuck. I want to play a 23c character. That was the POINT of creating him. Now, I'm stuck with precious little content, and content I can no longer DO because there's no way to improve on my ship. I know, I know. I can spend real money and buy a ship from the store. However, since I'm unlikely to be using that ship in the future (because I'll outlevel it), I'm not about to waste money on something I'm not going to be using.
Of course, there's also the fact that I am a STAR TREK fan, and want to carry on in the ship from STAR TREK: The Constitution class.
However, there's only the tier 1 ship, or the unicorn-rare tier 6 ship. Since I can't GET the tier 6 ship (and couldn't use it anyway, being a Commander), I'm trapped again in the tier 1 ship.
So what do I do? I can't play in the 23c zone anymore, and I can't play in the 25c zone unless I give up my 23c ship and setting.
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You created an AoY character, and you're doing the same 23c content over and over again until the enemies have scaled to the point they decimate your cute little Utility cruiser or TOS Connie, and you want to know what to do to continue playing in the 23c?
Well, I'm not going to point out the obvious and say you aren't playing the game as its designed, since I'm pretty sure you know that's not how the game is intended to be played.
Which is cool, since everybody should play the game their own way, no matter how unrealistic or unviable it is. You're pushing the envelope, and I can respect that on some level.
So, how do you continue to play the game despite the intentional limitations you were never supposed to stay in the 23c to begin with?
I have no idea, it's not something I've tried, nor have the desire to try. However, if you have access to your Account Bank (through your shuttle or maybe your bridge conference room), you could try pushing some Account Bound equipment into your Account Bank, and see if your 23c captain can use it.
I've heard of people using their TOS Connie or Miranda to level 60, so the only way I think that would work is by upgrading all the equipment to your equivelant level and then just hoping for the best.
But for the 23c it would require access to your Account Bank and getting that equipment on another character and smuggling it into the 23c. You'd still be dealing with other limitations, of course. But it's the only solution I can think of other than "Play the game as it was intended and leave the 23c behind"
This goes for more than just ship equipment as well. Space traits from various lockboxes on the exchange can be used at any level, so if you could smuggle them to your 23c captain via the Account Bank, there are some very nice ones that might help your survivability or allow you to more easily demolish your 23c foes.
Ok its alright way to lvling TOS toon, but if you lvl up your weaponary how you level up, it should be sufficent, also Babel isn't the only easy mission that could be done in less then 8mins, as Painfull omens is also easy and can be done in less of 9mins with Connie.
In case if you decide to stay in 25th century do a Deep space encounters, as exp granted is from 1,7k to 3,4k, whats nice amount, only problem is what you need decent warp core to catch it up on time.
And yes you can't enter at Sol, Vulcan, Andoria, Sierra 39, K-7, Drozana, New Romulus, Battle group omega, Kerrat, neither do patrols or Red alerts, only deep space encounters at least in Beta Quadrant, but situation is quite diffrent in Alpha Quadrant.
In alpha Quadrant you can go to Defera, Bajor and DS9, tho you can't go to Vlugta mine
but keep lvl up
that's basically it. your only hope is if a GM can port you back to the 23C... otherwise... delete toon and start again. You shouldnt of taken that GC mission. Unless you leave 23C the correct way... you can ONLY play the 23C tutorial missions. Hope you have another 23C toon who has done the missions correctly to get the Event Bonus unlocks. Go visit a SB and deposit all your EC/Dil to the account bank/exchange and delete toon would be what I would do... had to do that myself when I got stuck on the ship due to bug with no way to get to the next contact.
oh please... sure you can say that but it's also the fact that they billed this as an expansion and focused on the original ST... I for one dont really care much for the moden TNG ST... too clean imo. I much prefer OST. If there was a pure OST game I think it would be much more interesting... but that would need to be more RPG than 3rd person shooter as this game is.
Free to play does not mean you get every cosmetic option available for free. You get free ships while you level up, just not the ones you want.
If it matters to you that much and you enjoy the game, consider supporting it.
The level up ships are still useful at endgame as admiralty cards. And if you buy the big temporal pack you can look at it as getting the level up ships free.
People who devote their time to the game via gameplay ARE supporting it.
Not in any significant way, aside from adding a little ambiance for the paying customers. If you are not buying any zen you are not helping to keep the lights on or buy pellets for the server hamsters.
F2Ps don't contribute income directly, but they do grind dil, mats, and tedious crafting that the whales then buy with real money to pay to play. The whales keep the lights on, but they might swim away if they needed to craft their own epic CrtDx4 AP beams.
If you don't want to spend real money, you have a long time ahead with the EC Exchange and get yourself a T6 Constitution perhaps.
Exactly. If the game suddenly locked F2P players out, they'd be farming their own Dil since the option to just buy it from F2P players wouldn't exist. Sure, Cryptic could just put Dil on the Zen store instead - but that's not the real point. Cut the F2P players and player numbers would drop significantly, and people already complain some game modes are dead. Plus, the longer a F2P player plays the more involved he gets increasing the odds he may start buying Zen himself or still be playing if his circumstances allow him to play.
In general the more players there are the better, and open games like this pick up new players all the time due to being free to play, thus they tend to last a long time which is better for everyone.
It was never intended to be played permanently, all the way to 60.
As for not buying level up ships, remember, they're account unlocks, useful on every Federation alt, not to mention the consoles and admiralty cards.
Also, the folks now yapping about F2P contribution/whales/paying customers, you are derailing the thread, stop it. >.>
was tempted to mention what you just did. ah well.
Sorry, but no.
The discussion as it exists is responsive directly to the question asked & answers received. The OP needs to know some of the game's intricacies to understand why what they are doing is making life harder on themselves. Hopefully this will help them.
His conundrum about wanting to stay immersed in a 23rd century environment has nothing to do with whales, F2P and who is or isn't supporting, or for that matter, what supporting is.
He mentioned none of it, beyond his unwillingness to buy ships he feels would be of too short a use to him.
We were explaining why he is not going to get special treatment for free.
The game is F2P but every cosmetic option and luxury is not. Pay or use a 25th century ship. A simple choice.
If the game had 10 times as many paying customers that might be possible, since then they could spend much more on creating content. Since STO is a relatively small MMO with a limited budget, they can't do that. Instead of creating 4 new story episodes for Fed, TOS-Fed, KDF, Romulans they can afford to create 2 new episodes that all of them play together.
If you win the lottery perhaps you could pay Cryptic to add a full TOS-only set of episodes. A lot of us would enjoy that!
I also have my Fed Klingon captain, K'tang son of Pt'ooey, flying a Gemini-class right now. Nothing quite like seeing a Klingon sitting in the center seat of a 23c Starfleet bridge...