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So I'm a returning player, been knocking about STO since it first launched but had a long break from it. On return its changed a lot for the better. I've loved the Delta Recruit contents but I really want to start a TOS character but I would rather do it when the temporal recruit event is running, for obvious reasons. My question is this:
How regularly are the temporal recruit events and do we know when the next one is due to drop on PC next in 2024?
(Apologies if this has been asked some other place)
How regularly are the temporal recruit events and do we know when the next one is due to drop on PC next in 2024?
(Apologies if this has been asked some other place)
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Here are the past dates for PC
July 6th, 2016 - August 24th, 2016
September 8th, 2021 - October 7th, 2021
September 6th, 2022 - October 4th, 2022
June 8th, 2023 - June 29th, 2023
So, I'd say sometime during the summer or fall if they keep the trend going.
Of course if you have a token from a prior mega-event or own the Mudd's choice pack, you can go straight for a T6 Connie.
Finally, if you sell off episode rewards and loot drops you can buy TOS type 1 pistols, type 3 rifles, the photon mortar kit module (if playing an Engineer), and some blue TOS twin phaser banks all at Mark 1 while you are in the past, to level up once you travel forward in time. Another way to get the blue phaser banks is to buy the low-level Connie from the C-Store since it can be dismissed and reclaimed to get more beams.
Nice! Remember to get those TOS phasers for your away team while in the TOS era spacedock. Buy mark 1s and level them up later. The phaser rifle is TOSriffic and so is the wide beam hand phaser with its blue cone of doom.
You'll be given some phasers but they're missing the wide / stun part and will be bound to character instead of account bound once they reach green rarity.
Sounds like the 23rd Century Bundle that comes with many uniforms, the type F shuttle, and ToS bridge. You can claim as many Type 2 phasers as you want. However, when you upgrade those they become mk XII common rarity. If you buy the mk 1's back in the 23 and start upgrading those you have a better chance of increasing the rarity as you upgrade them. You can also get the type 1's and the wide versions in the past.
https://www.playstartrekonline.com/en/news/article/11569721
Also, you won't have access to your bank or [ your existing ] EC so sell everything worth credits to get enough - deflector dishes and other non-TOS-beams space loot, loot drops like food and other non-TOS-weapon ground loot. If you come up short you can always repeat one of the TOS episodes. Remember that the last episode triggers the jump to 240x and you can never come back.
I believe you might have meant no access to bank and mail not to EC. That's just a little slow to earn back in the 23rd.
I meant the existing EC in the bank, but you're right about no mail access either so you can't mail yourself loot drops to sell for EC, or gear and tech upgrades.
Originally, we were told that we needed to complete the tutorial and claim the temporal transponder thingy while the event is active. But that was before re-runs were held.
So do we have to complete the same iteration of the event that was running when we created our toon? Or can I continue making progress on a toon that I created during the last Temporal Recruit Event?
I'm asking cause I have one toon that was created last time when the event was running, but I didn't get around to completing the entire tutorial / all of the 22nd century missions. So he is a recruit and he is still somewhere in the 22nd century, somewhere halfway through the first storyline.
It's worth a try to see if your existing TOS-era character gets it upon completion, but I wouldn't count on it happening.
The only thing that needs to happen DURING a Recruit Event is obtaining the Transponder Gubbin. From that point on, that character is, and will always be, a Recruit character. And whenever the Recruit event comes around, any bonuses from being a Recruit character will reactivate.
If you made a TOS character outside of the Temporal Recruit Event they do not become Temporal Recruits. You need to make a TOS character and get that Transponder DURING the event to be a Recruit.
Yes, that's what I'm wondering about.
I guess I'll just have to try that indeed.
I think it was the Temporal Recruit Event last year, but can't find the post...
That... I honestly don't know as I've never just abandoned a character in the tutorial for a year. I just know how its supposed to work in regards to making recruit characters.
If someone made a character outside an event, but then got to the point where the recruitment doohickey is given, that suggests that they tripped into an event. Eg. Recruitment tutorial variants are turned on and pushed to players in real time, so you *need* to bank your recruitment status *during* the event regardless of when you made your character. Else if you try outside a recruitment event, your tutorial will be updated to the standard version. You cannot just create a character and rely on your iteration of the tutorial being preserved outside the event window, per Cryptic's recommendations from the first Delta Recruit event. The tutorial is updated for recruits live, ergo no bankable progress on just creating the character.
So the answer to the insane edge case of someone making a character during one recruitment event and making them a recruit in the next event is likely yes. Any old character completing the tutorial during a compatible recruitment event is likely able to become recruits in that time. But no one should bother doing that because nothing is gained vs. just waiting for the next recruitment event to make the character if you don't have the time this go. There's no stated limitation that can be circumvented, as the hard cut off of "doohickey device gained during event = recruit" applies regardless.
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I noticed that with the introduction of the newly added *Captain Alteration Token* the devs did mentioned that they are looking into making more species available for TOS and Diso chars. My question is, are there any news / more infos on this or is it still only what was mentioned ?
Just asking, because I really would like to create caitian TOS-Recruit char, but sadly that species is not available
Far as I heard just what was mentioned so far. But the possibility does exist.
DSC isn't as bad off iirc since they have the "Alien" tab already, though more parts for the alien generator to cover some of the new races and maybe some from older shows like ENT would be good.
Could be worse, though - back in the Before Times, you had to chase the "Ambassador" down another hill to a beamout point past some Klingons he'd fooled into following him, and it could have been anywhere on that hillside.