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What are the Free Rear Admrial Upper Half ships?

stargazer918stargazer918 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
edited May 2013 in Federation Discussion
Hi guys

I am approaching the top ranks for STO and I would like to know what are the Free (Non Zen/Dil) Escort ships I can get!

I would like to ideally get the Escort Carrier as I am a Tactical and believe It would be a good ship to use within a fleet based PvE and for normal Episodial combat.

Any advice given I greatly appreciate!!!

James

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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    None. The ship you get at 40 is your last free one. After that, its all zen/fleet/lockbox.

    This gets asked a lot. Wish they'd make it clearer.
  • kasandarokasandaro Member Posts: 198 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Unless you have the 600-day token, the last free escorts are the Patrol Escort and Advanced Escort at RA Lower Half.

    The Heavy Escort Carrier is very much a zen ship (2,500). Technically, there's a whole number of non-zen, non-dil ships from your fleet starbase, but they all take 200,000 Fleet Marks.

    Also, detail: there aren't any "Upper half" ships, on either the Fed or KDF sides. They're RA Lower or Vice Admiral.

    The list o escorts is on the wiki. Prices are on the right hand side. (Some of the blanks are special, promotional ships.)
  • stargazer918stargazer918 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I am currently in a LRSV and am doing well, I plan to get as my last free ship, a Patrol Escort and use the higher ranks to get good gear for it.

    Still want the Escart Carrier though!

    I have at least over 100,000 Fleet Marks (I assume I will have to keep chipping away at fleet projects to get the Escort Carrier)!


    Thanks

    J.
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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Good choice. The Patrol Escort is probably the yardstick by which other escorts are measured. There are also the Mirror Universe ships that you can buy off the Exchange for a few hundred thousand EC (cheap in the grand scheme of things), that have the officer/console layout of their namesake (Mirror Patrol = Patrol Escort) but the look of the other ship (Mirror Patrol looks like Prometheus). Means you can spend your token on one ship class, then cheaply buy the others and try out the whole cruiser/escort/science triumviate.
  • stargazer918stargazer918 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Thanks reginamala!

    I think I may buy the Patrol Escort, keep my Intrepid and buy Mirror ships from the exchange.

    I never knew there were Mirror ships on the exchange anywhey!


    Thanks for all your advice!

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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    If you're flying a science vessel right now, you might want to go with an Advanced Escort instead - it's more science oriented than the Patrol Escort.
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  • stargazer918stargazer918 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Hello psycoticvulcan

    I do fly a Science Vessel, I only chose this as I am a Voyager fan. I am a Tactical Officer and have made quite a good (In My opinion) build. I will post this soon.

    Thnx

    J.
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  • robdmcrobdmc Member Posts: 1,619 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    You can also try the mirror universe ships. they are pretty cheap on the exchange.
  • ixalmarisixalmaris Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Do not spend your free token on an escort. The Mirror Universe escorts are really cheap on the Exchange (40k the last time I looked) and identical to the normal ships.
  • mandoknight89mandoknight89 Member Posts: 1,687 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    ixalmaris wrote: »
    Do not spend your free token on an escort. The Mirror Universe escorts are really cheap on the Exchange (40k the last time I looked) and identical to the normal ships.

    Mirror Science Vessels and Cruisers were also fairly cheap, last I checked... get the free ship that appeals to you the most, but if you like the looks of one ship but prefer the layout of its counterpart, that's what you buy a Mirror ship box for.
  • trhrangerxmltrhrangerxml Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    You use to get a ship token at Rear Admiral Upper Half, don't remember when they removed that.
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  • jetwtfjetwtf Member Posts: 1,207
    edited May 2013
    once you get to lvl 50 you will want better though, you can get a fleet ship without paying a penny in real money but it will cost in EC. The fleet modules cost around 6 million EC on the exchange. So once you hit lvl 40 and get your last freebie start saving EC as much as you can after gearing it. I was going to do that myself but I got impatient after the second module and dropped $25 then bought the last 2 with zen and some extras for the account.
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  • stargazer918stargazer918 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Okay then. If i bought a ship of the exchange what would I do with my free token.

    Taarr!

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  • smokeybacon90smokeybacon90 Member Posts: 2,252 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    stargazer918 wrote: »
    Okay then. If i bought a ship of the exchange what would I do with my free token.

    Just experiment with something new. Your choice really does not matter since as others pointed out, the mirrors are all very cheap and have the same stats as the RA lower free ships.
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  • ussprometheus79ussprometheus79 Member Posts: 727 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    trhrangerxml wrote: »
    You use to get a ship token at Rear Admiral Upper Half, don't remember when they removed that.

    This...I remember getting a free ship at LVL 50 way back in the day. Wish I'd levelled my other toons before I'd taken a break from the game. :(
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  • stargazer918stargazer918 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Thanks guys


    I think I`ll use EC and get a Mirror ship on the exchange, as I then do not use my free ship token!

    I will also consult me fleet about this to?

    James
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  • vitzhvitzh Member Posts: 519
    edited May 2013
    The three ships you can get with a 600 day level 50 token on Fed side are I believe:

    Exploration Cruiser Retrofit a.k.a. Lord Winchester Failaxy the Third

    Long Range Science Vessel Retrofit a.k.a. I like to pretend I'm Janeway

    Tactical Escort Retrofit a.k.a. oh lookie a cloakie defiant, where they got that cloak nobody knows as Feds never developed cloaking tech, just borrowed and abused it off Romulans

    Hope this helps?

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  • reginamala78reginamala78 Member Posts: 4,593 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    stargazer918 wrote: »
    Okay then. If i bought a ship of the exchange what would I do with my free token.

    Taarr!

    James

    If I were leveling a new character right now and it were my time and money, I'd hit the Exchange and buy a Mirror Universe Patrol Escort and a Mirror Universe Deep Space Science Vessel, then spend my token on an Assault Cruiser.
  • darkkindness2darkkindness2 Member Posts: 257 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    trhrangerxml wrote: »
    You use to get a ship token at Rear Admiral Upper Half, don't remember when they removed that.

    You were never given a ship token at RA, UH - there are no ships available at level 45 that weren't available at 40, so there's no reason for it.
    ussprometheus79 wrote: »
    This...I remember getting a free ship at LVL 50 way back in the day. Wish I'd levelled my other toons before I'd taken a break from the game. :(

    You were, however, given a very limited ship token at Vice Admiral (50) before the game went free-to-play - it could be used on a Tactical Escort Retrofit, an Exploration Cruiser Retrofit, or a Long-Range Science Vessel Retrofit. 600 day Veterans retained access to this token after the game went free-to-play, everyone else lost access to it.
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  • mikearoomikearoo Member Posts: 342 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    well, if you have a lot of EC and still don't want to spend any zen on a Heavy Escort Carrier, there is the Jem'Hadar one, very nice ship too. These will set you back a bit of EC though, (been a while since I looked... 58 mil EC maybe)
  • jetwtfjetwtf Member Posts: 1,207
    edited May 2013
    the problem with buying a mirror version though is you can get the same exact setup buy using the token on the one that has the same boff and console layout. all the mirrors are is a swap of the model used and is not better at lvl 50 or even lvl 40. it is pure cosmetic. if one wants the patrol escort layout then they may as well just get the patrol escort. at lvl 50 though you will definatly want to upgrade and thats where fleet ships are at.

    The store ships are not really any better than a fleet variant, they just come with a nice console that quite frankly people can live without.
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  • decroniadecronia Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    jetwtf wrote: »
    the problem with buying a mirror version though is you can get the same exact setup buy using the token on the one that has the same boff and console layout. all the mirrors are is a swap of the model used and is not better at lvl 50 or even lvl 40. it is pure cosmetic. if one wants the patrol escort layout then they may as well just get the patrol escort. at lvl 50 though you will definatly want to upgrade and thats where fleet ships are at.

    That is true however you can get a complete set for nect to nothing whereas before that you had to use dilithium to buy more. Let's say you use your token for a cruiser, then you can get the sci and escort for next to nothing. This then allows you to try out a diferent ship type more easilly and a lot more cheeply compared to how it was.
  • stargazer918stargazer918 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Hello guys

    So In conclusion I have a lot of variety, so I may buy from exchange and experiment and try different builds!

    Can I resell exchange brought ships to other players (as a way of getting EC)

    Thanks a million!

    James
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  • thecosmic1thecosmic1 Member Posts: 9,365 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    stargazer918 wrote: »
    Can I resell exchange brought ships to other players (as a way of getting EC)
    No. Once you unpack a box it's yours forever.
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  • stargazer918stargazer918 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    Hi thecosmic

    In response to your post, As long as I didn`t un-pack it I could sell it on?

    James
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  • f9thaceshighf9thaceshigh Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    darkkindness2 wrote: »
    You were never given a ship token at RA, UH - there are no ships available at level 45 that weren't available at 40, so there's no reason for it.



    You were, however, given a very limited ship token at Vice Admiral (50) before the game went free-to-play - it could be used on a Tactical Escort Retrofit, an Exploration Cruiser Retrofit, or a Long-Range Science Vessel Retrofit. 600 day Veterans retained access to this token after the game went free-to-play, everyone else lost access to it.

    actually, they did give you a free ship at upper half, but it was just another lower half ship.
  • stargazer918stargazer918 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    If I do get a free token, I`d buy the Tactical Escort!

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  • decroniadecronia Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    stargazer918 wrote: »
    Hi thecosmic

    In response to your post, As long as I didn`t un-pack it I could sell it on?

    James

    As long as it is in its' box you can sell it on, it only becomes bound when you unpack it.
  • avengerkid1993avengerkid1993 Member Posts: 323 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    stargazer918 wrote: »
    I am currently in a LRSV and am doing well, I plan to get as my last free ship, a Patrol Escort and use the higher ranks to get good gear for it.

    Still want the Escart Carrier though!

    I have at least over 100,000 Fleet Marks (I assume I will have to keep chipping away at fleet projects to get the Escort Carrier)!


    Thanks

    J.

    yeah, good choice.
    believe me, i bought the armitage and the Kumari boundle.

    they are very good ships, best fed ships ever, but a good fleet patrol escort has its own charm *_*:

    - Very good look
    - Very good BOffs Layout
    - Very good Console Layout
    - Good Hull and Shield mod
    - T4 Shipyard required (not T5)
    - AND its free (oh well, you will still have to buy fleet modules, but you can purchase them with dilithium exchange ;)
  • stargazer918stargazer918 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited May 2013
    I think I`ll get the ships you guys suggested!!

    Thanks a million!

    James
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