Well Captains with the launch of Season 11.5, I doubt the Mac client works past today. If that's the case, farewell.
I spent a last week playing STO and I had fun. I did a tour of the galaxy and was finally able to visit every planet on the tour. Many thanks to the Captain who gave me some diplomatic immunity to help speed it up a bit. I spent the last week trying to quell the Borg, Tholians, Mirror Universe and Crystalline Entity. I donated a TON of FMs to newer fleets to help them out. I also burned through my dilithium and upgraded like crazy so I could enjoy this last week. Most excitedly for me, I got my Type 2 Phaser to gold! I loved my retro blue phasers on my Tactical Odyssey. Most importantly, I also got to visit, one last time, the key places in the game that meant something to me as a fan of Star Trek: ESD, Starfleet Academy, DS9, Vulcan, Deep Space K-7 and Nimbus III. I would have liked to have visited Cardassia and Fereginar, and set foot on Qo'nos as a Starfleet Captain. I'd have also liked to have gotten a Reman, Breen, Cardassian and Talaxian BOFF to join my crew but can't have it all.
For my offline life, I don't need to use any Windows-based software and emulators just aren't all that great on my Mac so it's been fun. How this was handled by Cryptic was a sham but that's their deal, not mine. Good luck to you Mac captains trying to make an emulator work to continue your journeys.
And I'm gone too. Not returning (only use Mac). Bye Arc/Cryptic hasn't been fun but i love Star Trek. Maybe i'll watch the shows more. FYI should the higher-ups who are able to access peoples items in game...pass EVERYTHING on to my Fleet Leader, if you can. i will miss those people. If not, just delete my in game account. Uninstalling!
I'm pretty upset about this. I'd rather have a buggy game than no game. If I reduced the graphics I could get the game to run on a MacBook Pro but now I can't play at all.
I just installed the WineSkin version from the link above, it installed and started good, but now it keeps timing out connecting to the login server. Is anyone else having this problem?
I just installed the WineSkin version from the link above, it installed and started good, but now it keeps timing out connecting to the login server. Is anyone else having this problem?
At the time of your post, the servers were down for maintenance.
Join date is wrong, I've actually been around since STO Beta.
True alters don't have a "main". Account wide unlocks for all unique event rewards!!
Thanks for nothing. i've been playing from the start. You've now shifted it to another platform and only really caring about the dollar signs. Thanks for the suggestion of wine with no guidance, I know this worked pre-official game client but I've spent all night trying to get it to work now that you've removed access...
Thanks for nothing. i've been playing from the start. You've now shifted it to another platform and only really caring about the dollar signs. Thanks for the suggestion of wine with no guidance, I know this worked pre-official game client but I've spent all night trying to get it to work now that you've removed access...
"Shifted it to another platform"?? STO was originally Windows only in the first place. MAC only came out about 3 years ago. I know because I persuaded a friend to join when it did, since then, he dumped the MAC and got a PC.
"You don't want to patrol!? You don't want to escort!? You don't want to defend the Federation's Starbases!? Then why are you flying my Starships!? If you were a Klingon you'd be killed on the spot, but lucky for you.....you WERE in Starfleet. Let's see how New Zealand Penal Colony suits you." Adm A. Necheyev.
Well, this sucks. Since the C-Store has been disabled on the STO Mac client, it looks like we're going to miss out on the current promo giveaways unless we use Wineskin or have access to a Windows computer somewhere.
It's been 2 months. If you intend to keep playing you need to do that anyway.
If your Mac was running STO, you can run Windows via Bootcamp.
TRIBBLE move. Sorry developers, but that's what this is.
Also why not announce this IN GAME?
Not everyone reads your forum.
I'll try wine but it would be nice to give us detailed information regarding installing WoT windows client on Wine.
You owe us (paying customers) that much.
For all the eeh.. persons that state Mac is not as good a platform for games (or anything).. well no. that's not true. the ONLY thing that's no good on macs is the pisspoor support for 3rd party videocards.
But it has PLENTY of things that are much better than Windows 10. Not that you'll ever know but we do. :-)
Without decent support for video cards, it's pretty much game over for any platform.
The Mac has never been a good platform for gaming, for several reasons, but major among them is that Apple with Steve Job's historical disdain for gaming never made it a priority to make it so. That might change with the porting of Metal to OS X, but Apple has a lot of lost ground to make up in wooing developer support, and they don't seem to interested in doing so.
The biggest demonstration of this fact shows when you run an Intel Mac with the Windows operating system and all graphics drivers properly updated. At that point, the Mac becomes a serviceable game machine at least for games such as Cryptics' and Blizzard's.
can anyone show how to install the game with wine on mac
I've been trying so for months. It simply will not work if you're using Nvidia graphics. Which is what most Macs use. The best I've ever gotten is about a few seconds of crappy gameplay before the game goes nuclear on me. The best I've ever heard is that some folks have gotten fairly long periods of crappy game play. I bit the bullet, switched over the windows side, and I've been having the best play in months.
This isn't about supporting the mac platform. It's because they want to support PS4 and Xbox One. To bad that it will likely be dead on arrival since no one can transfer their characters.
I wish there were an easy way to do all of this. I really miss playing STO. I was getting kinda good, too.
You could try and i hope it works i'm no expert found this on Reddit and followed it. has been working for me
PlayOnMac
1) Install the PlayOnMac app.
2) Create a Virtual Drive within PlayOnMAC and install the next stages on this drive
3) From inside the PlayOnMac app, go to the "Internet" tab and install Internet Explorer 8.
4) From inside the PlayOnMac app, go to the "Games" tab and install Steam or ARC if you prefer.
Once Steam is installed, launch it from the PlayOnMac launcher and install STO.
Once STO is installed, fire it up. The launcher will load and you'll get a LARGE GB patch. Click "Engage".
You'll see the "Cryptic" screen, and then the "New Dawn" loading screen. The loading screen may stay visible for up to 2 hours. The STO software is poking about its strange new emulated world for all the graphics settings it needs.
Once it's done poking, it'll show you the "Verify your graphics setting" screen, and once you do so, should launch you into the game.
Subsequent launches should take the normal amount of time.
To replay, fire up your PlayOnMac app and then click STO.
From inside PlayOnMac where STO is installed there should be a option to create a shortcut as a desktop icon allowing you to click the STO Icon and bypass directly loading PlayOnMac.
You may need to install XQuartz or not and i recommend once the game loads to go straight to graphics settings and adjust them. I found it switched all mine to MAX.
I wish there were an easy way to do all of this. I really miss playing STO. I was getting kinda good, too.
You could try and i hope it works i'm no expert found this on Reddit and followed it. has been working for me
PlayOnMac
1) Install the PlayOnMac app.
2) Create a Virtual Drive within PlayOnMAC and install the next stages on this drive
3) From inside the PlayOnMac app, go to the "Internet" tab and install Internet Explorer 8.
4) From inside the PlayOnMac app, go to the "Games" tab and install Steam or ARC if you prefer.
Once Steam is installed, launch it from the PlayOnMac launcher and install STO.
Once STO is installed, fire it up. The launcher will load and you'll get a LARGE GB patch. Click "Engage".
You'll see the "Cryptic" screen, and then the "New Dawn" loading screen. The loading screen may stay visible for up to 2 hours. The STO software is poking about its strange new emulated world for all the graphics settings it needs.
Once it's done poking, it'll show you the "Verify your graphics setting" screen, and once you do so, should launch you into the game.
Subsequent launches should take the normal amount of time.
To replay, fire up your PlayOnMac app and then click STO.
From inside PlayOnMac where STO is installed there should be a option to create a shortcut as a desktop icon allowing you to click the STO Icon and bypass directly loading PlayOnMac.
You may need to install XQuartz or not and i recommend once the game loads to go straight to graphics settings and adjust them. I found it switched all mine to MAX.
I wish there were an easy way to do all of this. I really miss playing STO. I was getting kinda good, too.
You could try and i hope it works i'm no expert found this on Reddit and followed it. has been working for me
PlayOnMac
1) Install the PlayOnMac app.
2) Create a Virtual Drive within PlayOnMAC and install the next stages on this drive
3) From inside the PlayOnMac app, go to the "Internet" tab and install Internet Explorer 8.
4) From inside the PlayOnMac app, go to the "Games" tab and install Steam or ARC if you prefer.
Once Steam is installed, launch it from the PlayOnMac launcher and install STO.
Once STO is installed, fire it up. The launcher will load and you'll get a LARGE GB patch. Click "Engage".
You'll see the "Cryptic" screen, and then the "New Dawn" loading screen. The loading screen may stay visible for up to 2 hours. The STO software is poking about its strange new emulated world for all the graphics settings it needs.
Once it's done poking, it'll show you the "Verify your graphics setting" screen, and once you do so, should launch you into the game.
Subsequent launches should take the normal amount of time.
To replay, fire up your PlayOnMac app and then click STO.
From inside PlayOnMac where STO is installed there should be a option to create a shortcut as a desktop icon allowing you to click the STO Icon and bypass directly loading PlayOnMac.
You may need to install XQuartz or not and i recommend once the game loads to go straight to graphics settings and adjust them. I found it switched all mine to MAX.
Thanks so much. I will try that as soon as possible aand let you know how it works.
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I spent a last week playing STO and I had fun. I did a tour of the galaxy and was finally able to visit every planet on the tour. Many thanks to the Captain who gave me some diplomatic immunity to help speed it up a bit. I spent the last week trying to quell the Borg, Tholians, Mirror Universe and Crystalline Entity. I donated a TON of FMs to newer fleets to help them out. I also burned through my dilithium and upgraded like crazy so I could enjoy this last week. Most excitedly for me, I got my Type 2 Phaser to gold! I loved my retro blue phasers on my Tactical Odyssey. Most importantly, I also got to visit, one last time, the key places in the game that meant something to me as a fan of Star Trek: ESD, Starfleet Academy, DS9, Vulcan, Deep Space K-7 and Nimbus III. I would have liked to have visited Cardassia and Fereginar, and set foot on Qo'nos as a Starfleet Captain. I'd have also liked to have gotten a Reman, Breen, Cardassian and Talaxian BOFF to join my crew but can't have it all.
For my offline life, I don't need to use any Windows-based software and emulators just aren't all that great on my Mac so it's been fun. How this was handled by Cryptic was a sham but that's their deal, not mine. Good luck to you Mac captains trying to make an emulator work to continue your journeys.
Live long and prosper.
At the time of your post, the servers were down for maintenance.
That makes them just as bad as the Ferengi! To all Mac users, "the line must be drawn here! This far, no further!!!!!"
"Shifted it to another platform"?? STO was originally Windows only in the first place. MAC only came out about 3 years ago. I know because I persuaded a friend to join when it did, since then, he dumped the MAC and got a PC.
If your Mac was running STO, you can run Windows via Bootcamp.
Without decent support for video cards, it's pretty much game over for any platform.
The Mac has never been a good platform for gaming, for several reasons, but major among them is that Apple with Steve Job's historical disdain for gaming never made it a priority to make it so. That might change with the porting of Metal to OS X, but Apple has a lot of lost ground to make up in wooing developer support, and they don't seem to interested in doing so.
The biggest demonstration of this fact shows when you run an Intel Mac with the Windows operating system and all graphics drivers properly updated. At that point, the Mac becomes a serviceable game machine at least for games such as Cryptics' and Blizzard's.
I've been trying so for months. It simply will not work if you're using Nvidia graphics. Which is what most Macs use. The best I've ever gotten is about a few seconds of crappy gameplay before the game goes nuclear on me. The best I've ever heard is that some folks have gotten fairly long periods of crappy game play. I bit the bullet, switched over the windows side, and I've been having the best play in months.
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> And my PC has a Mac address.
Ha, Big Mac pun/
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You could try and i hope it works i'm no expert found this on Reddit and followed it. has been working for me
PlayOnMac
1) Install the PlayOnMac app.
2) Create a Virtual Drive within PlayOnMAC and install the next stages on this drive
3) From inside the PlayOnMac app, go to the "Internet" tab and install Internet Explorer 8.
4) From inside the PlayOnMac app, go to the "Games" tab and install Steam or ARC if you prefer.
Once Steam is installed, launch it from the PlayOnMac launcher and install STO.
Once STO is installed, fire it up. The launcher will load and you'll get a LARGE GB patch. Click "Engage".
You'll see the "Cryptic" screen, and then the "New Dawn" loading screen. The loading screen may stay visible for up to 2 hours. The STO software is poking about its strange new emulated world for all the graphics settings it needs.
Once it's done poking, it'll show you the "Verify your graphics setting" screen, and once you do so, should launch you into the game.
Subsequent launches should take the normal amount of time.
To replay, fire up your PlayOnMac app and then click STO.
From inside PlayOnMac where STO is installed there should be a option to create a shortcut as a desktop icon allowing you to click the STO Icon and bypass directly loading PlayOnMac.
You may need to install XQuartz or not and i recommend once the game loads to go straight to graphics settings and adjust them. I found it switched all mine to MAX.
Thanks so much. I will try that as soon as possible aand let you know how it works.