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No more xp?

colonelmarikcolonelmarik Member Posts: 2,223 Arc User
edited September 2016 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Here's a question, I think I know the answer, but it doesn't hurt to ask.

I know in other games there are mechanisms in place to allow you to stop getting xp. Is there such a thing here?

My character has reached Captain rank, and I'm content to stay there.

(I've been here since launch, I just wondered if they had added this ability without my noticing)

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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,710 Arc User
    You can ignore your promotion missions and free ship tokens but I think your level (and enemy level) will continue to increase.
  • jorantomalakjorantomalak Member Posts: 7,133 Arc User
    davefenestrator wrote: »
    You can ignore your promotion missions and free ship tokens but I think your level (and enemy level) will continue to increase.

    This ^^^

    You will continue to level till level 60 thats the current max level for STO
  • phenomenaut01phenomenaut01 Member Posts: 714 Arc User
    Yeah, you'll level regardless, and you'll rank up. There's no way to stop that.

    However, you can always set your title to read as "Captain" if you'd prefer to RP as a captain. NPC's will still call you Vice Admiral or whatever your "real" rank is during quests, but other players will see you as "Captain So-and-So". You can still act and pretend to be a captain, and still have all of the skills and perks of ranking up to level 60.
  • theotherscotty#9105 theotherscotty
    theotherscotty#9105
         Member Posts: 385 Arc User
    Captain is what, level 40? I leveled my toon up so fast that I wasn't even paying attention to what level he was until I finally reached level 60. lol

    I wouldn't want to remain at level 40 anyway, as you'd be at a severe disadvantage in some queued events. Not that the queues are very active these days anyway (it's been almost completely dead in there lately whenever I've been on).

    Here's what I did: I find the rank system in STO ridiculously unrealistic (I mean, how many 5-star fleet admirals can Starfleet actually have?), so I just ignored all that and had my toon wear captain rank and left it at that. I just figured he's a captain and wants to stay that way, so even tho he's level 60, his "real" Starfleet rank is still captain.
  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    phenomenaut01 wrote: »
    Yeah, you'll level regardless, and you'll rank up. There's no way to stop that.

    However, you can always set your title to read as "Captain" if you'd prefer to RP as a captain. NPC's will still call you Vice Admiral or whatever your "real" rank is during quests, but other players will see you as "Captain So-and-So". You can still act and pretend to be a captain, and still have all of the skills and perks of ranking up to level 60.

    We really need the option to use our title as our rank. Why limit ourselves to rank when we can be called Master Chef or Moist?
  • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
    You know that the NPCs never call you anything in the game. They may have Vice Admiral written in the dialog box but they never refer to you by your rank in the spoken dialog. Probably that is so they don't need to VO all different ranks.

    So let your ears do the RPing for you. :)
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  • velimattialavelimattiala Member Posts: 111 Arc User
    In an MMO, stopping leveling at a certain point doesn't really work. For a single player game no matter, but the entire point of MMO design is drive you to "endgame" where the game starts anew. Not quite as apparent for a STO (or SWToR) where leveling is heavily story driven.

  • stickystickstickystick Member Posts: 59 Arc User
    velimattiala wrote: »
    In an MMO, stopping leveling at a certain point doesn't really work. For a single player game no matter, but the entire point of MMO design is drive you to "endgame" where the game starts anew. Not quite as apparent for a STO (or SWToR) where leveling is heavily story driven.


    I don't know about that.

    World of Warcraft has an option to disable exp gain at whichever level, as long as you can fork up the gold to do so, which isn't much.

    In that game though, people do it for their PVP twinks, or RP guilds, or Vanilla guilds. It works. But for this game, yeah it wouldn't do much. Especially since you'd be scaled up in levels when doing certain events either way.
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