Searching 'Free to Play' in the forums brought up many dozens of threads; almost all of which are outdated and not worth checking for current info. The main site likewise just goes in circles with no info on account types to be found.
What I am looking for is the current metric showing the full breakdown of the 3 account types.
Subscriber, preferred/premium (those who were subbed or otherwise spent money to upgrade their experience) and Free (no money invested yet).
I am checking the wiki, but I don't know if that is 100% correct/current.
[SIGPIC]Sarvour Shipyards[/SIGPIC]
Sarvour Shipyards
=A=Commodore Joshua Daniel Sarvour, S.C.E.
U.S.S. AKAGI NX-93347, Enterprise-class Battle Cruiser =A= U.S.S. T'KORA'S WRATH NX-110047, Odyssey-class Battle Cruiser
"There Ain't No Grave, Can Hold My Body Down..."PS - I fully support a T6 Nova, fixing the Nova skins. I am also rooting for a T6 Science Cruiser, that can use Nova/Rhode Island skins.T6 Nova/Rhode Island, T6 Oberth & T6 Constellation are needed. Also needed a T6 Science Cruiser, that can wear any Science or Cruiser skin.0
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http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/3026993
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/7009153
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/guides
TY Garaks31!
The info I was looking for is at arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/3026713, which was waaayyy tf down the Guides page, and was really the bottom third of the page in question, and not as complete as I would like, but it is there. For more of the info I had to dig a little deeper at the wiki, https://sto.gamepedia.com/Inventory.
So STO has 2 Account tiers, not three, like most MMOs do. So spent money on game or not, both would be Silver?
[SIGPIC]Sarvour Shipyards[/SIGPIC]Sarvour Shipyards
=A=Commodore Joshua Daniel Sarvour, S.C.E.
U.S.S. AKAGI NX-93347, Enterprise-class Battle Cruiser =A= U.S.S. T'KORA'S WRATH NX-110047, Odyssey-class Battle Cruiser
"There Ain't No Grave, Can Hold My Body Down..."
PS - I fully support a T6 Nova, fixing the Nova skins. I am also rooting for a T6 Science Cruiser, that can use Nova/Rhode Island skins.
T6 Nova/Rhode Island, T6 Oberth & T6 Constellation are needed. Also needed a T6 Science Cruiser, that can wear any Science or Cruiser skin.
Correct. You are either Silver (free to play); or Gold (monthly sub - $15 per month or purchased the Lifetime Subscriber - $200 / $300).
But subscribing to the game even for one month gives your current characters some permanent perks. You get 10 Account Slots which normally would cost 1,000 Zen ($10), each character gets 12 Bank Slots and 6 Personal Slots for every rank they have leveled up to (up to level 50); that's a total of 60 extra Bank Slots and 30 Personal Inventory slots. That is per character so the more characters you have the more of a benefit subbing to the game for 1 month will be. This is retroactive which means if you begin your sub with level 50/60 characters all your characters will instantly get the Bank / Personal Slots. These are worth the equivalent of 2,500 Zen ($25) per character.
Console version of STO has no subscription.
If you rank up your characters while subbing you get to keep the retrain tokens when you stop subbing.
however continues sub until a lifetime sale is the best option in my opinion
Not sure if it matters or is even a thing anymore, but I think Gold players got preferential queuing into the servers. (Aka got to cut in line to logon)
Yep, I have not notice any difference when logging into either my Gold or Silver accounts.