The guide is packed with everything you need to know to make the best out of your starship. From the list of all the starships available in game to the weaponry guide , from how to manage skill slot to how to manage warp core power allocation system. There are still a lot more info in the guide though. I don’t want spoiler you people with every single detail from the book.

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At the launch of the game only a few areas of your ship will be accessible to you.  The most obvious spot available is the bridge, but there are rumors of other areas like Sickbay.  More areas of the ships may become available after the game has launched, but they will mostly be for social interaction only and not serve any specific game function.

The following are the known Federation ships that players can captain in Star Trek Online, divided up by which character level the ships are available:

Lieutenant:

• Miranda
• Soyuz
• Centaur

Lieutenant Commander:

• Nova
• Aurora
• Quasar
• Saber
• Rapier
• Ushaan
• Constitution
• Excaliber
• Vespers

Commander:

• Olympic
• Hope
• Horizon
• Zephyr
• Akira
• Norway
• Constellation
• Stargazer
• Dakota

Captain:

• Intrepid
• Cochrane
• Discovery
• Defiant
• Vigilant
• Gallant
• Galaxy
• Celestial
• Envoy

Admiral:

• Luna
• Sol
• Polaris
• Prometheus
• Phoenix
• Cerberus
• Sovereign
• Noble
• Majestic

And the two known ships available to the Klingon Empire are the Vo’Quv Class and Raptor Class.

Helping you in your adventures across the galaxy will be a bridge crew made up of Officers that basically serve as advanced pets.  They fill the specific slots (such as Science and Engineering) in your ship, and can be controlled in Away Team combat.  Your officers can be any race that you choose, and your ship will determine how many of each specialization you need or can have.  In addition to choosing the race of bridge officers, players can also choose gender, appearance, and names for these crew members.  These officers cannot be permanently killed.   Player ships will also be populated with “redshirt” characters, who fulfill the general tasks on the space ship and can be killed in combat.  They need to be replenished at space docks periodically.  Lastly, holographic projections can also serve as regular crew members, although with some restrictions.

Star Trek Online gives players a huge number of ships to choose from with a lot of customability, so a player can create any combination of crews and ships that they desire.  Want to role-play an all Vulcan science vessel?  Cryptic’s made almost anything you want to do possible.

The same can be expected with the movie-based MMORPG, Star Trek Online. Ships plays an important role in STO. Alot is expected to happen on board ships and players will be the captains of their own ships. Months before the official game release STO Ship guides, articles and posts are being discussed in community sites, forums and blogs.

Given that ships are expected to play a big part in the game, alot of customization, upgrades and so on and so forth is something players look forward to. The complexity of handling each ship may require the use of a STO ship guide for MMORPG newbies.

In order for players to obtain their ships, they would first need to reach the Lieutenant Commander rank. Star Trek Online ships players can choose from are as follows:

-Cruiser Ship: This ship is the fastest to repair and focues mainly on fire power and weaponry with heaps of weapon slots in contrast to other ships.

-Escort Ship: This is probably the fastest ship with extra fire power and the ability for players to equip cannons.

-Science Ship: These can be considered as support ships with enhanced buffing and debuffing with cloaking and heavy armor as core features.

The STO ship’s Warp Core is basically your ship’s power core that provides power and energy to your ships systems. It acts as a equivalent to MP / Mana / Magic Power in conventional mmorpg and rpgs in Star Trek Online. However unlike mana, the warp core power will not deplete, but instead players will have to wait in order to fire phasers. So by simply allocating more power to your beam weapons your phasers will be faster. The allocation of warp core power will not only be limited to weapons. Gamers will be able to allocate power to shields and propulsion as well and to take it even further, you can choose exactly which shield to give more or less power to.

Power diversion has its negative points too, in the sense that if you divert more power to one system, then another will have less power, therefore will become less effective consequently. So there is no such thing as setting all your systems to max power in Star Trek Online. Your Warp core power allocation is indeed a tactical decision that you will have to make in battle continuously. A typical scenerio in STO will be boosting your shields to engage enemy attacks and diverting power to weapons after the enemy attacks for the counterattack torpedo.

Here’s a short introductory Star Trek Online Ship Guide:

One of the more obvious and likely-to-be prominent feature of the game are ships. To a certain extend, some fans are already guessing the the game will have similarities to the well-known and unique space theme MMORPG, EVE Online.

Here’s what is already officially shared by Cryptic Studio when it comes to ships:

• First, each ship or otherwise known as vessel will be suitable for different functions. For example, there would be science vessels as oppose to cruisers and so on and so forth.
• Then there will definitely be ship sizes. The size effects the capabilities of each ship and relates to the purpose. Of course, larger ships will be able to hold larger crews but may take longer to repair.
• Other then size, each ship will work around different utilities.
• Then there’s modification slots. These slots allows for ship modification to increase effectiveness. Different ships would have different spacing allocated for the slots.

Ships plays an important role in Star Trek Online. Players and team up and fly vessels into battle with NPCs. The game itself is designed for missions to be completed both on the ground and in space.

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