We've temporarily blocked the Neotype Omni-Directional Cryonic Beam Array and the Neotype Cryonic Torpedo Launcher from being reclaimed due to a technical issue. We plan to turn them back on as soon as it's fixed!

Hey folks! If you noticed the auto-loot feature that went live today on PC, enjoy the free preview! It was never meant to go live today, and isn't functioning as it's supposed to, so we'll be disabling it if we haven't already. If it seems partially-finished, that's why. :)

UPDATE: IGNORE ME! Whether we disabled the feature or not, the option was still there in the Options Menu. Thomas made the call that, since the option is visible, that we're going to keep it on. Please keep in mind, it is not a finished feature, but have fun and give us your feedback. :)

Vulcan Suurok, NX material, Black Vesta/Corvus pattern, Pink Vanity Shield, Baleful Herald Vanity Deflector, Aegis Engines (not shown, but they are the main reason I went for the NX material - gives the ship blue impulse engines that match the blue aegis trails :-D)

Good morning, carrier Captains!

I am working on a personal fan project involving my latest ship obsession, the Ark Royal-class carrier. I want to model the fighter bays, perhaps with an animated launch procedure. Maybe I'll even try making an MSD. Who knows!

I know the red circled doors are the fighter bays as there is the alternate skin that has these open with forcefields.

What are the blue circled rectangles? They seem too deliberate to be meaningless decoration. Are they recovery bays?

Has anyone come across an internal schematic of the Ark Royal either official or fan-made?

I returned to STO this year (I will actually get the year long event rewards during the next event) I've always kinda played for a short time then quit for any number of reasons. I've spent some $ over the years and have a few t6. Im finding this return different, love the game and I'm more invested in long term. My main is a Romulan Tactical Captain on Fed side. I was wondering on the best way to spend my year end rewards, best bang for my buck as it were for the Premium and 2 store ships and how to most efficiently spend lobi. The other thing I was wondering is if the lifetime membership goes on sale in a predictable manner so I don't miss it on discount next time so I can go all in. Thanks for any advice.

Edit;Thank you everyone fir answering my questions

Done nice and early so I just need to decide what to spend my fortunes on now....

Don't get me wrong, I love the ease recently of getting daily event progress with the DSEs, but does she really have to introduce herself every time? Assuming you grabbed the mission to do 3 of the DSEs she will introduce herself 3 times in the intended gameplay loop like we have never met.

A Red Alert Event is up until the 23rd on PC. Complete 5 days to get an Ultimate Tech Upgrade and a Spec Point.

Quick question. Can you skin the Shangri-La as the original TOS Enterprise?

Having recently run "Facility 4028", part of the "Lost Dominion" arc, I noticed the dev team had updated Amar Singh's appearance in that mission to match the revised version we see in the new "The Ultimate Klingon" duology.

So, I decided to check out "The Doomsday Device" and I was a little disappointed to see that B'Vat hadn't likewise been updated there. He still has his old model.

This seems all the more incongruous when when considers that The 2800/Lost Dominion plot had been all but relegated to the ancillary "Galaxy At Large" side mission set, whereas "The Doomsday Device" is still a part of the mainline Klingon War story, the first one a new player will encounter.

His shifting appearance can be quite jarring, and I imagine it is especially so for a new player.

Are there any plans to update B'Vat's appearance in "The Doomsday Device", does anyone know?

Thanks.

In the conference at Khitomer why is this group of Caitian officers wearing uniforms with baby blue, periwinkle, and pink colours instead of the standard red/blue/yellow?

1) Sometimes in space combat my ship will become uncontrollable and sprint away from the battle, is this lag or some CC/fear effect?

2) Everything I read says I should be doing the faction story arcs, (Klingon civil war, romulan mystery, etc.) but they're all locked. I finished universe at large, and now all that's available is ultimate Klingon and the Terran arc. I've gotten to 45ish running patrols. What do?

Note on today's maintenance: This was just a restart, and there are no patch notes on any platform.

I can't decide what to use my t-6 ship token on. There are so many cool ships! Im really torn between getting a new fun t6 Science vessel (like the Lexington), the Rhode Island/Equinox t-6 (cause the Quasar and Nova class is one of my all time favorite ships frames and Id like to have an actually flyable one), or the Dauntless class. Im rp'ing a science officer and trying to get back in. Right now I have a Vesta Class variant as my primary, and I want to save up energy credits for a Protostar if I can manage it, but im not likely to manage that before they're off the market. Any thoughts?

Greetings,

I'm a new player looking for general advice from the legends around the community. I'm trying to outfit a Farragut Temporal Cruiser to be the best beam shooter it can be. My character is a TOS era character now in the current time and I understand I should be able to get TOS era equipment from Starbase K-13. How do I gain access to this base?

I also collected some other ships from the 60th Anniversary Prize Pack tokens based on other recommended equipment I have seen for phasers. I got the D.O.M.I.N.O. and the Dynamic Power Redistributor. I read I should look at the NX Refit console as well, does anyone have any thoughts on what I should be working towards to reach the goal of outfitting the ship with an epic quality TOS era phaser build that can tackle elite content.

One thing that does disappoint me about the consoles of the T1-4 and even some T5 ships is that while they have really cool consoles (Picard Manoeuvre from the Constellation, Anti-Matter Spread from the Venture, etc), ultimately since they don’t have passive traits it makes them impractical to run on anything higher.

Example, let’s take the Warp Burst Capacitor from the Constellation:

Picard Maneuver
Create Warp Mirage Decoy
Become Untargetable for 5 sec
+15% Damage Bonus for 5 sec
Creates a duplicate at current location for 5 sec
Teleport 6.0km straight forward
1 min recharge

This is currently how it works. I like the ability but I think we can add a passive to it.

Here’s my addition:
Passive:
+5 Maximum Weapon Subsystem Power
+5 Maximum Engine Subsystem Power
-10% Weapon Firing Mode Ability Cooldown (applies to all firing modes, FAW, CSV, THY, Torp Spread, etc)

If you guys have any other ideas for how to expand on the T1-5 Consoles please post comments. Also I know this isn’t likely to happen but it would be nice to be able to use some of the flashier moves from the shows/movies without basically sacrificing a console slot.

Saw a couple other Shangri-La kitbashes, figured I'd show off my own. Gotta say, even without the reshade preset, I'm always impressed out pretty this game can look

Shangri-La body, neck, and pylons, Excalibur nacelles, and Vesper Saucer. I think Constitution windows (don't have it in front of me) and Type 8 or 8a Material (again, not in front of me), but with a NexusMods that replaces that material with a TMP-era texture closer to Star Trek VI

Meanwhile my bridge officer is all "My eyes are up here, buddy"

Beginning 10/22 at 8am PT, players on all platforms will have the chance to command their very own Vidiian Science Warship, as the latest starship to be added to the contents of the Infinity Lock Box.

Ship Details:

• Tier: 6
• Faction: Any
• Required Rank: Complete the Tutorial
• Hull Modifier: 1.5
• Shield Modifier: 0.75
• Fore Weapons: 4
• Aft Weapons: 3
• Device Slots: 3
• Bridge Officer Stations: 
  • 1x Commander Science / Intelligence
  • 1 x Lt Commander Tactical / Command
  • 1 x Lt Commander Universal
  • 1 x Lieutenant Engineering
  • 1 Ensign Universal
• Consoles: 4 Tactical, 2 Engineering, 5 Science
• Base Turn Rate: 12.5
• Impulse Modifier: 0.18
• Inertia: 55
• +10 Weapon Power, +5 Engine Power, +5 Auxiliary Power
• Console - Universal - Bio-matter Harvesting
• Can Equip Dual Cannons
• Hyper-thermic Charge Torpedo Launcher
• Cloaking Device
• "Gather Intel" Ship Mechanic
• Subsystem Targeting
• Sensor Analysis
• Secondary Deflector Slot
• Starship Mastery Package (Science Vessel)
  • Enhanced Particle Generators (+Exotic Damage)
  • Advanced Shield Systems (+Shield HP)
  • Enhanced Restorative Circuitry (+Healing)
  • Reactive Shield Technology (+Shield Regen/Hardness)
  • Reprehensible Responsibility Trait (Starship Trait)

Admiralty Ship Stats:

• Eng:  22
• Sci:  57
• Tac:  47
• Special: -25% Maintenance per SciShip

Console – Universal – Bio-matter Harvesting

The Vidiian Sodality is an advanced civilization that has developed its medical capabilities to combat the disease known as the Phage. Their obsession with defeating this disease has driven a lot of design decisions in fascinating ways. Similar to how they survive by retrieving body parts from others, this console enables a subroutine that seeks to harvest actual parts from a target ship.

As Vidiian ships often lack personnel transporters, they needed more physical methods to reach the organic goods within. Although some ships use physical boarding parties, the tactics that are utilized in this console are tuned to decimate a target ship’s shields and utilize Automated Microdrones which can medically transport the much needed, life-saving organs of the officers aboard.

This console additionally provides a passive bonus to Maximum Hull Points, and any incoming healing exceeding Max Hull applies temporary Hit Points. This console may be equipped on any ship in any console slot.

Shield Drain + Steal Hull Points

By activating this console, the ship emits a disruptive frequency that drains the enemy shields, which is made more powerful based on its Current Hull Value. Automated Microdrones deal damage to the enemy’s Hull, which restores any Hull damage on your ship.

Starship Trait – Reprehensible Responsibility

Defeated foes grant Maximum Hull Hit Points and Passive Regeneration

"He is my Honatta... his task is to find the organs I need for survival."

While this trait is slotted, defeating an enemy will grant you maximum hull points and regenerates your hull hit points. This heal stacks up to 5 times. This heal may be triggered once every 5 seconds.

Hyper-thermic Charge Torpedo Launcher ∞ [Dmg] [CritD]x2

This unique piece of equipment comes pre-installed on Vidiian Science Warship vessels. Loaded with Hyper-thermic Charges, this weapon is used by the Vidiians to to crack open the Shields of a ship like an egg in order to gain access to the organs that they seek inside.

Some more details on this weapon:

• The Hyper-thermic Charge is a pre-equipped Torpedo Weapon.
• It can be reclaimed from the Dilithium store.
• It has an Equip Limit of 1 per starship.
• It can be moved other starships.
• It will be Levelless, but can be upgraded after level 60.
• It counts as a Plasma Torpedo for anything that triggers off of Plasma Torpedos.

Hyper-thermic Plasma Lance

The Vidiian Science Warship comes equipped with a Hyper-thermic Plasma Lance. After a short charge up time, this weapon fires a heavy beam forward, dealing significant Plasma damage and applying a long-lasting burn effect that continues to eat away at their hull, ignoring shields.

Hello Captains!

Leading this time with a reminder that if you have any questions about the exchange itself or a particular order, just reply or reach out directly!

We’ve had a mostly normal week on the dilithium exchange. Let’s look at the graph and metrics first and then I’ll get into what I mean by “mostly.”

My most recently accepted offer was made August 28. Let's compare August 22 - August 28 to August 15 - August 21. The only notes I have for these time periods are record lows for throughput on August 21 and August 24.

Week over Week:

Let’s talk about the word “mostly.” As I’ve said time and again, changes in throughput mostly mimic changes in the queue. As you can see from the week over week, throughput and queue length trended away from each other. Hold on hold on. I don’t think this has anything to do with Icon Packs, just let me know if you want to get into why. Anyway you can see this visually if you glance back up at the graph. You can see a dip toward the end of the black line where there’s a climb directly above on the blue line. That short deviation over the course of 2-3 days basically caused a traffic jam that skewed the averages for the entire week. Deviations like this are fairly common, but mostly, they don’t leave a ripple like this. No, I don’t think this has to do with Icon Packs, and I am ready to go if you want to get into it in the comments. 

Seeing as how I don’t think that deviation is going to have a long term effect, here’s the forecast!
Short Term Forecast:

Long Term Forecast:

Honorary mention goes to offers started September 22, which right now I anticipate coming in on November 8, +/- 4 days. This will be the first day of orders fully under the influence Icon Packs. It’s key to remember that we’re already three weeks out from their introduction. That means for any currently pending transaction, roughly half of that wait time was under the influence of Icon Packs. Time will tell, but that mostly explains why I don’t think they’re shifting things. 

Initial the last 14 transactions were posted as proof that my numbers weren’t just pulled out of the wormhole. Having gone to great lengths to show that they were not, I’m going to trim that content from these posts unless there seems to be some popular demand. This time I leave you with a question. Are you buying Zen for something specific or are you keeping it on hand for the next drop? 🖖 💥

... for me it's kinda both.