BREAKING NEWS: STO to be Free-to-Play by year end

Quick question for you that have been playing STO for sometime now. I registered on their website and was thinking about trying the game. Do you think it would be worth trying out with SW:TOR being right around the corner? I would probably only be playing STO for a month or two until release of SW:TOR.

Also if I do is there a server everyone is on? (I'm sure this info is somewhere but I couldn't find it)

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Also if I do is there a server everyone is on? (I'm sure this info is somewhere but I couldn't find it)

It's all one giant server. If you have a friend or fleet member in a zone before you arrive, you will typically load into their instance when you arrive.

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It's all one giant server. If you have a friend or fleet member in a zone before you arrive, you will typically load into their instance when you arrive.

Ah very cool! Thanks hon

If I get a stipend of C-Store points I am happy to see STO go F2P. Should bring in so many more casual Trek fans.

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It's all one giant server. If you have a friend or fleet member in a zone before you arrive, you will typically load into their instance when you arrive.

Ah very cool! Thanks hon

You're welcome. :)

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If I get a stipend of C-Store points I am happy to see STO go F2P. Should bring in so many more casual Trek fans.

Meee too.

I love that word...

Stipend...

I really really want a stipend. ^.^

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Quick question for you that have been playing STO for sometime now. I registered on their website and was thinking about trying the game. Do you think it would be worth trying out with SW:TOR being right around the corner? I would probably only be playing STO for a month or two until release of SW:TOR.

Also if I do is there a server everyone is on? (I'm sure this info is somewhere but I couldn't find it)

My opinion is biased since the only mmo I have any interest in ever playing is STO. I had previously tried WoW and Perfect World and they just never drew me in, then again they weren't based on Star Trek.

I say play STO, keep in mind it's in the midst of a bit of a remodel currently. You never know, you just might want to stay.

Yuk, it looks like when I come back into game, I'm going to lose anywhere from 1 to 3 character slots. This makes me very sad, my captains and BOs are going to get killed. Every single character I create, captain and BO, I invest with a backstory.

Plus I had planned out half the crew for my 300-day reward slot I'm not going to get now. :-(

Guess I'd just have to buy the extra slots and rebuild them all from scratch. I'm not going to let them die like that.

F2P Official Link (Got this link from Priority One on Twitter @stopriorityone)

http://www.startrekonline.com/f2p_features

Magic word for us lifers....STIPEND!!! Read the whole thing though. Knowledge is power and all that garbage.

Yup, read through it carefully. And do hover-overs on the question marks. Some things that look like you wouldn't have as a Silver you actually do if you've EVER had a subscription. So some things aren't quite as bad as they look at first blush. I still might lose a slot, though.

Klingon play at 25? That doesn't sound like it's good news for Klingon content or new Klingon players.

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Guess I'd just have to buy the extra slots and rebuild them all from scratch. I'm not going to let them die like that.

At least, as I understand it with Champs, I have several characters that were there prior to the F2P changover. They still exist if I want to go back, but I will need to "convert" them to the new archetypes for the Free-To-Play or go back as a subscriber.

I suspect it'll be similar with STO: no character will ever be deleted, but you may lose access to a character until you are a paying subscriber again.

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Klingon play at 25? That doesn't sound like it's good news for Klingon content or new Klingon players.

Yeah, this kind of shocked me too. What's the purpose of creating a Klingon Academy if they are doing away with the ability of starting a new Klingon from the very start?

What if I purchased slots?

If you've already purchased them, then they should remain as purchased. There'd be a heck of an uproar if Cryptic/PW tried to take away items already bought.

anything you have already paid for will not be going away :)

I mean, purchase slots for already-created characters to make up for the loss of slot (I think it's going to be one) I'll have once I rejoin the game free-to-play.

Bah, I'll just buy them anyway. Like I said, I'd already created in my head half the crew for the slot for my 300-day reward that I'm not going to get now.

Right? On the surface they're claiming a better, shorter, Klingon gameplay. But I have serious reservations about the clunkiness of creating a lvl 25 klink from scratch, and the added commitment to a Fed toon before creating a Klingon. Seems to me this will reinforce the view of Klingons as alts instead of mains. I don't know, maybe I'm being pessimistic and this really is just a holding pattern while more klingon content is added and the level-floor lowered.

Trying to make myself clearer:

When I was in game, I had five slots--my two that I got automatically, the one I unlocked, and two I bought. However, when I rejoin the game at F2P, it sounds like I'll only have four slots for my free subscription--two for Silver, two I bought. So I do lose one slot.