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[Sonlirain]

I stopped doing research because the costs became way too high.

Well personally i ąm just spamming schematics with tier 1 resources.
From what i understand they last all the way to 1500 and at that point you make the AEGIS set.
I already seem ot have most of the exotic particles from all the ploring so far so i just need the dilithium for the unreplicatibles (seems like around 20k dilithium per item so that might take some time)

[Gabeux]

Played two or three initial missions. Even though the combat feels easy (at least in the beggining) , I think I like it a little.
I will join our fleet (fleets? wat) when I discover the rest of the game.

EDIT - I love this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[ductape]

I played this today fr the first time, wow neat! Not like what I was expecting, at all. I am waiting for when I see the grindy but for now, it is really fun and not feeling like an MMORPG at all.

[Sonlirain]

Played two or three initial missions. Even though the combat feels easy (at least in the beggining) , I think I like it a little.
I will join our fleet (fleets? wat) when I discover the rest of the game.

EDIT - I love this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Well currently our fleet is 1 (active) person strong.
In theory i could take it over and invite you but don't expect much fleet action from B12.
But if anyone wants in then PM me in game. Mu character is a romulan engineer "Lordek".

[Culise]

A lot of people saying that it's not like an MMORPG is actually somewhat appealing to me.  How much actual inter-player interaction is actually necessary to play the game?  I've been missing Star Trek for quite some time, and the new movies haven't exactly been the most satisfying fare, so a new game that I haven't played at all yet could be fun.  The problem is that I only rarely can do actual multiplayer things, whether it's my own reticence or erratic time/connection constraints.  So, even though it presumably plays online and requires a connection, can I still play it like it's single-player? 
^{(shut-in mode, activate)}

[Shadowlord]

Yeah, as long as your internet is working, and you don't want to play when the servers are down for maintenance.

[Lightning4]

I haven't played seriously for about a year, but when I played, it was true. You could do a disturbing amount of things free from any player interaction.

I don't know how much the latest patches have changed things though.

I know the things you can't do without interaction are STFs (need 5 players, but it looks like they may have been de-emphasized as of late?) and PvP (obvious).
It looks like there might be a few other PvE queue things that encourage you to group with others.

And if you don't join a fleet, you miss out on quite a few mechanics involving those. Though, I never ended up joining one so...

[Sonlirain]

Ok i'dl ike to point out that you can get a FREE (ok it's a quest reward but a ridiculously good one for such an easy quest) Obelisk Carrier along with a set or Advanced fighters.
You just have to be level 10 and complete this mission.
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Mission:_Sphere_of_Influence
The advanced fighters are for completely exploring (and interacitng with every console) the penultimate area (one with bridges) and the details are under the link i posted.

The carrier itself is not availble till you hit lvl 40 (or 50 dunno because i'm already lvl 50) but the quest can be done at lvl 10.

I'm having fun with my carrier now (aptly named H.F.S. Carrier) and so should you!

[Aklyon]

Ok i'dl ike to point out that you can get a FREE (ok it's a quest reward but a ridiculously good one for such an easy quest) Obelisk Carrier along with a set or Advanced fighters.
You just have to be level 10 and complete this mission.
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Mission:_Sphere_of_Influence
The advanced fighters are for completely exploring (and interacitng with every console) the penultimate area (one with bridges) and the details are under the link i posted.

The carrier itself is not availble till you hit lvl 40 (or 50 dunno because i'm already lvl 50) but the quest can be done at lvl 10.

I'm having fun with my carrier now (aptly named H.F.S. Carrier) and so should you!

Alright, you convinced me to reinstall it now. (I'd been debating it due to low free space) That sounds awesome.

[Gabeux]

Well I'm level 10 now and I've been doing the episode's quests, I think I did only very few ones outside of it.
I did one in Ceres and when I looked into my quest log it said something like "your level is too low for this quest, so your rewards will be less", it annoyed me that the game didn't ask me if I would accept these conditions, so I kind of fear now doing quests other than the first "main storyline" when exploring around.

I like it how there's no quests like "kill 10 pigs and bring me 10 craps", at least in the story missions.
I also hope that combat gets more dynamic as you level up (I think it does). Just got an Escort, haven't played with it yet.

And..the game doesn't feel like an MMORPG to me, except for the ground combat that feels like some MMORPG (I prefer FPS gameplay - a The Bureau: XCOM style for ground combat would be amazing), but it's fun to throw phasers and nades and stuff into the enemies so it's fine.
And since I've been doing 60% space 40% ground combat, I don't get bored or anything.

I'm looking for tips:
- I'm playing Advanced difficulty, should put into Elite or that's too much? (Normal feels easy, Advanced feels Normal - except for crazy freaking Cruisers that are way too powerful in Advanced in rare cases - but it keeps me on my toes and I only died once because I was sleepy  ).
- I haven't done any research yet, any tips in getting into it, or should I store my anomaly-things to use later on?

[Sonlirain]

Store anomaly things in your bank.
The only anomaly you should be interested for now are tier 1s so you can spam schematics (you have to make 150 of those costing 1500 of various tier 1 anomalies total)
The good news is that scanning tier 1 anomalies also gives you ALL types of rare anomalies so you have the rare matierials for crafting later.

Basically if you want to craft then explore the hell out od Delta Volanis Cluster. Ignore (unless doing a mission) unexplored planets and go for anomalies.

Do simple quests that reward dilithium ("explore new strange worlds" and "Asteroid mining") because you will need it later.

As an escort you might want to set your power into weapons so you can murder people before they murder you (escorts are DPS craft while cruisers are tanks).

I'm currently playing on Elite but played on advanced during leveling... sometimes lowering the difficulty to normal when got an "impossible" mission.

[Xardalas]

Hmm, We should make a list names of for peeps. So you can have someone to grind with and such, or at least have a friend to chat with while you do it. Anyways, If I could get a invite to the fleet it would be nice. Xarda'las Duv'ha'kar is the name.

[Facekillz058]

My download will finally be done tonight. Ill let you guys know my IGN after I start playing.

[Sonlirain]

Just to be clear.
The B12 fleet (the one i'm currently usurping the title of leader) is Federal.

So yeah no Goblins Klingons allowed.

[Xardalas]

He's a fed. No worries. Invite me?