Star Trek Online: Ask Cryptic

The latest edition of the Star Trek Online 'Ask Cryptic' series has been published. As always, questions from the community are asked and answered. Check it out.

iceman22503: I know it was said before that players start out with a small ship and then work their way up to bigger ones. My question is this: regardless of size, will we be able to command older ships such as the connie refit and so forth?

First of all, the Constitution is in-game and playable. It's an older ship, so it's no match for a Galaxy class ship, but it's in there. You'll be able to command older ships, but as you get access to bigger ships like the Galaxy and the Sovereign classes, the Constitution will be outperformed.

But it's not like the difference between a level 10 and level 20 player. The disparity isn't that huge, and that's specifically because we want players with less advanced skills to be able to compete in fleet actions with people in larger ships.

In general, the higher up you go, the less disparity there is between ships. When you start off, you'll fly a Miranda or Centaur class ship, and you'll always be able to go back to that ship, but it's not especially powerful. As you start advancing into bigger ships and going into different paths, the power difference between ships lessens as you get toward the top tier.

The difference between a Defiant and Prometheus isn't really that much. You can play either one and be just as effective in the endgame. The difference is some of the higher-end ships give you more options. The Prometheus class ship has access to all different types of items and weapons and technologies that the Defiant doesn't have access to. That doesn't necessarily make it better; it just gives you more options to choose from. So if you're not interested in anti-proton weapons or certain technologies, you'll be fine staying in the Defiant class ship.

And as we add more ships into the game, we'll be sticking to this approach. The ships will broaden out rather than get prohibitively deep. We're trying to do that so people can hold onto their favorite ships.

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