Science ships generally depend on their science skills, of which many have a 90 degree firing arc, so their primary firing arc is between an escort and a cruiser. If you have a lot of tactical slots (escorts) then mixing weapons types can work very well (i.e dual beams and dual heavy cannons). Star Trek Online, often abbreviated as STO, is a massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Cryptic Studios based on the popular Star Trek series created by Gene Roddenberry, using the Cryptic Engine2. The game is set in the 25th century, 30 years after the events of Star Trek Nemesis.3 Star Trek Online is the first massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

Any starship Captain worth his salt knows the value of being prepared – you’re no different. And it’s about to get even easier to have the Loadout you seek, for any mission you’re about to face. Coming very soon on PC, and soon after on Console, we’re making some changes to how Loadouts work. First, your Space Traits are now part of a Loadout. If you’ve got just the right setup for Gravity Kills, you can save it and have it ready to go when your favorite TFOs pop up in the Random Queue.

But that’s not all – we’ve separated Active Reputation Traits into Active Reputation Ground Traits and Active Reputation Space Traits. Instead of having to choose four or five no matter whether your mission puts you on the bridge or in the trenches, you can set up for both and keep it the way you like. If you’ve unlocked the fifth trait slot, you’ll unlock it for both Ground and Space traits.

And finally, for the fans of the “True Endgame”, Loadouts will now remember whether you enabled or disabled the visuals of your ship equipment. Love the benefits of the Competitive Engine but don’t like the way it looks? Equip it, disable the visuals, save your Loadout and never think of it again. Be your best Khan and go into battle prepared for any eventuality, Captains.

A ship slot is a spot occupied by a ship. Think of it as a docking space. A player only gets a limited number of ship slots and can therefore only have so many ships. A player begins with two ship slots but can get up to 14 (5 initial slots, 6 from promotions + 3 from accolades) through in-game means, or more still by purchasing it from the Zen Store.

Ships may be stored in Dry Dock Slots when not in use.

Ship slots are individual to each character, i.e. if you have 2 empty slots on one character, they cannot be used for ships on another.

Obtaining additional ship slots[edit edit source]

Obtaining or purchasing more slots will only apply to one character, with the exception of Veteran Rewards which apply to your entire account. Methods to obtain more:

• An additional ship slot is added for each promotion (per character):
  • Lieutenant Commander
  • Commander
  • Captain
  • Rear Admiral, Lower Half / Brigadier General
  • Rear Admiral, Upper Half / Major General
  • Vice Admiral / Lieutenant General, for a maximum of 6 by ranking up.
• Veteran Rewards, which unlock once per account but apply for each character:
  • 200 day Veteran Reward adds one ship slot with the accolade Redoubtable
  • 500 day Veteran Reward adds another ship slot with the accolade Relentless
  • 1000 day Veteran Reward adds another ship slot with the accolades Starfleet Veteran and Empire Veteran, for a maximum of 3 from accolades
• “The Vault” [FED/KDF] adds a ship slot with the accolade Size Doesn't Matter (per character)
• “Small Packages” [ROM] adds a ship slot with the accolade Size Doesn't Matter (per character)

This part of the Promo Bundle has remained unpacked because your character is already at or near the max number of available Starship Slots that may be purchased. This package may be traded to other characters on your account, and applied to any character that is not at/near this upper limit.

• 2 ship slots are available from the Zen Store for a price of 500 (per character, repeatable). A maximum of 48 ships can be purchased in this way. Should a character at or near the limit receive a promotional bundle that would put them over the limit of ship slots, an account-bound [Promo - Additional Starship Slots] will be placed in their inventory instead.

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Update history[edit edit source]

• Maximum ship slots purchasable from the Zen Store increased from 28 on November 3rd, 2011 to 48 on January 30th, 2014.
• Initial ship slots were increased from 2 to 4 on May 8th, 2014.[1]. Initial slots seem to have been increased to 5 at some point after this.

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