Star Trek Online has been out for a year now, and no MMO in recent memory has made such a huge improvement in its first year. STO went from disappointing for some Star Trek Fans, to a great online version of the Trek Universe in less than twelve months. If you tried STO last year and haven’t played since many of the improvements have been implemented, or never tried the game out; here are ten reasons why you should play Star Trek Online.
The Foundry
Currently going through testing on the “Tribble” test server, the Foundry is going to change Star Trek Online in a big way. This tool allows players to craft their own missions and share them with everyone else. Star Trek fans have always been creative, and there are already some extremely impressive missions created using the tool. It won’t be long now, and you’ll be able to live out your favorite Kirk/Spock slash fiction in the game.
Featured Episodes
Star Trek Online is currently in it’s third “season” of Featured Episodes. Every Saturday a new episode becomes available, and they’re really structured like an episode from one of the TV series. The current season deals with the Romulans and Remans, and the missions just keep getting cooler and with better rewards. A word of warning, however, there are currently so many people play Star Trek Online that the server has become a bit unstable on Saturdays with everyone trying to do the new episodes at once.
Diplomacy
Diplomacy was one of the big things missing from launch, and it’s one of the things that kept people from feeling that the game was really Star Trek Online; as it was mostly combat back then. Last year, they added Diplomacy missions that are great fun. Sure, running to DS9 to get a Jum Jum Stick for Kirayoshi O’Brien is just a fetch quest, but solving problems on Vulcan and mediating disputes between warring Cardassian captains is exactly the sort of diplomacy you see in the series and the missions handled them well.
New Sector Space
If you have played Star Trek Online, the big improvements in Season 3 was a revamp of Sector Space. It now really looks like you’re flying through space. If you get lost, you can still turn on the astrometrics, but you don’t need to and it all looks great. They also reduced the lighting in Sector Space so ships look much more like they’re really in space with most light coming from the ships themselves.
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