This game guide will help Star Trek Online newbies learn how to get started on Star Trek Online; from getting the game to playing it on your computer!

Contents:

I. What is Star Trek Online?

Overview

Star Trek Online (or STO) is a MMORPG based on the popular Star Trek series. The game was developed by Cryptic Studios, who also developed City of Heroes, City of Villains, and Champions Online. The game was released in the US on February 2, 2010, in the Europe on February 5, 2010.

Game Setting and Plot

The game is set in the Star Trek universe, where players will be able to explore new worlds, and discover alien civilizations. All players start out as the Captain of their very own ship, and will be able to commandeer their own crew to explore the final frontier.

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It’s happened, you know you can’t beat the hordes of enemies approaching.  The best thing you can do is hide your resources, but you just don’t the ability to hide it all.  You know your wall defenses will be wiped, you know your town will be looted.  You know you will lose all your defenses inside your city.  What do you do?

First, close your gates.  Open the gates when you are faced with an enemy you know you can beat with your ground troops, like 20k cavalry.  Close them afterwards.  Yes, it will piss them off more, but it’s something we need to do.

Next, use all your resources to build more troops. You can make them quickly in waves or do one lump sum.  Don’t bother with wall defenses, the enemy will wipe those easily anyways, and we have no control over when to use them.

If you are unbalanced, more wood then iron, or don’t have the population to build more troops, sell.  Sell everything you have to get gold.  Take the gold (it’s instantaneous delivery), and buy stone.  Buy all the stone you can, at whatever the cost.  What do you do with all the stone? You wait.

Let your city be looted (and pick your attacks with the gates). It won’t be long before the enemy gets tired of picking up stone, and only stone.  Sure they can convert the stone to gold, but the sell and buy prices will be different.  Just remember to periodically raise your loyalty, so the enemy can’t get your city (not a problem if it’s your only city) and of your heroes.  Don’t forget to heal your troops as well.  Out of money to heal them? Sell a little stone.

And the most important information… ask your alliance for reinforcements.  Even 5k scouts will help, but of course 200k, would help a lot more.  You will need to allow your embassy to allow alliance troops to be garrisoned within your city.  The size of your embassy determines the amount of armies that can be housed.  More is better.  If you have 4, then you can have 400,000 troops.  For defense, we want archers, swordsmen, and scouts.

This is an original guide/strategy written by Spitt of RPG-Exploiters.com. Don’t be fooled by other sites that only copy everyone elses’ posts to their site.

This is a sinister trick to play on your enemies, and should only be done from a city which is ok to lose.  You will get on your enemies’ shizz list really quickly.

Thanks to Lord_Murda for this strategy! Want to get free access to the VIP sections? Submit a guide, strategy, or exploit to us.  If we post it, you get free access!

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For all you hard working Alchemists who make a lot of money in your trade, this is some must have information.  In recent patches, something has changed, and in a new patch, something else is going to happen which will greatly affect your income.  Know these few tips, to make HUGE returns. Continue reading »

Here’s a few tips and tricks I have learned over the years.  I have almost always played on PvP servers, so some of these will only apply to that.

Use Insert and Delete to fly upside down.  Always looks kind of weird, especially if you are on a flying carpet and doing that.

Always (PvP Server) make a PvP toon, for leveling. Sooner or later you will be confronted with an enemy, who will pound you unless you know how to fight.

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On most servers Iron and Wood cost more then any other resource. Occasionally, food is a scarce resource, usually on older servers – that’s just supply and demand however, since NPC farming should get you enough food to last a while.  I have decided I want to build a resource city.  I am going to make it produce both wood and iron, and to allow the storage in warehouses, but to not produce armies.  If armies are needed, they will be housed there from other cities.  The idea is to only make it a resources producing town, good for alliances and peeps who want to have their own “farm town”.

Primarily it will be Lumbermills and Ironmines, with 1 each of Farm and Quarry.  I make those, simply for the bonuses.  Instead of building a ton of barracks, I will build 1, with a ton of Warehouses.  This will allow me again to gain the bonus.  The barracks will be destroyed after all the bonuses are gained.

We will do away with wall defenses, and instead leave the gates open and a maximum sized embassy (with armies housed within).  When we need resources we will simply close the gates, kick the city from the alliance, have our own armies attack, and shift the resources around in the warehouses to make them available for the attacking army.  Once the “raid” is complete, we open the gates again, re-work the warehouse percentages, and invite back to the alliance.

Tip 1: For some unknown reason, most people grab level 10 Lakes.  In most cases since food is cheaper on most servers, it’s better to grab Hills and Forests.

Tip 2: If you or your alliance – or even group of alliances are being pounded by the top few alliances, band together, and stop selling food.  With the lack of food, or even higher food rates, then the enemies who have been attacking you, can starve and lose their armies.

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Alquima Labs is very commonly know as labs, or the Skill Book instance. Labs is the instance on the Asmodian Side that drops their level 42 skill books. In order to gain access to Alquima you will need to complete the “A Missing Father” Campaign quest. This quest is quite a pain in the ass but it gives you access to this instance which chances are you will need to do.

After you’ve completed the Missing Father Quest getting to Alquima Labs can be quite an accomplishment in its own. In order to get here you will need to run northeast from Chaos Brambles. Take a look at my map below to get an idea.

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This is a continuation of the Hiding Resources tips, I wrote before.  It’s simply a way I figured out that can make your enemy not be able to get all your resources in one go.  Basically what you do, is convert everything to gold.  Yes, you will lose some to the marketplace anyways, but that’s not a big deal.  When the enemy attacks, they will attempt to cart away everything you have.  Since it’s likely you already used my resource hiding tips, this will allow you to make it much harder on your enemy.  Suddenly, instead of 1 million wood, you might have 17 million gold.  Which means they would need to cart away repeatedly.  If they are far away, this gives you the time and option to then convert left over resources after the attack and spend them on building back troops, defenses, or buildings.

[Revision] buy stone instead.  Instead of 1 million wood, it could become 90 million stone (price dependent on server), which is even worse for them then gold

This is an original exploit/tip by Spitt of RPG-Exploiters.  Don’t be fooled by other sites that only copy everyone elses’ posts to their site.

New Items, New Mobs, New Gold Making Opportunities!

Northrend is massive. Don’t waste a single second wandering that vast space trying to find where to grind for gold when you could be stowing away piles upon piles of gold with the right strategies.

Demands Change, and So Should You!

Wrath of the Lich King’s huge breadth of new content has turned the game on its head and that means everything you thought you knew about gold making has changed. Learn what items are in demand right now and how you can be there when they change!

It’s a Whole New Ball Game – Do You Have a Game Plan ?!

Reputation items, a new kind of mote, top new instances, and dozens of changes to professions mean streamlined, top notch ways to make gold like you’ve never done before!

Do You Know Which HOT NEW ITEMS You Should Be Stocking!

Don’t spend a single second grinding for items you’ll never make enough gold on. Find the hottest locations and the hottest items in Northrend for the most possible gold in your bag right now.

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Go to Naphui Quarter and put hard mode on.

Equip the following;

Build: Glyph of Swiftness, Deadly Paradox, Shadow Form, Way of the Lotus, Golden Lotus Strike, Fox Fangs, Death Blossom, Radiation Field (Asuran skill) 
Weapons: Perma Staff and Zealous Daggers of enchanting
Attributes: 16 Shadow Arts, 12 Dagger Master, 3 Critical Strikes

Enter mission, go to the light orb to the right of the bell, up the ramp. Make sure you run away from combat in a safe area.

You can’t kill a star light and they can’t kill you so don’t bother. Your goal is to kill Star Blades and Star Sentinels. You can kill these guys so long as there are 2 Star Lights in the group (not just 1).

If you only want to get the celestial weapons then run around until you see a celestial weapon on one of the birds, it will drop roughly 85% of the time. If you want feathers, just kill as many birds as you can.

When using the attack skills, don’t target a Sentinel because they block with lightning reflex, so target a Blade and your area effects will kill the sentinel, if you time it right.

Be careful about your energy and make sure to have 30 energy when you need to Renew Shadow Form. Skills 4-8 note what they do and know how to maintain the energy with them.

A successful run with picking and choosing the right places takes about 15-20 minutes (because you won’t be able to kill all groups with too many lights) and in the 15-20 you usually get 3-4 gold and 120 feathers.

The profit per hour averages to 16k and 10 gold (the gold could be worth a lot if you’re lucky).

Good Luck, and be sure to tell us how you did.

Imagine a sneaky dps tank, with the ability to find your traps, then disarm them.  Imagine massive DPS with decent armorclass and hit points.  This is the Dwarf Batman build. If you have the veteran build its much easier.

32pt Build
15 Strength
15 Dexterity
12 Constitution
14 Intelligence
11 Wisdom
12 Charisma

Start with a rogue who is lawful good (that’s an oxymoron, lol)
Lots of skills 40 to be exact max as many rogue skills as you can 1py in tumble. Ignore Haggle (build a haggle bard to do you selling and buying if you want the haggle skill)

1st level
Feat: Toughness

2nd level Ranger
Keep up your hide, move silent, and rogue skills. Spend 2 pts if necessary.
Favored Enemy: Undead

3rd level Ranger
Skills: Same as before
Feats: Oversized two weapon fighting

4th level Paladin
Skills: Put them in heal
Ability Point: Strength

5th level Paladin
Skills: Keep putting them in Rogue

6th level Paladin
Skills: Same as before
Feat: Dodge

7th level: Ranger
Skills: Update the ranger/rogues skills to max

8th level: Rogue
Skills: Max out all Rogue class skills that you can.
Ability point: Dexterity

9th level: Ranger
Skills: Max what you can
Feat: Mobility

10th level: Rogue
Skills: Max them, dont forget balance

11th level: Ranger
Favored Enemy: Constructs

12th level: Ranger
Ability Point: Dexterity
Feat: Spring Attack
Now, take Whirlwind Style

Now alternate between Rogue and Ranger.
Do not go over level 5 Rogue
Continue to max Ranger till level 12

Your character can wear Mithril Platemail without skill penalties
Smite 2 times, Lay on Hands 2 times
Ssneak attack for 3d6 +9
Dual wield dwarven axes
You are immune to fear and disease as well as resistant to magic, poison, and most elemental attacks.

There are a lot of ways to build prestige in Evony. However, the town hall trick seems to be key in building prestige the fastest. Also keeps you from being attacked.

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First off, here’s a vid that was posted 5 months ago, on soloing Freya’s Herbs.  It’s not a bad way to make some gold/gather herbs, but for VIP members, I am going to share my personal spot which will net you a LOT more herbs in less time.

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About the author: I’ve played rogue since season 2 back in TBC. I’ve gotten +2,3k in Tbc, mostly as mage/rogue and rmp. In Wotlk, I’ve reached over 2,5k ratings. I’ve been always pvp’ing.

Ok. Let’s get to the point.
First of all, you might want to know the basic facts of stats in PvP, so let’s talk about them first.

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Zygor claimed that they were doing something for their members, which was to release their guide in either the Tourguide or Zygor format.  Really, I think it was cutting the head off the snake, which is to say that they didn’t want anyone else to have an ingame interactive leveling guide.  For the most part, thats what it appears that they have done, as now other companies which sell leveling guides, based on tourguide can’t do it anymore.  This affects Joana, Spugnort, Brian Kopp (which is now owned by Spugnort), Dugi, and some others.  Continue reading »

I recently decided to try the 10 day trial of Fallen Earth.  I had been in the beta, and was unimpressed. In fact, there wasn’t much change to my impressions.  Though I did appreciate the GM’s being on constantly to help answer questions or moderate the chat.

To level the fastest in Fallen Earth, I found that doing quests is not fast.  Part of the reason it’s not fast, is that the game world is so large, and running, even on horseback, takes a while to get to and from each quest area.  The fastest way to level, is in fact to simply find a good spot with fast respawns, and to grind level.  I found that melee fighters are the best, as they don’t have to worry about running out of ammo and crafting.

I do recommend having First Aid, and making bandages.  Fight humanoids and zombies for their cloth drops, and while fighting, have a continuous supply of bandages being made.  In a lull you can complete the bandages.

The best spots that I personally found were inside the nearby mines/dungeons.

Tip: You should always do the starter quests for new alts, to get your free mount.

Here’s a nice Lunar Festival guide for World of Warcraft. We have provided maps, written the guide and how to’s. If there is any mistakes or errors, or suggestions, feedback is always welcome.

These pictures are based on WoW Alliance characters. This might not work for WoW Horde as the paths are different. You may want to use this however as pinpoints of where to go. So heres whats up with the pictures:

Light Blue represents Flight Paths, where you would fly.
Yellow represents walking, mounted paths.
Black represents editted lines that are crossed out.
And Red dots indicate where Elders are.

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I know this sounds stupid to most people, but it’s something I have learned over playing many many games… read the manual first.  The manual will give you a quick overview, and you won’t waste time in game, asking people how to do this or that. I recently tried out a 10 day trial of Fallen Earth, and having read the manual, I didn’t waste the average of 3 days most people lose in the beginning of play, to keep asking the same stupid question, like “how do I open my pack” or “how do I reload my weapon”. Not only will you save the time, not asking stupid questions, but normally, you also speed by other levelers because you know the basic information that they couldn’t be bothered with, because they wanted to jump right in.

The StarTrek Online Manual, is worth a read, even though the information is available online – I prefer hard copies, but thats just me.

If you want to play StarTrek Online, you can buy StarTrek Online key from Shattered Crystal and download the game directly from StarTrek site.