Saving the Federation with your friends.

For a few months now Star Trek Online or just, STO has been free to play, so of course since I refuse to spend monthly for any game I picked it up a while ago and decided to take a look. You can download the game directly from their site or it is playable through Steam, I found the direct download to be a little less glitch filled.

So the first thing you do is build your captain..I had an idea going into this game, how cool would it be to have a bad ass highly over powered ship run just by hot big breasted women who pose sexually?? Is this a stupid man idea, yes--Has other people probably done this, yes. And my answer is as always, so..? So that is where I went. Also going into this game I wanted to fulfill a small wish of mine, to Pilot a Defiant class vessel..considering Ill be long dead if that ever happens, the Defiant is my favorite ship so I wanted to fly one.

So I got my piece of crap starter ship and went along my way, but here is my problem..I loathe the missions that take place on the ground, it's like.."Here is the bad ass awesome ship you can tweak to be exactly you want, and mod the shit out of it... Now beam down and wander around for a while with clunky combat system" SO because I mostly enjoy space battles, I am very behind in the "story" the down side is the story is where you get the best space gear..so I am going through it at a very slow pace..mostly to get to the gear I want to get to. Luckily if you just want to space fight there are enough different missions and experience to be gained without setting foot on a planet, which is more my style.

For a while I was balancing to different types of ships a cruiser which is more of an over all balanced which can broad side enemies and can hold more engineering consoles(tactical, engineering, and science are you console choices) the cruiser also has more HP..but a shitty turn rate given how big they are. And an escort which have more tactical console, fewer HP but can turn faster they can also equip high speed "cannon" type weapons, they are designed just to fight mostly. As I went up in my ranks I used the escort more and more untill now my cruiser just sits in dock collecting dust.

Now this game is totally free, they even give you ship and personal weapons and armor as you level up, there is also different ways to get different cash resources to buy your self the best gear..so you can play without spending a cent. But if you want better bridge crew, or more red shirts npc to send off and do missions.. or in my case if you want all your favorite ships from previous Star treks, your going to have o shell out some cash.  What bothers me is the exchange rate is more or less you spend $10 and you get 800 points...which is a ratio I don't like..but until later its not that much of a hassle..

SO would I recommend this to anyone else, of course!! If you love free games, Star trek, space fighting, or if your really into the whole MMO group bonding thing, which I am totally not. Then check this out!