I'm of the opinion that this is actually going to change very little for most long-time players.

The skilltree system has been (at least since its last major overhaul) an incredibly narrow buildspace. Most decent builds look remarkably similar to each other - there's very little meaningful room to vary builds - the most significant exception being Science.

By the looks of it - the point of the overhaul is to limit the wasted space, that people weren't really using anyways.

There's even the outside possibility that this might be an opportunity for Cryptic to use the revamp as a backend nerf for the steady escalation of player power.

Wow. These changes are really significant. Will definitely change how the game is played for sure.

I made such the unholy noise, even at the screenshots.

Question: Traits got split, so you don't have to stifle one at the other. Now skills. I wonder if they're looking on bringing a focus back to ground in some way.

Reddit is on fire with this news. They did confirm a free respec when the changes are released. Most of the comments are very positive. I'm so proud of our community right now; in almost every MMO I've played their communities hate change, but here is a vocal majority who are happy to see the evolution of STO.

Reddit thread
https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/46fqic/star_trek_online_skill_system_revamp/?sort=confidence

ARC forum thread
http://www.arcgames.com/en/forums/startrekonline/#/discussion/1212020/skill-system-revamp

they will need to give everyone a free respec as this is being changed from the ground up

For those of us "Silver" F2P non-subscribers who don't get a free respec token at every level, I wonder whether the existing skill trees will be wiped clean when this goes live so we can adjust to the new system, or whether it will be a flat conversion.

Enquiring minds and all that.

Tactical readiness will keep a close eye on the changes and we will report back our findings as soon as we can.

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9797693-star-trek-online%3A-skill-system-revamp

Also Tactical Readiness is now recruiting for the Positions of Test Gophers and test Guinea Pigs to join us on Tribble so we can test out these changes as they are put up on Tribble.

Hello,

Lords of Stonewall...

Can a guild leader please move the guild ship as soon after next weeek's conquest begins? And apologies if this is already known or planned!

Conquest: Death Mark (link)
Commences: Tuesday Feb 23 at 7AM EST (US)

Suggested action:
• Move Guildship to tattooine
• Open Conquest tab, click the dropdown to choose tattooine, and click "Invade Planet" or similar.

Why? This cuts down on the amount of time to achieve personal conquest goals significantly (by a huge amount!), as many of the objectives will have x2 multipliers for Tattooine being invaded.

Cheers and thanks!

Hey there,

Conut me in (if this relates to SW:TOR and Lords of Stonewall.)

Of course they changed it to a bonus marks weekend. :/ I'll try to still come, depends on how dedicated to fleet marks I'm feeling.

I used to be an RTS nut but not so much anymore. It looks pretty cool, but...browser-based. I suppose that raises the question of which browsers, compatibility and so forth.

As a support tech, I'd rank the top 3 "I need help" calls, in order:

1. Password/login
2. Email
3. Browser apps

Again, it looks great but I just wonder if he's not going to end up limiting it to say, Firefox & Chrome, or if he'll try to make it functional on MS-Edge, etc.

Here's one I use every time I get a new ship... It clears your powers of the trays so you can set it up just the way you want it.

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There was mention on the website that if no tickets were available on the website, then none would be available at the door. It's kind of still early...they might add in another package deal. Plenty of metals left on the period table...Gold, Silver, Copper, ... , maybe a Platinum Package or they'll switch to gems and do a Diamond Package. Still a few months to go and as the date approaches, I'm keeping lookout for more tickets. I reserved the time off work so I'm good there. I might reserve a room anyway and just cancel it if I don't go. Was thinking of the Gold Coast or the Palms. The Palms lets you 72 hours in advance. We'll see.

But, if they do offer some at the door, they'll probably make mention of it at some point shortly. I should've just bought my stuff last weekend but I am a huge procrastinator.

Thanks, Jacien.

:-(

Only four? *quickly hides 15 toons to make it seem I have a decent number of toons* :P

I'm not sure but I think they'll also be selling tickets at the door each day as well.

I was checking out some possible travel plans to make it to the convention in Vegas and when I got to the Creation page, it said that now even the Copper Packages are sold out. What a bummer! They have as of February 11, 2015 but I think they mean 2016. There is mention that if they can add more seats they will, but who knows. I'll keep checking just in case because I really wanted to try and get to the convention this year to meet up with everybody. This is worse than soggy bacon for sure. :-(

Title: Sherman's Legacy 3/5
Author: @Tekn0mancer
Faction: Klingon
Level Requirement: 31+
Author Notes: The third segment of the story is now available, where you start seeing the various threads of this mission starting to come together. With a little bit of historical background thrown in, it will start to become clear just what's going on. This segment is intended for a small ship like a fighter or shuttle, and because of that there's a relatively challenging space combat sequence.

Make sure the loadout on your shuttle/fighter is set up the way you want before going in! :evil:

Don't know if anyone here has heard about it, but I just came across this game that is still in development:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1371288255/feudal-wars?ref=project_tweet

It's basically a browser version of Age of Empires as far as I can tell (with some extra features + somewhat more focused on online gameplay).

Since AoE was my favourite RTS game in the past, I'm quite curious what the finished product will be.

I plan on attending, even thought all four toons are at 60. I can't bear the thought of leveling another toon...

This is awesome, Finka. Take care with what you say about the Romulans though. ;)