Hello, fleeties!

This is a guide to farming ground missions in Star Trek Online. The information here is intended to help you learn how to do ground well enough to amass a fortune of dilithium, energy credits, and crafting materials without ever having to pilot a ship.

My guide is limited by my experiences in the game, my preferred play-style, and the online and in-game resources I have access to. It's also limited by time. I wrote all this in August 2015, and in a few months parts will be out of date. I'll try to maintain it here on LCARS.

Last, the focus of the gear section is maximizing damage output, which includes both offensive and defensive components (dying lowers your DPS... but only to a point). Since farming is about *efficiently* getting through content to get rewards, and since most ground mission objectives involve killing enemies quickly, focusing on DPS is the best way to optimize your ground build for farming.

(This isn't to say that you can't have fun abilities and still get through content. By all means, if you love your Ricossa tribble, use it. But I'm not going to tell anyone what's fun and what's not, because nothing makes something un-fun like being told that it's the correct way to have fun.)

The guide is set up in 3 forum posts. This one focuses on basics:

1. Concepts and Terms

2. Why farming ground is awesome

3. Autofire and other options

4. Keybinds and your power tray

5. Parsing

The second part is about gear and the third part is walkthrus.

If you have any questions, feel free ask me in-game: @alex284

Hi everyone

My game keeps crashing. Is there a way to verify the files or something I can do to try and fix it?

thanks

Oh God no.

All done....now where is my prize!! :woohoo: :P :woohoo:

This needs reviving!

I thought all of that was lost to the internet?! Oh, was so much fun doing it...but I still cringe at the sound of my voice, haha :D

Going the style of the X-Factor or America's Got Talent? I'd offer up to be a guest judge if there is a buzzer!

(And no...no former contestant performance from me...before you ask...I know how you think!)

wow this is a part of stonewall i have never known!

thanks bran :woohoo:

Enjoy :D (Stonewall Idol - Episode 2: Ep. 1 Results
Stonewall Idol - Episode 3: Michael Jackson Week
Stonewall Idol - Episode 4: Ep. 3 Results + The Top 3 Revealed!
Stonewall Idol - Episode 5: STO Parody Week
Stonewall Idol - Episode 6: Ep. 5 Results + The Top 2 Revealed!
Stonewall Idol - Episode 7: The Finale + Who Will Win?
Stonewall Idol - Episode 8: And the winner is...


I'm scared to ask this... but anyone think we should do this again? Spoilers: I'm thinking yes!

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

done and done :)

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On a plus (or minus) I don't see any balloons or stuff coming out of poppers! :laugh:

But Baloons! and Poppers!

Ooo, that looks good! The scene in the trailer is what I'd envisioned the Delta Quadrant mission: "Dragon's Deceit" being like, but it didn't turn out nearly as cool. Looks like a cool game and I might have to give it a try sometime in the future!

I'm on a 2009 PC on a second and now currently failing graphics card, with research underway thanks to rixter, as such I have to run STO on all min and Low and nothing options..which makes my graphical experience..crapulent :S

On a plus (or minus) I don't see any balloons or stuff coming out of poppers! :laugh:

My current pc is 7 or 8 years old, probably the oldest in the whole fleet, lol. Not really happy with my settings either, but I'm just holding till I have my new pc.

Headset: I use the Fatal1ty Gaming Headset. It looks nice and works pretty well. It is wired though. Also, take a look at this thread I started when I wanted to get a headset, some great suggestions in there: http://fleet.stonewallgaming.net/forums/ten-forward/62062-headset

Knowing I was a serious threat, the Undine assassinated me early in both games as Harkness...

Woops, just awake and misunderstood the poll and clicked straight ally before I properly understood what it was about. :S
I think just "ally" sounds better, because if you say "straight ally", you're basically saying only people who are straight can be allies. People who don't identify as any of the five might feel left out somehow. You may not mean it that way, but some people will perceive it that way.

1. Go to the exchange. Set quality to "Rare" and click a category of Duty Officer twice to search the whole category of DOFF (like "Duty Officers - Science" or "Duty Officers - Medical"). Tick "Only show usable items" at the bottom; DOFFs of another faction won't work.

You are looking for the cheapest blue DOFFs on the exchange to convert to white DOFFs, earning Recruitment CXP in the process.

Buy a few. Don't fill up all your DOFF slots with these DOFFs because each blue DOFF will be converted into 9 white DOFFs and you'll need room for them.

2. Go to your faction's personnel officer. For Federation captains and Fed-aligned Romulans, this is the Human woman who sits behind Lt. Ferra at the Academy. For KDF captains and KDF-aligned Romulans, this is the Klingon man standing next to the console that gives datachips at the academy (in the little building with the exchange and bank consoles). For all Romulans, this can also be the console near the door in the room with the BOFF trainer and Centurion Velaar at New Romulus Command.

3. Click "Exchange officers", then "Rare duty officer exchange". A DOFF mission UI will pop up and you have to "assign" one of those DOFFs you bought just a moment ago. I use the filters to find them since usually I'll buy a bunch of one career so that I don't accidentally convert a DOFF I like.

**Warning** A DOFF that gets exchanged will be lost forever!

4. Get your rewards for that assignment - 3 uncommon DOFFs! Click "Uncommon duty officer exchange" in the personnel officer UI and assign one of those green DOFFs.

Use the filters to separate the more valuable green DOFFs if you want to sell them (green Research Lab Scientists, Damage Control Engineers, Technicians, and Refugees can often be sold for more than what you paid for the original blue DOFFs). Start the assignment and get your rewards - 3 common DOFFs.

5. Repeat 3 and 4 until you run out of DOFFs or DOFF slots. You'll get 150 Recruitment CXP for every blue DOFF and 50 CXP for each green DOFF.

6. When you have too many DOFFs, donate them to the fleet for 250 or 300 Fleet Credits apiece, sell the more valuable ones on the exchange, or mail them to your alts who need more DOFFs or Fleet Credits.

(Also, you can use the purple DOFFs here that you get from the colonization assignment chains at each of the exploration clusters if you have doubles or triples that you don't need. Each purple DOFF yields 3 blue DOFFs and 300 Recruitment CXP, for a total of 1200 CXP and 27 white DOFFs.)

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Coincidentally, this poll has caused more activity on our Google+ page than we've seen in a long time.

It was great to see that one comment and two +1s! B)

Cheers,

Brandon =/\=

We've also got like 8 more followers.

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I might be considered unusual for thinking that heterosexuals who are poly/kink can be classified as queer. So many different opinions on all of this, and rightfully so, because it's complicated.

Preaching to the choir there..