IMPORTANCE: This was the first Tier 6 ship to have Bank, Exchange, and Mail access available to players from their starship’s bridge previously, you had to purchase a Tuffli Freighter, Suliban Cell Ship, or the Ferengi D’Kora Marauder, all of which were single-character purchases and winnings from various Lockboxes (D’Kora) or DOFF promotions (Tuffli and Suliban).Thanks to Twitter user for his help finding this patch note.You also didn’t know what would become meta (or conversely, what would drop out of the meta), so you were best to have everything available if you could do the Events. Now, even if you figured you’d never use a ship now, you never know what the future would hold going forward. This changed the whole nature of earning Event-based Starships. With this change, previous ships that were earned via the Event Reputation UI would become account-wide unlocks (which excluded the stripped-down Odyssey/Bortas, the T5 Ambassador/Kamarag, The Obelisk Carrier, and the preview versions of the Dyson Science Destroyers as they were all earned as Episode rewards). In early June of 2015, Cryptic revealed they were adding a Reclaim tab to the Event Reputation UI (the previous place for Event-based earning turn-ins). Finally, it came with its own Warp Core/Singularity Core, completing an episode gear set bonus. It also started a long trend of the console from the Anniversary ship being a 4th piece of that year’s Anniversary Mega-Bundle console set, in this case the Command Cruiser Mega Bundle. The console on the Cruiser was considered a meta choice for healing/tank builds for a long time. IMPORTANCE: For the first time, the console equipped to the Event ship was not bound to only being used by the ship itself or its counterparts (it would take nearly 5 more years for all new Event Ship consoles to be usable on all ships, with Summer 2019 being the final holdout).This at least gave players a free platform to try the Carrier lifestyle. As we know now and through various changes made to the mechanic, Hangar Pets are among some of the better damage dealers you can have.Also, this was the last of the unique Breen consoles, making a 4-piece set with previous (and forward) versions of the Breen ship consoles. Although ship earnings were still on a per-character basis, getting the ship for other characters didn’t take nearly as long: just 1 run of “Fastest Game on Ice” on each character that wanted the ship as opposed to each character needing the 25 daily runs (1,000 Q Portraits / 40 Portraits per run = 25 daily runs). IMPORTANCE: Not only was it the first Tier 6 ship available for free to all players (meaning theoretically, all max-level characters could at least have 1 Starship Trait to earn and players could essentially earn Starship Traits going forward), it was the first Carrier made freely available outside of a single mission and the first free ship to have Specialization seating (Intel, which would turn out to be a meta choice of Specialization seating for a long time).This at least gave you 15 levels of super-powered goodness compared to sticking with a level-up reward Tier 5 until you could buy a Tier 6 from the C-Store.ĮVENT: Winter Event/Q’s Winter Wonderland However, unlike C-Store Tier 6 ships, I believe Event Tier 6 ships were usable at Level 45. While Tier 6 ships did increase shield and hull strength numbers from a base level upward, they weren’t usable by any level of character. Remember that Ship Scaling wasn’t really a thing yet. This means that, in addition to just being a free ship that came with a console having fringe use (unless the ship itself was a great platform), you could unlock Starship Traits to help boost your older ships’ performance! (Hey, even a trait that ultimately gives an additional 300 DPS is 300 DPS you didn’t have prior…and for free!). Let’s get started on this admittedly brief entry!įrom this point on (technically starting on October 14, 2014, which was after the 2014 Summer Event), all Event Ships rewarded are Tier 6 ships. You’ll see things ranging from consoles not tied to their ships to Admiralty cards being rewarded, along with a few ships becoming meta choices for one reason or another.īut enough tease. A number of changes to how Event Ship rewards were handled led to an increased need to get as many ships as you could. It’ll basically be a “wall of text” covering the end of 2014 and the whole of 2015. You may want to hit up Part 1 again to see the insane Impulse Speeds people tried to get with the Risian corvette! I’ll note that I’ve added a GIF from Twitter user Lord-Ice. If you need a refresher, I’ll post the link to Part 1 below: Hello, all, and welcome back to Joe and STO! I’m back talking about past Event Ships and why you should always consider grinding out the Events that reward ships.
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