Dailies What To Do - How To Beginners Guide - Star Trek Online 2021

[@benjaminrobledo5466]

Not sure if you know but if you hold 'Ctrl' whilst you click on something, say, you're buying, selling, donating, discarding - you'll actually skip the confirmation message. It's not much, but it helps quite a lot. Examples: Discarding / salvaging items from your inventory. Donating to fleet projects. Investing all available resources into rep projects. Buying / claiming items from exchange or stores. Like I said, it's not much but it does make life just a bit easier by not moving your mouse as often. If you're wondering if anything accidental has happened...well, I've never discarded or bought anything 'quickly' without my knowledge. I'm always conscious when I'm pressing / holding the button, so, no worries here! Hope it helps! It has saved me so much effort. 😅

[@vine01]

salvaging/discarding - ctrl click on salvage,discard, roger that will try, good stuff thanks for sharing :D

[@Kraytex1]

You absolute legend sir! Ty :)

[@benjaminrobledo5466]

@@Kraytex1 Oh, I can't take the credit. Haha, I owe the credit to a friend. They told me this. But I'll happily let them know that you guys are finding it very useful. :)

[@rogerwilco2]

Oh nice.

[@alcibiadesW]

A good daily is Staging Area, the first mission in the New Romulus arc. Taking the mission gives a free transwarp to New Romulus. The mission involves running around the base camp area for 3 to 4 minutes. The reward is 1,040 dilithium and 85 Romulan marks (if it's your first Romulan rep mission of the day). The Romulan marks can of course be traded for dilithium, or used to advance that rep (which also gives dilithium). In addition, Staging Area rewards a choice between three Mk XII rare kit modules for each career. Useful modules, like a beam turret or exothermic induction field. Add in the Academy lore mission (the STO wiki has a "Lore" page that gives all the answers) and a player can get around 2k dilithium without having to fire a shot. Useful for someone who doesn't have good space or ground builds yet.

[@Spacewizard54321]

Thx for that how do you trade marks for dilithium? Because I’m newer to the game

[@alcibiadesW]

@@Spacewizard54321 There are a couple of different ways. One is faster, the other more efficient. The fast one unlocks when you get the rep to tier 5. Near the "Store" button, a new button called "Trade in Marks" appears. Its a trade of 50 marks for 500 dilithium, so 10 dilithium per mark. You can repeatedly do this trade until you're out of marks. The more efficient way is to do the hourly Support Project. That cost 15 marks, as well as 7,500 EC and 1000 expertise, to get 340 dilithium. So its 22.67 dilithium per mark. You'll also get a Mk XI or Mk XII item, depending on which reputation you're doing. For Romulan, it's Mk XI. That item can be sold to a vendor to recover most of the EC. [Not all vendors pay the same amount, so use one that gives you 50% of the item's official cost.] Or you can equip the item, if desired. The limit is that this project can only be done once per hour. When leveling up a reputation, doing the hourly project is not an efficient investment. When you have limited marks, you'll get more reputation xp per mark spent by doing only the 20 hour Support Project. But once you've reached a comfortable point, the hourly project is a good dilithium source.

[@nolgroth]

Great video. A lot of what you do, I do. My own list: Rep projects. Even if I am at Tier 6, running an hourly rep project for each rep is half of my daily Dilithium. ~5-7 minutes R&D ( up to 15 except for my main, which will be 20)

[@brianriley5108]

Duty Officer Personal: most of these will have bonuses when Crit'ed. Go through them and do the ones that have green highlighted text. These result in Assignment Buff's applied to your character space or ground.

[@goontubeassos7076]

You can select on duty officer on right side of screen critical, success, or failure. It will readjust the duty officers to fit your choice.

[@goldenknight578]

When I go to slot assignments, I'll try to slot the higher "rarity" ones first because there's a better chance of having higher quality doffs available to use. There's a better chance for getting critical successes on those that way.

[@simond.455]

"Defeat Terrans (Ground)" (60) is just the jackpot during the current event. Playing Operation: Wolf reminds me of the "Body Count" scene from Hot Shots! Part Deux. 😆

[@martinblaha992]

Exactly, you have 60 in no time at all. There are comming in waves all the time.

[@rogerwilco2]

Yeah, I have no idea why he changed that one out. I also think it is a fun TFO to do.

[@SteveRobertsUK]

When you gain access to the Voth area, you can go to the space battlezone, go instead the shielded RV point, and their will be a DOFF button on your secondary navigation on your right. Allows you to get 600+XP on multiple DOFF tracks every two days

[@jqxok]

Jeez, thank you. How did I never know about this?

[@Stone7C1]

those are good stuff. they only take 5 hours so you can throw in a full set of doff asignments later that day. i just stumbled over them by accident and was hoping id find more areas with those kind of assignments that grant lots of xp and are fast to complete.

[@ODST_Parker]

Real shit? How did I never know about this? My Temporal Agent needs this for the doff tasks, so I'll check it out. Also, the Dyson Sphere areas in general tend to have decent doff assignments.

[@Stone7C1]

@@ODST_Parker during the event you can just run firewall with your temporal officer every day. each time you complete the episode, you get a random blue or purple duty officer as a reward after the exocomp (most of the ones i got were purple). the same works wit law on nimbus 3. you can rerun fist full of gorn over and over to get rare and very rare duty officers. but since youre probably doing the event anyway, you might aswell run the episode to build up a good starting roster.

[@ODST_Parker]

@@Stone7C1 Oh, I've already got a good roster going, I'm well aware of the tricks associated with that. I typically use common and uncommon doffs as trash for fleet projects and such, all but the Lower Decks ones in case I ever want to use those unique bonuses.

[@jyndev4570]

If anyone picked up a Temporal Agent in the most recent Temporal Event, they're going to want to complete Tier 05 in the Reputation Progress of their Temporal Agent Transponder. Doing so will grant them a bonus to Reputation Projects. When This task is finished, all future Reputation Projects (except Kit modules) will complete as Mk XIII Ultra-Rare instead of Mk XII Very Rare. Once the Temporal Agent completes this task and claims the reward, the other characters on the same Account can unlock the feature from their faction's Temporal Agent NPC - Temporal Agent Track.

[@stevenziegenbusch4633]

First let me say thanks for providing us with these videos. They're extremely helpful for us noobs. I do have one recommendation. during you're introduction section of a video you could tell the viewer that "this video is intended to a new player" or " this video is intended for a intermediate level player" or "an experienced" player. This will help the viewer determine if it's for them. You use acronyms and phrases in some of your vids that are beyond noobs level. Also, the best that I can see, Endeavors are only available to players that are above level 60 - I was trying to find my GUI but it wasn't available but then I figured out it was for more experienced players. Other than that - great work. Thanks.

[@MCStu]

Thank you, I appreciate the feed back.

[@Stone7C1]

here is a tip for doing endevours for different damage types. when i did my reputation, i saved like two beam arrays of every single type that i got out of the reward boxes on my bank instead of selling them. i also built my first ship (the risan cruiser) with tactical consoles from the reputation rewards that grant 20% beam weapon damage and 8% hull. so all of this didnt cost anything extra. so now i have a ship that is built for beam weapons of any type and is pretty beefy. i just swap the beam weapons out as needed for the endevours and do a couple of patrols or what else might be required (like destroying specific ship types) and complete these quests super fast. sometimes you have to do two endevours for different damage types at the same time which completes even easier with a build like this. this isnt my main ship of course, but its not like swapping over takes any efford and building something like this up as a secondary ship costs practically nothing.

[@wChris_]

My dailies take about 2 hours, just enough so i dont get burned out. Which is honestly more important than actually doing all your dailies as i go burned out once and stoped playing for 2 years. Now im lacking in the endevor system, Discovery Rep and Doffs (tho i got Diplomacy lv4 so i can transwap basically anywhere, diplomacy should be in your dailies as they were back than in mine)

[@julian5956]

yep! One of the problem that I have with MMOs that the daily stuff risks being more like work than fun

[@MCStu]

This is a excellent, burn out is real! Need to make sure fun comes first.

[@SteveRobertsUK]

To avoid burnout, pick multiple targets, work on a different one each day. There are lots of areas to concentrate on in STO to keep you doing something slightly different each day.

[@jab7333]

There are certain points in missions where you can do the daily endeavors easy and fast. The list can be found in the sto wiki.

[@SteveRobertsUK]

If you need DOFFs for your DOFF missions, R&D, or even fleet projects, you can get them in return for fleet credit from your starbase (needs to be unlocked). If you get them for your fleet projects, the amount of fleet credit spent compared to gained when you donate them with have a negative return, but it can help set off that project you want to get going.

[@JudasIscariot1313]

I am new to STO and I have a lot of questions and each time I want to know about something in the game I come to your videos because I appreciate how you get straight to the point and don't rob me of time out of my life that I can never get back like a lot of the other STO youtubers seem to do. I don't know how youtubers get paid but some of those other guys must be getting paid by each word they say and how much of my time they waste. Anyways Thank you for keeping things short and to the point.

[@MCStu]

Thank you, I appreciate that!

[@Alrion1704]

1. rep 2. fil refine 3. fleet r&d + project 4. contraband doff 5. recruitment

[@pizzamonster69]

My routine, I do certain nebula missions, aux 2 bat I'm looking at you. Then I do fleet duty officer missions, k13, research lab (leave a crafting slot open), dil mine then I do sector space to get colonists to keep doing nebula missions followed by admiralty but that being last doesnt make a difference in my order.

[@ODST_Parker]

My daily order is usually Reputations, R&D, Admiralty, Duty Officers, and then I run whatever event is happening. I used to go complete Endeavors after that, but I hit 300 around the time they extended the system, and I just had a moment of, "Why the hell am I doing this every day?" and I haven't dedicated much time to them since. Now, I just go through my fleet if I have resources to donate, then do whatever I came on to do, or log out if I don't have time for anything else or have something else I'd rather be doing that day.

[@Stone7C1]

also, absolutely do all of the duty officer colonization chains if you want to do duty officer stuff. after you done all 7 in a nebula you get a guaranteed blue officer out of the chain (for every one of them), and you get a repeatable assignment that grants you a purple officer on a crit. its a snowball effect too. the more purples you already got out of the nebulas, the higher your chances to get a crit and get another one next time.

[@jasonbrosseau1056]

I have started working through the 1-7 chains but many of them require colonists. Is there a way to farm getting more of them or is that Doff mission just random to find?

[@Stone7C1]

@@jasonbrosseau1056 the operations officer should have a doff mission to get 5 colonists every second day or so. there are also admirality missions that reward colonists. you could focus on them. if there are admirality missions that you dont want to do for some reason because you want to get to others faster or dont like the rewards, you dont have to bother with pass tokens and can just send a single shuttle out and fail it. there is no negative impact of losing an admirality mission other than not getting the rewards. if youre doing admirality, you should check the wiki for some of the shuttlecrafts that have good bonuses. they only cost like 30k energy credits, and some have bonuses like +10 on every stat for each ship you send out. so the shuttle itself is worth a little more than 20 on each stat with practically no cost when you send it out with 2 other ships, which is better stats than a t3 ship. you can get a lot of missions done by slotting the cheap tier 1 ships that grant ~5 for each stat, and then send one of those shuttles with them. the shuttles and low tier ships just help being more efficient with your big ships and getting more missions done, which gets you faster to your next tour of duty missions or missions with rewards that youre actually after. one tip that i didnt realize at first myself. you can just trash your low tier ships and shuttles when you run out of ship slots. you will keep their admirality cards, even when you dismiss them. so depending on how much dil you feel like spending, you can just buy a lot of low tier ships and immediately throw them away, just to get access to their admirality cards. the phoenix prize packs have excellent admirality cards for blue tokens, which arent that rare. you should get a few on every opening on a 10 prize pack. if you get 10 greens, youre really unlucky. but even the greens get you the tech upgrades that are far better than the regular ones you find.

[@jasonbrosseau1056]

@@Stone7C1 Thanks for all the tips. It was really helpful!

[@heartoffire5902]

I really appreciate the things content creators like you do to help out new people. I came in here to check if there's anything missing from my daily routine, but alas - my dailies are already in motion haha. I kind of expected you to mention the stuff I've always avoided like Defera and the Tholian planet. They never felt worth it to me though and I'm guessing that's also why you didn't dump them on people here.

[@Mercstar]

I just started playing this again after many years away, thank you for this info.

[@MCStu]

Glad I could help!

[@IXxJordan]

I did the math so that if you want to get all the marks in one go, you need 1380 marks to get to Tier 6. T0 -> T5 = (100,000 - current) / 2,500 x 30 T5 -> T6 = (250,000 - 100,000) / 5,000 x 30 = 900 - 750* = 150 + 30 = 180 * You Need 900 to get from T5 to T6 but it gives you 750 for reaching T5 You also need 5 marks for each tier, easiest just to get them all in one go as its only 30 marks - - - Per Reputation: If you want to get all the marks for a rep in a day, you can do all of the endeavours, thats 150 marks. If you keep farming counterpoint (I actually did it for a week) you can get the marks in 30 runs, at an average of 40 marks per run. It takes an average of 13mins to run counterpoint, which is 6.5hrs of solid grinding. If you have ec you can buy like 2 or 3 of the 500 bonus rep marks pool to speed it up a little

[@mattt748]

🤘

[@elw4428]

Thanks for another informative video MC Stu. I'd throw in Tour the Galaxy if time allows. ~1mil+ EC for 15mins is a pretty decent use of time. Alternatively doing a Dil mine mission if you need dil more than EC. Keep being awesome and contributing helpful info!

[@D2SProductions]

Personally I do my Reputation system last, that way I can log-in and see if my other dailies should be ready or not based on whether or not my reputations have completed because if the reputations are done last, and they have the same 20 hour timer that most of the other dailies have, then the other daily that were done before the rep system should be ready to run again. For my characters that are already Tire 6 in all reps, then I do the R&D last for them.

[@Newsky79]

I also run Tour everyday for the 1.5 mil EC and the Dil daily at the asteroid in Alpha. It all adds up :)

[@Atlan03]

I love how your Fleet Message of the Day is basically telling the fleet to cut the shit^^

[@goldenknight578]

I think that's the mission statement for the fleet I'm in.🤣

[@WhiskeyTango0420]

Just came back after three years. TY so much (=

[@geminijustgemini7784]

1.event 2.rep sys 3. Doff missions (only 50 Dil and ups) 4. Endeavors 5. R&D (school or craft) 6.Nimbus 3- Yamlin Nuk 7. New Rom space patrols (JACGNAB-Japori, A-something,Caraya, Gamma Eridon, N-something, Archer, Beta Thoridor) All 5wave kill fests 8.New Rom ground -staging area, atlai, P, Crater and that’s all. Fastest ones 9. South Beta Q-Satellite Repaid, Distress Signal, Zibal system ship 10. Deferi 3-Rescue, Emapcipation And Aiding the Defera.

[@Oliwav]

Thanks for the video, I' m back after 5 y and feel completely lost xD fortunately I can figure out how to play the game until Anniversary event in 6 days

[@abn1735]

will defiantly help me as I am just starting out on the game with pc. learning the difference in controls makes it feel like a new game

[@goldenknight578]

I've been playing on PC for years, and I saw the Console UI once and wondered how the heck Console players navigated the bloody thing.🤣

[@randallcromer66]

I'm new to the star trek online game and I'm hoping to find a channel that will help walk me through the beginning basics. Hopefully you do more teaching us new trekker how to get the most out of the game so that we suck a whole lot less and playing it. Thank's for any advice and help you can throw our way it's very much appreciated.

[@goldenknight578]

I've been playing STO for years, and I'm still learning something new from MC Stu.

[@omarmontana1969]

Started playing yesterday. It was all fun till the glitch in TOS Tangeld Web. The enemy's didn't spawn and the crew stayed unconscious for some weird reason. The mission is now impossible to finish and I can't skip it. :( Thanks for making the game impossible to play

[@JohnL488]

In the Endeavor system, I would do all of them. You'll get a lot of EC of them.

[@goldenknight578]

It also helps that the Endeavor "boxes" are Account Bound, and there are many times I'll do at least one of them on one character then transfer the box(es) to another character who might have more of a need for the rewards.

[@MCStu]

Good point!

[@Shutterbug5269]

If I do nothing else,I run duty officers and Admirality to grind dilithium and energy credits.

[@tgzmrhat]

The endeavor system unlocks at lvl 60 I believe because I only have two toons at 60 or above and they have it all the others do not

[@capt.america2737]

It would be awesome if you can play on console so you can see the issues we have. I know you only play in PC. But I know there are people who only play on console including me that love your channel.

[@azuropixie5703]

I'm on console so the interface is different... Also I don't have the first task unlocked. So my reputation is blank as it is not unlocked yet. I can't find the assignments for my duty officer my list states only diplomatic, science, engineering, military, exploration, espeionage, medical, colonial, trade, development, and recruitment So now I still don't know which assignments to pick because you picked projectiles even though you said the word "aims or chains" very confusing... And I don't have projectiles in my option list. I did the demon hunt event and I have no idea what I did but I got to pick a prize at the end 😅 I think the team carried me I guess cuz I barely did anything, I was to confused on how to operate the spaceship and attack. Thanks for the tip on dilithium, just refined it, now I know how to do it yay! I couldn't find the endeavors menu so I went to patrols and did that instead? First time doing it. :( don't know how to get to endeavors on console... I tried all the menus... What is a TFO?

[@Jplays23]

Do you have a video explaining the basics of fleets? Like what you get, how to find one that isn't awful, why it's worth doing? Been playing for a while and other than the random invites I know nothing about the fleets.

[@julian5956]

Ah fantastic, thanks for doing this video, will watch later when I'm not "working" at work 😀

[@MCStu]

Hope you enjoy!

[@andystocking5316]

Admiralty isn't nearly as good as it used to be, but some of the missions can have a bonus of up to 2K Dil. I still launch a fell set of missions for each of my characters and get somewhere between 4-7K Dil a day each, so definitely not nothing.

[@devilhell69]

rep mark you dont need you can exchange for dil without running project in trade mark a little tip with endeavors mini mission for example kill terran on ground simple do illusion of communication story mission then kill 21 dont do the mission just kill all go back to your ship dont fight lily and go back to the map will reset lol 60 terran 3 time and your done same for material on ground diplomatic orders on vulcan scan 2 get out map reset same for destroy hurq on ground do home story line and 120 you kill them before hitting big room and dont complete the mission or story if you want i keep them for next time if i need to do kill hurq in space i do it in with another charather

[@clone1eighty7]

I really miss the tokens that could be made for yur toons way back that literally you could fly through the rep in like 3 weeks ....

[@joenichols725]

When are they going to reinstate the temperole agent mode again I liked that

[@CJDJCanada]

1 thing I would have added to your "fleet contribution" part was if you have other fleets in the Armada. Their holdings will also offer projects you can contribute to. Great guide nonetheless.

[@MCStu]

Great suggestion Thx

[@goldenknight578]

@@Eldrygg Very true. It's hard to see how much contribution a fleet member has done if they're too busy helping out other fleets in the Armada because yours is maxed out with rarely any projects running.

[@user-tj6gx7hv2u]

1st thing should always be to do whatever event is currently running :).

[@RFA_The-DuDe]

You forgot to tell newbies that the rep system doesn't start until level 50 as do most systems.... Only dof's you can, and should, do earlier.

[@justincf7127]

I absolutely love your beginner guides T.T

[@lickasto00]

ohh....make sure you flush the Voth space visitor center toilet facility---there is a console hidden ---and instantly receive 1000dil--easy peasy japanesy.

[@mikemadden2092]

I use the dil to buy ships..not much more use for it for me yet...maybe I'll switch it for zen eventually...

[@Han_Shot_1st]

In PvE, what's the minimum amount of abilities bars you can get away with.. And what would be a good general tactical abilities rotation. A minimalists build. Frankly I'm not a fan of the rediculos abundance of abilities slots, many of them should be passives for ship or station. If I were to run everything I'd be at 4 bars, which is daft.

[@Spock4771]

Can you do a video on how to build the vesta as accurately as in the books it was in

[@false_binary]

Great vid! Advice to newer players: learn to do all of this quickly and then it's easy to everyday and still play the game. I can just manage 4 char now...when I get that down I'll add a 5th, etc

[@goontubeassos7076]

I’m up to 25 toons, I’d suggest stopping at 10.

[@Doublebarreledsimian]

5 is enough for just over a million dilithium a month if you refine all at cap. I have 12 developed toons and only play 5 of them though this year with all the recruitments I've been lucky enough to have seven toons refining as the klink and Delta recruit still have tons of dilithium ore to refine.

[@goontubeassos7076]

@@Doublebarreledsimian Ya, all my toons are temporal-Gamma-Deltas the rewards are insane, and zen store ships are account wide, traits can be opened account wide on some ships, fully leveled fleets all toons in same armada, it’s hard not to get 25 toons to funnel resources and do special builds per toon.

[@SimpleGeekReviews]

Yeah I do dallies on 3 characters - my main, my temp agent, and my fedJem (though its more giving him play time so he can use the TempAgent bonuses). Usually takes me 3-4 hours all total. Usually its login, clear anything thats cleared (and usually doffs first cause of the Lab mission for bonus xp). Then work on admin ships, looking for daily bonuses mostly. Then maybe look at doff missions, usually trying to be in DS9 so I can trade for stuff. Then head to lab, so quick crafting, then research mission. Port over to mine, get bonus dil. Then colony cause my fleet is working on Tier V infrastructure. Then do a patrol, and any event mission/TFO. Once I've run through all 3, usually ending up on the Temp since I'm trying to get her through episodes. My biggest issue is my fleet. Right now, they only have Colony and Starbase going. Nothing else. So its been tough getting fleet credits. I'm usually having to send credits on common officers or figuring good deals to demote into more (I have all my doffs missions covered by higher levels doffs anyways). But yeah, its a very barren fleet, I hardly see anyone on at all, and I've written the guy who runs it to ask to open up projects. But haven't heard much back. I liked the fleet when I joined last year, was quiet but people did projects and was able to get my main some decent stuff (though we barely had the colony going so nothing major but enough to get geared up). Now its like I don't necessarily want to leave, as I don't like socialness, don't want to feel like I have to socialize or run stuff with people. 20 years of MMORPGs have burned me out of socializing outside of a few friends. I just wanted a place I could rack up credits and buy gear. I dunno.

[@hopebgood]

I just do Endeavour stuff now.

[@SteveRobertsUK]

Wasn't the fleet project you donated to, one that gave half the credit for fleets that have maxed out holdings and does not return fleet provisions?

[@gallendugall8913]

You're not talking me into doing the Random TFOs. Those things are as fun as slamming your hand in a door over and over.

[@BurningFlamesofDivineDragon]

Great guide this is super helpful.

[@randomaccount4610]

Great video man

[@MCStu]

Thank you

[@OdeeOz]

Hey MC Stu, do you know where I can get one of those Staffs that shoots purple energy out for Halloween? Herald something I think it's called

[@MCStu]

They are called Herald Antiproton Projector, If you give me your ingame @handle and you are on PC I will send you one. If you prefer you can MD me in Discord or Twitch.

[@francescoevangelista1448]

Slightly unrelated subject, which is better, Titan class or Sutherland class for a science vessel

[@MCStu]

Personally I think the Titan is far superior.

[@francescoevangelista1448]

@@MCStu Thanks for the advise

[@futamierd8739]

why all this online games (I use to play GOT) looks like they are focus to keep u online to "mine" using ur graphic card or metadata habits n at the end I go back to offline games or old Emus

[@m.f.cauley9729]

Great refresher. Does the DOFF quality actually have an impact on the mission outcome? Doff quality has no affect on crafting outcomes, that experiment/test was a waste of DIL, EC and time.

[@MCStu]

For Doff mission there attributes make the biggest difference; aggressive, cunning, logical..... This will very depending on the mission.

[@goldenknight578]

I found that Doff quality actually does have an effect on your crafting, but mainly when you're crafting items at the higher levels. When I'm crafting batteries or upgrades, I have a better chance of doubling the amount crafting with a higher level Doff than if I just use a common.

[@JohnL488]

Yes the DOFF quality definitely affects everything. If anything look at the missions they run. And start to switching out a different qualities. You'll see the odds of completing them change. Same with the admiralty system and crafting. Even using them to enhance your powers makes a big difference. Say you do DOFF mission and the default the system loads you looks good. But if you change them out for higher qualities that may not be what you need to actually complete the mission but doesn't have a negative effect you can increase your CRIT chance. Like say you have a rare duty officer that has two of the qualities needed no that's the same as a very rare but an epic that has no qualities yet it also has no negatives can give you a higher percentage of CRIT. When you CRIT you get more rewards. XP, EC, even more duty officers if that mission gives it to you. And if you're trying to get those Technicians from b-tran switching out the default duty officers can help you increase that CRIT. So always try to get better quality duty officers and try to always try to crit. I like to crit like crazy. If I'm powering up a character that's one of the ways I do it. And this crafting. Say I'm doing it's daily which I think is 5,000 XP. I crit that and I get an extra thousand. The same with the crafting dailies at the research station. And we all know that leveling crafting takes a while.

[@JohnL488]

Another trick towards leveling is if you have any unbound duty officers you can use the mail system to move them to different characters. Suddenly you have a brand new toon can run duty officer missions a lot sooner than You're expecting which increases your XP and EC so that toon is leveling faster.

[@OMaly069]

What im hearing is you need to grind hundreds of hours just to get a ship that isnt garbage? Pay to win, love it.

[@MCStu]

Its time or money = MMO

[@LavaDa1shi]

not really I mean of course their is pay to win aspects since its a free game so they gotta make money but otherwise its not that bad I did the math and it takes just a week or two for a average person to get to level 65 then you just do some quick daily stuff everyday and you can get some pretty good gear and you can get around up to 6 t6 c store ships or the ones you would normally pay money for per year due to events and the events aren't very hard at all just every time there is a event play 1 tfo takes a very short amount of time out of your day to do one tfo then after doing it enough times you get 2 t6 c store ships of your choice for every event that gives away t6 c store ships, and in those events if you don't want c store ships they also give away lobi which is useful for some really good items and other t6 ships.

[@tronusdrakuz5300]

Hey I'm a returning player and im lvl.52 and use a Opp MW ship and want to be a tank. What guides of yours and in what order should I view them as a returning player? Also do you have any written guides on tank builds?

[@MCStu]

I would star with this vid and then pick for the beginners guide playlist basted on what you want more info on. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rV6QhoNset1_iK8

[@dontletmebrewthat]

Is this still applicable for 2023? Returning player with a level 20 toon and i'm not sure where to begin again

[@MCStu]

Yes 100%

[@dontletmebrewthat]

@@MCStu Thanks for confirming!

[@oljonesy6360]

Bro you look like a shrunk down gundam, damn

[@setarjunjason8991]

Oh o were fighting all the time

[@glassmonkeyface8609]

I'm seeing this video was just uploaded, but the reputation system says it's retired?

[@lTempasl]

@glassmonkeyface Your character needs to be level 50 I believe for the Reputation to show. This may be what you are referring to. Hope that helps!

[@SteveRobertsUK]

That is the old Event reputation, that was replaced by the Event tab in the journal. You only see that old reputation until you unlock the reputation system at level 50, then you'll see the others.

[@Darth1Marik]

I hit level 65 in a matter of days. I think honestly if there is some way to tell how many hours I've put into the game it's likely lower than 20. Imagine playing an MMO where you can hit the max level in about 20 hours. While STO has a quick level progression all the other shit it has definitely takes place of most other MMOs level grind. All these daily stuff the Admiralty, Duty officers, Endeavors and R&D take so fucking long. I was excited at first but I got so demoralized when I realized how long it was going to take to level these. I'm facing shit now that's absolutely wrecking me and I desperately need rare gear or higher and I ain't got it. I get that MMOs are supposed to be designed to make you play for a long time but do they have to be so repetitive and just not fun? At least theres still more story content I have to go through I am about half way through the Delta quadrant story arc. Just gotta keep at the grind I suppose

[@IwanTimmermans]

Where are you standing in this video??

[@goldenknight578]

ESD Shuttlebay.

[@giovannicaffale2354]

trait light flashing on and off what do i do ty

[@MCStu]

The trait tap at the top of the character window?

[@giovannicaffale2354]

@@MCStu yes that is the one ty

[@MCStu]

@@giovannicaffale2354 Have you done a X upgrade or captain upgrade?

[@giovannicaffale2354]

yes and all my traits or filled ty

[@giovannicaffale2354]

ty for all your help switch ships it stop it ty

[@NerdPanic]

Since the Zen exchange crashed, there is no point

[@tshing08]

game says rep section was retired. :(

[@MCStu]

If you hit U, the far right tab should say Reputation. Is that where you are seeing that? The Rep system is one of the biggest systems in the game for gear, I was just using it today. Im asking because I had got a similar commend before and Im not sure where this is being seen. Let me know. Thx

[@tshing08]

@@MCStu Thanks for the reply, I sent you a message in your Discord with a SS on it.

[@eliotanders3488]

I logged onto my lowbie temporal recruit to do R & D, but the R&D tab is greyed out. Why would that occur?

[@michaeltrout7000]

Possibly not high enough level for the R&D to have unlocked?

[@MCStu]

Michael Trout is correct, you have to be lvl 50 to unlock the rep system.

[@eliotanders3488]

@@MCStu I understand that to unlock Rep system you need to be level 50. Does that apply for the R&D (crafting) system as well?

[@goldenknight578]

@@eliotanders3488 You have to have that school at level 15 to unlock plus the R&D Doff specific to that schooling as well.

[@eliotanders3488]

@@goldenknight578 Ah, level 15. I'm at 14 now. Got it, thanks!!

[@justincf7127]

Hey, seriously.. thank you

[@MCStu]

You're welcome!

[@bX-rk2oo]

Who down-votes a free video trying to help new players? That just isn't cool.

[@setarjunjason8991]

Let me get suit and car 1st.

[@Unkindtaternuts]

R an D dead last the grind for mats is to Tedious and at times not even fun

[@jovanni_orb5116]

Hi

[@Unkindtaternuts]

That event ? Is not on console feels like dev shits on console yet they look for whales there hmmmm.

[@aka-47k]

rerolling? lol no.

[@koffee3816]

meh i came back to the game and to my surprise its still has the worst ground combat and over complicated UI of any MMO ever. click click click click click.

[@farmdaze9961]

Unless you are willing to pay real life money these vids are not for you. What gets me... yet I am very thankful for, are people who make these and actually pay cash to play this game. I try to gain knowledge by watching these vids but I need to know... you guys pay RL money to play a game. How sad. Yet, because you finance them I get to play for free. Which brings me back to unless you pay RL money, these vids are not for you.

[@LavaDa1shi]

these videos are working great for me and I haven't spent a dime.

[@johndoe-jv7ky]

Love how you claim to be a fan but you keep calling it trak, not Trek.

[@PhotriusPyrelus]

"This has progressed to Tier 6, so I'm done with that." 15 marks and 1K expertise for a little bit of EC and 340 dil makes the hourlies one of the best ways to generate dil ore (if you need it).