Star Trek Online outlines the next several veteran rewards for players

by Eliot Lefebvre on Nov 7th 2011 9:30PM

Sci-fi, Patches, Previews, News items, Star Trek Online, Free-to-play

Military organizations force you to buy new ships to command, unless you've been around a really long time. Then they'll give you a free one eventually.

There's still no definite date on the conversion to free-to-play for Star Trek Online, but the game is quickly approaching its 700th day of operation -- which is important. The game's veteran awards are provided for players in 100-day increments, meaning that the point is fast approaching when the players will be owed a new reward. So it makes sense that the latest Path to F2P blog discusses the next four veteran rewards and explains another upgrade to the reward for 600 days.

The 600-day reward will change to a free token at level 51 (Vice Admiral) allowing players to pick a free ship, something that is currently the case but is being changed with the upcoming patch. This veteran reward means long-time players will still be eligible for a free ship, a benefit that should help assuage at least some of the issues seen with the payment model shift. The subsequent rewards range from new Android bridge officers to free respec tokens, all of which should make long-time players rather pleased.

Source: Path to F2P #19
More coverage: Official Site

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Reader Comments (2)

"An automatic Captain and Officer Skill Point boost of 5% when playing on a team that includes players under level 31 (Captain 1). This stacks with the 400 day veteran reward."

If you're a veteran, you should know how to play. You don't need EXP(Skill Point) boosts. Bells and whistles are fine, not gameplay alterations that are warranted only because of how much cash we threw at the company over the years.

I just engaged - er, subscribed - again.

Yes, yes, I've heard it all - STO gets a lot of things wrong, and it nickles and dimes like no other. As a big Trek fan myself, however, it speaks to me in just the right way. The fact I can recruit a Bajoran tactical officer in a full Bajoran uniform before jumping over to DS9 for some Dabo just taps directly into my nerd center of the brain like very few MMOs have been able to do for me yet. I find the quest storylines well written and true to the lore.

Still wish they had a more appropriate soundtrack, however.