STO Alliance

What's the state of the ol' tutorial these days? Does any of Zachary Quinto's role as the EMH remain? They've rewritten it so many times, I've lost track.

LUCIFER! I am so sorry. Do not worry about what your main is as far as what you choose to start. You don't really get locked in until you get something hard to obtain that is character bound like a lockbox or lobi ship. The main thing is the summer event is going on and you could get to it with enough time (I believe) to run it and get a tier 6 ship which can be reclaimed on any alt you make. So while I would love to say take your time and enjoy the new game experience you should actually run through the tutorial and I think you need to get to level 10 or so to be able to join the event. So level as quick as you can and get your ass to risa. If your going to do that then message me and I can see about mailing you some event currency called lahunut. You must buy a floater with what I give you and I am just doing the daily and dancing so don't have a lot so you will initially have to buy the lowest end floater. You can buy them from a vendor but the event window will have an event store button on the lower left if you are on the risa event. Its a long list of stuff but you just have to scroll down to the crap floaters. you take that and go to the event coordinator who is down the walkway to the right of where you beam down. Make sure the floater is in your shortcut bar on something easy to activate it like pressing 1. activate it a few times to get used to it. you will notice you can climber and move around but not really descen. hit b to go into shooter mode and now you can press forward and fly in the direction of the reticle which makes it easier to descend. going into shooter mode is key with the floaters. practice a bit by going back to the event coordinater and interacting with them in the air. This will get you used to the jets and overshooting and such. you will need to hit be again to get your mouse back to interact but choose to do the flying high which is the daily event. its times and you have to run three mini courses with the floater. you might fail but you can restart. its not really to hard once you get used to it and will be easier when you earn enough lahunut to buy a better floater. the event has only been going on for just over a week so im pretty sure you have time to get all your dailies in and get the event ship. if you miss an event thing like this its expensive to buy later and character bound so unlocking in the events is huge. the cooldown with the daily is 20 hours so if for some reason you don't think you can get enough in in the time left for the event and you are a bit crazy you can like stay up and sorta get an extra day every 5 days but it is a bit crazy. again though im like 99% sure that if you get ther today or even in the next few days and do it every day that you should be able to do the event and get the ship. Im not saying the ship is great or one you want to fly endgame but its nice to have options when you get there. ships have things that impact game outside of flying them like consoles and ship traits you unlock. also the risa summer event is awesome. the daily is not to bad and will take from 5 to 20 minutes with 20 maybe being initially with slow floater and messing up and 5 being easy enough once you get used to it with a good floater. all sto events are like that in that you get a quick daily in and you get the main thing after so many times. good luck.

just curious if you put any thought into your start. basically in the past the advice was go fed for max ship choice but with cross fleet ship usage romulan becomes big (always was for max deeps) but now you can upgrade boffs with a token that allows non roms to get more superior romulan operative but roms still have the ability to get them for all space boff slots. Then if you want to be absolute top of the dps ladders eventually people say you should be tac. which is correct. I like engineer though as they are allow the easiest and laziest play to me.