Top 10 Tips & Tricks Star Trek Online 2024🖖How To beginner Guide 

They should put a MC Stu NPC permanently at starfleet academy. Pretty sure he's single handedly teaching all the cadets.

STO is a complex game with many interconnected layers and mechanics. Guides like this make it easier to not get overwhelmed or frustrated for beginners.

These are good tips. Here are a couple of others: - Your captain's career (Tactical, Engineer or Science) does not dictate either the Skills you choose nor the ship you command. In other words, Engineers don't have to focus on the Engineering part of the skill tree nor fly cruisers. Captain career ONLY governs what Captain abilities you have. - Even if you don't plan on crafting, develop all of your R&D schools to level 15. You will unlock additional traits, some of which will be critical for certain types of builds. My suggested order is Beams, Projectiles, Science, Kits, and the rest in any order you like. If you plan on doing an Exotic Science build, put Science first and Beams after Kits. - Take advantage of every event. They usually take 15-30 minutes of your time, but provide you with some neat rewards. Some of those rewards have gone on to become part of high end DPS Chase builds. - Speaking of the DPS Chase, it is absolutely unnecessary. None of the content is designed around the huge DPS values you may hear about. That whole community exists to push STO's build meta to its limits. Don't worry about competing at that level. Well, unless you enjoy learning the intracies of the underlying mechanics and got some extra scratch to pay for it. - Don't spend money on the game until you know enough about the game to make an informed purchase. There are plenty of free resources available to help you make a build that can complete all content in the game.

For transwarp to Sol/ESD, Blood of Ancients (in the Iconian War arc) is my go-to.

Extra tip: Hold Ctrl when you salvage or discard items to skip the confirmation screen.

My tip. If you have a space bridge officer ability you don't use in every combat it needs to be retrained to something you will use in every combat. Bridge officer skills are the foundation upon which everything else is built and every slot is precious.

As for other really useful tips, probably not super useful for starting players but is useful generally, ship loadouts are HUGE. They are such a QoL improvement, having a loadout for your main ship makes it moving stuff over to a new ship when you didn't want it to an easy fix because you just go back to the original ship and load the loadout and it moves everything back. If you fly multiple ships the same thing applies. Speaking of you can switch your active starship while in any local or sector space zone so you don't have to go to a shipyard and ready starship to switch between your vessels.

A mission that takes you to ESD, Blood of the Ancients in the Iconian War arch. PS: Nice to hear from you again. I enjoy your vids and always take something from it :o) so thanks

The vendor on DS9 right beside the tailor will give you more. There's one on new Romulus at the staging area and for Romulans inside the command centre, also beside the tailor - which might actually be a pattern. Because the one on Qo'noS is also beside the tailor (the vendor on ESD is also next to the tailor).

I once heard that having keybinds and then spinning in circles with Fire-at-Will, while smashing spacebar was a amazing tip for beginners! 😎

Just got back into Star Trek Online today after after a few years out, haven’t played since around Delta Rising! A lot came back to me because I was a lifetimer at launch, but this is exactly the video I needed as a refresher so thank you!

I've been playing just 2 weeks today and this top 10 tips showed me a few things about things I was having problems over. I used the trick to create a 4 row box so I could position the clicky stuff in way making sense to me during battle, so I have a little section for shield and hull maintenance and a separate section for weapons options. Thanks for making videos with great info and the presentation is smooth and professional feeling.

As a very new player this just helped me out more then you would ever know. Thank you so much this has saved me a ton of hours trying to figure things out.

Not just for new players, I've been playing for years and learned some new stuff here. I only just learned the other day that you can skip cutscenes by holding Esc, lol.

Great video, even for those of us that have played for quite a while. A tip I would add would be on the main options screen (Basic tab), I would Enable Auto Loot. Each character. Nice and helpful. (Also thanks for not having the screen resolution so super high. When doing a presentation, one would like their audience to be able to read everything : ) Nicely done.

Doing duty officer and admiralty missions constantly is a huge near-passive boost to XP and gives some R&D garbage you might need too. Plus the free doff recruitment from the personnel officer at the Academies.

Great video! I’ve played around 8 years or so and just learned your Tip 2 right now. So thanks.

I'm very pleased with this game and the customization options for the ships cause I think we all watched star trek and thought about how we would have our ship set up.

Thanks for your video. I've been playing STO for a few days and this video helped me a lot to find my way in the game. I'm still confused by some of the features, but hopefully that will clear up with time. 👍

Thank you for making these videos. I remember getting this game when it first came out and I was one of those that was just slotting every new item that a came across as I played. I dropped the game a year later but came back with a new character in 2022. Your Videos have been a great help in my game play and helped me finish missions that a) I just got destroyed and b) helped me know more about the in and outs of the game. I do have one questions are you able to add more slots (IE weapon slots) to a ship or do you have to get another ship that has more slots to equip stuff. Keep up the good work

I always keep Midnight slotted for my ESD quick travel. Just need to talk to the NPC’s first when initiating the mission but once you’ve beamed up to your ship, you have direct access to ESD and also easy access to Herald ships as you can just go into the mission instead of Sol if needed. Stormbound is great for Tholian ships and if you have the romulan drone ship hangar pet, it will adapt itself to whichever energy type the enemy uses so the mission is also great for tetryon damage in space. But mainly, easy to get 30 Tholian ships in the mission. Renegades regret or Quark’s lucky seven, free transwarp to DS9 Mine Enemy is very close to Dyson Sphere so basically free transwarp to Dyson Sphere, Mine Enemy is also probably the best mission for harvest materials endeavors as you get 3 in space before even beaming down to the moon, and the ground part has like 4-5 on it if you play the whole mission. Spoils of war, free transwarp to the Badlands Just some of my “Rey’s list of efficient STO-ing” (I really should make a list or even video on it... If it’s something I’m good at, it’s getting around fast and do endeavors very efficiently)

Good consistency, thank you.

Excelent video, deserves many more views. Sharing this with some of the poor saps I managed to persuade to play the game so I dont have to explain any more lol

i been playing for a while now on n off im still lost on a bunch of things but this actually helped out cheers mate.

owwww learned something new ;) .... personal tray #2 thnx m8

One of the Iconian War Missions starts at Sol. For selling, using the Exchange to dump items is also handy-especially if you play for a while and have items that folks need (e.g. extra warp cores, quantum torpedos, etc.)

Great tips! Thank you!

I know this is a year old video, but as a new player, I really appreciate the info!

I've been playing STO regularly for the past year and find your videos really informative, especially the reputation builds and ones like this. I first learned of STO by watching Brent Justice years ago. My question to you is how to configure the message pop-ups when using an ultrawide monitor (I have a Legion 44"). "Take Items" or messages either appear dead center or way off to the right side of the screen. I still have much to learn. thanks!

Thankyou very much for this ❤

thanks alot I have learned from you

Great video. At one point you mentioned losing your cursor on the screen - the UI settings allow you to choose a larger one which helps my old eyes track it during gameplay

Addition to tip #8: If you accidentally recycle or sell an item, switch to the "Retrieve" or "Buy back" rightmost tab to get it back. It will only be permanently gone when you transfer to another area or log out.

There is a way to increase your Ground Trays to more than 3. I do it, because I play with a Spam Bar on my Ground character (have it set to Tab), and I like having different pet options when I'm on the ground. If I remember correctly, it's like loading a Keybind file. First, you save your HUD settings (options, hud). Then You edit the ui_settings file with notepad (located in the installation folder \live directory), and look for "Hud Options" then "ground." There will be an option that says "Traymode". I play in 4k, so I have it set to 5. Save that as a different filename, then load it. I believe the command is /ui_load filename. Hope this helps!

I wanted to thank you real fast for the tips on the trees on the trays and recycler I've been playing for a while and I did not know those 2 things thank you

Thank you so much. I am moving from PS4 to PC. This the best.

I’m still kinda in the overwhelmed stage. A friend tried to get me into STO a few years ago and it was just too freakin much. She loaded me up with a buncha good gear and kinda jumped me passed a few of the learning steps I should have taken on my own. She also assumed I knew way more than I did about mmos and talked over my head. And didn’t make clear that a lot of what she was trying to show me wasn’t that important in the beginning. I needed those baby steps. I had fun playing with her “holding my hand”. But when I tried to play on my own I had no idea where to start or what was important at my low level. I picked it back up recently and started over on my own. I still want to learn as much as I can (I still have no idea exactly what TFO’s are or how they work. Same with Fleets, Events, etc) but I’m just working through episodes solo and trying to get a handle on it on my own. Thanks for making these videos for us complete noobs!

I'm brand new to this game but I definitely agree with tip number 10 in any game you play I'm ruined a few other games by trying to maximize my characters and ended up putting the game down and never playing again

Hey Stu, if you hold left Ctrl when discarding (or salvaging) it bypasses the popup confirm dialog box...

The ship equipment vendor at the shipyard on ESD pays well for gear too. They pay 50% of the value listed on the item's tooltip. That's a handy way to tell if another vendor is scamming you. (grin)

Excellent video. What ground armor are you in while at ESD? That's awesome, MUST HAVE.

Hack 2: the bar on Drozana used to be the best at maximizing the amount of EC you receive. Maybe no longer, but it’s worth looking at.

Best tip - Just have fun!

Faster method for getting new ship items off the ship and deleted: - Drydock the ship - This dumps everything on the ship to your inventory - Open Inventory, click on Replicator (on bottom of window) (opening Inventory causes Ships window to close) - Click on Recycle (top of window) - Scroll down to the items and double click left button on them - double tap spacebar to acknowledge the pop-up confirmation - repeat for all items (double click, double tap) - Should only take a few seconds to go through all of the items

well ive been playing for ive forgotten how long (i think it was sometime not long after the Romulans came in) and i had no idea about the second set of bars in space i will be using that right now.

you do realize that those of us that are new players, we don't have all the stuff you have. we don't need to learn how to swap ships, we only have 1. we don't have enough items needed for multiple trays. While these seem like they would be good for a couple weeks into the game, us beginners are looking for stuff like how to control the ship, how to swap weapons and gear for character and the only starter ship we have. Also, tips for navigating. other than that, nice video and I will come back to it after I advance some

For Sol free transwarp, use the mission "Midnight". Complete the first portion of the mission but don't complete it. It's labeled as "Our Final Hour". I also use this for Iconian ships for Endeavors when I can't get one of the TFOs to come up for me. The mission can also be used for destructible torpedoes Endeavors too.

When I start anything space,...I ALWAYS put weapons to full. I always run space TFO's And rack up the ec, consoles and weapons, etc (drops) and go to the replicato(sell it to myself,lol) rinse and repeat. Love this game!!!!!

Something I learned recently - and correct me if I'm wrong: If you're running a space build with gear that doesn't increase your ships weapons energy cap - my surgical strikes build doesn't - and the value max value is hard-locked at 125 still, you can actually lower your power a bit until that maximum starts to decrease from 125, then raise it to where it sits there perfectly and lock it. This can give you a fair few points to redistribute to Shields/Engines, with - as far as I can tell - no negative effects to your DPS.

"Red Shift" is another one that takes you to the Sol System.

For getting there, I use the Future Proof set. - Note: it does require you to expend energy credits, but those are easy to come by.

New missions Blue Shift is Sol, also Delta Quad command and at the top of Quarks Bar DS9 give same as ESD Vendor

i just boarded my yamato for the first time in years. this game is epic. i have alot to relearn....

Quick Note on the U.I. customization: SOME of the U.I. windows can be individually resizable. For instance, resizing the Mini-Map was really helpful for me. Move the mouse around the edge(s) and look for big double headed arrow. :)

Does anyone know if it's possible to lock your power distribution on console? ps4? I often will find I've moved it off of weapons or aux if I was running science as I adjust my impulse speed/go into reverse.

Great vid! Does the notification option turn off the Welcome Back 'Player Name" announcement screen that pops up every time I log in or change character?

How did you get rid of the bridge officer bars? The bars with the boff avatars. Also I just completed an episode where earth spacedock was destroyed. Like the 5th episode or something.

Nice video, even some good tips for console players

RULE #1 to STO... if you haven't gotten a T6 ship, spend the 30 bucks and buy one. it will make leveling so much easier. I recommend the Mat'Ha Raptor for its spinal cannon console. just an amazing cone attack.

A good tip would be how to hold down ESC for a few seconds to SKIP cut scenes.

Fyi, when changing the size you can also click into where the % is and change the number then hit the enter key to have take effect. - You'll still want to "apply" it.

When it comes to selling things it has to be an equipment vendor, doesn't matter whether its ground equipment or space equipment as long as its an equipment vendor it'll work. They are literally all over the place, the main hubs all have multiple (New Romulus, ESD, Qonos, DS9, Drozana etc. Also there's a mission early on which gives you a trader comm badge that I think has like an hour or two long cooldown on it but that also serves as a mobile vendor for selling stuff while in Sector space.

When you get a new ship and you want to quickly delete all the free stuff it comes with, quickly dry dock it and everything will go into your inventory. You can then use the replicator to recycle everything in your inventory quickly since its worth 0 ec anyway.

I have request for build video. So I returned back to STO after really long time being inactive (had to learn what are ship traits) and was poking around looking videos learning all the new things started grinding the new factions and having good time all around. But I have issue with current crit is king on everything meta (exotics, torps, energy). So i dont want to join to that same crit boat and was asking around and seems there is build that might work for me but i dont know how to build it so my build question is how would you build mostly Support build? (preferably on carrier) I love playing with other people and helping them to survive and do more damage is more to my preference.

MC Stu, you had requested (on one of your videos) for someone to relay what, if any, mission would start at ESD (for use as transwarp). There is one I know of... Blood of Ancients under the Iconian War story arc.

New player here, great tips and all but I'm unfortunately playing on console so all the ui stuff is completely different.

How do you change the size of your hud icons please, they fill my whole screen.

When you're trying to strip the standard issue junk off a ship, it's a lot faster to just double-click each piece (which will de-equip it), then vendor them (if your inventory isn't a mess). They sell for 0, but it's WAAAAAAAAAY faster than right clicking, finding "discard" then clicking "yes". ^_^

The new terran missions drop you at Jupiter which is in the sol system red shift and the other one

Righteous Indignation... oh man, Bucky O'Hare!

So for the console players how can we move things around on out circular power wheel tray. It drives me crazy when I'm using different consoles to try them out and my clickies move on me.

Tip for new players and you're telling them to spend their dil on re-engineering their gear? Also, the power levels one. Is it the first or second mission in this game (as a Fed) where you fight that shapeshifter's very powerful (compared to you at the time) Undine warship? If you're going to give tips to newbies, you need to get out of your DPS-elitist mentality and actually help them with the sort of content they'll be playing. Go take a T1 ship into that Diplomatic Orders mission, see how max weapon power works out for you. (I'm not talking about a T6 ship you've put on a cadet, with six consoles and all your best crafted gear - go in naked, like a newbie, and experience that mission with minimal shield power) Also bear in mind your experience compared to that of a new player. A lot of the other tips were just things everyone picks up over time as well. This list could be much better.

Hi, love your videos. Thanks for the help. I picked up the Lifetime sub on sale. Just wondering where do you collect the monthly zen from?

Hey MC - Hold down the CTRL key when deleting any items, consoles, weapons, etc. You won't get the 'ok' box to delete, saves a step!

Wish wepon lay out were like the abilities dang the fire power if you count the space abilities slot's

Do sunrise as early as you can a very good set for your ships and levels with you for free till Mark 12

That' awesome, thanks for making this video, I'm sorry I had to leave your Discord because of the Negativity I was getting from the people bashing/trashing my builds because I can't compete up to there level of EPIC!!! I know you say just to play and have fun which is what I like to do, but getting that negative feedback in your discord is not needed for a guy like me who is a month into the game and basically still new and working on my builds, reps, R&D and what not....you might say it was "Helpful" advice...but its not the way I saw it....anyway thanks again for this video, its helpful..

Another thing I always do is to turn off the option "clicking deselects your target". This is really bad if you use mouse double clicks to launch some abilities.

Stranded in Space (One of the first missions) Drops you near Sol

Thank you, Thank You, THANK YOU! "Palked Subscriber", here! Please, please, PLEASE! Don't 'erase' your videos! To "para-quote" Prof. Henry Higgins, from "My Fair Lady"... *"By George! I think he's GETTING IT!"* I've got to actually WATCH your videos, SEVERAL TIMES! (Hey! It's a 'Pakled' thing, so 'SUE' me, already!) But I think, some of this "Tutorial Stuff", is actually STARTING to MAKE SENSE! Thank you very much! For your 'patience', and above all else... For your Vulcan-like TOLERANCE! You have shown tolerance that would do Mr. Leonard Leonard Nimoy, and the 'character' he played, Mr. Spock. And "Surak" the 'Vulcan' that is the 'Foundation' of everything that is "Star Trek" Proud! Thank you! LLAP!

Are there only three rows max for ground bars, and what is your skill at "a6"? Also, I never recycle. I take my time to go to a vendor and sell it. Over 12 years, I've certainly gained a lot more EC with that, it paid off to get one or an other really good T6 ship. :)

So i love Star Trek and i have a really old account like i got the pre order borg officer old. But I get stuck around the same place everytime which is cardassian era i have a teir 6 ships and max level but i keep getting beat down to the point i just get so frustrated i leave the game any advice or resources you would recommend

Well damn. I've been using the Commodities broker on ESD for awhile now.

I'm having trouble after "assimilation of innocent", the "Desperate Measures", these drones are almost unbeatable.

As far as I know, almost every equipment-vendor buys stuf for half the value displayed on the item, wich I believe to be the highest possible NPC trade

That one about selling loot. No wonder I'm so friggin poor!

Drazona Station has vendors.

played sto on pc and well my pc can barley run the game and the pc controls are kinda sloppy to me (currenty playing on console version of sto) good game

I am currently running Star Trek Online, on a 8 Megabyte, Windows 10 HP laptop. The characters can only move around in the scenes just so far, and then they're dragged back to the previous starting point. What can I do to make this STOP?

Actually, "deleting" items pays you the EC just as if you'd used the Recycle function or sold it to most NPCs. You receive 40% of its face value. Selling to a Requisitions Officer or (oddly), a bartender, pays 50%.

I'm it's rather easy but how do I remove the bridge officers bars and replace it with just the ability bars?

Bro, Im on PS. Its so different! And Im so lost, no understanding crafting or upgrading, what to sell, what not, what to buy what not xD

Regarding selling to vendors. I will check the selling price of a basic ship battery. If it’s 100EC then I know I’m getting the max for my sellable gear. Some vendors or if you recycle will only give 80 for a battery. Sorry Grand Nagus.

Wish we could customise the UI on console :(

I am thinking of playing again I forgot where i was in content I'm kinda lost lol.

ESD transwarp could use Blood of the Ancients from the Iconian arc. Edit: Or I could read all the other comments before typing my own.

I’m not able to transwarp or enter a system. Does anyone know how to fix this ?

The only thing I hate on this game is that I can't run the game smoothly. I have a new PC, with settings that can run a lot of games nicely enough but this game I can't.

The problem is there are no tutorials or detailed explanation of what the menu options do.

Hack 1: instead of unequipping new ships. Just put them in the Dry Dock. Then pull it right back out. All the unwanted items automatically unequip. Easy peasey.