In Star Trek Online , players have been slightly tricked, as there was a loophole in the system on how to obtain “Summer Event” ships.
In Star Trek Online, there was a wonder: Participation in the summer events, where ships could be won, decreased. However, just as many ships were earned as in previous years.
What happened? There was a mechanism in place that allowed players’ second characters, whose main characters already had the ship, to acquire the event currency much faster. Therefore, clever players hoarded tokens with their twinks to simply get the new ship next year without playing the event.
Star Trek Online has found a solution: No more twink bonuses. Each year a new currency for the ship, and it now counts account-wide.
The next summer event, the Lohlunat Festival, is scheduled to start in early June. To prevent players with heaps of old currency from looking as sad as a Ferengi at a botched deal, there is a special “exchange” program for the old currency, the Risan Lohlunat Pearl. For more details on what you can get for pearls, refer to this entry.
