In Star Trek Online, one of the longest-standing issues is being addressed: the game’s skills system is undergoing a comprehensive overhaul.
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If Star Trek Online has had a significant problem since its release, it is the skills system. Although it has received various updates over the years, it has fundamentally not resolved the difficulties and opacity for new players. The developers agree, as they have finally taken on this issue and will fundamentally revise the system with the upcoming update.
In doing so, three main goals were particularly in mind:
- Dismystification/Simplification: The tooltips are to be more detailed and explain the mechanics more accurately.
- Eliminate suboptimal decisions: Wherever possible, players should not be able to make “bad” decisions.
- Players lose nothing: As far as possible, all talents from the old system should somehow appear in the new one.
Basically, “hardly anything should be lost” in the new system – that is, characters should not be weaker than before. However, this cannot be guaranteed 100% in all cases, for which they already apologize in advance.
With the introduction of the new system, all players will be given the opportunity to redistribute their talents for free once.
A very detailed developer post on how exactly this transition will take place can be found in our sources.
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