can you not create a new Star Trek Online account (I know, this is not a preferred option as it means losing everything you had) but it does not mean your gaming experience is over?

if i cannot get my account back we might as well delete this account too then.

they should contact you yea .... maybe its in a back log of emails to be sent.. or spam...

the only way to know is to use that link and contact them/submit a ticket asap as they take a while in responding...

Keep trying to reset your password, logging into the site or arc launcher or the game launcher.

Check your spam box, other email sorting tabs, try allsorts

When I put my email address into the password change area it says there is no email like that in the system?

No i did not get a code, so I guess I could be blocked or banned for whatever reason. Dont you get notified if your account is banned?

Did you get a Code sent to you from the website?

When someone trys to log into the site... or the game.. from another browser or computer it stops them, before they can even log to get into your details.. and asks them for a code they sent to the registered address.

So it still MAY have not been hacked... cryptic may have blocked your account for some reason... Contact them asap

I cannot access the account at all, the email has been changed. I don't know how they did it, I did not receive a special password request on my email account. I guess my star trek days are over..

Oh No!!

Have you gone through all the necessary steps to get it back?

https://support.arcgames.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1566/p/96/c/388

If you cant do a password reset via email contact them asap

HELP

My account "pinkscarab" has been stolen and the password and email address changed. If you see pinkscarab please report them!!

Arrrghhhh

Alex-Awesome post! Thank you for the info, makes me want to start taking part in ground combat again ;)

You will have to do this twice - once in space and once on ground. After you have done both, go to Options>HUD and "Save UI." Now you can go to Options>HUD and "Load UI" on your other characters and they will have the same HUD, chat window, and options.

When you're finished with this, look at how change what your keys do so that they're more useful.

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When you start STO, the game has your screen and chat settings set up a certain way. Here is how to make that better. I only highlight the important stuff, so explore some of the other options if you feel like it.

Options

Click the little gear next to your mini-map, then choose "Options."

Starting on the Basic tab, set Auto-loot and Compact UI to On. I lower interface scale to 0.85, which is as small as I can make things on my screen before everything becomes unreadable. Maybe you can make things smaller on your screen or maybe you have a huge screen so you don't want things smaller. The goal is to free up as much real estate on your screen as possible so you can see the game.

Go to the Voice Chat tab and check "Disable Voice Chat." The game's Voice Chat is rarely used (and usually by accident), and we have a Teamspeak server.

At Display and Graphics tabs you can adjust resolution and graphics settings. This depends on your machine. I found that I could run the game at pretty good graphics settings if I turned off Shadows completely, but low settings if I even had Shadows on Low.

Go to Advanced. If your gameclient crashes while loading new maps, turn on Reduced File Streaming.

Controls has a lot of neat stuff. In space, set the camera type to Free Camera (possibly Chase Camera if you're using dual cannons, but even then...). Turn "Keep moving during contact dialogs" to On. I have everything else turned off, but it's really up to you. For both ground and space, set auto-attack to "Toggle, non-combat cancels."

Don't mess with the keybinds in the Key Binds tab. Upload them instead.

Go to the Chat tab. Turn "Show Times" and "Show account names" to On, and "Show dates," "Show Channel Names," and "Profanity Filter" to Off. I also reduce font size to 0.85 here too, but it depends on your monitor and your vision.

HUD

Close the Options UI and click the little gear. Choose "Rearrange HUD." You can now rearrange everything on your screen.

Hide anything that you don't really need. For me, that's the banner across the top that shows your level and the boosts and the tray with the boffs' faces and a few other things. In space, you can click "New" on your power tray to get another, vertical one. This is useful when you hit level 50.

Now you can push things into the corner and make some menus smaller. I like to put notifications lower and the "target of target" and "focused target" windows up along the top so that I can see debuffs.

The goal is to just have what you need on your screen with lots of space to look at the actual game.

Chat Settings

Click the gear, then choose Chat Settings.

First go to the Channels tab. Add StonewallFleet (all one word) and SFEvents. Add more channels if you think you'll want them. Here's a directory of some channels you might find useful.

When you're all done there, go back to the Tabs tab. Click on the first tab on the list. You can add or remove channels from that tab by checking or unchecking the box, and you can change the color of the channel by clicking the little square on the right. Rename the tab to something more descriptive and click Rename.

I recommend 3 things:

1. Uncheck Zone and Local on all your tabs except for maybe one at the bottom of the list. Zone can get busy and it's often full of terrible people saying terrible things.
2. Check Tell on all of your tabs. This is when people are talking directly to you.
3. I like to keep a tab with only Team and Tell checked, for when I'm doing something with a team and don't want to be distracted.

Notification Settings

Click the little gear next to your chat field. You can turn off notifications here.

Autofire

Right-click your weapons in space and your primary firing option on ground, and they will get a green outline. Autofire is on!

Finish up

Redo this all in space or ground so that your settings are similar in both. Go to Options>HUD and "Save UI." "Load UI" on your other characters so you don't have to do this again.

It is a great way to do it, it works so much better if you have a team of 5 as you can take a point down pretty efficiently rather than solo, hoping other players are in the area.

I would LOVE to try and make this a regular thing outside of a Dilithium event where we spend an hour or two getting a nice little stock.

For two hours in one period you can gain your daily cap for a week. Thus saving you grinding dilithium gradually. (I think anything more than 2 hours in one go is a little too mind numbing!!!)

Would people be in favour of a regular time period set so people know when to gather as a fleet to help each other out? (like this post if so and I will look into options to take that further)

ATTENTION CAPTAINS THE RIFT IS OPEN!

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Get ready for the incursion into this portal CLICK HERE

Starting this Friday at 6 PM Eastern Time we'll begin with the tutorial and walk through portion of the game.

On Saturday and Sunday starting at 3 we'll play through several rounds and have fun.

We'll be on TeamSpeak while we're playing so we don't have to type so much.

We hope to see you on Friday!

i did voth battlezone a couple times over the weekend. started with like 15,000 unrefined dilithium and now i have over 150,000 waiting to refine. not bad for a couple hours work over each of the long weekend days. :-)

And here are the numbers for rewards in the Voth BZ. These are from eMZi0767 on Reddit. They contradict the wiki because the wiki is using old numbers. They look correct to me.

Dailies:

Defeat Voth in 5 minutes
20 Voth: 720 dil
40 Voth: 1,080 dil
60 Voth: 1,440 dil

Call in reinforcements:
672 dil
25 marks

Voth points:
1,392 dil
50 marks

Acquire BZ command credits:
312 dil
10 marks

BZ transporter point:
5 dil
5 marks

BZ point:
42 dil
10 marks

Reinforcements:
ensign
1 mark
lieutenant
3 marks
commander
5 marks
captain
10 marks

Killing a V-Rex:
672 dil
25 marks

Zone-wide bonus for 3 silos captured
5 cybernetic implants

Zone-wide bonus for 2 silos captured
3 cybernetic implant

Zone-wide bonus for 1 silo captured
1 cybernetic implant

Participating in killing 3 dinos
4,680 dil

Participating in killing 2 dinos
2,520 dil

Participating in killing 1 dino
1,080 dil

NOTE: The dilithium numbers are reduced if less than 3 silos are captured

The dino-killing dil at the end there is what I get when I've helped at a few Capture Points and definitely looks like the maximum. I have to try killing dinos without helping at Capture Points to see if Capture Points still affect the giant sack of dil. [edit: I just went and got all 3 dinos without helping at a single Capture Point and I got around 2600 bonus dil for the zone. So it does appear that you have to help at some Capture Points to get the full bonus for the zone.]

So if you do a good (but not great) Voth BZ run (dailies, let's say 6 Capture points, 1 transporter point, and kill 2 dinos), here's what you get:

If you convert the marks and the VCIs to dil, that makes 11,833 in 20 to 30 minutes, and you can get more if you get good at the BZ.

The Voth Battlezone is the best place in the game to make dilithium. Over this past dil weekend we were getting well over 20,000 dilithium an hour. During normal times, you can still get a whole bunch of dilithium on this map because the rewards are completely out of line with rewards from pretty much everything else in STO. And, unlike that Ferengi's asteroid, the Voth BZ is kind of fun so you won't want to gauge your eyes out with a spoon after doing it for an hour.



If you don't want to read this walkthrough, you can do pretty well if you just follow 3 rules:

1. If you can shoot it, shoot it.
2. If it's shiny, run up to it and press F.
3. If other players are running in a direction, run with them.

Here is a map.




Yes, you do want to go to the Voth BZ



Before you start shooting dinos...

What you need

Well, not much if you're at peace with the idea of being a sponge.

If you actually want to do it well, though, get a primary weapon that can shoot long distances, like a split beam, a TR-116b, or a Herald staff. I use my antiproton split beam rifle because there are lots of small targets so a split beam can kill them faster, and the enemies don't have much shields except for the bosses, and there is little reason to kill the bosses quickly (more on that below).

Equip Frosted Boots. Running fast is essential to bonus dil! [strike]If you do not have Frosted Boots, message me in-game and I'll send you stuff so that you can get them in the winter event store (@alex284).[/strike] Edit: It turns out you have to have gone to the winter event to have access to its store, not just have the store's currency. Oh well! Get the boots at the winter event!

Other than that, just use your best ground gear.

For boffs, do whatever you want, although having a few heals is helpful. Healing is one of the few things boffs do competently.

How to get there

Either travel to the Solanae Dyson Sphere near the Jouret system in the Beta Quadrant or transwarp to "Sphere Space: Allied Zone."

Right as you warp in, you'll see some dialogue boxes in the lower right of your screen. Click "Ground Battlezone Shuttle." Choose 2 boffs.

You will beam in to the Command Center. A short distance in front of you is Commander Arnold.



Talk to him to get daily bonus missions that are essentially what you would be doing in the Voth BZ anyway. If this is your first time, you have to get his missions one at a time and turn them in to get the next. If you've done them before, you can get all 4 at once.

Check how many people are in your instance by clicking "Change instance" on the map UI. If you are worried that you won't contribute enough, switch to an instance with more players.

Phase 1: Turning Capture Points blue

There are 3 regions (Park, City, and Outskirts), each of which is divided into 7 capture points. If you do stuff in a capture point, it gets captured and turns from red to blue.

There are 3 kinds of capture point: Communications Relay (like a fireball symbol on your map), Generator Control (a capital omega), and Artillery (looks like a mortar). Here's what to do in each.

Communications Relay

Stand in the circle and kill the Voth. If there are more players than Voth, the capture of that point will advance.



Generator Control

Start the device at one end of the track (it's shiny and you press F when near it). Use the accelerator next to it to go faster. Now you'll have to use 2 other consoles to keep it moving when the NPC tells you to (the 3rd then the 5th consoles, and they'll be shiny and you'll press F again), while defending the point from the Voth. It's over when the device makes it to the other end of the track.



Artillery

There are 5 generators with 3 consoles on each (they shine and you press F to use them). Kill the Voth around each generator and use the consoles to disable it. The generators reset if you don't move fast enough. If you're alone, you can kill the Voth and do the first two consoles on each generator and then quickly go through the third console on each generator at the end because the generators won't reset unless all 3 consoles on it were used.



The Solanae have such bad computer security, you literally only have to press F to hack their systems.

Here are some general tips for all Capture Points

• You don't have to team to do the BZ, but these points can be hard if you're not good at ground and they're all faster if you're moving with a group. Find someone else and follow them around. Seriously, just stalk a stranger. They'll be happy to have the company. You don't have to be teamed to have the benefit of working together.
• You get 42 dil for each point, but your giant sack of dil at the end of the zone increases the more capture points you help with/sponge. There is a low limit, though, so you don't have to run around like crazy trying to get every Capture Point.
• Avoid the minibosses as much as you can. They give junk rewards and they will kill you.
• Collect the little circles that give buffs that the Supply Runners and other enemies toss around, especially the red ones that increase your damage. These bonuses look like Combat Supply, but they're much bigger than Combat Supply bonuses.
• Keep an eye on the meter on the right side of the screen showing "Battlezone Ally Control." It starts as all red and turns blue as the zone progresses. When it gets totally blue, the next phase will start, so knowing when that is soon going to happen is essential.

How to do Commander Arnold's bonus missions

These are worth over 2500 dil for all 4, and they're super easy. If this is your first time doing these missions, go back to Commander Arnold to turn them in after each one.

1. Secure Voth Points: Look at your map UI. One region has a giant white circle on it when this mission is active. If you're alone, go there and capture/sponge at 2 points. If you are teamed, go anywhere and capture 2 points.
2. Acquire Battlezone Command Credits: When you turn a capture point blue, a bunch of pink balloons will drop all around you like you're the 1 millionth customer at Gay-mart.
   
   
   
   These are command credits and they're essentially worthless except you need 20 of them to complete this bonus mission and 10 more for the next one. Some players can get weirdly possessive about them, but remember that a) if everyone can pick them up then they belong to everyone, and b) they're worth 1/10 of a Dyson mark, so there are many better things to fight over.
3. Call in Reinforcements at Capture Points: After a point is blue you'll see an interact window in the lower-right that says something about reinforcements. Click this. You'll need 30 Command Credits total to get an ensign and a lieutenant (the bare minimum to finish this mission), and you already have 20 from the previous mission.
4. Defeat Voth in the Battlezone: Just shoot things for 5 minutes and get dil. Bigger Voth count as more than 1 Voth, but Swarmers don't count as Voth at all. You get more dil if you kill over 20, then over 40, then over 60. There is no point in getting more than 60. You can do this mission again 1 hour after you turn it in to Commander Arnold, so turn it in quickly if you plan to spend a lot of time in the BZ.

When enough Capture Points have turned blue, the meters on the right side of your screen will change and an NPC will announce that the Voth are stealing Omega particles. Phase 2 is starting! The Dinos are here!

Phase 2: V-rexes

Phase 2 isn't hard in that it can fail (it won't fail), but it's where a lot of dilithium gets thrown around very quickly and it'll take some practice to maximize your share.

In each region there will be a giant dinosaur, aka the V-Rex. The spawn areas are marked on the map above. This is what it looks like:



Run to it and shoot it. When it dies, run to the V-Rex in another region. When that one is dead, run to the third region and kill that V-Rex. If others kill one in another region before you get there, you will not get credit for killing that dino.

You get 672 dil for each V-Rex you help kill, plus a giant sack of dil that depends on how many V-Rexes you helped kill.

If you do not help kill at least 1 V-Rex, then you will not get a giant sack of dil and Cyberetic Implants at the end.

Here are some tips:

• This is why you should pay attention to the meter in the previous phase. You don't want to be on the other side of a region when the V-rexes show up because they can die fast. You will see some players camping at the spawn points, which is annoying, but this is why they do it.
• Know where the transporters are before the V-Rexes spawn, so you can run directly to them. The City transporter is useless, though, since the Command Center is closer to that V-Rex than the transporter is.
• Outskirts's V-Rex and transporter are the closest together, followed by Park, then City. When I'm playing alone, I like to end Phase 1 at Park to get that V-Rex, then go to Outskirts, then try to get City's dino. This way the only transporter-to-dino path I run twice is Outskirts, which is the shortest. But it depends on where other players are, too. Ending Phase 1 in a region where you're alone mean you will get, at most, 1 V-rex.
• Use Frosted Boots to run faster, and that Delta reputation trait "Physical conditioning."
• You have to do a certain amount of damage (not exactly known, but it's less than 10% of the dino's total HP) to get rewards for killing a V-rex, and the V-Rex will reset if no one is shooting at it. Leaving a V-Rex alive to go to the next one is possible, but it's hard and don't try it if you don't know what you're doing. You do not want a V-Rex to reset after you leave and then the other 2 die as you're running to them, leaving you without a giant sack of dil.
• Getting 1 out of 3 V-Rexes is fine when you're starting out at the BZ. If you watch other players, you'll see the best paths to run.
• Concussive Tachyon Emission (T5 Delta reputation active trait) can be used strategically. It drops the V-Rex's shields for a little while, then it fully heals them. If you show up at a V-Rex that's almost dead and you're worried about not getting enough shots in for it to count as one of your kills, then restoring its shields means you can shoot at it longer.

Repeat the BZ as many times as you like - there's no cooldown! Don't stress it, get in there, and follow other people around until you figure it out.

I love accolades! I got a bunch on Yilos a while back and... let me see... I got 18,015 accolade points! I'll join you guys to see if I can get to 20,000 - I pretty much stopped doing these a year ago because only the really hard ones are left.

You can't do some of these accolades alone, so setting up a fleet group is a great idea. You can get the career accolades from episode content for other careers if you're on a team with someone from that career. I have a fed toon of each career so if you're doing episode runs I can bring along whatever is needed for a team. There are also accolades from various PVE and PVP queues that don't pop anymore, so we do have to get fleet groups together for those.

The big category that Yilos still doesn't have are the pvp accolades, which require you to do the daily pvp missions a certain number of times (I think it's 3 times per daily, then each daily 70 times, so you have to do various missions 210 times). But I know that there are ways to do it really fast with a pre-made team and I'll look it up. They also have good dil rewards.

I also don't have the starbase incursion ones because those are really hard to get with a pug team. I don't know if we're up for it (you have to kill the boss really, really fast), but it's a grind since you have to get all the named bosses, and there are a bunch, and each one appears randomly so you have to do that mission well a bit over 100 times to have a 50% shot at getting all the accos (if it's anything like FFA, which I calculated way back in the day because those ones are easier).

I'll try to be around but I can't make any promises. I love accolade hunting!

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ACCOLADE HUNTERS



At the last White Winter Whirl, the Morale Department launched the Accolade Hunter's club. Together as a fleet, we took on Nimbus and got those pesky exploration accolades! It was a lot of fun, so we decided that this wouldn't be a one time event, so we are launching the club as a monthly happening.

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Scored an 1,170 today. Not too shabby!

D'oh, beat me! Good job!

congrats!