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Free-to-Play launched on January 17, 2012 for all players and on January 5, 2012 for previous subscribers. Players will continue to have the choice in subscribing (gold accounts) or playing for free (silver accounts) under some restrictions.

[] Early access

Executive producer announced that on January 5, 2012 players whose subscriptions to had expired would be welcomed back to the game two weeks early, by being given free Silver memberships.

[] Features Matrix

All accounts will have unlimited access to all sectors and missions, , , and , , , unlockable Klingon faction at level 24, playable classes (tactical, science, engineer), default playable species, unlockable premium playable species, ability to join a fleet, 3 free costume / uniform slots, playable content, purchaseable premium ships.

There are several differences between the subscriber gold accounts ( or $14.99 monthly option) and silver accounts (no subscription required).

Gold Silver
Storage Limit 1 Billion Cap 10 Million Cap (1 Billion Cap available as account-wide unlock for 500 )
Refinement Cap 8k per day (automatically upon logging in, up to one week's worth per login) 8k per day (manually)
Character slots 1 Fed, 1 KDF, 1 either 1 Fed, 1 KDF
Bridge Officer slots 4 initial plus 2 at levels 10,20,40 4 initial plus 1 at levels 30,40
Max Free 72 42
Max Free Inventory 108 48
Shared-account Bank Inventory 20 0
1 Free Per Rank, Purchasable
Foundry Project Starting Slots 8 Starting Slots, Additional Unlockable Unlockable
Standard Ships Automatic Unlockable (free ship token at level 10 and 20, dilithium discount on new ships at level 30 and 40)
Automatic every 100 days Unavailable
formation Unlimited Limited
Priority Login Free Unavailable
In-Game Chat Unlimited Access Rate limited, broadcast chat restricted, private messages only to friends (Limit Removable)</ref>
Out-of-Game Chat Unavailable
Customer Service Unlimited Limited
access Immediately Available for sign-up
In-Game No advertisements Ad-supported
Monthly Stipend 500 Unavailable
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[] Free-to-Play Test

The F2P build was first released on 29 September 2011. Cryptic held an extended testing period from 29 September 2011 until 30 November 2011. Players who participated could receive various cumulative rewards, released on 8 December 2011:

Faction Reward Requirement
Random Playing on
(bound item, account-wide unlock) Getting a new Federation character up to level 6, or for gaining one level on any transferred Federation or Klingon character.
(one-time claim for any character) Getting a non-transferred Federation character up to level 11.
80,000 (one-time claim for any character) Getting a non-transferred Federation character up to level 31.
Exclusive "Dimensional Hero" (account-wide unlock) and Getting a non-transferred Federation character up to level 51.
80,000 (one-time claim for any character) Getting a non-transferred Klingon character up to level 31.
Exclusive "Dimensional_Warrior" [] (account-wide unlock) and Getting a non-transferred Klingon character up to level 51.
, unique blue quality (bound, account-wide unlock). Getting a character to Tier 1 commendation (2,500 CXP in same category).
(Fed) / (Fed), unique purple quality (bound, account-wide unlock). Getting a character to Tier 2 commendation (15,000 CXP in same category).
, unique purple quality with a unique ability not available elsewhere in-game (bound, account-wide unlock) Getting a character to Tier 3 commendation (50,000 CXP in same category).

[] See Also

[] References

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