Star Trek Online is all about skills. Players go up the ranks as skills get maxed out. Thus as you climb up the each rank, you’ll also become more specialized in a smaller set of skills.
The question is, how are ranks obtain? Basically, players will have missions to complete. Along the process, skill points are earned with can be allocated to further strengthen skills.
In Star Trek Online, there are a total of 6 ranks. The STO ranks are as follows:
-Ensign
-Lieutenant
-Lieutenant Commander
-Commander
-Captain
-Admiral
The jump between STO ranks are referred to as promotions. In order to get a promotion, players would have to have used a certain number of skills. Ranking up in Star Trek Online could be seen as a form of leveling for this skill-based game.
Ranks provides a means to measure how far you’ve advanced your character. Like most other games, the items, equipment or other accessories would depend on how far you have maxed out your skills and your current rank.
The naming of the Star Trek Online ranks keeps itself very much in line with the popular movie series Star Trek and thus preserves its uniqueness.
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