Classic PVP

A classic approach to PVP in Star Trek Online

The Intention

Almost every addition to ships and gear from S2 onward has blurred the lines between ship classes, introduced things that have washed out the unique flavour of the two factions and has overall led to a decline in PVP balance.

The idea of Classic PVP is to return to the days of S1.2-S2 in terms of gear and ships and thus avoid all the newly introduced problems. An additional bonus of this is that Classic PVP matches are accessible even for players who did not spend a lot of time levelling up starbases and reputation to get access to items.

The Rules

• No Doffs. At all.
• Only the old RA ships (NOT their fleet refits). See Ships for details.
• Essentially only gear that was available with Season 2. See Gear for details.
• Recommendation: Include a -PVP- tag in your ship name to broadcast that your ship complies with the Classic PVP rules.

Ships

Federation

• Cruisers
  • Star Cruiser
    This includes the Mirror version.
  • Assault Cruiser
    This includes the Mirror version.
• Escorts
  • Patrol Escort
    This includes the Mirror version.
    Note: It is not allowed to use the MVAM module.
  • Advanced Escort
    This includes the Mirror version.
    Note: It is not allowed to use the MVAM module.
• Science Ships
  • Deep Space Science Vessel
    This includes the Mirror version.
  • Reconnaissance Science Vessel
    This includes the Mirror version.

Klingons

• Cruisers
  • Negh'var Battle Cruiser
  • Vor'cha Battle Cruiser Retrofit
    This includes the Mirror version.
• Escort-style ships
  • Qin Heavy Raptor
    This includes the Mirror version.
  • Hegh'ta Heavy Bird of Prey
• Carriers
  • Vo'quv Carrier
    This includes the Mirror version.
    Special rule for premade matches: no more than 1 carrier per team.
    Allowed Pets: To'Duj Fighters, B'Rel Birds-of-Prey, Shield Repair Shuttles - all of them only in their standard versions from the EC vendor

Gear

• No special consoles or weapons that are available from C-Store ships or lockboxes.
• No gear form the fleet system. This includes but is not limited to fleet weapons, engines, deflectors, shields and embassy consoles.
• No gear from the reputation system.
• No set gear. This includes but is not limited to MACO, Omega, Breen, Jem'hadar, Borg (both sets), Romulan, Reman, Aegis.
• No special mission rewards from the Featured Episodes (e.g. Scorpion Fighters, Rapidfire Transphasics, Breen Cluster Torpedo, Cloaked Tractor Mines, Field Modulator etc.).
  This rule does not ban items from "regular" story missions like the Plasma Disruptor Hybrids, the Efficient Engines or Hargh'pengs.
  (In the future this rule may be clarified further with a comprehensive list.)
• No items from the Lobi store.
• No Jevonite.
• No tricobalt mines.
• Tricobalt torpedoes are allowed.
• Normal consoles, weapons, engines, shield and deflectors are allowed without any mark or rarity restrictions (i.e. currently up to and including Mk XII purple).

Preorder items

• Allowed:
  • Neodymium Deflector Dish
• Automated Defense Turret
• Radiometric Converter
• Light Phaser Satellite Turret
• Red Matter Capacitor
• Retrofit Phasers - this includes both the blue phasers from the TOS Constitution and the mission reward ones (this overrides the general ban of Featured Episodes gear)

Devices

• Allowed:
  • Shields Battery
  • Weapons Battery
  • Engine Battery
  • Auxiliary Battery
  • Red Matter Capacitor
• Not allowed: everything else, this includes but is not limited to:
• Deuterium
• Field Modulator
• Various Doff reward turret deployables
• Scorpion Fighters
• Team and dual system batteries
• Large batteries
• ...

Bridge Officers

• No Boffs with space traits from the embassy.
• No Veteran Boffs.
• The development regarding Leadership on humans will be watched. So far they are allowed.
• Efficient Boffs are allowed.

Abilities

• No Doffs of any kind.
• It is not allowed to use the Romulan T5 reputation clickable ability.
• All bridge officer abilities are allowed.

Special Rules for Premade games

• Minimum of 1 captain per type (Eng/Sci/Tac).
• Maximum of 3 captains per type.
• Maximum of 1 carrier.