[Bridger]

Coming soon to Star Trek Online’s Tribble Test Server is an all new space map to test your skills in space combat!

Starbase 234 – Rebuilt and Reborn!

After its devastation by the Heralds in the Iconian War, Starbase 234 has been rebuilt from the ground up to once again serve as a training ground for Alliance starships! This improved Starbase makes extensive use of holographic technology to allow captains to engage in simulated combat in a wide variety of situations.

This extensive training ground is intended to ensure that Starship Captains and their crew can safely become experienced against the many foes in the galaxy, to ensure they’re as prepared as can be. For captains wishing to appear on the frontlines of the most dangerous battles, the simulated enemies on this map can become as daunting as you feel worthy of challenging, to ensure that the Captain and their crew are up to do whatever it takes to survive!

After entering the system, you will be able to hail Starbase 234 to setup what enemies you wish to face against, to learn more about this system, to access your bank, or more!



Captains in this new map will be able to configure the simulated combat in a wide variety of ways to get the most effective training for them. You can choose from more than a dozen enemy groups to face off against, in a large number of scenarios. In addition, while the scenarios are already of varying difficulty, players can raise or lower the difficulty of whatever encounter they’re going to face next!

In addition, for captains looking for a more simple experience, simple but highly durable target ships are also available to practice against on this map. The number of target ships available and some basic information about them can be changed as needed.



Get feedback in real time!

The simulated combat offers something new to Star Trek Online – an automatic, integrated combat parsing function! Shortly after completing any encounter on this map, you will receive a hail from Starbase 234 with information about how you did in that encounter. This hail includes data about your ship’s outgoing damage and how long you spent in combat against that encounter.

While Starbase 234 will automatically hail you after normal combat encounters, you will need to stop and start the combat tracking yourself if in target practice mode. As with other things on the map, this is done by hailing the Starbase. Shortly after you stop the combat data collection, you will be hailed by Starbase 234 with the data about how you performed in that interval.

Try it out on Tribble!

This map will be available on Tribble shortly. It can be accessed by going to the Tribble Test Vendor on Drozana Station, where special items are available to test with.

To copy your character to Tribble:
Navigate to the Tribble Test Server page and log in with your account credentials.
Read through the information on the page and click the 'Sign up!' button at the bottom.
Select a character you wish to transfer from the "Character" drop-down menu and select which Test Server you want from the "Server" drop-down menu.
Click 'Copy Character'.
Log into STO and select either Tribble or Redshirt from the drop-down menu.
Once patching is complete, click 'Engage'.

Note: This map is not intended to be a replacement for normal content, and neither the map nor anything on it will grant any rewards. The intent of this map is to provide a place to practice and easily measure your ship in a variety of setups, especially for players who cannot or do not want to use third party programs to do so.

** All of the above details are subject to change.

Jette “CrypticSpartan” Leavens
Systems Designer
Star Trek Online

[Elderson79]

I started to think about using Tribble to test my ships setup, now with this new feature i'm inclined to do it my next days off. As a kinda new player is overwhelming the enormus builds possibility in the game and being able to test them is always a good thing.

[Bridger]

That should come to Holodeck too, but is just now only on Tribble.

[Sul-Matuul]

Very interesting.

Seems they actually realised that people running endless ISA's were onto something.

A proper testing map is a great idea tbh, i'm hoping it'll come to holodeck at some point. I guess the only issue I can foresee is it being used to exploit endeavors for rewards but they surely could stop it effecting those.

[Bridger]

Very interesting.

Seems they actually realised that people running endless ISA's were onto something.

A proper testing map is a great idea tbh, i'm hoping it'll come to holodeck at some point. I guess the only issue I can foresee is it being used to exploit endeavors for rewards but they surely could stop it effecting those.

Note: This map is not intended to be a replacement for normal content, and neither the map nor anything on it will grant any rewards.

It will come to holodeck, I am pretty sure of that it would be a lot to ask to copy a character over and than recreate his setup, Boffs, Doffs... all the time you want to test something new.

[jdcollins]

Note: This map is not intended to be a replacement for normal content, and neither the map nor anything on it will grant any rewards.

It will come to holodeck, I am pretty sure of that it would be a lot to ask to copy a character over and than recreate his setup, Boffs, Doffs... all the time you want to test something new.

Awww. You beat me to posting about this!!! I can't wait to give it a try and see how it does.

[Miles]

It will come to holodeck, I am pretty sure of that it would be a lot to ask to copy a character over and than recreate his setup, Boffs, Doffs... all the time you want to test something new.

Indeed it should be. After Foundry left us, I have used SB234 for testing things.

[Bridger]

Well I was wrong, they indeed build a system that will not come to Holodeck for a long time, when you think they did something good.

Borticus-Cryptic

We hope this can eventually appear on both Holodeck and Console shards, but we have a bunch of things that would need to get straightened out before that can happen. For now, we're content to let it live on Tribble only for the time being. Despite our interest in having it do so, there is currently no timeline for if/when it could make the jump to Live.

[Miles]

This is bad news...

[Bridger]

I was able to test the new Test Mission on Tribble and it is very impressive and is well made.

[Elderson79]

I'll try to have a look my next days off, see how it works