Star Trek Online is a MMORPG, players are able to login your own sto account and enjoy it. Players can buy and sell their wares from a central location without having to set up their own shop in it. The convenience is nice, but the auction-style exchange in Star Trek Online is one of the game systems that wasn’t fully cooked before it left the kitchen. It works, and people can buy and sell, but the system itself could use a few refinements. The mechanics plus the fact that it takes a while for player exchanges to start building up inventory makes the exchange a late bloomer. It took a while for the Exchange to start filling up with useful items, but it is encroaching on critical mass for the low to mid-level items. Let’s review how to get our hands on those items.

The Exchange is located in the Earth Starbase in the Sol System at approximately the 10 o’clock position (if you look at the Starbase as a clock face). Upon first opening up the exchange, the page is empty yet doors open to thousands of items, it is like going to Walmart online, what the heck do you look for first? Are we buying or selling? Let’s take a look at buying first, we’re all about gathering loot right? Buying is a simple process, shopping on the other hand can be somewhat cumbersome with the current incarnation of the exchange. Since there is nothing on the Engineering Report though, we will likely be using the exchange in this way for quite some time. Back on target, and buying your first item.