With the advent of scaling ships in Star Trek Online, the first four ship tiers in the game have become far less relevant. Sure, you could get a Tier 3 ship, possibly from the game’s cash shop… but why would you do that when you could just buy a top-tier ship that will scale along with you? The answer, it seems, is because you’ll be able to soon purchase these non-scaling ships with Dilithium, and at a substantial discount from their current prices.
Starting this week on PC and on April 9th for consoles, Tier 1 ships will cost 1000 Dilithium, Tier 2 will cost 2500, Tier 3 cost 5000, and Tier 4 cost 10,000 Dilithium. None of the ships at these tiers will require Zen to unlock, either, which means that you’ll have access to a greater variety of ships even leveling through the game as a new free player. The only drawback is that these ship unlocks will now be per-character rather than account-wide, but existing purchases will remain account-wide. So you do have a reason to not fly a scaling ship after all, it seems!Source: Official Site
