With tactics of the ground fighting has not much to do. Is fought in the Third person perspective. While you can grant his bridge officers commands and position sent to hand out flank damage. But necessary is not that! It simply holds the gun on it until all are dead.
Weltallgefechte are far more interesting, beautifully animated, enriched with great special effects and Star Trek sounds. There are all sorts of weapons, known from the series, which presuppose the fire all different angles. So turning his ship, so you can bang out the fore and aft phasers a broadside, then we swung the ship back in the direction of the enemy and ballert pure 3 torpedo. This is repeated until all are dead. In between, you have to watch that the enemy is not always raked the same side of the ship, because otherwise the shell is damaged and the ship explodes, once the envelope has reached the value 0 percent. However, it does not matter if you die. Currently there is no penalty for dying's, whether on the ground or in space. Death Penalty but it is pending! The bridge officers dominate both the ground as well as several specialty's All abilities that make the fight. Depending on the career you have chosen to start for their own avatar, one fights mainly with other skills. Depending on your preference, you can his bridge officers but can also learn other skills.
To skillen himself and his bridge officers need you skill points, which you earn by making missions. Through missions you get even Starfleet merit points with which you have the opportunity to acquire new bridge officers or even to convey this or can let them learn other skills at LAP. But you can also buy bridge officers at the auction house or as they say in Star Trek Online in the Exchange market. As is common in MMOs let opponents equipment fall with whom you can be yourself or ship and equip his bridge officers. There is also the possibility to earn marks in PvP instanced battlefields or in so-called research missions. These can then be exchanged for valuable items. However, research missions are even stupider than the patrol missions and it also does not take long to equip his ship and his bridge officers so that they would be busy for weeks. Unless you only play an hour a day.
In my opinion, Star Trek Online has no more level than a browser game compared to other MMO's. I know that Star Trek Online is new on the market yet, etc. Nevertheless, the game with the competitors must measure, because players who are already bound to MMO's and may have change intentions, think about what game the monthly fee is worth more. And currently you get simply offered more for your money in other games! If I had the money, I would indeed buy a Maserati instead of the new Golf, although the golf is not a bad car.
Despite the shortcomings I love Star Trek Online currently still fun. This is probably because I am Trekkie. In any case, it's a nice change after all these years with fantasy MMOs. So if enough of orcs and elves has or Trekkie is, should you! Do not expect that Star Trek Online puts you in the world of the series and give the feeling that you would be a part of it. Then you will namely be bitterly disappointed! Even the old game Birth of Federation has more Star Trek exudes atmosphere.