Arena is a commonly known style of Player versus Player team-based game play, and is used in quite a few MMORPGs and first person shooters. In Star Trek Online, players must eliminate a certain number enemy combatants. Once one team has eliminated a required number of enemies, it wins the game. Players that are eliminated are allowed to respawn after a timer.
The Cracked Planetoid map is also available as a small craft-only arena.
If the two teams are at deuce status (i.e. 15 ships to be destroyed, but 14:14), and both teams are simultaneously defeated by each other, all are lost. There is no known draw cases.
Maps
Arena currently includes many maps in both space and on ground such as:
- Assimilated Cruiser (Ground)
- Briar Patch (Space)
- Cracked Planetoid (Space)
- Deserted Facility (Ground)
- Solar Wind (Space)
- Ghost Ship (Ground)
All are playable by accessing the PvP queues in the Mission Journal. Although both factions employ identical maps, the in-game locations of each arena are different for Starfleet and Klingon players (and their respective Romulan Republic allies):
- Starfleet:
- Aldebaran System (Space)
- Archanis System (Space)
- Zibal System (Space)
- Azha System (Ground)
- Cursa System (Ground)
- Traelus System (Ground)
- Klingon Defense Forces:
- Hedon System (Space)
- No'mat System (Space)
- Ghomha System (Space)
- Ghuh'woq System (Ground)
- Saqghom System (Ground)
- Gorath System (Ground)
Tactics
Stay with a group of allies and use the environment to cut enemy line of sight if needed. In space don't let yourself be cut off from your team by the enemy -- if this does happen you will be attacked and you will probably be destroyed.