Equipment

Players are able to utilize various types of Equipment on their ship, captain and bridge officers. The equipment chosen will have an effect on the mission as they face many foes from many different races. The correct choice of equipment could be the difference between success and failure.

These can be bought or found in combat as loot. Unwanted equipment can be sold to vendors or on the exchange, traded with other players or salvaged. Note that Bound items cannot be sold on the Exchange or traded with other players.

Mark and Quality
The stats of an item are affected by its Mark (Mk) and Quality. The Mk corresponds directly to the minimum rank a player must hold in order to be able to equip the item. The higher the mark number, the greater the items' stats and the higher the minimum level of the player that is allowed to equip this item. Mks increase by 2 per rank. So a Mk I item is usable by a Lieutenant, Mk III requires a Lieutenant Commander, Mk IV a Commander and so on. Level Scaling Equipment is an item that increases its stats with your rank automatically (as such, do not need to be upgraded), these are denoted by an infinity (∞) sign in place of a mark.

The quality of an item represents how many modifiers (mods) an item has. An example of a modifier is "[Acc]", which is a boost to accuracy rating. items have 1 modifier, has 2,  has 3,  has 4, and  has 5. 2 of the same mod is shown with a "x2" after it. So a Mk VIII item requires a Captain to use and has 3 modifiers (lets say 1 Accuracy modifier and 2 Critical Hit modifiers). Such an item would display like this:.

The Gear Upgrade System enables players to improve the quality of their gear items by increasing both their mark and quality. It can be accessed through a button on the bottom-left of the inventory window, or via the right-click menu of upgradable items while they are not equipped.

Re-engineering allows an item's modifier to be re-rolled at a scaling cost of Dilithium and Salvage. The exact cost depends on how many available mods you wish to re-roll. The re-rolling is random, but it will not re-roll to the existing mod.

Crafting
Many items can be crafted by the player using the Research and Development (R&D) system. It uses R&D Materials to create R&D Components, both of which are in turn needed to craft various items, including "tech upgrade kits" for the aforementioned upgrading of exiting items.

Personal equipment
Personal equipment is applied to your captain and bridge officers for use on ground maps. Note that bridge officers cannot use kits.