The ground combat used to be worse if you can believe it. Post 1.4, it was.. bad. But then again, the ground combat has been the achilles hill of the series since launch. I keep wanting to go back and play on my level 50s... but the changes that were rolled in when PWI took over have kept me away.
I do have a question, how bad is the freemium getting? Did they continue on the path of making bought ships/items bind on player, instead of bind on account? I'm not one to "pay to win", which it seems the game was going to when I left, but I did like getting awesome ships I loved for real money.
Is it worth downloading the game again? Has anything improved?
IN NO WAY, am I trying to troll. I loved STO.. I put in thousands of hours pre-PWI. I really would like to know what the game is playing like these days though, as I have a ton of ships I hate seeing go to waste.