What will it take to get YOU to play a Klingon?

fluffymoof

YOU, as in "Fed only player go blue go!" kind of person.

What kind of nice little reward would you like to see to get YOU to play as a Klingon? Is it a Delta/Temporal kind of recruit event? A free ship? Would the option to defect a character to KDF be what you'd want, so you don't have to rebuild? What if we had Targ Hunters as player characters? Or the elite mook Swordsman as a player character?

Seriously, we need some more friggin' Klingons in this game! So what would it take for you to make and keep playing a Klingon alt?

smokebailey

Already do.

casualsto

They're an amazingly underrated faction. Also having the potential to outdps Feds at top end game.

davefenestrator

I have 3 fully leveled with a fleet of T6 ships.

Perhaps marketing could mention the chance to command a crew of Orion bikini warriors in the gender of your choice? Or a team that's Gorn fishin', but only manlizards there.

pweistheworst

At this point the best thing the devs can do is release a season update that completely ditches the faction system but leaves existing fleets in tact (while also giving fleets access to more stuff from the other faction).

Essentially, now that the "alliance" exists between the three major powers (Fed, KDF, and Rom) just make it so that every player has access to everything.

You want to be a Fed player who has a Romulan crew and flies a Klingon bird of prey? Fine. You want to be a Klingon with an all-Andorian crew and flying a Romulan warbird? Fine.

Klingons will get full access to ESD and Starfleet Academy and Feds will have full access to Kronos. Everybody gets everything.

Short of that, I don't see the KDF faction ever doing as well as the Feds ... not unless the KDF gets more crazy awesome stuff that the Feds can't use (which would just make Fed players cry and complain, so it won't happen).

shadowwraith

I already have 2 KDF characters, 1 lethian and 1 gorn i would like to see more romulan focused stuff added though

jrdobbsjr

I've got a KDF Romulan and a member of the Orion Bikini Brigade, that's about as far as it's going.

warpangel

Nothing. I don't do alts except to farm rewards when applicable.

fluffymoof

warpangel wrote: »

Nothing. I don't do alts except to farm rewards when applicable.

Then you just told me what it would take--reward farming i.e. Delta/Temporal Recruits.

seriousdave

pweistheworst wrote: »

At this point the best thing the devs can do is release a season update that completely ditches the faction system but leaves existing fleets in tact (while also giving fleets access to more stuff from the other faction).

Essentially, now that the "alliance" exists between the three major powers (Fed, KDF, and Rom) just make it so that every player has access to everything.

You want to be a Fed player who has a Romulan crew and flies a Klingon bird of prey? Fine. You want to be a Klingon with an all-Andorian crew and flying a Romulan warbird? Fine.

Klingons will get full access to ESD and Starfleet Academy and Feds will have full access to Kronos. Everybody gets everything.

Short of that, I don't see the KDF faction ever doing as well as the Feds ... not unless the KDF gets more crazy awesome stuff that the Feds can't use (which would just make Fed players cry and complain, so it won't happen).

Full on "merging" all factions feels like a couple steps too far but real crossfaction teaming and fleet forming would already go a loooooong way.

rattler2

I don't play Klingon.










I have a female ORION.

redvenge

fluffymoof wrote: »

Seriously, we need some more friggin' Klingons in this game! So what would it take for you to make and keep playing a Klingon alt?

Well, the in game lore for the KDF is terrible. The "current year" KDF is this weird multi-racial entity that treats everyone as a Klingon in the missions. Your Lethean mind-bender is screaming "HONOR! GLORY! Qa'Pla!" which is kinda off-putting. Many KDF players want a revamp of the Fek'lr arc, but I'm at a loss why an Orion or Nausicaan would care about Klingon mysticism.

I think Cryptic should take a look at what they want the KDF to be in order to get more people interested. It currently has no identity or appeal outside of people who want to cosplay as "Star Trek villians of the week".

kiralyn

I think part of the issue, for the 'casual new player'/etc/whatever, is that for most people Star Trek = Federation Good Guys. And Klingons are just those ugly badguys. (And once you get into the game, Fed is the faction with 1. most support, and 2. pretty ships.)


..personally, I have a Rom/KDF and several Orion Bikini Warriors But I'm an altaholic who tends to make at least One Of Everything in MMOs to try out all the content. (Which also means, of course, that most of my characters don't get a huge amount of time/effort put into them. So while I have several KDF aligned characters, they're not in fleets, they're not helping fill queues, etc. They're just more alts. /shrug)

alcyoneserene

TL:DR: good faction ships, skill revamp, super-cool factor

My incentive was when I bough the DR pack, it had 2 real nice Rom ships and another 2 equally sweet KDF ships, so I made my first Romulan (KDF Aligned because contraband, I like the KDF-Rom uniforms, and it's different), and first KDF (Orion Tac) - because back then KDF had zero science outside lobi/lockbox & the Dysons.

I now have another Rom science alt, a Reman engineer (KDF aligned), and an Orion science officer - they have sweet C-Store faction science ships and event science ships (Flying Triangle, KSV).

The spec tree revamp, however much of a pain that was, and associated expenses for non-LTSers, does make it possible to do well in all ships as well as ground science (remember that unobtainable particle gens spec tree?).

Finally, just knowing you can be part of the minority (Roms, KDF) is enough of an allure in its own right, and even better, you get to fight the Federation NPCs because *RP rants & rage about something or other*

Also, Imperial Romulans, Remans, ....Orions, and all other manner of 'degenerate' villains as your player character? Don't get no better than that!

tyler002

The way the Klingon faction has been written (treating you as if you're Klingon with no other races accounted for), they should only have Klingons & Klingon Borg characters.

The rest of the races being only available to the Federation & (possibly) Republic, though the Republic has the same problem as the KDF.

hoenhiem1

The ability to play as a FERENGI. I refuse to play a Starfleet ferengi, ferengi values and Starfleet values don't mix in my opinion. But with the ability to raid and cripple freighters and colonies in the Klingon Doff missions, I can see being a ferengi in the KDF. I will admit that the KDF and a Ferengi isn't a perfect fit....... but way more so than the self–righteous Federation.

szim

I have a Klingon and a Gorn alt but I don't think Cryptic could add anything to make me play them more. I'm just not a big fan of this warrior culture/honor-based/who-has-the-biggest-ego factions.

tremere12

I play everything but the feds.

bonzodog01

Already have a level 60 KDF with Tier 6 Kolasi Siege Destroyer (Added Plasmonic Leech from vandal, and quad disruptor cannons), and I love playing her.

Also have a 60 Bajoran fed with a T6 Defiant, which also absolutely wrecks everything unfortunate enough to cross its path.

jrdobbsjr

tyler002 wrote: »

The way the Klingon faction has been written (treating you as if you're Klingon with no other races accounted for), they should only have Klingons & Klingon Borg characters.

The rest of the races being only available to the Federation & (possibly) Republic, though the Republic has the same problem as the KDF.

Yeah...it was kinda off-putting for my KDF Romulan, in the debriefing for "Mine enemy", to be able to tell Temek that Hifhar was "ripe for conquest"....a Republic Officer would never say that. I would think they would be contacting D'Tan or Kerenek to send a force to boot Madran out and assist the miners.

taylor1701d

Already do.

But I think a FED/KDF Officer exchange Recruitment event would allow the Fed-centric players to dip their toes into the KDF faction, while still playing a Fed.

I liked the Klingon arc a lot. Was sad when "you know who" (spoiler) bites the bullet.

feiqa

I have several KDF characters. But most of it feels meh. Probably because the feel shifts to generic Fed after a while in the game. With nods going to Fed characters but not to notable storylines for KDF ones. I mentioned that Brushfire. Someone should have recognized your kdf character as an enemy of the house. But not even a single line acknowledges it.
So it matters if you are a fed but not KDF late game pulls it out a bit.

centaurianalpha

I created my first KDF 'toon almost immediately after my first Fed character; just a natural extension of gameplay. I gave up on waiting for Cryptic to offer incentives for additional 'toons (which they felt was necessary for the Delta and Temporal recruits), so now I have 4 captains on each side of the alliance, including a Romulan in each faction. Provide the maximum variety in gameplay, even if some players are underwhelmed by the game in any case...

jaredza

One day I'll buy more character slots, then I'll definitely play one.

evilmark444

About the only thing they could do for me is lock a fed side reward behind Klingon only content.

mirrorchaos

My main is a Starfleet Klingon and she has been one of three characters i have had more or less since i started playing at the end of 2010. incidentally another of that group is also a Klingon and she is KDF aligned, however i rarely play that one.

nikephorus

The cost of maintaining a few characters has increased significantly since the release of Delta Rising. I don't maintain my KDF character to the high standards that I used to. She farms contraband now like a good little harvester.

jarfaru

I always make Fed.alien races. To boring to play rom, Human or Klingon.

baddmoonrizin

I have 15 KDF toons and 6 KDF allied ROM toons.

lianthelia

Will never happen but fleshing out the faction would be good...not saying they need the same amount of ships or costumes as Feds...but they deserve more.

Maybe some females for the neglected races? I know I want a female Nausicaan...

They had no problems creating females for various races for other factions...