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I have heard that after you get the Gorn updates (Awesome job BTW) in game, you will continue to work on Klingon uniforms for the C-store or updates or whatever. This is basically a given, so my main point is about what will come after the Gorn gets it game for Klingons!
So I wanted to start a thread so I could post my ideas for what new Klingon uniforms could be, and invite you to post your ideas as well.
The combined ideas list:
General Chang's various uniform things. Especially the fingerless spiky gloves!
This Klingon's Clothing. I like the more Cloth, and standard clothing idea. Less Armor, more normal cloth.
Kuge's cool overcoat.
Klingon Female uniforms. Like Lursa and Betor's Uniforms. Or some at the very least the dress part. Looks more Klingon (Klingon Female that is) than the current female uniforms. (Unless the ESRB won't let them. Orions! Come on!)
TOS Uniforms. We have A TOS shirt, but not the rest of the Uniform, Pants, Boots, Etc. and plus the Female outfits.
22nd Century Klingon outfit. It is very similar to the giant Klingons outfit, perhaps to close. So if I were forced to choose, I like this one better.
And lastly, we should be able to make a Klingons fat and Portly. You try now any they simply look like they are pregnant. Something like this General Korrd. Plus I like his uniform, and it's on the list too.
Please post any other idea's you may have. Thank you for reading.
Klaa's uniform and hair. I very much want his awesome spiky gloves...
Worfs hair, 1 and 2.
So I wanted to start a thread so I could post my ideas for what new Klingon uniforms could be, and invite you to post your ideas as well.
The combined ideas list:
General Chang's various uniform things. Especially the fingerless spiky gloves!
This Klingon's Clothing. I like the more Cloth, and standard clothing idea. Less Armor, more normal cloth.
Kuge's cool overcoat.
Klingon Female uniforms. Like Lursa and Betor's Uniforms. Or some at the very least the dress part. Looks more Klingon (Klingon Female that is) than the current female uniforms. (Unless the ESRB won't let them. Orions! Come on!)
TOS Uniforms. We have A TOS shirt, but not the rest of the Uniform, Pants, Boots, Etc. and plus the Female outfits.
22nd Century Klingon outfit. It is very similar to the giant Klingons outfit, perhaps to close. So if I were forced to choose, I like this one better.
And lastly, we should be able to make a Klingons fat and Portly. You try now any they simply look like they are pregnant. Something like this General Korrd. Plus I like his uniform, and it's on the list too.
Please post any other idea's you may have. Thank you for reading.
Klaa's uniform and hair. I very much want his awesome spiky gloves...
Worfs hair, 1 and 2.
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Good point, I had not thought of that. In that case I agree. New hair! Then My uniforms I just said!
Id like to see a cape added to the shoulders, then maybe some sort of frontall piece, then some nice boots, and maybe a wicked batleth
Short answer: incompatibility with player costume pieces.
Everything else in this thread and especially this^^^
nope, not buying it. they are already wearing what we can wear, plus all the extra stuff.
Everything in this thread and more please! I am not long past about the "More Klingon PvE" content phase. But KDF uniform choices are definitely lacking.
About the Lursa and Betor uniform. Those were shown in a PG rated TV show, so common sense would say it wouldn't be the slightest problem using them in a Teen rated game, but we're talking about the ESRB, not about people having common sense, so who knows...
Except the Shoulder pads, or the sashes, or the Gauntlets, or the armor we can wear...
-List updated to include the other uniforms mentioned.
I do agree that the hair needs the most work. I don't to be forced to choose between dreads, dreads, or bald.
And give the Females skirt/dress options, like Lursa and B'Etor.
Frankly, the KDF needs a LOT more love.
EDIT: Oh, and we need TOS "augment" options. Smooth forehead and costume pieces, please. :cool:
http://blogs.sundaymercury.net/anorak-city/klingon%5B1%5D.jpg
http://en.academic.ru/pictures/enwiki/77/Martok.jpg
Aye...giant hair tech. I would like to see a hair tech for the KDF side that goes in-line with Roach's sig here...heheheheh. jk canon peeps...
Seriously, I would like to see any and or all of those come to fruition. I have had as much as possible my KDF BO's and myself look like the ST3 klinks but those ugly Ugly UGLY shoulderpads (I mean how tall are they from the side anyway????) ruin the total look......
Perhaps these are the uniforms they are looking at?...Probably not, but really, we have more than enough people here to buy yes, I would be willing to BUY the changes via c-store if they made them satisfactorily (I mean to the specs we have seen in the new TOS things in C-Store).
/Signed way way way big time.
Keep this goodness going...I want these things for Klingons.
And I know just the ship a Klingon Yellowbeard requires to travel and plunder in style:
http://images20.fotki.com/v191/photos/8/89750/522541/TCat01side-vi.jpg
lol...that is messed up....funny but messed up...hahahahahahahaha.
To tell you the truth I think that the giant hair tech ought to come with a "someday we'll get it" pimp coat....Match that with the ability to make a short, portly Klingon and perhaps they ought to make a Klingon stench emote......I'd like that.....
To elaborate a little: most NPC's don't have to go through all the animations that the player characters do, chances are many of those uniform pieces we can't use would distort horribly or clip far worse than the pieces we currently have do. many of them probably aren't set up to be used in conjunction with other parts too so there would be even more problems there making sure they looked right with parts you normally don't see with them.
Also there is little variation to the NPCs in terms of size and bulk so many of those costumes might only work with specific "standard NPC shapes" and might otherwise clip horribly.
The problems that exist (ed?) with the Generations/Voyager Communicator on Female Starfleet officers would be an example of this (They disappear (ed?) when you pulled the breast size bar to the right too much)
I am not sure whether this bug has been corrected, hence the (ed?).
This and they don't have as much movement as we do. Ever notice how they just walk around or stand still?
I think one of the main things all Klingon players want to see is some type of Overcoat. I mean we see Dahar Masters walking around with them on...is that when we will finally be able to wear them?....when the LvL Cap is increased to Dahar Master?
hmm intresting idea, I mean the sash is apparently connected to your rank after all
I'd also like to see the Gorn get the loincloths NPC's wear. Epic in their primitive brutality.
In real life we Klingon Costmers follow one simple rule "if it looks Klingon it can be Klingon!"
And there are many reasons for Klingons to have different styles of uniforms. Ones house may use different styles, Warriors from poorer areas of the empire may have to fashion their own uniforms or make do with what they can get and so on.
In the end you are correct we need more variations. Not everyone wears the imperial armor style.
Marok
Member of fangroups: Klingon Assault Group and Klingon Alliance international
I think for the most part the different terms referring to clothing come from the fact that many folks around here only know the shows and movies and little beyond that.
There are people like drkfrontiers and me who know all the old FASA stuff but for many around here it's probably something obsure.
I mean how many people think of the Disruptor as the "shake-it-till-it-falls-apart-tool"?
Probably only those who read the old FASA Klingon RPG module and its description what a Disruptor does.
So only people who dress up as yourself will probabaly know what most "KDF-dressers" (no offense, I just could not think of a better term) would call Kruge's Battle Cloak.
Marok
Canon indeed.
But you are of course right to recognize the need for some creativity where canon is not available.
For example I stumbbled onto two interesting and in some areas similar rank insignia conceps:
http://www.housevampyr.com/main.php?title=Klingon%20Rank%20Insignia&body=training/rank/vampyrrank.html
http://www.ikvbloodlust.net/Ranks.htm
There are also several conflicting backgrounds, depending on the "era" one gets into stuff like the novels and what they tell about Klingon history and psychology...or what ships they use for that matter.
I guess to some extend fans will probably have to decide which version they wish to follow and take a creative leap from there.
The DS9 Technical manual for example gives an entirely different view on what the Disruptor does, explaining it's a buildup of particles contained in a focefiled until the particles become unstable and are release by an opening in the forcefield.
I guess that sounds way cooler than saying it's a highly advanced microwave-based weapon that (quite unlike the microwave ovens in our kitchens) can affect all kinds of materials equally well, not just hydrogen molecules.
But I must admit the old version was more useful when, as the Trek-nerd I am, I started to design my own KDF-toolbox for battlefield engineers.
An item among them is a small multi-purpose cutter/drill/welder that works the way FASA pictured it.
Depending on the intensity and focus of the beam, it can cut (high focus, high intensity), drill (high intensity, less focus) or weld (low intensity).
I think the first two are easy enough to imagine.
In weld-mode it destabilizes the molecules on the surface (or surcfaces) you want to weld and then you put them together.
When the effect wears off and the molecules reallign the surfaces fuse togetehr at the molecular level.
Much easier to imagine with something based on the old FASA stuff instead of some particle-stream thingy.:p
I realize I'm going a bit off topic here and I hope noone minds that too much.
It's all subjective. One of the things with uniforms is they all widely vary no matter what time period.
A good example of this is in the game Star Trek Klingon which can be seen on You Tube.
some have the imperial armor that is standard. Others wear fur and so on. Hence why we can work with
canon or not. I have seen many creative ideas come out with regards to Klingon attire.
Even the outfit I have on in my avatar photo is a cross of ideas but comes off very well. it has the armored look and is a next gen uniform, but also long enough to look like some of the outfits from Star Trek 6 the Undiscovered Country and that movie also produced variations. And then theres the armor worn by klaa in Star Trek 5.
We need that flexibility in STO. Fasa may be outdated but it still has some good info. Same applies to Klingon Ships.
Qapla Batlh je!
Marok