Yeah, the last 3 years as the favored faction of Cryptic wasn't enough. Gotta keep their privileged position at the top of the pile, above the stinky 'klinks' and scheming Romulans.
I'm not saying they need a ton of new episodes and ships. But seeing as the majority of players have Fed characters, at least one mission or two doesn't seem like a lot to ask for. Even a remastered episode would be nice.
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I don't know if it's really that sloppy. It fits very snugly into Cryptic's own metrics and data.
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It only fits snugly if you have a simplistic and flawed view of micro economics and business management. And even then it doesn't fit that snugly, since the OP views a lot of things as being zero sum that aren't really zero sum.
For example, not all Federation players are exclusively Federation players, and making content exclusive to Federation is not the same as making more content for Federation. The OP would be quite content if new content such as FEs was made exclusive to Federation players, even though that wouldn't yield any additional content for Feds or any one else (it would actually yield less for Feds in the long run), and makes terrible business sense.
In short, the OP is either a troll or incredibly ignorant, and you're not covering yourself in glory by agreeing with him.
If you want me to cover the basics I can, but I don't want to belabor the point, and I'm not willing to teach a free course on economics and business administration on the STO forums, so you might need to do some independent reading to understand it all. These forums also aren't great for displaying data in a visual format, so even basic graphs might be beyond us here.
TL;DR version: The OP is wrong in virtually every way he could possibly be wrong. If you don't believe that, then consider it a wake up call.
It only fits snugly if you have a simplistic and flawed view of micro economics and business management.
So you're accusing Cryptic of having a flawed view of micro economics and business management? I mean, look at all they have done so far! Have they not proven themselves time and time again?
The OP would be quite content if new content such as FEs was made exclusive to Federation players, even though that wouldn't yield any additional content for Feds or any one else (it would actually yield less for Feds in the long run), and makes terrible business sense.
According to Cryptic the only stuff they make money off of in their cash shop is the exclusive fed content. They have assured us that the KDF content is stuff they lose money on. Seems like they would know what loses them money, amirite?
and you're not covering yourself in glory by agreeing with him.
I'm mostly just paraphrasing Cryptic's own assessment of their business model.
and I'm not willing to teach a free course on economics and business administration on the STO forums
Oh come now. You're already playing a free to play MMO. What's one more timesink?
These forums also aren't great for displaying data in a visual format, so even basic graphs might be beyond us here.
If you'd like I'd be willing to teach you some tips for making infographics. It was my livelihood for quite some time.
That's a great question. And one that so far Cryptic seems to be ignoring. That's cause for concern. How could they not be prepared to deliver to the heart of their target market?
...because its Cryptic?
Seriously, its like they can't help but to get into one mess after anther. The current situation with the Romulan faction could've been easily avoided had they been honest about what it'd be like from the start. But hyping it like they did and only coming out with the truth after most gaming sites had run with the original idea that it'd be a full romulan faction..... well, its Cryptic after all, what else can you expect?
Just my 2 Cents... I am a Fed Exclusive player... I may roll a Romulan... but probably not.
That being said... I want the next release to be about the KDF... I want a viable and vibrant alter faction to compete with. I'd say Romulan, but they arent a stand alone faction.
.....but really why am I interested, already am fully into feds, already spent plenty on c store, so why would I want to do releveling a new faction character I dont want, am I right?
Actually, I think a substantial number of players, both fed and KDF will roll Romulan alts if only to see some new content. As to how many will keep with them after lvl 50 is anyone's guess, but I don't see it ever becoming a big thing.
Just my 2 Cents... I am a Fed Exclusive player... I may roll a Romulan... but probably not.
That being said... I want the next release to be about the KDF... I want a viable and vibrant alter faction to compete with. I'd say Romulan, but they arent a stand alone faction.
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Just my 2 Cents... I am a Fed Exclusive player... I may roll a Romulan... but probably not.
That being said... I want the next release to be about the KDF... I want a viable and vibrant alter faction to compete with. I'd say Romulan, but they arent a stand alone faction.
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This must be a troll thread. No Fed player can seriously think that we have somehow gotten LESS than the KDF. Hell just recently KDF fleets had to fork over dilithium to get mannequins that the Feds have had forever, not to mention still missing pieces from their fleet uniforms (the ones you buy at the Starbase tailor).
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So you're accusing Cryptic of having a flawed view of micro economics and business management?
No, I'm accusing the OP and you of so horribly misunderstanding what Cryptic has told you that you're drawing flawed conclusions.
What Cryptic has said is that a lot more people play Fed than play Klingon, therefore, it makes more business sense to do things for Fed that might not make business sense for Klingon.
What Cryptic has NOT said (hopefully because they don't have 2nd graders running their business) is that their output of content for each faction is based a linear model of direct proportionality (4 times as many feds = 4 times as much content for feds).
That model, which the OP proposes, doesn't make sense in any possible universe. Even if we assumed that each and every player in the game had unlimited money they were willing to spend on the game (which would be a terrible assumption to make) it still wouldn't follow that content should be produced in that proportion. In that particular scenario, content would be produced exclusively for Fed, and never for KDF.
In any real world scenario, where we assume that customers actually have variable amounts of disposable income and each faction actually consists of a bunch of different market segments (which Cryptic has acknowledged is very much a known factor in the F2P model), the proportion should almost certainly be closer to 1:1 than 4:1. Hypothetically, something like 2:1 or 5:2 is probably more reasonable. The reason, simply, is that there are diminishing returns as you saturate each faction with new content, so that eventually each piece of sellable content yields a lower marginal return.
The task in business management is to find the best marginal return on each unit of investment, with investment continuing right up until the point where marginal return becomes negative (or past that point if you're making an investment in market share). It is NOT to dole out your investment using some kind of simplistic formula based some arbitrary ratio of numbers.
Now, throw in the fact (as others have mentioned in this thread) that there is a finite amount of sellable content that can be produced on the fed side, due to IP concerns, and it becomes pretty clear that long term, they should be investing in exclusive Fed content only when the marginal returns are highly positive, and they should be investing in exclusive KDF and Romulan specific content even when the marginal return is negative (and doing everything they can to gently shift people towards playing those factions). So again, this skews the optimal ratio closer to 1:1.
And none of this even touches on the fallacy which I already covered about zero sum thinking with regard to faction balance and exclusive content. Above all, Cryptic should be investing in areas which touch all segments of their customer base equally, ideally in systems that will improve their sales (such as lock boxes and lobi store) or which will drive customer retention across the board (such as new FEs and STFs for all factions, bug fixes, game system improvements, better UI and AI, etc).
This is just the very low hanging fruit, stuff that is obvious as first glance. A truly exhaustive examination of everything wrong with the OP's thought process could probably fill a book.
If you look at what makes actually business sense and you look at what Cryptic is actually doing with this "expansion" you'll see that apart from a lack of new STFs and lockbox stuff, they're pretty much following the playbook exactly.
In other words, they're making sound business decisions and the OP is complaining that sound business doesn't make him feel like a unique and special snowflake.
Why does the Federation have to get things that other people don't? That is silly. KDF is demanding KDF only stuff, potential RR people are pissed their stuff isn't more exclusive, and now Feds are whining that the stuff they get other people get too? If you only play federation (First off, how do you make money? Seriously! Make a KDF toon and see what I mean) then why would it affect you in any way that other people get access to the same stuff as you? Other than being a diva?
Exclusivity is a waste of time. I want more content that I can play on all of my characters, which are currently 60% Fed and 40% KDF and will be sprouting Romulans as soon as I can.
I think the feds should get ignored for the moment.
They got an massive arsenal of ships.
Like double or triple than the KDF.
And the rommies could end up as a disaster.
I'm aware your comments are based on feelings, not logic, but:
47 KDF vs 69 Fed Playable ships at T5 and T5.5 (Fleet/Lockbox/Paid)
~40% of the ships are KDF, whereas only ~18% of the players are KDF.
So KDF have, per capita, more ship uniqueness than Fed.
And that only includes T5+, whereas KDF actually get cool and different ships for their C-store +1's at levels before 40, where Fed only get reskins.
And Romulans will be a boon to the game. Regardless of anything else, this will increase population, as long as the forum negativity doesn't scare off returning/potential players. Your fleets will get more people (if you are willing to recruit) and we will have even more unique and cool ships, traits, and events/activities to run.
I give this thread 3/10. This is purely because against the odds, and despite many troll comments so "In your face" that they risk causing severe head trauma, this thread has managed to achieve 9 pages.
I can refute all of these arguments with a single point. Adding universal content, available to all three factions is the best investment and hits every part of your market.
Unless I guess by content, you only meant ships; in which doing the above would amount to more lockboxes, and more whining.
I can refute all of these arguments with a single point. Adding universal content, available to all three factions is the best investment and hits every part of your market.
My post was addressing exclusive content, but I've added and edited to address the more general point.
I think you'll find that we're generally in agreement.
I will point out though that without the sales of ships, costumes, etc, the content doesn't actually pay for itself. They need to produce both sellable content and free content to coax the people with money to burn into spending it. Their current model doesn't allow them to sell ships and costumes which are not faction specific except through lockboxes.
Given the huge success of the JHAS, I definitely expect to see their strongest ship designs wind up in lockboxes, doff packs, and the lobi store.
Free content like missions, STFs, FEs, Reputations, etc should be entirely or almost entirely available to all factions. Anything else is basically just wasting resources.
Pssh, 'heart of the game' hah! More like Cryptic's Dabo table.
Although really, the Federation needs a tempered break from constant
content for awhile. To allow Cryptic to both work on and draw interest
to the other percentage. Which they seem to be slightly doing, kinda.
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Are people honestly upset that Feds don't appear to be getting a boost influx of exclusive content?
When Feds have an overwhelming majority of content and ships? When the KDF has been horribly neglected for 3 years? When PvP has actually been consistently ignored and shafted at every turn for 3 years, despite given false hopes?
This must be a troll thread. No Fed player can seriously think that we have somehow gotten LESS than the KDF. Hell just recently KDF fleets had to fork over dilithium to get mannequins that the Feds have had forever, not to mention still missing pieces from their fleet uniforms (the ones you buy at the Starbase tailor).
The mannequins is basically a project swap between the FED and KDF bases... when Fed got the mannequins, the KDF got... I think the giant relief? Or was it the banners? Anyway, the Starbase "content" is basically mirrored between the two.
As for the fleet uniforms, the Fed side is probably also missing pieces, and they got even less out of it than the KDF did (Fed got a top, pants, boots, and belt. KDF got the same plus bracers, and the Bortasqu' pants and boots are more visibly different than the Odyssey ones).
Without any content for the vast majority of the population they have zero interest in logging in because there is nothing to do.
If you think they are just going to say "hey, your faction have enough content so for the next two years you are not getting any updates" and all Feds would be "OK!" ... Hell no, I would just walk and come back when there is actually new content, that is if I remember if I actually have it installed.
Wow you Fed guys are spoiled. Every other season/patch/update improves your content. Just the thought of not getting specific Fed content in one update . . . Nevermind, the new Tholian reputation system. The fact you can roll a Romulan and add them to your existing Fed fleet.
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What ever happened to all of us just being STAR TREK Fans????
Why the hell are we classifying ourselves exclusively as Feds, Klinks, and/or Rommies?
Been playing this game for quite a while now...
I've got one each of the available classes for both Feds and Klingons at max...
(that's six toons in case somebody doesn't like math)
I've got several more assorted, in various stages on Holodeck and about five more assorted that I've transfered over to Tribble, with two more (a Fed & a KDF) started exclusively there.
Today I started another Fed toon on Tribble just to mess around with all the cool stuff that's there and as soon as it's possible I'll start a Romulan one there also.
(as well as start one on Holodeck when May 21st rolls around.)
I don't think of myself as being denied something when I play this game as a Klingon and I certainly don't think of myself as being privileged when playing my Fed toons....
I think of it as another wonderful way to just be a Star Trek Fan playing the ONLY game that caters to my somewhat obsessive hobby (fetish??)...
I enjoy pretending that I'm the Captain of 'what-ever' faction-ship I'm flying in, in the wonderful Trek Universe that Cryptic has created...
And thank my lucky stars that the folks at that company decide to take on this project...
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Actually, I think a substantial number of players, both fed and KDF will roll Romulan alts if only to see some new content. As to how many will keep with them after lvl 50 is anyone's guess, but I don't see it ever becoming a big thing.
Thats really my point, there wasting time with romulans because its not going to be a big thing. Just starving Feds. of content for a while, who's going to play at level 50? Really?
Thats really my point, there wasting time with romulans because its not going to be a big thing. Just starving Feds. of content for a while, who's going to play at level 50? Really?
I am. And it's fully capable of growing into a "big thing", given a little time.
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No, I'm accusing the OP and you of so horribly misunderstanding what Cryptic has told you that you're drawing flawed conclusions.
What Cryptic has said is that a lot more people play Fed than play Klingon, therefore, it makes more business sense to do things for Fed that might not make business sense for Klingon.
What Cryptic has NOT said (hopefully because they don't have 2nd graders running their business) is that their output of content for each faction is based a linear model of direct proportionality (4 times as many feds = 4 times as much content for feds).
That model, which the OP proposes, doesn't make sense in any possible universe. Even if we assumed that each and every player in the game had unlimited money they were willing to spend on the game (which would be a terrible assumption to make) it still wouldn't follow that content should be produced in that proportion. In that particular scenario, content would be produced exclusively for Fed, and never for KDF.
In any real world scenario, where we assume that customers actually have variable amounts of disposable income and each faction actually consists of a bunch of different market segments (which Cryptic has acknowledged is very much a known factor in the F2P model), the proportion should almost certainly be closer to 1:1 than 4:1. Hypothetically, something like 2:1 or 5:2 is probably more reasonable. The reason, simply, is that there are diminishing returns as you saturate each faction with new content, so that eventually each piece of sellable content yields a lower marginal return.
The task in business management is to find the best marginal return on each unit of investment, with investment continuing right up until the point where marginal return becomes negative (or past that point if you're making an investment in market share). It is NOT to dole out your investment using some kind of simplistic formula based some arbitrary ratio of numbers.
Now, throw in the fact (as others have mentioned in this thread) that there is a finite amount of sellable content that can be produced on the fed side, due to IP concerns, and it becomes pretty clear that long term, they should be investing in exclusive Fed content only when the marginal returns are highly positive, and they should be investing in exclusive KDF and Romulan specific content even when the marginal return is negative (and doing everything they can to gently shift people towards playing those factions). So again, this skews the optimal ratio closer to 1:1.
And none of this even touches on the fallacy which I already covered about zero sum thinking with regard to faction balance and exclusive content. Above all, Cryptic should be investing in areas which touch all segments of their customer base equally, ideally in systems that will improve their sales (such as lock boxes and lobi store) or which will drive customer retention across the board (such as new FEs and STFs for all factions, bug fixes, game system improvements, better UI and AI, etc).
This is just the very low hanging fruit, stuff that is obvious as first glance. A truly exhaustive examination of everything wrong with the OP's thought process could probably fill a book.
If you look at what makes actually business sense and you look at what Cryptic is actually doing with this "expansion" you'll see that apart from a lack of new STFs and lockbox stuff, they're pretty much following the playbook exactly.
In other words, they're making sound business decisions and the OP is complaining that sound business doesn't make him feel like a unique and special snowflake.
Give this person a gold star. OP if you need more convincing then you are beyond hope.
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Yes, I most certainly am. I find it strange that you think otherwise. I also feel you haven't read what I actually typed and are pretty much just lumping me in with other posters.
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I'm not saying they need a ton of new episodes and ships. But seeing as the majority of players have Fed characters, at least one mission or two doesn't seem like a lot to ask for. Even a remastered episode would be nice.
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It only fits snugly if you have a simplistic and flawed view of micro economics and business management. And even then it doesn't fit that snugly, since the OP views a lot of things as being zero sum that aren't really zero sum.
For example, not all Federation players are exclusively Federation players, and making content exclusive to Federation is not the same as making more content for Federation. The OP would be quite content if new content such as FEs was made exclusive to Federation players, even though that wouldn't yield any additional content for Feds or any one else (it would actually yield less for Feds in the long run), and makes terrible business sense.
In short, the OP is either a troll or incredibly ignorant, and you're not covering yourself in glory by agreeing with him.
If you want me to cover the basics I can, but I don't want to belabor the point, and I'm not willing to teach a free course on economics and business administration on the STO forums, so you might need to do some independent reading to understand it all. These forums also aren't great for displaying data in a visual format, so even basic graphs might be beyond us here.
TL;DR version: The OP is wrong in virtually every way he could possibly be wrong. If you don't believe that, then consider it a wake up call.
So you're accusing Cryptic of having a flawed view of micro economics and business management? I mean, look at all they have done so far! Have they not proven themselves time and time again?
According to Cryptic the only stuff they make money off of in their cash shop is the exclusive fed content. They have assured us that the KDF content is stuff they lose money on. Seems like they would know what loses them money, amirite?
I'm mostly just paraphrasing Cryptic's own assessment of their business model.
Oh come now. You're already playing a free to play MMO. What's one more timesink?
If you'd like I'd be willing to teach you some tips for making infographics. It was my livelihood for quite some time.
...because its Cryptic?
Seriously, its like they can't help but to get into one mess after anther. The current situation with the Romulan faction could've been easily avoided had they been honest about what it'd be like from the start. But hyping it like they did and only coming out with the truth after most gaming sites had run with the original idea that it'd be a full romulan faction..... well, its Cryptic after all, what else can you expect?
That being said... I want the next release to be about the KDF... I want a viable and vibrant alter faction to compete with. I'd say Romulan, but they arent a stand alone faction.
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Actually, I think a substantial number of players, both fed and KDF will roll Romulan alts if only to see some new content. As to how many will keep with them after lvl 50 is anyone's guess, but I don't see it ever becoming a big thing.
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No, I'm accusing the OP and you of so horribly misunderstanding what Cryptic has told you that you're drawing flawed conclusions.
What Cryptic has said is that a lot more people play Fed than play Klingon, therefore, it makes more business sense to do things for Fed that might not make business sense for Klingon.
What Cryptic has NOT said (hopefully because they don't have 2nd graders running their business) is that their output of content for each faction is based a linear model of direct proportionality (4 times as many feds = 4 times as much content for feds).
That model, which the OP proposes, doesn't make sense in any possible universe. Even if we assumed that each and every player in the game had unlimited money they were willing to spend on the game (which would be a terrible assumption to make) it still wouldn't follow that content should be produced in that proportion. In that particular scenario, content would be produced exclusively for Fed, and never for KDF.
In any real world scenario, where we assume that customers actually have variable amounts of disposable income and each faction actually consists of a bunch of different market segments (which Cryptic has acknowledged is very much a known factor in the F2P model), the proportion should almost certainly be closer to 1:1 than 4:1. Hypothetically, something like 2:1 or 5:2 is probably more reasonable. The reason, simply, is that there are diminishing returns as you saturate each faction with new content, so that eventually each piece of sellable content yields a lower marginal return.
The task in business management is to find the best marginal return on each unit of investment, with investment continuing right up until the point where marginal return becomes negative (or past that point if you're making an investment in market share). It is NOT to dole out your investment using some kind of simplistic formula based some arbitrary ratio of numbers.
Now, throw in the fact (as others have mentioned in this thread) that there is a finite amount of sellable content that can be produced on the fed side, due to IP concerns, and it becomes pretty clear that long term, they should be investing in exclusive Fed content only when the marginal returns are highly positive, and they should be investing in exclusive KDF and Romulan specific content even when the marginal return is negative (and doing everything they can to gently shift people towards playing those factions). So again, this skews the optimal ratio closer to 1:1.
And none of this even touches on the fallacy which I already covered about zero sum thinking with regard to faction balance and exclusive content. Above all, Cryptic should be investing in areas which touch all segments of their customer base equally, ideally in systems that will improve their sales (such as lock boxes and lobi store) or which will drive customer retention across the board (such as new FEs and STFs for all factions, bug fixes, game system improvements, better UI and AI, etc).
This is just the very low hanging fruit, stuff that is obvious as first glance. A truly exhaustive examination of everything wrong with the OP's thought process could probably fill a book.
If you look at what makes actually business sense and you look at what Cryptic is actually doing with this "expansion" you'll see that apart from a lack of new STFs and lockbox stuff, they're pretty much following the playbook exactly.
In other words, they're making sound business decisions and the OP is complaining that sound business doesn't make him feel like a unique and special snowflake.
Exclusivity is a waste of time. I want more content that I can play on all of my characters, which are currently 60% Fed and 40% KDF and will be sprouting Romulans as soon as I can.
I'm aware your comments are based on feelings, not logic, but:
47 KDF vs 69 Fed Playable ships at T5 and T5.5 (Fleet/Lockbox/Paid)
~40% of the ships are KDF, whereas only ~18% of the players are KDF.
So KDF have, per capita, more ship uniqueness than Fed.
And that only includes T5+, whereas KDF actually get cool and different ships for their C-store +1's at levels before 40, where Fed only get reskins.
And Romulans will be a boon to the game. Regardless of anything else, this will increase population, as long as the forum negativity doesn't scare off returning/potential players. Your fleets will get more people (if you are willing to recruit) and we will have even more unique and cool ships, traits, and events/activities to run.
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Since all I'm doing is saying the same thing that Cryptic said, you kind of ARE accusing Cryptic of misunderstanding those things.
I can refute all of these arguments with a single point. Adding universal content, available to all three factions is the best investment and hits every part of your market.
Unless I guess by content, you only meant ships; in which doing the above would amount to more lockboxes, and more whining.
My post was addressing exclusive content, but I've added and edited to address the more general point.
I think you'll find that we're generally in agreement.
I will point out though that without the sales of ships, costumes, etc, the content doesn't actually pay for itself. They need to produce both sellable content and free content to coax the people with money to burn into spending it. Their current model doesn't allow them to sell ships and costumes which are not faction specific except through lockboxes.
Given the huge success of the JHAS, I definitely expect to see their strongest ship designs wind up in lockboxes, doff packs, and the lobi store.
Free content like missions, STFs, FEs, Reputations, etc should be entirely or almost entirely available to all factions. Anything else is basically just wasting resources.
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No, you're not.
When Feds have an overwhelming majority of content and ships? When the KDF has been horribly neglected for 3 years? When PvP has actually been consistently ignored and shafted at every turn for 3 years, despite given false hopes?
The mannequins is basically a project swap between the FED and KDF bases... when Fed got the mannequins, the KDF got... I think the giant relief? Or was it the banners? Anyway, the Starbase "content" is basically mirrored between the two.
As for the fleet uniforms, the Fed side is probably also missing pieces, and they got even less out of it than the KDF did (Fed got a top, pants, boots, and belt. KDF got the same plus bracers, and the Bortasqu' pants and boots are more visibly different than the Odyssey ones).
Wow you Fed guys are spoiled. Every other season/patch/update improves your content. Just the thought of not getting specific Fed content in one update . . . Nevermind, the new Tholian reputation system. The fact you can roll a Romulan and add them to your existing Fed fleet.
"Second star on the right, and straight on till morning."
U.S.S. Weatherlight
let them; maybe they'll take a good portion of the awful players with them
#LegalizeAwoo
A normie goes "Oh, what's this?"
An otaku goes "UwU, what's this?"
A furry goes "OwO, what's this?"
A werewolf goes "Awoo, what's this?"
"It's nothing personal, I just don't feel like I've gotten to know a person until I've sniffed their crotch."
"We said 'no' to Mr. Curiosity. We're not home. Curiosity is not welcome, it is not to be invited in. Curiosity...is bad. It gets you in trouble, it gets you killed, and more importantly...it makes you poor!"
Why the hell are we classifying ourselves exclusively as Feds, Klinks, and/or Rommies?
Been playing this game for quite a while now...
I've got one each of the available classes for both Feds and Klingons at max...
(that's six toons in case somebody doesn't like math)
I've got several more assorted, in various stages on Holodeck and about five more assorted that I've transfered over to Tribble, with two more (a Fed & a KDF) started exclusively there.
Today I started another Fed toon on Tribble just to mess around with all the cool stuff that's there and as soon as it's possible I'll start a Romulan one there also.
(as well as start one on Holodeck when May 21st rolls around.)
I don't think of myself as being denied something when I play this game as a Klingon and I certainly don't think of myself as being privileged when playing my Fed toons....
I think of it as another wonderful way to just be a Star Trek Fan playing the ONLY game that caters to my somewhat obsessive hobby (fetish??)...
I enjoy pretending that I'm the Captain of 'what-ever' faction-ship I'm flying in, in the wonderful Trek Universe that Cryptic has created...
And thank my lucky stars that the folks at that company decide to take on this project...
Thank You Cryptic for fulfilling my childhood dream.
I Was A Trekkie Before It Was Cool ... Sept. 8th, 1966 ... Not To Mention Before Most Folks Around Here Were Born!
Forever a STO Veteran-Minion
Thats really my point, there wasting time with romulans because its not going to be a big thing. Just starving Feds. of content for a while, who's going to play at level 50? Really?
I am. And it's fully capable of growing into a "big thing", given a little time.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
Give this person a gold star. OP if you need more convincing then you are beyond hope.
- Judge Aaron Satie
Yes, I most certainly am. I find it strange that you think otherwise. I also feel you haven't read what I actually typed and are pretty much just lumping me in with other posters.