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thorodal
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Since the game itself is seriously lacking missions on KDF-side that let my Orion character do Orion-y things (Glory and Honor? Nah, I'll have some booty instead... And I mean both of that word's meanings: accumulating treasures and slaves 
), I do like to play me some foundry missions (Though the foundry is also not that generous in these areas as it could be, but more on that later after my primary complaint).
In order to widen my options I registered to rate the new content of other authors.... only to discover that the only missions I could rate are set to the same language as my gaming client: German. I have no access to new missions written in English, even though it's the language even most German authors are writing their missions in to have a wider audience.
Please add an additional option to the "rate new content"-area that let's us select the language a mission has been written in. I think the authors would thank you for that as well
P.S.:
To the authors: Please do not forget that only one (okay, maybe two if you count the Joined Trill) of the species on KDF-side are truely into "Honor and glory and glorious honor and honorable glory": The Klingons. The rest of the bunch has totally different motivations:
The Gorn are a subjected people and most of the time unsure of how to feel about this: While they are grateful to the Klingons having removed the Undine infiltrators from their ranks they would prefer to be free again.
The Nausicaans are mercenaries and pirates. They ultimatly don't care about honor and glory, even if they like themselves a good battle.
The Letheans are mercenaries as well, but more of the "assassin"-kind, as their telepathic attacks can be lethal without leaving any obvious evidence. They joined the KDF to help expose Undine as telepaths can identify them.
And the Orions... are not really part of the Empire. They are just allies undergoing an exchange program: They give the Klingons access to the intel their (way superior) intelligence network uncovers and in return the Klingons gave them a new homeworld (Ter'jas Mor) as well as ships and weapons. And I think it's rather obvious that Starfleet wasn't very thrilled that the most notorious crime syndicate (guilty of smuggling, piracy, slavetrade, etc, just to name a few) in the quadrant now had access to the finest Klingon warships, most of them capable of cloaking. Now having access to this technology that makes their life/job much easier you can bet that there was quite an increase in crimes commited in Federation space
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With this in mind I hope some of you might find inspiration to create much needed content that Cryptic has failed to add (Sorry, devs, no offense. I know you try your best (I hope), but I'm really tired of having my Orion scream "Qa'pla!" during half of the regular missions).
), I do like to play me some foundry missions (Though the foundry is also not that generous in these areas as it could be, but more on that later after my primary complaint).In order to widen my options I registered to rate the new content of other authors.... only to discover that the only missions I could rate are set to the same language as my gaming client: German. I have no access to new missions written in English, even though it's the language even most German authors are writing their missions in to have a wider audience.
Please add an additional option to the "rate new content"-area that let's us select the language a mission has been written in. I think the authors would thank you for that as well
P.S.:
To the authors: Please do not forget that only one (okay, maybe two if you count the Joined Trill) of the species on KDF-side are truely into "Honor and glory and glorious honor and honorable glory": The Klingons. The rest of the bunch has totally different motivations:
The Gorn are a subjected people and most of the time unsure of how to feel about this: While they are grateful to the Klingons having removed the Undine infiltrators from their ranks they would prefer to be free again.
The Nausicaans are mercenaries and pirates. They ultimatly don't care about honor and glory, even if they like themselves a good battle.
The Letheans are mercenaries as well, but more of the "assassin"-kind, as their telepathic attacks can be lethal without leaving any obvious evidence. They joined the KDF to help expose Undine as telepaths can identify them.
And the Orions... are not really part of the Empire. They are just allies undergoing an exchange program: They give the Klingons access to the intel their (way superior) intelligence network uncovers and in return the Klingons gave them a new homeworld (Ter'jas Mor) as well as ships and weapons. And I think it's rather obvious that Starfleet wasn't very thrilled that the most notorious crime syndicate (guilty of smuggling, piracy, slavetrade, etc, just to name a few) in the quadrant now had access to the finest Klingon warships, most of them capable of cloaking. Now having access to this technology that makes their life/job much easier you can bet that there was quite an increase in crimes commited in Federation space
.With this in mind I hope some of you might find inspiration to create much needed content that Cryptic has failed to add (Sorry, devs, no offense. I know you try your best (I hope), but I'm really tired of having my Orion scream "Qa'pla!" during half of the regular missions).
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My character Tsin'xing
It's not just the dialog, I'm actually hoping to see foundry content that's meant to be played by the more shady species of the KDF in the first place. The mission "Qo'noS Noir" is a rather good example for this.
This was one of the biggest mistakes J'mpok ever made. Including the Orion Syndicate in the Empire just changes their actions from civilian criminal offenses to war crimes, and any Orion ship involved in combat turns is an unlawful combatant.
Which is not unique to the KDF's Orion affiliations, I might add. The Klingons' conduct in the Path to 2409 constitutes crimes against sentience, and the KDF player character is guilty of murder as a war crime. None of which is acknowledged in-game, and deserves to be.
Here's a post-Iconian War plot idea. The Federation demands the extradition of senior Klingon officers for war crimes trials.
— Sabaton, "Great War"
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Klingon law apparently does not consider it a crime. Thus the Klingon Council will ignore an claims of "war crimes".
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And that means the Federation should, too? They should just sit back and take it while their citizens and soldiers are murdered for "honor" and sold into slavery to an alien crime syndicate? Besides, there's already precedents for the Federation imposing its own laws of war on non-signatories: Dukat, for Bajor, and Taris, for Hobus.
TRIBBLE J'mpok up the TRIBBLE with a rusty bat'leth. No need for the Federation to maintain the alliance now that the Blog War is ending. Time for them to reclaim their places as the people in Star Trek who actually stand up for the rights of sentient beings.
— Sabaton, "Great War"
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If you're suggesting glassing Kronos, I'll go prepare the fleet. I'll just defect my Klingon's first.
Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
JJ Trek The Kelvin Timeline is just Trek and it's fully canon... get over it. But I still prefer TAR.
#TASforSTO
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'Starfleet is not a military organisation. Its purpose is exploration.' Picard: Peak Performance
'This is clearly a military operation. Is that what we are now? Because I thought we were explorers!' Scotty: Into Darkness
'...The Federation. Starfleet. We're not a military agency.' Scotty: Beyond
'I'm not a soldier anymore. I'm an engineer.' Miles O'Brien: Empok Nor
'...Starfleet could use you... It's a peacekeeping and humanitarian armada...' Admiral Pike: Star Trek
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Please remember that the Orion Syndicate is not just a regular crime organization: It's also the legitimate ruling body of the Orion people, meaning that it's a political entity of it's own.
Second:
I remember a certain DS9-episode (the first one of the Klingon-Cardassian war) where Worf spoke against decloaking the Defiant to search for survivors at a battlefield as there might be cloak Klingon ships around looking for easy prey, so tactics like these are pretty common in the Klingon art of war. As there were no demands for extraditions after that war either, I can only assume that the Prime Directive might have some reign over this?
I would also point out that the Klingons do have laws about murder. There's an interesting line in the otherwise badly conceived DS9 episode "Rules of Engagement" about Klingon law asking whether you killed out of duty or out of bloodlust.
So, how about it? When you tortured and murdered the crew of the USS DeWitt and sold prisoners into slavery, were you acting out of duty, or out of bloodlust? Or out of greed, for that matter?
Again: TRIBBLE J'mpok up the TRIBBLE with a rusty bat'leth.
Yet more Klingon war crimes. Interestingly, the Dominion were also guilty of that one. I also recall a scene of a "mighty Klingon warrior" bragging about murdering a Benzite POW by ripping her breathing tubes off so she'd suffocate. The Dominion was the greater problem, but after the war ended? That's just a failure by the Federation to stand up for its people.
— Sabaton, "Great War"
Check out https://unitedfederationofpla.net/s/
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— Sabaton, "Great War"
Check out https://unitedfederationofpla.net/s/
Ok... it was a drunken Klingon boasting of his deeds during what was a contest to see who was the most awesome.... yeah.... might be true, might be tall tales.
My character Tsin'xing
You must online select "englisch" in the search engine...
Here a (german speaking) foundry search engine tutorial from me (OP is german, so it fit):
You misunderstood me: With the German client you can't play the English brandnew ones that are still in review-phase and need enough ratings to be fully published.
ah, now I get, what you mean
Yeah, this is as far I know not possible
My character Tsin'xing
I bet it would. But then I wouldn't be able to see the German ones unless I restart the game once again. I just would like to switch languages in the Foundry menu itself. It's possible for the fully published ones, so why not for those in review-phase?
Only in the "show all" aká top 50, not in the preview-tab
Mark meant the launcher of the game itself, you know, the thing that patches the game each Thursday?
My character Tsin'xing