My Main Character is [ ] faction because of [ ]

isthisscience

Just curious. A lot of people talk of facts on other people's opinions. I'm curious what the reality is. I did phrase this as "first" character but I think main is more accurate as to what we put the most effort into. If you don't consider you have a main, pick your "first".

Whereby I define roleplay as you just want that faction for story/cosmetic/RP etc. and gameplay for advantage in stats/ships/traits etc.

rattler2

Federation, for gameplay reasons

Female Trill back when I started with 0 Zen. Also... I wanted a Sovy.
Now look at me! I got what I consider "Faction Mains" and a few alts.

markhawkman

Federation, for gameplay reasons

When I got the game I heard you could play as Orions, so I started there, but this was back when you had to level a Fed to 8 to unlock KDF play. So I started with a fake Orion who was a Fed Alien.

voyagerfan9751

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I went with the last one.

To me Star Trek was always more about the Federation (well humanity really, but whatever) then any other faction. That is what the TV series was really about, and that is what I come into STO for.

So I started as a Fed. Eventually I think I made a Klingon too, because I do like the whole idea of it. Now I have 20 characters total (not counting the dil farmers) 3 are KDF, 2 are Romulan republic, the rest are all Fed. Though in fairness, 4 of those Feds are Cardassian/Dominion characters using the alien creator.

taylor1701d

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I went with Feds right away because the shows are based on them.
There were a few exceptions, like when Riker served aboard a Klingon vessel, or Worfs trials on Qo'nos. But primarily, Trek is about us, humanity. Faults and all.

Its not that I didn't like the kdf side, I wanted to play one. I just prioritized the Federation, because they are the focus of Trek.

I later went on to make 5 Kdf alts.
2 of which are Rom/Kdf.
I like them every bit as much as my Feds. (Even though Roms are OP).

My first character was a Vulcan Sci. Fed

jaguarskx

This poll lacks the options to express my nuanced opinion

My first character is with the Federation faction because I wanted to create a human character.

I have a total of 9 captains on my account. I break them up into primary, secondary and tertiary captains. I play all three factions in STO because I wanted to experience story missions that were unique to each faction. Sadly, with story missions starting with the Cardassian Struggle story arc there are no more unique faction story missions.

I created all three primary captains within 3 months. My captains are categorized as follows. I devote equal time to Primary and Secondary captains the only difference between is a 4 month pause between creating the last primary captain and the first secondary captain. All these captains were created in 2014. All tertiary captains were created in 2015 while I do not play these captain very time I log into STO, I still play them very often.


Primary - Fed Engineer, KDF Tactical, Romulan Scientist
Secondary - Fed Scientist, KDF Engineer, Romulan Tactical
Tertiary - Fed Tactical, KDF Scientist, KDF Tactical (Delta Recruit)

gradii

This poll lacks the options to express my nuanced opinion

I have a "Main" for each faction.

taylor1701d

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Why not just put "Other" ?
"This poll lacks the options to express my nuanced opinion" Sounds rather cheeky don't you think ?

seriousdave

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My first & oldest fed engineer simply because back then making a klingon right of the bat wasn't an option.

gaevsprivsman

Federation, for gameplay reasons

I like Federation Starships, and just some Klingon ones.. Also like Romulan ships, so i have 3 mains of each faction..

sirmayday

Federation, for roleplay reasons

Roleplay reasons in a broad sense, at least. I identify more with Federation characters, and prefer Federation asthetics to those of their contemporaries.

catsmeat

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I play my main Fed side only due to the fact my friends all play Fed side and cross faction teaming is not well supported in the game.

If cross faction teaming was a reality I'd be playing my KDF clone of my current main so I could Maraud rather than be Diplomatic on DOFF missions.

Cheers

storules

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isthisscience wrote: »

Just curious. A lot of people talk of facts on other people's opinions. I'm curious what the reality is. I did phrase this as "first" character but I think main is more accurate as to what we put the most effort into. If you don't consider you have a main, pick your "first".

Whereby I define roleplay as you just want that faction for story/cosmetic/RP etc. and gameplay for advantage in stats/ships/traits etc.

Wow...OTHER wins a big time. Sorry OP ​​

markhawkman

Federation, for gameplay reasons

sirmayday wrote: »

Roleplay reasons in a broad sense, at least. I identify more with Federation characters, and prefer Federation asthetics to those of their contemporaries.

yeah, Klingon aesthetics make me think "smelly barbarians" constantly...

timonicus

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Federation because I had to start and level a fed before I could start as a kdf, given the opportunity now, I would go kdf or rommy

sernonserculion

Romulan Republic, for roleplay reasons

I see this as the C-RPG ( Computer Role Playing Game ) it is labeled to be, so the divination of the spheres seems fairly adequate to me. Romulan Republic for RP reasons. Technically a Romulan-Federation underling though, specifically for the green uniform elements. No doubt a limitation that can be blamed on the game, and not the poll, if there should be fairness to the world. I can see that is not the case, by popular demand.

kodachikuno

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Romulan, because at the launch of LoR I was unaware they had goatf**ked my favorite faction and turned it into D'Twerp and his merry men.
Prior to LoR my main was my Gorn. Right now I have 4 Republic alts, all 60, 2 KDF both 60, and 2 Fed one 60 one 57. Neither of those feds are my original characters as I deleted those as soon as I unlocked KDF play :P

dareau

Federation, for gameplay reasons

For SCIENCE.

Pretty much. My "Science class" roster consists of a Male Vulcan "first born", Male Joined Trill "main-main", Female Joined Trill Delta Recruit, KDF Orion, Delta Recruit Gorn, and Rom (Fedside to support my personal fleet).

My Rom-Fed Sci's playing the "EBC Science Tosser out of a T'Varo", my Orion lives in the big C-store DSD (which I don't like flying on anyone else because part and parcel of the fun of alts is to have them in different ship types, I wish a line of KDF science ships that "base off" the Vesta would be dropped...) meaning my Gorn's gonna wind up "homeless", rather not have double-DSD in KDF, nor am I a big fan of getting the EBC BoP to "cut into" my Rommie, and my Feds dice around between Vestas, Pathfinders, or my main and his Recluse...

kyle223cat

Federation, for gameplay reasons

I like Federation starships and I like the Federation. The starship traits that come with Starfleet ships are a bonus as well.

bergins

Fed/Human/Engi

I wanted to be me. That means human. I, for a time, studied Engineering in college. That's really how I chose, I guess that means Role Play.

kiralyn

This poll lacks the options to express my nuanced opinion

As others have said, Federation because that's what the several TV series & movies I watched were about. (I've since made several characters in each faction, because I do that with MMOs. But the majority are Fed.)

bernatk

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Yay, we won.

farmallm

I first started playing you had to Lv a Fed until you unlocked the KDF side. Then the KDF had hardly any missions. So you had to grind it out per level. Later I added the Romulan once LOR came out.

I do "Faction Mains". I got a Fed, KDF and Romulan now. The others are alts I don't play often.

seaofsorrows

Federation, for gameplay reasons

I just wanted to play a Federation Captain, so that is what I made.

At the time, I didn't know much about the game, I just wanted to be a fed. Maybe I picked the wrong option, I could say that both options 1 and 2 are applicable to me.

alphahydri

Federation, for roleplay reasons

If they would just make it so every non-Romulan BOff had the ability to get the Operative trait that all classes and characters now have access to, I'd be happy. As it is, though my main is a Fed for RP reasons, I have a lot more gameplay fun and success with my Romulan, and it's all because of those BOff traits.

I mean, whose idea was it to give Romulans and Romulans alone the ability to get BOffs that have an incredibly powerful space trait that stacks with itself? For Feds and KDF, BOffs are utterly devoid of any space traits that can compare. Though Klingons can get Nausicaans with Pirate and Letheans with Efficient, Feds can only get Saurians with Efficient. Pirate is a fairly good space trait, but in no way does it compare with Superior Romulan Operative. Efficient would actually be more worthwhile on Romulans due to the lower power generation on their Singularity Cores. Feds and KDF don't really need Efficient, as their Warp Cores generate more power and, at least for me, my builds allow me to maintain 65+ power in all subsystems while having weapon power (or aux power, if Science) maxed out.

Considering that BOff abilities and setups are at the core of any space build, it would make a lot more sense if they actually had more access to more effective space traits. Yes, I know there are those Embassy BOffs, but only a few of them have Romulan Operative, only one has the superior version, and they're all Romulan, which don't really fit with my Starfleet crew. Please Cryptic, make some of the new space traits available to all BOffs of all races!

gradii

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markhawkman wrote: »

sirmayday wrote: »

Roleplay reasons in a broad sense, at least. I identify more with Federation characters, and prefer Federation asthetics to those of their contemporaries.

yeah, Klingon aesthetics make me think "smelly barbarians" constantly...

Nonsense, THIS IS SPARTAAAA!

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angrytarg

My first character after whom I even named my Atari/Cryptic account back then is Fed because everybody had to play Fed to unlock a Klingon character down the road. But I wanted to play a Klingon from the start.

But I never deleted those characters and today I have three or four I play equally, as in when I'm statisfied with the progress on one I switch to the next.​​

salazarraze

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I started playing as a Federation character because like others have said, the shows/films have always been Federation focused. Over time, I have focused on many alts that have for a time been considered equal to my "main" Federation tactical human character. I always give my main all the goodies and shinies, but I always have a "main" alt that gets the same goodies along the way.

gradii

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crashdragon wrote: »

He a GORN!!! Why else would I have him?

So quit asking..........pushy Hewman....

I think you mean Hyew-Mon