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What species is left that can be a faction?
jorantomalak
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Hate to say this but at this junction, the only species that can be made a faction would be the borg, unless cryptic in their infinite incompetence starts putting borg ships in boxes (Truth be told i expect that soon).
Cryptic is pretty much showing us they are not interested, in doing an expansion on the level of LoR ever again sad really, and with the console version being developed and worked on , what resources could they put into a new faction, tbh im starting to wonder how long the game has left , im only seeing money grab after money grab but nothing as far as real gorwth, even the console version is just a way to grab a new source of money.
Sure its a business as the white knights and cryptic fanbois would tout , but with newer and better games coming out and on the horizon, how long can this game compete with such titles like "No mans sky" and what not, sooner or later everyone will need to face facts that STO is not in a good place, and cryptic needs to relise whether you have the players or not ,new factions keep players already in game interested and will attract new players if for anything else so they can play their favorite race.
Cryptic is pretty much showing us they are not interested, in doing an expansion on the level of LoR ever again sad really, and with the console version being developed and worked on , what resources could they put into a new faction, tbh im starting to wonder how long the game has left , im only seeing money grab after money grab but nothing as far as real gorwth, even the console version is just a way to grab a new source of money.
Sure its a business as the white knights and cryptic fanbois would tout , but with newer and better games coming out and on the horizon, how long can this game compete with such titles like "No mans sky" and what not, sooner or later everyone will need to face facts that STO is not in a good place, and cryptic needs to relise whether you have the players or not ,new factions keep players already in game interested and will attract new players if for anything else so they can play their favorite race.
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I think a 4th faction will just drain resources away from other aspects of the game especially since it takes resources to develop and test ships. Sales of ships may not even recoup the cost to develop and test them. Time and money are resources that are better spent elsewhere to improve the game for everyone rather than a possible small minority interest in a 4th faction.
Quite easily. You apparently haven't been paying attention to how badly that one fizzled post-launch
Yeah, I think two days after it's release it received a new unofficial name of "No Man's Lie".
If anything we somehow need the Romulan faction to be expanded to stand entirely on its own.
The Classic Big 3 have always been the Federation, Klingons and Romulans.
Though i would much rather see these be a semi-faction that either you can have as your main faction ala fed/Kdf, or as a faction we as players can opt to join with a current existing captain. This way you can have different points of view of many different missions via you joining different factions, but also that all such content is available to all players (maybe have the truly high end ships an gear for that faction locked behind being a full-member of the faction).
To me this is how factions should be honestly in that you start factionless maybe in one of the faction's areas, but than you can elect to join one of the factions thru game-play as you move thru the universe, but can elect to shift your alliance between different factions as well. This would make all of the content playable an usable by the playerbase, and that players might actually feel more faction pride then they even do now.
Romulan standalone will never happen as the game is coded to be a two faction game for pvp concerns (listens to the howls of laughter at the mention of pvp in this game).
There's pvp in this game?
Cryptic should have made more than enough money from it's playerbase by now to employ enough intelligent people to rewrite their launch code a little to enable a proper third faction, and that faction should be the Republic. Cardassian characters (and bridge officers) should be added to the c-store (or lobi store if necessary), and the Borg should remain isolated from being playable, though wih CBS's eventual grant of a T6 Constitution, I wouldn't put playable Borg completely out of reach.
If Cryptic ever felt the need to release another full faction (excluding Republic here) then they should get really creative and create something from scratch; flesh them out, give them a purpose, a fleet, and a reason for players to be interested in playing them rather than the Federation; such may even attract more players who don't want a Trek experience, but would like a space experience.
Failing that, just expand the current three with more stories. (Maybe a Cardassian Arc? That has Cardassian themed missions)
Romulans are attached to either/or but still can't play as their own "faction".
That said, they need to sort out the mess they've already created before they introduce more "factions" into the game.
Being critical doesn't take skill. Being constructively critical- which is providing alternative solutions or suggestions to a demonstrated problem, however, does.
If you're playing as a FED, you should be primarily suited to say, SCI & ENG, if you're KDF, you should be suited to TAC & ENG, and if Republic, maybe TAC & SCI? Break them up a bit, maybe develop unique and specific abilities or skills for each faction? Klingons could have (alongside Tactical, Pilot etc) a Warrior themed ability set, the Federation could have a Diplomacy themed set of abilities or something?
There's so much they could have done, though I fear most of that is too late by now. Instead we've got the KDF which are a lesser played carbon copy of the FED, and then the Republic are even less than that! So much wasted potential.
The first thing that needs to happen is to add a security officer to New Romulus so that prisoners and contraband can be offloaded- if there actually is one I've certainly never seen him/her.
Voth.
Doesn't necessarily have to be a full faction, something like AoY could work too: just a handful of missions that explain your arrival in the Alliance, and then you're just another playable species within that alliance.
I think that would be the best way to add new 'factions': just as playable species, preferably with some premium variant that has an unique active ability trait, with a couple of unique episodes and maybe a small unique social zone. Full factions should not be added anymore imo. It's just not possible to properly maintain them and we end up being part of the same Alliance anyway so I don't see the need for true unique factions.
If we're going down that route, let's include the Mirak Star League and the Interstellar Concordium.
Just let me get a proper cardassian character model and uniforms.i can take care of the ships.
Emersion already tanked with all my Roms having to be aligned
Cardassians and Jem'Haddar could be together in one faction - either "old" dominion or new way
Ferengi are part of Federation - some Ferengi ships could be added though
Borg should be a different faction
all those can/could be done in Romulan Fashion ie: join with either Fed or KDF as allied if cryptic doesn'T want to get rid of the faction System.
And I guess that covers the big species.
KDF: 2 tacs, 2 engs, 3 scis
KDF Roms: 3 tacs, 1 eng, 1 scis
FED: 2 tacs, 1 eng, 2 scis
TOS: 1 tac
all on T5 rep (up to temporal)
all have mastered Intel tree (and some more specs Points)
highest DPS: 60.982