So it's been at least a year since I last played, I came back to find out that I'm pretty much completely lost on my high level characters (and they raised the "level cap" even further so I'm way behind). I toyed around with a 23rd century character to try the new storyline and didnt really enjoy it, especially given the lack of species choices for my captain. When I left STO, I had maxxed level/equipment for a fed engineer, fed tactical, KDF engineer, and Romulan-Fed Science captain.
I decided to try the romulan thing again, this time going with engineer (my favorite class) but I think this time I want to try aligning with the KDF. Now, last time I played, I remember being able to do federation missions and such with my romulan, but as far as I could remember I never had access to federation bridge officers or starships. Apparently that has changed (or I'm remembering it wrong and just never explored that avenue). So, a few questions here:
1. Am I correct that a KDF-aligned romulan captain will be able to recruit all the standard KDF bridge officers?
2. Does that extend to special c-store bridge officers, such as the klingon-borg boff or the ferasan boff?
3. I've heard that I will be able to use any KDF ships up to tier 4 - does that include cstore ships?
4. Do I get access to any of the KDF costume/uniform options for my romulan/reman characters?
5. I seem to recall my fed-romulan having some kind of federation-inspired (but romulan designed) uniform options, though I could be off base on that. Is there something like that for KDF romulans, a mixture of romulan-klingon design?
6. Any advice for a KDF rommie?
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2) As far as I know not
3) It does include C-Store ships
4) No, Rom costumes only (a serious drawback, they kind of suck)
5) There are different Rom designs depending on the faction you align with, dunno exactly how large the difference is.
6) Enjoy yourself
3 - yes, and that includes c-store ships.
4 - i don't think so.
5 - yes there is special Romulan Republic KDF allied uniform.
6 - depends what you want, both Romulans and KDF have less Sci ships than Feds, but there are some cross-faction Sci ships there (also you can fly any ship with any carier toon, you do not need to be Sci to fly Sci ships, Tac to Escorts, or Eng for Cruisers).
I personally am F2P so, i do not have much Lobi/Zen to spare, so most of my gear is from mission/reputation rising etc...
Carier track wise - i think Romulan Republic do best at Tactical, and they have somewhat better (i think) tactical ships than other factions (and they have nice flagships here: Scimitar and T6 versions)
Races:
- Romulan have bonus plasma damage ground trait (perfect with the gear from mission "Uneasy Allies")
- Remans - unlocked with rising New Romulus Reputation to T5 on any toon on accunt - have "vampiric" drain health ground trait/power
- Alien - just generic alien with many traits avaiable - nothing special here (just more traits possible than others)
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ad 3 - just take note that frebie tokens from leveling your toon will not work on KDF ships (at least they not worked for me)
Issue 1: You will get - apart from what saber mentioned in the meantime - also the normal "evaluate XX YY officer" doff missions from your faction
1. Except for ones that come from KDF-exclusive story missions, yes.
2. Yes.
3. Yes.
4. My Alien KDFRom got a piece or two. So not really.
5. There are KDFRom-specific versions of the Republic uniform. I'm not qualified to judge their Klingonness. Looks kinda like a more leathery version of the standard uniform. Depends on how you color them, I guess. No fur, spikes and plate armor if that's what you're expecting.
6. Nothing special.