I see why over 70% of the players are Federation.
I'm not very far yet in the Fed story, but it just feels like Fed side is the way the Devs intended you to play, and how the game was clearly designed. Klingon and Romulan feel kinda just tacked on top of it haphazardly.
the game just feels more complete overall as a Fed. the little things and details seems more fleshed out, with more love put into them, than the Romulan/Klingon sides.
the overwhelming focus on the Fed side compared to the others is fairly obvious. The Feds flat out have MORE of everything, and it is all better done, with more detail and care.
so outside of just really liking the way Warbirds look or just wanting to be Worf, why wouldn't you play Federation? you know?
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no, but I'm wondering why they even bothered making the other factions at all if they were gonna half-TRIBBLE it in comparison to the Federation.
especially since the Federation is the focus of ALL the TV shows and Movies, and the other faction were the focus of NONE of thw TV shows and movies.
But the results in terms of players and player purchases were apparently not enough to support creating more KDF-only content that would cost just as much to make as cross-faction episodes but would only be played by a small fraction.
So cross-faction is what we get now for new episodes. It's what the F2P model will support.
Again with the Romulans, they steal the Star Wars meta plot, turn everything RSE into two-dimensional cartoon ham villains, throw up this Republic garbage, and a single line of a few ships. On top of that they ram Tovan down your throat and force you to play his story. Then *shocked gasp* people didn't pay so much, and fewer played it. WOW I mean when you don't give Romulan fans what they want and only a handful of c-store options, who would guess they don't spend much and don't play much. Plus lets face it they just got bloody lazy with the Ha'nom and Ha'feh. But we end up with the same situation as the Klingons, they didn't make a ton of money and fewer played so less development, so they make less money and fewer play so less development.
They never really tried to give either faction a fair shot. They could have, but chose not to. They could even have developed both factions uniquely and still guided events to a shared point like we have now. But considering they cannot be bothered to even add faction flavor to the shared content, beyond the odd 'qa'plap' or 'jolan'tru' it's fairly safe to guess they just don't even want to try.
My first KDF alt was created back when it was a 1/2 faction and the reason I don't play that captain regularly is the same reason I don't play many of the other captains I've leveled. I have a main and there is little point in putting energy into an alt that could be focused instead on a main. I still log them and the Romulan in to do daily tasks and they have good T6 ships.
I guess my point is...if your main is a KDF or Romulan and you are lvl60, like my main...I really don't think overall play is any different for either of us....so I don't think the statement the OP led with in his title is entirely accurate.
Thats great, I don't bash them for having a rushed launch... But they have literally had YEARS to flesh out, develop, and improve things but have CHOSEN not to. The biggest expansion the KDF ever got was because some of the Developers came in FOR FREE and did things on THEIR OWN TIME because gecko and the powers that be WOULD NOT do it. Check your own argument before claiming mine is stupid
So frankly... its not the fault of the Devs at all. The source material just has so much to draw from for one faction over anything else. And they can't use materials that were used in other games, which means they have to do research into ship designs to make sure they aren't accidentially using something someone else used, like the Fek'ilhr class from Armada 2 or the Shrike from SFC3.
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And yeah the BS legalities of not being able to use assets from other games or things that look too close is an obnoxious hurdle for any established IP made into a game. But until someone attacks those archaic laws in court we're stuck there.
If the choice is a faction that absolutely must be on par with the Federation and no additional factions at all, I'll take what I can get instead of not having anything at all.
And what the hell are you smoking regarding the Iconian War???? That's so much BS as to not be worth responding to further.
Ok if we have everything the feds have, where's my T6 Carrier in the cash shop? For either klink or Rom. Wheres my t6 Sci ship for either? Thats just two big examples.
I'm just starting on PS4 and I admittedly have not gotten very far in either story (level 18 in Romulan, just starting out on Fed).
I'm just expressing the impressions I get from the tutorials and early game. it just feels to me like the Feds got waaay more attention to detail.
i'm not arguing whether it is actually justified or right or wrong, just making an observation as a new-ish player.
can I haz ur stuffs?
but...I don't?
I think you'll find the Romulan arc quite fulfilling by the time you end it, I still enjoy it more than the new(current) Federation early arc.
I was replying to the non-stop venom in kodachikuno's posts not to you.
I'm arguing on a specific point, not the whole of STO, but nice try.
Meme doesn't mean what you seem to think it does btw.
Klingons were originally the only ones with Carriers and thus should have gotten it first, if not been the ONLY faction with it, much like other things the Feds have recently gotten that used to be part of what little faction differential we had.
But I see the core issue here... you're an idiot and not worth responding to at all. So bye, done with you.
That is the best and biggest update my fav KDF toons can possibly hope for -so I can play them with my friends who prefer Fed aesthetics. Also some costume love- tho the recent stuff was nice... especially the shoulder pad fixes.
I believe you was around at the early start of the game as well, in which we had to PvP up to level 20 or so with the KDF. It was fun, but I'm not sure such a thing would be viable now even at low level. (Please note , I am not making a statement about the current form of PvP, but just reminiscing. )
PvP can be decent. The last decent duel I had in Ker'rat was actually against someone who wasn't built for PvP. It was cruiser on cruiser, and it was less about sheer damage and more about abilities and timing of said abilities. I actually had fun.
I don't find being on the recieving end of a vape build fun.
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first of all, if anyone remember when STO first launched, everyone had to play feds until 10th level to unlock playable klingon captians.
many actors/actoress dont like putting the make-ups or use silicon foams, years later they became toxic to skins, remember Virgina Hey? she played blue skin alien in Farscape series, she was fine until 2-3 years later, her skin get infected, forcing her to quit.
Zeldina Zoe as new Uhara for rebooted/alternate star trek, she said when she played in other movie as Gomora for Gaurdians of Galaxy, she really hated those green body paint, she tried scrub it off in shower, took longer than she expected, and when she woke up, bed sheet was covered in green stains, and her little dog got some stains, she is not stranger with body dyes, she also played in Avatar.
even Van Damme, he known for split-leg stunts, played as french legionnare and "Cyborgs", once dress as Predator, the alien trophy hunter, he complained about the suit he wearing, he wasnt a big star yet, at that time, he got fired half-way and replaced in middle of filming.
ok, back to game topic, it is easier for dev team with human artframe for online games, making other faction alien races take more time and involving different "skeletonal frameworks", working on human frame save them lot of time, since it is universal frame for most online games, and working on non-human take more time, and often they get some uniforms or armors clipped or other bugs.
You have got to be kidding me.