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Which Race should be the next faction/mini faction

jorantomalakjorantomalak Member Posts: 7,133 Arc User
edited January 2017 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
If you could choose from the list given of species who could get their own faction which would you choose.

Which Race should be the next faction/mini faction 58 votes

Cardassians
46%
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Breen
5%
tremere12kinggainer#2787hammygoat#2375 3 votes
Deferi
0%
Talaxians
0%
Lukari
8%
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Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
39%
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  • jorantomalakjorantomalak Member Posts: 7,133 Arc User
    Lukari
    I went Lukari idk why i just like them, they seem like a very interesting species :)
  • garaks31garaks31 Member Posts: 2,845 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    ferengi man come on ..
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  • chastity1337chastity1337 Member Posts: 1,608 Arc User
    edited January 2017
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    I would say Mirror Universe would be the new faction that interests me the most. It would be relatively cheap for Cryptic in that they could use mostly re-skinned versions of existing models, and making the models seems to be the big expense for them. Obviously, they could have totally different stats.

    Yes, I understand the complication in the fact that we already have Mirror Universe versions of many ships, but that can be worked around and explained away with plot magic.

    If they were really clever about it, they could even do a Mirror AOY toon, given that the Mirror Universe concept was originally introduced in a very famous episode of STOS.
  • jtoney3448jtoney3448 Member Posts: 642 Arc User
    Cardassians
    chastity1337 wrote: »
    I would say Mirror Universe would be the new faction that interests me the most. It would be relatively cheap for Cryptic in that they could use mostly re-skinned versions of existing models, and making the models seems to be the big expense for them. Obviously, they could have totally different stats.

    Yes, I understand the complication in the fact that we already have Mirror Universe versions of many ships, but that can be worked around and explained away with plot magic.

    If they were really clever about it, they could even do a Mirror AOY toon, given that the Mirror Universe concept was originally introduced in a very famous episode of STOS.

    we are the mirror universe cause we dont act like the federation at all.
  • zerokillcf2011zerokillcf2011 Member Posts: 545 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    Other - Dominion Alliance, so you can roll the Breen, Cardassians, Vorta, and Jem'hadar into it and would have a decent selection of ships.

    That being said, since all the Breen ships are seasonal rewards and already in game, the Jem'hadar are lockbox or lobi, as are the Cardassians.....any faction that comes CAN'T include any of those races.

    Talaxians.......not enough story there to justify
    Deferi......the story they had has already been played out
    Lukari.......please, just no. They just got warp travel here........

    They could do a TOS themed faction somehow, with all the races that are in game now from past Star Trek as "baddies" that are now minor races: Gorn, Ferasian, Orion, First Federation sorta stuff. Make it a mini-faction for the Klingons?
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  • storulesstorules Member Posts: 3,284 Arc User
    Cardassians
    jorantomalak wrote: »
    If you could choose from the list given of species who could get their own faction which would you choose.

    Forgot to include Dominion...perhaps might be a mix of cardi/dominion?
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  • risian4risian4 Member Posts: 3,711 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    Voth, although I would also be happy with them being added as playable species to the existing factions.

    No more full factions should be added though. Mini-factions, that's about as much as I'd like to see. Each new full faction will only take away resources from the main faction(s) and in the end that will only be good for a small minority.
    Mini-factions can work if it's just a few episodes with something of an unique storyline and background, as well as new maps on, for example, the Voth homeworld/city ship. This wouldn't require continuous attention and devotion of resources, but it would still give us some nice extra stories and additional playable species.
  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,950 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    Borg Cooperative
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  • nimbullnimbull Member Posts: 1,564 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    None till the existing factions are leveled out.
    Green people don't have to be.... little.
  • mephizton2092mephizton2092 Member Posts: 110 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    Other: Q
    So with a fingersnap i get all stuff i want and all stuff is done without moving an inch :pensive:
    Want that lobi ship, snap.
    Some how i believe cryptic won't do this :open_mouth:
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  • tempus64tempus64 Member Posts: 806 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    None. The only "race" I can come up with that might make financial sense would be Borg as you could probably come up with some cool new gameplay mechanics. But even then I just don't see enough ship variety to really warrant it.
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  • rimmarierimmarie Member Posts: 418 Arc User
    edited January 2017
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    NONE
    they should add more playable races, but NO MORE factions
    then we would have another group complaining because they don't get as many ships as the Feds
  • cidjackcidjack Member Posts: 2,017 Arc User
    Cardassians
    @jorantomalak

    Congrats on the job at Cryptic and asking the playerbase to choose the next faction!
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  • feiqafeiqa Member Posts: 2,410 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    Agents of Tomorrow. Use all three factions on a single mission chain that results in them now stuck in the past. Each one picks up at the end of the tutorial like AoY did. Putting KDF seeing J'mpok, Fed getting sent to check our missing freighter. And Romulans picking a side.
    Comes with custom future uniform. And starter T1 ship. They themselves go on the joint missions with the intent of stabilizing temporal rifts that are making different captains all historically accomplishing the same tasks. (Thus explaining how everyone does what lies beneath etc.)
    For a bonus. Three of the starter missions. Introduce Jurlek to a federation spy. Convince Kadek to capture the break even. Suggest to Hakeev that Virinat has many colonists to recruit.

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    Network engineers are not ship designers.
    Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
  • vegeta50024vegeta50024 Member Posts: 2,336 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    tempus64 wrote: »
    None. The only "race" I can come up with that might make financial sense would be Borg as you could probably come up with some cool new gameplay mechanics. But even then I just don't see enough ship variety to really warrant it.

    Romulans didn't have quite the ship variety, yet we have all these different warbirds now.

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  • artan42artan42 Member Posts: 10,450 Bug Hunter
    It's be nice if we could get a second faction one of these days. Never mind any half-factions.​​
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    Norway and Yeager dammit... I still want my Typhoon and Jupiter though.
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  • feiqafeiqa Member Posts: 2,410 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    artan42 wrote: »
    It's be nice if we could get a second faction one of these days. Never mind any half-factions.​​

    Okay that's just crazy talk.
    =^_^=

    Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
    Network engineers are not ship designers.
    Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,162 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    Mirror Universe - Terran Empire would likely be the easiest ... all they would need to do is reskin the fed missions, dump in more shooting and boom done. Then a good reason for you to defect to the fed fools.
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    Thank you for the Typhoon!
  • arabaturarabatur Member Posts: 410 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    None. It'd would be a few short missions and then forced into either Fed of KDF.
    All this has happened before and will happen again.
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  • tousseautousseau Member Posts: 1,484 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    Aenar... afterall, who doesn't want to play a white skinned blind race, who has telepathic sight?
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  • boachevboachev Member Posts: 131 Arc User
    Cardassians
    The fact there's still no playable Cardassians... I really feel like that needs to be remedied. They're easily the most iconic and popular race in Trek that you can't play as right now. Like, I don't even need a Cardie faction, just the ability to roll one properly would be great.

    After that, I would still love to see the "Delta Alliance" as a minor faction someday. Hirogen, Kobali, Kazon, all of those zany Delta types... but I figure it's a long ways off. And besides, they've already crammed everything Hirogen into the game via the Lobi Store and lockboxes and I'm quite happy now with my Aliengen Hirogen captain and crew. Though if Cryptic wanted to let us access the HIROGEN BASE COMPLEXION I wouldn't complain. The Lissepian one is a nice stop-gap, but it's definitely the weak point in making a player Hirogen.

    With that said, I don't think we're too likely to see more fully separate factions like the KDF in STO, and if we do it'll be Dominion themed. Such a massive amount of the playerbase spends their time Fed side, most other full-factions would likely find themselves even less populated than the KDF. But more starting areas and mini-factions ala the Romulans and AOY? That I can both see and wouldn't mind. Sure, I would've LOVED a full RSE faction back in the day, but that ship sailed a long time ago. I've made peace with it and come to enjoy the Republic for what it is.


    Seriously though, after long reflection I've come to terms that there will probably never, ever be Cryptic designed player Hirogen. So... can I just have that base complexion? Pretty please? I'll bake cookies for everyone at Cryptic and totally not consider my "writhing mass of snakes" tactic.
  • smokebaileysmokebailey Member Posts: 4,668 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    Gorn or Tholians
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  • admiralnatadmiralnat Member Posts: 22,432 Arc User
    Cardassians
    Playable Cardassian mini-faction. I mean, think about it; there's a treaty saying the Cardassians aren't allowed to amass a large force of their own, but certain vessels might be excluded if they fall under the authority of the Federation or the Klingons...​​
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  • officerbatman81officerbatman81 Member Posts: 2,761 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    A species that has large ethereal floating heads in space and wields great magical power. There were a few in TNG.
  • thay8472thay8472 Member Posts: 6,162 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    What about a 'bad guy' faction that hasn't been lockboxed yet.

    uhmmm... hmmm... harder than I thought... the dudes who broke Janeways coffee cup? Fem dom-something.

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  • alcyoneserenealcyoneserene Member Posts: 2,414 Arc User
    Other : You choose a species that could be made into a faction.
    Romulan full faction.
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