Really? Pages later and no one wants to refute my suggestion that it CANNOT happen because it would play havoc with their business and sales model? You people are no fun .
Legacy of ROmulus:Grand total population of 11%.
KDF: Grand total population DECREASE after Delta.
Agents of Yesterday: small increase in sales to an existing playerbase, net increase in negative population growth for KDF and Romulan factions, but no corresponding increase (or not enough to matter) in the playerbase it already services. (basically rearranged feds and increased alts that clog up ESD by a percentage.)
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Your numbers are probably wrong, of those 76% Feds will be probably at least half of the scam accounts that even I can't keep up on a daily to block. How else would you want to convince people, so they buy a new ships and equipment other than creating a new characters?
As the new mini-faction (fraction) I imagined The Cardassians with around 5 episodes only for them, additionally, the planet Cardassia, so the size of the Kobali prime, in urban style, where it would be several quests for all (A little more complicated than that: pick up 10 stones and kill/observe 5 monsters). There could be several missions in the style of destroy the conspiracy from the True way or Pah-wraith fanatics. They still want to remove the current democratic government lead by Natima Lang. Btw Mary Frances Crosby the actress of Natima.
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I've actually backed mine up with sources, far more frequently and accurately than you have.
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Where? Not trying to troll, actually even dislike the "source?" spammers for every statement made; but a big deal of what you (and others) stated in this thread did made me raise my brows few times and asking myself "Ex- or private account Cryptic employee? A source would be nice". Honest curiosity.
The only stats in your list, @patrickngo , that I wouldn't put much stock in are the Steam and ARC login stats. As there are plenty of players that choose to login directly with the launcher rather than use either of them, those numbers cannot be accurate.
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Really? Pages later and no one wants to refute my suggestion that it CANNOT happen because it would play havoc with their business and sales model? You people are no fun .
Would it? They could sell another bunch like the LoR one.
I dunno what faction id like. If they DO go with Cardy's id hope they include dominion sona from résurrection and the breen in the same subfaction. I could see the cardy story line being highly political and garrack can make a come back!
Ill be interested to see what effect the new series; Discovery has on the game. My dreams came true with AoY, and now with my t6 connie n epic fleet TOS phasers and the wrath of khan weapons im truly satiated.. I find myself starting to sign in less and less but ive always had eb and flow with STO. I still have yet to do a klingon character in 7 years! Savin that for a rainy day...
I think a Dominion storyline that culminates with showing up to bail out Earth from the Iconians would be interesting.
That said all these faction ships have been in lockboxes, except Borg Co-operative, which I'd be happy to take a pass at. Unless I can play a Liberated Gorn, then you are talking.
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TOS klingon will be good as subfaction, and most part of stuff is already done, but spoonheads're fine too if they join SF/KDF after their unique episodes rather them be allies like RR.
They need to turn the Klingons into something good before adding a new faction. The Klingons should become the enemy of the federation and the seasons should alternate between the two factions to show both perspectives. It would make things interesting especially if they incorporated some sort of PvE and PvP territory control.
I think a Dominion storyline that culminates with showing up to bail out Earth from the Iconians would be interesting.
That said all these faction ships have been in lockboxes, except Borg Co-operative, which I'd be happy to take a pass at. Unless I can play a Liberated Gorn, then you are talking.
I think Lib-borg has the greatest potential. The symmetrical ships are pretty much out for gameplay reasons (devs have stated that they don't want to give players ships without identifiable front/sides/back) but that makes for one hell of a creative opportunity (which would also help separate Cooperative from Borg and also FED/ROM/KDF).
Namely, borg ships more like what the drones in ENT were trying to put together: assemblages of tech that blend the original species with borg design. You could also go one step further with fusions of two separate species, plus borg. Think of a partially assimilated Vorcha with a nebula class defector integrated into the main hull.
Basically: indulge the hell out of the kit-bash. Make ships that have customization options from separate species, joined together with borg tech. This might also make it easier to attach the Borg Coop onto the current standard of "3 faction ships per c-store release" as the Coop option could take parts from those ships for one or more kit-bashed designs (with assimilated sections easing together various parts which otherwise would not fit together, essentially acting as spackle.) This isn't to say though that there can't be entirely Borg ships in the coop too, but there's a huge opportunity to do something else as well (to help flesh out their shipyard and also tell their story through their ship designs in a very immediate way.)
For that story: don't go with the Delta Quadrant (for obvious leveling problems). Start a new node of the cooperative on Vega (finally giving the FED tutorial some closure!) Species: Human/Klingon/Romulan/Alien would be the top priorities, Vulcan/Gorn/Reman I'd like to see too but Cryptic's made a point that adding species is not easy (because of the way STO's nuts and bolts are designed.) So, I'd settle for the first four (alien being an absolute must for the new faction).
Distinction from current liberated borg: in story it would be the fact that Coop officers have not officially rejoined Starfleet/the KDF/the Republic. They are officers of the cooperative, giving them some unique uniform options but also some added restrictions (ie. no T5/6 ships of the other factions, identical to the ROM's current setup.)
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That would require that the Cooperative somehow reach the Beta Quadrant long before the Iconian Gateway network becomes open.
Actually that's not necessary at all, the cooperative could connect to newly assimilated drones on Vega, help liberate them from inside the collective despite the physical separation. A new node for the Cooperative would thereby be created in the BQ, physically independent from the DQ but connected remotely through a unimatrix or such like (which would make for a great faction hub).
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Sounds like a "great" way for someone to play as LibBorg without having to purchase an LTS.
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The Cooperative has never been shown to have such an ability, and even if they did, that would mean the player would be cut off from any actual Cooperative NPCs/bases/ships etc. etc. until Delta Rising, which means your not really part of the Cooperative.
And Cryptic's good at adding things together (see. every recent arc, which in some way or another has departed from literal presentation and made connections. Ex. Elachi and Solonae being Iconian servitors, Krenim directly involved in the the origin of the temporal cold war and rise of the sphere builders.)
The challenge of the BQ cooperative would be to build ships/bases under threat from the Borg and traditional BQ foes (ex. pirates, Tal Shiar, Undine, Elachi) with only a communications link (ie. a Unimatrix hub) to the DQ and a tenuous relationship with FED/KDF/ROM (since the coop would not be part of them either). It's a difficult challenge but that's precisely what makes for compelling drama (with later pay-off.) They might be able to build their own ships, but (this is where my suggestion comes in) they'd also be forced to make use of recovered assimilated technology (ie. kitbashed FED/KDF/ROM hybrid vessels, joined together with borg tech.)
Sounds like a "great" way for someone to play as LibBorg without having to purchase an LTS.
And Cardie/Dominion sounds like a "great" way of letting someone play with lock box/lobi/promo ships without having to pay for them (there's no way around this, the most iconic vessels and greatest selling points are already available).
With Cooperative we have new ships/mechanics/plus a unique story (Cardassians are presently set up as Republic-lite and it's hard to imagine them becoming otherwise. Similar dynamics, less contrast), directly tied into pivotal STO events (best we can say now is that the Cardassians are uninvolved) which don't take away from the existing products/services (since LTS Lib-Borg would allow players to buy into a Borg officer who can use T5/T6 FED/KDF/ROM ships.)
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And Cardie/Dominion sounds like a "great" way of letting someone play with lock box/lobi/promo ships without having to pay for them (there's no way around this, the most iconic vessels and greatest selling points are already available).
With Cooperative we have new ships/mechanics/plus a unique story (Cardassians are presently set up as Republic-lite and it's hard to imagine them becoming otherwise. Similar dynamics, less contrast), directly tied into pivotal STO events (best we can say now is that the Cardassians are uninvolved) which don't take away from the existing products/services (since LTS Lib-Borg would allow players to buy into a Borg officer who can use T5/T6 FED/KDF/ROM ships.)
That be a incorrect assumption. You can get a Galor class lobi ship quite easily given enough grind time. I'd love to play as Cardassian if it came with a short mini episode backstory inspired by the show. I know you could probably pretend you are 'cardie' with the alien gen. But it isn't quite correct and I don't think you can replicate the snake neck and the pattern is missing on female alts. That and they are missing their military uniforms.
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I'd be content if they at least sold these uniforms though and accept not being able to play the faction.
But they could make more money doing a short 5 episode arc like they did with agents of yesterday.
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I think the record keeps skipping, IT IS THE SAME TOPIC EVERY MONTH.
Oh sure. Same topic every month. Well don't know where or how you reached that conclusion. The search shows that anything related to the community begging for new faction or cardie was over a year ago. So I hope you don't mind if I take your exaggerated cap locked statement with a grain of salt.
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Your numbers are probably wrong, of those 76% Feds will be probably at least half of the scam accounts that even I can't keep up on a daily to block. How else would you want to convince people, so they buy a new ships and equipment other than creating a new characters?
As the new mini-faction (fraction) I imagined The Cardassians with around 5 episodes only for them, additionally, the planet Cardassia, so the size of the Kobali prime, in urban style, where it would be several quests for all (A little more complicated than that: pick up 10 stones and kill/observe 5 monsters). There could be several missions in the style of destroy the conspiracy from the True way or Pah-wraith fanatics. They still want to remove the current democratic government lead by Natima Lang. Btw Mary Frances Crosby the actress of Natima.
Where? Not trying to troll, actually even dislike the "source?" spammers for every statement made; but a big deal of what you (and others) stated in this thread did made me raise my brows few times and asking myself "Ex- or private account Cryptic employee? A source would be nice". Honest curiosity.
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I could see the cardy story line being highly political and garrack can make a come back!
Ill be interested to see what effect the new series; Discovery has on the game.
My dreams came true with AoY, and now with my t6 connie n epic fleet TOS phasers and the wrath of khan weapons im truly satiated..
I find myself starting to sign in less and less but ive always had eb and flow with STO. I still have yet to do a klingon character in 7 years! Savin that for a rainy day...
That said all these faction ships have been in lockboxes, except Borg Co-operative, which I'd be happy to take a pass at. Unless I can play a Liberated Gorn, then you are talking.
It would make things interesting especially if they incorporated some sort of PvE and PvP territory control.
I think Lib-borg has the greatest potential. The symmetrical ships are pretty much out for gameplay reasons (devs have stated that they don't want to give players ships without identifiable front/sides/back) but that makes for one hell of a creative opportunity (which would also help separate Cooperative from Borg and also FED/ROM/KDF).
Namely, borg ships more like what the drones in ENT were trying to put together: assemblages of tech that blend the original species with borg design. You could also go one step further with fusions of two separate species, plus borg. Think of a partially assimilated Vorcha with a nebula class defector integrated into the main hull.
Basically: indulge the hell out of the kit-bash. Make ships that have customization options from separate species, joined together with borg tech. This might also make it easier to attach the Borg Coop onto the current standard of "3 faction ships per c-store release" as the Coop option could take parts from those ships for one or more kit-bashed designs (with assimilated sections easing together various parts which otherwise would not fit together, essentially acting as spackle.) This isn't to say though that there can't be entirely Borg ships in the coop too, but there's a huge opportunity to do something else as well (to help flesh out their shipyard and also tell their story through their ship designs in a very immediate way.)
For that story: don't go with the Delta Quadrant (for obvious leveling problems). Start a new node of the cooperative on Vega (finally giving the FED tutorial some closure!) Species: Human/Klingon/Romulan/Alien would be the top priorities, Vulcan/Gorn/Reman I'd like to see too but Cryptic's made a point that adding species is not easy (because of the way STO's nuts and bolts are designed.) So, I'd settle for the first four (alien being an absolute must for the new faction).
Distinction from current liberated borg: in story it would be the fact that Coop officers have not officially rejoined Starfleet/the KDF/the Republic. They are officers of the cooperative, giving them some unique uniform options but also some added restrictions (ie. no T5/6 ships of the other factions, identical to the ROM's current setup.)
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Actually that's not necessary at all, the cooperative could connect to newly assimilated drones on Vega, help liberate them from inside the collective despite the physical separation. A new node for the Cooperative would thereby be created in the BQ, physically independent from the DQ but connected remotely through a unimatrix or such like (which would make for a great faction hub).
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It's 2+2.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Unity
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Unimatrix_Zero
And Cryptic's good at adding things together (see. every recent arc, which in some way or another has departed from literal presentation and made connections. Ex. Elachi and Solonae being Iconian servitors, Krenim directly involved in the the origin of the temporal cold war and rise of the sphere builders.)
The challenge of the BQ cooperative would be to build ships/bases under threat from the Borg and traditional BQ foes (ex. pirates, Tal Shiar, Undine, Elachi) with only a communications link (ie. a Unimatrix hub) to the DQ and a tenuous relationship with FED/KDF/ROM (since the coop would not be part of them either). It's a difficult challenge but that's precisely what makes for compelling drama (with later pay-off.) They might be able to build their own ships, but (this is where my suggestion comes in) they'd also be forced to make use of recovered assimilated technology (ie. kitbashed FED/KDF/ROM hybrid vessels, joined together with borg tech.)
And Cardie/Dominion sounds like a "great" way of letting someone play with lock box/lobi/promo ships without having to pay for them (there's no way around this, the most iconic vessels and greatest selling points are already available).
With Cooperative we have new ships/mechanics/plus a unique story (Cardassians are presently set up as Republic-lite and it's hard to imagine them becoming otherwise. Similar dynamics, less contrast), directly tied into pivotal STO events (best we can say now is that the Cardassians are uninvolved) which don't take away from the existing products/services (since LTS Lib-Borg would allow players to buy into a Borg officer who can use T5/T6 FED/KDF/ROM ships.)
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That be a incorrect assumption. You can get a Galor class lobi ship quite easily given enough grind time. I'd love to play as Cardassian if it came with a short mini episode backstory inspired by the show. I know you could probably pretend you are 'cardie' with the alien gen. But it isn't quite correct and I don't think you can replicate the snake neck and the pattern is missing on female alts. That and they are missing their military uniforms.
vs
I'd be content if they at least sold these uniforms though and accept not being able to play the faction.
But they could make more money doing a short 5 episode arc like they did with agents of yesterday.
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I think the record keeps skipping, IT IS THE SAME TOPIC EVERY MONTH.
Oh sure. Same topic every month. Well don't know where or how you reached that conclusion. The search shows that anything related to the community begging for new faction or cardie was over a year ago. So I hope you don't mind if I take your exaggerated cap locked statement with a grain of salt.
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