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The Feds and their requests: KDF and Rom limp further and further back...
kiksken
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Although the Feds have far more vessels that both the KDF or the Roms, they keep asking for ships, or to make t6 versions of their older ones.
Several times in the past, it was said that the two other factions are behind, that both factions could have some attention, but this basically is ignored.
The Feds have I think as many as ships as both the KDF and Rom have together.
It's truly time the Feds will be ignored for a year or 5, so both other factions, if STO is willing, can begin a catch up period.
Which we surely need.
Several times in the past, it was said that the two other factions are behind, that both factions could have some attention, but this basically is ignored.
The Feds have I think as many as ships as both the KDF and Rom have together.
It's truly time the Feds will be ignored for a year or 5, so both other factions, if STO is willing, can begin a catch up period.
Which we surely need.
Klingons don't get drunk.
They just get less sober.
They just get less sober.
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D-70 Khin-Vagh class
They just get less sober.
Forget the idea that Klingons and Romulans will ever have as many ships as the Federation. Unless you can create a lot more Klingon and Romulan exclusive players that buy ships like crazy, it is not going to happen.
The best thnig you can hope for is that Cryptic stays on target with the cross faction packs and keeps the number of faction-specific out-of-band releases (like the Tier 6 Excelsior) to a minimum.
The sheer lack of everything makes them unwanted.
And let's be very honest: save for Picard the Federation consists of fools. :P
They just get less sober.
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If people started playing KDF (or Romulans) in droves after these content additions, I suspect there is not actually a bigger, hidden market to chase after - certainly not one that can be captured as easily as the Federation market.
The forums pretty much show this trend, too. You see all those requests for Novas, Lunas, [obscure Federation Ship shown in on e background] [obscure Federation kitbash] and what not are a much more common requests than for a Tier 6 Vo'Quv (long overdue, absolutely ridicilous that the faction that used to have Carriers as an exclusive perk still hasn't a Tier 6 C-Store option) or the Tier 6 Vor'Cha (a canonical Klingon ship!).
for Starfleet you had GCS, Excelsior, Miranda (and it's variants), Ambassador, Akira, Intrepid, Defiant, Promethius and Oberth that all appeared fairly regulary and there's also loads of 1-off ships for SF Crypic can draw from.
Most KDF or rom designs that aren't the above mentioned were things Crypic had to make from scratch or close enough, you can add the BoPs and Scimitar from Romulans as ships that were in canon from cap ship. I can think of only the raptor as a KDF design that was in canon and I've not mentioned yet.
That's major threshold to overcome, in essense UFP side has plenty of designs people like and want to see in the game so they can tolerate a new design they don't like if it means they use their favorite ship in end game, while new KDF or ROM designs are utterly untested or the 1000000000th copy or either the bird of prey or the double D.
Hello rubber banding my old friend, time to bounce around the battlezone again, where are all my bug reports going?, out of love with this game I am falling, As Cryptic fail to acknowledge a problem exists, Shakes an angry fist, And from Support all I'm hearing are the sounds of silence.
Well, that is the alternative. Forgoe the faction locking of ships. But there are people that don't like this (often people that still want to have more ships of their faction).
Maybe they could do also a lot if they had included human as race option the KDF and RR factions. (Well, for the Romulans, maybe elves would have sufficed.)
Alien can be almost any species.
Even elves.
Fact is, Cryptic has tried to boost the KDF faction in the past by giving them story missions starting from lvl 1 as well as their own tutorial and starter ships. And they have plenty of experience with how well new Klingon and Romulan ships are selling.
I doubt there will ever be another unique KDF ship that doesn't have its counterpart on the Fed side. That way they only have to create one starship trait and one new console.
Like it or not, but the feds are the largest part of the active players and thus the greatest source of income so they will not be ignored.
Added to that there is the fact that the KDF and Romulans have made a significant comeback with the recent all faction packs so anyone who states that the KDF and Romulans are falling behind is living in the past and needs a significant dose of reality pumped into him/her.
The OP has an unrealistic expectation that FED ship development be halted and KDF/ROM ship development concentrated on exclusively in order to achieve parity in number. The way things are going now with cross Faction ship 3/9 packs is the best we're going to get, I believe, and that's not bad, so I'll take it.
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I will try to keep my sarcasm to a bare minimum.
I'm certainly swimming in more KDF ships than I know what to do with....