Victory is Life fleets

richyrich1991

Do we have any info on how fleets will work for the Dominion, do they have their own or can they join FED & KDF fleets?

baddmoonrizin

There's no reason to believe that they won't be able to join established Fleets.

canis36

Have we had any word on whether or not we'll be allying with Feds or KDF at some point yet?

If so then it'll work exactly like the Romulans. If they haven't/if we won't be doing something like that we may finally be getting cross-faction fleets/armadas.

...like as not we're going to be choosing an ally faction from either Starfleet or the Klingon Defense Force

foxman00

We will find out, patience. They havent added the new faction to tribble yet, nor any of the details, so its going to take sometime before we can start nutting out exactly whats what

davefenestrator

99.99999% chance it will be just like Romulans. Once you pick your alliance you join a Fed or KDF fleet.

warpangel

Didn't they already say in some interview that jemmies choose between the factions like rommies do?

The other alternative is they get stuffed into Fed without question.

There's zero chance they add anymore full factions. If they were ever going to do anything about the two-faction system (which is itself extremely unlikely) it would be to make us all Fed for great $$$ since KDF is "unprofitable."

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fleetcaptain5

warpangel wrote: »

Didn't they already say in some interview that jemmies choose between the factions like rommies do?

The other alternative is they get stuffed into Fed without question.

There's zero chance they add anymore full factions. If they were ever going to do anything about the two-faction system (which is itself extremely unlikely) it would be to make us all Fed for great $$$ since KDF is "unprofitable."

They won't all be forced into joining Fed fleets. That's not possible, it was already confirmed that the KDF gets access to the new species.

r0m

sophlogimo wrote: »

I still have this vague hope that one day, factions will be abolished entirely, and only the various stories remain to distinguish the characters. Then you could use whatever ship you like with whatever character you like, you could go anywhere with any captain, and enjoy the game the way YOU see fit.

That's the most likely avenue in my opinion. With the Federation and KDF at peace, and the Alliance, it would work with the story anyway, right?

warpangel

r0m#7631 wrote: »

sophlogimo wrote: »

I still have this vague hope that one day, factions will be abolished entirely, and only the various stories remain to distinguish the characters. Then you could use whatever ship you like with whatever character you like, you could go anywhere with any captain, and enjoy the game the way YOU see fit.

That's the most likely avenue in my opinion. With the Federation and KDF at peace, and the Alliance, it would work with the story anyway, right?

It would be consistent with the story, yes. Also best for player customization and likely best for sales of all things non-Fed as well.

However, Cryptic hasn't done anything about it at all in all the years we've been allied. All the old restrictions are still in place.

richyrich1991

warpangel wrote: »

It would be consistent with the story, yes. Also best for player customization and likely best for sales of all things non-Fed as well.

However, Cryptic hasn't done anything about it at all in all the years we've been allied. All the old restrictions are still in place.

Not all of the restrictions are still there, they removed sector blocks a while back so you can fly anywhere now, just cant enter every system.

Would be nice to see that restriction listed too though

warpangel

richyrich1991 wrote: »

warpangel wrote: »

It would be consistent with the story, yes. Also best for player customization and likely best for sales of all things non-Fed as well.

However, Cryptic hasn't done anything about it at all in all the years we've been allied. All the old restrictions are still in place.

Not all of the restrictions are still there, they removed sector blocks a while back so you can fly anywhere now, just cant enter every system.

Would be nice to see that restriction listed too though

That wasn't so much a restriction as an unlock condition. You could fly anywhere before, just had to level diplomacy/marauder first (or for klingons use the Risa transwarp during the summer event to bypass the border ).

With the one-map quadrant layout, there was no place to put that unlockable loading screen. And you still can't enter any more systems.

canis36

warpangel wrote: »

r0m#7631 wrote: »

sophlogimo wrote: »

I still have this vague hope that one day, factions will be abolished entirely, and only the various stories remain to distinguish the characters. Then you could use whatever ship you like with whatever character you like, you could go anywhere with any captain, and enjoy the game the way YOU see fit.

That's the most likely avenue in my opinion. With the Federation and KDF at peace, and the Alliance, it would work with the story anyway, right?

It would be consistent with the story, yes. Also best for player customization and likely best for sales of all things non-Fed as well.

However, Cryptic hasn't done anything about it at all in all the years we've been allied. All the old restrictions are still in place.

I believe a developer once said they'd have to rebuild the game from the ground up to remove factions, something that they just don't have the time or money to do and that would take at least as much time as the conversion to F2P with no new content coming out.

I think they also mentioned that they were looking into the possibility of cross-faction armadas and fleets, but that it was low priority.