Popular Species,

paradox

What species do you think are the most played by our fellow players?

I personally would put Vulcans and Romulans as very popular among their respected player factions

Vulcans are because of great characters like Spock, Tuvok, T'Pol and T'Lyn

Romulans were a species that were descended from Vulcans and were basically their evil cousins, plus it was a rare to see an off-shoot species, also for F2P players it was either Romulans or Aliens, (both Remans and Lib-Borg Romulans had to be unlocked)

protoneous

#1 Klingon - excellent ground stats (space is just something that's done to pass time while waiting to play ground)

#2 Romulan - cheap SRO's for all bridge officer stations

#3 Vanguard Jem'hadar - excellent performance due to the Vanguard trait

#4 Gorn - everybody secretly wants to play one even if they say they don't. An unmentioned STO gem. You're gorna love it

ikonn

* Romulan Aliens - 10 Trait Slots for your character plus being able to have Superior Romulan Operative Trait bridge crew Boffs right out of the gate.

* Klingons "Discovery" - Seen a lot of people playing these... especially females.

* Orion "Female" - Eye candy... and they're Green(ish)!

spiritborn

I think Alien Gen of various forms seem rather popular as is the plain old boring humans. Alien gen for the customization options and humans because we we aren't as inventive as we want to believe we are.

vetteguy904

I tend to play joined Trill, Orion, and Romulan. I did have gorn, just because I wanted to use the name Snake Plisken. If we ever get a mercenary/fenris ranger sort of option, Snake will return in Human form

missmel

KDF if you're not playing Klingon you're playing an Orion. Mine is 7f tall and looks like she can fight a Klingon and actually wear clothes weird I know. I've got a Cardassisan too

Romulan. I don't think Reman is very common at all. My main character is a Reman and I always seem to get people stopping for the WTF was that moment.

Fed. I've just started a Jointed Trill who is from the "Mirror universe" for the Delta event

While I do have a Dominion character I don't play it as there is no option to match my gender this is the primary reason why i'd like their to be an option to play a Vorta

fleetcaptain5

Humans
Aliens
Romulans
Vulcans
Liberated Borg

After that it gets less clear, but a few species I think should follow at some distance:

Caitians, Andorians, Jem'Hadar and Klingons


Then there's a few you'll encounter only once in a while:

Ferengi, Talaxian, Cardassian, Tellarite

And then there are a few that I've seen maybe a few times in 11 years or so:

Rigelian, Saurian, Bolian and Benzite.

fleetcaptain5

In fact, I think that (in total!) I've seen fewer than 3 player characters of each of those last four species.

For most of them I think it's not surprising, there isn't that much content to base a player character of these species on. I would expect more Rigellians though, as memory beta indicates there's actually quite a lot of content dedicated to them.

I'm partly to blame myself though, I don't have characters of these species. But they do (with the exception of the Benzites of course) make up a significant part of my overall Boff pool.

paradox

fleetcaptain5#1134 wrote: »

In fact, I think that (in total!) I've seen fewer than 3 player characters of each of those last four species.

For most of them I think it's not surprising, there isn't that much content to base a player character of these species on. I would expect more Rigellians though, as memory beta indicates there's actually quite a lot of content dedicated to them.

I'm partly to blame myself though, I don't have characters of these species. But they do (with the exception of the Benzites of course) make up a significant part of my overall Boff pool.

I think Rigellians would be more popular if they looked more like the one from Lower Decks, you know the cool looking one with their purple skin, black sclera and yellow iris, only showed up in one episode.

baddmoonrizin

fleetcaptain5#1134 wrote: »

In fact, I think that (in total!) I've seen fewer than 3 player characters of each of those last four species.

I have at least one toon for each playable species in the game. 😁 <--(altoholic)

questerius

protoneous wrote: »

#1 Klingon - excellent ground stats (space is just something that's done to pass time while waiting to play ground)

#2 Romulan - cheap SRO's for all bridge officer stations

#3 Vanguard Jem'hadar - excellent performance due to the Vanguard trait

#4 Gorn - everybody secretly wants to play one even if they say they don't. An unmentioned STO gem. You're gorna love it

Come to think of it, i never got around to making those two Gorn characters. One normal and one TOS

echatty

Lte's see...I have (not in order of creation):

Human, JT, Trill, LB, Caitian, Ferasan, Klingon, Orion, Alien Tellarite and Ferengi.

Some of those I have several of. Mostly human, I have two different custom Alien species, Female and male Catians, female and male Orions, female and male humans, etc.

My latest two Klingon DRs are Ferasan and Orion Female. My Orion Male is Klingon Recruit. I remade the Ferasan I had to make him a DR cause I just wasn't 'feeling' him. I'm 'feeling' this Ferasan much better. And I like my new Orion Female, though I intend for her to wear more clothing than I've seen most females running around in. Nothing more revealing than maybe a miniskirt or shorts, not the barely=there bikini.

lianthelia

I used to play a lot of alts, but these days it's hard to do the same thing over and over again...so I focus on one of each class, joined trill engineer, cardassian scientist, and liberated tactical

vetteguy904

fleetcaptain5#1134 wrote: »

Humans
Aliens
Romulans
Vulcans
Liberated Borg

After that it gets less clear, but a few species I think should follow at some distance:

Caitians, Andorians, Jem'Hadar and Klingons


Then there's a few you'll encounter only once in a while:

Ferengi, Talaxian, Cardassian, Tellarite

And then there are a few that I've seen maybe a few times in 11 years or so:

Rigelian, Saurian, Bolian and Benzite.

ok, now you got me thinking about the Blue Man Group

phoenixc

It depends on exactly where you look, but overall the most numerous type seem to be custom aliens rather than any of the standard ones. A close second seems to be Orions (mainly females) though some of them use the palest, least green shades and may be meant to be humans or whatever who can use skimpy clothing rather than actual Orions.

Next comes a big bunch composed of Humans, Vulcans, and the other very human looking species, along with Klingons and Andorians. Slightly but noticeably behind that is Jem'Hadar (probably because they have attributes of interest to the pure roll-players (not role-players, for whom the one-trick-pony species is pretty useless) including the Gamma recruit stuff that is valuable to other characters on the account) even though a lot of people have no interest in the species itself according to what is said in chat and in this forum.

In last place are the least humanlike species who do not benefit from all of the support that the Jem'Hadar have from the devs, and also some of the more obscure species from the shows and ones that are difficult to do using the 'Alien' tab or simply cannot be done in the proper faction (such as the Vorta) which take a lot of thought and kludging to pull off and so are most likely mainly done by completionists, especially-enthusiastic Space Barbie aficionados, and other relatively niche player types.

fleetcaptain5

vetteguy904 wrote: »

fleetcaptain5#1134 wrote: »

Humans
Aliens
Romulans
Vulcans
Liberated Borg

After that it gets less clear, but a few species I think should follow at some distance:

Caitians, Andorians, Jem'Hadar and Klingons


Then there's a few you'll encounter only once in a while:

Ferengi, Talaxian, Cardassian, Tellarite

And then there are a few that I've seen maybe a few times in 11 years or so:

Rigelian, Saurian, Bolian and Benzite.

ok, now you got me thinking about the Blue Man Group

I don't know the Blue Man Group very well apart from that they're blue men - but I have to admit that I'm slightly disappointed to never have seen a Klingon character based on Ronnie James Dio, Robby Steinhardt or Klaus Meine.

fleetcaptain5

phoenixc#0738 wrote: »

It depends on exactly where you look, but overall the most numerous type seem to be custom aliens rather than any of the standard ones. A close second seems to be Orions (mainly females) though some of them use the palest, least green shades and may be meant to be humans or whatever who can use skimpy clothing rather than actual Orions.

Next comes a big bunch composed of Humans, Vulcans, and the other very human looking species, along with Klingons and Andorians. Slightly but noticeably behind that is Jem'Hadar (probably because they have attributes of interest to the pure roll-players (not role-players, for whom the one-trick-pony species is pretty useless) including the Gamma recruit stuff that is valuable to other characters on the account) even though a lot of people have no interest in the species itself according to what is said in chat and in this forum.

In last place are the least humanlike species who do not benefit from all of the support that the Jem'Hadar have from the devs, and also some of the more obscure species from the shows and ones that are difficult to do using the 'Alien' tab or simply cannot be done in the proper faction (such as the Vorta) which take a lot of thought and kludging to pull off and so are most likely mainly done by completionists, especially-enthusiastic Space Barbie aficionados, and other relatively niche player types.

Just want to say: I too only created a Jem'Hadar because of the account-wide unlocks that come with the recruitment event.

The species and the faction itself aren't really interesting to me. Not least because everything is so pink with them.

The very elongated Jem'Hadar carrier looks nice though, but that's really the only interesting ship too if you ask me.

phoenixc

fleetcaptain5#1134 wrote: »

phoenixc#0738 wrote: »

It depends on exactly where you look, but overall the most numerous type seem to be custom aliens rather than any of the standard ones. A close second seems to be Orions (mainly females) though some of them use the palest, least green shades and may be meant to be humans or whatever who can use skimpy clothing rather than actual Orions.

Next comes a big bunch composed of Humans, Vulcans, and the other very human looking species, along with Klingons and Andorians. Slightly but noticeably behind that is Jem'Hadar (probably because they have attributes of interest to the pure roll-players (not role-players, for whom the one-trick-pony species is pretty useless) including the Gamma recruit stuff that is valuable to other characters on the account) even though a lot of people have no interest in the species itself according to what is said in chat and in this forum.

In last place are the least humanlike species who do not benefit from all of the support that the Jem'Hadar have from the devs, and also some of the more obscure species from the shows and ones that are difficult to do using the 'Alien' tab or simply cannot be done in the proper faction (such as the Vorta) which take a lot of thought and kludging to pull off and so are most likely mainly done by completionists, especially-enthusiastic Space Barbie aficionados, and other relatively niche player types.

Just want to say: I too only created a Jem'Hadar because of the account-wide unlocks that come with the recruitment event.

The species and the faction itself aren't really interesting to me. Not least because everything is so pink with them.

The very elongated Jem'Hadar carrier looks nice though, but that's really the only interesting ship too if you ask me.

True, if the devs ever added Vorta to the currently Jem'Hadar-only faction then most of the horneytoads would probably disappear in few days as players dump them for Vorta.

I like the looks of some of the Dominion ships, from the canon Bug to the custom-STO Temporal destroyer and the almost Romulan-looking wide-winged carrier, though the Vanguard ships based on the canon Dominion dreadnaught look don't do anything for me looks wise either. Pink doesn't bother me, in fact one of my early Star Wars characters used a pink lightsaber blade, so I like the look of polaron beams in STO (in DS9 they were the same generic blueish-white that a lot of other weapon types used).

paradox

fleetcaptain5#1134 wrote: »

Just want to say: I too only created a Jem'Hadar because of the account-wide unlocks that come with the recruitment event.

The species and the faction itself aren't really interesting to me. Not least because everything is so pink with them.

The very elongated Jem'Hadar carrier looks nice though, but that's really the only interesting ship too if you ask me.

With the Jem'Hadar it's more of a light purple than pink, would say the closest we had to pink in game was the Kuumaarke Visionary set, since even Aakar's Imperial Assault set was also more purplish than pink.