Seriously its because it takes so friggin long for us to level! All we have to get exp right now is the pvp queue, a few minor exp pvp quest, and a few not quite explore/sector defence missions.
First off klingons dont get as much exp from sector defence type missions because we cannot shift maps to go to a new one so we alwasy have to wait for the 6 minute cooldown. Also klingons dont have as many of these missions so the ships we are killing are lower level and they give scaled down exp from the quest as we level.
Currently pvp does NOT give as much xp on a "time spent" basis as just regular quest do on the fed side. So even if we chain queue. Unless matches go insanely fast we are not getting very much xp... We also get NO exp for killing individual fed ships.
The pvp quest xp that we get take FOR FREAKING EVER to complete and give garbage xp.
In short well get there eventually it just takes 4-5x as long.
Daily quests and PvE raid content is taking us away from the queues in T5, too.
So some of us are in Borg Hunt doing the daily, some are in the Borg area doing Borg PvE stuff, so while it's possible there are a lot of Klingons online, they are not in the queues.
And since Klingon XP is mostly meant to come from PvP, and since PvP is so messed up due to queue problems, we end up with a lot of disgruntled players quitting instead of continuing to level up. Most Klingons, I suspect, will only put up with so many 5v1 games in a row before they stop logging in.
Plus devs have been somewhat slow to address PvP balance and bug concerns. Klingon PvP vendors are STILL (STILL!!!) broken -- they were broken in beta, stayed broken in release, got partially fixed but T5 stuff is still broken. And there's been no dev comment about chain-holding on the ground, suspiciously high expose rates, complaints about the fact that exposes also hold you, complaints about SNB making PvP no fun, etc.
Basically the lack of Klingons in T5 is the result of a lack of dev attention to Klingon issues -- particularly critical PvP killers like the queue problem. They've been working on us, but slowly. We have clearly not been a top priority and you Feds are paying for it in the form of long queue times.
1) Lack of anything to do at t5. We had to PvP to level to get to t5 so that was our carrot before, but what do we do now??
2) I personally don't play in t5 anymore because the CC just gets annoying, and you die way too quickly for it to be worth my time. As a cruiser captain SNB+ VM= Not enjoying it anymore. That and It's almost always one or two klingons against 5. Its just not fun.
3) So what do we do at T5 again??
4) T2-T3 is 1000% more fun. So I re-rolled just to play in those tiers again.
Hint: Get us an RvR sector for PvP or I can guarantee you all of us PvP'er will be gone. Well actually most of us are already are gone...
My sub ran out today I believe. Instead of playing one last time I just cleaned up around the house. We've already PvP'ed a ton to reach BG5. Every klink has setbacks like the shield gap of T3->T5 Honor Mark, a broken vendor that leaves us behind on deflectors/engines, and the choice between a deathmatch or a Capture/Hold that has the rewards based off damage/healing--i.e. deathmatch. Yet most of us aren't babies, and these problems are just fuel on the fire.
I played because the PvP actually is fun, but it takes a lot to get me to pay monthly for fire/forget deathmatch. I have games like TF2, Mechwarrior, World in Conflict, L4D, etc. that were just one purchase and just as interesting in that style of gameplay.
I log on for the daily. screwed up and queued for the wrong one a couple of times so I did more pvp today than usual.
Then I am off to level my Fed or on to Tribble.
My son will start playing tonight as a Klink...I am going to help him so off I go with another Klink to level...I am thinking a stick in the eye will be more fun. Maybe he and I can just 1v1 ourselves in hvh missions lol
Well after doing pretty much nothing besides countless battles on the same one or two maps it gets old. My sub runs out tomorrow and I think I will just check back in on the boards till they put some new stuff out. I have purchased everything from the medals vendor and still have an extra 4-5k of them in my inventory. Maybe if i felt like I was contributing to the war effort or helping our faction but at the end of the day there really is no meaningful reason to stay.
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Seriously its because it takes so friggin long for us to level! All we have to get exp right now is the pvp queue, a few minor exp pvp quest, and a few not quite explore/sector defence missions.
First off klingons dont get as much exp from sector defence type missions because we cannot shift maps to go to a new one so we alwasy have to wait for the 6 minute cooldown. Also klingons dont have as many of these missions so the ships we are killing are lower level and they give scaled down exp from the quest as we level.
Currently pvp does NOT give as much xp on a "time spent" basis as just regular quest do on the fed side. So even if we chain queue. Unless matches go insanely fast we are not getting very much xp... We also get NO exp for killing individual fed ships.
The pvp quest xp that we get take FOR FREAKING EVER to complete and give garbage xp.
In short well get there eventually it just takes 4-5x as long.
So some of us are in Borg Hunt doing the daily, some are in the Borg area doing Borg PvE stuff, so while it's possible there are a lot of Klingons online, they are not in the queues.
And since Klingon XP is mostly meant to come from PvP, and since PvP is so messed up due to queue problems, we end up with a lot of disgruntled players quitting instead of continuing to level up. Most Klingons, I suspect, will only put up with so many 5v1 games in a row before they stop logging in.
Plus devs have been somewhat slow to address PvP balance and bug concerns. Klingon PvP vendors are STILL (STILL!!!) broken -- they were broken in beta, stayed broken in release, got partially fixed but T5 stuff is still broken. And there's been no dev comment about chain-holding on the ground, suspiciously high expose rates, complaints about the fact that exposes also hold you, complaints about SNB making PvP no fun, etc.
Basically the lack of Klingons in T5 is the result of a lack of dev attention to Klingon issues -- particularly critical PvP killers like the queue problem. They've been working on us, but slowly. We have clearly not been a top priority and you Feds are paying for it in the form of long queue times.
2) I personally don't play in t5 anymore because the CC just gets annoying, and you die way too quickly for it to be worth my time. As a cruiser captain SNB+ VM= Not enjoying it anymore. That and It's almost always one or two klingons against 5. Its just not fun.
3) So what do we do at T5 again??
4) T2-T3 is 1000% more fun. So I re-rolled just to play in those tiers again.
Hint: Get us an RvR sector for PvP or I can guarantee you all of us PvP'er will be gone. Well actually most of us are already are gone...
I played because the PvP actually is fun, but it takes a lot to get me to pay monthly for fire/forget deathmatch. I have games like TF2, Mechwarrior, World in Conflict, L4D, etc. that were just one purchase and just as interesting in that style of gameplay.
Then I am off to level my Fed or on to Tribble.
My son will start playing tonight as a Klink...I am going to help him so off I go with another Klink to level...I am thinking a stick in the eye will be more fun. Maybe he and I can just 1v1 ourselves in hvh missions lol