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Just some things I think might make STO a wee bit better

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First off, and this is something that has puzzled me somewhat since day one (and please correct me if this has since changed), but make Klingon's a playable race from the get go. The Dev's did a nice job with the prologue for us Feds, I'm sure it wouldn't be too terribly hard for the Klingons. I think that doing that alone would foster more diversified play. Because as it is, and please correct me if this has changed, making everyone play as Fed only to unlock Klingon play makes it seem like you don't really want anyone to play as Klingons.

Secondly, open PvP. If the galaxy is in a state of war, as far as I can see, you can't really tell. If the Federation and the Klingon Empire are really at war, then when I chance upon a Klingon player in their Bird of Prey lurking about in the Alpha Centauri sector block I should be able to engage it in combat. You already have a decent system in place to work with this, the random space encounter. When a Fed player gets within range of a Klingon player , or vice versa, an interaction option to engage could appear, one party engages, and the two are whisked away to their own instance, similar to how Enemy Signal Contacts are now. Only instead of leaving it open for others to join, lock it out, let the two duke it out in the emptiness of space and let the victor emerge with some badge of awesomeness or something.

Next up, ship refits, and I know I've seen some people talk about some things along these lines. But as a Rear Admiral I personally REALLY dislike the aesthetic design of the Deepspace Science Vessel and the Reconnaissance Science Vessel, however, I was quite partial to my Intrepid class that I used as a lowly Captain. I tell you I would GLADLY dish out the energy credits, badges or marks of this or that to be able to refit my intrepid class and have it be able to utilize the same, or at least similar stats to those tier 5 ships.

Anyways, that's about all I can recall at the moment, rest assured though as more of what I wish was included in game creeps back into my brain, I'll be sure to let you all know.

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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited May 2010
    It didn't even take that long...

    But just realising how Federation biased the game seems (to me that is). This actually doesn't have anything to do with the game itself, but the website. It's very Federation lovey, with little to no representation of the Klingon facet of the game. I mean if you go to the ships section of the page, it only shows the Federation ships, no Klingon ships at all.

    Tsk tsk tsk on the web designers, what might be nice is a Federation and a Klingon version of the page and upon logging in which ever you have saved in your preferences is how the pages would be displayed.

    Just an idea anyways.
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