Like the title suggests i finally made Lt General last night after a week or so of grinding. And when i say grinding i mean grinding
My total play time for my character when he hit Lt Gen was almost exactly: 2 days 19 hours
And oh dear were they a rough couple of days.
Let me start by saying that Klingon levelling is soo much better now then what it used to be. Back in the early days of STO i levelled a Klingon to Lt Cmdr through nebulas and empire defence. I ranked up got a new ship and all that awaited me was more of the exact same thing. So i deleted my character and went back to Fed grinding.
However just before Season Two i picked up an old Lt Cmdr Eng Klingon and started levelling once more.
So lets break it down so its easy to understand:
The Good:
- Klingon Story missions are fun, different and rewarding
- Dailies offer an easy way to level a grade a day
- The two weekly story arcs enables fast levelling for a few grades
- Mission Replay means that when you want a break you can replay some missions and the weekly missions give you the appropriate amount of exp
- Sorties offer good combat missions for levelling and the Path of the Warrior mission rewards team play
- When you first do an empire defence you get massive exp as well as exploration badges
The Bad:
- Dailies get really boring really fast
- Replaying old Klingon Missions is not an effective levelling tool as the exp reward is often too low
- While the sorties are good they are the same 6 missions again and again
- Nebula exploration is the same as fed side: not exploration
- Empire defense is only good at giving exp the first or maybe second time
- PvP queues are dead at lower levels so it is hard to earn exp that way
The Ugly:
At max rank all you can do is this:
- Sorties
- Nebulas
- Dailies
- PvP
- STF's
And therein also lies one of the bigger problems:
After grinding about 45 levels (dont forget you start at level 6) doing these things the last thing I want to do is do them even more.
So in summary:
- Content a lot better now then at launch, keep working on it in the way you have now
- Put in more Klingon only missions, you can do it, have done it well. DO NOT rely on the Foundry to create Klingon Content for you
- Offer different things for Klingons to do at Max rank as opposed to what they did at lower levels
- Find some way of combining lower level PvP so that lower level PvP's arent dead
- Create Klingon Mission around the BG level, they have them at Lt10, Ltcmdr 10, Cmdr 10 so why not Cpt 10?
- MORE CONTENT!!!!

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However, I'd definitely encourage the developers to create Klingon missions with the Foundry toolset on their own, should the other tools be at a premium. How about a "create a KDF mission" day around the office - where any developer can create a KDF mission using the Foundry? Maybe it'll get the juices flowing on where the Klingons should be headed?
You're right i probably should have been more explicit and i also love the idea of a dev making a mission day that would be sweet.
Don't hold your breath on this one. The Foundry is Cryptic's way of adding more content without doing very much work. It's game design on the cheap and they excel at it.
At max rank all you can do is this:
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Can do crafting now and the missions you have access to via Replay
UGC is something that people have been clamoring for since launch.