So the KDF still continues to claim the commodities and have no use for them other then sell them for minimal gain. Another thread talked about the "Honor System" to be used for the KDF in lieu of the Federation Diplomacy and I would like to utilize that idea reguardless!
Although I would rather have distinct KDF content missions and not KDF skins on Federation missions, this is an area that I would go against that.
Klingon Family Honor (KFH) System
KDF earn KHX and earn respected KFH ranks. You must show you have what it takes to be considered the most honored.
KHX is earned by
winning PvP Battles, Completing PvP missions, as well as assisting the KDF in its efforts to gain control of the quadrant. "Aid the Planet" type missions could be introduced where the story is the KDF is engaged in great battle yet need X commodity to help move forward. Additionally Kill achievments could count toward KHX.
The honor system would basically be a mirror of the FDC in that you would need to attain the same ammount of points to level up gaing transwarp abilities to current and Future KDF stronholds.
By attaining the top rank in the KFH you will have access to a unique emote (Song of your Deeds), uniform, title and Statue of yourself to be displayed on your ship (Floor Trophy.)
Ranks:
Tier 1 - Gin'tak
160 Honor XP required
Accolade "Spear"
"Gin'tak" title
Access to star cluster missions
Tier 2 - Imperial Adjunct
400 Honor XP required
Accolade "Imperial Adjunct"
"Imperial Adjunct" title
Transwarp Drive (
Ganalda)
Tier 3 - Yan-Isleth
720 Honor XP required
Accolade "Yan-Isleth"
"Yan-Isleth" title
Transwarp Drive (tbd) romulan sector
Diplomatic Immunity (???) possibly able to visit federation stations without hostilities
Tier 4 - 'avwl' batlh
1360 Honor XP required
Accolade "Order of the Sword"
"Honor Guard" title
Access to Honored uniform
Access to special Emote "Deeds of the Honored"
Access to special floor trophy
Transwarp Drive (?Deep Space Nine?)
Anyway just my take on the Honor system for the KDF and a way to utilize the commodities that we still aquire.
Comments
Also, whilst I feel that a conversation of the FDC system would be nice, it needs to be viable to the KDF as a whole - and that includes non-Klingons who (from a hardliner canonist's PoV) should not be able to assume the positions you suggested.
The best way would be to make the system differentiate between the player species, as it'd be easy to tweak it for a Nausicaan, Gorn or Orion touch (with Aliens using the Nausicaan "mercenary" framework) - sadly I do not know if STO is actually capable of doing that, so I'd suggest planning for something more liberal.
A possibility would be to utilize a faction that is more "open", such as the Orion Syndicate, signifying Melani D'ian's ongoing (and apparently successful!) endeavour to gain influence over the other species in the Klingon Alliance they joined.
That said, it'd also be possible to simply copy the FDC system and tweak it for a "Klingon twist", as in not helping the entire civilization of a planet, but by supplying a previously determined subfaction that would topple the existing government and establish a new rule favorable to the Klingon Empire. First Contact missions would then not be about finding cultural similarities or differences, but about assessing a faction's worth for the Empire by questioning their capability to stage a successful revolution or their loyalty to their Klingon benefactors.
Of course all that has nothing to do with honor or any of the titles you mentioned.
Well I guess that could be what they are working on then is to make it integrate better with the various races in the KDF since Honor is primary to Klingons but not so much to the other races of the KDF. Honestly though I could see the Klingons imposing certain things like a sense of honor into those that are serving in the role that the other races are in the KDF.
This could be all the more reason for them to use an honor system as stated above. Maybe the Klingons withhold the titles that are from their heritage and give them some other names but I think the functionality of the OP should definatly be used.
I like this. Raid planets for resources, turn them over to the syndicate, and after turning in a predetermined amount, get discounts at vendors.
Cryptic; make it so. Failure to do so leaves you at the mercy of forum flaming and assorted nerd rage. You have 3 days.
Regretably the Devs have take none of those into account and realized them. Instead we get the Foundry so that they no longer have to add content for the Klingon faction over then we have to pay for and can more focus on even more Federation content
I don't believe our threads are falling on deaf ears. It takes time implement things. I think a lot of the discussion that goes on in STO staff briefings at Cryptic headquarters stems a lot from tge topics that are discussed in the forums.
We know the Devs read the forums even take the time to respond to certain ones. I know when I was playing WoW I was constantly offering suggestions as to how I felt the game could be improved. I honestly feel that the actually used some of my ideas even if they never said anything or gave me credit for the idea but some new implementations were near exactly to my suggestions.
DStahl left a post on an idea I presented for crafting (see below) but that idea wasn't used in the revamp of crafting. He also posted on my targ ideas yet nothing yet but doesn't mean I should stop pushing.
I've been through a variety of ideas as to how the BO's and ships should function and my ideas have changed about how I think it should all work and I'm sure during talks in the meetings when they are addressed 20 heads can probably see the faults in my ideas that I'm too blind to see so those ideas get shelved for a while.
It is kinda irk to me to see that 117 people viewed an idea that the OP this would be an improvement to the game but only 12 make posts edging one way or the other. If you let a person know what you think about the idea and why/how it would be good/bad for the game you can give that person better clarity as to IF they should really push for the change.
I been collecting comedites too and wondered why I was getting them.
KDF needs an equivalent to the FDC for sure.