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I have an idea, which may have been proposed before at some point.
Don't make KDF unlockable at Lieutenant 6 on a Federation character.
Make KDF creatable immediately, the first time a player signs into the game. It would be nice if they did a KDF tutorial, obviously, for brand new players, as well. I do believe one is in the works or has been proposed.
What I think happens is, people sign into STO for the first time, and can't create a KDF, so they obviously make a Federation character. They do the tutorial, start playing and leveling, and so on. As far as I remember, nothing popped up on the screen telling me I could not create a KDF character or that it had been unlocked. If correct, that's a mistake. There should be a pop-up notification, as many simply don't know, especially those who don't use the forums or join a fleet (believe it or not, I see a lot of people including high levels, not in fleets).
Secondly, once they start investing in a Federation character and go through 5+ levels of leveling them up, and start doing the missions and all that, many never go back and create a KDF character later, as they are already invested in their original Federation character.
I think any player should be able to login for the first time and create a KDF character right away, just like they can on Federation, and that more players than now do, would opt to make a KDF toon first. This would have the effect of helping to balance out the Fed/KDF population over time.
This is just an idea, but I think it would be a positive one.
Don't make KDF unlockable at Lieutenant 6 on a Federation character.
Make KDF creatable immediately, the first time a player signs into the game. It would be nice if they did a KDF tutorial, obviously, for brand new players, as well. I do believe one is in the works or has been proposed.
What I think happens is, people sign into STO for the first time, and can't create a KDF, so they obviously make a Federation character. They do the tutorial, start playing and leveling, and so on. As far as I remember, nothing popped up on the screen telling me I could not create a KDF character or that it had been unlocked. If correct, that's a mistake. There should be a pop-up notification, as many simply don't know, especially those who don't use the forums or join a fleet (believe it or not, I see a lot of people including high levels, not in fleets).
Secondly, once they start investing in a Federation character and go through 5+ levels of leveling them up, and start doing the missions and all that, many never go back and create a KDF character later, as they are already invested in their original Federation character.
I think any player should be able to login for the first time and create a KDF character right away, just like they can on Federation, and that more players than now do, would opt to make a KDF toon first. This would have the effect of helping to balance out the Fed/KDF population over time.
This is just an idea, but I think it would be a positive one.
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People don't play Klingons because we who do come here and complain about the lack of content, the content we have that doesn't work and the general worthlessness that being a Klingon in this game is.
Then everytime you see a new Engineering report you read little to nothing about Klingon updates, changes or additions.
What really baffles me is how any of the Dev team can talk about adding new playable factions when they have one that isn't even half done yet.
I personally planned to finally get a lifetime account. I have been paying month to month since launch, but seeing how the Klingons are still an after-thought I can't bring myself to do it. I am really so frustarted with it that I am considering not renewing next time around. I really like what I find in the game overall, but I think it's time that Klingons got some recognition or something.
Surely a duo of developers could be assigned to Klingon content and features exclusively and start to bring Klingons up to par with the Feds. It would only take a few months if you had someone dedicated to working on it, but as it is Klingons might as well not be in game as fasr as Cryptic is concerned. Sure, maybe they say otherwise but those of us who play the Klingons every day sure don't feel they care.
Maybe it's just me. Hard to stay interested in a game that is so one sided all the time. I'd rather have no Klingons at all than the broken teaser we have now.
Actually, the latest post I saw on that subject said exactly the opposite. That they don't want to focus on adding another faction yet because the existing ones need work still.
For your convenience:
Beyond that though, there won't be a huge increase in Klingon content until the Foundry comes out. Then you should see some additional Klingon content that is worth playing.
There is no sign of more Klingon content to come, no screeni or spoiler. I can't see that more Klingon content is released all time. I see no new missions or PvP Maps.
Additional Playable Factions (Romulan, Cardassian...)
The fact that it is even being thought of right now, with Klingons still suffering from "grinding" to lvl and a major lack of content....it concerns me. What can we expect from the Rom or Cadassian factions? Hald-assed content? Looking at how the Klingons are treated, I have concerns that they will be completely forgotten if more playable factions are added.
Maybe they have something great for Klingons planned that we just don't know about yet. I have a little faith in that...but looking over that same Engineering report I see next to nothing coming for Klingons. Sure, the new ships we just got are great, but it doesn't matter what you are flying if you have no where to go and nothing to do in that ship.
It has been a long time since my first char hit level 6, but I do believe there is a notification that the Klingon faction is unlocked.
I like the advances that have been made for the KDF and look forward to more, besides the jubbe' toy'taHghach puqloDpu' vo' targhs will not drive me from the game.
Honestly trhough not all of them are so self-absobed in the genre that though don't recognize its and MMO with the limits that come with being so, but some just get my tuq with the "kirkyness".
I have no idea why I shared that.
They are still going to flesh out the KDF more.
There's enough variety in ways to gain XP as things are currently. Tbo, I think it's faster to level up a Klingon character as there are oddball addon ways to get XP (like killing X number of turrets, NPC captains/ships, player ships etc) which the Fed side doesn't have.
That being said, if I could add more Klingon content it would be PvP oriented:
1. PvP Bat'leth tournaments w/NPC Refs like the 1s in the mission.
2. Open up a slot or 2 on the ruling councel which players in different Houses PvP to occupy.
3. A open PvP sans any weapons/skills bar brawl style for lols. The victor gets listen to losers sing a song to honor his glorious victory while drinking blood wine.
I had to PVP it out for the longest time, usually 1-2 hours a day until I finally got bored and spent about 2 days proper to max out the last 10 ranks to MG, then they pushed the cap but there were the missions and such to do by this time so those went rather fast.
I think the minor changes might make it a bit more interesting but the main problem is that people have some sort of expectation that the KDF and FED sides are equal they either weren't around or refuse to remember that cryptic clearly stated multiple times during Open Beta and launch week that KDF was designed as the PVP faction, however now it has become apparent that there isnt that much PVP going on anymore under the MG/RA - LG/VA levels, but now you guys have the repearable missions, exploration clusters, deferi dailies, and even the eta edrani missions to repeat ad infinitum on a daily basis to max out.
I think you could do it easy within 4 days if someone grinded it lineage style.
be thankful for what you have now as its 500% more content then was around for the first 7 months of the game.
Only when then realized in Beta that they wouldn't have the time to finish the Klingons they stated they would made them PvP heavy and add more content later in the first large patch. The patch didn't add on par content and 2 Season failed, too. It have us just added 8 missions.
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