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  • makboy717makboy717 Member Posts: 2 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I play a Lethean and a Naussicaan scientist, frankly I picked them BECAUSE they were so obscure, also, i'm the only person I know of that uses the Major General gorn ship, Varanus i think?:)
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I made a Vorta Char. :D
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  • radkipradkip Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I don't think I've ever seen a Bajoran character outside of my crew, not counting NPCs.

    Same goes for Betazoids, Pakleds, Rigelians, Fed Klingons, Bolians, Ferengi, Andorians, Benzites, Tellarites and Saurians. I haven't seen many Nausicaans, Letheans or KDF Joined Trill, either.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Well, I was at K7 a few minutes ago and did a mini-census while there. Most common race: Human, next was Alien and Liberated Borg.

    I did see several Caitians, Bolians, a benzite, a few Vulcans, at least 2 Andorians, and a Joined Trill. But over 50% humans.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I just did the poll again. Still mostly humans, but I saw a few more andorians and vulcans, some trill, including an unjoined trill, A betazoid, and a Bajoran.

    My list of chars: 2 Aliens, Andorian, Bolian, Caitian, Human, Joined Trill, Liberated Borg Human, Liberated Borg Klingon(KDF), Orion(KDF), Vulcan
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  • sierrafortunesierrafortune Member Posts: 129 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I would have said the Fek'ihri but then I just did a few no win scenarios and all but one of them were Fek'ihri ships which seem really hard in comparison to the Nausicaan's (The one NOT Fek'ihri I've done so far) so now I'd have to say Letheans.
  • mikewendellmikewendell Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I saw the vulcan science ship outside the sol system a few minutes ago.
  • fovrelfovrel Member Posts: 1,448 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Since everybody (yes, including me, afterall they are sexy and canon) rolls female orions, I decide to roll a couple of males. And I think they rock. Bald heads with plates on it, their outfit, they make the perfect badass.

    And then their all the females ... played by males. So I dedided to make a pass on one of those girls. It scared the hell out of her.

    BTW what do you think of non-green orions? Aren't those just people that want to have a sexy looking human character. An Orion should always be green, light, dark, doesn't matter, just my view on it.
  • lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I'm mostly... humancentric. But playing as another character species would be interesting. Maybe a very intelligent Pakled who thinks he's more intelligent than anyone else? :)

    As for ships, I've only played the Fed side so far and the ships I don't see a lot of is that Vulcan science ship. I've seen quite a few Nebula class ships (last one I saw blew up a Unimatrix) and a few Nova classes (those things look kinda like... toys).
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  • archer586969archer586969 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I'd like to see more Player-Character Andorians, I see alot of Andorian NPC's but I hardly ever find someone who plays as an Andorian. (My favourite species lol)
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    In the episode of TOS that introduced Orions it had a very unsubtle hint that Green was NOT the normal skin tone for Orions. So I don't worry about it if people play as non-green Orions. TAS had 2 alternate colors besides the standard emerald hue, chartreuse and pale blue. I've decided to use the idea that Ent represented a colony of green Orions, and that thier appearance was not representative of the Orions as a whole.

    I did the poll a third time, Trill, joined trill, human(several), Ferengi, Alien(several). The odd part was seeing an alien that was made to look like an Andorian....
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  • quiverboxquiverbox Member Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    In the episode of TOS that introduced Orions it had a very unsubtle hint that Green was NOT the normal skin tone for Orions. So I don't worry about it if people play as non-green Orions. TAS had 2 alternate colors besides the standard emerald hue, chartreuse and pale blue. I've decided to use the idea that Ent represented a colony of green Orions, and that thier appearance was not representative of the Orions as a whole.

    I did the poll a third time, Trill, joined trill, human(several), Ferengi, Alien(several). The odd part was seeing an alien that was made to look like an Andorian....

    That is odd. I guess they didn't want the trait required for Andorians? Ferengi are pretty rare. Which is not surprising considering all of the Ferengi/Judaic hate speech that goes on in Zone chat.
  • sollvaxsollvax Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I don't have pakleds , Benzites , bolians or female anythings

    but I have pretty much everything else
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I don't know what zone chat you've been listening to but I've never encountered that sort of an issue.

    Anyways, did another check, Humans, aliens, vulcans, trill, joined Trill, a Bajoran, caitians, Betazoids, a few liberated Borg Humans, 2 Ferengi, and a Federation Klingon.
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  • synkr0nizedsynkr0nized Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Ah, so it does have an effect on Female NPCs? cool.

    I'm most amused at it working on Elite Tactical Drones in elite ground STFs, regardless of their gender (though often they appear to be female).


    Also coming back to this thread again it sounds like I should get my Andorian admiral out in the fray more often. Maybe I'll run into some of you who want to see them more.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I looked around some more today and came to one conclusion. Betazoids aren't actually all that uncommon. But since Betazoids look human(except the eyes) people can't tell the difference.

    I saw a few Andorains today. But yeah, during my looking I did not see a single Pakled, and only one Tellarite.
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  • jjumetleyjjumetley Member Posts: 281 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    makboy717 wrote: »
    also, i'm the only person I know of that uses the Major General gorn ship, Varanus i think?:)
    I've seen one a few days ago and it was the first time I saw the Varanus in game. Don't know if that was you though ;)

    As for the characters. I own two humans - male (eng) and female (sci), a Ferengi (tac), a Klingon (tac) and I have plans for a Gorn (sci) and an Orion female (eng).
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Got faces?

    EDIT: somehow this post ended up in the wrong thread compeltely...
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  • quiverboxquiverbox Member Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I don't know what zone chat you've been listening to but I've never encountered that sort of an issue.

    Anyways, did another check, Humans, aliens, vulcans, trill, joined Trill, a Bajoran, caitians, Betazoids, a few liberated Borg Humans, 2 Ferengi, and a Federation Klingon.

    Most recently, Starfleet Academy Event on Tuesday morning. In fact, 90% of the time I hear such things it's at Starfleet Academy.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Hunh, still never seen it happen.

    Anyways, after more looking (Like Diogenes trying to find an honest man) I have failed to find a single Pakled. I've seen at least one of every other race (Including a Tellarite and a Rigelian) but NOT a single Pakled.
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  • eurrsk47eurrsk47 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I've seen many cool loooking races in the doff system like the Dosi, Wadi, Automated Personnel Unit etc..., but I never see any npcs of them.
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  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    hehe... did you notice Linnea? Yeah, that's right, there's an OCAMPA working in Starfleet Command.
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  • vongravenvongraven Member Posts: 116 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I'm surprised I've not seen any other Cardassians except myself. Well, I know that's actually an "alien", but it's easily done via character customization. Cardassians were popular enough to expect being swarmed with them.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    One of my Alien Chars is a Vorta. :D
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  • gypsybladegypsyblade Member Posts: 730 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    Before F2P it was pretty rare to see another Ferengi around... saw the number jump when the D'kora was released... slowly dying off again tho...

    Rarely see Pakleds still tho...

    Ship wise would be science ships.. I'm flying my DSSV on my main again.. but I have the lower deflector removed so unless you're looking closely.. it sorta looks like a Heavy Escort..

    Season 6 has to be one of my favorite Seasons as the new Space missions need some control builds..

    So glad its not all DPS anymore...
  • davidjay1972davidjay1972 Member Posts: 10 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I've seen Pakled toons before, but it has been a while. I have a female Andorian Scientist who oddly enough has Andorians as a majority of her bridge crew. My KDF in a male Klingon Engineer and Sulak is obviously Vulcan, a Tactical officer, and male.

    Once we have the ability to turn our BoFFs into PC's, I'm thinking of making my Bolian Engineer BoFF, Crem Qrahm, a Captain. He's a major part of my Bridge Crew and a mainstay on my away team along with being the first BoFF I was awarded.
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  • dalolorndalolorn Member Posts: 3,655 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    vongraven wrote: »
    I'm surprised I've not seen any other Cardassians except myself. Well, I know that's actually an "alien", but it's easily done via character customization. Cardassians were popular enough to expect being swarmed with them.
    One of my Alien Chars is a Vorta. :D

    I've got both in one character, and a Romulan too! :D

    Edit: I made this Cardassian/Vorta/Romulan with my 3rd character slot from my temporary Gold subscription :cool: My others were a Human and a Klingon.

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  • diogene0diogene0 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    You may meet my tactical Pakled if you want. :D

    Ships I rarely see : Galaxy, Nebula, Excelsior, Deep space science vessels. Just boring odysseys and defiants everywhere.

    I think I've seen an orion male a long time ago, but it looks like naked females are more popular. I don't see why though. :rolleyes:
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  • nyniknynik Member Posts: 1,628 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    I'd like to see more Player-Character Andorians, I see alot of Andorian NPC's but I hardly ever find someone who plays as an Andorian. (My favourite species lol)

    I've recently rolled an Andorian (I had always meant to), so wave if you see me ingame lol

    I very rarely see Oberths. Its for a good reason obviously, but I desire to see more of them.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,231 Arc User
    edited July 2012
    diogene0 wrote: »
    You may meet my tactical Pakled if you want. :D

    Ships I rarely see : Galaxy, Nebula, Excelsior, Deep space science vessels. Just boring odysseys and defiants everywhere.

    I think I've seen an orion male a long time ago, but it looks like naked females are more popular. I don't see why though. :rolleyes:
    Really? My Vorta char flies a Nebula with the Borg set. Some of my other chars use Excelsiors. DSSVs? nope. Galaxy? yeah, not so many. But I did see a lot fo Galaxy variants around Sol today.

    It'd be amusing to have a use for Oberths beyond Ensign level chars....
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