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LoR: More likely to add or take from KDF?
deleroux
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What do you think the net outcome will be for KDF population? Will we see an increase, or will we see a decrease?
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There's no incentive or reason to play KDF unless there is suddenly a huge influx of free to play, which there is not going to be. Not being negative.
The rep grind has destroyed any pleasant experience involved with leveling a toon. If people have to do that grind they are not going to waste it on a faction with perceived and real disadvantages.
Call me a pessimist if you will. Fortunately, I'm also a realist and far from naive.
I've also paid attention to half the threads discussing this very issue over the last month.
Do you really want me to get empirical about the proof? Really? That horse was buried 3 seasons ago.
I believe you will find it nicely summarized on STOwiki.
i was never a big fan of klingons, but the people that choose to play klingons inspired me and i now have a klingon tac.
i think klingons/kdf side offers a lot of advantages, so i am expecting the kdf ranks to increase.
Yes, I would like empirical proof.
I'll say it again. The optimists will think it's good for the game. The pessimists will think it's bad. No one will know for sure until a few months have passed and everyone settles into the Faction they like the most. It's just that simple, whether you think you're a realist or not.
Enjoy - you must be new around here.
You know what you right. I have been spending way to much of my personal time and effort in promotion of Star Trek Online, and what have I really to show for it.
Let someone what carry that torch. I'm done.
From the toon slot rage thread.
I didn't have the heart to tell this guy his rom toon couldn't be in his kdf slot.
<sniff><sniff>
...But the exodus of KDF players has indeed begun, even if by stupidity or desperation the KDF will eventually end up loosing players.
GG cryptic
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Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
That's how I see it.
Fleet items access > Storyline stuff. More Fed fleets at T5 than KDF fleets. Or for some, just you know their fleet is already fed, so their romulan joins fed.
No combo of story, content, Cryptic meddling, ships, power, and consoles uniqueness is going to influence the number of Klingon players long term. The Klingon population is tied to the fact that people will play them if they like Klingons.
Just like, long term, people will only play Romulans if they like Romulans.
Eventually all starbases will hit T5 on both sides.
Eventually the shiny will wear off the LoR content.
Eventually people will settle where they like.
Klingons will always be a smaller faction than Feds because less people like Klingons than the Federation. The same is true for the Romulans. When I am at the home worlds for the KDF or Fed sides, I see more KDF/Fed faction ships than Romulan allies parked there. Even in the height of the people playing the Rommie content.
The KDF will never die because there are dedicated fans of that faction. But don't kid yourselves anymore that Klinks were ever going to be as large and the Federation. You KDF players should be thankful you have had any content since launch. Us Romulans had to wait years. Cardasian fans even longer, if never.
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Anyhow, in my fleet (we consider both our FED and KDF fleets as 1) there's a vast decline of playing at the KDF side. To add to that i'm one of the few so far to side with the KDF. Reason for this is that our FED base is near T5 while the KDF base is only near to T3.
Good thing is most FED's have their first rommy at 50 and starting their reps. Once that's sorted most of them plan on doing a KDF one.
So basically i think numbers will decline hard at first, but level out gradually once the LoR buzz runs out and everybody returns to their favourite blend of grind.
moradum: I got banned for saying "I started my day with cutting off 3 MM off of the bottom of my cabinet"
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what kdf slot exactly?
character creator classifies all open character slots as unrestricted.
Another poster had me convinced there were faction dedicated slots, but it appears my free slot is unrestricted. Perhaps the LoR expansion changed them all to unrestricted but if there were no restrictions why would the tooltip need to say 'unrestricted' ?
Awoken Dead
Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
I think that is so new and returning players would be aware that they can create a character of any faction at lvl-1 now.
I don't think linking to Peregin's personal whine platform is acuratley going to predict how many players will choose to ally with the KDF.
We can get into the pros and cons of uni consoles, but the plasmonic leech console is pretty desirable for a Singularity Core power ship and it would have helped to bring more players.