and if you are in a fleet or not how advanced your fleet is.
and if you feel like it some horror stories about past fleet experiences kdf side.
thank you.
I do
alien, orion, rom-kdf, borg kdf are the primary toons.
I have 11 or 12 or so toons, lost track. 5 (kdf) are above level 50 and played more or less.
fleet is t4ish, spire is about to hit t3, mine is done, not sure about the rom piece
Ive had nothing but positive experiences here. Some fleets are underdeveloped, just as my current one is, but that is about the worst thing I can say. The NOP and other fleets have been excellent about opening up stores for those who need them.
Far as it goes, ppl complain about our lack of ships but as I see it..
feds got ships.
we got contraband, dil, leech, bridge officers, and similar nice things. Many of our ships are very good.
I would love to have more ship choices. I have a large # of box ships because the stock ones are so limited. But I would never trade these other features for ships... we have the better deal, really. Tried playing a fed... no leech, no pirates, no SRO, maybe 1 contraband turnin on a good day, no good carriers (bad pets), no good cloak, and outside of science, not one ship seems any better to me (they clearly have the edge in sci).
Even though he is not my first character (originally I was going to hold out until I could unlock Ferasans for my KDF toon), my Tac Gorn is my main for all intents and purposes. I also have a KDF Romulan.
First character was a Fed, most-played character at the moment is a Fed Rom. I do, however, have a well-equipped KDF alt who is not a farming toon (except when I need dil for a big purchase, in which case all three of my chars are farming toons).
"Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
— Sabaton, "Great War"
Crell of the House of Jev - Created back when one still had to advance to level 25 as a Fed to unlock the ability to become KDF. TAC KDF. My oldest char as I deleted the Fed I leveled because I was having so much fun playing KDF.
Cha Herom - A Lethean SCI created because I wanted a mule/dil farmer. Started playing him and really enjoyed it. My first Science char. I watched with glee as Elite Tactical Drones backpedalled from him when I figured out how to work effectively on the ground with him.
T'Cael - My KDF-aligned Rommie. ENG char. He has been completely enjoyable and lately I have been using him to explore alternate ship setups. Some of them have been very good. Others not so much. But all of them them have been lots of fun to figure out.
A six year old boy and his starship. Living the dream.
8 Main KDF Engineer
5 Experimental KDF Alts to be drained of resources and deleted over time
1 Experimental Fed Alt to be drained of resources and deleted over time
1 Sleeping Fed
f6 KDF Qib f17 Joined Trill Palisade
f18 Lethean Theln (Until we get another Sci) f19 Rom Faeht f20 Gorn Theln (Dyson next sale)
f21 Orion Orb
f22 Nausicaan Theln (Until we get another Sci)
f23 Reman Theln (R Dyson next sale)
Arachnos Armade Level 13
Science Hegh'ta Heavy Bird-of-Prey is my favorite ship.
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Of my 4 active alts, the 3 most developed are all KDF:
Garmokh - Klingon Engineer
Kavorn - Klingon Tac
Klorin - Liberated Borg Klingon Sci
All at just under 30 spec points each.
My "backup" alt is a Fed-Klingon Tac, M'yarg, who to be fair has had a lot of play recently since he's the only one I've run through the full DR mission set in; they just don't make sense for KDF. He's still lagging on 25 spec points.
Tertiary toon - Playing only once or twice per week. Created during the 2014 Winter Event primary to get the Breen Carrier. The plan is to eventually swap this toon in place of one of the primary or secondary toons.
My mains are a reman kdf aligned engineer, a kdf Borg engie, fed alien tac, and a fed andorian engie. My alts are a ferasan tac, kdf sci alien, kdf aligned sci Romulan, fed sci trill, and a kdf aligned tac Romulan (4 mains and 5 alts) Prior to DR, I played more kdf, but now I play both evenly.
My fav ships are the Negh'var, d'deridex, d'kora, peghqu', gal-X, and the intrepid.
I am currently a member of both the tl'hap Jen and Vice Squad fleets, both maxed out t5 fleets.
The thing I miss the most is pvping with my fleets in kerrat prior to DR as well as fighting HOBO kdf balls . Since DR, I haven't touched pvp and won't be doing it again for a very, very long time.
Jesu (3/10)
Sway (2/10)
Ssharki (1.8/10)
Harding (1.0/10)
Alec (.6/10)
Don'el (.5/10)
Nine (.5/10)
Zyx (.3/10)
Lewis (.3/10)
Sander (0/10)
In total I have five KDF-aligned characters (out of nine active) and 2/3 of characters I play as "mains."
...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
- Anne Bredon
1 Fed Reman, 1 Vulcan, 1 Ferengi who I play mostly for the humor value of a 4-foot dude with a pot belly kicking the butts of Jem'Hadar and Borg, a Caitian because obligatory cat jokes, and Three.
My mains are my KDF-Rom, Three, and my Klingon (who has a sweet Mat'Ha). Scimitard, TSABC, and Mat'Ha, respectively. I actually like the TSABC the best; even with a relatively weak build, it tends to put out more damage and last longer than the Scimitard. The Mat'Ha is pure unrelenting firepower, the starship equivalent of a 16-layer chocolate cake. In other words, pure delight to fly, and supremely addictive.
Rest are more or less farming implements to get her all the goodies. Diamonds are girl's best friends - when used as focusing pieces for her elite fleet disruptors.
Well my main was a kdf for a long time. Now I tend to consider my kdf allied romulan my "main". Both are aliens.... And prety much the same character.
I play fed a lot too though...
Yep we got demoted from 18% to 16% they just had to sucker punch as we walked out on them. It's okay I just need an avatar now that says Empire Veteran Retired. I do plan as a test to see though if I don't login for 6 months if it will still give me my LTS stipend or not. I did hear though that if you don't login for x amount of time each month that it won't give the stipend. So being they don't want KDF players as customers it'll be the great KDF experiment from a main KDF player-retired of course
Only ever created one FED back at launch when you had to start FED and reach a certain level to unlock access to the KDF.
KDF from that point all the way and never looked back since.
Primary character is SCI the rest of the eleven alts are all KDF with one KDF-ROM (not including one FED collecting dust for 5 yrs)
KDF Main:
SCI Klingon
KDF Alts:
SCI Liberated Borg Klingon
TAC Orion
ENG Gorn
TAC Orion
TAC Alien [TOS Klingon]
SCI Alien [Andorian]
ENG Alien [Andorian]
TAC Romulan
TAC Talaxian
TAC Liberated Borg Klingon
FED alt:
SCI Human
Been in and out of several fleets of all different levels, problem I run into is that most are dumping grounds for FED player alt characters and they have zero real interest in KDF side other than occasionally slumming it.
Yep we got demoted from 18% to 16% they just had to sucker punch as we walked out on them. It's okay I just need an avatar now that says Empire Veteran Retired. I do plan as a test to see though if I don't login for 6 months if it will still give me my LTS stipend or not. I did hear though that if you don't login for x amount of time each month that it won't give the stipend. So being they don't want KDF players as customers it'll be the great KDF experiment from a main KDF player-retired of course
It will. I take month off once or twice a year to play another game. My stip is there waiting on me, if it's true it would be after 30 days at least.
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I was Klingon before Klingon was cool.
Okay... so I used to like building, playing, and experimenting with alts. That pretty much carried over to my list of characters (though it's only 11, so I'm not an alt-o-holic ). I still stubbornly play my alts, but since one of my most recent was a Nausicaan Eng... that has become my "main" simply because he needed the most work (and still isn't "done" thanks to the diminished progression and my disinterest in hanging out doing patrols).
KDF/KDFRom (primary faction)
Brok'gin, Klingon, Science
*my first KDF character, and still one of my favorites
Duhk, Romulan, Tactical
M'ess, Ferasan, Tactical
S'huk, Reman, Engineer
S'hef, Reman, Tactical
Tejel, Romulan, Science
Grabu, Nausicaan, Engineering
*my current "main" since he's the fellow I was working on when DR hit... and am thus still working on
Tiurcer, Alien, Science
*my primary Delta Recruit, since they gave us the character slot
Fed/FedRom (secondary faction)
Dabot, Betazoid, Engineering
*my first STO character
Yoap, Alien, Science
Forest, Human, Tactical
*created mostly to try out the Federation Tutorial after the revamp
Ka'rinna (formerly Birana), Romulan, Engineering
*she was my disposable character slot, until it became too bothersome to level another character
*re-rolled as a Fed Delta Recruit, killed off once the account unlocks were acquired, re-rolled back to a Romulan, but this time as a Delta Recruit... if she'd been post-60 this wouldn't have happened, but she was always meant to be disposable.
As far as KDF Fleet horror stories... I've got none. Our main Fleet leader has always been one to let folks enjoy the game as they choose, and is always positive about folks chipping in without harassing anyone about not putting in x within y days. I've found most of the KDF playerbase to be both friendly and competent, so even my interactions with other Fleets have been positive. The combination of those factors, and the fact that our KDF half of our allied Fleets really does need the help more, is why my initially balanced distribution of characters across the factions has shifted heavily towards KDF/KDFRom.
It's also why I've spent most of my Zen on the KDF half, and why I generally don't spend squat on my Feds... consider the hint dropped. On your toe. Without shoes on. :P
With each passing day I wonder if I stepped into an alternate reality. The Cubs win the world series. Donald Trump is President. Britain leaves the EU. STO gets a dedicated PvP season. Engineers are "out of control" in STO.
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I do
alien, orion, rom-kdf, borg kdf are the primary toons.
I have 11 or 12 or so toons, lost track. 5 (kdf) are above level 50 and played more or less.
fleet is t4ish, spire is about to hit t3, mine is done, not sure about the rom piece
Ive had nothing but positive experiences here. Some fleets are underdeveloped, just as my current one is, but that is about the worst thing I can say. The NOP and other fleets have been excellent about opening up stores for those who need them.
Far as it goes, ppl complain about our lack of ships but as I see it..
feds got ships.
we got contraband, dil, leech, bridge officers, and similar nice things. Many of our ships are very good.
I would love to have more ship choices. I have a large # of box ships because the stock ones are so limited. But I would never trade these other features for ships... we have the better deal, really. Tried playing a fed... no leech, no pirates, no SRO, maybe 1 contraband turnin on a good day, no good carriers (bad pets), no good cloak, and outside of science, not one ship seems any better to me (they clearly have the edge in sci).
x1 Orion Eng
1klingon scie
1klingon eng
tactical - gorn nausican orion alien faresan
no romulan or fed in my account
have some (C) store ship to show suport on the faction
very small fleet with some friends but they are fed main...
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Cha Herom - A Lethean SCI created because I wanted a mule/dil farmer. Started playing him and really enjoyed it. My first Science char. I watched with glee as Elite Tactical Drones backpedalled from him when I figured out how to work effectively on the ground with him.
T'Cael - My KDF-aligned Rommie. ENG char. He has been completely enjoyable and lately I have been using him to explore alternate ship setups. Some of them have been very good. Others not so much. But all of them them have been lots of fun to figure out.
5 Experimental KDF Alts to be drained of resources and deleted over time
1 Experimental Fed Alt to be drained of resources and deleted over time
1 Sleeping Fed
f6 KDF Qib
f17 Joined Trill Palisade
f18 Lethean Theln (Until we get another Sci)
f19 Rom Faeht
f20 Gorn Theln (Dyson next sale)
f21 Orion Orb
f22 Nausicaan Theln (Until we get another Sci)
f23 Reman Theln (R Dyson next sale)
Arachnos Armade Level 13
Science Hegh'ta Heavy Bird-of-Prey is my favorite ship.
Ex-CoH players, Please add the chat channel "CoX STO"
Garmokh - Klingon Engineer
Kavorn - Klingon Tac
Klorin - Liberated Borg Klingon Sci
All at just under 30 spec points each.
My "backup" alt is a Fed-Klingon Tac, M'yarg, who to be fair has had a lot of play recently since he's the only one I've run through the full DR mission set in; they just don't make sense for KDF. He's still lagging on 25 spec points.
2 KDF Roms
1 Feddybear (the first toon I made, it was required to start as a Fed back in the day)
4 Tac / 3 Sci / 2 Eng
races:
Tac: Klingon, Lethean, Reman, Andorian
Sci: Orion, Gorn, Romulan
Eng: Klingon, Nausicaan
currently captaining:
Tac: HoHSuS, Tor'kaht, Ar'kif, Sovereign
Sci: Corsair, Varanus, T'Varo
Eng: Mogh, Scourge
(all fleet versions)
Sometimes, during the grind, I raise my head and shed a single tear in remembrance of the days of PvP and glory.:)
Main on Sci Ferasan and Tac Klingon alternatively
Have an Eng Orion
2 Rommies and 2 Fed who I occasionally play with.
In a small but tight fleet where we all know each other with L4 SB soon gonna hit L5
We still live!!!!! Hahahahahahahahaa! We live and we will conquer!!!!! Hahahahahaaha!
-Roach, when asked about Klingon extinction!
Primary toons - I play these toons regularly and more or less devote equal time to them (when I have time to do so).
- KDF Tactical (T5u B'rel Retrofit BoP)
- Fed Engineer (Guardian)
- Fed Aligned Rom Science (Breen Carrier)
Secondary toons - These toons are also played on a regular basis, but not quite as frequently as the primary toons.
- KDF Engineer (Qib Battlecruiser)
- KDF Aligned Rom Tactical (Faeht Warbird)
- Fed Science (Dauntless)
Tertiary toon - Playing only once or twice per week. Created during the 2014 Winter Event primary to get the Breen Carrier. The plan is to eventually swap this toon in place of one of the primary or secondary toons.
- KDF Science (T5u B'rel Retrofit BoP)
1 main kdf + 1 main fed + 8 kdf alts + 2 fed alts
List of KDF chars :
2 Klingons tact : Chel'Grett - Somraw Raptor
1 Nausicaan tact - Fleet Hoh'Sus
1 Lethean tact - B'Rel + Fleet Somraw Raptor
1 Alien kdf Eng - Fleet Peghqu' Heavy Destroyer
1 Orion sci - Vorcha
1 Romulan tact - Fleet Mogai + Fleet T'varo
1 Lib Borg Romulan sci - Fleet Mogai
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My fav ships are the Negh'var, d'deridex, d'kora, peghqu', gal-X, and the intrepid.
I am currently a member of both the tl'hap Jen and Vice Squad fleets, both maxed out t5 fleets.
The thing I miss the most is pvping with my fleets in kerrat prior to DR as well as fighting HOBO kdf balls
But after coming back I'm really pleased by how much KDF side has improved. Working on my main:
Name: Yavi
Race: Nausicaan
Role: Tactical
Right now he's been at level 44 for a long time - working on leveling him now.
I also have a Lethean Sci and will probably make a Reman that I'll take Klink side too.
I also have a few feds that I can't invest that much time in right now
Also have 3 alts of different species, all KDF.
Oh no fleet since my previous one disbanded.
Alien (main) Klingon (sec)
2 of 3 (starter toon by game default FED- haven't played beyond lvl 21)
Fleet lvl 4 IIRC (took over 6 months to lvl4 from lvl3)
Been trying to lvl spire, almost 2 months from lvl 1 to lvl 2, were down to about 4 active members now. Fleet embassy still at lvl1.
Fed SB still at lvl 1.
Awoken Dead
Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
outpacing the fed counterpart is the true measure of a real kdf fleet :P
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(well technically 11 + 4 Kromulans ... , but only 3 of them are "mules" and the rest were kicking butt before DR ... :P)
Fed - Wilma Flintstone
KDF - Pebbles Flintstoned
Fed - Dirk Courage
KDF - Cobra Viper
Fed - T'Vir
KDF - Lucky 13
Fed - Gabrielle
Fed - William
Fed - Eleven
Fed - Boom-Boom Kitty-Cat
Fed - Trilla Da Thrilla
KDF - Bandit
KDF - Grimlock
KDF - Drednok Zanya
KDF - Futar
KDF - Lord Snow
KDF - Ravage
Fed - Lo Sam Z'Ain
KDF - Tigertron
Kromulan - Darwi Odrade
Kromulan - Murbella
Kromulan - Pythona
Kromulan - Nightbird
Fed - Agent 004
Fed - Walker
KDF - Roug'h H'ous
Jesu LaRoca (Fed, Human, Tac) (Main)
Ssharki (KDF, Gorn, Eng) (Main)
Sander (Fed, Vulcan, Sci) (Extinct)
Alec Sander (Fed, Klingon, Eng)
Nine (KDF, LibBorg, Tac)
Don'el Sander (FedRom, Romulan, Sci)
Zyx (KDFRom, Reman, Tac)
Harding Cash (KDF, Joined Trill, Sci)
Sway (KDF, Gorn, Tac) (Main)
Lewis McLain (Fed, Human, Sci)
In order of how much I currently play them:
Jesu (3/10)
Sway (2/10)
Ssharki (1.8/10)
Harding (1.0/10)
Alec (.6/10)
Don'el (.5/10)
Nine (.5/10)
Zyx (.3/10)
Lewis (.3/10)
Sander (0/10)
In total I have five KDF-aligned characters (out of nine active) and 2/3 of characters I play as "mains."
...Oh, baby, you know, I've really got to leave you / Oh, I can hear it callin 'me / I said don't you hear it callin' me the way it used to do?...
- Anne Bredon
Main: KDF Alien Engineer
Secondaries: KDF alied Romulan Tactical
Gorn Science
Ferasan Tactical
5th Wheel (Used for faction locked content with fed buddies)
Fed Alien Sci
Doffing/Maruadering Toons:
KDF Reman Sci
KDF Klingon Tact
KDF Alien Tact
KDF Orion Eng
KDF Ferasan Sci
Feds who turn in Contrabands, colonists, and recruitment from academy.
Andorian Tact
Catian Eng
Fed Joined Trill Eng
Fed Allied Romulan Tact.
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1 Fed Reman, 1 Vulcan, 1 Ferengi who I play mostly for the humor value of a 4-foot dude with a pot belly kicking the butts of Jem'Hadar and Borg, a Caitian because obligatory cat jokes, and Three.
My mains are my KDF-Rom, Three, and my Klingon (who has a sweet Mat'Ha). Scimitard, TSABC, and Mat'Ha, respectively. I actually like the TSABC the best; even with a relatively weak build, it tends to put out more damage and last longer than the Scimitard. The Mat'Ha is pure unrelenting firepower, the starship equivalent of a 16-layer chocolate cake. In other words, pure delight to fly, and supremely addictive.
1 main - KDF orion tac
Rest are more or less farming implements to get her all the goodies. Diamonds are girl's best friends - when used as focusing pieces for her elite fleet disruptors.
Never finished the fed campaign.
I play fed a lot too though...
KDF from that point all the way and never looked back since.
Primary character is SCI the rest of the eleven alts are all KDF with one KDF-ROM (not including one FED collecting dust for 5 yrs)
KDF Main:
SCI Klingon
KDF Alts:
SCI Liberated Borg Klingon
TAC Orion
ENG Gorn
TAC Orion
TAC Alien [TOS Klingon]
SCI Alien [Andorian]
ENG Alien [Andorian]
TAC Romulan
TAC Talaxian
TAC Liberated Borg Klingon
FED alt:
SCI Human
Been in and out of several fleets of all different levels, problem I run into is that most are dumping grounds for FED player alt characters and they have zero real interest in KDF side other than occasionally slumming it.
It will. I take month off once or twice a year to play another game. My stip is there waiting on me, if it's true it would be after 30 days at least.
I was Klingon before Klingon was cool.
KDF/KDFRom (primary faction)
Brok'gin, Klingon, Science
*my first KDF character, and still one of my favorites
Duhk, Romulan, Tactical
M'ess, Ferasan, Tactical
S'huk, Reman, Engineer
S'hef, Reman, Tactical
Tejel, Romulan, Science
Grabu, Nausicaan, Engineering
*my current "main" since he's the fellow I was working on when DR hit... and am thus still working on
Tiurcer, Alien, Science
*my primary Delta Recruit, since they gave us the character slot
Fed/FedRom (secondary faction)
Dabot, Betazoid, Engineering
*my first STO character
Yoap, Alien, Science
Forest, Human, Tactical
*created mostly to try out the Federation Tutorial after the revamp
Ka'rinna (formerly Birana), Romulan, Engineering
*she was my disposable character slot, until it became too bothersome to level another character
*re-rolled as a Fed Delta Recruit, killed off once the account unlocks were acquired, re-rolled back to a Romulan, but this time as a Delta Recruit... if she'd been post-60 this wouldn't have happened, but she was always meant to be disposable.
As far as KDF Fleet horror stories... I've got none. Our main Fleet leader has always been one to let folks enjoy the game as they choose, and is always positive about folks chipping in without harassing anyone about not putting in x within y days. I've found most of the KDF playerbase to be both friendly and competent, so even my interactions with other Fleets have been positive. The combination of those factors, and the fact that our KDF half of our allied Fleets really does need the help more, is why my initially balanced distribution of characters across the factions has shifted heavily towards KDF/KDFRom.
It's also why I've spent most of my Zen on the KDF half, and why I generally don't spend squat on my Feds... consider the hint dropped. On your toe. Without shoes on. :P