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What differences are there between Fed/Klingon allegiance?
katyusha454
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I just recently started playing a Romulan character, and the next mission is the one where I choose which side I take. I know that you're able to get ships from that faction and some uniform stuff, but what benefits can you get from each faction? I assume there's a tradeoff between the two but since I can't find any information on what you actually get by picking a side I have no idea what to choose.
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Doffs and gear are the significant difference. You get the doffs and doff missions of whichever faction you pick, so lower prices and generally better availability if you go Fed or options for all the contraband farming if you go KDF. Gear wise, you get access to the faction's special consoles of any c-store ships you own (access to the Plasmonic Leech for cheaper if you go KDF for example), but also starbase access for faction-specific gear (and its easier to find an advanced Fed fleet than a Klingon one).
Its really not a huge difference.
The KDF has plenty of "raid" missions that lasts 45 minutes (plus whatever cool down you must wait before they repeat). A normal success rewards 2 contrabands while a critical success rewards 5 contraband. There is a Doff mission (both Fed and KDF) where you give 5 contraband to a security in return for 2,000 dilithium ore which takes 4 hours. Since it is far more easier to earn contraband in the KDF faction you can run this mission more often. For example, my Fed Engineering toon has about 400 rare and very rare Doffs, but missions (diplomatic. military, espionage) that reward contraband do not appear very often so at best I may get 6 - 9 contraband per day. My KDF tactical toon has about 300 rare and very Doffs and at best I have received 45 contraband in one day, but mostly it is 30 or more. A KDF toon with only 100 uncommon Doffs should generally be able to get around 10 - 12 contraband per day as long as you take the time to look for these types of missions.
The KDF have a lot of "Forced Labor" military missions where you turn over 4 prisoners (I buy them from the Exchange) and are rewarded with 500 dilithium ore on a normal success; 1,500 dilithium ore with a critical success. Assuming you can find 5 of these missions and have 20 prisoners, you should be able to get at least 2,500 dilithium ore (assuming the mission does not fail). The Federation do not have access to many missions that can reward 500 dilithium ore.
You can refine 8,000 dilithium ore into 8,000 dilithium crystals per day. The refined dilithium can be exchanged for Zen so that you can buy things in the C-Store which only uses Zen. The only other way to obtain Zen is to buy it with real money.
Beyond that, as a member of the KDF you can purchase T1 - T4 KDF starships (Fed starships if you were to join the Federation). There is one particular ship that is highly desired by KDF players and that is the T3 Vandel Destroyer (1,000 Zen) which allows you to claim the Plasmonic Leech console many times over (but only one can be installed per ship and it is bound to your toon once claimed). The Leech drains power away from your target ship and transfers it over to your ship. The amount of power drained depends on how high your "Flow Capacitor" captain skill. More power added to your ship means your ship will perform better. Federation toons can also get the Plasmonic Leech for their ships, but it must be purchased from the Exchange and it generally costs 38 million to 42 million EC.
Because you are flying a Romulan starship you have 40 points of powerful subtracted from the 200 points of power that a Fed / KDF starships normally have available to be allocated to your ships subsystems. That is because the singularity core uses the 40 points of power to give your ship singularity abilities.
Initially the lack of power is not noticeable because you are fighting relatively weak enemies. However, as you level up enemy starships will have more hit points and more firepower. The Plasmonic Leech is recommended for engineering and tactical Romulan captains, but it is more or less a requirement if you are a Romulan science captain.
Science abilities effectiveness depends on auxiliary power, but you still need power in weapons as well. A 40 power point penalty means that you will not have a lot of power to allocate to all your subsystems. Engineers and tactical captains can ignore auxiliary power if they want to, but a science captain cannot do that.
If you have either an engineer or tactical toon, then go either way. If you have a science toon, then I highly recommend you go with the KDF. I have a Romulan science captain that I aligned with the Federation because I didn't know any better. That toon currently flies the free T6 Breen Carrier (science heavy) from the 2014 Winter Event in December so that I do not have to deal with the power issues.
For KDF, buying a low-tiered C-Store ship makes Plasmonic Leech an faction-account wide thing, as do some of the low tiered consoles/ships like the Aceton Assimilators. If you intend to have multiple KDF/KDF-Rom characters, having immediate access to Plasmonic Leech for all of those characters is a great EC-saving luxury that the Feds/Fed-Roms will not have.
A small side benefit of the KDF is that First City is quiet, mellow :cool: You don't have to turn off your Zone Chat window while there conducting your business. Ask your questions and it's taken cared of. The only bad part of First City is the occasional, hardcore gold spammers.
One thing that needs to be mentioned are the cost of items in the exchange between Fed/KDF/Fed-Rom/KDF-Rom. In general, things for the KDF side are more expensive. Some a tad bit more, others outrageously more. For example, KDF DOFFs can go a lot more. The issue is supply and demand. The KDF playerbase is far smaller than the Fed side, so you don't have as much of a supply of certain things coming in more regularly than Fed side.
For Fleet related items, outside ships themselves, there is 1 last advantage the KDF has. Elite Fleet Disruptors >>> Elite Fleet Phasers. All Fleet weapons are straddled with pretty bad mod sets on them. But the Elite Fleet Disruptors at least have that wonderful shield killing proc that still makes them look enticing.
Drawbacks
pug content is more restricted of its faction based because the Qs don't fill well
Duty officers for space and ground are much more expensive
clothing for your characters is limited verses fed
Saphire.. Science ground......Ko'el Romulan space Tac
Leva........Tactical ground.....Koj Romulan space Eng
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Fed aligned don't really get anything special in the low level ships and cannot get contraband.
fed fleets/activity level is higher, but there are active and developed kdf fleets too, just gotta look harder.
For the most part, they play the same story and do the same things. The "main" story arcs that all players do are fed tainted and often make less sense as a kdf player. Or no sense at all in some cases.
So it boils down to
contra
leech
DO assignments
social gaming interactions.
Well, the OP is playing Rom so the ship selection is going to be limited anyways since he's not a pure Fed :cool:
My character Tsin'xing
No, you will NOT be able to use either the T5 nor the T6 ships.
With the one exception of the tier 5 ambassador that was given away last year which somehow allowed you to claim it as a rommie.
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That was a glitch. Just like the fact that KDFers can still wear swimsuits off Risa.
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You get an alliance uniform, for starters. In my opinion, the KDF allegiance uniform is the much cooler of the two choices you have (I do wish we could unlock those uniform via level 4 of the diplomacy/maurauding commendation track since we don't get diplomacy uniforms). However, from that point out you also apparently suffer from a limited palette of colors when customizing your character.
What struck me the most, though, was the change in dialogue.
For Fed, there was actually not that much in the way of change. Some of my officers seemed unduly concerned with the Federation's prime directive, but that was about it.
For the KDF, the way my officers changed more dramatically. They became much more concerned with 'honor', glory to the Empire and Qa'pla was getting tossed around waaay to often.
...
So, as I wanted a Romulan crew and not a klingon crew, I chose to side with the Federation. My foremost goal was to stay as Romulan as possible.
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