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cyther77
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Me, I'd like
1. The Borg
2. Species 8472
3. Voth
4. Dominion
5. Q Continuum
1. The Borg
2. Species 8472
3. Voth
4. Dominion
5. Q Continuum
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http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=1447091
The-Grand-Nagus
Join Date: Sep 2008
Doesn't matter. I'd prefer them to be fully independent and equally developed. Otherwise we'd have the mess that exists in STO and its "factions."
I'd prefer it if the Borg, or their ships, never became playable... I mean other than liberated borg within another faction, that's ok.
Dominion/Cardassian would be great.
Other/non-alligned would also be great.
Their storyline would have you and your oddball crew getting into all sorts of trouble while running the whole gamut of space western, high adventure IN SPACE, space gangster, etc, stories, and then you'll follow the cross faction storyline as everyone else does, only you are on a payroll.
Give them a few exclusive dailies (smuggling, bounty hunting, passanger ferrying, etc) and a fitting set of available DOFF assignments and chains (some taken from other factions and some created for them), change mission and assignment rewards to give better EC and DIL but less equipment, marks, and RD materials, and so on. They can't wear uniform-like clothing, but everything which isn't a proper uniform (formal clothes, civilian clothes from all factions, mercenary outfit, miner outfit, summer and winter outfits, etc, maybe also mirror universe and so on) both captain and BOFFs can mix freely.
And make it so they have less DOFFs in reserve or something, because a jury-rigged garbage scow with one hundred hands on board is no fun at all.
As to new 'factions'. We have two and a half now. Which are unbalanced. And have access to entirely too much of each other's gear and tech. Which means My D'deridex is just a Galaxy class with a green paint job and a beak. Aren't 'factions' in any game supposed to let a player experience the game from a different perspective? So how come my Fed ENG can fly a Scimitard equipped with Nanite Disruptors and a Plasmonic Leech? Again, boring.
I would much rather play the game we have right now. I'd like this game to slow down a bit on adding new stuff. To give the Devs some time for improving/repairing the gear and tech we have at present. Adding yet another half faction full of the same old stuff with different colors would be dumb.
"Look! I gotz Cardassian! Now lemme getz the bestest stuff from the others so's I can haz Uber ship! Which is just like my other Uber ship. 'Cept it's Cardassian! Wheeee!"
Next, Cardassians
The story arc? Battered by the Iconian War the moderates rise to power in the Assembly and begin making overtures to the surviving powers in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. Pushed to the sidelines the hardliners react to this policy badly and all hell breaks loose.
*sigh* ..it'll never happen. I can daydream though..
They'd be perfect as a Fraction. You begin after the Cardassian arc as captain of a ship that was left behind after the failed invasion attempt. So lost in the prime universe the first order of business, obviously, is to kill a group of mutineers who tried to take advantage of the confusion to gain control of your ship. through this mission you also recruit all your Boffs.
Once out of the way you could have a few missions that try to explore certain ways they can return to the mirror universe. When they fail it dawns on everyone that they are trapped here for the foreseeable future, and it is decided that it is better to stand beside the devil than in his path.
At this point the KDF and the Feds are still at war, so you find a skirmish between the two and as a good gesture toward your chosen faction you assist them in destroying their enemies. The surviving captain thanks you, and offers to vouch for you in return for further assistance - escorting them back to safe territory. Once back at either Qo'nos or ESD you get your formal club invitation.
Now. Because you skip out on lots of levelling content this actual Fraction has you starting at level 40 with the kicker being you only have the single 'levelling' ship through those initial missions, and a choice between the recycled MU lockbox ships once at a homeworld.
It could be a 'fast track' option for those players who've unlocked it by playing to level 60 first time round.
But I'd say: first get the KDF/Rom/Borg section worked out, only THEN release new content.
The KDF and the Rom are crippled with ship choices, compared to the Feds.
As for the Borg, sure, we lifers can make a LB, but it is darned restricted.
We need more cosmetic options, both for character as for ships.
Drone to Queen/King? :eek:
Excluding them, the only other faction I would truly support would be one that is independent, and not tied to the whole alliance system we've been subjugated with by way of the Republic. I would also want a lot of variety in a new faction (cause lets face it, as far as playable content goes, the Republic sucks; only Romulan and Reman, no thanks)
The Dominion are the more likely candidates cause you've a wide range of potential species within them. The only other option I would support is if Cryptic created an Alliance (of sorts); maybe one from the Delta Quadrant that consisted of multiple species. A coalition of races that have joined together in unison for some greater purpose (similar to the Federation, but less hypocritical). Maybe include a fully cured Vidiian; attempting to rectify their phaged raiders?
The latter would serve as a reason to open up the Delta Quadrant map, and give all of us a reason to be there. I don't remember the last time I wasn't in one of the Alpha or Beta Quadrant sectors. There is little offering me to the Delta Quadrant at the moment.
Has about as much chance as anything else.
If they ever add a 4th faction, some sort of Cardassian/Dominion hybrid seems like the only viable choice to me, but how many people are actually going to play that content? Somewhere in the 7 to 10% range probably, using the Klingon and Romulan numbers as a guide. That's a lot of work to serve that small a number, and keep serving them in the future whenever there's a ship update.
If they could start the game from scratch again, there should probably only be 2 Factions: Starfleet and Not!Starfleet, with Not!Starfleet players getting generic ship builds that they can apply different ship skins to depending on which race they picked. It's frustrating to play a non-Klingon KDF and know that any new content is going to be Klingon-themed and assume you're a Klingon. Less than 8% of the playerbase picks the Klingon race, and some of those are Fed Klingons. And less than 5% are true Romulan. That's a ton of content based around maybe 11% of the characters generated. I like it and am glad it exists, but it's hard to justify.
(Player stats taken from here.)
There'd be an easy way to make people play a new faction.. just give players of a new faction some kind of Delta Recruit treatment and people will create and play alts of that faction - I'm virtually certain of it.
exactly; I have nothing to add
It would be nice to be able to play a little darker faction. Romulans ended up being a bunch of nice guys!
I'm pretty sure the OP is being facetious, considering the entire list is ridiculous and peaks at #5.
I was kidding about the Q continuum, why do think the smiley is there? But not the other ones.
1. Borg
2. Newly invented faction (Andromedans? [and I do not mean Kelvans by that])
3. Xindi (all new ships)
4. Krenim
5. Tribbles (note the lack of emotes)
6. Cardassians
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Voth, good idea. I respect our reptilian ancestors.
Romulan Empire since the ships are already designed. (no Tovan)
Do people really want a fourth or fifth faction in this game who'll get a tiny handful of ships, costume options, social zones and story line content before joining the homogenised endgame every other faction shares with the Federation? Really? As they demonstrated with the KDF and then with the romulans, Cryptic simply isn't going to put the time and effort into another faction that isn't the Federation. They just won't. If they do anything at all it'll be LoR 2.0. We'll get cardassians who'll join the Federation at level 10. We'll get liberated borg who ally with the Federation at level 10. We can play as Dominion Changelings in the Great Link who ally with the Federation at level 10. We'll get to play Q who decides to join the fight against the Iconians by allying with the Federation at level 10. We'll get a fully-fleshed out pakled faction whose ship breaks down and gets rescued by a passing Federation ship who'll help us go again at level 10.