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Any new playable races coming down the line?
wraithmeister
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I have like a dozen STO characters all maxed out (max level, all tier6 reps, etc), and using many STO races/species including Fed races, Romulan, Klingon races (Ks, gorn, orion), borg, Jem haddar, etc.
However, with all my chars maxed, I like to start up and progress new ones from time to time.
Is there any news on any new playable races STO team is planning to introduce, either standalone (just the race, no new content like borg, talaxian, etc,) or as part of a new STO season/release the way the Jem Haddar were done?
However, with all my chars maxed, I like to start up and progress new ones from time to time.
Is there any news on any new playable races STO team is planning to introduce, either standalone (just the race, no new content like borg, talaxian, etc,) or as part of a new STO season/release the way the Jem Haddar were done?
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Focused more on the major races plus a few smaller ones from each faction. (Human, Vulcan, Andorian, Ferengi, Romulan, Alien, Borg, Klingon, Orion, Gorn, Cardassian, Jem Haddar). Don't really have any desire for Trill, Betazed, Talaxian. I've had others for a while and deleted them, like the Caitan ( thought they were supposed to be good jumpers but did not seem to be able to jump much higher than normal characters). Also, I don't do 3 branches (engineering, science, and Tactical) for each race....I just spread those around...so I have 2 engineers, 4 science, and 6 tactical.
New characters are best with either new faction so you have different experience (different home base, different missions, etc) when leveling them up...like was done with the Jem Haddar, or how the Romulan, Klingon, and fed factions all have different environments for starting out, or even the TOS fed where you start in earlier century.
All the largest factions from the multiple Trek TV series have been done. Who knows...perhaps the new Picard series will introduce a new faction worthy of the STO treatment.
Agreed on the factions, but more races are always appreciated.
More DSC races / choices in general would be great. Right now it's the only faction with only two choices and that's just boring. They did say they are working on DSC Andorians & Klingons, hopefully we'll also get Tellarites. Then there's the Kelpiens where we still don't know. Yes, CBS was clear after season 1 but with everything that happened in the season 2 finale...plus there are other interesting races like Saurians or Barzans in that era.
Discovery era Feds have three...only one with two options (if you can call it that) are Jem Hadar...still think there should have at least been playable Vorta but when you need to cut corners for something else, you need to cut corners for something else.
I also want Suliban for the Romulan Republic.
And Risians for all Factions (or at least KDF and Feds)
the only problem with that is that since the liberated borg are given to lifetime subs, allowing non-lifers to play them (even if only in a new faction) would cause a riot by many who bought the lifetime sub mainly for said borg.
as for races and factions... i would like to see some of the existing races be playable in other factions now (like, why can't a reman join starfleet, as an example.. i know they can align with starfleet but actually playing as starfleet would give different missions.)
as for new races.. the xindi, voth, maybe after recent events with the "beneath the skin" mission we could even get the elachi (spoilers for anyone who hasn't played the mission yet, but at the end we see some elachi revert a little and regain speech.. maybe we can play one of them). hell, theres even a race (non-canon) from an old game (starfleet command) called the Hydran that could be interesting to have..
Yeah...still wish Romulans got Suliban...shame since they're literally in Romulan space.
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I'm open to the idea of having the Xidi as a playable faction. They have like 4 different races to make a Squad with; if you exclude the Aquatics. Heck maybe they can bring back the Avian speices of the Xidi Race.
Plus we'll have like 5 different types of ship designs to play with.
the Jem'Hadar weren't ever playable before the playable dominion were added. and the "advanced" Jem'Hadar aren't for lifetime subs. those are just bought from the c store.. its totally different spending, what, $6-$10 worth of zen for a race and spending $200-$300 for a sub with an exclusive race.
the only way i can see them making a playable borg faction would be to replace the exclusivity of the race with another highly desired race (and, obviously, they would have to let lifetime members keep the ability to play borg on the current factions. though they may have that ability purchasable off the c store for others if they're doing a full replace). the three races i could see as potential exclusive to lifetime subs in the event they had to replace borg would be Changling (though im not sure that would be as well accepted as borg so may need a second race or exclusive borg traits tacked on to make it acceptable), Photonic (so getting to play as a hologram), or (the most likely) Android.
well, they already have Klingons able to join the federation even though they are of the klingon empire. theres no reason to not allow other races to join other factions. and in that case, the Xindi could be released for both feds and klings, though there is no reason they couldn't get at least a faction of their own. i mean, they have no issues using time travel to make a faction (or sub faction, at least) usable. and given that the Xindi were used in the temporal cold war, they could have them come from a time before the xindi joined the federation and then let them choose which faction to align with.
I would like that as well, but im not overly sure what kind of career that would be that the basics and specializations don't already cover..
A lot of people think the devs were at one point considering adding Suliban. Heck the story with the Suliban in STO kinda suggests they used to be affiliated with the RSE. As-is the official reasons involve the story lines. All of the races need to have a story reason to be there. The Jem'hadar player character are all cloned warriors acting as Odo's personal troops. Romulan Republic characters are former members of the RSE military.
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The sheer number of people running the things in vacc suits (often because they are the only way to get Gamma Recruit perks for more playable characters) instead of the very good armor set they come with (which sadly does not come with an opaque helmet option), especially with the "fem'hadar" adding an additional "up yours" at the concept of a Jem'Hadar only faction, should be a clue to the devs that a lot of people want other Dominion options. There are also a lot of faux-Vorta out there already, though it would be much better to be able to play them in their canon faction. It is probably as much of a lost cause as the T6 Nova though.
Other than possibly finishing the Dominion by adding Vorta, I agree that it would be better to add more parts options to the "alien" category (along with it being available to ALL the factions) than it would be to add some other very narrow niche "faction" like the J'H.
A career with section 31!
A career as Starfleet diplomat/ambassador (but of course, handling negotiations like Korben Dallas in the 5th Element).
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like markhawkman said, section 31 is just the intel specialization. as for a diplomat/ambassador.. thats under the duty officers stuff. it wouldn't make sense for a diplomat/ambassador (at least a non-klingon i suppose) to use weapons and go on missions that involve shooting people a lot so it wouldn't really work unless it had its own storyline and "weapon" type equipment.. and then you'd have issues with grouping since, again, a diplomat wouldn't really be involved with much of the fights (again, unless you're klingon)
things about the vorta which make them not possible to be playable.. 1) they weren't combatants.. like.. at all.. thats what the jem'hadar were for. (2) vorta mainly only commanded the First, the First would then pass orders along to those under him. given that the playable dominion rankings don't let us promote boffs to first, there would be little interaction between the pc and the boffs. (3) the dominion storyline wouldn't make sense for a vorta to be involved in, especially the first several missions. (4) vorta were mostly closes, so easily replaced if captured or killed. (this may not make much of a difference in gameplay but for lore issues it would be bad)..
like wise, the reason theres no "aliens" options for the doms is because the founders only really used jem'hadar as their fighting force.
not sure what you mean by "fem'hadar" but if you're thinking female jem'hadar.. there are no female jem'hadar..
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