Ground breaking Klingon info

http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?show=1393

Very interesting. What I took away from it:

-Not all Klingon ships can cloak. This seems to be limited to BoP style ships and their variants.
-Klingon captains are not constrained by class specific bridge stations. They can utilize any combination of BOFs they please (ie: all science BOFs, no science BOFs, etc).

No where's my Orion/Gorn/Nausie info?!!

Interesting, the open bridge stations does allow them greater flexibility there. It does seem that Klingons aren't as fleshed out as the Federation, but I still want to give them a crack.

It would appear that the Klingon faction is a little less fleshed out. Still sounds interesting, I may give it a whirl.

Interesting but it seems that Klingon content is somewhat incomplete at launch. Too bad...

...is this news to you guys? 95% of what I've read on the STO forums in the last two weeks has been griefing from Klingon players about Federation favoritism. To most, this article was actually a pleasant surprise regarding Klingon content.

I now understand what has been going on.

Having Klingons represent "monster play" was the only way out for Cryptic.
- it recognizes a "canon" aspect of Star Trek, but...
- by controlling the factions, it protects the integrity of the IP
- and it allows the minority (anything <= 49.9%) who enjoy PvP to have a place set aside
- focuses time and money to where the majority of players are
- provides a model for implementation of other, "niche" interests, like Romulan or Cardassian

The Trek IP always came with strings attached. This was the only solution.

-edit-
I suppose the only way that this will be modified is based on player response (or rather, lack of) in game.

Oh, don't you worry Dru, I'm not a Klingon griefer, I'm a die hard FedRat. I very much like what Cryptic has done with the Klingon faction.

I think that in the end, playing as a Klingon will be very difficult and take an extremely skilled gamer to pull off. And as a casual FedRat gamer, I really REALLY like that. This will go miles into creating a great atmosphere for the game.

Just imagine, you're out there as a mid rank Lt. on an episodic mission and you wander into the Neutral Zone. All of a sudden a Klingon player ship, of any level, de-cloaks off your port bow and you feel real, legitimate, unbridled FEAR because you know the guy on the other end of that PC must be a real badass to have earned that 2nd tier Bird of Prey.

I can't wait

This just in: All Klingon ships, except the massive carrier ship, can cloak. However, only BoPs can cloak during combat.

Straight from the mouth of Devs, and I for one think that's a really good system they set up there.

"Players can choose between Klingon, Gorn, Orion, Lethean, Nausicaan, and of course the custom alien option." BONUS!!!

I'm really excited about this actually, I love the fact they've forcibly focused all Klingon attention on doing absolutely nothing except trying to kill us Fed types. Seriously, that's awesome as a Fed player. I have an enemy to truly fear!! They're going to be out there hunting us day in and day out!!

It seems they have the opportunity to min/max their loadouts - If they follow a wolfpack strategy with defined roles, it would be extremely dangerous.

Looks like it's going to be duels and arena play.

Ezmac028 wrote:...is this news to you guys? 95% of what I've read on the STO forums in the last two weeks has been griefing from Klingon players about Federation favoritism. To most, this article was actually a pleasant surprise regarding Klingon content.

Most of it wasn't news to me either. Having read Jack's interview with MMORPG.com, I am reassured that Klingons will be worth playing and aren't quite as hard done by as some on the forums make out.