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A Dominion faction would be awesome. It would indeed open up the Gamma Quadrant. But I'm not so sure about the stand-alone factor. Recently, I saw a Loading screen with the word "Unite" and around it, were the insignis from several factions, including the Dominion.

Also, I think it would invite quite an outrage from the player base. Imagine Ships like the JHAS, JHSS, JHEC, JHDC being easily available for ZEN, while the other factions spent tons of money to get those Ships from Lock Boxes, the Lobi Store and/or different DOFF / R&D Packs.

In any case, I would like to see a "Villain" faction. A faction, where you can let out your dark side.

Borg. Cryptic has already trained us to do mindless grinding task :p

I like the Card/Dominion Faction will be great because there is not a storyline with the Gamma Quad. I would like to know what happen to the Dominion after the episodes of Deep Space Nine ended including how Bajor became part of the Federation.
Also, I hope you start doing more storyline with the Xindi and perhaps revamp some of the story of the Klingon conflict with the Federation because the episodes deal more with the Devedians and the Undine than with Klingons itself. Perhaps have the Devedians and the Undine are trying to start a war between the two powers which finally ends into a peace treaty alliance.

Any would be fine with me as long as its not another half-faction like the Romulans turned out to be.
Totally dependent on Starfleet or the KDF for their needs...

Hell, I would love to be able to log into the game again. Haven't been able for 2 weeks now since they started the Iconian War update.

CARDASSIAN FACTION!!!!

I guess the next faction will most likely be dependent on where they are expanding the game to, more Delta or new Gamma.

Currently, the liberated borg would fit best into the "Choose your side," which encompasses more than fleets. The foundry, the storylines, all make use of the "Faction Choice" to determine participation.

They could play it off as a member of the cooperative that wants to regain a portion of their former life...

I've been wishing for a neutral Ferengi faction, myself. In terms of non-Fed cultures they really are one of the most well-fleshed out in canon. So lots of material to work with.

I'm in favor of borg faction just my 2 cents.

Dominion would cause outrage, crdssian would make sense as a federation ally. The valor you can but from the exchange would probably be renamed "23 century valor class" a hediki T1, a heavly armored hediki t2, heavy hediki-light galor t3, t4 galor or a hediki variant, t5 (lv40) keldon(assault cruiser setup) galor retrofit, and some light galor hediki class.

Cryptic/PWE has certainly laid the ground for a Liberated Borg faction, but I think this would be a weak option for a faction expansion. In my opinion, The Dominion has been a glaring omission from STO. An empire that once covered the majority of known Gamma Quadrant space and which rivaled any of the Alpha/Beta Quadrant empires, yet, is allowed only small episodic content in STO. The Cardassians should be made a playable race, but I'm not sure there's enough canon material for an entire faction. With the Cardies already divided into two factions in STO's story, it might be easier to incorporate them into the existing arc...using the same 'coming of age' pvp faction choice the Romulans were given. I have friends that left STO over the lack of a Cardassian faction, so there's a market for one. Still, I'ld personally choose The Dominion, or Gamma Quadrant expansion for STO's future project.

I don't think they should develop another faction. I think their next development project should involve making stories based onboard our ships. I think having more personal interactions with Bridge Officers would make the game feel much more like Star Trek. Add more onboard intrigue and mystery. Some of the best episodes never left the ship and started with a quiet drink in the lounge, or interesting banter on the bridge.

There is already a Liberated Borg character that you cam get as a LifeTime sub.But that would still be awsome to not be a sub and still have a Borg character. I thnk if they do come up with a whole faction for the Borg it will be 100 ZEN to use the faction. I would also love to see them have Borg ships availble form C-Store and a Fleet Version. Flying around a Borg Cube or even a Borg Command Ship would be Epic. I also would think they would give you a complete Borg storyline. It would be an awsome Season 11 for Star Trek Online.

Correction 1000 ZEN not 100. That would be one cheap faction!

Dominion would be a very logical option, after having Rommies. The whole enemy faction being blasted to bits and rebuilding their territory is a very similar idea, as would be the equivalent of the Tal Shiar vs. the Republic. Probably more of the internal politics of the Founders and such. Gotta say I found the whole DS9 arc ingame kind of trippy, but there's so much possible improvement to be had.

On the other hand, Lib'd Borg would be another good choice... for pretty much the exact opposite reasons. They'd be starting from scratch, and not actually having much forced contact with the Collective. The real conflict would be with the species who got burned by the Borg and are unconvinced of the main character's de-indoctrination.

Whatever we get, more voiceovers would be amazing. Tovan, Elisa, and K'gan were really cool characters anyway, and having them with even partial voiceovers was awesome. The next step would be getting male and female VAs for our actual characters. Unlikely, but it'd be fun to have even just one for each sex on every faction. More examples of good voice acting in STO are Ambassador Staass and Hakeev, as well as Worf and D'Tan, later on.

I think Cardassians or Borg would be ok, but now that we have TOS Starfleet, how about TOS Klingons? And there's always the Xindi, which have their own ships and five different species anyway. Then again, they could always wait for Discovery to come out and use whatever new aliens appear there (maybe whatever Lt. Saru will be, maybe whatever those Klingon-ish aliens are)