More species for DSC/STD Captains?

[Evill Bob]

Seen in one of the posts from the devs about Discovery style Andorians and Tellarites eventually being playable for Discovery Captains, but that was some time ago. Any word on if and when that might be?

[Sandormen]

Nope, but I started a ToS-tellarite, made her into proper Discovery... ...Then the mirror-disco-lockbox comes... I spend my dilithium, get my lobies... ...and. Big nope. My tellarite is not allowed to buy the mirror-outfitr... FFS, angry AF. -My romuline can't get it either.
My oldskool Trill can get it...

...And for cryptical reasons, even with timetravel, etc... ...my snouty tellarite can't have it....

[The Arkady]

Given what Cryptic has said about no playable STD Klingons because so much effort to create the assets, I doubt they'll do STD Andorians or Tellarites, either.

I mean, like practically every species not human, both contracted some terrible mutagenic STD that makes them look somewhat to dramatically different from the real Andorians or Tellarites of eras when there's no STD problem.

[Evill Bob]

Originally posted by The Arkady:

Given what Cryptic has said about no playable STD Klingons because so much effort to create the assets, I doubt they'll do STD Andorians or Tellarites, either.

The major difference is that they did say at one point they were going to add them in. I never read the "no Klingons" release, but I would imagine the assets they were probably talking about was an entire seperate introduction campaign just for one species that only a very few people were going to play.

Besides most of the assets for the other species are already there, in game, and I cannot imagine what problem the STO team would have with their CC and faction select screen that would inhibit them from doing so other than time or the worlds worst coding outside of the Frostbyte engine.

[The Arkady]

Originally posted by Evill Bob:

Besides most of the assets for the other species are already there, in game

So are those for the NPC STD Klingons. If it is too hard to turn STD Klingons into a purely cosmetic PC option (which is essentially what Cryptic claimed), it's presumably also too hard to turn NPC STD Andorians/Tellarites into a purely cosmetic PC option.