Recent blog posts and interviews reflect that the playerbase can expect some forward momentum with regards to the Romulan storyline. When might we actually see the new story-based material?
We will start talking about the Romulan story soon, but you may also get some teasers in any events or missions we release over the next few months.
STO underwent enormous game mechanics changes with the addition of the starbase and reputation systems. Can we expect any additional mechanics changes in 2013 or are you satisfied with focusing on adding new reputation factions?
We are mostly satisfied with the new systems that were introduced over the last year and instead of abandoning them, our plans in 2013 are to expand on both Reputations and the Fleet System. We will be introducing a new Fleet Holding and a new Reputation in our next update and have plans to add more towards the latter half of the year as well.
If we do make some additional system changes it would come in the form of PvP, crafting, or quality-of-life gameplay improvements. For the most part we are focusing on improving the game overall instead of introducing a big new system.
You've stated that you thought that the upcoming Season Eight release would be "big" for the Klingon faction. Do you have anything you can add to that?
We've stopped calling it a season for starters. When we look at all the time and energy being put into this next update, it feels like it's shaping into something much larger. While we haven't shared specifics yet, we will be detailing our plans for the Klingon faction in the coming months.
You've stated in the past that we will likely see an expansion of the new reputation system in the game. Can you provide us with any hints as to what factions may open up next? If not, what factions would you personally like to see developed in the reputation system that may not be on the drawing board just yet?
We do plan to release some new Reputations as mentioned and the ones at the top of our list are: PvP, Tholians, and Deferi. We feel that these would add a new dimension to those areas of content in the game and provide a source of cool new gear for captains.
All in all, based on everything that's been said recently - here and there - etc, etc, etc...
...I'd lean more toward no wheeeee! in the sense that people are hoping,but rather an overall wheeee! as far as where STO's headed.
The D'deridex tactics dont seem to indicate that, its a ship that usually decloaks and tries to end the fight without moving much, considering its size I would not think it can turn as fast as a Galaxy class, you are making it out-turn the Excelsior and the Soverign ... heck you are making it out-turn the Connie at 10 turn rate.
Likely its big, does not turn very well and its squishy and Galor BO? Dont think so at least certainly not a Eng Sci station, Lt. Cmdr Tac is a given due to the usual trick of TB -> HY III but NPC ships also use Viral Matrix and Photonic Shock Wave so at least Lt. Cmdr for Science as well, its Eng I suppose will take a hit.
it has shown to be very maneuverable for its size in the show, and judging by how it performed as a line ship in the dominion war, it should proboly act like a gigantic version of a bop. huge, lots of firepower, but fragile and not meant to be in a long engagement. despite what the npc uses, the ship should primarily be commander eng with strong tac.
since this is a new faction with new rules, how about this
I am sorry but if the centuries old venerable Romulan Bird-of-Prey that dates back to TOS have the same abilities as the Defiant I will die laughing.
No, its not like the Defiant because we already HAVE a Romulan Defiant ... the Valdore/Mogai.
the bops in game, just pretend the have nothing to do with ent and tat they are a recent design, completely. thats what i did a long time ago. you cant be serious right? the mogai as a defiant equivalent? the mogai is like 10 times the defients size at least, they should be nothing alike. and its not an escort, its a romulan heavy cruiser. but a destroyer type makes the most sense for it in game.
bop COM tac LTC tac LTC sci LT eng
18 turn
24000 hull
1.2 shields
I do not think we will ever get a Scimitar, the ship is far too powerful (we ARE talking about a ship that fought a Soverign class AND TWO Valdore at the same time) to be put on the players hands.
we have the jem dred and you don't think we would get the scim? thats funny. its also funny how over rated the scim is, because it could beat the sovereign, as if thats even starfleets toughest cruiser. if the enterprise D hadnt been destroyed, and had gotten its 20 year massive overhaul by then, i doubt it would have lost to a scim in a strait fight. or any 2379 galaxy class. the scim doesn't had the firepower of a d'deridex, it was certainly smaller too. the scim was a super weapon citadel more then a battle ship, it had a tone of weapon mounts and torp launchers, but they were all smaller guns or single shot launchers. the nose gun on a d'deridex could remove 10% of the galaxy's shields per hit, the scim's guns though numerous were far below that. its primarily a supremely shielded battleship chassis with most of its volume taken up by a super weapon with cruiser guns. i'll be generous for in game stats though
Warbird cant have a cmnd eng as the warbird currently is using VM, PSW, and tractor. so it has to have both Sci Lt.cmnd and a Sci cmnd, Lt engie and lt. tact.
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PaxOttomana: gawd mirror event is like fighting a tsi premade, they keep comin and comin!
-A May release date doesen't give enough time to make a whole faction's worth of content, regardless of already have a lot of skins, ships, weapons, doffs and characters ingame to suck into it.
-The Klink faction needs finishing FIRST.
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Warbird cant have a cmnd eng as the warbird currently is using VM, PSW, and tractor. so it has to have both Sci Lt.cmnd and a Sci cmnd, Lt engie and lt. tact.
It's funny, allowing for a moment to slip into the insanity, but were a Romulan faction added - my interest would not be in any of the Romulan/Reman ships.
I'd be looking at the Hirogen Hunter Escort or Apex Battleship...
It's funny, allowing for a moment to slip into the insanity, but were a Romulan faction added - my interest would not be in any of the Romulan/Reman ships.
I'd be looking at the Hirogen Hunter Escort or Apex Battleship...
Boooooo! Outcast! *shuns*
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PaxOttomana: gawd mirror event is like fighting a tsi premade, they keep comin and comin!
It's funny, allowing for a moment to slip into the insanity, but were a Romulan faction added - my interest would not be in any of the Romulan/Reman ships.
I'd be looking at the Hirogen Hunter Escort or Apex Battleship...
What's wrong with Romulan/Reman ships? They look great. I myself can't wait to get my hands on a D'Deridex or Norexan class.
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Christ Drunk at that rate why on earth would anyone play Fed/Klinkydink? lol
you know you like it! i'd consider removing 2k hull and .1 shield mod though. if none of the ships have any staying power, their station setups wont do them much good.
also npc abilities determining eventual player ship station setups is... silly. it would make the d'deridex a science vessel. its not.
its a huge ambush decloak striker, they were slaughtered when used as ships of the line in the dominion war. the romulans in the form of the scimitar have proven to be good at making very strong shields, unfortunately there seemed to be a rule that no ship could have shields during the dominion war, except the defiant, and the DS9 station.
PLEASE ! don't ruin Romulan Star Empire with aliens ships( like you do with klings & feds) or species...pure romulan only... f%&ck others ! ! !
LoR should to be about rebuilding Romulan Star Empire,liberating Donatra from borg collective ,confronting Sela & madness of Tal Shiar,claiming Vulcan as new romulan homeworld...
You are a more reasonable fellow than your beard has led me to believe, Roach-san. I shall do you a great honor and take your words of wisdom to heart... as should we all.
Ya gotta admit, though, it's nice to fantasize a bit every once in awhile, though.
Apathy for STO in general hath tempered my metal to something less than just angry but the old wounds of the KDF still ache upon me in the winter of Cryptics/PWEs uncaring for they only see one tree in the forest of STO.
"Scimitaur ship is reserved for any future Romulan faction" at least points to a RSE eventually. Though the May surprise may just be a start to it instead of the whole as many hope.
All we can do is wait and see. STO needs to be true multifaction game with many fully fleshed factions to enjoy instead of one faction and two hangers-on.
I was very happy to see KDF kits are on the way (yay Targ handlers), that the captain of the BortasQu is finally gettong recognized and especially the BOff revamp hint.
STO has potential to rise above as a jewel in MMOs and even though I am seen as a Klingon troll by many, that lofty perch is something I still wish to see it achieve.
Toss in the Refit, Retrofit, and Fleet versions...tada!
Speaking of the Borg, ahem - lol - picture the following:
You're looking at the Will you March? page. The music starts. The screen shakes. The edges begin to glow with that familiar green. A cutting beam starts to tear apart the image on the screen - revealing two simple yet ornate lines:
You're looking at the Will you March? page. The music starts. The screen shakes. The edges begin to glow with that familiar green. A cutting beam starts to tear apart the image on the screen - revealing two simple yet ornate lines:
We are the Borg.
Resistance is futile.
There's one serious flaw to this master plan
Well two actually, if you count the walking animation that makes one appear as though someone rammed a candlestick up ... (You get the picture.)
The point I was trying to make before my S&M went into overdrive, have you considered how long it would take you to get from point a to point b. More importantly, why would you need to when you can just plug yourself into the nearest socket so to speak
And then there's the unique costume party the Borg have got going ...
So what started out as a gleeful , rapidly descended into , and round about the candlestick I was like :eek:
Borg seven to two: R we going straight?
Borg two of nine: Hell if I know.
Borg Uber one: Swivel! Swivel!
But if I did find myself playing the Borg ... my robot dance emote would hold new meaning to my little world.
Comments
We will start talking about the Romulan story soon, but you may also get some teasers in any events or missions we release over the next few months.
STO underwent enormous game mechanics changes with the addition of the starbase and reputation systems. Can we expect any additional mechanics changes in 2013 or are you satisfied with focusing on adding new reputation factions?
We are mostly satisfied with the new systems that were introduced over the last year and instead of abandoning them, our plans in 2013 are to expand on both Reputations and the Fleet System. We will be introducing a new Fleet Holding and a new Reputation in our next update and have plans to add more towards the latter half of the year as well.
If we do make some additional system changes it would come in the form of PvP, crafting, or quality-of-life gameplay improvements. For the most part we are focusing on improving the game overall instead of introducing a big new system.
You've stated that you thought that the upcoming Season Eight release would be "big" for the Klingon faction. Do you have anything you can add to that?
We've stopped calling it a season for starters. When we look at all the time and energy being put into this next update, it feels like it's shaping into something much larger. While we haven't shared specifics yet, we will be detailing our plans for the Klingon faction in the coming months.
You've stated in the past that we will likely see an expansion of the new reputation system in the game. Can you provide us with any hints as to what factions may open up next? If not, what factions would you personally like to see developed in the reputation system that may not be on the drawing board just yet?
We do plan to release some new Reputations as mentioned and the ones at the top of our list are: PvP, Tholians, and Deferi. We feel that these would add a new dimension to those areas of content in the game and provide a source of cool new gear for captains.
All in all, based on everything that's been said recently - here and there - etc, etc, etc...
...I'd lean more toward no wheeeee! in the sense that people are hoping,but rather an overall wheeee! as far as where STO's headed.
it has shown to be very maneuverable for its size in the show, and judging by how it performed as a line ship in the dominion war, it should proboly act like a gigantic version of a bop. huge, lots of firepower, but fragile and not meant to be in a long engagement. despite what the npc uses, the ship should primarily be commander eng with strong tac.
since this is a new faction with new rules, how about this
d'deridex
COM eng
LTC tac
LTC sci
LT uni
8 turn
33000 hull
1.3 shield mod
fine mogai, whatever its called. it has like 3 or 4 fanon names, couldn't remember what the game called it. why would we not go over this one?
mogai
COM tac
LTC eng
LTC sci
LT uni
14 turn
29000 hull
1.2 shield mod
the bops in game, just pretend the have nothing to do with ent and tat they are a recent design, completely. thats what i did a long time ago. you cant be serious right? the mogai as a defiant equivalent? the mogai is like 10 times the defients size at least, they should be nothing alike. and its not an escort, its a romulan heavy cruiser. but a destroyer type makes the most sense for it in game.
bop
COM tac
LTC tac
LTC sci
LT eng
18 turn
24000 hull
1.2 shields
we have the jem dred and you don't think we would get the scim? thats funny. its also funny how over rated the scim is, because it could beat the sovereign, as if thats even starfleets toughest cruiser. if the enterprise D hadnt been destroyed, and had gotten its 20 year massive overhaul by then, i doubt it would have lost to a scim in a strait fight. or any 2379 galaxy class. the scim doesn't had the firepower of a d'deridex, it was certainly smaller too. the scim was a super weapon citadel more then a battle ship, it had a tone of weapon mounts and torp launchers, but they were all smaller guns or single shot launchers. the nose gun on a d'deridex could remove 10% of the galaxy's shields per hit, the scim's guns though numerous were far below that. its primarily a supremely shielded battleship chassis with most of its volume taken up by a super weapon with cruiser guns. i'll be generous for in game stats though
scimitar
COM sci
LTC tac
LTC eng
LT uni
9 turn
30000 hull
1.5 shield mod
1 hanger
all can battle cloak, all can use DHCs
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-A May release date doesen't give enough time to make a whole faction's worth of content, regardless of already have a lot of skins, ships, weapons, doffs and characters ingame to suck into it.
-The Klink faction needs finishing FIRST.
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Who plays PvE in this game anyhow, lol. I just want to fly that factions ships and get a new taste of PvP.
Oooohhh, only the majority of the player-base!
I wants me a D'Deridex.
Though I don't see a Rommie faction happening in May...
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I'd be looking at the Hirogen Hunter Escort or Apex Battleship...
Boooooo! Outcast! *shuns*
PaxOttomana: gawd mirror event is like fighting a tsi premade, they keep comin and comin!
What's wrong with Romulan/Reman ships? They look great. I myself can't wait to get my hands on a D'Deridex or Norexan class.
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Hull: 42,500
Shield Modifier: 1
Crew: 2000
Weapons: 4/4 (can use Dual Cannons)
Device Slots: 4
X, X
X, X, X, X
X, X
X, X, X
X
Consoles: 3 - 4 - 3
Turn Rate: 9
Impulse Modifier: 0.15
Inertia Rating: 20
+10 Weapon Power
+5 All Power Levels
BOFF layout premised on there being fewer available ships, so the ships will be more customizable than their Fed or KDF counterparts...
Similar such layouts for the Hunter Escort and Huntmaster Dreadnought (which they'd probably make a Carrier launching Seeker Frigates...meh).
Hull: 42000
Shield mod: 1.1
Crew: 800
Weapons: 4/4, cant use cannons.
Device slots: 4
Commander Universal
Lt. Commander Science
Lt. tactical
Lt. Engineering
Ensign universal
Consoles: 3 Tactical, 4 engineering, 3 science
Turn rate: 8
Impulse mod: 0.20
+10 to auxiliary and +10 weapons
I can hope...
PaxOttomana: gawd mirror event is like fighting a tsi premade, they keep comin and comin!
you know you like it! i'd consider removing 2k hull and .1 shield mod though. if none of the ships have any staying power, their station setups wont do them much good.
also npc abilities determining eventual player ship station setups is... silly. it would make the d'deridex a science vessel. its not.
its a huge ambush decloak striker, they were slaughtered when used as ships of the line in the dominion war. the romulans in the form of the scimitar have proven to be good at making very strong shields, unfortunately there seemed to be a rule that no ship could have shields during the dominion war, except the defiant, and the DS9 station.
the romulans should be BOP: the faction.
Apathy for STO in general hath tempered my metal to something less than just angry but the old wounds of the KDF still ache upon me in the winter of Cryptics/PWEs uncaring for they only see one tree in the forest of STO.
R.I.P
Think about this:
American Football has been in open beta for 144 years. ~Kotaku
But anyway, I'm looking forward to see what hideous monstrosities they come up with.
Tell me what!?!?!?
PaxOttomana: gawd mirror event is like fighting a tsi premade, they keep comin and comin!
:mad: usable borg ships would be TRIBBLE
False alarm, Dev.
From what I've read of recaps from the chat, it seems that Dstahl pretty much hinted at the faction being a reality.
And here it is again:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=7831071#post7831071
OMFG
Doubters and speculators, BURRRRRRN!
Romulans! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
PaxOttomana: gawd mirror event is like fighting a tsi premade, they keep comin and comin!
All we can do is wait and see. STO needs to be true multifaction game with many fully fleshed factions to enjoy instead of one faction and two hangers-on.
I was very happy to see KDF kits are on the way (yay Targ handlers), that the captain of the BortasQu is finally gettong recognized and especially the BOff revamp hint.
STO has potential to rise above as a jewel in MMOs and even though I am seen as a Klingon troll by many, that lofty perch is something I still wish to see it achieve.
R.I.P
That would explain the Borg in STO.:rolleyes:
R.I.P
Lol, that caught me off guard...heh.
But still...
"Cruisers:"
Regeneration Probe
Nanite Regeneration Probe
War Sphere
Naninte War Sphere
Strategic Cube
Tactical Operations Cube
"Escorts:"
Probe
Nanite Probe
Tactical Sphere
Nanite Tactical Sphere
Reconnaissance Cube
Heavy Tactical Cube
"Science Vessels:"
Tractor Probe
Nanite Tractor Probe
Command Sphere
Nanite Command Sphere
Surveillance Cube
Tactical Support Cube
"Special:"
Tactical Dreadnought Cube
Tactical Marauder Cube
Tactical Carrier Cube
Toss in the Refit, Retrofit, and Fleet versions...tada!
Speaking of the Borg, ahem - lol - picture the following:
You're looking at the Will you March? page. The music starts. The screen shakes. The edges begin to glow with that familiar green. A cutting beam starts to tear apart the image on the screen - revealing two simple yet ornate lines:
We are the Borg.
Resistance is futile.
There's one serious flaw to this master plan
Well two actually, if you count the walking animation that makes one appear as though someone rammed a candlestick up ... (You get the picture.)
The point I was trying to make before my S&M went into overdrive, have you considered how long it would take you to get from point a to point b. More importantly, why would you need to when you can just plug yourself into the nearest socket so to speak
And then there's the unique costume party the Borg have got going ...
So what started out as a gleeful
Borg seven to two: R we going straight?
Borg two of nine: Hell if I know.
Borg Uber one: Swivel! Swivel!
But if I did find myself playing the Borg ... my robot dance emote would hold new meaning to my little world.
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
PaxOttomana: gawd mirror event is like fighting a tsi premade, they keep comin and comin!
Well on that note!
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Count me as your first Rommie Lemming
it moved like an escort in TNG and it was like 4 times the size of the ent D:D
it should get a sim setup like a galor coz its suppose to be a beast to recon with:D
but knowing cryptic...:eek:
they prolly gunna dwell on it and make it useless...:mad:
Goshia