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The Ultimate Romulan Faction Survey Thread
betawatcher
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So it sounds like a Romulan faction may be in the works(see I used the word "may"?). Anyway, here are some important questions regarding a possible Romulan faction. Please answer all of the following questions:
(1) What ships would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
(2) What playable species would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
(3) What storyline would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
(4) What main types of content would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
(5) What do you think should make the Romulan faction unique?
(6) Why are or arent you looking forward to a Romulan faction?
Hopefully this collected information will be of some use to the devs! :cool:
(1) What ships would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
(2) What playable species would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
(3) What storyline would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
(4) What main types of content would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
(5) What do you think should make the Romulan faction unique?
(6) Why are or arent you looking forward to a Romulan faction?
Hopefully this collected information will be of some use to the devs! :cool:
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(2) Romulan, Reman, Alien, Liberated Borg of the previous three.
(3) The faction could focus on D'Tan/Obisek's New Romulus faction, as they rally survivors of the Hobus Supernova and rebuild their civilisation with the help of the KDF and Starfleet.
(4) L1-20 content, with the budding NRE captain first reaching out to scattered Romulan colonies, fighting against Sela's Tal Shiar faction, and gradually branching into the later FEs by L50.
(5) Mainly uniforms and ship costumes, as well as possibly more subterfuge-oriented missions.
(6) Whilst I probably won't roll a Romulan toon, I'd like new players to have the option of starting as a Romulan or KDF from the get-go.
Starships:
- Bird-of-Prey
- Lanora-class
- Seeker-class
- Apnex-class
- Hunter-class
- Mogai-class
- Venatic-class
- D'deridex-class
- Apex-class
- Scimitar-class
- Huntmaster-class
Small craft:
- Romulan shuttle
- Scorpion Fighter
- Marauder
All Romulan ships will have the Reman skin, of course.
Romulans, Remans, Hirogen, Liberated Borg, Alien
I want the Romulan faction to be the Star Empire under Sela, and generally antagonistic to the Tal Shiar (Sela doesn't like them, and they're serving the Iconians anyway).
Intrigues on Rator III and other Imperial worlds, fighting the Klingons/Feds/enemy Romulans, etc.
Fed ships are generally Engineering-oriented, and KDF ships are generally Tactical-oriented. So naturally, the Romulan ships should be Science-oriented.
I am looking forward to it because it will be totally epic. I am not looking forward to it because it will make it more and more difficult for the Devs to develop content for every faction on a regular basis.
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I won't demand they be free, however, I'd happily pay zen for both things. The BoP had a very tiny bridge on the show... but it was no smaller than some of the current lockbox ships. Keep up the good work!
Both peoples have similar histories and both are trying to rebuild after having their home-worlds devastated (one by a supernova, and the other through war).
Both have rogue factions that seek to restore their empires to their former militaristic 'glory'. (The True Way and the Tal Shiar).
And both people are struggling with limited resources and both have a war weary people. I think the union is not only logical, but inevitable.
2.) Romulan and Reman with Liberated Borg of each. NOTHING ELSE!
3.) Storyline - from the Tal-shiar pov - return the RSE to it's glory! Find Sela and return her for justice. Repel the incursions by Federation and Klingon forces. Put down the insurrection occurring on "New Romulus". Clear out the infestation of Hirogen within the Empire.
4.) Missions that fall within the overall Romulan storyline in #3. Maybe a couple of RSE/KDF FEs and some RSE/Fed FEs. Definitely need a new group of "STF" type missions.
5.) Secrecy, xenophobia, usage of science, Advanced Battle Cloak on all ships. Some borg technology on high-level ships before ever getting near the current STFs.
6.) Been waiting since 2009 for a Playable Romulan faction in STO. With the present state of STO, it's time to add another faction.
p.s. Stick a fork in the KDF as it's DONE!
2.) While I want the Romulan, Remans and the liberated versions of each they will have to add the Alien "species" and if they dont have a few others the majority of Romulan "fans" will rage and rage and rage. Pure Romulans forever!!!!
3.) Honestly I don't know. The Tal'shiar pov would be interesting and would offer some unique doff missions. The Feds get diplomacy, klinks get marauding, Romulans...who knows. But then from a loyalist pov you could be helping Sela flush out the traitorous Tal'shiar, bring their Iconian masters to heel and restore order to the Empire. I don't want to see anything from the New Romulus pov as that would just feel to close to the Feds.
4.) I want to see a whole bunch of things related to spying, sneaking and just being unseen in general. Whether it is some unique Romulan only stfs, which I feel they should add to each race, or a doff mission section or even some mini games I will be happy.
5.) We need unique abilities related to being sneaky.
6.) When Sto was first announced I was thrilled, I could not wait to play on the side of the Romulans....when I heard it was only going to be Feds and klinks to start I was really disapointed. I have been waiting "patiently" for several years now.........-twitch, twitch-
story wise - as a true Romulan i despise the whole reunification movement and i do really hope that Sela will finally DO SOMTHING
you know, would this be a sandbox game, we would do something by outselves by now
From what i understand - Romulans are a very proud, intelligent, pragmatic while hidden emotional faction. Unlike Vulcans they are allowed to be not logic and to follow their intuition.
Races? Romulan, Reman, Hirogen
Truthfully, despite seeing almost exclusively Romulans in the televised RSE, I'd be most happy with at least a half dozen races. It'd BORING to play a faction where everyone looks the same. sure, not all Feds are humans, but a lot of Fed races are really hard to distinguish from humans...
My character Tsin'xing
all Romulan ships (including TOS style Bird of Prey),
true Reman Ships (Romulan Warbird with different texture is still a Romulan ship! Reman Ships look like the Scimitar in small, as of Countdown Comics, i want THOSE!)
(2) What playable species would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
- Romulan
- Reman
- Hirogen
(3) What storyline would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
I don't care as long as i can work for SELA! (Sela being the main questline questgiver, like Admiral Quinn is for the Feds).
D'Tan and his goodie good shoes can go join the Feds and tag Eppohs all day long for all i care!
I want REAL Romulans, including the Tal'Shiar.
(4) What main types of content would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
All of the non-faction specific content obviously.
+ 20 or so Story Missions
a bunch of Patrols
...unique DOff Assignments and chains.
(5) What do you think should make the Romulan faction unique?
- Stealthy GAMEPLAY
- more brains, less pew pew
- and a FIXED cloaking device, no more uncloaking on BOff text popup
(6) Why are or arent you looking forward to a Romulan faction?
hopefully a bunch of Story Content that will round off the Hobus Nova plot,
new Ships/Species to play with, but most of all new gameplay mechanics,
i want NEW Kits, NEW BOff Powers, NEW Captain Abilities, NEW Captain Professions
not a cookie cutter copy and paste job of FED+KDF gameplay with only a green ui and green ships...
Only Negative i can think of is... a 3rd Fleetstarbase that wants our Dilithium.
Best thing: Romulan Specific FOUNDRY missions!
Even if my Federation Captain has a Jem'Hadar or Cardassian Ship, all Foundry missions treat my LockBox-Monsterplay Captains still like they were Federation Captains, even if from my perspective only they are not.
PS: i'd be totally fine buying this as a AddOn on a new Retail-DVD-Box, you want to play Romulan Faction? Buy the DVD, if you don't you can play everything as is, without the option to start a Romulan.
I'd be fine with that. But... well Free 2 Play, so that won't happen anyway, just saying, i'd totally pay for it.
All of them, Romuland and Reman vessels, and a temporal version too.
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(2) What playable species would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
Romulan, Reman, Vulcan, Joined Trill, Liberated Borg, Alien. Romulan-Human Hybird like Tahsa's daughter.
(3) What storyline would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
completly different to the Fed and KDF ones. Rebuilding of New Romulas must also have different missions to that of the Fed and KDF as well.
(4) What main types of content would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
Weapons, armor, and clothing unique to the Romulans and Remans. More background on Tahsa and and her daughterafter they were captured in the past. I've been thinking this ever since the actress was announced for the aniversary, I thought it was too small a role for herand this would make sence.
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(5) What do you think should make the Romulan faction unique?
None of the same honor stuff that makes up the Fed and KDF, Romulans make thier own rules!
(6) Why are or arent you looking forward to a Romulan faction?
One of my face races! Plus my favorite ship is the D'deridex Class Warbird
The one on the top left looks a lot like a Klingon K'Tanco cruiser.
Looks like the Rommies have been stealing Klingon designs again ...
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-Thomas Marrone
I just finished a debate today about the viability of Horta Captains.
Warbird will do.
(2) What playable species would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
It would be good if the romulan species wasnt an option.
(3) What storyline would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
The tail of the happy tribble.
(4) What main types of content would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
Minimal, dont want them taking valuable development time away from the feds and KDF.
(5) What do you think should make the Romulan faction unique?
A bugs and a lack of content... wait the question was for something unique? Thats a difficult one... maybe they could have a green tribble?
(6) Why are or arent you looking forward to a Romulan faction?
I am not looking forward to the romulan faction because I don't want to play as a romulan. They have relay bad hair and I already have fed and KDF characters with good hair that I would rather play. Any development time and resources spent on romulans could have been spent on things I care about, like revamping exploration, crafting, diplomacy, pvp, fixing bugs, or delivering content that my existing characters can enjoy.
I am happy for those people who want a romulan faction. It is good that they may finally be getting what they want. But it is not something that I want and it is taking development time that I belive could be better spent.
All of the canon ones, and original ships to fill in the gaps of all categories.
This might be the biggest job to do, and is part of the reason I am slightly skeptical of this actually happening.
(2) What playable species would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
Just the ones you might easily expect, roms, rems, hirs, and maybe iconians, but I would prefer and think thats not a possibility.
(3) What storyline would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
All the missions they can be written into.
(4) What main types of content would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
Being on the forefront of a likely Iconian incursion, it would be kindof logical for them to encounter all sorts of weird phenomena and science type stuff, but that should really be for the feds, so il just say the same as the other two factions.
(5) What do you think should make the Romulan faction unique?
Their faction is ripe with story telling options with the reman splinter group and Dtans operation, I am hoping for a story of bringing unity through subterfuge. Spy vs. spy stuff.
Gameplay wise? Maybe some items the feds outlawed and the klinks view as dishonorable, stuff like what they used to hack Geordi. The ships should have their own feel, preferably large and in charge counterparts to everything else in the game. Weak hulls due to being needle thin all over, filled with holes ect, but good shields thanks to using black holes as power sources.
(6) Why are or arent you looking forward to a Romulan faction?
Romulans have always been the superior Star Trek villain, the nature of having deception as a defining quality always gave them an edge in character. Some of them were genuinely good, some genuinely bad, and several with layers of both, but they were all on the wrong team. Also, many are given traits that connect them to the good guys in great ways, with spock he had the romance and the threat of similarity, Sela was Yars daughter, notsarek wished they could have been friends, Troi became one, and then there were all the defectors, Romulan stories always hit home. The klingons often did too thanks to worf, but with the Romulans the writers had to get creative, and it worked out so well. But don't worry, il still be playing my three klingon characters.
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2. Ideally Romulan and Reman, no others. Since that wont happen I'd ask for Rommies, Remmies, and Alien.
3. Preferably something upholding the values of the old RSE, but given the inevitable inclusion of other races that seems unlikely. Instead, maybe some hybridized Rommy-politics/expansionist regime intent on seeding Romulan culture throughout the galaxy instead of a futile attempt to assert the supremacy of a race now too endangered to personally rule a single world, let alone an empire.
4. Once again speaking in the ideal, a faction focused as much on political schemes and scientific advances as the requisite pew-pew. Think more Federation, less KDF.
5. Political espionage quests in place of ambassadorial quests.
6. I like to think the introduction of a Romulan faction will coincide with the completion of the KDF. While I'd prefer a finished KDF over inclusion of a new faction if I had to choose between the two, I don't get to. Romulans are coming. With that in mind, I'd love to explore Romulus....oh, wait.
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2. Romulan, Reman, Hirogen, Liberated Borg, Joined Trill, and perhaps an original species. Please no more space cats. We could use some dogs for once...
3. Something with a lot of stealth and climax and foreshadowing. Thats what romulans excell at anyways. And perhaps in the end, rejoining with their vulcan brothers.
4. I need something to do against the iconians. So much foreshadowing on that front, and not knowing whats happening. My question is, why the romulans?
5. Stealth and spy quests. Again, what the romulans are good at.
6. I have been looking forward too a romulan faction for almost a year now, and it's mainly because I know when thsi faction takes the stage, were gonna get some sick ship designs, a lot of new strategies, and much much more. In my mind, the inclusion of a third faction will launch this game into a new age, and it'll become one of the larger games you can play.
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As far as what should make them unique? Anything and everything that is anti-Federation, anti-KDF, and vehemently pro-Romulan. Missions involved with stealth and espionage should be at the core of EVERY Romulan mission, as they will only strike when they feel they have the advantage and/or are enraged to the point of all out vengeance.
Considering how many missions are on KDF side, we'll prolly get 5 unique missions to last us for about a year and half...if we're lucky.
:rolleyes:
-Romulan vessels seen on the shows as well as the Romulan ships from SFC if possible.
(2) What playable species would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
-Romulans
(3) What storyline would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
-Start with the fracturing and end up with a unified Empire
(4) What main types of content would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
-Stealth and espionage themed missions with combat being the direct result of said actions
(5) What do you think should make the Romulan faction unique?
-Secrecy
(6) Why are or arent you looking forward to a Romulan faction?
-I'm looking forward to the RSE I'm not looking forward to a green Federation.
- all the Canon ships (Scimitar can take a while)
(2) What playable species would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
- Romulan, Reman, Alien
(3) What storyline would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
- Sela is free'd and reunites the remaining Romulan worlds to fight against everybody else
- D'Tan's people are on the false way and are not called Romulans anymore
(4) What main types of content would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
- Tutorial, every faction stuff there is for other Factions, some extra 3 story missions..
(5) What do you think should make the Romulan faction unique?
- Phased Cloaking and enhanced phased Cloaks for the BOP's, they should be the Science Oriented Faction. As weapon type they use Disruptors and Plasma Torpedos. Some Iconian Techology (a new reputation)
(6) Why are or arent you looking forward to a Romulan faction?
- i am so much looking forward to it !
Hopefully this collected information will be of some use to the devs!
A nice civil war between Liberated(or never assimilated) Donatra and Sela would be great. Using Donatra's Federation aliances against the Sela-Iconian threat.
Any and all ships from the TV shows, movies and the games Armada and Starfleet Command including the TOS era would be fantastic.
The Romulan Dreadnought from SFC 2 would make an amazing Romulan Carrier.
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There are a whole bunch of fan designs and other-game designs that I'd like to see too, but realistically, I can't see them making it.
Store Ships should be for those 'non-romulan' factions (see below).
The Romulan and Reman, obviously. As both FED & KDF factions have them, I'd also say Liberated Borg, Alien and Trill too.
I would then throw in the Suliban along with a Delta Quadrant Race (either Fen Domar or Vaudwaar) as common, and the Hirogen and Vulcan as additional Store purchases.
People that don't want other races (other than Romulan and Reman) simply need not play them, nor have them as members of their crew. I think however, that the options should be there for the rest of us.
This all depends on what aspect of the Romulans we're being given. Are we playing for D'Tan? Are we following the Tal Shiar?
As D'Tan and his followers have 'settled' somewhat, it seems... illogical to play a faction for them. I'd rather play as a Sela Faction, Tal Shiar Faction (though they're tied up to the Iconian), or another Faction altogether.
Levels 1 through 50.
Their own 'feel' to everything the other species has; costumes, ships, locations etc.
I am looking forward to it because... it's the Romulans. :P I wish I could slap each person who ever said "we'll never see a 3rd faction." Guess their crystal ball has a crack in it.
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If your wondering about Nero's ship don't forget that while it was destroyed in the other dimention, it was built in the regular one.
(1) What ships would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
D'direx (not even going to try to spell it right), Valdore, Mogai, Bird of Prey, Scout ship
(2) What playable species would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
Romulan, Reman, Renegade Vulcan, Cloned Human
(3) What storyline would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
I think a full faction should follow the Tal Shiar branch of the Romulan fragmentation as they try to undo the work D'Tan is doing.
(4) What main types of content would you like for a Romulan faction to have?
FE's, Unique DOFF assignments, some spy type stuff
(5) What do you think should make the Romulan faction unique?
I think the Romulan faction should be the "bad" Romulans as opposed to the "good" Romulans in Tau Dewa.
(6) Why are or arent you looking forward to a Romulan faction?
I think it could be an interesting alternative to pursue. I've already gotten a couple of blank spots for alt's should this come to pass. I've got too much time and effort invested in my Fed main to totally switch allegiances, though.
After the D'deridex it is my fav Rihannsu ship.
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I came across this ship in my search for the Hawk...thought it looked pretty cool
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2) Romulan, Reman, Romulan Liberated Borg, Alien, and I know it doesn't fit...but would like joined Trill if possible...the trait is just to good!
3) I been thinking about it a lot...it depends...if the Federation and KDF are still going to be at war the Empire that is under control of Sela might make more sense, but if the KDF and Federation are at peace once more I suppose D'Tan's New Romulus would make sense.
4) Well if its Sela's Romulans...alot of cloak and dagger...secrets and power...if D'Tan's then well I think it would have a lot to do with rebuilding and defending the peace these Romulans wish to build.
5) Battle Cloak for all ships! (lol) Their ships obviously...their uniforms of course. I've always been a fan of plasma weaponry.
6) Definitely! I love the Romulans...I would make characters even if we got a Romulan faction in the condition the KDF is.
1) Romulan,Reman,Hirogen ships in game
2) Romulan, Reman, Hirogen, Flaxian, Alien... an something to match the ferasens and catians
3) wars with the klingons, federatio nand the undine.
4) Pvp,Stfs,Reps,Doffs,Fleet stuff
5) some kind of infiltration mission that sends the player into fed/kdf social zones. (the rom player cant engage the feds/kdg npcs/players) but can be shot at if detected.
6) its something new.