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You can stop speculating about a Romulan faction now.
starboardnacelle
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Here is an as-of-yet unused graphic for a Romulan faction, direct from the STO Gateway. It's happening.
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Did you read the filename? There are only two others like it in the database, Choose_Faction_Federation and Choose_Faction_Klingon.
but, a datamined placeholder isn't much proof beyond telling us what every already know, the Devs want to add a Rom faction at some point
File names are misleading, the image obviously offers no additional reference beyond "Romulan," and speculation is too often substituted for expectation.
It's like your that kid at school that goes "LALALALALALALA" while sticking his fingers in his ears when there's something he doesn't wanna hear lol I mean for the love of common sense, the file name is called "CHOOSE FACTION ROMULAN!" What kind of mission would this be a viable graphic for? All of the art work in mission menu's are tiny 60x60'ish graphics. Further more why would they load graphics for a mission on the unsecure website?! lol
I mean a more logical counter argument would have been "maybe this is something deliberate by the team to throw people off their development scent" or even "maybe it's super deep viral marketing." Not "It's a image file for a mission" :rolleyes:
But you're welcome to keep derping around like an idiot.
That could just be the file name the OP gave it before posting it.
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Considering Cryptic's history, I can't blame the poster for skepticism. Until there actually IS a Romulan selection on character creation, I too must remain skeptical.
We've been "fooled" by Cryptic before.
In other words, the graphic does in fact clearly indicate that a Romulan faction is intended (certainly enough to render 'derping around like an idiot' a rather questionable statement) and have had some development done on it (quite possibly very minor work, though). What it does not prove is *when* this Romulan faction is slated for introduction, or indeed even if it has been decided as of yet.
As far as there being a Romulan faction, the devs have confirmed numerous times that it will be the next faction to be added to the game. However, it is extremely unlikely that we will see it this year.
Quite unlikely, but sad if true.
These unification hipipies that are going around calling some random ball of dirt "New Romulus" are going to have some 'splaining to do when she comes back from her Iconian holidays
It's Rator III. We have a mission there. The issue is not that the RSE lacks a capital.
It's that the group in charge of the RSE is in favor of the annihilation of all life in the universe and apparently supported the destruction of Romulus.
And there's no way we'd have a Rom faction that wouldn't team with KDF and Feds for STFs.
According to D'Tan, since the (almost) destruction of the Tal Shiar, the disapearance of Sela, there is fighting in the street in Rator, and several warlord try to grab the throne.
The RSE as we know it is dead. If there is a Romulan faction ingame, we will be part of one of those faction. Likely New Romulus, since they are the only one that would ally themselves with the KDF and feds.
right. Some one went poking about and found something interesting.
Some in house artist whipped out a nice graphic for future use, and dropped it into the files.. RSE faction is likely at least a year away.. could be even longer.. If they're going to do a RSE faction right, then its going to need it BOFF's, it's DOFF's, it rep systems, it's own Omega task force stuff, fleet base stuff, and assorted rep system stuff done beside.. and it's all going to need in house testing first.. and it is not terribly likely we'll see it on the tribble test server.
It most likely to go from internal shard to red shirt shard (no longer accessable to I belive)
and from there right to Holodeck live. And... There will be bugs..
And of course while a RAE faction is being worked up the studio still needs to work on everything else, including content and shines for everyone else to keep people happily playing stuff, and spending money for lock box keys, and Zen store stuff.
Cryptic might possibly slip 'em out as a PvP/monster play faction like what happened with the KDF when it was figured out 3 years ago that they did not have time to flesh out the kdf before the "must release product or loose licence to produce title" deadline. I think that would be a mistake.. but, they might do it anyway.
What we currently have is a great deal of wishfull thinking, speculation, and un-substanciated rumor on the subject.
People be setting themselves up for some major dissapointment here I strongly suspect.
Hate to see another group of gamers have to go through with what KDF faction players have had to go through for the last 3 years.
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It would require less ressources, since 3/4 of the content would already be ingame.
Sela was taken by the Iconians and the devs have been playing coy with questions like, "Was she kidnapped or is she working for them now?" The Tal Shiar is running the bulk of things now.
It's pretty much down to the Tal Shiar or D'Tan, barring a plot twist.
And you can always have a plot twist, sure. But I don't foresee a Tal Shiar friendly faction. At most, the Tal Shiar would interact with playable Romulans the way Drake interacts with Feds.
I don't think Cryptic will commit to doing "full factions" anymore without some kind of twist. They did say that how they release Romulans will set the stage for how they release further factions.
I find it more likely that Cryptic would adopt the stance that everything starts at level 50. Maybe push KDF starting level up to 50. Have Romulans start at 50. And handwave the idea of any other factions starting at a level below 50.
Hmmm. Convincing, but I'm betting that's only a placeholder. It looks really blurry, and not as detailed in comparison to the other two.
That's one of the single most idiotic lines of thinking I've ever heard. That would make "level 50" completely redundant. If they were going to do anything like this (which they won't) they would remove the "levels" completely and have no sort of ranks at all.
Which is stupid.
Nice work OP, it means that a romulan faction is definitely on the cards - but I won't believe it's coming in May until I see it in a dev blog.
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I think it's a utilitarian move.
It might upset everyone currently playing a Klingon but would result in more people playing Klingons.
Kinda like Death Knights all starting at 55 in WoW and how that resulted in the addition of a class that wasn't under-represented.
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The problem with this though, is that the endgame isn't big enough to warrant these kind of additions.