I have a trouble wrapping my head around the premise that a unified republic navy under a central command structure would go to war with itself in space for a foreign entity, Destroying its own ships, crews and peace for someone elses foreign agenda.
Then once we have destroyed our own ships, crews and people cause they asked us to well land our ships at our centralised refit bases to be serviced and go home to spend the rest of shore leave with the friends, comrades, brothers, sisters we just finished murdering in space at the behest of said foreign entity.
Mind you, we are all of one people and one mind in the formation of our republic, in fact, our only disagreement is who we feel we should purchase our weapons from, weird man, very.,
I have a trouble wrapping my head around the premise that a unified republic navy under a central command structure would go to war with itself in space for a foreign entity, Destroying its own ships, crews and peace for someone elses foreign agenda.
Then once we have destroyed our own ships, crews and people cause they asked us to well land our ships at our centralised refit bases to be serviced and go home to spend the rest of shore leave with the friends, comrades, brothers, sisters we just finished murdering in space at the behest of said foreign entity.
Mind you, we are all of one people and one mind in the formation of our republic, in fact, our only disagreement is who we feel we should purchase our weapons from, weird man, very.,
Stahl's answer: "It's, like, a game, man!"
Yes, nobody cares about videogame stories and worlds right?
You know between this, fiascos like Simcity and the Mass Effect 3 debacle last year I'm convinced game developers are just seeing what they can get away with before the industry crashes again.
Stahl's answer: "It's, like, a game, man!"
Yes, nobody cares about videogame stories and worlds right?
You know between this, fiascos like Simcity and the Mass Effect 3 debacle last year I'm convinced game developers are just seeing what they can get away with before the industry crashes again.
Woooo you got to use the word debacle, I myself just got to use it a few days ago, fun isn't it.
You should just call a spade, a spade. We're getting a new playable race with unique uniforms and new ships. And that's that.
You're not doing this to save us grinding (if you really cared, the game wouldn't be plagued with dil sinks. Just like the Omega rep system was never about letting us earn the MK XII sets.. the ground ones are still broken, by the way ) You're not doing this to give us "the best of both worlds." You're doing this as a cop-out to get out of making new STF sets, doffs, starbase models and PvP mechanics, to mention but a few.
Need more revenue to get it done? Then stop being "generous" and charge for the expansion.
You had a chance to make a mint.. and ended up disappointing quite a few of us. In words you can understand: forced "alliances" are a stupid idea, and as unromulan as you can get.
"This is the only way that including playable Romulans makes sense in the game's story". Last time I checked, you still had a Romulan Empire under Sela. "But they're the bad guys!" And the KDF are "good guys" how?
"The FED/KDF war is really what's important."
The same war that's been irrelevant and forgotten in the story line since before the Dominion FE series?
Good God. I swear another 25 pages of posts (if not more) have been added in the last 7-8 hours. I bet half of those posts started in another thread too, heh. Anyway, quote time.
Go ahead and choose your potential ally -- then ignore it and just be a Romulan if you so choose.
That isn't the point. Sure we can ignore it, but we shouldn't have too. How would people feel if they merged the FED with the KDF and said "well just ignore the fact that you're all playing one big faction".
I started a whole topic on this point earlier, but the slammed it in here, I feel so violated.
I do believe the Forum Moderators to be on a Power Trip again. I think I've had three threads put into this one, only one of which I actually agree with. Still, can't argue with someone who is trigger happy and has power. God forbid.
suppose we make a fleet now. full of Romulan only toons.
then, in a year or 2, after releasing Ferengi, cardassians, whatever faction.. they decide to give us Romulan fleet holdings.
do they expect us to ABANDON the Romulan fleet and start a new one?
The most obvious answer is no. They don't. DStahl says that we may get a Romulan fleet holding in the future, as far as I'm currently concerned, that's bull****. They have no intention of adding in a Romulan Fleet Holding, they're just saying that to keep us quiet(er) and to give off the aurora of false hope.
They've explained why we are forced to pick sides *for now* in both the Ask Cryptic and in Mr. Stahl's forum posts. We all want what we want, but can't always get it exactly.
Yes they've explained their reasons, but they must think us idiots if they expect us to believe what they preach. We all know far too well that Cryptic don't work on the old, they work only on the new.
A few months (or years) down the line, what possible incentive would they have to turn the Romulans into their own true faction? They'd not make any money out of it. They're more likely to get the Romulans released now, then work on the next cash-grab species.
It is a new faction, just that you have to chose sides in the war, too bad there isnt just a neutral choice.
That is one of the core problems though, you're a Romulan character, who has split from the former-empire and decided to rebuild some form of Romulan Colony for peace. We're then being given the choice to join one of two opposing factions, thus we're going to have these peaceful Romulans fighting each other.
They either make 3 factions or cancel the entire thing because what they have done is essentially idiotic beyond comparison. I expect that if they haven't changed things by mid April then they will lose a ton of the players because of this terrible move.
Oh you can be sure if they've spent the past six months (or probably longer) putting this idea forward, they're not going to change it now; they couldn't even if they wanted too (which I doubt they do). They're idiots, and they're treating us like idiots too.
Everyone hate new informations about Romulans but when May comes they will be first to create new character , i just love when people rage about new faction that is not exactly what they wanted.
You know what? For all the attention you're after, you're actually right. Come May, a good number of people will create that Romulan character. Why? Because it's something new. The problem however will come once they've created it. Short of the first ten levels, it'll be just like playing a Federation or Klingon character all over again, and that's when people will most likely drop this 'third' faction in favor of an already existing toon. You think people are going to stick around and grind the hell out of a toon that (end game) is no different to ones they've already got? I sure as hell ain't.
With the news of Romulans, I actually thought that it would be my main focus for a while, with Federation 2nd, and Klingon 3rd. With this revelation though, Romulans are going to be my 3rd focus (long-term) just because I've already invested so much into my FED & KDF toons, and a Romulan toon will be no more unique.
What they're giving us isn't a faction, it's an extension. A true faction has all of their own toys, storyline and content. This isn't the case here.
Your feedback is important to us and is being heard.
Knowing most of our feedback isn't positive, I am curious to know where you (and the team) plan to go with it. You can't realistically change all your plans for the Romulan Faction now; you've not got enough time to make the necessary changes. Regardless of feedback, you're still (come May) going to be releasing this faction exactly as you've been planning too, aren't you?
Thus I beg the question, how important is our feedback? What difference is it ultimately going to make?
CBS does care about canon. They have vetoed many things in this game. I even remember when Cryptic showed a picture of an upcoming ship and then CBS vetoed it - Cryptic showed the pic before they had gotten CBS' final approval.
You know even if the starbases are not ready they could still implement the system for upgrading them, sure it would be a little weird donating to a project you cant see or go to yet, even weirder when you finally can an it comes into existence half built but that would be better then having to trudge around a Fed starbase or the gloomy Kdf bases.
No thank you. I still have a Fed and a KDF base to complete. I do not need my fleetmates using resources to support a non-existent Fleet too.
Actually, the best thing they can do for the Romulans right now is release them without the need to have a Starbase/Fleet Holding.
Give them the Embassy (it's on their planet anyway) along with a few, unique scenery sets, but hold off on the Starbase and the Alliances. Just leave the joining of a Starbase alone until you (Cryptic) are in a position to do it properly. Say another 6 months when there should be amply T5 Starbases around to allow for Romulan players to start their own.
The only thing Im still abit foggy on with all this, and would really like some answers is, if and when your romulan gets to the point where he is being offered to ally himself/herself with the federation and or klingons, can he/she just say no, id rather not take sides, and stay out of it... or... does she/he actually have to pick one.
I do believe we must make a choice. We can't evade an alliance.
Basically, Cryptic started out working on the next update sometime after finishing the bulk of season seven. Up to a certain point, they were saying how season eight was going to be a big story update for the Klingons and the war with the Federation. Sometime around early winter, they stopped really giving us details about the upcoming stuff they were working on. They eventually stopped calling it a ?season?, saying it was much bigger than that. Up until last week, they have been silent except for a few tidbits they were allowed to say, such as an overhaul of the character creation screen and the new user interface update.
Last week they announced that we were getting the first expansion to the game, Legacy of Romulus. With their expanded team, they managed to come up with not only a new Romulan faction, but also enough content to be able to start a Klingon at the start. The new faction is going to have the story start before the events of cloaked intentions and have them be the ones who settle New Romulus, the adventure zone introduced last season, with the ability to ally with Starfleet or the Klingons.
Basically, Cryptic started out working on the next update sometime after finishing the bulk of season seven. Up to a certain point, they were saying how season eight was going to be a big story update for the Klingons and the war with the Federation. Sometime around early winter, they stopped really giving us details about the upcoming stuff they were working on. They eventually stopped calling it a ?season?, saying it was much bigger than that. Up until last week, they have been silent except for a few tidbits they were allowed to say, such as an overhaul of the character creation screen and the new user interface update.
Last week they announced that we were getting the first expansion to the game, Legacy of Romulus. With their expanded team, they managed to come up with not only a new Romulan faction, but also enough content to be able to start a Klingon at the start. The new faction is going to have the story start before the events of cloaked intentions and have them be the ones who settle New Romulus, the adventure zone introduced last season, with the ability to ally with Starfleet or the Klingons.
Thanks for the answer, very cool. So Klingon starts at level 1 now? I think that was a great idea the way you can be the Romulan that settles on New Romulus since that is one of the main things of the STO story recently. thanks again.
Basically, Cryptic started out working on the next update sometime after finishing the bulk of season seven. Up to a certain point, they were saying how season eight was going to be a big story update for the Klingons and the war with the Federation. Sometime around early winter, they stopped really giving us details about the upcoming stuff they were working on. They eventually stopped calling it a ?season?, saying it was much bigger than that. Up until last week, they have been silent except for a few tidbits they were allowed to say, such as an overhaul of the character creation screen and the new user interface update.
Last week they announced that we were getting the first expansion to the game, Legacy of Romulus. With their expanded team, they managed to come up with not only a new Romulan faction, but also enough content to be able to start a Klingon at the start. The new faction is going to have the story start before the events of cloaked intentions and have them be the ones who settle New Romulus, the adventure zone introduced last season, with the ability to ally with Starfleet or the Klingons.
Well...that's leaving out basically all of the controversy.....
The Romulan Faction is not the Romulan Space Empire, despite said already existing in-game. Instead it is the Romulan Republic, led by D'tan. In addition to the Republic holdign few if any of the attributes beloved by many of the RSE, the player is forced to choose between the Federation and KDF at level 10, at which point they essentially become a member of that faction, being limited to their DOFFS and BOFFS and their starbases, ships, and PVP and PVE Queues. In addition, Romulan players will not have access to the RSE uniforms, or even the IRW prefix for their ships, meanwhile there are only three confirmed species (with an additional one, the Liberated borg, an obvious, but not yet confirmed choice) All but one of these options (the Romulans) are restricted, being unlocked by either the reputation system (Remans) or by having a Gold or lifetime subscription, severely limiting their options.
What poster #2 has seemingly failed to inform you of is that, as a Romulan player, you must (come level 10) join with either the Federation or Klingon factions to progress through the story.
While you also technically could progress on using doffs, events and lots of grinding to 50 without choosing a side, I really doubt there would be enough of players like you for Cryptic to bother making content for.
Which means, even if they said no, there will practically be no Rom starbase, endgame or whatever, outside of rep and STFs. For example, I doubt you can even join a pvp queue while factionless.
"Last Engage! Magical Girl Origami-san" is in print! Now with three times more rainbows.
While you also technically could progress on using doffs, events and lots of grinding to 50 without choosing a side, I really doubt there would be enough of players like you for Cryptic to bother making content for.
Which means, even if they said no, there will practically be no Rom starbase, endgame or whatever, outside of rep and STFs. For example, I doubt you can even join a pvp queue while factionless.
Apparently not. At level 10 you are forced to choose. If you don't, you can't level up, or get Doffs (you have access to the ones of the faction you choose, all others are from Zen duty officer packs according to what we know so far). You don't get the option of remaining neutral.
But don't you get access to doffs at level 7? Unless they are bumping it all up to 10 now?
"Dstahl: In addition to adding Romulan Republic Duty Officers to existing packs in the game, Romulan Republic captains will gain access to the Duty Officers packs of their chosen ally"
It sounds like they are just adding Romulan duty officers to the KDF and Fed factions instead of giving them their own duty officers. In fact, it sounds like there isn't much Romulan-specific content outside of whatever rewards their episodes (before level 10, presumably) give you, the Zen store, and their Warbirds.
not only is the romulan faction the new romulus not-romulans, but it is also a panda style mini-faction where you join either the KDF or the feds after lvl 10.
seems to me like the worst of both worlds.
Rather than doing a half-baked romulan faction, I would have prefered an expansion dedicated to completing the klingons.
Rather than doing a half-baked romulan faction, I would have prefered an expansion dedicated to completing the klingons.
As much as I wanted the Romulans, I'd have waited a lot longer for them to be done properly, and would have supported a Klingon completion had I known what to expect from Cryptic.
Also what some poster also fail to mention the Romulan faction has unique content till level 40 just like FEDs had at launch but not the KDF ever which makes it more than a half baked faction compared to the real half baked faction the Klingons.
Also what some poster also fail to mention the Romulan faction has unique content till level 40 just like FEDs had at launch but not the KDF ever which makes it more than a half baked faction compared to the real half baked faction the Klingons.
What? Seriously? People are still complaining about the Klingons having less content than the Rommies?
1) The KDF has been stated to be getting full 1-50 content.
2) The Rommies get 1-10 level content and then get saddled with Fed or KDF content (probably with a few dialogue changes here and there).
3) Last I heard, the Klingon Emprie wasn't Divied up between two of its long time enemies, didn't have its own starbases, weren't sendign off their soldiers and ships to be killed on both sides of a war. Were not reduced to a bunch of vulcan-wannabie hippies, and weren't getting the Vorchas and brels stuck in lockboxes for every other faction to pilfer!
So, the only Romulans we can play are de facto part of either Federation or Klingon Empire. What's next? Dominion joining either faction? Borg joining either faction and fighting other Borg?
They could have easily introduced a new faction that is not reliant on anyone and still kept cross-faction content open to all three factions: The Borg threat is too dangerous to keep the Romulans out please join OMEGA ... etc. etc. But noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! Just because WoW has that stupid 2 faction set up, it does not mean STO has to go the same way!
Also what some poster also fail to mention the Romulan faction has unique content till level 40 just like FEDs had at launch but not the KDF ever which makes it more than a half baked faction compared to the real half baked faction the Klingons.
Compared to what the Romulans will be, the Klingons are more of a faction in that they'll have more ships, and they'll be more dependent. The people that are truly being screwed over here are those wanting to play as Romulans.
1) The KDF has been stated to be getting full 1-50 content.
We all know they wont. We were also told that the Romulans would get full 1 - 50 content, and the dev team knew what we'd read when they wrote that. Alas, what they meant wasn't what they knew we'd think. The same will apply to the KDF. They may say more content, but it'll end up linked in with the Romulan **** some how.
In other words, the Fed-Klingon war is absurd. It makes no sense at all. It should have ended a long time ago. And this really only exemplifies just how flawed and absurd the whole thing is.
Well, with all due respect, not exactly. The Klingons are still claiming a large swathe of Federation territory as theirs and until the Gorn are given the ability to decide if they want to remain a servant race in the Empire, we have to consider them an oppressed people.
The war is very valid, it's just easy to forget that when it's so very rarely an issue.
yeah, funny it was not adressed in the "ask cryptic" interview.. = you are probably right
Romulan Unique quests absolutely were addressed in the "Ask Cryptic" interview. Romulans will have a faction exclusive quest chain and journal. It's been said these quest chains will involve them in the founding of New Romulus, these quests will unlock individual outfits, and it's been hinted at that these quest chains may let them choose the highly demanded IRW designation for your ship.
It's also been said that Romulan captains will be given access to featured episodes during their storyline mission. Now I expect this means that Cloaked Intentions will be done early, so that Sela's disappearance can be a flashpoint for the development of New Romulus, and that Spectres and 2800 will happen after the dreaded "Allegiance mission."
What? Seriously? People are still complaining about the Klingons having less content than the KDF?
1) The KDF has been stated to be getting full 1-50 content.
2) The Rommies get 1-10 level content and then get saddled with Fed or KDF content (probably with a few dialogue changes here and there).
3) Last I heard, the Klingon Emprie wasn't Divied up between two of its long time enemies, didn't have its own starbases, weren't sendign off their soldiers and ships to be killed on both sides of a war. Wren't reduced to a bunch of vulcan-wannabie hippies, and weren't gettign the Vorchas and brels stuck in lockboxes for every other faction to pilfer!
Wrong they get their own story all the way till level 40 then after that star the FE...more than the KDF ever got at start and till this day.
The only thing they don't get are the SINKS that players on these forums constantly complain about...instead they share thet with the KDF and FED factions.
To answer some specific questions, Romulans will be asked to choose sides in the war by the time they are level 10. The exclusive Romulan storyline takes place in all of the new prequel episodes that have been made that will now end in and around the events that culminate in the Romulan Feature Episode series. Since we are moving around many of the levels of episodes with this expansion, we expect Romulan captains to be around level 40 when they finish their primary episodes (much like the Feds at launch). Note that for Romulans, most of the feature episode series have all been moved past this point. Thus the Devidians, Breen, and 2800 series all take place after the Romulan storyline. This also includes all of the Borg, Undine, STFS, Nukara, New Romulus and end game event content. So when we say that the alliance has an impact on end game, it is in reference to all of the level 40+ missions and end game content that exist for all factions. Instead of creating a 3rd set of queues, we're limiting it to the existing 2 sets and, at least for now, limiting Romulans to helping the Feds or KDF with their Starbase while the Feds and KDF help to build new Romulus. We will be adding more Fleet Holdings in the future and, as stated, Romulan Starbases have not been ruled out.
As an MMO we can always evolve this in the future, but this is how it will be at launch on May 21. Again, you'll have a chance to see all of this in action when we put the update up for testing prior to May.
I know it's not so fun for people wanting a full fledge 100% independent faction, but I can see the practical need for it. It seems they did not want to splinter even further fleets and spread the fleet population. After people 'raging' so much about being difficult to run a small fleet, they seem to do a mechanism that will help fleets, people are not happy.
I see it much being a temporary crutch for the green faction to lean on before it can fly on its own (no punt intended). I do hope that it is their plans to roll out rom SB when fleets can support the system. However, it will be hard pressed to justify an embassy on their own homebase since that's what New Romulus will be.
Last point, Dstahl did that that the rom faction will still remain its own faction with its theme, homebase, ships (that no one else can fly, even their allies) and so on. So it is not like they will "fold into" fed or KDF, just use their system/ressources to move on.
As much as I'm looking forward to the Romulan faction, I'm a bit disappointed at the "join UFP or KDF" concept. I was truly looking forward to an independent faction with their own bases, story lines, and whatnot. And I found the idea of 3 way free-for-alls in Ker'rat interesting. The idea that there will eventually be Romulans fighting each other on behest of two other powers, while they are attempting to rebuild their civilizaton, is one that doesn't make sense to me.
That said, I'd like to put out a big thanks for the people who do the work to make this game possible.
they did want to catch the may JJ film release, but
- weren't able to deliver a Starbase design/embassy in time
- replenishing their resources by selling us not only Romulan ships and costumes, but also leading new people to buy the old faction ships in the Zen store (as romulans will have access to the faction ships, but not vice versa)
- for every existing toon - a Romulan lockbox, perhaps a Suliban lockbox next
- letting Romulans grind for a foreign fleet, then letting them grind once more in a couple of months for their own fleet holdings = also cash
what will come next?
june, july - debugging
august - suliban lockbox
september - Romulan fleet holdings incoming - brace for impact
then, if Romulan model is a success = Cardassians in decebmer, or - ship revamp!
- adding a warp drive slot, some universal slots, next tier of ships which will be just upgrades from the existing ones (fleet ship modules - 5EUR/ship at least)
Wrong they get their own story all the way till level 40 then after that star the FE...more than the KDF ever got at start and till this day.
The only thing they don't get are the SINKS that players on these forums constantly complain about...instead they share thet with the KDF and FED factions.
Well lucky for you the Romulan faction episodes are not unique to the Romulan faction! In case you were not paying attention in the interview, you, as a KDf player can join a team with one of your Romulan buddies and paly through their episodes? How's that? Romulan faction is nothing mroe than a glorified expansion for the KDF and federation factions, its purpose is more to bring content to those factions than it is to establish the Romulans as an actual independent faction. it's an add-onn to the KDF, don't complain about the KDF having less content, because everything the Rommies have access to, the KDF has access to.
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Then once we have destroyed our own ships, crews and people cause they asked us to well land our ships at our centralised refit bases to be serviced and go home to spend the rest of shore leave with the friends, comrades, brothers, sisters we just finished murdering in space at the behest of said foreign entity.
Mind you, we are all of one people and one mind in the formation of our republic, in fact, our only disagreement is who we feel we should purchase our weapons from, weird man, very.,
Stahl's answer: "It's, like, a game, man!"
Yes, nobody cares about videogame stories and worlds right?
You know between this, fiascos like Simcity and the Mass Effect 3 debacle last year I'm convinced game developers are just seeing what they can get away with before the industry crashes again.
Woooo you got to use the word debacle, I myself just got to use it a few days ago, fun isn't it.
You're not doing this to save us grinding (if you really cared, the game wouldn't be plagued with dil sinks. Just like the Omega rep system was never about letting us earn the MK XII sets.. the ground ones are still broken, by the way
Need more revenue to get it done? Then stop being "generous" and charge for the expansion.
You had a chance to make a mint.. and ended up disappointing quite a few of us. In words you can understand: forced "alliances" are a stupid idea, and as unromulan as you can get.
"This is the only way that including playable Romulans makes sense in the game's story". Last time I checked, you still had a Romulan Empire under Sela. "But they're the bad guys!" And the KDF are "good guys" how?
"The FED/KDF war is really what's important."
The same war that's been irrelevant and forgotten in the story line since before the Dominion FE series?
That isn't the point. Sure we can ignore it, but we shouldn't have too. How would people feel if they merged the FED with the KDF and said "well just ignore the fact that you're all playing one big faction".
I do believe the Forum Moderators to be on a Power Trip again. I think I've had three threads put into this one, only one of which I actually agree with. Still, can't argue with someone who is trigger happy and has power. God forbid.
The most obvious answer is no. They don't. DStahl says that we may get a Romulan fleet holding in the future, as far as I'm currently concerned, that's bull****. They have no intention of adding in a Romulan Fleet Holding, they're just saying that to keep us quiet(er) and to give off the aurora of false hope.
Yes they've explained their reasons, but they must think us idiots if they expect us to believe what they preach. We all know far too well that Cryptic don't work on the old, they work only on the new.
A few months (or years) down the line, what possible incentive would they have to turn the Romulans into their own true faction? They'd not make any money out of it. They're more likely to get the Romulans released now, then work on the next cash-grab species.
That is one of the core problems though, you're a Romulan character, who has split from the former-empire and decided to rebuild some form of Romulan Colony for peace. We're then being given the choice to join one of two opposing factions, thus we're going to have these peaceful Romulans fighting each other.
Oh you can be sure if they've spent the past six months (or probably longer) putting this idea forward, they're not going to change it now; they couldn't even if they wanted too (which I doubt they do). They're idiots, and they're treating us like idiots too.
You know what? For all the attention you're after, you're actually right. Come May, a good number of people will create that Romulan character. Why? Because it's something new. The problem however will come once they've created it. Short of the first ten levels, it'll be just like playing a Federation or Klingon character all over again, and that's when people will most likely drop this 'third' faction in favor of an already existing toon. You think people are going to stick around and grind the hell out of a toon that (end game) is no different to ones they've already got? I sure as hell ain't.
With the news of Romulans, I actually thought that it would be my main focus for a while, with Federation 2nd, and Klingon 3rd. With this revelation though, Romulans are going to be my 3rd focus (long-term) just because I've already invested so much into my FED & KDF toons, and a Romulan toon will be no more unique.
What they're giving us isn't a faction, it's an extension. A true faction has all of their own toys, storyline and content. This isn't the case here.
Knowing most of our feedback isn't positive, I am curious to know where you (and the team) plan to go with it. You can't realistically change all your plans for the Romulan Faction now; you've not got enough time to make the necessary changes. Regardless of feedback, you're still (come May) going to be releasing this faction exactly as you've been planning too, aren't you?
Thus I beg the question, how important is our feedback? What difference is it ultimately going to make?
How on Earth did CBS approve this?
Actually, the best thing they can do for the Romulans right now is release them without the need to have a Starbase/Fleet Holding.
Give them the Embassy (it's on their planet anyway) along with a few, unique scenery sets, but hold off on the Starbase and the Alliances. Just leave the joining of a Starbase alone until you (Cryptic) are in a position to do it properly. Say another 6 months when there should be amply T5 Starbases around to allow for Romulan players to start their own.
I do believe we must make a choice. We can't evade an alliance.
I see that... there is a Romulan faction or something?
Can someone just give me a 200 word summary of this new development? Thanks.
Last week they announced that we were getting the first expansion to the game, Legacy of Romulus. With their expanded team, they managed to come up with not only a new Romulan faction, but also enough content to be able to start a Klingon at the start. The new faction is going to have the story start before the events of cloaked intentions and have them be the ones who settle New Romulus, the adventure zone introduced last season, with the ability to ally with Starfleet or the Klingons.
Thanks for the answer, very cool. So Klingon starts at level 1 now? I think that was a great idea the way you can be the Romulan that settles on New Romulus since that is one of the main things of the STO story recently. thanks again.
The Romulan Faction is not the Romulan Space Empire, despite said already existing in-game. Instead it is the Romulan Republic, led by D'tan. In addition to the Republic holdign few if any of the attributes beloved by many of the RSE, the player is forced to choose between the Federation and KDF at level 10, at which point they essentially become a member of that faction, being limited to their DOFFS and BOFFS and their starbases, ships, and PVP and PVE Queues. In addition, Romulan players will not have access to the RSE uniforms, or even the IRW prefix for their ships, meanwhile there are only three confirmed species (with an additional one, the Liberated borg, an obvious, but not yet confirmed choice) All but one of these options (the Romulans) are restricted, being unlocked by either the reputation system (Remans) or by having a Gold or lifetime subscription, severely limiting their options.
How's that?
Edit: Poster #4 beat me to it.
Which means, even if they said no, there will practically be no Rom starbase, endgame or whatever, outside of rep and STFs. For example, I doubt you can even join a pvp queue while factionless.
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It sounds like they are just adding Romulan duty officers to the KDF and Fed factions instead of giving them their own duty officers. In fact, it sounds like there isn't much Romulan-specific content outside of whatever rewards their episodes (before level 10, presumably) give you, the Zen store, and their Warbirds.
seems to me like the worst of both worlds.
Rather than doing a half-baked romulan faction, I would have prefered an expansion dedicated to completing the klingons.
Yeah, and I'll pour a drink on the ground in mourning for the loss of three-way PVP myself.
1) The KDF has been stated to be getting full 1-50 content.
2) The Rommies get 1-10 level content and then get saddled with Fed or KDF content (probably with a few dialogue changes here and there).
3) Last I heard, the Klingon Emprie wasn't Divied up between two of its long time enemies, didn't have its own starbases, weren't sendign off their soldiers and ships to be killed on both sides of a war. Were not reduced to a bunch of vulcan-wannabie hippies, and weren't getting the Vorchas and brels stuck in lockboxes for every other faction to pilfer!
edited due to badly misplaced word.
They could have easily introduced a new faction that is not reliant on anyone and still kept cross-faction content open to all three factions: The Borg threat is too dangerous to keep the Romulans out please join OMEGA ... etc. etc. But noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!! Just because WoW has that stupid 2 faction set up, it does not mean STO has to go the same way!
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We all know they wont. We were also told that the Romulans would get full 1 - 50 content, and the dev team knew what we'd read when they wrote that. Alas, what they meant wasn't what they knew we'd think. The same will apply to the KDF. They may say more content, but it'll end up linked in with the Romulan **** some how.
Quite possibly true.
Well, with all due respect, not exactly. The Klingons are still claiming a large swathe of Federation territory as theirs and until the Gorn are given the ability to decide if they want to remain a servant race in the Empire, we have to consider them an oppressed people.
The war is very valid, it's just easy to forget that when it's so very rarely an issue.
Romulan Unique quests absolutely were addressed in the "Ask Cryptic" interview. Romulans will have a faction exclusive quest chain and journal. It's been said these quest chains will involve them in the founding of New Romulus, these quests will unlock individual outfits, and it's been hinted at that these quest chains may let them choose the highly demanded IRW designation for your ship.
It's also been said that Romulan captains will be given access to featured episodes during their storyline mission. Now I expect this means that Cloaked Intentions will be done early, so that Sela's disappearance can be a flashpoint for the development of New Romulus, and that Spectres and 2800 will happen after the dreaded "Allegiance mission."
Wrong they get their own story all the way till level 40 then after that star the FE...more than the KDF ever got at start and till this day.
The only thing they don't get are the SINKS that players on these forums constantly complain about...instead they share thet with the KDF and FED factions.
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I see it much being a temporary crutch for the green faction to lean on before it can fly on its own (no punt intended). I do hope that it is their plans to roll out rom SB when fleets can support the system. However, it will be hard pressed to justify an embassy on their own homebase since that's what New Romulus will be.
Last point, Dstahl did that that the rom faction will still remain its own faction with its theme, homebase, ships (that no one else can fly, even their allies) and so on. So it is not like they will "fold into" fed or KDF, just use their system/ressources to move on.
That said, I'd like to put out a big thanks for the people who do the work to make this game possible.
they did want to catch the may JJ film release, but
- weren't able to deliver a Starbase design/embassy in time
- replenishing their resources by selling us not only Romulan ships and costumes, but also leading new people to buy the old faction ships in the Zen store (as romulans will have access to the faction ships, but not vice versa)
- for every existing toon - a Romulan lockbox, perhaps a Suliban lockbox next
- letting Romulans grind for a foreign fleet, then letting them grind once more in a couple of months for their own fleet holdings = also cash
what will come next?
june, july - debugging
august - suliban lockbox
september - Romulan fleet holdings incoming - brace for impact
then, if Romulan model is a success = Cardassians in decebmer, or - ship revamp!
- adding a warp drive slot, some universal slots, next tier of ships which will be just upgrades from the existing ones (fleet ship modules - 5EUR/ship at least)
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