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duaths1
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so, Cryptic, you did it.
after the initial rage over not giving Romulans a proper Homeworld and fleet holdings,
(we can and will create something in the Foundry, and i really hope, there will be something more than a few tents on NR to be called our home)
how about giving us a refaction token?
You know you will do this. We know you will.
Just tell us when and how much.
(and i really hoped for 3 factions. FED, KDF and THE OTHERS UNITED)
btw - you really should DO SOMETHING with the FED/KDF war, cause really, nobody feels it now, not even my targ.
after the initial rage over not giving Romulans a proper Homeworld and fleet holdings,
(we can and will create something in the Foundry, and i really hope, there will be something more than a few tents on NR to be called our home)
how about giving us a refaction token?
You know you will do this. We know you will.
Just tell us when and how much.
(and i really hoped for 3 factions. FED, KDF and THE OTHERS UNITED)
btw - you really should DO SOMETHING with the FED/KDF war, cause really, nobody feels it now, not even my targ.
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why not? the only thing that makes the difference now is the PVE content 1-20 and the increased access to Romulan + original/choosen faction ships.
why reboxing?
i have a perfectly good KDF toon, so i buy the token, get to be romulan, retrait, gain access to romulan ships and uniforms, change appearance.
everything else stays the same, as Romulans in KDF have access to all the KDF ships there are.
Even the bloody doff's!
i really, frankly believe they already have this in mind, but, just not at Romulan launch. they let us grind the new toons till august/september 2013, then they introduce this token.
i would do it.
Unfortunately it will be possible the other way around.... :P
People defect all the time in war, why should this be any different?
Also off-topic but I'm not happy about the change to how ships work.
now by the sounds of it war-birds are going to be OP. with them not following the traditional tac/eng/sci line.
ah well...
afraid of the noob wave incoming to the KDF? not going to happen - they ALL hate the red UI
If you mean a token to "refaction" Romulan characters so that a KDF Romulan could, for instance, become a Federation Romulan, I fully support that. I know it is more work for Cryptic but they should just add it as part of the respec token abilities.
Respec token should allow you to reselect all your reputation bonuses as well as your KDF/Federation allegiance if playing as a non-KDF/FED faction.
not clear? what? that there really are not going to be 3 factions?
that i just don't need to grind the same content for the 100th time and would like to play as a "real" Romulan with the same toon on which i am faking a Romulan with an "alien" for almost 3 years now?
that in the times of big changes - new reputation, new trait system, etc... it would be appropriate to have a way to BUY my way into the content in an F2P game?
in this light - what is a Romulan joining the Federation/KDF?
will we be playing a new toon, or just replaying the old missions after the tutorial?
also, DStahl didn't tell anything about foundry. Will there be a Romulan foundry section, accessible only by Romulan toons?
in fact, i've meant only a one way token for existing toons to be transformed to a Romulan, with binding allegiance (toon originally KDF = you get a Romulan in KDF, toon in FED = you'll get a Romulan aligned with the UFP). NOT a refaction token per-se.
That way the fake Romulans will get their D'Deridex and nobody will be harmed. Not even cryptic's databanks
They did say that they will have a complete and separate story arc. Prolly get you to 20ish.
And in their defense the reason they aren't going to have new fleets is to prevent it feeling like just starting over.
Instead of a re-faction. Call it a defection token. You keep ships and gear you are just runnin to the otherside
nope, cause my toon was created as an alien/romulan, there just weren't any at that point.
the missions are scalable, so i could still play them, would only get MK XI rewards.
grinding Reputations and gear is what - 8 weeks?
there is a way to check for the race, as all dialogues have been rewritten to ask for RACE, not faction.
the token would in fact NOT change your faction, but RACE. as that is what they are introducing:
a new race, playable by both factions, with race exclusive ships and a few exclusive recolored missions. nothing more. not even a DOFF system, Homeworld or foundry. they just decided to call it a faction.
I will use DDO as an example. If you want to fully respec in DDO, you need to reincarnate. A lesser reincarante will basically remove all the xp of your character, and bring you back to the character creation panel. You can't change your race/gender/name, but a race change should be allowed in STO. Then, once your character is "redone", you earn the exact amount of XP you had before the reincarnation, and re-lvlup your character, changing whatever you want in the process.
You keep every items you had before, the same lvl, and reputation.
A true reincarnation reset your character, and allow you to change your race, and almost everything. However, you loose your lvl, reputation... You only keep the name and the items.
Both or one of them could be used in STO. Use a token, change your species and faction to romulan, star again. Or gain the same amount of XP, and just change your faction.
A lot of player already have a Romulan (alien), and will have to redo everything when LoR comes. Including lockbox ship, event items... Some of them will simply be impossible to have later on the new character.
come on they aren't gonna do that when to save them selves work and time just make you reroll plus they know if they don't do this you wont leave .....so they don't care
Each Romulan character would have faction points based on actions in the game. The more they worked for the Federation they would get Fed points. The more they work for the KDF they would get KDF point.
Lets say for instance to join the FEDs you need 1000 Fed faction points. So you would go out and battle in areas of the game be it PVP or STFs or whatever. You would get point towards that. and you would be able to join the feds.
Now Lets say you one day want to change faction for whatever reason. you would have an option to drop your status as a Fed allied captain. but you would still have the faction points. As you would do things for the KDF you would get points, but before you would add to your pool of points for KDF it would take away points from your FED faction point pool.
So for example :
You drop faction and go do a KDF mission that gives you 10 KDF points.
Your captain would then have 990 Fed points. you would have to do this untill you reache 0 Fed points Then you could start making Kdf points.
so once you join a faction it would take double the points to switch sides.
For instance:
You drop the FED faction and make KDF points 1000 to remove the points you already have in your FED pool. Then you make 1000 KDF points for a total of 2000 to switch to KDF.
Now lets say you want to go back to the Fed side. The fed point requirement would raise to say 2000.
You would then have to negate your KDF points and then raise 2000 FED points to join back with the Feds.
Cryptic could then offer a C-store item to lower the penalty for switching sides.
Everybody wins.
- Lewis Burwell "chesty" Puller
How Romulans Should Choose What Faction They Are In