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Legacy of Romulus Dev Blog #2
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Executive Producer Daniel Stahl answers questions from Massively's STO Columnist, Terilynn Shull, in this entry of the Legacy of Romulus News Dev Blog series.
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What right has the UFP to deem it improper for Sela to rule as an Empress? What right has the UFP to deem it acceptable to supply ship and weapons technology (humanitarian aid is fine) to one faction in an internal conflict of another society? All I'm getting from this is that I just have to accept it without explanation. But why? Can't we expand the story to explain why President Aennik Okeg sanctioned these actions? Maybe hes an imposter, or maybe he is against it and the council forced his hand?
I can't believe he cited Kira in command of the defiant as an answer. Hello? That doesn't mean it was suddenly under the ownership of the Bajoran Provisional Government! They certainly didn't get the opportunity to open her up and photocopy the cloaking device at their leisure.
Visual identity is important. If half of all Romulan characters are in Flavour of the Week C-store Fed/KDF ships, why even bother making a Romulan faction in the first place. By all means make the consoles from C-store ships available cross-faction... But I really don't know how the idea of smudging faction boundaries by allowing ships from one to the other came about, because nobody asked for it...
Romulans fly Warbirds and Warbirds use Singularity Cores and Singularity Cores give you this exclusive power bar that levels up with your rank and power use. More details coming in a future blog.
You'll unlock a Tal Shiar uniform in one of the Romulan Republic episode series. We also plan to have other classic uniforms available.
Yes there are Warbirds at every tier. You have Romulan ship options your entire career.
This work is still underway and we're trying to see what we can and can't do with the existing uniforms. We would like to see off-duty for both, but there are some limitations we might have to deal with.
Romulans will gain access to their own starting Romulan DOFFs (instead of flying to FC or SFA) and will receive Romulan DOFFs at level up points. There will also be Romulan DOFFs added to packs, a Romulan themed pack is in the works, and we are also adding Romulan themed DOFF missions. ROMs can use their allies DOFFs as well. Allies can start to receive Romulan and Reman DOFFs also.
To set the record straight, we expect Romulans to be around level 40 when they complete their exclusive storyline AND the Romulan Feature Episode series. What we're ending up with is exclusive episodes for FED/ROM/KDF that culminate in the Romulan Feature Episode series. From that point forward, everyone starts to head into both the additional Feature Episode Series and current End Game content.
As stated, we will be opening up a Romulan Play BETA on the TRIBBLE test server later this month. We'll share details of that soon.
This will depend on what they are grouping up for. If it is Romulan missions, then yes. If it is Faction specific PvP then no. If it is an event that allows cross-teaming then yes. If it is a Fed/KDF specific Fleet Action (SB24) then no. Our goal is to allow cross-faction teaming wherever we can and limit FED/KDF only where necessary.
At launch, Romulans will not be able to play Foundry missions until they choose an ally, and then they can only play Foundry missions created for that Ally. As many have suggested, we will be adding a new filter that will allow Foundry authors to create Romulan specific missions that only Romulans (allied with* either faction) can fly and team together for. No ETA has been provided at this point. *edited so Kirksplat isn't confused anymore...
We're considering the liberated Borg, but we have some details to work out, including other details surrounding veteran rewards which is why we aren't talking about it very much yet.
Great game. Brandon's mind was blown, but that doesn't mean that your has to be. Personally, I think it is some of the best mission work the team has ever done, but everyone will be entilted to their own opinions, good or bad. At the end of the day, it is something new and if you enjoy it great! If you didn't, then sorry we disappointed you.
Thank you. No one is forced to play a Romulan. You may not agree with how we've implemented them and we are sorry if this doesn't meet your expectations. Some people will love it, others won't. You simply can't please everyone. That is an impossible task.
We acknowledge that it is a hot topic, but we have no comments at the present time other than we're looking closely at the feedback. Doesn't mean it will change, but we are understanding that this is upsetting to some.
The ship in that screen is the ship that I upgraded to after joining the Republic Fleet and reaching level 11. It is exclusive to the Romulan Republic. There will be a blog later that goes over the ships and details. There will be a variety of Rom Republic ships at end game, it isn't just D'Deridex only. Most of the ships you fly in the Republic will have End Game versions.
We are significantly shuffling the KDF episode flow, and we may end up doing the same to the Feds, but it really boils down to how challenging it can be to move things around, especially to existing players. It is easier for the KDF because we are filling in missing levels and it makes sense to drop level requirements and move others. For example the Devidian series along with the other FE series are now much later in KDF progression.
The key point is "exclusive" missions. FED/KDF/ROM will now have exclusive series tabs that no other faction has at least up to the Romulan FE series. From that point forward, most of the missions are now becoming shared for anyone (which is why you're seeing us start to open up some of the Cardassian missions for KDF (and Roms will get these too).
This allows us to establish a unique perspective for each of the 3 factions on the Iconian plot and then converge all of the "what comes next" into future FE series that will take place and be playable by all factions.
The audio department is looking into it, but right now they're swamped trying to get all the VO done.
The exclusive Romulan Republic storyline starts at level 1 and goes up through the Romulan FE series. It has no connection to the end game Tholian Reputation.
Psst.. Sutherland wants a Typhoon :P
Q) Hirogen in the future? They are an ally of Sela and th Tal shiar after all. Though they seem to want to find this "Alpha Predator" on new romulas.
Nice blog
Exactly how the Romulans should be. (Although making a 2 meter + hirogen might have been fun too :P)
I very much wish that had been done with the KDF, but c'est la vie.
They make great bards!
Someone entered the wrong universe !
Good...
Good...
Very good...
Oh God damn it! One unique thing that actually matters at endgame, is that really too much to ask?
Honestly, I've still yet to see anything that makes this a faction. If you'd made romulans playable to both other factions and dropped a couple warbirds in the C-store we'd have the same effect.
Completely COMPLETELY agree here. Also, the back story provided makes absolutely no sense. Essentially the Romulans (a race on the ropes) is able to negotiate for ship designs (including faction specific consoles) with 2 factions currently at war?
Honestly, I'd be happy with limited ship availability to the Romulan faction (given the back story).. even allowing the Romulans ability to purchase items from their "Allied Fleet" base and/embassy... but no to ships...
Star Trek Online, Now with out the Trek....
This I find really disappointing. You can't really keep saying with straight face that romulans are their own unique fully-fledged faction while even their duty officer missions are going to be taken from either FED or KDF, with just "plans" of releasing their own doff packs. I find this worse than lack of proper romulan fleets...
Oh well, I guess this means I've got yet another reason to ally myself with klingons, as their doff missions are way better.
That said, Dan, I was hoping you'd touch on a specific issue regarding the alliance(s): Cryptic is using the term "allies"--a word which implies political and military cooperation between partners. Given that the Federation and Klingon Empire are in a state of war, how is it possible that the Romulans can ally with both without drawing criticism or hostility from either faction? It seems strange to me that the Federation would allow Romulan captains access to their technology while there are other Romulans cooperating with the Klingon Empire. Isn't that counter-productive to the Federation/Klingon war effort?
I want a Classic Gull wing
Do me the courtesy of allowing uniforms from the Trek series (classic, tng, ds9 and movie) to be purchased in the C stores
I will than hopefully find missions where I can attack Klingon or Federation vessels and see how long I can pretend Im playing a Romulan -not an add on to its two traditional enemies
Very disappointed
Please use the correct pronoun in your posts. The one you're looking for is "I".
I love it. I think it is a great way to add variety to what will be a popular faction and I am excited to be part of the story as it plays out!
Will we have Romulan Warbirds for all levels as we level up so we may stay in Romulan only ships or is this where the "sharing" of KDF or FED ships comes into play?
I would rather not have any outside faction ships for the Romulans, but I would not stand in the way of others who may want that. I just would like to make sure that I can play Romulan only ships all the way up to max without having to fly a Fed or KDF ship if I do not want to.
-Seacat
Agree or disagree with the feature, it is pretty obvious why it was implemented. It's to give some form of "compensation" for all those ships people have accumulated over the years, that they might not be willing to give up, in order to play a third faction.
But given the nature of the faction, and the inherent bonus towards flying native ships, one could argue about whether being able to pilot all the old ships is even relevant outside of some roleplay scenario.
I'm confused if we're playing the same game. My KDF and Fed toons do the same missions all the time. Are those not real factions?
NOT the right thing to do. Allow both ways or none at all!
Might as well delete all federation and KDF characters and only create Romulan from here on out.....
Not cool.
1. Is there a limited set of allied faction gear, or is it all open? (eg low level z-store ships are faction only to prevent consoles not in boxes to cross lines)
2. Is there an extra cost for Romulan toons to obtain the allied gear compared to a toon in that allied faction?
3. Other than traits why would anyone play KDF/Fed after they've run through the storyline missions? Ie, what's the incentive to keep playing/make new Fed/KDF toons? Or is that something you're saving for down the road?
Edit:
Will unlocking Allied ships for Romulan Faction Toons require an additional purchase if it's already been bought for the allied Faction? Eg, a B'rel is purchased for a KDF toon via Zen store, does this purchase unlock from Romulan toons as well, or just KDF toons and a seperate purchase is require for Romulan toons?
Random Quote from Kerrat
"Sumlobus@****: your mums eat Iced Targ Poo"
C&H Fed banter
You mean aside from the class of ships that has their own resource (Singularity Charge or whatever), and a whole set of unique, interesting innate powers and an exclusive item slot to modify/improve those powers?
Also, how can the doffs and boffs surprise you? Did you expect they were going to take away the Romulan doffs and boffs that many of us already have? (Some people in my fleet have entire bridge crews of 6 identical romulan dudes)
Then why even bother to pretend there are multiple factions if the visual identity of them is so smudged that there might as well not be any. If you want to fly Fed ships, do it on your Fed. Romulan characters should fly Romulan ships.
Oh - and I'm going to ally with the Reds.
From what was stated I am excited about what is coming