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Official Romulan Ship and Singularity Mechanic Feedback Thread
salamiinferno
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This thread is for any feedback regarding Romulan ships and the Singularity Mechanic. Feel free to comment on turn rate, speed, power levels, boff layouts, the singularity mechanic, singularity powers, ship comparisons, anything related to these ships!
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Whoops, wrong thread.
On a totally unrelated note, the D'Deridex cruiser in the ship purchase screen has a turn rate of two. :P
TOO SLOW -_- should be base of 8+ to match NPC versions lol...its not a freaking carrier haha
-The D'deridex has a base turn rate of 5.5, which is still low, but comparable to the Bortas. I'll check into why it might be displaying so low on the store. Some of the D'deridex's Singularity abilities can help to compensate for the low turn rate, and there will be more details coming on that (as well as the Refit and Retrofit versions of the D'deridex) soon.
-The lower power levels for Warbirds are intentional. Warbirds currently start with a base of 40 power to all subsystems, plus a ship-specific bonus (in the case of the T'liss, +5 Engines and +10 Weapon Power). This is to help counterbalance the power of the Singularity abilities that these ships have access to. We are still iterating on this and welcome player feedback. There are blogs coming to describe some of this further.
That sounds like you might be experiencing a bug. I would recommend reporting it here:
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/forumdisplay.php?f=229
Ships with turn rates below 7 or 9 really are simply not fun to fly. I urge you to reconsider basing the design of a ship as highly desired and anticipated as the D'deridex on the recent KDF ship release that did not sell very well.
Or the Galaxy that is constantly complained about, and rightfully so, as far as boff arrangements are concerned.
That is not funny.
Though in fairness about 4 people in my fleet told me "don't buy an Odyssey they turn like a beached whale" and I have plenty of fun in that thing all the same, no matter what anyone says.
"We are smart." - Grebnedlog
Member of Alliance Central Command/boq botlhra'ghom
That is eniterly subjective. I can enjoy ships with lower turn rates.
For the likely huge hull HP that ship will have it will be fitting to have a low turn rate. Don't like it, you can put on consoles, spec into thrusters or maybe get warp/impulse engines that enhance turn rate. Still don't like the turn rate, then fly another ship that's meant to turn faster.
i'll be making a large post at some point soon going over each and every ship in detail.
While true, it doesn't feel quite as right to be flying a D-bird with broadsiding... Will wait till I get a chance to fly though.
In addition, the 60 second cooldown on singularity abilities makes the T'Varo Light Warbird's Singularity Stabilizer console seems almost essential.
Moreover, we have several Warbirds available that are faster if you're interested in a style of play more similar to an Escort. The D'deridex is a huge ship, canonically both larger and slower than the Galaxy. We're doing our best to make it appropriate to the IP, as well as fun to play.
Not to mention the primary weapons of the D'Deridex were supposed to be in the "beak", not side mounted.
Why on earth would anyone want a tertiary engineering ensign slot?
One certainly doesn't need to play the ship to know that's a bad idea. Would clearly be worlds better as a universal slot.
This is concerning, but at least the fix is incredibly simple.
"We are smart." - Grebnedlog
Member of Alliance Central Command/boq botlhra'ghom
The black hole that is created when a Romulan ships explodes, is it meant to not have a gravity well effect?
We're still going back and forth on that. Initially, we had a gravity effect on it and it was far too dangerous. This is still in a state of flux.
I don't see why its essential to be honest.
On a different note I'm loving the interior, like its been said before engineering is really awesome looking!
Dhelan and Mogai have 2 Science boff slots, though the Mogoai has just as many tac slots and a higher level tac seat only for you to get swapped to 2 engi once you reach the D'deridex and the Ha'pax continues that line by having higher ranked engi despite having an equal number of sci and engi seats. You really should either stick to one layout or you should give us 2 different lineups so we can actually choose if we want a sci or eng focus (and a third tac focused line would be appreciated). Also, past Subcommander, there really is no dedicated science vessel which is extremely dissapointing.
Maybe you could still add it, but in the tutorial make it so it does no harm and give one of those tip popups to warn players what could happen in a real senario.
Could make the area that pulls you in smaller than a proper gravity well to balance it.
The idea being to suck you in if you are not paying attention, and then get smacked by the shockwave.
I understand why you might not want to go that far though
This is kind of what stood out the most to me, as I was planning on rolling a pair of Sci with LoR. From the currently available ships, there are two "options" so to speak.
4x Sci Consoles with a LCdr Sci...and a Turn of 5.
3x Sci Consoles with 2x Lt Sci...and a Turn of 16.
Well, technically - there's another option - you can grab a LCdr/Lt Sci and be left with a single En Eng. That's 14 Turn, but can't remember the number of Sci Consoles.
Have to wonder if there's going to be a Cmdr Sci...actual Sci Vessel for the Romulans down the road.
A one minute cooldown that can't be mitigated in any other way other than that console and you don't see why it's essential? If you built up charge but couldn't use the abilities until the cooldown was done it wouldn't be that necessary, but the fact that you wait a minute just to start building up means immediately finishing the cooldown on it is amazing.
You act as if Romulan ships can't survive without their singularity abilities.
Ultimately, it comes down to if the bonus from being able to use the Singularity power more often is significantly greater than the least valuable console slot you have. I can potentially see that happening with them, but I would really need to actually test them out more. Plasma Shockwave is nice and all, but I'm not sure if I find it more valuable than a Threat Console, Armor Console, or Energy Weapon console.