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rattraps123
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Sorry cryptic ship people, I hate to be so negative about your designs, But some of the Cryptic made romulan ships are really Really ugly. Can you please do something to tone down the ugly ships and make them look and feel more cannon and romulan looking. How about using some Star Trek Armada 1 & 2 romulan ships.
The Dhelan is Just dreadfull.. wtf is that ? Why does it need a double wings ?
The D?ridthau Warbird ......... It's SO ugly i'm speechless. PLEASE change.
The Ha?apax .... Looks like a #enis...REALLY ?
The Ha?feh ... NO !
http://galen82.deviantart.com/art/Romulan-D-shara-Final-3-146600427 YES ! This SHOULD be a Romulan ship.
http://brstarship.wordpress.com/category/atolm/ AMAZING !!!!!!!! This should be a Tier 5 Romulan ship !
http://www.foundation3d.com/index.php?categoryid=38&p13_sectionid=310&p13_fileid=536 Here's your Carrier for the Romulans ....
http://starshipmodeler.biz/shop/index.cfm/product/490/12500-romulan-white-wind-class-starship.cfm
A Simple google search would have given you better designs for Romulan ships.
Please consider changing some of your designs to make them more 2409 Romulan style. Thank you Cryptic. I look forward to playing STO : LOR So far the Romulan side from 1-lvl 21 is Amazing an fun and fresh, it should be a HUGE Hit with Star Trek fans.
The Dhelan is Just dreadfull.. wtf is that ? Why does it need a double wings ?
The D?ridthau Warbird ......... It's SO ugly i'm speechless. PLEASE change.
The Ha?apax .... Looks like a #enis...REALLY ?
The Ha?feh ... NO !
http://galen82.deviantart.com/art/Romulan-D-shara-Final-3-146600427 YES ! This SHOULD be a Romulan ship.
http://brstarship.wordpress.com/category/atolm/ AMAZING !!!!!!!! This should be a Tier 5 Romulan ship !
http://www.foundation3d.com/index.php?categoryid=38&p13_sectionid=310&p13_fileid=536 Here's your Carrier for the Romulans ....
http://starshipmodeler.biz/shop/index.cfm/product/490/12500-romulan-white-wind-class-starship.cfm
A Simple google search would have given you better designs for Romulan ships.
Please consider changing some of your designs to make them more 2409 Romulan style. Thank you Cryptic. I look forward to playing STO : LOR So far the Romulan side from 1-lvl 21 is Amazing an fun and fresh, it should be a HUGE Hit with Star Trek fans.
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BTW, none of those links work.
For what it's worth, short of the Valdore Retrofit, I don't like any of the Cryptic-Romulan designs either. That being said, I already know which end-game ship I'm looking to get, and I'll be more than happy with just that. The others are only required for 10 levels or so.
Edit: azurianstar beat me to it.
Personally I really like the D'ridthau Warbird design. The D'deridex has always been one of my favorite ships and this design takes a lot of inspiration from it, but adds some more modern twists to the design.
I do agree the double wings on the Dhelan aren't exactly my favorite. I was really hoping there was a design variant where the upper wing replaced where the lower wings are. It would make it look a lot more sleek and a lot more dangerous looking.
The other two ships aren't bad either.
Since you're obviously unaware of how these things work. Cryptic only has the rights for CBS own Star Trek (The TV shows), certain ships from nemesis on down, and any designs that perpetual originally created. Anything beyond that is either totally off limits or extremely near impossible for it to ever end up in STO.
with the right colour scheme (im using Aquilla in two shades of Green) its actually a cool look
But I must confess im missing the IRW Sword (my starter ship) and its smooth teardrop shape gliding through the endless night of space.
good luck with that.
ha ha love it
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At least they aren't just copying the same old, they are trying to bring something new and fresh to the game which I respect a lot.
To be fair , I too would have made a post like that if I thought it would have done some good .
I know we can't expect every ship to look "golden" , they did have 7 months (more if you count how long they were set on doing S. not 8) , to sketch up some more interesting designs .
To me it seems like they chose the ones it'd take the least time to build .
The dhelan just looks like the aborted love child of the Atrox and the Galor with an extra set of wings on top .
My point is its personal taste. i dont think these are ugly ships, or even bad ones. its taken a bit of time to get accustomed to some of them but they are new. a lot of people hated the odyssey but once it started to appear in game people changed their minds on it.
When i first saw the dhelan i did not like it, but its has grown on me, and now i really like the design and i would oppose any changes.
there are some people who think the galaxy class is ugly and some think its the most beautiful ship in the IP. its personal taste of the artist that makes it and up to everyone to decide. some will like it, some wont. but no one can say they are bad designs as a matter of fact.
That is to say, your links are broken.
Nah. They're cool.
Ehn. Canon is overrated. And they're plenty Romulan looking.
Unless you do mean cannons. In which case they're great for shooting at castles.
To fly better in the thick atmosphere of space.
It's cute. Like Shrek.
That's the best part about it. Add an unzipping sound when it decloaks and it'll be like your last date.
Yessss!
I don't like the broken main hull of the Dhelan, but that is personal.
The Dridtau looks cool except for those tiny secondary naceless ( That could have worked if it was a small warbird nesting on it, like a bird of prey on the Bortas) .
The Valdore however is the best looking Star Trek ship I ever saw. Its so cool!
The Ha'Feh is an ok look to me. BUT the name is kind of meh. I mean feh. I mean, god I hate even typing it. So I might just start calling it the pickleboat. It's green and is shaped like a dill pickle kind of.
I wan't to see more sleek stuff like this:
Cryptic has a funny way of designing things, most Romulan ships of the later eras were smoother with slight texture, no TRIBBLE sticking out, and had a beak/nose...
Please get the rights to this ship Cryptic:
http://www.startrekdesktopwallpaper.com/new_wallpaper/Star_Trek_Romulan_Star_Navy_Kerchan_Class2011_freecomputerdesktopwallpaper_p.jpg
(Kerchan)
Oh yeah that thing is a monster, would not even have to think about buying it...instant sale if you guys at Cryptic got rights to that thing.
They excel at at when dealing with canon ships like the Ambassador and Mogai/Valdore.
But as soon as they start from scratch they lose their sense of realism.
And the Dhelan kind of reminds me of a hawk in mid-catch with it's prey, wings swept up and arched and the like. It's nifty.
Those ships except for colors have very little in common with canon ships and thus don't "feel" romulan.
The D'ridthau is an abomination, it lost all the elegnce the D'deridex has, it looks like a heavy brick.
Here are some of the fan-made designs I like, I know cryptic can't add them to the game, but they can use them as inspiration.
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b376/samsonfoodstore/KM%20shots%2026th%20sept/newromulanships.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b376/samsonfoodstore/KM%20shots%2026th%20sept/newromulanships1.jpg
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b376/samsonfoodstore/KM%20shots%2026th%20sept/Romulansshipsnew2.jpg
I lkie the 3 big ships below, but would like them better if they were whole green.
http://i34.tinypic.com/2a9d2zc.jpg
http://i34.tinypic.com/262nm2h.jpg
This design would be for for a small escort, or maybe a fighter:
http://imageshack.us/a/img182/3553/swc1sd1.gif
This is my fvourite:
http://www.suricatafx.com/?p=79
I live in an alternate universe, where j.j. abrams and cryptic never existed,
where R.S.E. is what it always should be.
You see, thats Romulan to me.. and thats fan created. I love every ship you have posted there and wouldnt hesitate to buy them all.
Yet a whole design team over 7 or so months came up with basically one ship design and changed it a little bit.. (Ha?apax, Ha?nom and Ha?feh)
Come on guys, youre doing everything else brilliantly.. But i guess whats one mans meat is another mans poison.
The D'deridex, however... if its camera didn't clip through the lower hull whenever you jumped to warp, it'd be perfect.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
Solution is quite simple: If you don't like it, don't fly it. The rest of us will take them and make them look like the ships we know :P
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Ha'pax does look phallic guys. Sorry, but I agree with him. The Dhelan looks like a bird curling up to die or a maybe a turkey vulture. The Ha'feh doesn't look that much better than the ha'pax because it looks like half a p***s.
My fav ones are the classics: D'deridex, mogai, valdore, and TOS bird of prey. I really love the T'varo Retrofit, too. She's curvy, sleek, and ready to cloak in a moment's notice
Yup, I prefer these fan made ships to the Cryptic ones as well. The new Cryptic ones look too insectoid-like moths or praying mantises; whereas, they look better when they are more simple in design and look more bird-like.
Suricata's and the very first pic are my favs out of those screenshots.
Cryptic take note, those are real Romulan ships.
Honestly, I think the problem is that the ship team needs more people. Fixing the D'D and the Mogai went very well, but the majority of the cryptic original designs are terrible. The concept artist certainly proved he was capable of great things with the Valdore, but all the models being added probably limited their ability to properly conceive that one. The Ha'apax ships mostly look good, but have incredibly simplistic nacelles. The Ha'afeh takes that seeming simplicity and uses it to great effect, thus harkening back to the days of old Romulan fan made ships back in the seventies and eighties which is wonderful. The front of the new D'D design is great too, a real inspired collection of diagonal angles that smooth out at the front.
The new romulan shuttle looks pretty bad even in concept, so maybe cryptic needs some more help there too.
I can understand why there is only one design for the 3 ship combo, but that doesn't make me any less depressed about it and the rest of the bungled situation.
On the good side of things, remodeling the canon ships took priority for the team, and thats very respectable. The two new Klingon bops look great from what I'v seen as well, we know you can do good Cryptic, just give your ship team the people and time that they need.
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Not a fan of those except for the Fvillha Class, as said it's all personal taste....some see these as Romulan ships, I see them as a deranged fans wet dream and horrible.