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lan451
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Alrighty, this has been bugging me for a little while now. Tonight it finally bugged me enough to start a thread on it.
Basically I've been noticing some inconsistencies with faction specific dialogue when it comes to Romulans. Many NPCs often refer to me as a Federation officer even though I'm clearly not. I'm sure it's the same over on the KDF side. I wanted to get a thread going to find and list all the inconsistencies like this in the hopes of getting them changed appropriately.
List of inconsistencies so far:
-Tau Dewa Patrol: Romulan Patrol lady tells me that she understands that "my government" has allowed me to help the Romulans out on their sector.
-Tau Dewa Patrol: Upon completion, the Romulan patrol lady tells me that she didn't expect people from "my home world" to be so efficient. She then goes on to tell me that despite the differences between our two peoples in the past, she hopes we can work together. Obviously I'm from the same home world and people that she is.
-Federation contact near the transporter pad at the staging area on New Romulus: Tells me that he needs me to represent the Federation to the Romulan people to strengthen the ties between the two.
-Tovan called the Romulan commander from the beginning of 'Frozen' a petaQ before remembering we were Romulans.
-During the Spectres arc (Skirmish, if I remember right), Hiven exclaims something along the lines of, "By the spirit of Kahless!" when a Devidian floats past.
-Commander Avran at Vastam Peaks: Tells me that he was suspicious of "my people" and that we might have been wanting to take the colony for all he knew.
-Deferi Outpost 3: Breen commander taunts me and makes fun of my "Starfleet training".
Edited OP to include a list of all the ones found so far. If anyone finds more, post them up and I'll add them to the OP.
Basically I've been noticing some inconsistencies with faction specific dialogue when it comes to Romulans. Many NPCs often refer to me as a Federation officer even though I'm clearly not. I'm sure it's the same over on the KDF side. I wanted to get a thread going to find and list all the inconsistencies like this in the hopes of getting them changed appropriately.
List of inconsistencies so far:
-Tau Dewa Patrol: Romulan Patrol lady tells me that she understands that "my government" has allowed me to help the Romulans out on their sector.
-Tau Dewa Patrol: Upon completion, the Romulan patrol lady tells me that she didn't expect people from "my home world" to be so efficient. She then goes on to tell me that despite the differences between our two peoples in the past, she hopes we can work together. Obviously I'm from the same home world and people that she is.
-Federation contact near the transporter pad at the staging area on New Romulus: Tells me that he needs me to represent the Federation to the Romulan people to strengthen the ties between the two.
-Tovan called the Romulan commander from the beginning of 'Frozen' a petaQ before remembering we were Romulans.
-During the Spectres arc (Skirmish, if I remember right), Hiven exclaims something along the lines of, "By the spirit of Kahless!" when a Devidian floats past.
-Commander Avran at Vastam Peaks: Tells me that he was suspicious of "my people" and that we might have been wanting to take the colony for all he knew.
-Deferi Outpost 3: Breen commander taunts me and makes fun of my "Starfleet training".
Edited OP to include a list of all the ones found so far. If anyone finds more, post them up and I'll add them to the OP.
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Tovan called the Romulan commander from the beginning of 'Frozen' a petaQ before remembering we were Romulans. During the Spectres arc (Skirmish, if I remember right), Hiven exclaims something along the lines of, "By the spirit of Kahless!" when a Devidian floats past.
Q Junior treated my crew and I as though we were Klingons. If it weren't for his references to honor and warrior spirit, though, one could almost think he'd lost the memo that playable Romulans are part of a Republic.
This character is why I don't play my Romulan any more. Tovan Khev is NOT my BFF! Get him off my bridge!
Some of the most annoying ones have been in Foundry missions where the author assumes the player is a specific sex/race such as a male Klingon, and I happen to be playing a female Orion. The mission itself could be great, but the dialog makes me cringe.
I can understand how those details could be missed when getting caught up in the writing of the story, but they are important little details.
-Commander Avran at Vastam Peaks: Tells me that he was suspicious of "my people" and that we might have been wanting to take the colony for all he knew.
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Want something REALLY surreal? go to Vulcan and do the "Ancestral Sin" daily. A Romulan wandering around Vulcan and talking with other Romulans about the history of the Romulans and the Vulcans, hehehe.... it's bizarre.
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Hmm, I think I'll start adding all of these to the OP. I'll have to do that later.
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In Fed missions, your boffs all talk like humans, in KDF missions like Klingons and in Romulan missions like Romulans. Even if your team consists of a Borg, a Jem'hadar, a Breen and a Ferengi. This is unavoidable, as it would be impossible to write dialogue for every possible combination of bridge officer species.
I realize this but I'm not asking for species specific dialogue, I'm asking for faction specific dialogue. Throughout the Romulan mission arcs the NPCs always refer to me as a member of the Romulan Republic and not as a member of the Federation/KDF. The older missions have not been updated to reflect the addition of the Romulan faction so many of them refer to you as a member of the Federation/KDF and not as a member of the Republic. The aim of this thread is to find and list the ones that were not updated so that hopefully they can be in the future.
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It seems like they did a pretty good job of updating the old stuff right up until the State of Q mission. Then it just kind of drops off to Fed/KDF references.
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Which was ironic, because the Thot who beamed down for that mission actually makes a reference to your being a Romulan, saying that you all should have died with the planet.
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We don't need to justify bad writing with hand-waiving tech wizardry.
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And remember to follow the rules.