TNG era Romulan pack in the same style as the DS9 etc packs. So you'd get the TNG era Romulan uniforms, a scaling TNG style disruptor pistol, maybe scaling ship disruptor weapons as well, and a few other ods and ends.
2) can we please exchange our allies' underperforming DOffs on new romulus command.
I've done that as a romfed.
To start with, the game is in much better condition than it was a few years ago. Lots of small but good improvements.
But the Romulan content is a mixed bag. It did the job of getting my attention and bringing me back for another try but having levelled a few Romulans to 50 and also a Fed now I see a lot of problems. Some of them are easily fixable. Others not so much.
1) Federation fun
As a long-time trekkie there is a certain added joy to playing a Federation character that I don't get from my Romulans. Especially the ships. It's cool to fly around in eg. Voyager. That element is not something you can do much about.
2) Federation have more options
For everything, but especially ships. Obviously the faction is much older so this is understandable but it's also equally understandable that many players will look at what's available and find Romulans severely lacking.
My Romulans are science characters. There's a grand total of 1 science vessel, not including its mirror counterpart which is quite expensive on the exchange. For soloing content escorts are much better and I imagine you see players sticking primarily to them. So I can understand why most of the Romulan ships are escorts.
But it's disappointing to have no options at all, and I see that if I just change factions I can be instantly drowning in them.
3) Romulan ships are too big and not very pretty
I love the D'deridex and Mogai, though those aren't your creations, and I think the T'varo is a sexy little ship. Great job on that one. But after that it goes downhill. The Dhelan is ok but wouldn't win any beauty contests. The others look like B52 inspired monstrosities. The Ha'feh is probably the best of the bunch.
From a gameplay perspective they're annoyingly big. I have to zoom back to see anything and frequently get stuck on other ships in sector space and zoning in to starbases. The D'deridex and the Scimitar were big ships, sure, but I'm not sure that means the Romulans would only make big ships.
Your Federation ships look sleek and sexy. The Romulan ones look large and mean, I assume by design.
Why do Romulan characters start with this trait? Unless I'm missing something major only tactical players can stealth. I have the very occasional shroud effect from the Jem'hadar set but otherwise I'm stuck with a trait which primarily benefits another career.
I know all characters get one free trait respec and the content is pretty easy so you could ignore traits entirely and still get by. But having players start with a trait intended for another career just seems really wrong.
5) Cloaking - why bother?
When I started playing the Bridge Officer Veril had the Reman Infiltrator ambush duration bonus for post decloaking built into her Subterfuge trait. I know there were stacking problems of some kind and that may be why it was removed but in theory this meant all players had the 25% post-decloaking damage bonus for 12.5 seconds. Instead we only have 5 seconds. I think that's a problem which could be easily fixed. Put it back.
You're not doing any damage while cloaked and it's very rare in PvE that cloaking has any defensive value. So it currently seems a bit pointless.
6) The semi-faction
Personally I don't mind your implementation of the Romulans as a semi-faction attached to the other two. The story works and it's something kind of new. My guess is this was to avoid having to design all new t1-t4 ships and so that players who have already spent money on those could play Romulans and keep using them? But I think it works.
The problem is that T5 Romulan ship options are extremely limited and for players who would prefer a proper Romulan faction, they're stuck with a Federation or Klingon starbase. Obviously a Romulan starbase option would be nice but if that's regarded as not cost-effective, build some of the starbase functionality into the Romulan embassy and dilithium mines as extra 'projects' so that dedicated Romulan fleets can opt to not build a starbase.
What I'm not fine with is the fact that after selecting a side you're primarily recognized by your ally.
That's ridiculous. My Rom character doesn't even wear a Starfleet Uniform. She wears a Romulan Uniform of the Starfleet allied service. She's a liaison, a Romulan Republic officer that works and collaborates with, not a Starfleet officer, so at no point should she be referred to as such. And in no case is this more prominent than in the Tau Dewa sector patrol. It's completely unacceptable for any Romulan vessel that you encounter to refer to you as anything other or in any other way than as a Romulan republic Vessel...EVER. The worst part is, it's a simple text change. That's a predictable thing. And a small thing that makes a big difference.
And the Romulans we encounter in the Borg mission, Taelus, who is pretty blatantly Tal Shiar, that mission should be radically different for Romulans. That said, I understand that there are already plans to upgrade Federation content and missions, and as that mission "The Return" is a very late Fed mission it might take a while.
Next on my wishlist is pure Romulan DOFFs. I can understand if I were to pick up doffs from Starfleet Academy. That makes sense. But if I'm on New Romulus talking to my Doff contact, I want Romulan Republic Doffs. You can keep it interesting, have some Suliban and even Acamarians in addition to Romulans and Remans. Diplomacy is alright since it's all about opposite faction DOFFs, but we should be able to get Republic doffs. As a matter of fact Romulan specific Colonial chain rewards would be nice too.
But all in all great work thus far and I'm still enjoying Legacy. I'm just hoping and expecting the dev team to continue to separate and diversify the Romulan faction as time goes on, logically as the Republic continues to stabilize and grow they will grow more independent. Perhaps a later mission will provide an option for a Romulan to switch back to a more pure Republic status if they want.
"Rise like Lions after slumber, In unvanquishable number, Shake your chains to earth like dew, Which in sleep had fallen on you-Ye are many they are few"
Not strictly related to Romulan gameplay, but I'd like to see the Romulan Boffs you can get from the Fleet Embassy be able to have their looks/outfits altered in the tailor, so I can give the Romulan tac officer my Fed captain has a proper Republic or even Starfleet uniform.
well ... i'm short from getting my fleet ha'feh.
but: well, it seems i reached the limit with my ship.
elite fleet disruptors and advanced fleet torpedo.
elite shields, core.
honor guard dish and engines.
and soon the fleet ship.
...
I don't know, but I feel like we should have more upgrading choices:
something like a second level of upgrading for ships ..
something like a Level II fleet ship...
also: i'd like that EVERY large enough starship have an hangar bay (a non specialized one, that don't allow the player to equip fighters, repair units, frigates and ship specific hangar pets, allowing him to equip only runabouts and shuttles - in the movies every ship has its own hangar bay/s)
I would love to have the nemesis Romulan uniform, I'm not a fan of many of the choices we have currently.
More Parts for the Tvaro. I love the design, but I like to mix things up a little.
Romulan ship decals. The Federation has theirs, you can change it for your fleet insignia. The Klingons have theirs. I would love to have the Romulan logo appropriately placed on the head (beak ?) of my Romulan D'Deridex.
While on the subject of ship decals, I would love to be able to put the old bird of prey decal, the one you used to see on the bottom of the old style warbirds, on some of the newer designed ships. I think it would look haawwwt http://www.myspacemuseum.com/decals03a.jpg
The expand the use of ally ships to 5th tier.
Unless you buy C-store ships, the only Tier V choices for Romulan captains are the Ha'pax and it's individual parts, so why not give more options by letting you pick from Tier V allied ships too.
Missions where you get to see the REAL Romulan Star Empire.
The only real interactions we've had with the Romulan Empire up to now have been through Sela and Tal Shiar flunkies. Now that she's out of the way (for the moment) and the Tal Shiar's had it's arm broken, I'd love to see more of the state of the remaining Empire. Maybe set up a Nimbus III style adventure zone on it's capital world(can't recall what planet that is now).
Make the Vice Admiral coat a freebie instead of a veteran uniform.
It kinda pissed me off that the VA uniform for Romulans is a vet award instead of a freebie like the Fed VA jacket. Both they, and the klingons, should have a freebie uniform for getting a character all the way up to 50 too. Besides, there's already a separate Veteran uniform for Romulans, and not all of us can afford subscriptions or a lifetime package.
Stuff other people have said:
Sword of Raptor Star replica melee weapon, Raptor decal for all warbirds, Romulan Omega force rep gear, etc.
2a. Complete, exclusive and self-contained Rom Doff system. Play a Rom, use only Rom doffs and you'll see what I mean.
2b. Romulan Republic Academy.
3. Scale down the Ha'xx ships. I get that the Scimitar needs to be stupid big. The others don't and the models would look a ton better if they were smaller. Besides, there are many immersion breaking issues with the size of many Rom ships.
4. More warbirds (starting with a sci ship) that don't have a cmdr tac slot.
5. Remanland on New Romulus. What happened to that?
6. More Romulan places to go like Ganalda, K-7, Vulcan, Andoria, etc
8. More green, less blue and red. Take that as a general statement, but specifically for scan animations and so forth.
9. Tovan stasis device. If you won't let me kill him...
10. More RRF titles, accolades etc. No more UFP MoH, Starfleet Cross, etc - I get that those medals are given in the service of my ally, but the Republic doesn't give out medals? Really?
"So my fun is wrong?"
No. Your fun makes everyone else's fun wrong by default.
new missions on virinat, the colony is destroyed but not the planet, why romulans don't return on this planet, and start a new colony--> new missions with more romulan marks reward.
i wrote it already; SMALL SHIP. currently i use a fleet dhelan, and i can't imagine to change for one of the other big TRIBBLE
Totally removed from fed/kdf as allies, their own faction starting from scratch their own bases. All rom ships BC removed to normal cloak except the tvaro, barring that give KDF BC on the raptors.
My truest wish, roms removed completely from STO, Fed and kdf allies, and real true villainous faction.
Quote about STO on consoles: "Not quite as bad as No man's sky, but a close second."
without battlecloak these 2 ships could be more Tanks and damage dealers
The D-7
Too many cloaked ships already...more stand up fighting ships..I do believe the RSE only had about 50% of its fleet cloaked in canon
And they were more than enough to keep the Feds and klingons on their side of the borders
Jellico....Engineer ground.....Da'val Romulan space Sci
Saphire.. Science ground......Ko'el Romulan space Tac
Leva........Tactical ground.....Koj Romulan space Eng
JJ-Verse will never be Canon or considered Lore...It will always be JJ-Verse
Romulan Computer Voice instead of allies
Better availability of Romulan/Reman Boffs.
Special Rewards, like from the FE Replays, are Ally Specific, not Romulan Faction.
Liberated Borg Romulan Science Officer form the Lobi Store is not Romulan Republic, its the faction of your Ally.
New Romulus needs a Faction social zone to be equal to First City/SFA, with a senate chamber and all the Academy type events for Romulan players.
Security Officer in the Command Center would be nice, more bridge options and skins for ships and a science ship that looks Romulan. It would also be nice to explore the Reman part on New Romulus.
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I've done that as a romfed.
To start with, the game is in much better condition than it was a few years ago. Lots of small but good improvements.
But the Romulan content is a mixed bag. It did the job of getting my attention and bringing me back for another try but having levelled a few Romulans to 50 and also a Fed now I see a lot of problems. Some of them are easily fixable. Others not so much.
1) Federation fun
As a long-time trekkie there is a certain added joy to playing a Federation character that I don't get from my Romulans. Especially the ships. It's cool to fly around in eg. Voyager. That element is not something you can do much about.
2) Federation have more options
For everything, but especially ships. Obviously the faction is much older so this is understandable but it's also equally understandable that many players will look at what's available and find Romulans severely lacking.
My Romulans are science characters. There's a grand total of 1 science vessel, not including its mirror counterpart which is quite expensive on the exchange. For soloing content escorts are much better and I imagine you see players sticking primarily to them. So I can understand why most of the Romulan ships are escorts.
But it's disappointing to have no options at all, and I see that if I just change factions I can be instantly drowning in them.
3) Romulan ships are too big and not very pretty
I love the D'deridex and Mogai, though those aren't your creations, and I think the T'varo is a sexy little ship. Great job on that one. But after that it goes downhill. The Dhelan is ok but wouldn't win any beauty contests. The others look like B52 inspired monstrosities. The Ha'feh is probably the best of the bunch.
From a gameplay perspective they're annoyingly big. I have to zoom back to see anything and frequently get stuck on other ships in sector space and zoning in to starbases. The D'deridex and the Scimitar were big ships, sure, but I'm not sure that means the Romulans would only make big ships.
Your Federation ships look sleek and sexy. The Romulan ones look large and mean, I assume by design.
4) Romulan trait "Covert" +20% stealth, +10% exploit damage
Why do Romulan characters start with this trait? Unless I'm missing something major only tactical players can stealth. I have the very occasional shroud effect from the Jem'hadar set but otherwise I'm stuck with a trait which primarily benefits another career.
I know all characters get one free trait respec and the content is pretty easy so you could ignore traits entirely and still get by. But having players start with a trait intended for another career just seems really wrong.
5) Cloaking - why bother?
When I started playing the Bridge Officer Veril had the Reman Infiltrator ambush duration bonus for post decloaking built into her Subterfuge trait. I know there were stacking problems of some kind and that may be why it was removed but in theory this meant all players had the 25% post-decloaking damage bonus for 12.5 seconds. Instead we only have 5 seconds. I think that's a problem which could be easily fixed. Put it back.
You're not doing any damage while cloaked and it's very rare in PvE that cloaking has any defensive value. So it currently seems a bit pointless.
6) The semi-faction
Personally I don't mind your implementation of the Romulans as a semi-faction attached to the other two. The story works and it's something kind of new. My guess is this was to avoid having to design all new t1-t4 ships and so that players who have already spent money on those could play Romulans and keep using them? But I think it works.
The problem is that T5 Romulan ship options are extremely limited and for players who would prefer a proper Romulan faction, they're stuck with a Federation or Klingon starbase. Obviously a Romulan starbase option would be nice but if that's regarded as not cost-effective, build some of the starbase functionality into the Romulan embassy and dilithium mines as extra 'projects' so that dedicated Romulan fleets can opt to not build a starbase.
What I'm not fine with is the fact that after selecting a side you're primarily recognized by your ally.
That's ridiculous. My Rom character doesn't even wear a Starfleet Uniform. She wears a Romulan Uniform of the Starfleet allied service. She's a liaison, a Romulan Republic officer that works and collaborates with, not a Starfleet officer, so at no point should she be referred to as such. And in no case is this more prominent than in the Tau Dewa sector patrol. It's completely unacceptable for any Romulan vessel that you encounter to refer to you as anything other or in any other way than as a Romulan republic Vessel...EVER. The worst part is, it's a simple text change. That's a predictable thing. And a small thing that makes a big difference.
And the Romulans we encounter in the Borg mission, Taelus, who is pretty blatantly Tal Shiar, that mission should be radically different for Romulans. That said, I understand that there are already plans to upgrade Federation content and missions, and as that mission "The Return" is a very late Fed mission it might take a while.
Next on my wishlist is pure Romulan DOFFs. I can understand if I were to pick up doffs from Starfleet Academy. That makes sense. But if I'm on New Romulus talking to my Doff contact, I want Romulan Republic Doffs. You can keep it interesting, have some Suliban and even Acamarians in addition to Romulans and Remans. Diplomacy is alright since it's all about opposite faction DOFFs, but we should be able to get Republic doffs. As a matter of fact Romulan specific Colonial chain rewards would be nice too.
But all in all great work thus far and I'm still enjoying Legacy. I'm just hoping and expecting the dev team to continue to separate and diversify the Romulan faction as time goes on, logically as the Republic continues to stabilize and grow they will grow more independent. Perhaps a later mission will provide an option for a Romulan to switch back to a more pure Republic status if they want.
1. please, give us a tactical DD. Please, dat ship is iconic.
2. Romulan DOFFS!
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It all worked well the first few weeks of LoR even though some of the palettes were off, now it's even more bugged.
I think some of the uniform problems are connected to the issue with Romulan BOffs being assigned to an allegiance before they're commissioned.
but: well, it seems i reached the limit with my ship.
elite fleet disruptors and advanced fleet torpedo.
elite shields, core.
honor guard dish and engines.
and soon the fleet ship.
...
I don't know, but I feel like we should have more upgrading choices:
something like a second level of upgrading for ships ..
something like a Level II fleet ship...
also: i'd like that EVERY large enough starship have an hangar bay (a non specialized one, that don't allow the player to equip fighters, repair units, frigates and ship specific hangar pets, allowing him to equip only runabouts and shuttles - in the movies every ship has its own hangar bay/s)
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More Parts for the Tvaro. I love the design, but I like to mix things up a little.
Romulan ship decals. The Federation has theirs, you can change it for your fleet insignia. The Klingons have theirs. I would love to have the Romulan logo appropriately placed on the head (beak ?) of my Romulan D'Deridex.
While on the subject of ship decals, I would love to be able to put the old bird of prey decal, the one you used to see on the bottom of the old style warbirds, on some of the newer designed ships. I think it would look haawwwt
http://www.myspacemuseum.com/decals03a.jpg
Romulans used to fly klingon ships due to an alliance with the klingons. I would love a Romulan Klingon inspired d7 battle cruiser for my Romulan.
http://th01.deviantart.net/fs10/PRE/i/2006/093/c/a/Romulan_Ready_Room_painting_by_Canduterio.jpg
Unless you buy C-store ships, the only Tier V choices for Romulan captains are the Ha'pax and it's individual parts, so why not give more options by letting you pick from Tier V allied ships too.
Missions where you get to see the REAL Romulan Star Empire.
The only real interactions we've had with the Romulan Empire up to now have been through Sela and Tal Shiar flunkies. Now that she's out of the way (for the moment) and the Tal Shiar's had it's arm broken, I'd love to see more of the state of the remaining Empire. Maybe set up a Nimbus III style adventure zone on it's capital world(can't recall what planet that is now).
Make the Vice Admiral coat a freebie instead of a veteran uniform.
It kinda pissed me off that the VA uniform for Romulans is a vet award instead of a freebie like the Fed VA jacket. Both they, and the klingons, should have a freebie uniform for getting a character all the way up to 50 too. Besides, there's already a separate Veteran uniform for Romulans, and not all of us can afford subscriptions or a lifetime package.
Stuff other people have said:
Sword of Raptor Star replica melee weapon, Raptor decal for all warbirds, Romulan Omega force rep gear, etc.
My character Tsin'xing
2a. Complete, exclusive and self-contained Rom Doff system. Play a Rom, use only Rom doffs and you'll see what I mean.
2b. Romulan Republic Academy.
3. Scale down the Ha'xx ships. I get that the Scimitar needs to be stupid big. The others don't and the models would look a ton better if they were smaller. Besides, there are many immersion breaking issues with the size of many Rom ships.
4. More warbirds (starting with a sci ship) that don't have a cmdr tac slot.
5. Remanland on New Romulus. What happened to that?
6. More Romulan places to go like Ganalda, K-7, Vulcan, Andoria, etc
7. RRF Insignia Combadge/Costume decoration/Other.
8. More green, less blue and red. Take that as a general statement, but specifically for scan animations and so forth.
9. Tovan stasis device. If you won't let me kill him...
10. More RRF titles, accolades etc. No more UFP MoH, Starfleet Cross, etc - I get that those medals are given in the service of my ally, but the Republic doesn't give out medals? Really?
No. Your fun makes everyone else's fun wrong by default.
I think this designs are a good premise to start on.
This one
or this one
Or better yet have a contest like design the next Enterprise but have it for a new science Warbird.
"It appears we have lost our sex appeal, captain."- Tuvok
I like this idea.
Originally Posted by pwlaughingtrendy
Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
2. cruiser comparable with Avenger/Mogh , i know RR has a scimitar, but he is too big, reman and OP , f.e. Kerchan class http://kuc.cz/18hpw2
3. no more ugly, fat big ships like Ha'x serie
4. Sword of Raptor's Star replica
5. XII plasma piercing rifles
6. romulan omega ground set
i wrote it already; SMALL SHIP. currently i use a fleet dhelan, and i can't imagine to change for one of the other big TRIBBLE
Totally removed from fed/kdf as allies, their own faction starting from scratch their own bases. All rom ships BC removed to normal cloak except the tvaro, barring that give KDF BC on the raptors.
My truest wish, roms removed completely from STO, Fed and kdf allies, and real true villainous faction.
These.
Esp. the uniform. Romulans also had a battle axe, shield, and non raptor style sword as seen on the Statues in Nemesis.
http://imageprocessor.websimages.com/width/935/crop/0,0,935x526/www.pierre-drolet-sci-fi-museum.com/Nemesis_City_03.jpg
Romulan Institute
D'Galan - Engineer
Rator III and IV (it's "the other" Mol'Rihan/Mol'Havran).
Tal'Shiar/Reman Resistance/Romulan Nemesis uniform, pls.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7403/13262502435_5604548f2c_o.png
I'd be a huge fan of infusing new talent into this. The last couple of new ships have been so godawful.
science ship without cloak
without battlecloak these 2 ships could be more Tanks and damage dealers
The D-7
Too many cloaked ships already...more stand up fighting ships..I do believe the RSE only had about 50% of its fleet cloaked in canon
And they were more than enough to keep the Feds and klingons on their side of the borders
Saphire.. Science ground......Ko'el Romulan space Tac
Leva........Tactical ground.....Koj Romulan space Eng
JJ-Verse will never be Canon or considered Lore...It will always be JJ-Verse
Better availability of Romulan/Reman Boffs.
Special Rewards, like from the FE Replays, are Ally Specific, not Romulan Faction.
Liberated Borg Romulan Science Officer form the Lobi Store is not Romulan Republic, its the faction of your Ally.
New Romulus needs a Faction social zone to be equal to First City/SFA, with a senate chamber and all the Academy type events for Romulan players.
1) a Romulan Carrier
2) a Romulan Battlecruiser worthy of the classification Battlecruiser
3) Nemesis Romulan uniform