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Cat future?

jadenmiajadenmia Member Posts: 148 Arc User
edited July 2013 in Romulan Discussion
The Feds and the Klinks have starter race specific Cats.
Feds catians.
Klinks Ferasan.

Romulains? Future cats?
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  • UnknownUnknown
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  • voporakvoporak Member Posts: 5,621 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Yes. We need Romulan kitties. Now!
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  • ashkrik23ashkrik23 Member Posts: 10,809 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    A feline or any kind of animal race is fine in my book.
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  • jexsamxjexsamx Member Posts: 2,803 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    We have enough cats in this game already. And though I am loathe to see any more furry races put into the game, surely there are more original or more interesting ones than cats? The Selay or Anticans, maybe?
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  • kitsunesnoutkitsunesnout Member Posts: 1,210 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I won't seriously play on the green side till we do get a feline species, and really, the fact that romside players can create aliens which look like any sort of crazy thing with no connection to romulans or remans, there is just no logical reason anyone could ever come up with why we shouldn't have them.
  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Romulans use birds symbolically. Cats hunt birds. Cats for romulans it's a no no, or those ships won't fly!!

    :P
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  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    skollulfr wrote: »
    for the jump-flank exploit?


    sorta why i suggested the skorr. them being an avian race.
    though really, plenty of predatory birds capable of hunting & killing cats.
    It was just a joke ;)

    KDF has cats and they also fly birds-of-prey.
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  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    skollulfr wrote: »
    skorr would still be more interesting
    http://www.oocities.org/tkee_skorr/page7.html

    even if canon did have them in the fed during the tos era

    seriously:
    I like it.


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  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited July 2013
    skollulfr wrote: »
    skorr would still be more interesting
    http://www.oocities.org/tkee_skorr/page7.html

    even if canon did have them in the fed during the tos era

    easy way around that. Give the Romulans the Skorr. Give the Federation the Aurelians. It sounds a bit like the TAS creators, in trying to save budget, felt the two species could be from the same ancestral race. Developers can use the same wireframes, etc., due to the two species strong similarities.
  • fovrelfovrel Member Posts: 1,448 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    A bird with arms? Please no, let it be scifi and not sci-fantasy.

    Neither do I support a Romulan faction sided cat race. We also don't have sexy barely dressed females and crocs in all factions.
  • tpalelenatpalelena Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    fovrel wrote: »
    A bird with arms? Please no, let it be scifi and not sci-fantasy.

    Neither do I support a Romulan faction sided cat race. We also don't have sexy barely dressed females and crocs in all factions.

    So birdmen are fantasy, but catmen are not? Odd.
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  • jexsamxjexsamx Member Posts: 2,803 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I feel like for player races, we really ought to keep it relatively simple. Unique heads like Gorn have or tails like Caitians is one thing, but when we start talking about a hunched bird-like species with huge wings and very bird-like arms and legs, you're suddenly talking about a lot of character art to do, not to mention making either all the old uniforms work or all new ones specifically for the species. Then there's animations, like attacks and running, and the possibility of a limited flight animation being necessary... It's a ludicrous amount of work for what will, I guarantee, be a poor-selling item with limited appeal.

    I refer back to the Selay and Anticans. You get your furry/scalie fix while remaining canon and not requiring silly amounts of extra work. The only issues would come from helmets, since these races have odd heads.
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  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    tpalelena wrote: »
    So birdmen are fantasy, but catmen are not? Odd.

    If there where a "like" button... :D


    But I think I get what he/she is saying. Caitians don't actually change the feline build. They have arms and legs, but cats have them. A bird has wings instead of arms, so a bird with wings, arms and legs is a bit out of the "standard". But it's not that far fetched that an avian species that develops intelligence, and starts using tools could develop extra body members more suited for the task.
  • fovrelfovrel Member Posts: 1,448 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    tpalelena wrote: »
    So birdmen are fantasy, but catmen are not? Odd.

    No, not odd. Catmen evolved from cats just as apemen evolved from ... apes. If Birdmen evolved from birds they would have legs and wings, but how are they going to build the starship? The wings could have evolved into arms of course.

    So birdmen have a beak, feathers and that is it. You can't have both wings and arms. The creature on the picture in this thread comes from a griphon and that is a fantasy creature. They are the odd one out here.

    Now we can have a discussion if STO/Startrek is a scifi or a sci-Fantasy universe and I admit that I have no definite answer to that.
  • fmgtorres1979fmgtorres1979 Member Posts: 1,327 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    fovrel wrote: »
    No, not odd. Catmen evolved from cats just as apemen evolved from ... apes. If Birdmen evolved from birds they would have legs and wings, but how are they going to build the starship? The wings could have evolved into arms of course.

    So birdmen have a beak, feathers and that is it. You can't have both wings and arms. The creature on the picture in this thread comes from a griphon and that is a fantasy creature. They are the odd one out here.

    Now we can have a discussion if STO/Startrek is a scifi or a sci-Fantasy universe and I admit that I have no definite answer to that.

    Several insects have both legs (several) and wings. So, nature on Earth shows us that legs and wings aren't out of the picture. Now, I know insects are extremely different from birds, but fiction is fiction.

    EDIT: Obviously at least a pair of legs had to mutate to arms
  • aexraelaexrael Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Can we keep the anthropomorphic fetishes out of Romulan territory. It's bad enough the alien generator is permitted.

    Any new inclusion of races should be the Suliban, they are the most logical extension of the Republic at the moment.
  • mimey2mimey2 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I don't really care one way or another if they add a cat species for the Romulans.

    But on the subject of the 'bird people', don't forget about the (extinct) Xindi Avians. So there can be at least, 'bird people'.
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  • telbasta7386telbasta7386 Member Posts: 761 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    How about the lyrans? They'd certainly be a more ferocious change of pace from the Caitians or Ferasans:

    http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121030181852/startrek/images/6/65/Lyran.jpg

    And their ships look cool too:

    http://pcmedia.ign.com/media/news/image/sfleetcom007.jpg
  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    telbasta7386 wrote: »
    How about the lyrans? They'd certainly be a more ferocious change of pace from the Caitians or Ferasans:

    http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121030181852/startrek/images/6/65/Lyran.jpg

    And their ships look cool too:

    http://pcmedia.ign.com/media/news/image/sfleetcom007.jpg

    Lyrans are from the game "Star Fleet Battles", which is not even considered to be a Star Trek game even though it's based on Star Trek. The only reason SFC could use the Star Trek name was because Interplay cooperated with the company that runs Star Fleet Battles, called "Amarillo Design Bureau" on this venture and Interplay itself had the Star Trek license at the time.
    So SFB is not even non-canon, it's not Star Trek. Even ADB's own "Prime Directive" contains a special chapter on this and it begins with the sentence "This is the Star Fleet Universe, not Star Trek."
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  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited July 2013
    telbasta7386 wrote: »
    How about the lyrans? They'd certainly be a more ferocious change of pace from the Caitians or Ferasans:

    http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121030181852/startrek/images/6/65/Lyran.jpg

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  • jadenmiajadenmia Member Posts: 148 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    Gryphon!
    Though so far ground flying is only in the Risa Special event place, a Gryphon like race that would be a cross between bird and cat would be very Romulan faction like as it would keep with the factional balancing of character races while at the same time keep in tradition with the Romulan faction bird tradition.

    You could have your factional compliant cat race with all the kitty bonuses Feds and Klinks have, while still keeping in tradition to the Romulan faction AND when player vehicles come out, have the bonus ability to fly in area's where ground flying will be permitted!

    Ok, some of that last part was an assumption based on the possibility that Risa's new event area could be a testing ground for player flying and player vehicle for future ground content.

    Assumptions aside, a Gryphon type race would be cool and consistent.
  • lord7tareqlord7tareq Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    jadenmia wrote: »
    The Feds and the Klinks have starter race specific Cats.
    Feds catians.
    Klinks Ferasan.

    Romulains? Future cats?

    I'd rather not see more unrelated aliens for the Romulan faction, I mean why stop at cat people. Romulan gorn, benzites and bolians make just as much sense and at that point you can probably do away with factions altogether and simply allow anything to fly everything. Hirogen are the only ones that make (a little) sense to be playable Romulan allies considering the STO storyline.
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  • vonhellstingvonhellsting Member Posts: 543 Arc User
    edited July 2013
    I suppose if they did I'd have to make a Romulan cat named Mero.:P

    I don't think the factions necessarily need to be exact mirrors of each other , Romulans are sorta xenophobic so it kinda makes sense they wouldn't have much Species diversity.
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