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Legacy of Romulus Dev Blog #35
pwebranflakes
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Details about the brand-new Romulan Temporal Ships are revealed in this entry of the Legacy of Romulus News Dev Blog series.
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Do these rom time ships use warp cores or singularity cores with the standard rom power levels and singularity abilities?
If I open a Timeship Shuttle on my ROM character I assume it will be the FED or KDF version?
Will I be able to use the Timeship Shuttle's unique material (skin) on the other 2 ROM Temporal Ships?
They use warp cores and do not have access to singularity abilities.
EDIT: I've added "Matter-Antimatter Warp Core" to both ships' stats.
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Well, maybe a bit more snarky than I should be, but come on, really?
Still nice exteriors, kinda tempting.
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For the temporal shuttles, there is no change -- it will be that of your ally. You are not able to use the those ships' materials on these 2 new Romulan Temporal Ships.
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Having a singularity core would give them access to singularity abilities -- having a standard warp core keeps them balanced and in line with their Federation and KDF counterparts.
EDIT: I've added "Matter-Antimatter Warp Core" to both ships' stats.
Not at this time, and I'm not sure if any are planned for the future. Never say never, though!
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
With the singularity cores being the defining characteristic of the romulans though, it really feels like a letdown. It would have been nice instead to balance the stats with the singularity drive instead of just the same ship with a new (granted, nice looking) skin.
Wait a sec to balance it just kill the power levels on the ship and turn it into a warbird. I bought the stupid thing thinking it was a warbird and now I feel like a wasted 90Mil EC. I'm personally going back to my scimitar on the fact that the temporal ships are not a warbirds.
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Why?
Because this ship being a copy-paste of the two others is a huge mistake.
Firstly, it's a Romulan ship that does not cloak. Maybe that made sense balance-wise, but the when a Romulan captain goes to the helm, his Romulan race's innate Subterfuge trait is being put to waste!
And Singularity Cores are hardly overpowered in comparison to matter/antimatter cores. The power penalties usually richly makes up for the added powers in general, and the power - while occasionally useful - really aren't all that amazing.
So, in the Future, Romulan Engineers went "Let's build our best state-of-the-art timeships to not take advantage of our Subterfuge trait, and rather than use a warp core we specialize in, we'll go and install warp cores like the Klingon/Federation uses despite this being a Romulan ship."
That makes no sense.
Honestly, it you wanted to make this ship truly Romulan, you'd have installed a Romulan battle cloak and compensated. There were plenty of ways to balance this, either by reducing shield power, or straight out removing some other abilities like Sensor Analysis and Subsystem Targeting.
so in the name of balance?? are you guys now saying there is no balance between matter-antimatter and quantum drives?? if they are then surely the romulan counterpart would have a quantum drive.
I was looking forward to a romulan temporal shuttle. oh well I wont be trying to get lobi then.
no cloaks or battle cloak??!? errm i'm starting to wonder how on earth it has taken soooo long for these 2 ships to make it out.
I have an un-opened Temporal Destroyer box. If I open this on My Romulan, will it be the Romulan Temporal Destroyer? (I'm assuming yes...)
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The Tholians stole it (like they did the KDFs) when they were stripping most of the technology, and existing Romulan Cloaking Devices are unable to integrate with the Temporal ship due to its advanced nature
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Very surprised there wasm't a romulan termporal suttle and uniform to go with. Devs types, this is again a bit of lack of consistancy. Should have held off untill you got the shuttle and uniform done. Every logical reason for the Romulans to have thier own unique temporal shuttle and uniform. Honestly felt that you should have worked up a version that used a singularity core. Yes it would have taken longer. But it would have also strongly retained the "flavor" or the Romulan ships... Might have even given it some different singularitys power
Might have ebded up as the only temporal ship that could actually have a full interior tooo..The stock romulan interior is by far the best "standard" interior in the game. The KDF Interiors need to be redone from the start. (Get rid of the bloody fog! on KDF interiors and bridges.. ya'll aren't even consitant where its applied..if ya cant do it dead on right, get rid of it.. theres other things ya'll can do!)
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Pretty ship though.
Stop griping, the Klingon destroyer and science vessels have no cloaks either (not even a regular one). Rom players been wanting a good science vessel, well here you go. Be glad they actually created a timeship, which IMO looks nice. At least now Rom captains can have Rom ships with equal power to their fed/kdf counterparts. They can choose between a warped-core and singularity core ship. Unlike the KDF and FED players.
They should probably use a Temporal Core if we ever got "more of the pieces" to rebuild them to what they will be in the future.
That's the Trek term for what time ships use as their power source, anyway.
I could easily see another Temporal set down the line with something on the order of Temporal Displacement Drive (established as being the engine of 31st century ships), Chrono Deflector (in use as early as the 25th century), Temporal Shields (developed by Voyager), and Temporal Core.
The big thing we know about T-cores is that they have to reach "cascade potential" before generating a rift. So I'd imagine they's function something like singularity cores but be usable on more ships.
The other thing we know is that a T-core breach can wipe a ship from ever having existed. Could be kinda fun if equipping one changed the explosion visual.
The Federation includes the Klingons AND the Romulans now.
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The Klingon version, at least, doesn't waste any racially-built trait. So you'll forgive me, I hope, if I don't give a damn about it not cloaking.
This timeship is really a Romulan ship only in name and appearance. Such a shame.