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Romulan Anniversary Ship Design

duaths1duaths1 Member Posts: 1,232 Arc User
edited February 2014 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Hi guys,
so i do not know if I am the only one having issues with Romulans becoming the Bloodelves of STO, but looking on the new ship i have to ask YOU, devs -


REALLY ?!?

Romulans petting rabbits - ok, attraction for the FEDs
Romulans without home planet sporting a Republic - ok, this could be a strategy
Romulans in a ship with ORNAMENTS!?!

is this still a Sci-fi game ??

PLEASE, give us at least a different skin without the bloody ornaments. It is inaproppriate!
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  • anazondaanazonda Member Posts: 8,399 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Ornaments? Wha?
    Don't look silly... Don't call it the "Z-Store/Zen Store"...
    pwebranflakes wrote: »
    Let me put the rumors to rest: it's definitely still the C-Store (Cryptic Store) It just takes ZEN.
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  • z3ndor99z3ndor99 Member Posts: 1,391 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Right there with you anazonda....... whhaatt?!!
  • galanis2814galanis2814 Member Posts: 159 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Uh... If you're referring to the lattice-like wings, that's consistent with everything we've seen regarding Solanae technology, it's just how they build ships, makes sense that ships built with their tech would have similar organic lines. The Klingon and Starfleet ships have the same stuff, as does the obelisk and a bunch of interiors.
  • walshicuswalshicus Member Posts: 1,314 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    If there's one thing we know about Romulans it's that they'd never paint their ships for non-functional aesthetic reasons...
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  • asthalothasthaloth Member Posts: 66 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    walshicus wrote: »
    If there's one thing we know about Romulans it's that they'd never paint their ships for non-functional aesthetic reasons...

    Exactly, youd never find a Romulan ship with, say, a dirty great bird painted on it or anything.
  • duaths1duaths1 Member Posts: 1,232 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    walshicus wrote: »
    If there's one thing we know about Romulans it's that they'd never paint their ships for non-functional aesthetic reasons...

    yeah this, thank god i'm not the only one..

    i took the freedom to play through the mission once more and here you go:


    http://s28.postimg.org/yuhiqwuvh/screenshot_2014_02_02_21_51_35.jpg

    i've played enough WOW and similar to snuff a bloodelf on miles..
    galanis2814 wrote: »
    Uh... If you're referring to the lattice-like wings, that's consistent with everything we've seen regarding Solanae technology, it's just how they build ships, makes sense that ships built with their tech would have similar organic lines. The Klingon and Starfleet ships have the same stuff, as does the obelisk and a bunch of interiors.

    why would they? it is a Romulan/KDF/FED - "allied" design, copying technology is not copying design.
    in fact, i really like the KDF and FED designs of the solanae ships.
    the romulan one is somehow too ... oppulent.
  • duaths1duaths1 Member Posts: 1,232 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    asthaloth wrote: »
    Exactly, youd never find a Romulan ship with, say, a dirty great bird painted on it or anything.

    dirty bird 200 years ago (ingame)..

    bird as the ones still used as a symbol in many republics/states around the globe?
  • baudlbaudl Member Posts: 4,060 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    duaths1 wrote: »
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by walshicus View Post
    If there's one thing we know about Romulans it's that they'd never paint their ships for non-functional aesthetic reasons...
    yeah this, thank god i'm not the only one..

    i took the freedom to play through the mission once more and here you go:


    http://s28.postimg.org/yuhiqwuvh/screenshot_2014_02_02_21_51_35.jpg

    i've played enough WOW and similar to snuff a bloodelf on miles..

    yeah, so there is this thing called sarcasm...

    personal opinion: yeah...designing a spaceship with huge birdwings and a beak is totally functional design!...yeah that is sarcasm too
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  • tekehdtekehd Member Posts: 2,032 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    The rom ship looks fine to me..... looks basically like a D'deridex and an Obelisk screwed and then the Aves popped out latter.
  • johngazmanjohngazman Member Posts: 2,826 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    So you'd prefer the Ha'Nom? What is effectively half a ship.
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  • duaths1duaths1 Member Posts: 1,232 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    baudl wrote: »
    yeah, so there is this thing called sarcasm...

    also, there is the thing called wikipedia..



    The emblem of the Romulan Star Empire depicts a large bird of prey clutching the worlds of Romulus and Remus. The avian motif also appears on their warbird starships. Those who rejected the teachings of Surak were said to be "beneath the raptor's wing".

    Designer Herman F. Zimmerman has said regarding interior design, "the Romulans have possessed advanced technology a lot longer than the Federation, so the look was a combination of art deco and medievalism meets high tech. Most of the designs were inspired by Italian designer Carlo Scarpa."[citation needed]

    Regarding exterior design of the Senate area, designer Syd Dutton said director "Stuart Baird wanted us to think about Albert Speer, the architect who did all the conceptual drawings for Hitler. Speer took that National Socialist idea to a extreme where everything was huge and classical and they have moats.[citation needed]

    "The Romulans are a people who live in a marshy area. They had little houses on stilts around mudwork. The mudwork became part of this central core and that was where the old part of the city-?the Forum and Senate buildings-?was located. As the city expanded going away from that, the buildings became bigger and more technological."[citation needed]

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_deco

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scarpa_portal.JPG

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Berlin_Treptow_Ehrenmal_11.jpg
    johngazman wrote: »
    So you'd prefer the Ha'Nom? What is effectively half a ship.

    i really have been looking forward to fly the big D'D - loving the design, but as i main a sci, it is somehow not a viable option.

    the T'Varo is also a nice ship..

    anyway, thank you for your feedback all, it is in fact interesting how differently can the theme be viewed.
  • theanothernametheanothername Member Posts: 1,512 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    Romulans do have a sense of style and art. Thats why so many bird shaped ships. That one just happens to be with a nod to Solanae tech since its build with it. And IMO its by far the best looking of the trio.

    Also as an long time ex WOW player I am pretty sure that the bloodelves do not have warp-capable spaceships with city-leveling torpedos and similar weapons.
  • greyhame3greyhame3 Member Posts: 914 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    duaths1 wrote: »
    dirty bird 200 years ago (ingame)..

    bird as the ones still used as a symbol in many republics/states around the globe?
    The D'deridex has a bird design on it, its just not as visible as the Bird of Prey from TOS.

    The Mogai has giant bird like wings and is as wide or wider than the Enterprise E is long.
  • baudlbaudl Member Posts: 4,060 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    gotta love how he still doesn't get the sarcastic statement that walshicus made

    anyway, another "i don't like it, so it must be wrong!" type of threads.
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  • johngazmanjohngazman Member Posts: 2,826 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    duaths1 wrote: »
    i really have been looking forward to fly the big D'D - loving the design, but as i main a sci, it is somehow not a viable option.

    the T'Varo is also a nice ship..

    Neither the D'D nor the T'Varo will be any good for a Science captain looking to do some sciencing. It's Ha'Nom, Fleet Ha'Nom or (if you're lucky) Temporal Science.

    Part of why I like the new look is that it's very reminiscent of the D'Deridex. The basic shape is the very similar, once you take away the Dyson tech. And having lived with the Ha'Nom, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that the Dyson ships is a sight for sore eyes.
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  • vhiranikosvhiranikos Member Posts: 208 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    "bla bla i reject your reality and substitute my own, also excuses" basically.

    Romulans aren't as cool dressers as you want or wish them to be. Their uniforms were always (till STO) tacky. they painted birds on their ships to go along with their bird fetish. They even paint tacky birds of some of their ships.

    And buddies to the feds? you should have been crying about this when LOR was released along with all the rest.
  • duaths1duaths1 Member Posts: 1,232 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    baudl wrote: »
    gotta love how he still doesn't get the sarcastic statement that walshicus made

    anyway, another "i don't like it, so it must be wrong!" type of threads.

    i didn't get it in the beginning, cause in fact, that was the exactly same thing i have been thinking.

    anyway..

    you are getting personal, while i just wanted to

    1 - deliver my opinion on an issue that disturbs me, as i main a sci and i am planning on flying this ship for a while

    2 - i am curious about how the other folks here think about the issue

    3 - as posted the Romulan design is everything else, but bloodelves..
    johngazman wrote: »
    Neither the D'D nor the T'Varo will be any good for a Science captain looking to do some sciencing. It's Ha'Nom, Fleet Ha'Nom or (if you're lucky) Temporal Science.

    Part of why I like the new look is that it's very reminiscent of the D'Deridex. The basic shape is the very similar, once you take away the Dyson tech. And having lived with the Ha'Nom, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that the Dyson ships is a sight for sore eyes.

    T'Varo is an ideal SCI-torp PVP/PVE ship..
    vhiranikos wrote: »

    And buddies to the feds? you should have been crying about this when LOR was released along with all the rest.

    i have been crying on these forums on the release day, seeing there are no playable romulans:)

    these are just rants to see if my forum account is still active
  • aloishammeraloishammer Member Posts: 3,294 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    duaths1 wrote: »
    2 - i am curious about how the other folks here think about the issue

    What issue? The Romulans' Dyson Science Destroyer looks fine to me. One of the best-looking ships in the Rom lineup, in my opinion.

    Still don't know what your whole "elves" hangup is about. -shrug-
    duaths1 wrote: »
    these are just rants to see if my forum account is still active

    Ah. This explains soooooooo much. ;)
  • johngazmanjohngazman Member Posts: 2,826 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    duaths1 wrote: »
    T'Varo is an ideal SCI-torp PVP/PVE ship..

    Oh, I see.


    Not sure how a Tac ship is the ideal Science ship but okay.
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  • baudlbaudl Member Posts: 4,060 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    sry, now i get it...there we are waiting and hoping for a PURE romulan science vessel, for romulan science officers (since that is obviously the most powerfull and dominating combo in like ever!)
    and the scince vessel we finaly get doesn't even look romulan!!!!11 (in other words "green")
    ohh the humanity...i mean romulanity!!!1111
    quick, we need a thread about it...in general descussion subforum, though it is probably a romulan fleet subject or whatever, to see if ANYBODY else cares!


    ...yeah that too was sarcasm

    love this thread more and more
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  • duaths1duaths1 Member Posts: 1,232 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    baudl wrote: »
    sry, now i get it...there we are waiting and hoping for a PURE romulan science vessel, for romulan science officers (since that is obviously the most powerfull and dominating combo in like ever!)
    and the scince vessel we finaly get doesn't even look romulan!!!!11 (in other words "green")
    ohh the humanity...i mean romulanity!!!1111
    quick, we need a thread about it...in general descussion subforum, though it is probably a romulan fleet subject or whatever, to see if ANYBODY else cares!

    now you have it. as important as a FED cloak or an STO "pro"

    also, i'd love to buy some new KDF uniforms and Romulan bridges.
  • baudlbaudl Member Posts: 4,060 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    duaths1 wrote: »
    now you have it. as important as a FED cloak or an STO "pro"

    also, i'd love to buy some new KDF uniforms and Romulan bridges.

    obviously you did not...:(

    here is another clue probably not as good as my previous one:
    ...yeah that too was sarcasm
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  • shpoksshpoks Member Posts: 6,967 Arc User
    edited February 2014
    They said that the C-Store versions of these ships will have faction specific hull materials availible. Since they'll be comming in the form of a 3-pack, I don't think it's far fetched to say that they'll have slightly different design gimicks, so one of them will come with a dfferent design without the 'holes' in the hull as a call them, or ornaments as you call them.
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