Romulan fleets & starbases

aurigas7

Titel says it all. I think it is time to get them finally into the game. A sponsorship scheme similar to the one for rep grind would be nice, too. Existing all 5 fleets may support a Romulan fleet.
Since we have the alignment system for chars, apply it to fleets, also.
Elite fleet plasma weapons as bonus.

This way mainchars could support their Rom alts, and people had a bit of a reason to keep investing in fleet projects besides the fleet credits.

What do you guys think ?

knuhteb5

The sponsorship token would have to be substantial in how much bonus exp it would grant for all projects. However, the gap between the large fleets and small fleets would grow even larger with large fleets able to easily subsidize romulan starbases while small fleets are left to start from scratch or grind until they drop dead. In theory, it's much more difficult to create a fair system for both types of fleets.

stumpfgobs

I think every faction should be able to join every fleet.

If kdf/rom/fed can be in the very same fleet, there is less of a barrier for players of different factions to play together which would increase the number of kdf/rom players some and in turn would allow for more content for them which they desperately need.
Dividing the playerbase further will do more harm than good.

erei1

I don't think a SB is the most urgent matter when it comes to Romulan. Having an academy (and everything associated, while loosing access to allied academy DOFFing), a security officer, a fleet uniform.... it would help to make them a faction, and not a fraction.

Oh BTW, chances are you are gonna be flamed because "Rom have OP space traits, they don't need anything else". Just like the KDF with their cloak back when they were not even close to be half a faction.

jexsamx

I don't think Romulan starbases would even be worth doing at this point. I'm sure people would be willing to do them, but a lot have already sunk resources into "Romulan" starbases founded under their chosen allegiance. They'd have to start all over with these, and with over a year after LoR and a year's worth of resources into the massive sink that is starbases, that'd be outright unfair.

The best solution at this point, IMO, is a Romulan fleet holding. With something like I suggested in the link, Romulans would get their own exclusive fleet gear and a thematically appropriate location. Tack on that all but one cosmetic project would be Romulan (there would be one single solitary cosmetic project adding diplomats from the allied faction to the holding, but no more than that) and you have, in effect, the next best thing to a full fleet.

Is it what people want? No. But I should think it would suffice as a compromise between giving Romulans some representation/fleet gear, not gut punching existing "Romulan" fleets, and being easier for Cryptic to produce than a whole new 5-tier fleet grind.

tmassx

Or it would be a nice possibility, that would be to change the visuals for the station. The project would cost , say, 100k dill for station level . Exterior station was long ago devised ( Gasko station) and the interior could look like a Romulan flotilla.

starkaos

A better idea would be to customize the Fleet Starbase in minor ways like adding Borg Alcoves, Romulan architecture, etc. There are numerous fleets out there that are species-exclusive like Andorian Fleets, Borg Fleets, Caitian Fleets, Ferasan Fleets, Vulcan Fleets, etc. and they would benefit from something like this.

feiqa

erei1 wrote: »

I don't think a SB is the most urgent matter when it comes to Romulan. Having an academy (and everything associated, while loosing access to allied academy DOFFing), a security officer, a fleet uniform.... it would help to make them a faction, and not a fraction.

Oh BTW, chances are you are gonna be flamed because "Rom have OP space traits, they don't need anything else". Just like the KDF with their cloak back when they were not even close to be half a faction.

I have worked hard on a small KDF fleet. Almost to tier three and the elusive tailor unlock. But I am a rom so I am working for something I cannot use. My forces use plasma weapons. Hope I like advanced.

If nothing is going to give the unified fleets a unified uniform.
Then give the romulans their own starbases.
And watch the KDF Fleet alerts grind to a halt.

azurianstar

feiqa wrote: »

Then give the romulans their own starbases.
And watch the KDF Fleet alerts grind to a halt.

KDF Fleet Alerts have been dead since Season 8. If it wasn't for the KDFDefera channel, my fleet would not have progressed in the slightest.