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Romulan as thier own Faction

wolfdrachewolfdrache Member Posts: 3 Arc User
edited November 2014 in Romulan Discussion
When are they going to have Roms as their own superior faction?
I been waiting forever for this to happen ASAP:mad:
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  • starswordcstarswordc Member Posts: 10,963 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    wolfdrache wrote: »
    When are they going to have Roms as their own superior faction?
    I been waiting forever for this to happen ASAP:mad:

    Sometime after hell freezes over. That's the short version.
    "Great War! / And I cannot take more! / Great tour! / I keep on marching on / I play the great score / There will be no encore / Great War! / The War to End All Wars"
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  • icerose20icerose20 Member Posts: 18,379 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    When the Minnesota Viking win the Super Bowl.
    Ancient Griffon insult

    That one is so stupid, he lost a Rock/Paper/Scissors game to a Pony.
  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I really hope you're not holding your breath until the Roms are a separate faction altogether.
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  • caediciuscaedicius Member Posts: 242 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Well, I think he got the sad message - on the other hand, we could of course start a contest who finds new good descriptions when it will happen...

    The Romulans will remain in their status quo as not full faction as long as the grass grow and the rivers flow...or something like this.:(:D
  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    edited November 2014
    starswordc wrote: »
    Sometime after hell freezes over. That's the short version.

    yeah pretty much what I expect, or possibly after the servers shut down
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    tacofangs wrote: »
    STO isn't canon, and neither are any of the books.
  • hoodlum19hoodlum19 Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Being our own faction is not enough. Being part of RSE, with headquarters on Rator and not on Dewa III would be something.
  • dragonsbrethrendragonsbrethren Member Posts: 1,854 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    I'm very happy with how the Romulans were handled. It eliminated most of the problems of adding a third faction, kept the player base together, and players even benefit by having access to their ally's ships and doff assignments in addition to their own. Getting to double dip when you already have the best toys.

    About the only thing they're missing is their own academy, commendation doffs, and security officers. All minor things, really -- I'm actually happy I can do most of the academy nonsense in command rather than having to load a different map.
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  • peetapipmacpeetapipmac Member Posts: 2,131 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    dragonsbrethren wrote: »
    I'm very happy with how the Romulans were handled. It eliminated most of the problems of adding a third faction, kept the player base together, and players even benefit by having access to their ally's ships and doff assignments in addition to their own. Getting to double dip when you already have the best toys.

    About the only thing they're missing is their own academy, commendation doffs, and security officers. All minor things, really -- I'm actually happy I can do most of the academy nonsense in command rather than having to load a different map.

    I have to agree with the this. The only thing I would change about the romulan faction is I would make it easier to get republic boffs.
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  • sernonserculionsernonserculion Member Posts: 749 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    The "keeping the playerbase together" thing, is a good argument when there is no population to speak of. It is ultimately a smoke screen for not allowing games to have factions at all, so that everyone can share everything, and thus you can create half of what you need, for double the number of players. Very efficient, isn't it! Lately we have learned how little content we all can share effectively, the ultimate consequence of this philosophy! :P
  • dragonsbrethrendragonsbrethren Member Posts: 1,854 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Actually, I'd love it if they broke down the faction walls almost entirely and left them only in place for races. ships, and story. I want to team normally with my friends playing Federation characters when I'm playing KDF and queue for some missions together, without needing a full 5 for a private match! I mean, the queues will even prevent mixed faction teams (which can already happen when a team doesn't get disbanded after a match) from queuing for missions that aren't cross faction, everything needed to make this work is in place already.

    We have an armistice to justify it from a story perspective and it could only benefit players, make this happen already.
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  • sernonserculionsernonserculion Member Posts: 749 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    dragonsbrethren wrote: »
    Actually, I'd love it if they broke down the faction walls almost entirely and left them only in place for races. ships, and story. I want to team normally with my friends playing Federation characters when I'm playing KDF and queue for some missions together, without needing a full 5 for a private match! I mean, the queues will even prevent mixed faction teams (which can already happen when a team doesn't get disbanded after a match) from queuing for missions that aren't cross faction, everything needed to make this work is in place already.

    We have an armistice to justify it from a story perspective and it could only benefit players, make this happen already.


    Good to know there is some kind of story somewhere. Even if it is used in a tertiary capacity, and only in order to allow anyone to do anything to everyone everywhere, regardless of context, setting, and universe.
  • jellico1jellico1 Member Posts: 2,719
    edited November 2014
    wolfdrache wrote: »
    When are they going to have Roms as their own superior faction?
    I been waiting forever for this to happen ASAP:mad:

    It will never happen because of Starbases

    Romulan players have KDF and FED starbase goodies depending on their alignment so romulans are forever tied to there chosen faction
    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
  • icsairgunsicsairguns Member Posts: 1,504 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    dragonsbrethren wrote: »
    Actually, I'd love it if they broke down the faction walls almost entirely and left them only in place for races. ships, and story. I want to team normally with my friends playing Federation characters when I'm playing KDF and queue for some missions together, without needing a full 5 for a private match! I mean, the queues will even prevent mixed faction teams (which can already happen when a team doesn't get disbanded after a match) from queuing for missions that aren't cross faction, everything needed to make this work is in place already.

    We have an armistice to justify it from a story perspective and it could only benefit players, make this happen already.

    i have to say i dont like the idea but if they did it ok would jsut give me more chances to kill unsuspecting feds. as it is now i will do hive and save up alpha strikes when fighting the queen so when she casts confuse and i finally get to fire on the feddy bear i can let lose and kill them. then say opps the queen did it not me. LOL

    all this would do is lead more feds into cry baby mode and have the kdf nerfed even more.

    way back when. i had raiding party when i meant something. i would enter fed space . then enter the Klingon encounters there. now i could not attack the feds there killing my fellow Warriors but i could heal and buff those NPC klingons since they were allies. it was so much fun healing those little bops allowing them to destroy the feds there. then one day we cant enter the encounters anylonger. leaving our fellow warriors locked in an eternal struggle against a stronger foe with no chance of support from the home world.


    basically im not griefing any player at all but i hate the federation and even friends in game i refuse to talk to when they are playing fed toons. but if and when all missions go mixed ill take any chance i can to cause the death of and or kill a federation ship myself.

    these mixed ques is why i stopped playing Qued pvp. and why vanilla pvp didn't work for me.
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  • hoodlum19hoodlum19 Member Posts: 46 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Or they can remove the factions totally, even easier.
  • erei1erei1 Member Posts: 4,081 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    dragonsbrethren wrote: »
    I'm very happy with how the Romulans were handled. It eliminated most of the problems of adding a third faction, kept the player base together, and players even benefit by having access to their ally's ships and doff assignments in addition to their own. Getting to double dip when you already have the best toys.

    About the only thing they're missing is their own academy, commendation doffs, and security officers. All minor things, really -- I'm actually happy I can do most of the academy nonsense in command rather than having to load a different map.
    I'm the rare kind of player that played Romulan because they were.... Romulan, and not for double dipping or OP space traits/ship/whatever. Just like I played Klingons because they were Klingons, and not for the contrabands or the half naked orions.

    So, no, I'm not happy. Double dipping is a bad excuse for a half finished faction, sorry, fraction. It's like "sorry we never finished your faction because we found another money grab, so take this double dipping and be happy"

    Having access to ally's ship was also a bad idea, but a necessity. There was not enough ships for the faction, so they allowed that.

    I would give up all those advantages for a complete faction right away. As I said, I wanted to play Romulan because they were Romulan, not for gameplay purpose. Unfortunately, I'm probably one of the very few who want that.
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  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    edited November 2014
    erei1 wrote: »
    I would give up all those advantages for a complete faction right away. As I said, I wanted to play Romulan because they were Romulan, not for gameplay purpose. Unfortunately, I'm probably one of the very few who want that.
    I think there's more of us than you think... the rub is defining 'romulan' see all the blow ups involving protogoth for examples of why thats a pain
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    tacofangs wrote: »
    STO isn't canon, and neither are any of the books.
  • caediciuscaedicius Member Posts: 242 Arc User
    edited November 2014
    Yup, to that all I agree (well, beside that with the pain, this seems a hard word...;))

    Of course it is also a question how you see yourself - but I guess even the most players who played a Romulan did not so only because of Superior Operatives or superior cloaked ships, but because it were ROMULAN ships and toons. If they are lucky what Romulan mean in STO at least for now - well THAT is of course a HUGE question...:D
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