Hey,
So I was downvoted on Reddit because I asked a simple question "What war?"
To me it feels like it's not a war and I can't help if I'm blunt honest about it. I see no alerts either ground and space, Heralds aren't popping up randomly for above level 50+ players, no lost homeworlds, or not even a map with a persistence map, either a world can be lost or taken back based on players actions (Which they could have used the Delta Rising Recruit mechanics?), no nothing but we suppose to have this great feeling a war is going on.
Curious to who feels the same.
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Which doesn't do much to create any fear in me.
But the story is telling me otherwise, so I'm just going with that.
But I can see where you are coming from.
Good thing they didn't spend that money on silly things like making a war feel right.
Someone had to make a demo-record to realized that's how things looked?
Anyways, I agree with the OP... There is no war... Heck, it seems we are already coming to an end on the Iconian "wars", and it hasn't even started yet...
The Dev. blog war.
Personally I think what was really needed, at the least, was another persistent space battlezone. At least when we went to war with the Voth, we could go into the contested zone in the dyson sphere and actually feel like we were part of a huge battle constantly going back and forth. This Iconian war has been kind of boring and uneventful.
It wouldn't hurt new players if a few Iconian Red Alerts were added. In fact it shouldn't affect them at all until they get to level 60. Also what does single player console games have to do with anything? That statement confused me.
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Fleet Admiral Stowe - Dominion War Vet.
More examples of bad writing that plagues STO. Since Iconians DID assault New Romulus and Quo'nos - we need an explanation why didn't they destroy those planets like they did with Lae'nas III. They also revealed their main base of operations for everyone to see by dropping the THIRD sphere right in the middle of Beta Quadrant (why would they do that, since they can instantly deploy fleets in any part of the Galaxy anyway) and killed some Preservers. I think new players, who have not played the story missions, can still see that sphere (and they do, since Romulan story arc has a mission on Iconia, and the sphere is not supposed to be there).
My point is you do not need to destroy mission critical areas to do a "war" in MMO. Proper writing can explain everything what is going on and create the mood. But proper writing is something STO does not have.
Lae'nas III wasn't destroyed. Only the archive was destroyed. The planet is still very much intact.