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Romulan fighters.

With the release of the new T6 escort carriers I wish Cryptic would release a new fighter for the Romulans. They have their own versions is the runabout I personally think that would be a good place to start so Romulan Carriers are actually worth it beyond the Scimitar types.

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  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    edited July 2015
    Whats wrong with scorpion fighters?
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    tacofangs wrote: »
    STO isn't canon, and neither are any of the books.
  • scarlingscarling Member Posts: 708 Arc User
    They are cannon fodder. Something a little tougher with less ships per hanger would be nice.
  • rmy1081rmy1081 Member Posts: 2,840 Arc User
    Scorpion fighters are great!!!

    but I wouldn't mind a romulan looking skin on faction pets.
  • kittyflofykittyflofy Member Posts: 1,004 Arc User
    More fighters??? what this game needs are LESS fighters but smarter. The problem is not the quantity...
  • gvkprimegvkprime Member Posts: 49 Arc User
    Personally I just want as Scarling mentioned something like a frigate since the only romulan frigate currently is the drone ship that is Scimitar specific. I know that runabouts while not frigates act more like them and hell they survive. Scorpion fighters are tissue paper.
  • svindal777svindal777 Member Posts: 856 Arc User
    Scorpion fighters do what they are intended to do. Fire a high yield plasma torp, then blow up, so you can send another wave with fresh high yield ready to fire.
    Well excuse me for having enormous flaws that I don't work on.
  • protogothprotogoth Member Posts: 2,369 Arc User
    gvkprime wrote: »
    Personally I just want as Scarling mentioned something like a frigate since the only romulan frigate currently is the drone ship that is Scimitar specific. I know that runabouts while not frigates act more like them and hell they survive. Scorpion fighters are tissue paper.

    Agreed, T'varor would make great hangar pets.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    gvkprime wrote: »
    Personally I just want as Scarling mentioned something like a frigate since the only romulan frigate currently is the drone ship that is Scimitar specific. I know that runabouts while not frigates act more like them and hell they survive. Scorpion fighters are tissue paper.
    Yeah, fighters give you six per hangar, heavy shuttles give you four, and frigates give two.

    I'd most like a heavy shuttle option for Romulans. Maybe use the Kestral model?
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  • scarlingscarling Member Posts: 708 Arc User
    Would love Kestrel Runabouts that cloak when you do.
  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    gvkprime wrote: »
    Personally I just want as Scarling mentioned something like a frigate since the only romulan frigate currently is the drone ship that is Scimitar specific. I know that runabouts while not frigates act more like them and hell they survive. Scorpion fighters are tissue paper.
    Then you aren't asking for romulan fighters you want frigate pets... which won't happen on escort carriers. Now I'd love to have a full Romulan carrier that CAN launch T'varo or Scorpions, hell, I made an idea thread on that and a full science ship here.
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    tacofangs wrote: »
    STO isn't canon, and neither are any of the books.
  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    edited July 2015
    There are certain hangar units you want to die fast. So you can respawn new ones with a fresh ability.

    Let the Swarmers die all the time so you can keep launching fresh ones with an unused copy of Beam Overload on them.

    Let the Elite Scorpions die all the time so you can keep launching fresh ones with an unused copy of HYT1 Plasma Torpedo.

    Etc., etc., etc... Because of this with certain hangar units I do not bother slotting Wing Commander Trait. I don't want them to survive. I want them to DIE.

    And as @kittyflofly said, the AI stinks hard. Not just hangar units. But ALL NPC AI sucks sasquatch balls.
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  • gvkprimegvkprime Member Posts: 49 Arc User
    To reply to Koda, no I am looking for multirole fighters like the runabouts on the fed side have bit tailored to the Romulans since the already have the actual Romulans runabout in the game and the Romulans have the smallest variants of fighters. This is compounded by the fact that their only fighter is not even unique but a rep reward for every faction. So it would be really awesome that since they have a full line if carriers now through T6 if there was a cool romulan unique hanger pet to use with them.
  • lianthelialianthelia Member Posts: 7,921 Arc User
    I've been asking for this since the Scimitar...the only exclusive pet the RR has is the drone ship...I would love to see a romulan shuttle pet!
  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    gvkprime wrote: »
    To reply to Koda, no I am looking for multirole fighters like the runabouts on the fed side have bit tailored to the Romulans since the already have the actual Romulans runabout in the game and the Romulans have the smallest variants of fighters. This is compounded by the fact that their only fighter is not even unique but a rep reward for every faction. So it would be really awesome that since they have a full line if carriers now through T6 if there was a cool romulan unique hanger pet to use with them.
    ok... this maybe nitpicking too far but Runabouts are NOT fighters... they are something bigger than a shuttle craft and designed for light duty work.... then again shuttles are not fighters either, they are primarily designed as short distance personnel transport.
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    tacofangs wrote: »
    STO isn't canon, and neither are any of the books.
  • gvkprimegvkprime Member Posts: 49 Arc User
    Lol yeah koda totally get you there just going with the foundation that seems to be in place at least per the wiki. It shows at least the runabouts are escort carrier capable craft while would make a Romulan Exclusive version a great fit.
  • meldrithpwmeldrithpw Member Posts: 360 Arc User
    With the release of the T6 escort carrier, i found myself looking through my alts to discover which could make the best use of the fancy trait. The primary requirement is that both the hangars and the mothership need to have the same weapon type for maximum efficiency. in other words, if you've got cannon on your main ship, you want cannon on your fighters, and if you've got beams on your main, you want beams on your fighters.

    well, the rom are a little shorted it seems. their single exclusive hangar pet, the drone ship, uses beams, while the scorpion uses cannon.

    This of course means that if you don't particularly like plasma, you're SOL.

    Even allied, there's a pretty limited number of ships you can get--kdf allied have access to tachyon drones (oh, goody.) and the orion interceptors, which aren't too bad at elite levels, but these are cannon fighters, so if you want beams you have to look at rep fighters: either swarmers or widows. I havn't looked too closely at the fed allied limitation, but i assume it's a similar story.

    One thing that would help a 'little' would be if some of the ship limited hangars lost that limitation--the most obvious of these are the breen fighters, and maybe tholian mesh weavers. I'm not so sure that bigger race hangars like the voth and jh should be slottable offrace, but i might be convinced otherwise.

    ANother solution, which the Ferengi up top would probably like, are more cross faction hangars--available (and freely slottable) to anyone with the lobi for 'em. (Kazon and Vaadwaur maybe? and of course the dreaded Ferengi fighter with the built in run away trait...)
  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    edited July 2015
    meldrithpw wrote: »
    and of course the dreaded Ferengi fighter with the built in run away trait...)

    only if it makes that annoying 'EEEHHHH EEEEHHHH' whining noise that ferengi in the early KDF missions does. Im pretty sure that sonic damage vs player
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    tacofangs wrote: »
    STO isn't canon, and neither are any of the books.
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