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It has just dawned on me that I might have made a massive mistake: I made a Romulan Science Officer. The faction has NO T6 Science ships, a lack of ships to begin with, and Rom's are locked into their facton ships: no flying a FED Pathfinder.
My question is why have I just dedicated so much time for nothing?
!!! SPOILERS AFTER THIS !!!
Kelvin Timeline Romulan Carrier [T6]
A Science Romulan Carrier until I read more into the data mining and found out that it was not a C-Store ship but a Lockbox ship and I felt like comitting STO suicide! Now I will never get a T6 Science Ship for my "main" character.
My question is why have I just dedicated so much time for nothing?
!!! SPOILERS AFTER THIS !!!
Kelvin Timeline Romulan Carrier [T6]
A Science Romulan Carrier until I read more into the data mining and found out that it was not a C-Store ship but a Lockbox ship and I felt like comitting STO suicide! Now I will never get a T6 Science Ship for my "main" character.
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Sensor analysis, and secondary deflectors are cool n all but not having them is hardly death to a Sci Captain.
With the Anniversary Krenim ship though, I discovered that it can be a true monster when fully equipped with the Reman space set and the Romulan Singularity Harness, especially with various abilities which allow you to cloak temporarily during combat.
Not a bad alternative to a faction vessel.
1. Of the 3 DSD styles, the Romulan one is arguably the best design of the three
2. T5U11 - of which the C-store Dysons can be upgraded to - is "functionally" equivalent to a fleet T6, the only thing it's missing is the 13th BOff seat and a mastery trait (but that's the case to all Fleet T6s that have a "stock" and "fleet" variant)
So, if you're enjoying the cloak-and-run aspects of your Rom - made more interesting because of Superior Romulan OP, then by all means, keep flying her. I, personally, love tooling around with my KDF who I've set up in a DSD, myself.
Why KDF in DSD? Because I don't like "replicating" playstyles around my science "mains", so I go DSD on the KDF and will one day complete a full Enhanced Battlecloak abusing Torp set for the Fleet T'Varo (T5) I grabbed my Rommie... As it is, nothing warms my heart (and my enemies, for the scant seconds they remain alive after
To rob a line: [quote: Mariemaia Kushrenada] Forum Posting is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever. However, opinions will change upon the reading of my post.[/quote]
I have a KDF Lethean Sci char which I rolled ages ago. My original intent was to use him as a mule. I got curious one day from watching someone else who was obviously playing a Science char. This person was using Space Magiks I had never heard of to deal death in job lots to a bunch of Borg. I enjoy playing this one as well.
This is all about you and how you feel about the character you rolled up though. If you really do not like the char, fine. Delete it and never look back. After all, if you are not having fun, you are not playing STO correctly. Despite what some here may tell you, this game is supposed to be fun to play. It is not supposed to become a second job. If you find yourself doing something you do not like or want to do so you can get paid, that's a job.
Don't let your free time be eaten by something resembling a job. You don't have enough free time as it is.
I do however think they just need to unify the factions but also commit to still making faction ships for all of them maybe not a lot but enough to fill gaps. I'm sure some feds would buy to use singularity cores, or to have battle cruiser etc with cloak.
The point Patrick's making is that Geko used the poor sales of a garbage ship as justification to not make any ships for KDF until the Mogh, which was a reskin of a Fed ship and was delayed for months. Ditto KDF science ships: the only actual science vessels in the faction other than the DSD are the Gorn ships, the T5 one of which has identical stats to a free Fed sci ship rather than a paid one.
Cryptic makes mechanically substandard ship -> KDF doesn't buy it because it's substandard -> Geko stops making KDF stuff AT ALL.
Also, the Feds already have three battlecruisers with cloak: the Eclipse has it built in, the Arbiter/Avenger can use the console.
— Sabaton, "Great War"
Check out https://unitedfederationofpla.net/s/
*stands up, and applauds enthusiastically*
I say Klingon Empire, Romulan Republic/Star Empire, Cardassian Union/True Way, MU characters, and anti-Siskoists in the UFP, put aside our differences to contrast ourselves from UFP favoritism.
Tal'Shiar/Reman Resistance/Romulan Nemesis uniform, pls.
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First thing I did was search for the statistics on how many players are on each faction and agreed with everyone's sentiments on how bad it is for a game like this to have imbalanced faction populations. I assumed it was because of how bias all the Star Trek shows are toward the Federation and everyone's familiar with them. That's inevitable however I also think that's not the main problem. I'll explain my newbish take on this issue.
First of all character development is amazing! I played around with all my girl's clothes and stuff for more time then I want to admit but had a lot of fun seeing all the races and variety each faction had! I decided to pick the Romulans simply because I always love the underdog hehe! Plus they are probably detailed the least in the shows versus the other races so it would be nice to learn their culture more.
For fun I decided to try the other factions for a little first so I can see how they felt before dedicating my new journey as a Rommy!
Started as Federation and had a crazy amount of fun! I really enjoyed the way the tutorial spliced into the intro and was relatively seamless. Had a few bugs but they were very minor and were easily ignored. Looooooooved the vibe. Got to the major city and decided to park there and test Klingons next.
First thing I noticed was the voice acting was very off and bothered me a lot. They sounded great and the dialogue was alright but the tone felt like someone reading the script. Number one rule of voice acting is to sound like you're talking, not reading out loud!
The thing I liked best is in comparison to the Federation the Klingons seem to do a lot less hand holding and just throw you into the fray. It was very fitting to go through Starfleet Academy graduation and begin. It was very fitting to expect a Klingon to toughen up and be a warrior! Those two managed to keep the excitement level high while teaching you the controls without breaking immersion too much.
Then it ended. What? Klingon tutorial felt like it was a quarter of the Federation's length! Not sure why that decision was made! Should have had more Federation ships warp in and make the battle last a bit longer at the very least, if not expand on the beginning of your characters journey! Was great fun still.
Theeeen the Romulans! Oh the Romulans. First thing I noticed was the animations for the previous two factions was good and looked nice. My romulan couldn't strafe and turn without her torso facing backwards and her legs running in her back's direction! That happened every time for about a full second before correcting itself. Then it only got worse.
Couldn't talk to anyone so I ran around the village a bit and knew something was off. I relogged and still couldn't interact with anyone! I deleted and remade my character and somehow fixed it; I was then able to talk to the first person and got the quest. Wasted a lot of time trying to interact with everything to no avail...same bug. Says grab a pistol and there was nothing around! I got near the farm when my computer lagged then I got teleported back to the very start! Not only that but I was able to grab the pistol this time!
Finally got my pistol but the quest didn't seem to update and said to grab it still. I went to the farm and couldn't talk to the man. Quest marker on the minimap kept pointing to where I grabbed the pistol!
I sighed and deleted/remade my character. This time when I checked my email my character got stuck in a weird animation and kept pushing the buttons and I couldn't move! It looked like I was lagging but I could still get UI feedback so I know it wasn't the server crashing or whatever.
I facepalmed and thought "Federation and Klingon were so polished and great! Why am I getting three game breaking bugs three different times in the first thirty seconds of the game?!" First thought after that was "well no wonder the Romulans aren't played that much!" Didn't get to see past the grabbing the pistol part of the tutorial.
Bet it's even shorter than the Klingons tutorial! Well I tried really hard to play Romulan but I guess I'll pick Federation based on the fact it seems infinitely more polished then the other two.
Yeah I know I am waaay too talkative but I had to get this off my mind and needed someone to hear my pain! Thanks for reading this far if you did, and off topic can someone tell me if there's a role playing community in this game? I'm really anxious about that! Sorry for talking so much.
a couple bits.. the Romulan tutorial is a bit longer than all that and includes a space section. The Klingon one is very short because originally you had to make and level a fed alt to like level30 before you could play a KDF character, so you already knew the game. When they expanded the KDF to a full faction with the LoR launch they got what you played.
I don't know what to do about the Romulans I wish it works for me. Maybe I'll try again later.
Can you help me with a few questions?
1) When I press middle mouse it aims but doesn't stop aiming if I press it again. Pressing "x" on the other hand allows me to turn it off. (Also why hold down X when you have to press, W,A,S,D,1,2,3 all at the same time... That confused me.
2)I spent a lot of time making really cute outfit for my girl and when I zoned into the game she was wearing some generic clothes instead. Is that a bug?
3)Do you know if there's any role players in this game?
Thanks for responding!
1)It's a toggle, press "X" first time to aim, second time to stop aiming, though it also stops when you interact with something or start running. Same deal with "C" & crouching.
2) Don't remember all turorials exactly but on rom side that might be bug. IIRC only FED are forced to wear some standard stuff during their tutorial. But chances are you'd changed it right after the turtorial because ROMs unlock several uniforms at the beginning. The first batch after the turotrial when you join up with the fleet and the second batch when you choose bewteen allying with FED or KDF.
Though if you really want a full space barbie expirience futz around with a fed character. Both KDF and ROM have a very limited assortment of clothes whereas FED has a bazillion pieces.
3) Very few. RP is pretty dead though I heard the small cumminity which actually remains stick together pretty well. Duuno any details though.
1) I understand those I'm just saying the middle mouse button for some reason puts you in aim mode and doesn't go back if you press it again. You'll get stuck. Obviously I could have just pressed "x" at the time but I was brand new playing with the controls and sat there annoyed trying to figure out what I did wrong.
2) You're right I had an academy outfit on and after the tutorial I got my character creation outfit on!
3) I'm happy that they're out there somewhere! Thanks for that information!
So do you play Romulans? Can you give me any information about their population/game play versus the other two ? I'm also interested in Klingons if the Romulans don't work out however my biggest annoyance is I already bear witness to all of the polish the Federation has been given so it makes me feel like I'm missing out.
I also heard someone saying Romulans don't have a top tier ship or something like that? What's up with that?
You basically won't run into any serious trouble bacuse of a lack of faction aligned people.
Past the turtorial it gets better. Each faction has it's won couple story arcs which all lead up to a whole lot of cross faction stuff which makes the beef of the game. Imho roms have the best arcs followed by kdf while fed is kinda all over the place. You'd be missing out if you didn't play all 3 factions at least up to the point where the plot mushes together.
As for the ship issue, it's a lack of variety and flavour. Feds always had a wide variety of pretty much any combination of ship types and attributes whereas kdf & rom is still pretty lopsided. It's gotten way better but in terms of faction specific science ships cryptic can't help itself but to add insult to injury on the red & green side.
The upcoming expansion will add the first T6 sci ship in the store that both KDF & ROM can use and as for T5 which was the highest until 2014 both rom & kdf had like 1 "normal (very subpar)" sci ship and the DSD which comes in 4 slightly different reskinned variants.
Engineers (and to an extent, sci) are Kings of ground. Tac is wildly overrated.
"He shall be my finest warrior, this generic man who was forced upon me.
Like a badass I shall make him look, and in the furnace of war I shall forge him.
he shall be of iron will and steely sinew.
In great armour I shall clad him and with the mightiest weapons he shall be armed.
He will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight him.
He shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best him in battle.
He is my answer to cryptic logic, he is the Defender of my Romulan Crew.
He is Tovan Khev... and he shall know no fear."
1) Moving inventory items around requires hold click and drag, the delay is making me angry! I can't find a way to change it. Is there?
2) I saw some naked girl running around town. (Wearing nothing but a loin cloth showing 99% of her butt and a string just covering her nipples.) Is that normal to see?
3) I've been unable to whisper or interact with anyone in anyway. How long does it take for me to finally be allowed to participate in the community?
4) I reported a few level ones standing in the starting spawn with names like "fsdfqef" and "casfdsbfe". Are those common? Am I wasting my time reporting them?
5) Is there a place I can change my clothes and haircut or is that only from gear upgrades?
6) Is there a part of the game that suddenly ramps up difficulty and makes it difficult without paying real life money or are they pretty fair with the curve?
7) Does this game have a modding community and if so are there any recommendations?
8) Who's your favorite character in all of Star Trek? Mine is Data !
9) Is nine questions too many questions?
A refrain from "Ye Olde Days" seems appropriate here:
You want "singularity core magic" - Play a Romulan.
I'd apply the "you want battle cruiser with cloak" bit for KDF, but instead Feddies can go scarf up the Avenger/Arbiter from the C-store...
Lemme throw a couple of tidbits at you:
1. The Lead Developer is on record as being "overjoyed" that the storyline was written into such a manner that they don't have to make 3 variants of each mission - one for each faction.
2. The "really popular stuff" that a faction clamors to have "stolen" from another faction inevitably winds up behind the "massive" paywall of a lockbox - all the better to get $$$ for their efforts. Plasmonic Leech to the Feds?
3. Orb Weaver, Temporal Sci (which, for the Rommies, uses a singularity core, IIRC), Paradox and Annorax (technically dreadnoughts, but science dreads), Daemosh, Voth one - sure seems that the lockbox Science fleet is fast approaching the size of the Federation's. Yeah, only one "faction skin" in here, but sure seems to fit into option 2, doesn't it?
4. Aren't the "bad guys" much more known for "piracy" - aka "I hijacked me this blank and now I fly it in defense of the homeland" than the Feddies would be?
To rob a line: [quote: Mariemaia Kushrenada] Forum Posting is much like an endless waltz. The three beats of war, peace and revolution continue on forever. However, opinions will change upon the reading of my post.[/quote]
I really don't know why the Romulan start is so broken for you, and its a shame because the Romulan arc is one of the best written things in STO. I say that even tho I don't care for the direction they took Romulans.
1)The delay is some kind of weird UI lag and its only recently that it has gotten this bad, normally its just grab an item and go.
2)no its not normal, but you'll see that on Qo'nos as the Orion Female can use a very skimpy outfit
3)You cannot om on the forums but you should be able to in game w/o issue, just right click the name in chat and choose 'private message'
4)Sounds like you spotted some gold spammers, yes they're very common on start zones and social hubs. No you're not wasting your time, but they're bot made so for every one that Cryptic bans 50 more are made.
5)Yes, its called the Tailor, all the major social hubs have them. ESD, Qo'nos, New Romulus, Romulan Flotilla, DS9, and a few more places have them.
6)STO is not difficult at all. Even lv60 content can be done with the ship you get at lv40 and using green/blue mkXII gear. That said, it is more challenging to do that. There are a few counter intuitive things when it comes to making ship builds so that you survive and thrive, I would suggest making a thread specifically for those if you want help with that.
7)No mods aside from a questionable "nude mod" and I don't think they're allowed by Cryptic, nor are there any "plugins" or similar. There is the Foundry however, and that is all user made content. You'll find all kinds of quality from utter garbage to stuff that puts Cryptic written episodes to shame.
8)A tie between Harcourt Fenton Mudd, James T Kirk, and Khan Noonien Singh(the Ricardo Montalbon version)
9)Nah, better to ask em now instead of get frustrated in game, as you've already found out you're hitting bugs others have not seen.
That, but also for more faction themed melee weapons.
Tal'Shiar/Reman Resistance/Romulan Nemesis uniform, pls.
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