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Only four species!?!

azniadeetazniadeet Member Posts: 1,871 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
This does not bode well.
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  • vegeta50024vegeta50024 Member Posts: 2,336 Arc User
    azniadeet wrote: »
    This does not bode well.

    This has been known since Tribble had the content up.

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  • salazarrazesalazarraze Member Posts: 3,794 Arc User
    What rock have you been living under?
    When you see "TRIBBLE" in my posts, it's because I manually typed "TRIBBLE" and censored myself.
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  • azniadeetazniadeet Member Posts: 1,871 Arc User
    And no new ground queue?

    Delta Rising is already sounding nice.
  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
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  • azniadeetazniadeet Member Posts: 1,871 Arc User
    Um, the release notes just came out. That means it's the first official word.

    I've heard that Tribble only had four species, but I fully expected that to change as Tribble is an unfinished product. Just as the limited number of missions did.
  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    Your hopeful optimism is cute, but nope. What you see is what you get.

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  • bloodyrizbloodyriz Member Posts: 1,756 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    bloodyriz wrote: »
    iconians wrote: »
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    Iconians, you know, we all love you man.

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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
    Your hopeful optimism is cute, but nope. What you see is what you get.

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  • echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,916 Arc User
    Yeah, there was a thread about this last week.

    Why would you think that Holodeck would get something different than Tribble got?
    Now a LTS and loving it.
    Just because you spend money on this game, it does not entitle you to be a jerk if things don't go your way.
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  • sirmaydaysirmayday Member Posts: 535 Arc User
    Isn't the species restriction logical? The four offered are the Founders of the Federation, and TOS actually gives the impression that crews are generally very homogenous in terms of species. I can see disregarding the latter for the sake gameplay ("Oh, goody, another human BOff..."), and it probably would've been nice to at least have Alien as an option, but this seems pretty in keeping with the setting.
  • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
    That was the main 4 during TOS era. It don't bother me.
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  • capnmanxcapnmanx Member Posts: 1,452 Arc User
    Wonder how many people are actually gonna roll Tellarite characters?
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    Here is something that will add some hope to a new TOS race for Lifers. Legacy of Romulus introduced the Liberated Borg Romulan race with its release and Delta Rising introduced the Talaxian race 2 weeks after its release.
    capnmanx wrote: »
    Wonder how many people are actually gonna roll Tellarite characters?

    Probably not enough for them to even register on Cryptic's precious metrics.
  • azniadeetazniadeet Member Posts: 1,871 Arc User
    [quote="echatty;12986019"]Yeah, there was a thread about this last week.

    Why would you think that Holodeck would get something different than Tribble got?[/quote]

    Because historically it has, and in other ways, it did this time too.

    When the Romulans were launched, alien was added as a species option last minute.
  • echattyechatty Member Posts: 5,916 Arc User
    Just because it historically happened in the past doesn't mean it will happen every time.

    Like this time.

    It's TOS, there weren't a lot of species depicted then on starships
    Now a LTS and loving it.
    Just because you spend money on this game, it does not entitle you to be a jerk if things don't go your way.
    I have come to the conclusion that I have a memory like Etch-A-Sketch. I shake my head and forget everything. :D
  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,556 Arc User
    echatty wrote: »
    Just because it historically happened in the past doesn't mean it will happen every time.

    Like this time.

    It's TOS, there weren't a lot of species depicted then on starships

    Which is why I said it would add some hope not that it will happen. Cryptic should have restricted us to only the races that are available to Starfleet in 2270 not strictly to what Federation races we have seen in TOS.

    Another issue is that each faction is provided with a cybernetic race for the Lifers. Since the Liberated Borg weren't around in the 23rd Century Alpha Quadrant, then there is the species that 0718 is. If an alien race is cybernetically modifying humans in the Kelvin Universe, then that same race would have likely being doing it in the Prime Universe during the 23rd Century. Either the Kelvin Universe is a parallel universe that has some differences from the Prime Universe or it is a new timeline that was created by the destruction of the USS Kelvin even though it violates established Star Trek canon.
  • scarlingscarling Member Posts: 708 Arc User
    I'll roll 10 more humans before I even consider a tellarite. Just no, never, nada, nope.
  • philchapphilchap Member Posts: 269 Arc User
    im ok with it mostly play human and do two rommies and a trill a liberated borg
  • cross821cross821 Member Posts: 185 Arc User
    iconians wrote: »
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    Not sure if you planned for it but the fact that pic has a PC from 90's is perfect xD

  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,950 Arc User
    azniadeet wrote: »
    echatty wrote: »
    Yeah, there was a thread about this last week.

    Why would you think that Holodeck would get something different than Tribble got?

    Because historically it has, and in other ways, it did this time too.

    When the Romulans were launched, alien was added as a species option last minute.

    Even that was official at the latest last week, when Geko said in an interview that aliengen was not being added because the guys that would make that happen said it would take at least 15 days. Of course, it was also said in multiple interviews before that that we would only be getting four races ... so this really is pretty old.
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  • officerbatman81officerbatman81 Member Posts: 2,761 Arc User
    I like to think if there are enough of these threads, disapointment, player feedback, etc, that they will make a change accordingly.
    Thats the world id like to live in.
    I have faith they will get this correct.

    Are they doing this for their emmersion? Certainly not a lot of players'.
    Ill ask again, do they make this game for themselves?
  • officerbatman81officerbatman81 Member Posts: 2,761 Arc User
    And this "it takes 15 days so we are not going to do it" jazz makes no sense. Like there is a threshold of time that makes projects impossible or not worth it?
    All other projects takes less than two weeks to accomplish?
    The later you start the later you finish.
    If they start now then at least the addtl race will exist before the Temporal Recruitment ends.
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    Im gonna pick Vulcan, as a "take that" for kirk stealing all the logic bombs.
  • jslynjslyn Member Posts: 1,788 Arc User
    We should have the option to play an Alien with a Trait that lets us turn in to a Cat.

    Also, the Lifetime Android should be one of the Mudd's type.
  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,005 Arc User
    capnmanx wrote: »
    Wonder how many people are actually gonna roll Tellarite characters?

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  • bengahlbengahl Member Posts: 74 Arc User
    This discussion hath arisen before, i believe Caitians were mentioned for the majority of it because of ze animooted series~

    Again i'm personally like: "eh, would've been nice to use that C-Store kitty but whatevs, just roll Andorian and be done with it."
  • mustrumridcully0mustrumridcully0 Member Posts: 12,963 Arc User
    officerbatman81 wrote: »
    And this "it takes 15 days so we are not going to do it" jazz makes no sense. Like there is a threshold of time that makes projects impossible or not worth it?
    All other projects takes less than two weeks to accomplish?
    The later you start the later you finish.
    If they start now then at least the addtl race will exist before the Temporal Recruitment ends.

    15 Days that they do not have, perhaps, since the release date is set?
    15 Days they could have the involved developers and artists spend on something else that has better pay off (either literally or figuratively)?
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  • spacehermitspacehermit Member Posts: 358 Arc User
    Denobulans were there before the Federation 4.
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