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Romulans, Fly the Ships of Your Allies!
ambassadorkael
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When Victory is Life launches, Romulan Captains will be able to fly the ships of their chosen faction!
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10898183
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10898183
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More homogenization is bad! Diversity is good! Remember IDIC, Devs? Make the factions different, not similar.
And on that note, will Romulans ever be able to use additional faction Bridge Officers, like the TOS Holographic crew and Android 0718?
Edit, Had to re-read it, some reason I thought the Fed's and KDF were getting access to the rom ships as well.
I do like that Cryptic is allowing the use of the other factions' ships & even impressed with some of the selections. I'm sure some may not think of it as canon, but for the sake of STO game-play I think it adds value since Romulans/Remans were more limited.
This will definitely benefit the Admiralty system for Romulans/Remans, & if a proud Romulan/Reman won't be caught vaporized in another factions' ship one can always choose to pilot Romulan/Reman quality starships.
This was unexpected, to me, & offers the Romulan/Reman mini-faction an expanse of game-play. Well done, Cryptic.
So much negativity here... either it's too few or too much.
I'm always happy for MORE options: the point is, if you don't like 'em, you just don't use them without taking them from others.
If you wish to stick to specific ships you can since they clearly stated they still will do more - otherwise I too would have been rather pissed off.
The whole Alliance thing only makes sense now that everyone can use almost every ship since we're all aboard on the same boat -literally now.
Better if every ship tomorrow but I guess no because CBS vetoes.
More on it, it would have been better if the whole romulan alliance choice system would have been designed differently so that rather than choose the allegiance for ships you would have done that just for the story and leave ship choice open.
After all the whole Fed-KDF thing never worked and was doomed to end anyway.
But I imagine that would have been a pain in the *head* to code.
still... GOOD NEWS! THANKS!
...finally.
Now that it has, when can Fed and KDF Captains fly Romulan ships? And for that matter, when will Feds be able to fly KDF ships and vice versa? You have to realize that now that you've opened the floodgates, there will be cries of "My Fed wants to fly X Romulan ship and Y Klingon ship, NAO!" It'll be interesting to see what happens here on the forums.
Honestly though, I think this is an overall bad idea. And this is coming from someone who loves the Romulan storyline and the look of the Romulans ships (mostly) but absolutely detests the singularity mechanic. I fly cross faction ships on my Roms as it is, or the newer ships that have a warp core.
From now on it would seem that I won't need to buy Rom ships unless I really want them. Of course, when there is a 3 pack or super-sized 9 pack, I always viewed getting the Fed/KDF ships as the selling point and the Rom ones were free. So I suppose that I'll still get Rom ships when they are part of one of these packs. I just doubt I'll ever buy a Rom ship singly again, unless it has a warp core.
Losing faith in humanity, one person at a time.
Don't let them promote you. Don't let them transfer you. Don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship, because while you're there... you can make a difference.
-Captain James T. Kirk
I mainly bought the Command Assault cruiser for its trait for my Romulan - that purchase will still be useful since the Presidio is excluded from the upcoming change. Besides that ship and the T6 Valdore, I've only bought the Faeht which is my main Romulan ship.
So none of my ship purchases will have been for nothing, while my Romulan will finally get access to many more Admiralty cards. And more ship choices of course.
And i am not saying this with hate but with much sadness as this was one of my favorites games until the said above hit critical mass ( and others) and made it too boring and grindy for any taste at least.
But i do hope that the new season will come with some fun stuff.
A move like that does not come as benefit to the players there are buiseness decisions involved.
Hardliners like me did only buy Romulan Ships and skipped anything FrED related Cryptic certainly is not happy about that spending resources and money into one crappy FrED cruiser after another and not getting them sold is bad RoI and in addition for all the 9 packs cutting those down to 6 Packs what now would be possible with upcoming ships packs reduces production cost.
So no not that stocked about this change i don't see that many Romulan ships been released in the future and to dangle warpcore ships in front of Romulans only adds one more item players have to upgrade with dilithium.
Besides it's not that existing Romulan ships did get a fair treatment of art fixes compared to FrED Ships still waiting on the ROM Multi Mission Ship fix for the messed up Deflector FX.
So in the End great for Admirality if you bought all those FrED Ships in the Past but if not goodbye to any mayor new Romulan Ship releases past Lockbox and promo.
Of course the blog contains error - the Romulans could fly allied ships of tier 1-4 before.
Now a questions:
Can I put T5 Vesta console set on Romulan T6 Multi-mission Explorer?
Or Andorian Wing Cannons (or even Wing Cannon Platforms) on a Dewan Pilot Escort?
Aye!