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Playable Terrans coming?
mcalexev123
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The new TFO seems to be setting up a new plotline with the Mirror Universe! Fingers crossed this might lead to playable Terrans!
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Cardassian backlash made sense since they didn't even get same opportunity as Roms and Jemmies, people wanted a Cardie Faction and instead the cardassians ended up in the C-Store, they didn't even get their own tutorial.
What do you mean 'playable Terrans'? Why can't you just head-canon it? It would be a waste of Dev time, and they won't do an 'evil' faction.
The Dominion didn't get much better treatment, all they got was one gender-locked horneytoad race, a handful of ships, a pink UI, the transporter visuals, and one tutorial mission. You cannot even play a canon Dominion setup because the Dominion officer corps from the show, the Vorta race, is not available at all.
As for the Romulans, it makes sense for the Republic since they start off as the classic small border nation subtly using each side as protection from the other. There is room for improvement there though I doubt there will ever be single-faction missions beyond what is already there, what could make a difference though is more involved mission starter communiqués that play up the differences even if the missions themselves are the same (though preferably with some more faction-aware dialog than there is now).
MU Terrans have been playable for years, when I first started playing STO the uniform pack was there in the c-store and they use the same ships and have the same homeworld the Prime Terrans do. Aside from that, it is essentially just a note in the character bio and roleplaying (for those who do that), there simply is not enough of a difference in game terms to split them off.
It's like schrodinger's cat backlash if they do and backlash if they don't people have been asking for a Terran Empire faction for years,
This is also true, however you just need a bunch of Lobi crystals, an extremely rare currency that you can only get from opening lockboxes, you also need the genetic resequrancer terran vision if you're playing as MU human.
They have done pretty much the same with TOS, you cannot get an account unlock T6 TOS ship for less than $50 unless you happen to have tokens for the Ranger/Paladin comboship (which is how I finally got the thing), you have to buy c-store packages to get the uniforms and weapons (unless you play KDF, they are the only ones who get the uniform for free), etc.
I recently put out an era mod for Space Engineers and it took me nearly 8 weeks to get it to where I wanted for the time being for release. All I was doing was redoing some blocks and adding a few new ones. Now scale that up to something like STO and you have an idea of how long it can take. I wish we could just snap our fingers and be done but it's not that simple. By no means am I saying that's what people expect, but simply me making the point. Folks are underestimating what it takes for some of this stuff.
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Even working a few hours a day it can take awhile to do what you're proposing. Even if you release it in parts, you would have to compensate for the missing parts. I worked about 8 hours a day for 8 weeks to get my era mod going which is far less complicated than this. Doing that stuff isn't as simple as just flipping switches as much as we all wish it was. It's not enough to just design the ships, you're doing the stations, maps, missions, sounds, textures, literally building it nigh from scratch
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Which means that past the first few intro quests (which would be "rebel against evil, travel to main universe, decide which Main Faction to support"), they wouldn't be "Terran empire", they'd just be Fed/KDF with a different ship prefix. Which we can do already.
I'm not sure what the point would be, aside from an opportunity to sell Another Giant Expensive Bundle Of Ships/Costumes. Ooh. Aah.
(and this fits for any other 'factions' as well - they'll just end up being Fed/KDF with a different coat of paint, so what's the point? They'll just disappoint the Big Fans of the faction, while drawing a big 'meh' from all the people who don't understand why anyone would be 'big fans' of them.)
Just my two cents.
But what would I enjoy if 1-2 episodes were created where you would transfer to the mirror universe and play for you own character, albeit as a mirror character.
Something similar is already in the romulan only story-arc in the episode Mind Games, where you play for double Tal Shiar agent and you can do bad things (like kill a tribble with thalaron lol).
Of course the reward would be a sleeveless uniform for men and a belly-free uniform for women.
We might need to know what happened to the Romulans in the mirror universe, whether their star was also destroyed or not. Some short stories suggest the Romulans are subjected race of the Terrans.
They wouldn't even be a KDF option anyways, if Terrans were made into playable faction it'll be in the same boat as TOS and DSC Factions, and if they aren't made into a playable faction, how about my idea of the "Terran Recruitment Event." and it'll cover every Fed faction from TOS Starfleet to 25th century Starfleet to even DSC Starfleet.
I personally want Ambassador Kael to see this brilliant idea of mine, just to get his opinion.
Most novels paint them off as isolationists which pissed me off because I was expecting Mirror Romulans to be the James Bonds of the mirror universe, spymasters but on the side of good, Discovery season 3 actually did the mirror Romulans justice by making them allies with mirror Klingons in an off hand comment in Terra Firma, part 2 in the episode Mirror Burnham says, "The Romulans, Klingons, Andorians, and Tellarites are forming an alliance against the Empire called the Coalition", she then adds, "The Denobulans, Coridanites, and Rigelians will follow."
glory to the TERran EMpire
aut vincere aut mori pro imperio
either to conquer or to die for the Empire