I'd like to take a moment to unintentionally stir up the hardcore Romulan fanbase. Bear with me, I promise I'm not trolling.
Let me tell you exactly why they should be a part of a playable Romulan faction, and why, whether you like it or not, it will be better for a playable Romulan faction in the long run to have them.
So let's start with the obvious; the Romulans are a shattered people. They have been utterly broken at the basest of levels, their home planet taken from them not by an act of nature, which would be devastating but ultimately no one's fault, but by intentional sabotage. Billions, possibly trillions died. To gain their glory back, even in the slightest, they need help.
Conveniently, the Hirogen bumble into the beta quadrant far enough to make contact. A race of capable warriors with a uniquely devious way of dealing with everyone that isn't them. Traps and ruses are par for the course, and while not the kind of traps and deceptions a Romulan might respect, it plays very very well into the kinds of games a Romulan plays. And with their own slave race, the Remans, in open revolt, they need a new, disposable source of muscle. The Hirogen fit this bill nicely.
So that covers the plot reasons you might expect. Let's consider gameplay.
A full faction with three races (Romulan, Reman, Alien) would be dull. Even something KDF-sized would be expected to have a little more variety than that. Hirogen makes sense in the context of the game's timeline, and at the same time serves to give Voyager fans access to one of the better things to come from that show, as well as being the only Delta Quadrant race to my memory at the moment to be playable in the game ever. And hey, better Hirogen first than Talaxian, amirite?
This also gives Cryptic the ability to spice up the RSE's ship lineup from the get-go. They only necessarily have to produce two lines of Romulan ships, and can fill the third archetype with Hirogen vessels. Or at the very least, they can leverage the Hirogen as a line of ships to sell in the CStore for the Romulan leveling experience ala the other KDF races.
Then we have the thought that, aside from using some one-shot race or making something else up ala Deferi, there really isn't anything else they could pad the RSE ranks with.
And finally, it's not any sillier to have the Hirogen join the RSE than it was to lump the KDF races we see together.
In conclusion, regardless of how you feel about the Hirogen and their potential to have a place in the RSE, it still works from both a story and gameplay point of view. If you hate it that badly, use it as RP fuel in-game. Nothing like racism to make an interesting character, after all.
See? Told you it wasn't a troll post.
I agree.... I also agree that RSE should have a few one-shot races to make them a bit more interesting. KDF has LETHEANS after all. They only appeared in 2 eps of DS9. Gorn and Nausicaans haven't really shown up that much either. So.... you could say that most of the KDF races are one-shot races.
Thus from this point of view, it makes sense for Romulans to get some. The real question is WHO... also it might not be a bad idea to add some spice by having them share one or more races. So, updated list:
Romulan
Acamarians (one-shot race from TNG, they live near the Romulan Neutral Zone so it'd be relatively easy for them to join the Romulans somehow)
Hirogen
Joined Trill (why? Why does KDF have them?)
Liberated Borg Romulan
Reman
Vulcan (remember the reunification movement? Spock was willing to try showing the Romulans the value of his way of life by living among them.)
Alien
If you hate it that badly, use it as RP fuel in-game. Nothing like racism to make an interesting character, after all.
LMFAO!!
I don't get the hate on Hirogen, the KDF have nausicaan's that looks like a Predator, and the Romulan will get the Hirogen, who are actually hunting humanoids, they also have ships. Voyager i always wanted to see them fight real Klingons not holograms.
I would like to see True way part of the Romulan's....by true way i mean Cardassian, not Jem hardar. I never understood why the true way who want to return Cardassia back to the old ways to ally with people who bombed them, and killed millions of Cardassian
this poll sould pop up in the game or the game launcher not alot of ppl go to the web site even for a Ask Cryptic or even to the forums so what ever results turn out to be most likely will not be a majority of the player base most likely a fraction this is also why the polls did not go over to well the last time they did them so why they stop them
ps you got more then one account you can Vote more then ones
Hell those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head from Birth of the Federation. However, the RSE is not the Federation, they don't need 800 race choices.
Like the Romulan Alliance System? Of course you do, it sounds fine to you because you aren't Romulans, you're FED or KDF who are going to make a Romulan alt, it makes a HUGE difference in perspective.
I'd like to take a moment to unintentionally stir up the hardcore Romulan fanbase. Bear with me, I promise I'm not trolling.
Let me tell you exactly why they should be a part of a playable Romulan faction, and why, whether you like it or not, it will be better for a playable Romulan faction in the long run to have them.
So let's start with the obvious; the Romulans are a shattered people. They have been utterly broken at the basest of levels, their home planet taken from them not by an act of nature, which would be devastating but ultimately no one's fault, but by intentional sabotage. Billions, possibly trillions died. To gain their glory back, even in the slightest, they need help.
Conveniently, the Hirogen bumble into the beta quadrant far enough to make contact. A race of capable warriors with a uniquely devious way of dealing with everyone that isn't them. Traps and ruses are par for the course, and while not the kind of traps and deceptions a Romulan might respect, it plays very very well into the kinds of games a Romulan plays. And with their own slave race, the Remans, in open revolt, they need a new, disposable source of muscle. The Hirogen fit this bill nicely.
So that covers the plot reasons you might expect. Let's consider gameplay.
A full faction with three races (Romulan, Reman, Alien) would be dull. Even something KDF-sized would be expected to have a little more variety than that. Hirogen makes sense in the context of the game's timeline, and at the same time serves to give Voyager fans access to one of the better things to come from that show, as well as being the only Delta Quadrant race to my memory at the moment to be playable in the game ever. And hey, better Hirogen first than Talaxian, amirite?
This also gives Cryptic the ability to spice up the RSE's ship lineup from the get-go. They only necessarily have to produce two lines of Romulan ships, and can fill the third archetype with Hirogen vessels. Or at the very least, they can leverage the Hirogen as a line of ships to sell in the CStore for the Romulan leveling experience ala the other KDF races.
Then we have the thought that, aside from using some one-shot race or making something else up ala Deferi, there really isn't anything else they could pad the RSE ranks with.
And finally, it's not any sillier to have the Hirogen join the RSE than it was to lump the KDF races we see together.
In conclusion, regardless of how you feel about the Hirogen and their potential to have a place in the RSE, it still works from both a story and gameplay point of view. If you hate it that badly, use it as RP fuel in-game. Nothing like racism to make an interesting character, after all.
See? Told you it wasn't a troll post.
I can see the Hirogen joining the RSE for the reasons you mentioned. There does need to be more than just Romulans, Remans, "aliens" and liberated Borg Romulans. I'm sure they can reasonably justify whatever they come up with.
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The Romulans would make a great faction. Yes Romulus and Remus were destroyed but there are many other planets and possibly hunderts of billions of Romulans left. Furthermore we know that the Romulan star empire consists of many different races of which only few are known though:
Romulans
Remans
(Hirogen)
Garidians
possibly Chodak (now THAT would be an interesting race! )
Breen (by announcing a military alliance between the Romulans and the Breen)
...
There are plenty of races and many already existing ships (Romulan BoP, D7, D'eridex, Mogai, Scimitar, Scorpion fighter, the Hirogen and Breen ships) which makes a Romulan faction rather easy to implement.
I don't care that you would possibly start by lvl 40 and only have like 10 missions to do. I want to play the Romulans and fly their ships. And why should my request (and the request of the ~28% participating in this poll) be less justified and valid than the request for more Klingon content ?
The Romulans would make a great faction. Yes Romulus and Remus were destroyed but there are many other planets and possibly hunderts of billions of Romulans left. Furthermore we know that the Romulan star empire consists of many different races of which only few are known though:
Romulans
Remans
(Hirogen)
Garidians
possibly Chodak (now THAT would be an interesting race! ) Breen (by announcing a military alliance between the Romulans and the Breen)
...
There are plenty of races and many already existing ships (Romulan BoP, D7, D'eridex, Mogai, Scimitar, Scorpion fighter, the Hirogen and Breen ships) which makes a Romulan faction rather easy to implement.
I don't care that you would possibly start by lvl 40 and only have like 10 missions to do. I want to play the Romulans and fly their ships. And why should my request (and the request of the ~28% participating in this poll) be less justified and valid than the request for more Klingon content ?
not sure that would work they hate eachother. in ds9 you see this a pop up from time to time. dominion prision camp a romulan female says something like '' my people have a saying, never turn your back on a breen ''
also the female founder promised the breen romulus .... so i'd avoid them lol they would make a great enemy for story/eps/ missions for the romulans.
seen some say cardassians should join. could be very interesting that idea. it would have to be very well done if it happened. i just think that if factions was being expanded/added you have to think RSE, cardassians and the dominion. as possible stand alone groups.
And why should my request (and the request of the ~28% participating in this poll) be less justified and valid than the request for more Klingon content ?
Because the Klingon were promised full faction status right up till a few weeks to a month before the game launched. Many people bought the game and subscriptions to play the Klingons and yet didn't get what they paid for. We have put money into out Klingon characters and yet have been promised content and yet never got what was promised to us.
Us KDF players aren't saying there shouldn't be a Romulan faction, just that it should come after Cryptic brings the KDF up to a similar level as the Federation with both factions given equal treatment. A Romulan faction now would derail Federation and KDF development to a point it would hurt the game for just a little amount of content and a less than half done faction.
Cryptic is a business and doing a Romulan faction now while the KDF is so incomplete and the Federation players wanting more content would put Cryptic back to the days of the content drought and no dount they would loose a lot of players especially those who have been here to start with hoping for KDF development.
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not sure that would work they hate eachother. in ds9 you see this a pop up from time to time. dominion prision camp a romulan female says something like '' my people have a saying, never turn your back on a breen ''
also the female founder promised the breen romulus .... so i'd avoid them lol they would make a great enemy for story/eps/ missions for the romulans.
seen some say cardassians should join. could be very interesting that idea. it would have to be very well done if it happened. i just think that if factions was being expanded/added you have to think RSE, cardassians and the dominion. as possible stand alone groups.
personally speaking , the ability to play a breen would MAKE me play the rommie faction :cool:
Because the Klingon were promised full faction status right up till a few weeks to a month before the game launched. Many people bought the game and subscriptions to play the Klingons and yet didn't get what they paid for. We have put money into out Klingon characters and yet have been promised content and yet never got what was promised to us.
Us KDF players aren't saying there shouldn't be a Romulan faction, just that it should come after Cryptic brings the KDF up to a similar level as the Federation with both factions given equal treatment. A Romulan faction now would derail Federation and KDF development to a point it would hurt the game for just a little amount of content and a less than half done faction.
Cryptic is a business and doing a Romulan faction now while the KDF is so incomplete and the Federation players wanting more content would put Cryptic back to the days of the content drought and no dount they would loose a lot of players especially those who have been here to start with hoping for KDF development.
must not be putting much money in the KDF, being Cryptic says KDF stuff don't sell as much as FED stuff
Since the start of the game the KDF have gotten some stuff, it has come a long way since the start of STO if i got a Romulan faction, that is just like the KDF is right now, with the FE i would be a happy camper.
The KDF is going to get content no matter what, it's only a matter of time, but it WILL happen. The Romulan Faction we have no clue if they are going to do it, since the start of the game all they say is yeah we might, sure down the road we might, if we do a faction it will be Romulan Blah Blah Blah. If they put the faction in then i would know cryptic is serious about this game growing beyond what it was when it started. I rather have them put the Romulan's before they "finish" the KDF, then i know they mean business. From my point of view as of right now all i know are, maybe's what if, and we might do it this way, nothing showing me they are going to do it, they are just trying to keep me and some others like me hoping so we don't leave.
Don't get me wrong i want KDF content, but i want Romulans a lot more. (unless it's fingerless gloves, that i want more than anything)
Look, I, too, would like to have a Romulan faction or a complete KDF faction, but what's the point if there's nothing to do at lv50?
What the game needs is more STFs.
And FEs? FEs take a lot of dev time and are completed in an hour at most by the players. You'll never get enough FEs to satiate yourselves.
Oh, and rtk: "ceci n'est pas une Romulienne". Yes, species names are translated as well.
Look, I, too, would like to have a Romulan faction or a complete KDF faction, but what's the point if there's nothing to do at lv50?
What the game needs is more STFs.
And FEs? FEs take a lot of dev time and are completed in an hour at most by the players. You'll never get enough FEs to satiate yourselves.
Oh, and rtk: "ceci n'est pas une Romulienne". Yes, species names are translated as well.
Totally agree, I think that this game needs FAR more STF's. Take WoW for example, that game has no less then 40 Instances which are the same as STF's. It makes grouping fun, also equipment is more unique.
Because the Klingon were promised full faction status right up till a few weeks to a month before the game launched. Many people bought the game and subscriptions to play the Klingons and yet didn't get what they paid for. We have put money into out Klingon characters and yet have been promised content and yet never got what was promised to us.
Us KDF players aren't saying there shouldn't be a Romulan faction, just that it should come after Cryptic brings the KDF up to a similar level as the Federation with both factions given equal treatment. A Romulan faction now would derail Federation and KDF development to a point it would hurt the game for just a little amount of content and a less than half done faction.
Cryptic is a business and doing a Romulan faction now while the KDF is so incomplete and the Federation players wanting more content would put Cryptic back to the days of the content drought and no doubt they would loose a lot of players especially those who have been here to start with hoping for KDF development.
The KDF is probably NEVER going to have as many story missions as the Federation. Feds have so many story missions that you could play from L1 to L50 and still not finish them all.
And as this poll shows, there's more people who want playable Romulans.
must not be putting much money in the KDF, being Cryptic says KDF stuff don't sell as much as FED stuff
Since the start of the game the KDF have gotten some stuff, it has come a long way since the start of STO if i got a Romulan faction, that is just like the KDF is right now, with the FE i would be a happy camper.
The KDF is going to get content no matter what, it's only a matter of time, but it WILL happen. The Romulan Faction we have no clue if they are going to do it, since the start of the game all they say is yeah we might, sure down the road we might, if we do a faction it will be Romulan Blah Blah Blah. If they put the faction in then i would know cryptic is serious about this game growing beyond what it was when it started. I rather have them put the Romulan's before they "finish" the KDF, then i know they mean business. From my point of view as of right now all i know are, maybe's what if, and we might do it this way, nothing showing me they are going to do it, they are just trying to keep me and some others like me hoping so we don't leave.
Don't get me wrong i want KDF content, but i want Romulans a lot more. (unless it's fingerless gloves, that i want more than anything)
You would be happy to get a 26-50 faction, I can agree with that.
Seeing how People responded to a 26-50 KDF with a mass walk out right after the original launch, constant demands for more content only to get faction stagnation both in terms of growth and development.
That, my friend, is the truth of what your eagerness has asked for.
If you are a pickle in a pickle jar you know every pickle's different, sort of, but really they're all just pickles...
The KDF is probably NEVER going to have as many story missions as the Federation. Feds have so many story missions that you could play from L1 to L50 and still not finish them all.
And as this poll shows, there's more people who want playable Romulans.
I just hope if they do romulans that they at the least offer some kind of thing either costing dilithium or zen/c points that allows our fake romulan aliens to be converted into real romulans (maybe something for a limited time that they like to do).
Yeah compared to the whole of content over all the TV series + movies there is more strictly federation story than klingon and romulan put together so that is a very valid point. A possibility for Cryptic to match the KDF to the Fed side as far population is an act of force but its probally the only way of having certain races having to join the KDF. Plus you gotta understand too what federation officer from ensigm to admiral to the president of the federation is going to let a would be or could be tal shiar agent access to possible top secret federation information. Plus the romulans know all about klingon technology from their past alliances and just could be a repeat of history just with a *tighter* leash this time.
The idea of having certain races that have to join the KDF as part of their mini faction which is odds are what will happen could be the filler for the 20 levels I just hope if it is done like that if you've done the leveling of toons so many times that once you hit level 20 with one of those races it allows you to go to 50 once you hit 20. So you can play it as you've just joined the empire at that point or just skip it and start blasting stuff with your romulan or what not ships at level 50.
Ive been playing FED for the entirety of the STO Game and Im loving it so far, I dont play the Klingons Much, But Id LOVE the option to switch between Klingons, Romulans or FEDS.
You would be happy to get a 26-50 faction, I can agree with that.
Seeing how People responded to a 26-50 KDF with a mass walk out right after the original launch, constant demands for more content only to get faction stagnation both in terms of growth and development.
That, my friend, is the truth of what your eagerness has asked for.
Really? I see more people playing KDF than ever before, so much for a "mass walk out".
Really? I see more people playing KDF than ever before, so much for a "mass walk out".
Were you not there for the original beta?
I was.
I saw it.
Sad days those were.
There were more instances of Qo'noS open back then, there were more people running amok. There were more Klingons then than there are in game right now.
If you are a pickle in a pickle jar you know every pickle's different, sort of, but really they're all just pickles...
There were more instances of Qo'noS open back then, there were more people running amok. There were more Klingons then than there are in game right now.
lol so your telling every one in closed beta there was more klingons than there was after launch ? lol don't think i'd agree.... even if you said open beta i still wouldn't agree....
the only thing you might have to kling-on to is after luanch you had to unlock klingon and it didn't take long to do that. so there was a klingon shortage for a day or 2, maybe even hours depending on how much time you had to play.
there was alot of unhappy klingons.... that i'd agree with.
My main question, as many were answered via "Ask Cryptic" is whether or not we're going to see the Lock Box ships (like the D'Kora or the Orb Weaver) be available in any other way? For example, will we be able to purchase them from the Z-store or something like that? I'm a lifetime subscriber and love the game, but I don't have the money to constantly buy zen to purchase keys just to get 4 lobi crystals and another mirror universe ship or duty officer cadre. I also don't have a plethora of energy credits to purchase from the exchange as I spend it all trying to help my fleet out to get duty officers (since there seems to be a million of them that are bind on pick-up). If you don't want to make those ships exactly available, you could add or subtract something from them when you make them available in the Z-store. It would just be nice as an avid player that doesn't have the money to constantly through at Perfect World/Cryptic to have access to these ships (or some version of them).
Good luck with a another half baked faction especially since they have the cloak issue and already have one faction that has no content is a bad idea.
Think it's time to start the countdown for the death of STO
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Also gota add that if a romulan faction is going to be added they have to redo the featured episodes just for the roumlan faction e.g. the roumlans weren't present at ds9 during the 2800 series, and they were the main enemies of obisek's faction. It'll be a lot more work for them to do just to keep the featured series for the romulans
Good luck with a another half baked faction especially since they have the cloak issue and already have one faction that has no content is a bad idea.
Think it's time to start the countdown for the death of STO
Yeah the ironic thing I've seen it mentioned so many times in the past year since its gone F2P that they mention that they have staffed up. Yet when the failure to deliver question pops up to them they say oh we made no promises and then they deny ever saying they staffed up and use words like they replaced a few people who left but are still just a small team. Is why I have a hard time believing anything they actually say in these ask cryptic's or state of the game they do not have any accountability.
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Thus from this point of view, it makes sense for Romulans to get some. The real question is WHO... also it might not be a bad idea to add some spice by having them share one or more races. So, updated list:
Romulan
Acamarians (one-shot race from TNG, they live near the Romulan Neutral Zone so it'd be relatively easy for them to join the Romulans somehow)
Hirogen
Joined Trill (why? Why does KDF have them?)
Liberated Borg Romulan
Reman
Vulcan (remember the reunification movement? Spock was willing to try showing the Romulans the value of his way of life by living among them.)
Alien
And before I forget, KDF needs Kriosians...
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I don't get the hate on Hirogen, the KDF have nausicaan's that looks like a Predator, and the Romulan will get the Hirogen, who are actually hunting humanoids, they also have ships. Voyager i always wanted to see them fight real Klingons not holograms.
I would like to see True way part of the Romulan's....by true way i mean Cardassian, not Jem hardar. I never understood why the true way who want to return Cardassia back to the old ways to ally with people who bombed them, and killed millions of Cardassian
ps you got more then one account you can Vote more then ones
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IF they need to add more races, again I don't think this is necessary they could add:
Yridians
Mintakans
Vulcans
Takarans
Talarans
Acamarians
Angosians
Ktarians
Hell those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head from Birth of the Federation. However, the RSE is not the Federation, they don't need 800 race choices.
I can see the Hirogen joining the RSE for the reasons you mentioned. There does need to be more than just Romulans, Remans, "aliens" and liberated Borg Romulans. I'm sure they can reasonably justify whatever they come up with.
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Romulans
Remans
(Hirogen)
Garidians
possibly Chodak (now THAT would be an interesting race!
Breen (by announcing a military alliance between the Romulans and the Breen)
...
There are plenty of races and many already existing ships (Romulan BoP, D7, D'eridex, Mogai, Scimitar, Scorpion fighter, the Hirogen and Breen ships) which makes a Romulan faction rather easy to implement.
I don't care that you would possibly start by lvl 40 and only have like 10 missions to do. I want to play the Romulans and fly their ships. And why should my request (and the request of the ~28% participating in this poll) be less justified and valid than the request for more Klingon content ?
not sure that would work they hate eachother. in ds9 you see this a pop up from time to time. dominion prision camp a romulan female says something like '' my people have a saying, never turn your back on a breen ''
also the female founder promised the breen romulus .... so i'd avoid them lol they would make a great enemy for story/eps/ missions for the romulans.
seen some say cardassians should join. could be very interesting that idea. it would have to be very well done if it happened. i just think that if factions was being expanded/added you have to think RSE, cardassians and the dominion. as possible stand alone groups.
Because the Klingon were promised full faction status right up till a few weeks to a month before the game launched. Many people bought the game and subscriptions to play the Klingons and yet didn't get what they paid for. We have put money into out Klingon characters and yet have been promised content and yet never got what was promised to us.
Us KDF players aren't saying there shouldn't be a Romulan faction, just that it should come after Cryptic brings the KDF up to a similar level as the Federation with both factions given equal treatment. A Romulan faction now would derail Federation and KDF development to a point it would hurt the game for just a little amount of content and a less than half done faction.
Cryptic is a business and doing a Romulan faction now while the KDF is so incomplete and the Federation players wanting more content would put Cryptic back to the days of the content drought and no dount they would loose a lot of players especially those who have been here to start with hoping for KDF development.
personally speaking , the ability to play a breen would MAKE me play the rommie faction :cool:
breen are cool
( lol punny )
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aren't they still allied with the dominion....?
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must not be putting much money in the KDF, being Cryptic says KDF stuff don't sell as much as FED stuff
Since the start of the game the KDF have gotten some stuff, it has come a long way since the start of STO if i got a Romulan faction, that is just like the KDF is right now, with the FE i would be a happy camper.
The KDF is going to get content no matter what, it's only a matter of time, but it WILL happen. The Romulan Faction we have no clue if they are going to do it, since the start of the game all they say is yeah we might, sure down the road we might, if we do a faction it will be Romulan Blah Blah Blah. If they put the faction in then i would know cryptic is serious about this game growing beyond what it was when it started. I rather have them put the Romulan's before they "finish" the KDF, then i know they mean business. From my point of view as of right now all i know are, maybe's what if, and we might do it this way, nothing showing me they are going to do it, they are just trying to keep me and some others like me hoping so we don't leave.
Don't get me wrong i want KDF content, but i want Romulans a lot more. (unless it's fingerless gloves, that i want more than anything)
Look, I, too, would like to have a Romulan faction or a complete KDF faction, but what's the point if there's nothing to do at lv50?
What the game needs is more STFs.
And FEs? FEs take a lot of dev time and are completed in an hour at most by the players. You'll never get enough FEs to satiate yourselves.
Oh, and rtk: "ceci n'est pas une Romulienne". Yes, species names are translated as well.
Totally agree, I think that this game needs FAR more STF's. Take WoW for example, that game has no less then 40 Instances which are the same as STF's. It makes grouping fun, also equipment is more unique.
And as this poll shows, there's more people who want playable Romulans.
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You would be happy to get a 26-50 faction, I can agree with that.
Seeing how People responded to a 26-50 KDF with a mass walk out right after the original launch, constant demands for more content only to get faction stagnation both in terms of growth and development.
That, my friend, is the truth of what your eagerness has asked for.
I just hope if they do romulans that they at the least offer some kind of thing either costing dilithium or zen/c points that allows our fake romulan aliens to be converted into real romulans (maybe something for a limited time that they like to do).
Yeah compared to the whole of content over all the TV series + movies there is more strictly federation story than klingon and romulan put together so that is a very valid point. A possibility for Cryptic to match the KDF to the Fed side as far population is an act of force but its probally the only way of having certain races having to join the KDF. Plus you gotta understand too what federation officer from ensigm to admiral to the president of the federation is going to let a would be or could be tal shiar agent access to possible top secret federation information. Plus the romulans know all about klingon technology from their past alliances and just could be a repeat of history just with a *tighter* leash this time.
The idea of having certain races that have to join the KDF as part of their mini faction which is odds are what will happen could be the filler for the 20 levels I just hope if it is done like that if you've done the leveling of toons so many times that once you hit level 20 with one of those races it allows you to go to 50 once you hit 20. So you can play it as you've just joined the empire at that point or just skip it and start blasting stuff with your romulan or what not ships at level 50.
Ive been playing FED for the entirety of the STO Game and Im loving it so far, I dont play the Klingons Much, But Id LOVE the option to switch between Klingons, Romulans or FEDS.
itll keep me from getting bored for sure!
My character Tsin'xing
Were you not there for the original beta?
I was.
I saw it.
Sad days those were.
There were more instances of Qo'noS open back then, there were more people running amok. There were more Klingons then than there are in game right now.
lol so your telling every one in closed beta there was more klingons than there was after launch ? lol don't think i'd agree.... even if you said open beta i still wouldn't agree....
the only thing you might have to kling-on to is after luanch you had to unlock klingon and it didn't take long to do that. so there was a klingon shortage for a day or 2, maybe even hours depending on how much time you had to play.
there was alot of unhappy klingons.... that i'd agree with.
-Sincerely
Iceman
Cryptic can deliver that.
Think it's time to start the countdown for the death of STO
Vice Admiral Volmack ISS Thundermole
Brigadier General Jokag IKS Gorkan
Centurion Kares RRW Tomalak
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
DISENCHANTED
Yes!
Yeah the ironic thing I've seen it mentioned so many times in the past year since its gone F2P that they mention that they have staffed up. Yet when the failure to deliver question pops up to them they say oh we made no promises and then they deny ever saying they staffed up and use words like they replaced a few people who left but are still just a small team. Is why I have a hard time believing anything they actually say in these ask cryptic's or state of the game they do not have any accountability.