New Romulus is awesome

matthian1701 · November 2012

I'm having a great time on New Romulus, and if any of you haven't been yet you should go. It's just like exploring a new world - taking samples, exploring, and all sorts of things that Starfleet does. Cryptic did a really good job.

chikahiro · November 2012

I agree. I'm enjoying it, and I'm loving the more open nature of completing some of the missions. All the stuff I can do in an area helps? Whoo! Plus, the ground alerts are fun thus far

typhoncal · November 2012

I have to agree, i wish more of the worlds in STO looked and acted like this and dont. This is my main problem with Cryptic, they bring out great elements that they dont place across the entire game and only place it in certain areas.

As for the New Romulus, i want to know more backstory about the planet and this new government. Seeing that great hall or building is just awesome.

hartzilla · November 2012

Yeah, its fun.

tacofangs · November 2012

If you build up your rep and run some of the instances, you should get more info on the backstory of the planet.

philosophere · November 2012

tacofangs wrote: »

If you build up your rep and run some of the instances, you should get more info on the backstory of the planet.

Wanna add my thanks here too. Great work by you and the team. Sad it had to lessened by issues beyond your control.

Want to explore it slowly and enjoy it like a fine wine... oops... sorry... you probably have had it up to your enchiladas with whine....

azurianstar · November 2012

Even though I been disappointed with Season 7, I really am fond of New Romulus. Only complaint is the terrain looks like it was made of potatos (lumpy rocks). Guess Cryptic is using the round version of minecraft. :P

tacofangs wrote: »

If you build up your rep and run some of the instances, you should get more info on the backstory of the planet.

Tier 1 was fun, Tier 2 really felt like it was an afterthought.

tacofangs · November 2012

Meh, the end product was a derivative of the original art direction, trying to make it feel like something that could exist, but which you haven't seen before, and the time we had to make the zone. I chose to go with a route that I knew I could easily cover the map in, and still (hopefully) look ok. You're no the first to make the potato comparison, and it's fair. But, it is what it is.

starfish1701 · November 2012

Yes, it is awesome indeed.

I think it's the season I have most looked forward to, because it contains such a large map to explore and to do things in. It feels a bit like Skyrim, which I enjoy for the same reason.

akrilon · November 2012

I agree - really nice environment. Some of the nicest looking areas are on the bridges

Hopefully we'll see more of these adventure zones in the near future... It's fun to be able to explore in any direction I want, without hitting a zone wall, and to pick up random missions on the way. It gives STO some of that traditional MMO feel, that I'd been craving in this game

Quite satisfied with Season 7 in general - fun new fleet actions and an adventure zone I can come back to, without it feeling all that grindy.

Hopefully some of the bugs get squashed soon, and we'll be set

Thanks, team!

leviathan99 · November 2012

akrilon wrote: »

I agree - really nice environment. Some of the nicest looking areas are on the bridges Hopefully we'll see more of these adventure zones in the near future... It's fun to be able to explore in any direction I want, without hitting a zone wall, and to pick up random missions on the way. It gives STO some of that traditional MMO feel, that I'd been craving in this game

Quite satisfied with Season 7 in general - fun new fleet actions and an adventure zone I can come back to, without it feeling all that grindy.

Hopefully some of the bugs get squashed soon, and we'll be set

Thanks, team!

My big desire is for every adventure zone to be clearly themed, as my fear is that they'll ALL be fantasy forest/desert zones.

I'd imagine urban zones could actually be easier on the Polycount budgets.

Give me 1960s Vegas or New York or modern New Orleans complete with Sisko's restaurant or the Orion homeworld or something like First City but expanded out.

Urban adventure zones would rock. Plus, I wanna see ThomastheCat go crazy designing 90-100 business logos.

diogene0 · November 2012

tacofangs wrote: »

Meh, the end product was a derivative of the original art direction, trying to make it feel like something that could exist, but which you haven't seen before, and the time we had to make the zone. I chose to go with a route that I knew I could easily cover the map in, and still (hopefully) look ok. You're no the first to make the potato comparison, and it's fair. But, it is what it is.

It's not geologically believable. Erosion can create such "potatoes", but the overal look is closer to hills rather than mountains. I know there are polygon limits but with such mountains the relief should be far more sharp with a lot of debris all around.

Something like this : http://ecole.nevache.free.fr/glacier/moraine2.jpg

It's a minor concern since the map is still great; just don't make so many round mountains if you need to save up some polygons because it looks VERY weird, when you know something about geology. :P

My favourite areas and props are those with the ruins and old buildings (the bridge is great). I really hope we'll se more of that in the future, in the featured episodes!

zeuxidemus001 · November 2012

Rather than a year ago where there was the reman series and then nothing until season 6 hit as far as new content. I'd rather not worry about if someone thinks its a potatoe rofl. The way it seemed a year ago is that all development was going to end altogether so its pretty much something to be thankful that we are getting new content. Although I figured when lockboxes started that it was just going to end up being a nickel and dimed game and then abandoned but the new romulus seems like a good start if anything for the game to expand beyond what it is/has been.

khamseenair · November 2012

Yeah I have to agree here, New Romulus is a very nice place to go. I love the scenery and the mission styles so far. Less of the traditional "go here and kill 5 groups of {insert name}" and more about what Trek was good for, exploring, sampling, scanning. Obviously they still have shooting in it, but it's not the same experience as a lot of the other 'exploration' zones.

It's a shame that the Dilithium changes happened at the same time as the launch of Season 7, as if it hadn't been for that, I feel this would have had a much better reception.

thedoctorbluebox · November 2012

matthian1701 wrote: »

I'm having a great time on New Romulus, and if any of you haven't been yet you should go. It's just like exploring a new world - taking samples, exploring, and all sorts of things that Starfleet does. Cryptic did a really good job.

It's good, but it gets repetitive. Once you've done everything, you've done everything, and then its just a grind. It's pretty and awe inspiring and exciting for a few hours, then it gets old quick. That feeling you are feeling, will wear off quickly.

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edna · November 2012

thedoctorbluebox wrote: »

It's good, but it gets repetitive. Once you've done everything, you've done everything, and then its just a grind. It's pretty and awe inspiring and exciting for a few hours, then it gets old quick. That feeling you are feeling, will wear off quickly.

true but that doesnt mean they cant add more on that map.Open ground pvp in the forest ,...I dont know ,let them give a [something] as reward for ideas and you will see how that map turns into the best place in gamming industry....remember that people have creativity.

Now they need to rework how people share zones.70 people in one zone on esd is alot but on that map that number is not big.Today I though everyone abandoned the game and when I looked at the number of zones I realized that people still exist but the game sends them when no man has gone before

Also some tailor and shipyard would be good there because it would make people stay in that zone .That is good because I like the map

Last but not least ...doff chains.....that area (by that i mean the entire new sector) needs doff chains .For example it can be an orientated on diplomacy (help remans ...would be in the theme) and get a purple romulan diplomat at the end of chain plus lots of diplomacy cxp which atm take alot to get .

As for story...Im sure the new FE will be in that sector ...you dont have to be nostradamus to know that.

marc8219 · November 2012

Had a hard time finding my way around myself, had to keep beaming up to my ship and back down before I gave up and just stuck to queing for Romulan mark events instead.

thomas12255 · November 2012

New Romulus - the Homeworld of the potato people.

tacofangs · November 2012

diogene0 wrote: »

It's not geologically believable. Erosion can create such "potatoes", but the overal look is closer to hills rather than mountains. I know there are polygon limits but with such mountains the relief should be far more sharp with a lot of debris all around.

Something like this : http://ecole.nevache.free.fr/glacier/moraine2.jpg

It's a minor concern since the map is still great; just don't make so many round mountains if you need to save up some polygons because it looks VERY weird, when you know something about geology. :P

My favourite areas and props are those with the ruins and old buildings (the bridge is great). I really hope we'll se more of that in the future, in the featured episodes!

It's an alien planet, who knows how the geology works there. I had figured the potatoes had more been pushed out of the surrounding rock. No, it's not the same as what we know. But that was the point.

x3of9 · November 2012

tacofangs wrote: »

It's an alien planet, who knows how the geology works there. I had figured the potatoes had more been pushed out of the surrounding rock. No, it's not the same as what we know. But that was the point.

There is always the mysterious history of the planet... maybe the potatonium rock formations have something to do with the origin of all that radiation that is still hanging around...

tacofangs · November 2012

As everyone knows, Potatonium is a very rare element, critical to creating the color green. This would explain why the Romulans decided to settle here.

intrinsical · November 2012

That's the problem with making a Trek game, a significant portion of the playerbase have at least an undergraduate degree or better.

diogene0 · November 2012

tacofangs wrote: »

As everyone knows, Potatonium is a very rare element, critical to creating the color green. This would explain why the Romulans decided to settle here.

I thought it was because there was a former Romulan colony on that planet. That's what the cutscene told me. D'Tan has lied to me! Romulans didn't change that much after all.

I'll start some studies about Potatium, it looks like an interesting element. If I can adapt a catapult on my Recluse carrier, I might be able to use potatium as a projectile.

crypticarmsman · November 2012

intrinsical wrote: »

That's the problem with making a Trek game, a significant portion of the playerbase have at least an undergraduate degree or better.

It's funny though that there's rarely been letters to set designers about the plywood tech corridors, or styrofoam rocks and plastic plants, etc. :cool::P;)

captaindsterling · November 2012

For some reason (I don't know why.), New Romulus makes me think of the STO version of Hyrule.

matthian1701 · November 2012

tacofangs wrote: »

As everyone knows, Potatonium is a very rare element, critical to creating the color green. This would explain why the Romulans decided to settle here.

This is now official Trek canon.

x3of9 · November 2012

matthian1701 wrote: »

This is now official Trek canon.

The next New Romulus update needs to add a Potatonium Mining minigame.

jothan9092 · November 2012

Would anyone like to tell me which is the most likely reason for New Romulus taking me an hour to load:

Too many people in the instance I beam in at, similar to how ESD and Drazona are often and DS9 used to be as STF HQ.

Or is it that the map itself is sooooo large and detailed, that fact alone is too much to load.

Cryptic doesn't want to make Sector Space too big for reasons similar to this, and here they make a ground map that I have heard takes forever to run from point to point in. I wouldn't know, though, as I have only beamed down once on Tribble and once on Holodeck, both times it lagged so bad I was fortunate to beam off, the screen would freeze for minutes at a time, and then jerk for one frame to freeze again.

New Romulus is between 80-90% of the new content for Season 7, and this season is even named after it, so I want to enjoy this new zone. The images look awesome too!

evendzhar · November 2012

crypticarmsman wrote: »

It's funny though that there's rarely been letters to set designers about the plywood tech corridors, or styrofoam rocks and plastic plants, etc. :cool::P;)

I always thought that was an attempt at lighthearted humor. I know I always laugh when I see a large rock bounce off Kirk and then bounce again when it hits the ground.

blackgragon · November 2012

I always wanted to imagine how New Romulus would look like if STO was using Cryengine 3. I only have Cryengine 1, the engine from Crysis, so I can't exactly replicate it. It'ld be interesting to see it with a high rendering engine. But that's highly unlikely that STO would change engines on such short notice :P Oh well, otherwise, it's much better built than the other visitable worlds. Theres actaully a need to travel on foot to get anywhere of significants. The other worlds lack a population, Non-hostile NPCs placed too far away from each other, desolate and otherwise bland landscapes. I mean, come on, I would like to travel in a Vulcan city, not some desert outskirts. New Romulus has everything that a planet should have. That's just my opinion.

New Romulus is awesome

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