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Would a romulan lock box be reasonable?
startrek1234567
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I hear people want a Romulan lock box.
I think that would make no since.
I mean as stated in Azure Nebula "every loss is critical to my people", said by Romi AI in the mission.
Plus, i believe people want the Romulan D'Derix (how ever you spell it) to be in the box, plus like Tholian lock box, there might be a lobi ship(possibly bird of prey).
Thats two popular Romi ships that COULD be not exclusive to the Romulans (thats if a playable Romi faction is on the planning sheet)
Some ways for it to make since:
1. The Romulans gave us schematics for their ships and the ship yards are building them.
2. we discovered schematics from a drifiting Romi ship.
BTW, im not saying,proposing, or confirming any of this will happen. Im just stating why a Romulan lock box may not be a good idea.
I think that would make no since.
I mean as stated in Azure Nebula "every loss is critical to my people", said by Romi AI in the mission.
Plus, i believe people want the Romulan D'Derix (how ever you spell it) to be in the box, plus like Tholian lock box, there might be a lobi ship(possibly bird of prey).
Thats two popular Romi ships that COULD be not exclusive to the Romulans (thats if a playable Romi faction is on the planning sheet)
Some ways for it to make since:
1. The Romulans gave us schematics for their ships and the ship yards are building them.
2. we discovered schematics from a drifiting Romi ship.
BTW, im not saying,proposing, or confirming any of this will happen. Im just stating why a Romulan lock box may not be a good idea.
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But as others have pointed out - it's already starting to feel ridiculous to have so many non-Federation (or KDF) ships flying around. I still think the best solution is additional factions - if you want to be a *Romulan* flying a Romulan warbird, that makes perfect sense. Or a (civilian) Ferengi flying a D'Kora. And so on.
I hope I will never see a Romulan lockbox for this reason, and also because I'll want the ship, but I will not spend 200$/character for it.
So where does that leave a Romulan lockbox? Could have sworn somebody said that CBS did not want the double D in a lockbox...wouldn't prevent the others from being lockbox and the double D being Z-Store...
But i do agree with no romi faction with romi lock box ship.
(and i do want a romi faction)
It could happen and it wouldnt require kicking people out of tha zone. Just add another zone on the planet for them to start off in. Or start them off at a Romulan spacestation elsewhere. Depends on how the faction is done, personally it should be Romulan Star Empire with the Tal'shair and Sela as Empress not the D'Tan faction in my opinion.
This game struggles with two factions as it is and Cryptic already compromised what little integrity the factions had when the started selling non-faction ships.
Romulan Lockbox - It is coming, the only question is when is Cryptic going to offer it
As for the ships that will be in it:
Romulan Dreadnaught - We already have Jem Hadar Dreadnaughts and loads of people will happily sell their souls to get their hands on a Scimitar
Romulan Warbird - The only way I dont see this being sold is if CBS completely denied it because this ship effectively represents the Romulan Empire.
Romulan Mogai - More likely because it panders to the Escort market
Going to be hilarious watching this lockbox be offered with more justifications about the Romulans being fine with their ships being used but not cloaking devices.
Cue rant from fanatics in 3...2...1...
So an Iconian faction....
I have a certain KDF toon that needs that helmet.
So bottom line, you want to see the Romulan Faction?
Folks then need to stop trying to satisfy a short term need, over a long term one.
The latter of which would provided much more enjoyment, and only requires a little patience and commitment to the goal, and a little less "give me, I want now"-attitude.
where are you getting that? I haven't heard any devs say that, and seeing as we haven't had any new factions since launch, I don't see any precedents for it. So what if they release a Romulan Warbird in a lockbox? How exactly would that hurt the chances of a Romulan faction?
mirror romulan ships
like the romulan ships we see in this universe just more different paint job no cloak why bother with one only possible enemy is the terran empire who conquired the mirror klingon empire and owned most of that universe "ish" mirror romulans would most likely be on there side no reason to cloak
just an idea into the mix
curious about responses after i post this..
Dan Stahl stated in a previous Ask Cryptic that his biggest regret about what had happened whilst he was gone was the release of a Cardassian ship in Lockboxes as it all but eliminated any chance of a Cardassian faction in the future.
hehehehehehehehehehhehehe
1 - people do NOT want a Romulan lockbox, people want a Romulan Faction, which was promised at launch
2 - Tau Dewa has NOTHING to do with a Romulan faction, as there were GREEN SECTORS on the map from the launch -
- Iota Pavonis
- Psi Velorum
http://images.wikia.com/startrek/images/a/a8/Star_Trek_Online_Galaxy_map.jpg
, OTHER than Tau Dewa and the Reunification movement is just a fraction of a faction
3 - Romulan faction will be under Donatra's or Sela's reign, perhaps will cooperate with/fight against Iconians (new enemy after borg and Tholians ((and salt vampires - lol)))
People throw around the word 'promise' a lot on the forums. where at launch was it even suggested we would be getting a romulan faction let alone promised?
it took them about 6 months to a year to get a poll up asking us which faction we wanted next. even after it was overwhelmingly in favour of romulans they stuck to saying its something they would like to do, and would probably be the romulans.
saying they want to, would like to and probably is not a promise.
But I too agree that the dev team cannot support a 3 way, let alone 4 way pvp war. That would be asking for more faction-specific content than the best mmo in the market.
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ok so, let's try
i do not have any links or screenshots of Devs promising Romulans on the forums, cause i haven't thought about that at that time, but there were such occurencies.
there was a homepage with 3 factions (fed, kdf, rom) and their views of the another 2 factions
there was an initial map with 5 faction signs and 5 colors on it, and i still have it hanging on my wall
this is enough for me to be at least assuming the Romulans were in planning at that time.
If Romulan ships would be availible to the players it would only serve satisfynig shor-term short-sighted desires of impatience by the price of never having even the hope of a proper Romulan faction. With only Federation and partialy finished struggling KDF the killing of the possibility to ever add RSE to the game will greatly decrease STO's longetivity, not to speak about breaking Star Trek or any sence of immersion left to the game, at least in my humble opinion.
As one member mentioned before the key word here is patience. While I do understand many players' disbelief that the RSE could ever be added as playable in STO, I think the devs are aware of the implications that releasing a Romulan themed lockbox would have to their game and therefore we haven't seen any such thing announced or even discussed so far. If they didn't consider this, I'd guess that the Romulan lockbox would be the first they'd release for sheer economical reasons, since it'd probably make more revenue for Cryptic than any other lockbox given a great number of STO players' desire to comandeer a D'Deridex, but not so much as a playable RSE has the potential to do.
Being able to fly a Mogai, D'Deridex or Scimitar would not itself bring the Romulan feel to the game without working for your own RSE faction. Believe me, as a KDF player that has experienced Fed. copy-paste Klingon content that has none Klingon feel to it whatsoever.
Through a lockbox you will only have a new ship. I sincerely hope that this is not all this amazing game has come to be. I might be KDF, but I have always hoped I will be able to PvP against RSE players in their Romulan Warbirds and am a big supporter of the playable RSE idea. We should not gamble the possibility of ever having this for a pair of ships.
you are misremembering the homepage. the homepage only had the 2 factions and their thoughts on the others. they listed the romulans, cardassian, undine etc as well and gave a brief overview of each of them but there was no indication they had the romulans or any of the others planed at that stage beyond a general desire to one day see them.
the map had the factions signs because those factions still are important parts of the game, and at the time they existed as important enemy factions.
it cannot be assumed that they had them planned at that stage from any of that, certainly not a promise.
if there had been some kind of actual plan beyond vague hope, after 3 years we would have seen some movment.
yeah, we are seeing movement.
the whole Tau Dewa sector which was planned to be KDF content based on Gorn uprising was changed to be dedicated to Romulans. (according to DStahl) Why?
- because the cries after Romulans are so loud now.
IMHO what we are going to see in 2013 will be -
S8:
- adventure zone dedicated to Gorn/Nausicaans
- new PVP maps perhaps with a ladder and tournaments
- KDF 1-50
- 1 to 2 new reputations (so get the MK XI jem'hadar and breen sets now while they are still free)
- 1 new fleet grind sink (perhaps a colony)
- summer event
S9 - finally a Romulan Faction
they say S9 will come in autumn/winter 2013, so that is enough time to build the 1-50 content (the whole game has been programmed in a year and they do have enough personal now)
these are only my hopes and expectations, but this is why i am still willing to pay for the character only unlocks, open lockboxes for 4 lobis to get a 200 lobi console etc...
if you take a look how overwhelmingly many people are running all romulan style (the best they can do now), how many people are chatting about a Romulan faction in almost every Zone channel..
if you count what would a new faction mean - not only toon slots, but also all the bank slots, ships slots, DOFF slots, DOFF packs, ships from the Zen Store, Fleet ships, whole new Fleets building the SB, embassy and all other future fleet establishments from scratch..., costumes.. the possibilities are endless and it would be VERY unwise to get around this by releasing a Romulan Lockbox or a lvl 1-5 playable Romulans..
I for myself would love to add - that i am NEVER EVER paying a dime to this game after they announce a Romulan lockbox. In the meantime i can live with having fun in the occasional PVP match with my B'Rel, and some PVE action, teaching noobs how to get the optionals in ground STF's.
I can wait 12 more months.
Since Donatra is Borg I find her being leader unlikely and unless sela finds some way of escaping Iconions it most likely will be some kind of Romulan linked to D'tan or Obisek or maybe a Tal Shiar faction.
Me personally would prefer a romulan faction to not appear until the KDF is finished as Cryptic has proven time and time agin that they don;t care for any faction but the fed faction
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Given that the 3rd Anniversary event is going to include voicing by Denise Crosby, I think we may see an advance on the Sela/captured by the Iconian plot.