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No ETA on Our Ability to Make Romulan Missions
kirksplat
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In latest dev blog thread, dstahl says:
Discuss!
At launch, Romulans will not be able to play Foundry missions until they choose an ally, and then they can only play Foundry missions created for that Ally. As many have suggested, we will be adding a new filter that will allow Foundry authors to create Romulan specific missions that only Romulans (allied with* either faction) can fly and team together for. No ETA has been provided at this point.
Discuss!
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I think getting Romulan Foundry mission editing at launch was a bit too much to hope for. Look on the bright side: we'll have time to familiarize ourselves with the new faction before the Foundry is unlocked.
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
Still, it's close to what I wanted or at least it will be eventually, so I'm cool as long as they follow through.
This is my issue. They've never followed through when it comes to relating the Foundry to a seasonal push of content. Big empty holodeck on a starbase... no follow-through. Lots of new sets, ships, costumes, etc... very little makes its way into the Foundry. Reputation systems.... no follow-through with the Foundry.
I'm angry that our EP didn't have this conversation:
"Ok, so we're adding a new faction that needs content. What can we do to help UGC authors help our new faction? The least that we can do is turn the thing on and give them Romulan stuff to use."
Instead, it seems like the Foundry is an afterthought, always on the back-burner for later. Often, there never is a later, as the whole team shifts to some new push.
You just getting this now?
True that. The Foundry is kind of the red headed step child of Sto. That said we do get a lot of the stuff we ask for since Sto listens to the community more than the other online gaming communities I have been involved in *cough* Need for speed world *cough* (I really hope Cryptic does not ruin Sto by opening it to new markets like that game. It is plagued by lag due to all the latin american players on the north american server and then there are all of the Russian hackers. Their reach has exceeded their grasp if you want a truly international game you need more servers.). It probably would behoove us foundry players to not ask for anything non foundry related on the forums.
Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
Anyways, hopefully it won't be long.
My character Tsin'xing
I would say now is the time to start building some Romulan missions in anticipation of when the eventuality of this new filter hits, but I'm still going to wait till May to even think about it anyway. With the amount of work that goes into a good mission, I'd hate to spend hours putting one together only to find out that it's going to be another six months to a year until it's implemented.
by @Skydawn - member of Starbase UGC
I will be doing this, and I'll warn you now that I may not react kindly to those Federation captains who ignore the warning labels.
in fact the first couple of weeks the foundry will probably be offline as they make sure its not broken after a big patch update, and it would probably be a good idea if people played the official content and got a feel of the story anyway.
Foundry missions are great but there is nothing worse than playing an official mission and an hour later playing a foundry mission that totally contradicts it.
There is also the chance the first month may be a bit buggy and have issues to resolve, issues that will most likely affect foundry scores so a small gap between them being opened up is fine by me, and even has its advantages.
If it becomes 3 months + with no fix in sight then that will be more annoying.
Then there's the Hirogen. Will they be friend or foe?
What it sounds like to me is that they had planned to just allow the Romulans to do Fed or KDF missions and that was it till we started posting and prodding (gently, I swear) them about an exclusive mission listing. It wasn't something they planned for, but they want to do it now and can't put someone on it until after the May launch.
I didn't think of this, lol. It's interesting. How are we going to write missions without knowing how the player is allied?
For me personally, I would love to see the author choose whether a species was friend or foe.
Of course I'd love to see this in all three factions and don't expect it.
My thought is that once a character chooses their ally, then they would be limited to the Foundry mission pool of that ally (either the Fed list or the KDF list). They can't choose to play missions on their own before then anyway since it happens at lvl 10. Which means the point of this "filter" that's being added is so that you can still choose Romulan specific missions, but within whichever faction that particular character is limited to.
However, if I'm right about that, what that does mean in the end is that if we are making Rom specific missions, we would have to set the allegiance to either Federation or Klingon, the same as any other mission.
Edit: OK, I just reread the notes. It sounds like I'm wrong and that Roms from both sides will be able to do these missions. Now I know the reason for the initial confusion. :P I sincerely hope that is the case.
by @Skydawn - member of Starbase UGC
I'm hoping they'll give us the ability to set friend/foe flags on AIs. that'd simplify a lot.
My character Tsin'xing
"Critics who say that the optimistic utopia Star Trek depicted is now outmoded forget the cultural context that gave birth to it: Star Trek was not a manifestation of optimism when optimism was easy. Star Trek declared a hope for a future that nobody stuck in the present could believe in. For all our struggles today, we haven’t outgrown the need for stories like Star Trek. We need tales of optimism, of heroes, of courage and goodness now as much as we’ve ever needed them."
-Thomas Marrone
Romulan players will be taking missions constructed around the premise that they are Starfleet or KDF officers. I thought Romulans were a full faction and not taking orders from aliens?
I wouldn't want Romulans playing my Fed or KDF missions, and I wouldn't want to list my Romulan missions so that Feds or KDF players can see them.
The whole LoR situation sucks.