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Why Can't my Romulan Wear Federation Uniforms?
domvina
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At first I thought the lack of access to Federation uniforms was due to just visiting the Romulan tailors but visiting Earth Spacedock I'm still limited to just Romulan uniforms.
I get it that Cryptic is all about making Romulans feel unique but at the same time the character is still a member of one of the existing factions. The player should have the choice to put them in whatever faction clothing options are generically available.
Will this mean I couldn't use any of the CStore costumes for my Romulan? While that would certainly save me some money it would be rather foolish for Cryptic as it would cut off a revenue stream with an Xpac that will likely draw in both lapsed and new players.
It's the same situation as with the ships. Cryptic wants to lock in the use of Romulan ships so Romulan players don't feel they must pick certain existing "best" ships to preserve the "uniqueness" of the race. But all that does is limit, savagely, the options of Romulan players. And if Romulan ships aren't kept up to speed with those "best" ships it will create a strong sense of resentment among Romulan players.
More options Cryptic, not less. I thought from past Cryptic games I've played it was a lesson the developers had long ago learned.
I get it that Cryptic is all about making Romulans feel unique but at the same time the character is still a member of one of the existing factions. The player should have the choice to put them in whatever faction clothing options are generically available.
Will this mean I couldn't use any of the CStore costumes for my Romulan? While that would certainly save me some money it would be rather foolish for Cryptic as it would cut off a revenue stream with an Xpac that will likely draw in both lapsed and new players.
It's the same situation as with the ships. Cryptic wants to lock in the use of Romulan ships so Romulan players don't feel they must pick certain existing "best" ships to preserve the "uniqueness" of the race. But all that does is limit, savagely, the options of Romulan players. And if Romulan ships aren't kept up to speed with those "best" ships it will create a strong sense of resentment among Romulan players.
More options Cryptic, not less. I thought from past Cryptic games I've played it was a lesson the developers had long ago learned.
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the klingon ones are there but a bit hard to find (I accidentally randomised one to klingon shoulderpads)
When did rags and shag-carpet-coats become cool?
Too bad for Cryptic.
There's already at least one Romulan costume pack planned.
Your whole point shatters and sinks at the fact that Romulans are not allowed to use T5 ships of other factions. Also, they are not given the T1-T4 ships, they can only buy them for dilithium, not with ship tokens.
And the Galaxy Dreadnought was at no point in time overpowered. It always was big nerfboat they actually had to improve.
Sometimes, if you want to bury the hatchet with a Klingon, it has to be in his skull. - Captain K'Tar of the USS Danu about J'mpok.
@remianen; they didn't give you fed uniform because the fed don't use the uniform type they gave you. If you look at it very well you will see that it a Romulan design and variant version. Just like the way the fed have soo many different type of uniform. They simple name it Fed or KDF uniforms so people can say, I got a cool uniform when I allied with the fed or KDF. That how simple it is.
On the other hand, when I'm playing my main Fed toon, I would like it such that any Romulan BOffs I recruit for my Fed crew via the embassy progress be permitted access to both Federation and RR uniforms - this permits for cases where the Romulan BOff is a full-fledged member of Starfleet or an exchange officer from the RR. Much better than the survivor rags currently available.
And yet, warbirds can be named with the U.S.S. (United Star Ship) designation. The ships can wear the "uniform" but the characters cannot.
Or to put it another way, British troops under the command of American Generals in WW2 didn't get to change their uniform too.
One thing is borrowing them their ships (wich most don't seem to take advantage off btw), but those have IFF's identifying them as Romulan ships. A Uniform would not signal that distinction.
On the other hand, why would a Romulan officer want to wear the uniform of an ally? That would be like the US marines adopting the British uniforms just because they are allies and doing missions together.
A thing in between.
And like I said, to be able to and not must to.
I understand that special mission Boffs like Breen, Jem Ha'Dar shouldn't be customizable and be true to their race because of the tasks to get them.
But Embassy or bought Boffs are easy to obtain and therefore be more integrated. My opinion..
All-in-all they should be more flexible. Also, I'd love it if you could roll a Federation Romulan, or could just join the Federation outright as a transfer/exchange officer etc., all kinds of pathways and options could be allowed. Just use your imagination, the possibilities are many.
And specifically for the Seven-of-Nine outfit, the only Star Fleet identifying marking is the comm badge which would take 5 seconds to edit out, so incredibly doable it would be sad if they didn't or just let us use it anyway...
Even if your are 'on loan' to starfleet and not a full fledged starfleet member you should be able to wear their uniforms - without any SF insignias. At the very least you should be able to wear any non-standard clothing item. (including T'Pol, 7 of 9 and other CStore unlocks which are not current starfleeet uniform)
What's my position?
That people should know what they're screaming about!
(paraphrased from "The Newsroom)
I thought since this was an ongoing testing environment and old bugs crop up a lot, that the rules were a little different for Tribble Forums. I mean how are the devs going to address old bugs if they can't look at an old thread from when the old bug first happened?