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Add facial hair tailor option to Romulans

bulabajonesbulabajones Member Posts: 73 Arc User
edited June 2013 in Romulan Discussion
My Romulan toon is named Bulaba Piratebeard Jones. Little did I know that Romulans can't even select an option for facial hair! How am I, and other people, supposed to be space pirates with goatees and epic beards? Please edit the programming code of Star Trek Online just for me so that I can have a pirate mustache on my Romulan. My male Romulan too, not just my female Romulans.

Plus, with all those Mirror Romulan warbirds flying around isn't there someone who wants a goatee because it's the law in the Mirror Universe to have a goatee?

I just don't get why Romulans are denied facial hair options.
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  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    It also makes no sense from a genetic poit of view since we've seen numerous Vulcans with bears and Romulans are closely related to them.
    So yeah...bring on the beards.:)
  • thegrizzleythegrizzley Member Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    You CAN!!!! Add facial hair.. I was playing around with my romulan in the first city tailor.. Mind lvl 50 v. admiral.. but I had a huge beard on... It's Possible!!!!
  • nephilim83nephilim83 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    It would also be cool if they were able to wear the eyepatch. I know they're not genetically immune to having their eyes gouged out. As it stands, there's no way to make a scruffy ol' Romulan pirate. Arrrgh.
  • nalonalo Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    make it so
  • dkshadow9498dkshadow9498 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I like my characters to usually have a goatee, I was a little upset that rommies couldn't have one, however I did a little creative tinkering with the head tattoo and have it lined up perfectly under my chin and around my mouth, it looks pretty good actually (well to me anyway).
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  • lan451lan451 Member Posts: 3,386 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Do I support beards on Romulans?

    Oh yes. Yes I do.

    BEARDS FOR ALL
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  • fovrelfovrel Member Posts: 1,448 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Having facial hair is ok. Afterall the player should decide who he is playing and how. But I have to mention, Romulans are based on ancient Romans. They didn't have beards (they had of course, but shaved themselves). A beard was a sign of barbarism, less cultivated.

    On eyepatches. On one point I like them, because you can make a pirate, badass looking character. However I also see them, just as scars, as an anachronism. Medical care will have such a standard that we will not see such things in the 24th century. Perhaps somebody may wear a scar as a sign of his/her fighting spirit, but having one eye is a severe handicap.
  • sollvaxsollvax Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    fovrel wrote: »
    Having facial hair is ok. Afterall the player should decide who he is playing and how. But I have to mention, Romulans are based on ancient Romans. They didn't have beards (they had of course, but shaved themselves). A beard was a sign of barbarism, less cultivated.

    On eyepatches. On one point I like them, because you can make a pirate, badass looking character. However I also see them, just as scars, as an anachronism. Medical care will have such a standard that we will not see such things in the 24th century. Perhaps somebody may wear a scar as a sign of his/her fighting spirit, but having one eye is a severe handicap.

    Actually the reverse is true
    Romans depicted their Gods as Bearded
    All great orators were bearded
    Beards indicate wisdom

    Barbarians "scrape their faces"
    Live long and Prosper
  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    fovrel wrote: »
    Having facial hair is ok. Afterall the player should decide who he is playing and how. But I have to mention, Romulans are based on ancient Romans. They didn't have beards (they had of course, but shaved themselves). A beard was a sign of barbarism, less cultivated.

    On eyepatches. On one point I like them, because you can make a pirate, badass looking character. However I also see them, just as scars, as an anachronism. Medical care will have such a standard that we will not see such things in the 24th century. Perhaps somebody may wear a scar as a sign of his/her fighting spirit, but having one eye is a severe handicap.

    Even if Romulans are based on ancient Romans...Romans didn't have space ships.
    Does that mean Romulans shouldn't have them because Romans didn't have them either?
    Also, DID have beards

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beard#Ancient_Rome

    The presence or absence of beards was a matter of fashion from one era to the next.

    As far as scars and eye patches are concerned...I think it's a matter of how extensive the damage is and what kind of medicine was available at the time.
    Remember: Hakeev went for a Borg Implant instead of the artificial eye Geordi or Seven of Nine used and Tobol went for a VISOR...the direct precursor to what Geordi had.
    So the question would be what kind of resources and technology the Romulans as whole have at their disposal...and how it's disributed among the intellignece, the military the the civillian population.

    And in some cases even a new eye or decent surgery on a serious would or plasma burn might be beyond the capabilities of local medicine on a remote colony world.
    Medicine of really high standard is usually limited to the very wealthy...or the military like Starfleet.
    And as we know from episodes like Voyager's "Survival Instinct" sometimes when the damage of a bad surgery is done, there's nothing to reverse or alleviate it...even by a good surgeon with lots of resources.
    So by the time your character joins up with D'tan's flotilla even their surgeons with high-tech equipment might not be able to undo what a hack of a doctor might have done.

    Sorry for the long rant...just my own 2 ECs on the matter.
    I know firsthand what kind of damge doctors can do when they do their job wrong...
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  • farslidefarslide Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Technically speaking, Starfleet isn't a military organization. Sure, they have ranks and guns that go pew pew with space lasers. But if I am not mistaken they are actually a separate fleet altogether from any real military power. They even say as much in the new movie and several other places when Picard gets his knickers in a twist.

    Then again, as much as I love Trek...it could just be a hold over from the communist/non-communist days; "is that military strength Federation of Planets?" "Nonsense Mr Hostile Alien Race, they are explorers and scholars...with guns."

    Just something to chew on.


    PS - my Romulan is from an alternate world and would like his goatee please.
  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    farslide wrote: »
    Technically speaking, Starfleet isn't a military organization. Sure, they have ranks and guns that go pew pew with space lasers. But if I am not mistaken they are actually a separate fleet altogether from any real military power. They even say as much in the new movie and several other places when Picard gets his knickers in a twist.

    Then again, as much as I love Trek...it could just be a hold over from the communist/non-communist days; "is that military strength Federation of Planets?" "Nonsense Mr Hostile Alien Race, they are explorers and scholars...with guns."

    Just something to chew on.


    PS - my Romulan is from an alternate world and would like his goatee please.

    Soo...there's a second Starfleet we never see and that is never mentioned in any of the movies or shows...that avoids fighting Klingons, the Romulans the Borg cubes and Dominion battleships and lets the explorers do that while they...sit back and get drunk?
    Nonsense.

    No, Starfleet is a combination of both otherwise it would make no sense what we see whatsoever.
    In Star Trek 2 David Marcus also refers to them as the military.

    Oh, BTW whatver ribbish they say in the new movie...stays there. It's a different reality anyway.
  • turbomagnusturbomagnus Member Posts: 3,479 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I've always seen Starfleet as something like a poster I have;
    "Plan A is to live a long and peaceful life in pursuit of happiness; if that fails, this is Plan B." and it has a picture of a rifle.

    Starfleet's Plan A is to, as the saying goes, "seek out new life-forms and new civilizations, to boldly go where no one has gone before"...
    But they carry phasers and torpedos for when that fails and they need a Plan B.

    Back on topic, I'd like facial hair options too, but let's face it... give any Romulan character a bowlcut or Romulan hairstyle and a goatee and he's going to end up looking like Mirror Spock...
    "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
    ^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
  • misterde3misterde3 Member Posts: 4,195 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    Or Sybok (actually a sypathetic, tragic figure)

    http://images.wikia.com/memoryalpha/en/images/8/87/Sybok.jpg

    ;)
  • sollvaxsollvax Member Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited June 2013
    I personally would prefer my Romulans (including bridge officers) not to look 12 years old

    Which currently some of them do
    Live long and Prosper
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