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borgus1122
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After my Starfleet and Klingon toon, I decided to create my Romulan (Reman) toon. And after reaching level 50 I don't know, should I keep him or delete him.
The problem is, that Romulan starships are (that's my opinion) one of the worst in the game (slow, low turnrate and ugly). There is not much to customize on the starships, and there is only one variant of the bridge. And singularity is nothing like warp core (with warp core you can gain speed, shield strenght or whatever you choose). After purchasing all consoles (mark XII), the ship is still soooooo slow, that it barely moves through the space.
The problem is, that Romulan starships are (that's my opinion) one of the worst in the game (slow, low turnrate and ugly). There is not much to customize on the starships, and there is only one variant of the bridge. And singularity is nothing like warp core (with warp core you can gain speed, shield strenght or whatever you choose). After purchasing all consoles (mark XII), the ship is still soooooo slow, that it barely moves through the space.
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driver coil helps sector space travel and dumping some points into engine related skills can also help augment your turn rates and impulse speeds when in a fight, if you want you can buy RCS for a boost to your turn rate.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
Indeed, I've engaged in sideways sliding decloak attacks in my scimitar. In a rom ship need to use that battlecloak, and use it often.
Worst? No - nothing competes with the Galaxy or Galaxy-X for a let down.
Romulan ships certainly have a unique character and are thought by some to be among the best ships in the game. This doesn't mean there have not been a few mis-steps. It take quite a bit to make a Deredix dance, and the fleet variants can be devastating in the right hands.
And I do love the DD. Damn fine looking ship.
The bonus abilities from the singularity core while good are not game changers. They take time to get used to, and for most players they tend to specialize in one or two of the abilities. The key to singularity abilities IMO are in their flexibility.
Turn rates out of the box are slow, but with rep and consoles, they are quite manageable. The bonus of battlecloak certainly changes the argument and the Scimi is something to behold while under battlecloak.
My only complaint is their size relative the maps (old discussion topic, nuff said).
I don't play it because of that, I need either to spend a lot of console to make it a little less like a whale, or use the cloak everytime I turn, instead of everytime I want to increase my DPS. And I don't like that.
Anyway, there is a lot more than just the DD at lvl50 for rom. More nimble ships, including the mogai, dhelan, or for free player, the Ha'feh/Ha'nom and mirror universe equivalent (usually those are cheap on the exchange). Then you have the fleet ships.
It's not limited to the DD and Ha'apax.
Well, this is an interesting perspective. What are you suggesting? Should the devs nerf Klingon and Fed ships? Or should they buff Romulan ones? Any specific suggestions? Perhaps lower the hull on the BoPs? Maybe the Scimitar could use another tac console, or perhaps an extra forward weapon mount? Maybe a second hangar slot. Just throwing ideas out there; but I want to hear your suggestions.
thats why i have a fleet t'varo. it turns well, even better in cloak, with reman alt giving bonus to damage from cloak and such.
the only buff i want to see for romulan ships are to shield power levels, standard warp cores provide all round power levels but singularity cores inherently have a weakness in that area. i would happily exchange one of the singularity powers for 15 points into shield power.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
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That does not even remotely resemble how a black hole works.
A rotating black hole emits gamma radiation, presumably that is what the ship harnesses for power. The black hole can only emit a specific amount of radiation (=power) over time. So the power the ship can produce over time is limited by the amount of radiation the black hole can produce over time. Where is "limitless" in there?
Sometimes I wish people would take physics.
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I would bet this is indeed the problem. I often have to readjust after going from Fed to Romulan ships. However it isn't only the build. The Romulan ships have more power issues ( unless you get AtBat going well). I assume it is slow because you minimized the engines and aux to 15? I find it works better if I don't try to max out weapons as I would on a Fed escort. Plus as was said in another reply; use the battlecloak often. The ship turns much better under cloak, and you get the benefit of the decloak damage bonus. I have found I like the Dd quite a bit used this way.
I'm actually far too old to have learned this in school.
But as a regular nerd I tend to read a bit about how this stuff works on occasion.
The crazy thing is that the smaller the balck hole the more radiation it produces...but then it also gets increasingly unstable. And those things tend to blow up when they shrink below a critical size. There's an interesting short article about black holes for space travel here:
http://io9.com/5391989/a-black-hole-engine-that-could-power-spaceships
From what I read in another article it would be possible to drop small amounts of matter into the hole at regular intervals to keep it at a constant size. So that's probably what the Romulans do but it would also mean that their ships have only a limited fuel capacity...of course they can most likely just drop any stuff a black hole can digest (=almost everything) into it to keep it going. But the result is probably still less effective than a matter-antimatter collider.:)
Over time, the energy emitted by the black hole is mc^2, with m being the starting mass plus all the mass that you feed into it. If you keep it at a steady mass, the output is basically the same as an antimatter reaction with the same fuel input. It's the same energy output you get from matter-antimatter annihilation (assuming the same efficiency at converting that energy to usable forms), except at a moderated rate, where annihilation gives you all that energy up front, whether you want it or not.
It's sort of like the analog between an older style steam engine and an internal combustion engine. Increasing the rate you burn fuel in an internal combustion engine almost immediately increases the energy you get out, while a steam engine requires time to build to a higher pressure when you put more fuel in.
Now, Aliens that can contain a black hole in a box ? And you try to find how it's possible. Well, you need a lot of treknobabble and a bit of space magic.
What ship, what class?
Most of the rom ships actually have a pretty solid turn rate. Just going down the wiki page, for t5 ships, I see dhelan, 16, mogai, 14, hafeh, 16, arkif (carrier escort) 16, tvaro, 18 ....
the feds don't have anything that breaks 18 in their rich 50 ship selection. Klingon ships turn better in general, yes.
Rom ships are missing several types, for sure. A decent science ship and a 2 bay carrier would do a lot to round out the faction. The problem is lack of choice and gaps, really, which I expect will be filled eventually since the roms are popular. If you really boil it down, there are escorts/destroyers, tactical carriers (scimitar, arkif, etc), and a couple of cruisers. And one kind of meh science ship. That is all we get --- and the bulk of them are BO setup for commander tac, without much variety.
Ugly is in the eye of the beholder -- but klingons seem to have a leg up for ugly ships.
But in the end, play what you like --- if rom was best for everyone, everyone would be a rom, right?
My advice is to NOT delete him, though. Use him to farm contraband & rom BOs, if nothing else.
Well dumb me to think that the "science" part of "science fiction" means more than just sh*i.
Yes...no...kinda.
One thing that's different is that the black hole transforms the matter into radiation and gravity so part of it is lost that way.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the more matter you dump into the black hole the, more gravity and also less radiation it produces. So it's more like a steam engines that cools off the more coal you throw into the furnace.;)
you are assuming a natural black hole, but romulans create their own blackholes and who knows what they used to create the reaction or what types of radiation they can harvest. our own understanding on black holes is from pure speculation by stephen hawking and a few other prominent scientists, while hes reputable on thoery, it still needs to be proven one day and on that day our understanding how these invisible demons can be better understood considering the blackness of space and this 3 dimensional thing.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
I think you need to redo all your skills and rethink your ships builds I have a lots of romulan ships and yes some are slow and kinda ugly BUT my fleet T'Varo can turn on a penny and can hit 16k dps and my tact scimitar dose well over 20k dps and it is by no means slow or ugly so I think if your having this problem with your ships then you have buggered up the skills and builds
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Going to agree with the sentiment on eye of the beholder. I think klingon ships lead the pack on good looking ships.
(Very torn on SF and RR. They each have some good ones and some really hideous designs.)
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Network engineers are not ship designers.
Nor should they be. Their ships would look weird.
Yes. Some might agree they are not the best. They are definitely some of the best of the best.