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I want more Romulan Bridges

shinnok918shinnok918 Member Posts: 312 Arc User
edited January 2015 in Romulan Discussion
I want more romulan bridge options...and NOT ZEN OPTIONS. romulans get what is it up to now a whopping 3 bridge options, 4 if you count the Tal Shiar Adapted ships as "Romulan". The Scimitar needs a full interior now since u made one for the last Delta Rising mission (the name escapes me) and we need more Romulan Bridge selections. It's ridiculous that we don't have anything. even the KDF has more options. there's examples of romulan bridges from TOS, TNG, even the old Super NES game Starship Bridge Simulator. Come on cryptic.
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  • n00b1001n00b1001 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    3 ?

    I only know one. The other birdges are special ship bridges as far as I know.
  • shinnok918shinnok918 Member Posts: 312 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    standard romulan bridge that has gotten very old at this point (1), scimitar bridge (2), dyson bridge (3), and Tal Shiar ships (4) and 3 of these are available on their particular ship. so yes u are correct there's only ONE universal bridge option.
  • swatopswatop Member Posts: 566 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    well most players only have access to one of the bridges
  • kriskringle3kriskringle3 Member Posts: 158 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    ONE (Read ONLY ONE) bridge for anyone using TRIBBLE + Romulan legacy + delta Rising (TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND ZEN). This is insane. Everyone else gets multiple choices.

    Three new bridges on new zen sets (Dreadnought, Dyson, Tal Shiar) doesn't really cut it.

    Why couldn't they give us an updated bridge with the T6 Ships.
  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    I'd be happy with just a Reman-colored version of the standard bridge, but bigger ones would also be great. I don't know if I'd actually pay for them, though.
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    "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
  • shinnok918shinnok918 Member Posts: 312 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    I'd be happy with just a Reman-colored version of the standard bridge, but bigger ones would also be great. I don't know if I'd actually pay for them, though.

    which in my original post i put NOT A ZEN BRIDGE. cryptic doesnt even need to think of giving romulans a zen bridge until they have caught up at least with KDF in the free bridge category.
  • n00b1001n00b1001 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    Known romulan canon bridges include the Romulan Bird-of-Prey Bridge, several D'Deridex bridges from TNG and DS9 and the Valdore bridge.

    And then there is the restructered bridge from the ENT warbird drone.
  • kodachikunokodachikuno Member Posts: 6,020 Arc User1
    edited December 2014
    just tossin my support behind another lost cause!
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    tacofangs wrote: »
    STO isn't canon, and neither are any of the books.
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  • chipg7chipg7 Member Posts: 1,577 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    Free bridges, or ZEN bridges, doesn't matter either way to me. I'd just like to see more options for the Republic, no matter how they're delivered to us.

    The bridges are cheap enough in the C-Store anyways that you can get 'em with a couple days' worth of dil-to-ZEN conversion. So if they want to design new bridges and sell them, I'm plenty ok with that.
  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    While the Roms have 1 generic bridge, it is still, IMHO, the most well made bridge interior in the game. Period. The recent Intrepid bridge is good, but it does not have the details, aesthetic quality of the Rom Warbird bridges.

    Everything about the Romulan bridge interior was well made. The scale could be smaller like the recent Intrepid interior, but the work reeks of quality and TLC dedication. The details, how all the colors go, various rooms... Nothing comes close. Not even the new Intrepid interior.

    If my KDF could have a single interior that looked this well, detailed this well, I would be happy.
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  • n00b1001n00b1001 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    While the Roms have 1 generic bridge, it is still, IMHO, the most well made bridge interior in the game. Period.

    It is so well made, it even has the ability to NOT handle trophies.
  • chipg7chipg7 Member Posts: 1,577 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    n00b1001 wrote: »
    It is so well made, it even has the ability to NOT handle trophies.

    Hehe... oh :(

    Yeah, that's my one gripe about the Rom interior. Everything else is top-notch, and I've actually enticed quite a few people to get a Republic character going just by showing them the interior set. Don't know why they haven't retro'd a trophy location into the set yet, but I do have to agree that the overall design of the set is one of the absolute best environment pieces in the game.

    I honestly wouldn't blame the art team if they just felt they nailed it on the first go. They did! But it would be nice to have a couple more bridge pieces to add to that interior set.
  • autumnturningautumnturning Member Posts: 743 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    Why couldn't they give us an updated bridge with the T6 Ships.

    Romulans get T6 ships? :rolleyes:

    I think I have spotted the flaw in this plan ...
  • warmaker001bwarmaker001b Member Posts: 9,205 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    n00b1001 wrote: »
    It is so well made, it even has the ability to NOT handle trophies.

    LOL, is that gamebreaking for you?

    My condolences. Not really, but I'm saying it for the sake of formality.

    Trophies... LOL!
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  • psycoticvulcanpsycoticvulcan Member Posts: 4,160 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    It's not exactly surprising that they'd rather focus on something they can monetize. Can't really blame them, either.

    I think we'll get more bridges eventually. But I expect they'll cost Zen.
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    "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
  • n00b1001n00b1001 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    LOL, is that gamebreaking for you?

    My condolences. Not really, but I'm saying it for the sake of formality.

    Trophies... LOL!

    Oh no, he spotted a flaw. Let's mock him.
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  • caediciuscaedicius Member Posts: 242 Arc User
    edited December 2014
    While I agree that the Rom-ship decks are well made, it would at least fine if you had quiet SOME options other factions have - to display a hologramm of a ship (like, if I remember right, some Klingon bridges could), or a greater bridge or something like that...
  • ageroth1ageroth1 Member Posts: 129 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    I"m right with you guys. New bridges would be awesome. I have a particular fondness for dual level bridges and the like from ships such as the Odyssey, or ships with special compartments like the Hazari.
  • protogothprotogoth Member Posts: 2,369 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    shinnok918 wrote: »
    standard romulan bridge that has gotten very old at this point (1), scimitar bridge (2), dyson bridge (3), and Tal Shiar ships (4) and 3 of these are available on their particular ship. so yes u are correct there's only ONE universal bridge option.

    The R'Mor and Talvath have a bridge also. It is simply a recolored version of the Fed/KDF temporal ship bridges, but it's something.

    Also, the Lleiset interior is not the standard Scimitar bridge; it's recolored.
    n00b1001 wrote: »
    Known romulan canon bridges include the Romulan Bird-of-Prey Bridge, several D'Deridex bridges from TNG and DS9 and the Valdore bridge.

    And then there is the restructered bridge from the ENT warbird drone.

    And the interior of the Memenda (non-canon name), the V-11 Stormbird Akif flagship in "The Enterprise Incident."

    Anyway, I support more Romulan bridges. And sure it would be nice if there were a few which were free (or added to ships they are appropriate to, such as the Scimitar getting a full interior based on the Lleiset, with the option of choosing the standard Scimitar bridge or the Lleiset recolored bridge), but we should be realistic. When I confronted tacofangs about the Lleiset interior (and the Khnial interior), he accused me of being crass till I threw it right back at him. I get the sense that they're not willing to do much with Romulan interiors or even bridges unless they get some profit out of it. Granted, TO BE FAIR, they should simply do for us what they've done for the FedBrats, but anything beyond that is going to cost Zen, and we should face that reality.
  • jam3s1701jam3s1701 Member Posts: 1,825 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    shinnok918 wrote: »
    I want more romulan bridge options...and NOT ZEN OPTIONS. romulans get what is it up to now a whopping 3 bridge options, 4 if you count the Tal Shiar Adapted ships as "Romulan". The Scimitar needs a full interior now since u made one for the last Delta Rising mission (the name escapes me) and we need more Romulan Bridge selections. It's ridiculous that we don't have anything. even the KDF has more options. there's examples of romulan bridges from TOS, TNG, even the old Super NES game Starship Bridge Simulator. Come on cryptic.

    To put it simply they have said on sooooo many occasions that interiors unless made for missions like the Voyager one they won't release or work on them as they take up too much time and are not profitable enough.

    That said I would love some new corridors and updated bridges but!! Since unless you RP there is zero use for bridges etc tbh, so I get why they won't do anything for ship interiors.
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  • protogothprotogoth Member Posts: 2,369 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    jam3s1701 wrote: »
    To put it simply they have said on sooooo many occasions that interiors unless made for missions like the Voyager one they won't release or work on them as they take up too much time and are not profitable enough.

    That's what I confronted tacofangs about. The interior of the Lleiset is already made, for a mission in Delta Rising, yet the Voyager interior was added, while the Lleiset interior was not. Likewise, the Khnial interior is there in the mission "Mind Game," but was never added to player TSAD or TSABC. He said he didn't have an answer. Perhaps we should take the question higher up.
  • catoblepasbetacatoblepasbeta Member Posts: 1,532 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    protogoth wrote: »
    That's what I confronted tacofangs about. The interior of the Lleiset is already made, for a mission in Delta Rising, yet the Voyager interior was added, while the Lleiset interior was not. Likewise, the Khnial interior is there in the mission "Mind Game," but was never added to player TSAD or TSABC. He said he didn't have an answer. Perhaps we should take the question higher up.
    That attitude of Cryptic's has always puzzled me. There's a whole host of assets out there in STO right now that could easily be turned into more content for players.

    The missing Tal Shiar uniform components are probably the ones that pop up the most often in this subforum, but the lack of variety in Romulan bridges is still very noticeable, particularly considering how many missions feature Romulan ship interiors.

    Hairstyles is another thing-couldn't help but notice that Cryptic gave Sela a new hairstyle...but didn't bother to unlock it for players....that's just the most recent thing too.

    Not something isolated to the Republic either-There have been Gorn, Nausicaan, and Orion NPC ships that can't be piloted by players for ages, and the Federation is still waiting on Benzite Bridge officers...
  • ashlotteashlotte Member Posts: 316 Arc User
    edited January 2015
    Those poor Benzites. :I
  • kapla1755kapla1755 Member Posts: 1,249
    edited January 2015
    From the FCT Thread

    Full custom interiors
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    Originally Posted by tacofangs
    Bridges/Interiors take far longer to make than ships. As such, if there is sufficient reason to make a full ship interior (such as the newish Romulan Ship interior, being used all over LoR) we'll make one. If there isn't, we won't. Making a custom bridge, let alone a full interior for the Corvette (while cool) would be a significant investment of time/resources. So, we could have skimped on Risa more, and built an interior, or done what was done, and skipped the interior which would have served little purpose anyway, and went with beefing up Risa.


    Building custom bridges takes longer than a couple of days. Something like the Suliban/Andorian/Tholian Bridges, were each 5 days of Environment work from me. Then it needs design time to hook up any interactables, doors, etc.

    Doing a full interior is significantly longer (i.e. 3 weeks to a month)
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