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Lack of ships for Romulan Faction
illuminat1
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I hope I am not the only one that has noticed that Romulan and Klingon factions are suffering a lack of ships. The Federation is getting tons of ships where as Romulans and Klingons aren't. Hell with the announcement of the new T6 Federation Carrier many of us hoped that the Romulans and Klingons would also be also be receiving a new carrier. But from the looks of things its just the federation. There is a big miss-balance between the three factions. And I am sure its being said why develop ships for a faction that isn't played as much as the Federation faction. But have you considered that more people would play them if they were given as many options as the Federation?
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--Red Annorax
Welcome to the fraction, and TRIBBLE we've been bitchin bout since LoR launched
I call complete BS on that... that was deflection at its finest... 'oh its not us its the magic boogey man upstairs you cant complain too'
"I call complete BS"
Deal with it...which I see you already have been and shall continue to do. You have no voice or weight on the subject. Be humble in your powerless position and your ignorance on the matter. Tis the wise course of action. Would you wantingly wish to be unwise?
There are thing happening slowly, but assuredly, behind the scenes that might be beyond your wit to comprehend; obviously this is beyond your patience to behold.
It was all too predictable.
The sited links above are to soft-canon ships. The most famous public tracking in STO of a soft-canon ship made formal was the Vesta class by Mark Rademaker. The process chronicled the legal issues adding and selling a ship not owned and sourced by the CBS. Needless to say, it was not as easy as some thought. Even the process of the fan created Odyssey class gave some a small glimpse of intellectual property law. The Star Trek pie of ownership is quite divided and a barbed barrier to much potential content. Some in the community saw the strange struggles the game devs had to go through to add a ship after the public followed the Vesta and Odyssey process.
A dev commented that it could take 3 days or a week to create a ship in game (with a very specific polygon maximum) but the deliberation and approval process could take a month or a year. In some cases, never.
LOL, have you even seen the KDF community? They think Romulans are whiners at just over half as many ships as they have, no real faction, and no faction Starbases.
What the point of making any other toon? You can get all the same stuff the others get plus Romulan things.
I'd have been "all in" with Romulans until the Cards if they were a Legit faction. But instead........
It might also be that the CBS can veto ship designs, and maybe did so. But it's probably not a very common occurence.
The lack of Klingon or Romulan ships is a question of economics. Cryptic is making this game to earn money. Creating a ship costs money (20 days of work from the ship artist alone, plus all the surrounding stuff), and they want to get that a return on that investment.
And as long as a Federation ship can earn them more money than a Klingon or Romulan ship, they will tend to spend their development resources to make those.
I feel that the 3-Packs we've seen are kinda a compromise solution. They know that Klingon and Romulan ships will generate less sales than the Federation ones, but if they put it in a 3 (or even 9!) pack, then a lot of people that would normally buy only the Federation ship would buy all 3 because "It's 3 for 2". They get more sales per Klingon or Romulan ship than normally.
The lack of new Science Vessels in general I think is a sign of where they lack a similar concept. Science Vessels are also not all that popular. They basically would need to bundle Science Vessels with Escorts and (Battle)Cruisers to get a similar effect as with the KDF/ROM/FED packs. They did that with the Intel ships, kinda.
But I think there is some level of market saturation possible - If there have been a few Cruisers and Escorts in a row, players wiill not buy a new one so quickly - that might be the opportunity for a Science Vessel. And maybe even one in a cross-faction pack.
Of course, I thought the Fed Carrier would have been the ideal opportunity to also release at least a Tier 6 Vo'Quv... so maybe sales for KDF/RR/Science ships are worse than I hoped for?
[ Still Waiting for a Shiny New T6 Romulan Science Ship to Command ]
I suppose there might be a seperate trend in favor of canon vessels, particularly hero ships like the Enterprise, Defiant and Voyager, but that's not helping the Romulans or Klingons. Not enough canonical vessels.
But giving the requests for the Fed Carrier to be Engineering or Tactical... *sigh*
As it is, I have spent a small fortune on Federation ships T5 and 6, yet. My Romulans struggle to even do the Admiralty system due to the lack of the key ships required. I'm even finding I lack anything with engineering over 30. All in all, I suspect that a decent Romulan science ship will sell rather well, if they bothered to add one.