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taylondor
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Any word on getting an update to new romulus? Like finishing the construction for it.
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The only group that will ever see big changes are Feds and that's cause Cryptic has a history of putting the biggest populated faction first over it's other factions for updates unless it's joint content benefiting the largest faction.
Players do not actually participate in helping with construction on New Romulus until sometime in 2410. The mission Cold Storage officially marks the moment in STO that the timeline has advanced to 2410. The New Romulus mission arcs takes place after the Breen Invasion story arc.
The "Of Signs and Portents" mission marks the time when the year has advanced to 2411. Therefore, it can be assumed that thus far it is currently January 2411 in the game.
http://sto.gamepedia.com/Chronology
This basically means New Romulus has been under construction for less than 2 years and your character has been helping out for less than 1 year. It has taken 7 real years for the game to advance 2 two years.
Personally, I do not think New Romulus will progress any further. Unless there is some type of expansion that heavily involves the Romulans in the future in order to justify the time, money and resources necessary to expand New Romulus.
It's attitudes like that which make this game what it is today. Not a content driven game but more of a whale feeding game since they drive away players with remarks like that.
At present we already have two different version of New Romlus. The Dewa III a Rom Captain first encounters, an integral part of the Romulan story arc. Then you have the current New Romulus, with a lot of story built around it as is.
Updating New Romulus would mean either a drastic rewrite of existing story lines, to include explaining how a planet that has just started being colonized is so far along already, or it would require the Devs to create yet another version of New Rom, only accessible to players who have completed (or skipped) all of the current New Rom story line.
But the best explanation has already been given. Rome wasn't built in a day, and New Rom isn't gong to be completed in just a few years. Actually, story wise, it is quite amazing that New Rom has anything beyond a bunch of tent camps at all yet. The Federation, the Klingon Empire, and both "sides" of the Romulan Faction have been pouring all of their resources into major Galactic wars pretty much since New Rom was founded. Sparing the resources needed to build New Rom up as much as it has been already was a vast undertaking, and likely hampered the war effort by using resources that should have gone into the war.
As for the ground zone, I think it should remain the same for the new players that go through the arcs. Maybe another zone, but elsewhere on the planet for those that have completed. Which could also mean more Romulan/Reman orientated missions that can be inclusive to all Captain's.
It's doubtful that we'd ever see something like this, but I'd imagine that the best way to do it, while still preserving the NR Adventure Zone, is to add a completed city map accessible by captains that have either completed the Romulan Reputation Track, the New Romulus mission arc, or reached a certain level.
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Its a long one and gets a tad tedious watching it for the 30 plus time. All my toons that completed the rep that travel to New Rom with the missions now placed in with Feature Episodes list have had to sit and wait for the cutscene to end again.
Hello rubber banding my old friend, time to bounce around the battlezone again, where are all my bug reports going?, out of love with this game I am falling, As Cryptic fail to acknowledge a problem exists, Shakes an angry fist, And from Support all I'm hearing are the sounds of silence.
THat or as I thought mark it that the adventure zone phases, for your personally as you complete missions, while still giving you access to maybe the older map for the missions it has. THis would keep the zone intact for new players just starting it, but also give the players a sense of progress even if it were a slow progress admittedly. Both a map that is locked till you progress in missions or rep level enough, and a phased type of system for the map would both work in their own rights, though also both might take the same degree of work an investment to impliment (though a phasing type map feature might have other useful uses in other areas too.)
Secondly, LOTRO did exactly that with Isengard. Go there originally and when playing early Missions and Raids and it is all in one piece. After later Missions post Ent attack and the place is destroyed and flooded. Depending how you get there you see a different place.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
Maybe make 2 instances like Risa. One that is new and would be completed, the other old one for new players who have not finished the episodes dealing with it.
That's really too bad, would have liked seeing a new social zone which could be joint by new romulus command by taking the shuttle elevator down so it doesn't split Rom faction any more than necessary. They could make it into a feature episode that doubles as a major social zone to go along with some new Reman ship, that way their precious federation still gets content while enticing feds to buy and play more by trying the other factions.
Perhaps you should listen to your own piece of advice and actually read what I wrote.