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So is there nay reason to not play a Romulan now?
vetteguy904
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Roms can fly any ship in thier faction now... a T6 Defiant with battle cloak and BOFFs all SRO..
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My Rommies will keep flying their own ships, but having the choice (and access to a few extra traits) is nice.
(though one could look at the story and player customization options too...just sayin')
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ship traits? but yeah once done you go back to a scim.
as a Delta Recruit, of course.
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Quite right. In the past they would not be able to take advantage of the high end ASScards of the KDF / Fed factions, especially Fed side with the bigger selection. Granted Cryptic has closed the gap a lot between KDF / Fed ship selection at T6 compared to their old history, but it still stands, Feds have a lot of ASScards to choose from. Roms will now be able to access this, on top of their existing endgame card selections.
May your ASScarding be long and prosperous.
hmmm I thought you couldnt unless they bugged that. Cause Tovan is built into the story.
You can in fact, it is just a bit buggy. One of your other bridge officers ends up speaking as Tovan.
I still hope for romulan starbases one day and maybe a series of episode reunifying the battered remnants of the tal shiar, the imperial romulan star empire and the republic.
Actually, they did. The simple fact you still can't drop him would say it's plausible.
All the other people, who pick their characters/class/ships/etc because of reasons other than Max My DPS? They'll keep picking the character/class/ship they want. /shrug
On the other hand, as you level flying Rom ships can be useful - battle cloaks for Fed ships are hard or impossible to get at low level.
Why would I want my Romulan to fly a Fed/KDF ship? If there is one problem that Romulans don't have.. it's weak ships. It's great for admiralty.. absolutely, but nothing on the Fed or KDF side is getting me out of my Scimitar or Morrigu. Even a ship like the Vengeance still isn't going to trump the Scimitar.
The downside I see is that it will overall hurt ship sales. I have had quite a few times where I have bought the Romulan equivalent of a Fed Ship to get my Rommies the trait. Going forward, if they get access to any Fed ship, I won't be buying Romulan ships for Traits. Of course, I'm just spending dilithium anyway, so my guess is that I am not the customer type they are most focused on.
I noticed though that the announcement only lists a hand full of ships, it doesn't say they can use ANY T6 ship, so curious how exactly this is going to work.
Allowing Romulans, Cardassians and Jem'hadar to use T6 Starfleet and KDF ships is just a gimmick for the recruiting event(s). It is no coincidence that these changes are happening during recruiting event(s).
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> No. If the Scimitar line of warbirds was available to Starfleet characters, it would lower sales of the Vengance (a "premium" ship). They might lift the restriction on Romulan BOffs or space traits that are specific to Romulan BOffs.
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> Allowing Romulans, Cardassians and Jem'hadar to use T6 Starfleet and KDF ships is just a gimmick for the recruiting event(s). It is no coincidence that these changes are happening during recruiting event(s).
But that's dumb. If they wanted to keep selling ships, they'd keep making 9 packs as they are, possibly 12 packs with the Jem'Hadar, not just toss out the need to ever get more than the single faction 3 packs.
I'm all for shared ship designs, but not if it means that Romulans are the only faction worth playing. The Federation and Klingons have almost nothing exclusive from the Romulans, but the Republic can take everything they want from anyone else, despite the fact that they're already the only faction worth playing in the eyes of many.
+10 all energy?
I like this change overall, but I don't think I'll end up making much use of it. I play romulan characters to mainly to fly romulan ships. I just prefer the romulan aesthetic to that of federation or klingon ships. I will happily take all the extra admiralty cards though and I might even be convinced to get some federation or klingon ships with interesting traits from the cross-faction packs that I wouldn't have gotten for just my fed or kdf characters.