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available races?
havok527
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Any news of what races will be available to pick from?
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This is from the FAQ on StarTrekOnline.com:
Q: What races will I be able to play?
A: The plan is Human, Vulcan, Andorian, Klingon, Orion, Gorn, and several others. You will also be able to create your own race with its own custom look and attributes.
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Seems ive read that Romulans are another that they plan to implement later on.
i honestly feel no need to create a random race since gorn are included, long live the brood mother! long live our dreadnaughts!
No Cardassians? (
You'd think they would have made the cut over the andorans...
Well, they do and they don't have the Cardies...
Check the vid here:
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Creation Video[/url]
You can create them, and play them, but they won't be "true" Cardassians.
There is much speculation, but the basic feelings are if STO is successful enough, you can expect to see expansions later on that will include the Cardassians, and the Romulans... I, myself, prefer the Rommies.. heh
Well, they do and they don't have the Cardies...
Check the vid here:
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Creation Video[/url]
You can create them, and play them, but they won't be "true" Cardassians.
There is much speculation, but the basic feelings are if STO is successful enough, you can expect to see expansions later on that will include the Cardassians, and the Romulans... I, myself, prefer the Rommies.. heh
I actually asked Zinc about the differences between custom races and IP races in my interview with him at PAX. It sounds like the IP races will actually be more protecting the IP than 'true' or 'untrue' races. Basically it's just to prevent people from making a blue skinned heavily deformed vulcan....
Functionally, you'll have similar skill/ability type options for both the custom and member races.
here's the interview, you don't need to watch it though, i just told you pretty much everything said. Lol, i'm really not trying to plug myself. I really don't know what plugging my interview would do though, it's not like I'm going to quit my day job to do interviews (haha, you'll see why if you watch the video, i don't exactly poses an interviewing gift). The info was just relevant *shrugs*
Also, PC Gamer's article from last month is online free now, and it has a nice picture of a lot of races, including Cardassian, Vorta, Changling, etc. I need to brush up on my Star Trek species, I guess.
Yeah, good call, i'll go dig up the link for that...
The two I wanted to play isn't going to be available at launch. I'm not going to create my own either, just feels dirty
I'm making a Rommie.. actually, my whole crew are going to be Rommies... lol With Romulus and Remus being destroyed, and the Empire having its struggles.. I'm gonna play it out that they're refugees.. until a Romulan expansion is released... there are many players that are going to be doing the same.. heh
I'm making a Rommie.. actually, my whole crew are going to be Rommies... lol With Romulus and Remus being destroyed, and the Empire having its struggles.. I'm gonna play it out that they're refugees.. until a Romulan expansion is released... there are many players that are going to be doing the same.. heh
Nice idea. Like a merc force, or something of that nature? I could really so that happening.
I'm making a Rommie.. actually, my whole crew are going to be Rommies... lol With Romulus and Remus being destroyed, and the Empire having its struggles.. I'm gonna play it out that they're refugees.. until a Romulan expansion is released... there are many players that are going to be doing the same.. heh
Yeah, I can't wait to play in Rommie ships. IMO they are the best looking.
I got to see a lot of them at PAX. I got Zinc to even show me this new shiny, almost green chromed, D'deridex. It was awesome
Many of the devs told me that they really want to make Rommies playable. The main problem here is time... They can only do so much in the time they have...
I'm making a Rommie.. actually, my whole crew are going to be Rommies... lol With Romulus and Remus being destroyed, and the Empire having its struggles.. I'm gonna play it out that they're refugees.. until a Romulan expansion is released... there are many players that are going to be doing the same.. heh
Yeah, I can't wait to play in Rommie ships. IMO they are the best looking.
I got to see a lot of them at PAX. I got Zinc to even show me this new shiny, almost green chromed, D'deridex. It was awesome
Many of the devs told me that they really want to make Rommies playable. The main problem here is time... They can only do so much in the time they have...
Yeah, I fully expected to see the Romulans in an expansion a long time ago... when I first found out that Cryptic was taking over from Perpetuals.. eff up... When the new Trek film was being hyped and it was released that in that story line Romulus and Remus were destroyed... I knew that this would be a great clincher-idea for an expansion... The Empire is in upheaval.. numerous factions are vying for power... An expansion would be a great way for the players to be in on the rebuilding of the new empire..
At least, thats how I see it.. and hopeihopeihope the Devs at Cryptic do too...
I'm really hoping for rommie in an expac as well, will be really hard to fly another ship when i know I could be in a Warbird
One of the romulan colony worlds which survived the Hobus super nova has actually applied to join the Federation as a Protectorate (Which means they're not full fledged members, but the Federation has their back if they play nice.). So strictly speaking Customizing a Romulan to play as for Starfleet won't be that much of a stretch.
As for the Romulans being a playable faction in an expansion i really do wish that this is the Case and that they Prioriize this over any other Faction. Give us the big three!
Wow that would be awsome
I am a huge starfleet fan, but funny thing is , when roms are avalible to play in any game I always end up playing them go fig 
... that would make life so much more interesting, I would have the best of both worlds and so much more to do ! I would love to be able to play the roms as well 
"The monster created isn't by the company that makes the game, it's by the fans that make it something it never was"
I think I'll make a TOS Klingon cause they were way more badass, and every explanation Star Trek tried to make for why they look different is dumb as hell. So that's a bit of spite on my part, but Orions sound fun. Oh wait, I forgot that's IF I play it at all because quite frankly phasers are a futuristic weapons because they are 1 shot one kill/stun, and it seems like were going to be pumping each other full of phasers to bring each other down, but you know if they have the double-fisted overhead punch I may consider playing.
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Im going to make a Fedaration Vulcan Klingon male, i like the idea of custom races and i hope in the future the implement all the missing races, star trek has such a deep universe its a crime to miss importan races
Lots of regulars have already responded to this but... Im hoping that the fact that many races are not standard means that they have big plans for them later on... With any luck =]
The two factions that Jack Emmert said we could expect to see included post-launch (this was last year) were the Dominion and Romulans. A lot of people are now saying Cardassians and Romulans. I don't know how Cardassians got started. I don't know if fans are just voicing their desire in that case or if since 2008 some mention of Cardassians has been mentioned.
According to Gozer on the STO official forums, the Cardassians in STO will be hostile to both the Federation and the Klingons. If they get added, I figure they'll be included in a joint Romulan/Cardassian alliance. I just can't see them teaming up with the Dominion again. If for no other reason than that the Changelings were suspicious of them the first time around and seem able to hold a grudge for a very long time.