Romulus sun crisis to early

[skivington96]

The supernova feels way to early and is difficult to get ready for at least as the UFP

[prokemon]

so you get the Freighters later? I have no idea how to get those and Im at 2392?

[Land]

I was watching someone streaming this and yeah it popped up and I thought "wait a minute in this timeline barely anything from TNG has happened yet! da fak??" should certainly be a late game event.
Also bit of a finger to those playing as Romulans isn't it that they included this event into the game

[[HdF] Almut Grete]

Seemed acurate in the timeline when we played. Still a warning would have been nice, ^^

[Demiurge]

Originally posted by Land:

I was watching someone streaming this and yeah it popped up and I thought "wait a minute in this timeline barely anything from TNG has happened yet! da fak??" should certainly be a late game event.
Also bit of a finger to those playing as Romulans isn't it that they included this event into the game

Yea this event should not be in the game. It's bs for tomulan players. Someone needs to mod this thing out of the game

[Azurewrath]

It sounds like it would suck bad. To have your entire home planet and system wiped out is practically fatal in this game. This wasn't suppose to happen until almost ST Picard time....but even then, there is such as thing as too much realism. Mod it out please.

[Satek Gaming]

Originally posted by prokemon:

so you get the Freighters later? I have no idea how to get those and Im at 2392?

Its in the Timeline Part - Agreed would be good to know in advance! But you can stall the research part somewhat.

[Syn]

I'm curious is there no way to stop the event like you can with similar disasters in Stellaris?

If not that seems ridiculous. The game already doesn't stick 1:1 to canon so if it insists on this particular artefact of JJTrek then.. ergh.

[Mootality]

Where I get freighters as UFP?

[WolfTooth]

Originally posted by Azurewrath:

It sounds like it would suck bad. To have your entire home planet and system wiped out is practically fatal in this game. This wasn't suppose to happen until almost ST Picard time....but even then, there is such as thing as too much realism. Mod it out please.

Wasnt that bad tbh. Just relocated all my pops off of Romulus and rebuilt elsewhere as the grace period between the start of the chain and the sun actually exploding was quite long.

After Romulus blows up one of the options you can take is a flat +20% resources from jobs which is amazing.

[Scutatus]

Originally posted by Azurewrath:

It sounds like it would suck bad. To have your entire home planet and system wiped out is practically fatal in this game. This wasn't suppose to happen until almost ST Picard time....but even then, there is such as thing as too much realism. Mod it out please.

2392 IS almost Picard's time.

The destruction of Romulus occurred in the year 2387 (before the Picard series starts ). This is very early in the game, but accurate to canon.

How a people comes back from the destruction of their homeworld is precisely the crisis the Romulans had. It happening in the game is true to the timeline/feel/canon of Star Trek - which is the whole point of the game. It's a nasty early handicap for the Romulan player though. Fortunately the player can at least transfer the population off world and get certain emergency perks. And, unlike the Romulans in the timeline, the player knows it is coming. So they can minimize the loss.

[Nota]

Originally posted by Scutatus:

Originally posted by Azurewrath:

It sounds like it would suck bad. To have your entire home planet and system wiped out is practically fatal in this game. This wasn't suppose to happen until almost ST Picard time....but even then, there is such as thing as too much realism. Mod it out please.

2392 IS almost Picard's time.

The destruction of Romulus occurred in the year 2387 (before the Picard series starts ). This is very early in the game, but accurate to canon.

How a people comes back from the destruction of their homeworld is precisely the crisis the Romulans had. It happening in the game is true to the timeline/feel/canon of Star Trek - which is the whole point of the game. It's a nasty early handicap for the Romulan player though. Fortunately the player can at least transfer the population off world and get certain emergency perks. And, unlike the Romulans in the timeline, the player knows it is coming. So they can minimize the loss.

Ehhh... Romulus went kaboom in my game before Janeway even showed up

[Azurewrath]

As a player who wants to play Romulans at some point I don't want Romulus to blow up! I rather like it. I hope someone can mod this bit of crap out of the game fast.

[Kerry]

Originally posted by Mootality:

Where I get freighters as UFP?

Yes, how DOES one get bulk freighters as UFP?

The game's timeline seems to be all kinds of out-of-order. In my game, I encountered the Borg, then I got slammed with the Crystalline Entity (which, if I recall my TNG happened WAY before the Borg) and then the Naussicans showed up, then I got hit with the mission to evacuate the Romulans, and after I failed that, then Janeway popped in with the Fearless and finally, the Cardassian Union started a war with me.

Also the Houses of Betazed are independent when they should be part of the Federation, the aforementioned Naussicans should already be known to the Federation as they are the reason Picard got an artificial heart in the Academy... Yeah, this game's timeline and occupied starting spaces for each power are REALLY screwed up and it doesn't really follow canon AT ALL.

And the canon events are completely out of order: The Crystalline Entity should be early-game, the Borg mid-game, and the Romulan Evacuation crisis should be VERY late-game, long after the Federation has built the Enterprise-E. In fact it should be end-game.

Instead, based on what I'm seeing here, they took all the canon events and randomized them so that they occur at different times! YIKES!

[archonsod]

Originally posted by Kerry:

Yes, how DOES one get bulk freighters as UFP?

It's part of the mission tree. The funny thing is, I unlocked it and the mission that requires one vanished (literally; it didn't time out, I didn't get anything telling me I'd completed it, it's just completely gone from the mission log).

The game's timeline seems to be all kinds of out-of-order. In my game, I encountered the Borg, then I got slammed with the Crystalline Entity (which, if I recall my TNG happened WAY before the Borg)

They're roughly the same time. I'm not sure the game should be following the TNG timeline quite that slavishly though; surely part of the fun is 'what if?'. In that respect as long as it would be reasonable for an event to have happened I don't mind if we don't get through them in quite the same order as the Enterprise.
The Crystalline Entity appears on-screen first (episode 13, Datalore) but the Borg are behind the attacks on Federation and Romulan colonies mentioned in The Neutral Zone (episode 26) while they don't appear on screen until near the end of the second season (Q Who?). Though of course, technically humans first encountered the Borg in 2037 (First Contact) while the first known encounter with a Crystalline Entity was 2338 (though given Lore is supposed to have lured it to the colony presumably the first encounter must have happened before that). 7 of 9's parents began their hunt for the Borg in 2347, and the El Aurians were assimilated around 2265.
So even ignoring the timeline idiocy the movies introduced, the Borg were certainly active in the Alpha Quadrant by the time of TNG, and had been for at least a century. Similarly given the Crystalline Entities are space borne life forms they could presumably have been encountered at any point after developing space travel.

Also the Houses of Betazed are independent when they should be part of the Federation, the aforementioned Naussicans should already be known to the Federation...

It's a sop to gameplay. You could equally ask why we need to research photon torpedoes while starting with replicators. Game wouldn't be much fun if it restricted itself only to what happened in TNG.

[Syn]

Originally posted by archonsod:

It's a sop to gameplay. You could equally ask why we need to research photon torpedoes while starting with replicators. Game wouldn't be much fun if it restricted itself only to what happened in TNG.

And yet it restricts itself to JJTrek by blowing up Romulus no matter what?