Romulus Supernova

[Little Tee]

My own Star Trek story. Oh, except for that. If you want people to actually play as Romulans so that you can sell them DLCs, get rid of it, or else make it optional in the new game settings. It's really silly that it's scripted and unavoidable.

[Tiwaking! 56k NZ]

Hopefully modders can get rid of this. Its not really "your own story" when you get railroaded into doomed or instant death scenarios :\

[Dalwin]

Or to be consistent with other pdox titles, they should at least mark the Romulans as a challenging choice since your home system is going to explode in the near future.

Stellaris also has an origin available in which the home world suffers a similar fate. I admit to never having chosen that option, however.

[Syn]

Honestly this is one of the things that made me put off purchasing and now makes me continue to hold back.

Even if this wasn't a ridiculous artefact of JJTrek it should be optional, either a toggle or something a Romulan player could overcome with a research event or something.
To make it mandatory is asinine. This is a GAME. And why is it the game can be weirdly abstract about everything else like having to research photon torpedoes and cloaking in the 24th century, but THIS is the hill it dies on? Come on.

[Little Tee]

Originally posted by Dalwin:

Or to be consistent with other pdox titles, they should at least mark the Romulans as a challenging choice since your home system is going to explode in the near future.

Stellaris also has an origin available in which the home world suffers a similar fate. I admit to never having chosen that option, however.

Right, but in Stellaris, it's a choice. You can argue that the 'choice' here is play a different race, but there are currently only 4 to choose from, so basically making one of them have the Doomsday origin from Stellaris is not very clever.

[Your Mother]

Originally posted by Tiwaking! 56k NZ:

Hopefully modders can get rid of this. Its not really "your own story" when you get railroaded into doomed or instant death scenarios :\

I hate this too. I hope it can be removed.

[Tenshi Noyo Senshi]

It should be an event that could be avoided. As in, through the player working to fix the situation with in-game methods.

For instance, as suggested in earlier comics, the Vulcans basically decided against using their advanced sciences to help the Romulans directly, but what if the player Romulan Star Empire employs successful diplomacy to get the Vulcans to help undo the event?

That's just one potential example, and I'm surprised more wasn't done to let players shape history differently.

[Dalwin]

Originally posted by Little Tee:

Originally posted by Dalwin:

Or to be consistent with other pdox titles, they should at least mark the Romulans as a challenging choice since your home system is going to explode in the near future.

Stellaris also has an origin available in which the home world suffers a similar fate. I admit to never having chosen that option, however.

Right, but in Stellaris, it's a choice. You can argue that the 'choice' here is play a different race, but there are currently only 4 to choose from, so basically making one of them have the Doomsday origin from Stellaris is not very clever.

Oh I definitely get what you are saying. I chose the Romulans for my first play through without being aware this was a thing in game.

I am reserving judgement until later to decide just how bad of a thing it actually is.

[Little Tee]

Originally posted by Tenshi Noyo Senshi:

It should be an event that could be avoided. As in, through the player working to fix the situation with in-game methods.

For instance, as suggested in earlier comics, the Vulcans basically decided against using their advanced sciences to help the Romulans directly, but what if the player Romulan Star Empire employs successful diplomacy to get the Vulcans to help undo the event?

That's just one potential example, and I'm surprised more wasn't done to let players shape history differently.

While I like the idea, in a game with only 4 major powers, anything with such profound effects on how each game plays out should just not be scripted into happening at all.

[Dalwin]

Unfortunately, this seems to be the central element to capturing the Romulan "flavor" in the game. Much of the mission tree is based on the event as well.

Getting rid of it will take an extensive reworking. I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.

[Little Tee]

Originally posted by Dalwin:

Unfortunately, this seems to be the central element to capturing the Romulan "flavor" in the game. Much of the mission tree is based on the event as well.

Getting rid of it will take an extensive reworking. I wouldn't hold my breath on that one.

Yea... Considering how fast it happens, they should have just made Romulans an advanced minor faction and been done with it.

[Bas da Graca]

Hmmm assymetrical species can be pretty interesting. But might be good if they add a slider to influence it.

[Tamamo-no-Bae]

This can absolutely be modded out.
I do wish an official option to avoid it was added. Not disabling the event but finding a way to stabilize the star...

They could run with the STO plot where the Iconians caused it, in which case it can be prevented.

[Realhollow]

Originally posted by Tiwaking! 56k NZ:

Hopefully modders can get rid of this. Its not really "your own story" when you get railroaded into doomed or instant death scenarios :\

Yep some of the missons need a X year has passed to let you click on it

[Ice_King]

JJ loves breaking other people's toys.

[Bovril Brigadier]

They really did the Hobus Supernova thing?
JJ sure loves doing irreparable damage to franchises.

It was such a dumb event beyond belief handled even dumber by the writers. They made it out that cause Romulus was destroyed the Romulan Star Empire basically ceased to exist overnight which is beyond idiotic. Like literally, fleets of thousands and countless colonies do not disappear overnight.

Be like writing that just because Earth got destroyed that humanity would cease to exist