>and the Romulan stuff is all new (though, as with the Klingon
>stuff, I've never been a big fan of playing the bad guys in
>factionalized computer game worlds, and the TNG-era Romulans are even
>assholier assholes than STO's "peace is for pussies" Klingons).

Annoyingly enough, for those of us who do occasionally enjoy playing the bad guys, you can't actually play the "bad" Romulans.

This seriously annoyed me. I played some STO some time ago, liked it, didn't have time for it alongside a fairly intensive World of Warcraft raiding schedule.

These days, I no longer command 24 other people to kill dragons at my whim, so I was all set to roll up a Romulan... until I found out that, no, I couldn't in fact serve the glorious regime of Empress Sela, sallying forth under cloak to lie in wait for enemies of the Romulan Empire and turn them into expanding clouds of gas dust with my plasma torpedoes. Instead I had to play some sort of vile defector. "Romulan Republic" indeed. Democracy is for humans, you race traitors!

Ahem. Anyway. Killed my interest stone dead.

Although, seeing as how I just surfaced from three months of "Am I not playing X-Com? I really should be playing X-Com if I'm not playing X-Com RIGHT NOW" maybe I should give it an actual go. I just... I love warbirds. I've never seen a warbird I didn't love to look at. So, y'know. There's that.

-Merc
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