File talk:Faction Romulan Star Empire.png

Changed?
Why was this changed from the in-game symbol? - Mitchz95 16:52, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * There is no "official" in-game symbol for the Romulan faction(s). Several different symbols (as well as various incarnations of these) are used troughout the game. I've uploaded the cropped symbol from the New Romulus-in-game map, but it turned out to be a bad choice wrt contrast (green symbol on green ground in the faction templates). Therefore, I replaced it with yet another version of the good ol' Romulan emblem which creates maximum contrast on a green background (even better than the very first one). --Akira-sensei 17:54, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

By "official", I mean the symbol used on Romulan mobs and NPCs. All the other symbols match the NPC ones; why change this one? - Mitchz95 18:24, 27 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I see your point. However, as I said, I have chosen this symbol due to its better contrast. Thinking about it, I am undecided in this matter. If you would like to revert my changes, I won't start an edit war with you :) --Akira-sensei 20:33, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

Perhaps instead of changing the symbol from the in-game one, we could slightly alter the background color in the Romulan Template so that it shows better. I imagine a more greyish green would be better. - Mitchz95 20:57, 27 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I generally concur, but isn't the original symbol blue-grey-greenish itself?^^ --Akira-sensei 21:20, 27 November 2012 (UTC)

I guess. I dunno, I kind of liked the original symbol on the current template color. They seemed to contrast fine. I think that the symbol should be one of the in-game ones, and the green one on the New Romulus map is much harder to see than the NPC one. - Mitchz95 02:04, 28 November 2012 (UTC)


 * Given that this is a heavy use file shouldn't we stick to the version that is found in the game assets? As far as I can tell 'New Romulus' is considered a different faction. --Dukedom 08:58, 28 November 2012 (UTC)


 * "New Romulus" (= Unificationists) is ONE of the Romulan factions. The other ones being the Tal'Shiar (which seem to have their own agenda for the most part) and those forces based on Rator III that are still loyal to Sela. If you also want to include the Remans, we get another ~2.5 factions: Those Remans based on Crateris, those who are still enslaved/employed by the Imperial Romulans on Rator III, and those led by Obisek and are based in The Vault and the lower levels of New Romulus (= Reman Resistance... --Akira-sensei 15:11, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

I think the Crateris Remans and the Reman Resistance are one and the same as of. Regarding the different Romulan factions, I think that the Tal Shiar and the Rator III Romulans should be treated as the same faction, at least for now. The Unificationists, on the other hand...they might warrant an entirely new faction article, and their own Factionnav.

As for the Romulan symbol, I'm changing it back for the time being. - Mitchz95 04:21, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Redirect
I'm going to redirect this icon from "Romulan" to "Romulan Star Empire" to avoid confusion with the Romulan Republic. This icon's game file name is "Faction Romulan" but that was from the days before we had two Romulan factions, and I am seeing a lot of confusion over which faction is which, around the wiki. This change will help make things more apparent... and yes, The Tal Shiar and Rator III Romulans are part of the Romulan Star Empire. This essentially includes any and all of Sela's followers, as opposed to D'Tan's group, which is the Romulan Republic. I would also like to untangle the confusion in other areas, as time permits. Tahno (talk) 14:46, 11 November 2013 (UTC)