Achieving a given tier of reputation for a particular faction should remove the associated time gate for reputation quests of that tier for that faction on alternate characters on that account.
For example, if you finish Tier 1 Romulan reputation on your primary character, the reputation-building tasks (Send Supplies to New Romulus and Support Colonization Efforts on New Romulus) should complete at the same rate as the mark-to-dilithium task (15 seconds) for other characters completing those tasks for Tier 1. For tier 2, the same tasks retain the current time gate until one character fills Tier 2.
I am NOT advocating reducing the grind in any way. I am only suggesting a very specific change to waiting time. If the reputation were changed in this way, it would still require exactly the same amount of actively grinding.
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