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There are a lot of interesting things in the Tribble patch notes (18/10/13):
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=12980951#post12980951
But this bit caught my eye:
So it looks like if you are F2P (i.e. have no free account shared slots) you'll have to buy some from the C-Store if you want to use this alt-part of the rep system. Basically buy slots just to be able to give 1 Sponsorship token to your alt to use. Is this intended or an oversight?
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?p=12980951#post12980951
But this bit caught my eye:
coldsnapped wrote: »Reputation Sponsorship:
- Completing this Project will reward that T5 Character with a Sponsorship Token applicable to that Reputation.
- This Token is Bind-to-Account-on-Pickup, and is designed to be traded to other characters on your account via your Account Shared Bank.
So it looks like if you are F2P (i.e. have no free account shared slots) you'll have to buy some from the C-Store if you want to use this alt-part of the rep system. Basically buy slots just to be able to give 1 Sponsorship token to your alt to use. Is this intended or an oversight?
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It's not JUST ONE TOKEN...
You can earn A Token for EACH Rep, once Any of your Toons hit T-5 in that Rep.
At the moment that's FOUR Tokens for the current Reps.
Plus, when your Alt reaches T-5 in a Rep, you again get the opportunity to earn tokens for further Alts.
The Account Bank is a GOLD/LTS Perk.. you wanna use it, you gotta pay for it.
Just buy One Month of Game Time, I believe you get to keep the Alt Bank slots once that expires (?).
At $15 bucks you get a lot of extra stuff that you can keep after the game time expires, instead of just buying the slots for $10.
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Once one of your alt gets to Tier 5, then they can earn as many tokens as you want. So if I had 40 alts, then I can get 160 tokens. The Tier 5 project can be run as many times as you want, but the Tier 0 project can only be run once per reputation per alt.
The game is F2P at a basic level. Really it is more accurate to call it extended eval, sooner or later you have to give them some money to go beyond the introduction.
But wait... if this means anything to you, you already HAVE multiple characters? Hey, that'll just make it all the faster to make the Zen. Everyone's got 3 slots base now, should have it done in a week!
If you're lazy, what's the price of contraband? That's about... 338 contraband! 68 turnover assignments. Get the zen in 6-7 days.
You can get the basic version for as low as $1, so it should be affordable for everyone...
also i thought you had to be a subscriber or gold at one point to even post on the forums? so shouldn't the OP already have the bank slots? or was this changed when the forums went to perfectworld
Just letting you know almost all bind to account items so far can be traded to your self using the "in-game" mailing system just type your @handle as the recipient of the mail.
Now I can get to T5 with ease!
Who cares if you need an account bank?, this is a good solution for the rep re-grind problem.
Most of you have spent $10 in much worse ways I am sure.
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That's interesting to know. Thanks
All F2P players should have access to forum posting. Maybe it changed when it was introduced?
hell, i even have to spend 900 zens per char just to unlock 3 extra bank slots to use them to store ridiclous amount of regenerators/powercells/batteries/hypsosprays for terible rep. grinds. 20 max per slot.....ty, cryptic you realy know how to earn cash
Still i like this model much more than if i have to pay monthly fee.
If you did the CE event on 2 characters, you'd be practically done now - so I agree, not a big issue.
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The main issue is still the time gating and having to move all those sliders everyday, it's chinese water torture.
It might just a be a drop at a time but you will, repeat, WILL go crazy.
I haven't done reputation in a long time and have yet to complete nukara at all on any character it's simply just too painful.
If I start now, even with double the exp, I will be done by next summer ASSUMING I don't take one single day off lmao.
Then we got another issue. To me the nukara rep and its items were inferior. Sure pvp'ers forced to go for the passives but there weren't really any motivation to go after the stuff.
Like for example the ground sets weren't costumes and useless on STFs.
I don't know what a fair solution would be, I get they don't want you to just farm t5 dilithium and the that the whole idea of reputation is timegating content.
All I can say is it's going to take 39 lockbox ships to make me move another slider ever again and considering we were supposed to be doing this for fun and recreation I'd say that's not optimal design.
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ps. maybe some type of automation of the system where you just click once or twice and it loads instead of having to move 10 hyposprays 11 billion times could solve some of it.
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I've always looked on the Rep system as the Devs alternative to raising the level cap. So in essence your telling other players to stop leveling? Why not tell them to stop playing the game altogether?
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There will be 1 slider to move, the same system as the CCE single shard project after the 14 shard one is completed. Marks for the 2k rep are replaced with a token you earn alongside earning marks. Marks are used for the small rep project and buying gear. Read the tribble patch notes lol.
Do 3 events and get 3 tokens and you have 3 days worth of 2k rep. nothing else required. want to gain rep faster then you donate marks, otherwise you save marks for gear or creating double rep tokens for alts. Much simpler than what we have now.
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The good is that if you start up a new character, you can use the boost on the alts with the older reputations.
The bad is that it costs 100 marks for to create the discount to give to the alts. Which means, the more characters you have..........the more painful it is.
Then another bad is that it's useless with new reputations, since you can't get the discount until you get one character to Tier 5 to create the discount for the other characters. Which means you got to either grind on all characters or focus on the one and wait a few months to give the discount to the others.
In other words......its useless with new reputations.
Its still free in the sense that if you really don't want to spend the money around 130k dil will get you enough zen for it, around half the dil 1 character can refine in a month, not so much.