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Season 8 Dev Blog #12
pwebranflakes
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Systems Designer Phil "Gorngonzolla" Zeleski shares details about the upcoming, new and improved Dyson Joint Command Reputation in this entry of the Season 8 News Dev Blog series.
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There is an inconsistency I noticed though.
"Torpedo: Spread will fire Gravimetric Photon Torpedoes at each target. Each impact has a chance to create a spatial rift."
The Tribble Patch for October 25 states that the Torpedo Spread may only create the rift on the 1st impact, not all of them. Typo? Or did Tribble go down just now to revert that change?
Nouveau riche LTS member
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The items can still be "discarded" VIA the replicator, but they will just show 0 for the EC sell value.
Will the voth Armour come with a costume unlock? (Like the Maco etc.)
Okay say I do 100 marks on one of my mains which say the romulan or nukara for example will require more than 1 qued mission to accomplish(on the romulan mark missions) so if I am reading this right will I have to 2 or more missions for the token and then 1 or 2 more missions to complete a project on an alt making it 2x-3x more effort on alt per day?
Or... is it saying if I have a main of each class and cycle thru them in missions getting the token that all my alts need to do is take a token and drop it in a project and then its filled?
Sponsorship:
Is nice for those people who yet to finish reputations on their alts. But it's very costly since it costs 100 marks, per character, to get that discount. So in hindsight, it's not helpful at all.
And this new reputation system doesn't help those who have multiple characters who have to grind out new reputations from the beginning (which is this Dyson Reputation). This is what the players wanted Cryptic to change, not having to wait 2 months to finish one rep on one character, grind to get the discount on other characters, then start another 2 month grind. That is not fun!
Atmospheric Flight
Also, would've been great if that Atmospheric Flight from the new Fleet Holding moves to the Reputation since it fits better since players, since it wont penalize them for being in a small fleet or choosing to be fleetless.
That is how I am looking at it... Instead of 2 months what it sounds like is that every single character who is not tier 5 you will be doing 2 or more times the grind just to get a bonus which is not what we asked for at all its just more of a grind than less of a grind.
Edit: So basically what this boils down to is about 4x more grind just to get each character done with 1 rep 1 month sooner.
if its new theres nothing that was improved upon.
if it was something that was improved then its not new....
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Do you even Science Bro?
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The above is pure wishful thinking... but I'm sure even IF THEY DID THIS people would still complain up a storm. "You mean I still have to click it? That's not fair! I click enough things during the day why do I have to click this?!"
I know they can, but for 0 ec there's no point having them in my inventory in the first place. It's a waste of clicks.
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It's only 100 marks per character.
Considering the fact that you need to grind up A LOT more than that before you can even worry about getting the token - or while getting set gear - I really don't understand what you're complaining about.
Infinite possibilities have implications that could not be completely understood if you turned this entire universe into a giant supercomputer.
I could understand your point but then do 20+ characters and your view point would drastically change
From what I understand, the space set is still based on 2 and 3 piece set bonuses, but there are four pieces with the warp core, deflector, engines, and shield?
I hope that's how it's done, I've been thinking this is how you should add warp cores featuring the few missing modifier combinations to every 3 piece Deflector/Shield/Engine set. This way players are given a tactical choice as to whether they want to run two two-piece set bonuses or a 3 piece set bonus.
Understandably, 3 piece bonuses might need to be buffed to make them more desirable, but I think it would still be cool.
If that means what I assume it means (i.e. bog-standard Rep XP projects now have a chance to award store-unlocked gear) then that is ****ing awesome.
And no more "Store Unlock XYZ" projects? Even more awesome. Now if you could tone down the Dil price of the gear, that'd be grand :P
It's 100 marks per character per reputation for the sponsored characters. I have 3 characters, one of which has T3 in all 3 current reps, one T3-4 in everything, and one at T1 -2 reps.
I easily got the Omega marks doing a couple of ESTFs plus a couple of sector Borg beat downs.
For the Rom marks, I farmed an Epohh.
Nakura marks would probably be harder for most, but I have a bunch left over from the Crystal Catastrophe event.
For me, at least, this looks to be a major win under the existing rep system, cutting my time needed to get tier 5 down by weeks.
I see it as a bit of a grind for my best equipped character, to make life a lot easier for my least equipped characters.
That was my favorite part of the blog entry.
Anyway...
I love the sponsorship option. That is a great idea. Well done Cryptic. Well done. I must say that you have done good work on improving the rep system, and it will seem less like a grind, as it will require less time to do it again for other toons. The only way this could be better, is if there was also a token to half the time needed. However, what you guys currently have is great, and I am very excited about it.
I read the blog, and I am a bit concerned about possible changes that might come to the Nukara, Omega, and Romulan (NOR) reps in the future. I would personally feel more comfortable if Cryptic left the NOR reps alone, and just let them be, as is, for the rest of time. Personally, collecting commodities, regenerators, and consumables is not THAT big of a deal for me to demand that it be changed (if that is what may change). Any new methods of collecting rep XP should be limited to The Dyson rep, and any future reps that will be coming down the pike in the future. Hope that makes sense.
Either way, I am looking forward to Season 8. Thanks.
Also, the low static costs (that is, they dont increase per tier) of the Dyson Rep are awesome.
Now this bit really gives me a sad face
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I'll put it this way there are so many grinds to do that alts take a back seat when you are dealing with dilithium, fleet marks, and then a new rep every 6 months. In most cases though the rep gear isn't what I want out of it mainly just the passives.
I can see your point if you are a player who only plays a few characters than I could agree with you but for someone more heavily invested there just isn't enough time to do everything that needs to be done and get reputations done on every character.
I appreciate the fact that the devs have taken on board what people have been saying about wanting less grind, but this new system sounds a lot more complicated from what I've read. Why not just drop the store unlocks and allow the rep tiers to unlock for all characters on an account by faction, i.e, so you only need to grind once per faction? Surely that'd be easier?
Once again, complexity aside, I've got to say that I'm looking forward to the new season though.