At first, it looked like the Dyson Reputation, even with the Sponsorship was just another grind. And doing little bits of chores in the Allied Zone for some change. But you know, this is indeed one of those "looks deceiving moments"
While most people would just do one event per day, but with the Dyson having two Dailies (one in the Allied Zone and one in the Battlezone), you can get 3 Dyson Commendations. That's 3 days without needing to do anything. Then on top of that, they allow you to convert 350 Dyson Marks to get 5 Commendations. So that 3 days now turns into 5. All from one day?
Since Reputations are about 45 days long, do hard grinding for about a week and you could earn enough Commendations that you wouldn't have to do anything. Or perhaps focus on your alts doing the same? And you wouldn't need that Sponsorship Token (well for the Dyson Reputation).
So even though I said that, it is still quite the chore working on that. :P
Then again, only takes a few minutes to earn 1 Commendation in the Allied Zone.
So be curious how this will end up if they changed the other reputations.
The other problem is for those with less time on their hands, we can run;
1 - 150 XP Project per hour
and
1 - 2500 XP Project per 20 hours
This means in order to break even against the old style I MUST run on each character 2 Hourly and 1 20hourly projects per day. I cannot miss even a single hour or I am set back, in addition to it being another EXCITING Slider Adventure.
Previously I could log on for 5mins, fill in the sliders on the characters and forget about it till the next day. Now I have to log in twice and enjoy even more sliders.
I would suggest that we have;
1 - 100 XP Project per Hour
1 - 50 XP Project per Hour
1 - 2000 XP Project per 20Hour
1 - 800 XP Project per 20Hour
People who participate more get the hourly boost, those that cannot are not penalised but can continue on an equal scale to the prior style.
That being said, Cryptic you do have my thanks for simply adding EC rather than commodities. That in of itself is a mighty improvement.
I have to say that the sponsorship is much better than spending 4 weeks doing it per alt or running yourself stupid doing a large "family" (mine is just 4 and it's a nightmare) at the same time. Do the 4 weeks then fast track your others. The one you play the most should do the hard grind I suppose. Dyson marks are fast and furious though. I had no problem getting 350 which should run the 20h mission for what? 5 days? That is one character per day and not 4 per day there with a day to relax and kill Borg in STFs. I'll take this over the other way.
i agree the new system could use some tweaking. but my god this new stuff is pretty damn boss. just throw in some EC on the slider an done. love that over the old system. that saves so much bank space. loving the double exp token on my alts. my goodness that is just tasty pleasure right there.
id have liked to see being able to get the the usual amounts on the 20hr timers. with the extra stuffs on the top for those who feel the need to truely push the limits. but meh w/e ill live with a few extra days on my main if it will save me so much more time an resources on my alts.
I just wish we'd go back to a straight-up mark based system. Run ISE or a Tau Dewa patrol or CEE ~16 times and you have enough marks to go from zero to T5. Picking up Dyson Commendations, you need 40 runs. Thats a LOT more grind (and the reason I'm skipping the Dyson Rep). More than twice the work involved, and people are cheering because they don't have to deal with commodities? I think not enough people have looked at the math.
New system is fine. It is the only thing the devs did well. Cut old reps in half and removed expertise and other req items. Nicely done Cryptic.
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Comments
1 - 150 XP Project per hour
and
1 - 2500 XP Project per 20 hours
This means in order to break even against the old style I MUST run on each character 2 Hourly and 1 20hourly projects per day. I cannot miss even a single hour or I am set back, in addition to it being another EXCITING Slider Adventure.
Previously I could log on for 5mins, fill in the sliders on the characters and forget about it till the next day. Now I have to log in twice and enjoy even more sliders.
I would suggest that we have;
1 - 100 XP Project per Hour
1 - 50 XP Project per Hour
1 - 2000 XP Project per 20Hour
1 - 800 XP Project per 20Hour
People who participate more get the hourly boost, those that cannot are not penalised but can continue on an equal scale to the prior style.
That being said, Cryptic you do have my thanks for simply adding EC rather than commodities. That in of itself is a mighty improvement.
i admit, that the old way suited my playstyle better (150 more points per day) but nobody cares if you finish in 4 weeks, or 4 weeks and 3 days.
id have liked to see being able to get the the usual amounts on the 20hr timers. with the extra stuffs on the top for those who feel the need to truely push the limits. but meh w/e ill live with a few extra days on my main if it will save me so much more time an resources on my alts.
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