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dark4blooddark4blood Member Posts: 1,192 Arc User
Blog #5 for Season 9 has Cryptic fooling with reputation powers...this is more annoying than weapon nerfs as no one is complaining about the damn rep powers after they have invested the time to get t them.

I seriously don't get why they waste so much time "fixing' things that aren't broke but ignore every broke thing in this game. This pretty much confirms that the crafting system will be ignored for another season, and I expect the Klingon faction will still remain a poor mirror of the Federation. They are too busy fixing things like Mirror missions, Tour around the Galaxy, and reputation powers to actually address issues that pretty much EVERYONE realizes is broke in this game.

I would be shocked if they even made Elite modes play like Elite; there goes Borg getting upgrades this season. I will be glad when Cryptic loses this license, for if you can't handle the Star Trek Universe, give it to someone else.
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  • therealmttherealmt Member Posts: 428 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Content for Season 10:

    Federation Tutorial Revamp
    Ground Combat Revamp
    Reputation Revamp
    STF Revamp
    ESD Revamp
    Qo'nos Revamp

    Revamp Revamp.


    lol

    /sarcasm
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  • daqheghdaqhegh Member Posts: 1,490 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    They only fix things that don't make money. "Broken," in their minds, means "non-profitable." Think of PWE as Brunt -- they're the IRS guys from hell.
    My Old Blog about things that could and should have been added when I wrote it. Not sure what I want to do with it now. I'll just keep it available now that most of it is outdated.
  • atlantraatlantra Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    There's no money in fixing old stuff. I guess there's money in breaking fixed stuff? I'm stating to question Cryptic's logic... It's like they're playing a different STO. I dunno to be honest. A lot of strange changes lately. Change isn't always good. " but, but change."

    You know what , TRIBBLE it. We're turning phasers green and disruptors orange. Deal with it...
    I'm losing faith...
    The dress is gold and white. Over 70% people says so. When viewed from a certain screen angle it appears blue and black. The dress displayed on amazon is a blue and black dress, but it's not the same dress in the picture. If you're seeing blue & black you're slightly colored blind. A normal upright screen = white and gold.
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  • locutusofcactuslocutusofcactus Member Posts: 651 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    daqhegh wrote: »
    They only fix things that don't make money. "Broken," in their minds, means "non-profitable." Think of PWE as Brunt -- they're the IRS guys from hell.

    Ahahaha! Good post.
  • erraberrab Member Posts: 1,434 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    It's kind of like how they "Fixed" the Exchange a while back by removing working features that were quite useful :rolleyes:
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  • vhiranikosvhiranikos Member Posts: 208 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    This is just the beginning.
  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    dark4blood wrote: »
    Blog #5 for Season 9 has Cryptic fooling with reputation powers...this is more annoying than weapon nerfs as no one is complaining about the damn rep powers after they have invested the time to get t them.

    I seriously don't get why they waste so much time "fixing' things that aren't broke but ignore every broke thing in this game. This pretty much confirms that the crafting system will be ignored for another season, and I expect the Klingon faction will still remain a poor mirror of the Federation. They are too busy fixing things like Mirror missions, Tour around the Galaxy, and reputation powers to actually address issues that pretty much EVERYONE realizes is broke in this game.

    I would be shocked if they even made Elite modes play like Elite; there goes Borg getting upgrades this season. I will be glad when Cryptic loses this license, for if you can't handle the Star Trek Universe, give it to someone else.

    They proactively halted passive power creep before they implemented a fifth reputation and exacerbated the power creep issue.

    This is them being proactive.

    Not really sure why this is such a complaint, when all I see are threads complaining about power creep.

    This is the solution to power creep.

    Nerfs.

    It's like you all forgot you were playing an MMO.

    Put on your big girl epics and deal with it people.
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  • therealmttherealmt Member Posts: 428 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Im really surprised you guys are so surprised. Its nothing new. It started around S4 and they will keep doing so.

    In fact its a world wide thing right now, look at something totally random like iOS6 vs iOS7, a totally unnecessary UI change, uglified flat look and icons, look at Windows 7 vs 8, etc.

    Look at this totally ***** forum, it stills pains my eyes and it was totally unnecessary. Just waste of time.
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  • neoakiraiineoakiraii Member Posts: 7,468 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Seriously, I see threads demanding nerfs...now they brought the big bat out, and you guys are freaking out....we all knew this was coming for a long time before they realized created WAAAAAY to many rep passives to the point my Captain became a Q.
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  • cptjhuntercptjhunter Member Posts: 2,288 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I have to say, after the KDF Tutorial Mission, most of their storyline missions are FUBAR with game breaking bugs, and glitches.

    I plan to create a new Fed, and Rom character as well, just to see if that holds equally for all.

    Be shameful to have a pretty new spacedock, when new players can't play the starting content.
  • edgecrysgeredgecrysger Member Posts: 2,740 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Just imagine what will happen when the big changes arrives. I am really scared.. :eek:, really really scared...
  • djezc#0623 djezc Member Posts: 81 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Dont change stuff just give us NEW stuff
    difference between a fresh max-level character and one who’d spent hundreds of hours at endgame would just be too large

    thought that was the reason i play so much
  • daqheghdaqhegh Member Posts: 1,490 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Ahahaha! Good post.

    Thanx, mate. ;)
    My Old Blog about things that could and should have been added when I wrote it. Not sure what I want to do with it now. I'll just keep it available now that most of it is outdated.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    cptjhunter wrote: »
    I have to say, after the KDF Tutorial Mission, most of their storyline missions are FUBAR with game breaking bugs, and glitches.

    I plan to create a new Fed, and Rom character as well, just to see if that holds equally for all.

    Be shameful to have a pretty new spacedock, when new players can't play the starting content.
    Which specific glitches?
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  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,557 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    They proactively halted passive power creep before they implemented a fifth reputation and exacerbated the power creep issue.

    This is them being proactive.

    Not really sure why this is such a complaint, when all I see are threads complaining about power creep.

    This is the solution to power creep.

    Nerfs.

    It's like you all forgot you were playing an MMO.

    Put on your big girl epics and deal with it people.

    Have to agree with this. It would have eventually gotten to the point where fully repped level 50s would be able to completely solo STFs and other 5 man content events with ease and be bored out of their minds because the content has to be completable by fresh level 50s. So when you can easily do 100k dps because you maxed everything out while others are doing just 2k dps, then there is something terribly wrong with the game. The only problem is that this change occurred now and not with the Nukara Reputation. So the nerf will be far more noticeable.

    Although, playing an Uber character is fun in a controlled setting. In City of Heroes, there was a mission where you played as a future version of your character where they are pretty much omnipotent and easily defeat some of the most powerful beings in the game.
  • priestofsin420priestofsin420 Member Posts: 419
    edited March 2014
    Cryptic doesn't play the same STO we do. In the STO I play, PvP is so horrendously broken by Aux2Bat cruisers that it isn't worth playing. In the STO I play, story content comes out at such a trickle pace that the only thing left to do in the game is grind reps. Well, they just removed the reason to grind reps... and removed the reason why I was grinding STFs in the first place.
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    Odan Brota (Science Officer): Captain of a 28k DPS Scryer Intel Science Vessel, U.S.S. Kepler
    Patiently waiting for a Romulan Science Vessel
  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Cryptic doesn't play the same STO we do. In the STO I play, PvP is so horrendously broken by Aux2Bat cruisers that it isn't worth playing. In the STO I play, story content comes out at such a trickle pace that the only thing left to do in the game is grind reps. Well, they just removed the reason to grind reps... and removed the reason why I was grinding STFs in the first place.

    You were grinding the reps for the passives?

    I was grinding them for the gear unlocks.
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  • dragnockdragnock Member Posts: 55 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I've read the blog and i gotta say I like the sound of it the powers are getting upgraded and you can switch 4 ground and 4 space, essentially the passives are more flexible honestly its like our duty officers pick what you want/need also nobody has to be worried about picking the wrong abilities. Lastly it takes care of the power creep everyone's been whining about, and the work you put into earning the abilities through reputation isn't lost or meaningless you still need to reach the tiers in the reputation to be able to use each tier ability unless i read that wrong

    FYI This is coming from someone who "worked their TRIBBLE off for all the abilities" :D
  • solidneutroniumsolidneutronium Member Posts: 510 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    You were grinding the reps for the passives?

    I was grinding them for the gear unlocks.
    Yeah, we must all play the same way like a collective.

    Resistance is futile. We are all drones.

    :rolleyes:
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  • selraxxxselraxxx Member Posts: 89 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    ... the only thing left to do in the game is grind reps. Well, they just removed the reason to grind reps... and removed the reason why I was grinding STFs in the first place.

    But this may be a good thing. May force them to create more missions and story driven content. I am so tired of the grind.
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  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Yeah, we must all play the same way like a collective.

    Resistance is futile. We are all drones.

    :rolleyes:

    I see you finally completed the Task Force Omega rep!
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  • solidneutroniumsolidneutronium Member Posts: 510 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    selraxxx wrote: »
    But this may be a good thing. May force them to create more missions and story driven content. I am so tired of the grind.
    More story driven content and less grind?

    Comedy gold!
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  • solidneutroniumsolidneutronium Member Posts: 510 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    I see you finally completed the Task Force Omega rep!

    Well I wont have to now. Heh.
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  • iconiansiconians Member Posts: 6,987 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    You were grinding the reps for the passives?

    I was grinding them for the gear unlocks.

    I was grinding them for both. :P
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  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    iconians wrote: »
    I was grinding them for both. :P

    Yeah, but you're a hardcore gamer. Me? I'm "casual."

    ;)
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  • daqheghdaqhegh Member Posts: 1,490 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Yeah, but you're a hardcore gamer. Me? I'm "casual."

    ;)

    I like it casual.



    .....did I just say that?
    My Old Blog about things that could and should have been added when I wrote it. Not sure what I want to do with it now. I'll just keep it available now that most of it is outdated.
  • cptjhuntercptjhunter Member Posts: 2,288 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    Which specific glitches?

    Got a Month to read?

    But seriously, I really want to start a new character in each faction, to find bugs.
    Not to bash the game, but if polishing up social zone graphics to draw new customers is a priority.
    It isn't going to mean squat if the entry level content is broken.
  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    daqhegh wrote: »
    I like it casual.



    .....did I just say that?

    Never go wrong with casual fridays. :P
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  • vegeta50024vegeta50024 Member Posts: 2,336 Arc User
    edited March 2014
    It's been stated that story content isn't really the money maker in this game. They think repeatable content or "grind" as we are all calling it is worth people spending their money for.

    What they need to realize is we don't want to have the grind. We want something worthwhile that will keep us satisfied between now and the next big expansion.

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