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New Reputtaion Holdings, New Lock Boxes

thedoctorblueboxthedoctorbluebox Member Posts: 749 Arc User
Is this what we can expect now for the future of STO? Is this the future of season updates? Introduce a new Reputation Holding to grind, and a lock box to go with it. Seems to be the norm now. How many more can you take?
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  • purplegamerpurplegamer Member Posts: 1,015 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Least amount of effort for the most amount of revenue. Cryptic/PWE figured out the combo that works for them so expect more of the same until players wise up.
  • starkaosstarkaos Member Posts: 11,557 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    If Cryptic was not going to add more Reputations, then there would be absolutely no point to limiting the Reputation powers to 4 passive ground / 4 passive space / 4 active. As long as the content in each reputation is fun and there is interesting equipment available, then I will keep on doing Reputations.
  • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Wait wait, this just the second round. You are not permitted to begin doomongering until Season 10 hits. :P
  • alan171717alan171717 Member Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    I quite like the model, I can save up a lot of EC between seasons and buy the new ship if I want it

    And the grind gives me something to other than going for EC
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  • fatman592fatman592 Member Posts: 1,207 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    Is this what we can expect now for the future of STO? Is this the future of season updates? Introduce a new Reputation Holding to grind, and a lock box to go with it. Seems to be the norm now. How many more can you take?

    What else would you want?

    Want more episodes? There's this thing called the Foundry.

    Want more story? There's this thing called the Foundry (and I guess one could RP).

    Want to go some place and click things? There are these things called dilithium farming, radiation scanning and particle traces.

    Want to explore? There are these things called the Foundry and clusters.

    *Side note on the calls for exploration: Who would want to engage in the actual tedium of exploration? Most explorers in human history were just glorified land surveyors. Similarly, exploration was simply noted in the Captain's Log and the shows moved on to better stuff.

    Want to take your pew-pewing to the next level? There's this thing called PvP.

    They shifted things like story and personal development to the players some time ago. The game can be whatever you want it to be. All the tools are there. Use them or don't, the company only cares if you spend money.
  • xlocutusofborgxxlocutusofborgx Member Posts: 1,376 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    valoreah wrote: »
    Are you expecting them to do something else? This is Cryptic you're talking about. :P

    this x1000, I mean really. there lust for creativity died with the dino's, copy and paste, make an adjustment on some ships we can hurl in a box and bam, slap a sticker on it and call it s9.
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  • centersolacecentersolace Member Posts: 11,178 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    this x1000, I mean really. there lust for creativity died with the dino's, copy and paste, make an adjustment on some ships we can hurl in a box and bam, slap a sticker on it and call it s9.

    You think so? I think ESD, the new costume options, the improved npcs, the new space and ground sets (Phaser boosting! Thank god!), revamped story missions, and shiny toy's therein are all very creative and cool.
  • rinksterrinkster Member Posts: 3,549 Arc User
    edited April 2014
    this x1000, I mean really. there lust for creativity died with the dino's, copy and paste, make an adjustment on some ships we can hurl in a box and bam, slap a sticker on it and call it s9.

    Well, trying to be scrupulously fair, this season has a number of major mechanism fixes. Kits, rep powers and how they progress.

    To my mind, a bit of a curates egg, but I see the idea.

    It is also about tying up the story arc from the last two seasons.

    There's also the possible future expansion.

    All of which means it will be a leanish season in other respects.
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