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Poor availability of Romulan marks.
rustiswordz
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Im dismayed at how hard it is to get a handful of Romulan marks. Omega rep gives 75per stf for 10\15 mins work you have to go through hoops just to get 20 or so Rom marks and thats under optimal conditions. Its now time in light of all the new reputation grinds introduced to increase the Romulan reputation rewards to the same level of Omega and im NOT talking about nerfbatting Omega either.
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Romulans totally lack battle zones or any queue content that reliably rewards high amounts of marks for completion, like STF's or the new Undine content.
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Does this take long? I do love the idea of that though. Romulan marks are the worst to try and get. I REALLY dislike Romulan missions. They're so repetitive.
I didn't figure it out for quite some time, but as soon as I did, it was a walk in the park. An Adult Epohh will turn in for 400 Romulan Marks. If you turn them in during the Bonus Marks Event, you get 600. I've four (or five) Epohh's stored and ready to turn in during the next event.
All you need is patience.
This. Out of all the Marks available, Nukara are the least easy to acquire.
This!!
This is the only way I collect Romulan Marks. I used to also do the Romulan patrol missions, but only when I was in team with my fleet mates since its more fun that way. Now that they have their Rom rep done.. they hardly do that more so I reply on Epohh!
Romulan and Dyson is the best 2 out there. You get story, easy grind, and nice gear. Where the others offer no story, and rewards that I can easily pass by.
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Don't believe the lies in this forum. I am NOT an ARC user. I play STO on Steam or not at all.
Nukara is like Dyson, you need to get your TRIBBLE out of your ship and do some ground pounding, a couple of hours of mindless violence can get you several hundred marks easy.
The Romulan patrol missions can be done by teams. With a lot more opponents.
Sorry, but I don't get the complaints in this thread. Romulan patrols give 60 marks (now even 115 with the daily reward box). for 15 minutes of shooting ships that can barely fight back. That's more than enough to get through the rep and a good basis for grinding for gear (not that Romrep has much that is worth grinding).
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No bear in mind that the team managed to complete the bonus.
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Yes you read that correctly, three, three, BLOODY THREE!!! thats with the bonus completed in time.
You have got to be massivly kidding, seriously this is just a pure send up, an insult to those who loyally grind.
Three. I cant believe it Three.... im going for a bloody walk. :mad: :mad: :mad:
1 ISE, 5minutes, 115 marks + BNP. I can't see how it could be faster.
Omega is easier, both for marks and for BNP. And you also earn dil + piece of gear. There is a reason why those are the most played queued missions.
Romulan is very annoying. Unless you do the bunnies. Avoid the queued missions. Too long, unrewarding.
Nukara is pretty easy if you know what to do. Either with CE, or by doing the kill the general ground mission (10m, ~50marks, and that was before the daily). However, don't do the crashed ship ground mission, a pug will not be able to complete it. Avoid the other queued missions. Same reasons as Romulan rep.
Dyson is annoying if you grind the queued mission. They take too much time for not enough. Play the space daily quickly for marks (I used to do the random daily in the allied zone quickly), and battlezone to buy the gear.
Undine, you just have to capture a single point of the space battlezone every 2 days, and you're set (65 marks with daily). Then, you can complete it for more. And you have the ground mission, which is easy, with unmissable optionals, and fast. Avoid the queued space missions, like the Undine assault. They are annoying (bubbles, bubbles everywhere !), and reward too little.
In the end, you always have to avoid queued content (except for a few ones, and the borg STF). Cryptic is so scared to give too much in queued content, they make them unrewarding and far too long for the reward. They come pre-nerfed to oblivion. Mission like the Vault ensnared or azure rescue are totally useless.
Which takes time to set up and get going before you can actually cash in anything.
Nukara is so ridiculously easy as you can just farm CEE every 30 minutes pretty much for "guaranteed" 60 marks at a time.
Most Romulan queues demand near perfect teamwork to really pay off at all, and a weak link can easily pull down heavily on the number of marks you get.
Well, i disagree.
Romulan marks are so easy to get, that its almost ridiculous. Maybe the only problem is you need more time than any other rep, but you have plenty of ways to gather romulan marks, through queues, through radiation reports, through patrol missions, through new romulus (you have dozens of ways to gather romulan marks there, even reports that you can turn in doff assignments), romulan reputation was the first reputation i completed and was really really easy. It is still really easy now.
You cant get as much marks as in the omega rep for the same time?? well, that is intended. New romulus is the easier reputation, but it takes a little more effort. And not always, if you make eppoh research, for example.
As you see, you will not find so many ways to gather any type of reputation marks. Sometimes i dont understand you guys lol.
And stop asking for a romulan battlezone, New Romulus is a relazed zone, that was the idea, we dont need a battlezone there.
And other thing, stop trying to do everyting in the less time possible. Sometimes its better to enjoy what you doing and thats all, everything will come sooner or later. The problem is you guys want thousands of marks in 5 minutes, lol. That wont happen in new romulus, as i said is intended.
Who starts complaining about how hard is to get enough romulan marks.. well, i dont think he played the game enough. Or he doesnt have a clue.
I know that before Season Nine went live, it tended to award marks to players in an unconventional manner, with one box containing (I think) thirty marks, and the other one containing the bonus marks and often containing 3-6 mark. You may have somehow failed to get the "main" box and only got the "bonus" one.
Did you read my above post? i did a Romulan Vault Ensnared for just 3 marks with all conditions met. I'll get my space set in about 100 years at that rate.
Relax. And read what it says on the title of the thread. I was answering to that and your first post.
If snared is bugged dont do it, and you still will have millions of ways to gather romulan marks.
You need to get used to some bugged missions and things like that. At this point, i am. So if you cant do that mission, do something else. Is that so hard?
I still dont see the reason of your "complain".
By the way, you know that the first time of the day you gather reputation marks, you get a bonus reward , right?? so, if you do, for example, the patrol tau dewa, that grants you 60 romulan makrs, you will get as well 55 more. Total of more than 100 romulan marks for about 15 minutes, yea there are faster ways to get even more, but seriously?? why the hurry?..
Difficult to gather reputation marks?? please...
Fleet marks are so easy to get on Defara quickly. Omega, Dyson, and Undine are easy to get with the STFs, and battlezones.
PSo, since Romulan marks are the hardest to get quickly, I focus on them when I have a choice of marks. During the Mirror event, that was all I picked, and when I turned in the mirror project for 75,000 Dilithium, I got Romulan marks from it also. That put me over 2000 total marks for Romulan.
There are ways to get them, it just takes a long time for it. I am going to be doing the Ephoh farming though so that when the bonus marks weekend is here I can turn them in.
The Romulan stuff has been more time consuming, but I don't mind at all. I love running around on New Romulus because it's just so breathtaking and calming. The journey truly is its own reward there.
Actually it is not "quick", but it doesnt take excesive time anyways. But when i need romulan marks, this is what i do, the first reputation mark run of the day, and i get 60+55. I think 100 romulan marks for the time it takes the tau dewa patrol mission is more than enough.. besides, you can farm a lot in it, at the same time it is like a foundry farming mission lol. And plus, you make the radiation report mission, you can even gather more radiation reports to exchange em for romulan marks.
I mean, there is no reason to complain, really. Of course there will be always people that wants to finish the reputations on 3 days, or gather 1000 romulan marks in 15 minutes. :P
Same here. I love New Romulus because of that.
But it is sad to see that people doesnt care anymore about the game itself, just to gather everything as fast as they can..
I don't need to kill things per say, but something more entertaining than pushing F everytime I see the button, that's not difficult. Even pong is more fun.
As for the reward itself, 5marks per quest (or is it 15 ?), and the awesome reward of 1 (read one) mark when you are lucky enough to gather 10 unusual (and uncommon) rock/plant. Pretty sure that was Cryptic way to troll.
what about Azure Nebula Rescue, 15 mins a run, for both Rom + Nukara, with the daily bonus
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Just my 2 cents...
Nukara wasn't thought out well and there is still a massive lack of diversity in ways of getting them. Yeah, there's choice of marks, but it's rarely enough. New Romulus was too repetitive with the same missions dressed different in different areas. These issues will NEVER be resolved. It's a grind--meaning you toil and work at it like a second job to get anywhere.
TRIBBLE in and moaning about how horribly it was implemented isn't going to make it better. And it isn't going to make the Devs care.
There are a lot of players that wont touch grouped content or the queues, so for us the only place to get Omega marks is Defera, and before S9 you were looking at busting your TRIBBLE for an hour to get 20 - 30 marks, I'd sooner have all of my teeth filled than grind that map for marks.
Romulan Marks are hard, but easier now witht he daily benefit of 55.