One more thing to consider is using reputation mark boosters, they are available on the exchange.
If you just want to level up a reputation without wanting more than a console from it, it's easy for all of them. People already posted how. The rep revamp also made the reps fairly cheap. If you use a sponsor token, you only need 625 marks for the complete rep. That's less than a week to get those marks if you play ISE once each day.
Romulan Marks are actually quite easy to get. How? Epohh Tagging.
True, but it's a dreadfully banal activity.
Many of us like STO because it's Star Trek. We want to be flying around in space ships shooting stuff, not running around on the ground chasing small furry animals.
Sure it only takes a few minutes every day but it's a few minutes EVERY DAY during which you repeat a DREADFULLY BORING activity. Both the game's ship and ground combat are pretty good and other mark types can be earned at a decent rate doing those. Not so Romulan marks, however.
Romulan Marks are actually quite easy to get. How? Epohh Tagging.
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'm guessing it's not as easy to find a group to max out the tags everyday, but still you should be able to get enough every other day. And 400 for a couple minutes work is pretty good return.
I went tagging crazy and my main toon has over 15000 Rom Marks left after buying everything!
Sometimes I think I play STO just to have something to complain about on the forums.
You must be doing it wrong. I get plenty of marks. Actually I'm getting my Romulan Rep stuff done faster than before. Specially with the daily reward box. That alone gives a nice small boost. To me its on par with the Dyson. As I'm moving along that one fast as well.
Another thing that just opened up with the daily Rep bonus, is the fact that the ground instances on New Romulus now count for it, which makes the reward for doing them 65 Marks (instead of the previous rather laughable 10) if you're only doing one Rep-related mission a day. It at least adds some variety.
Many of us like STO because it's Star Trek. We want to be flying around in space ships shooting stuff, not running around on the ground chasing small furry animals.
Sure it only takes a few minutes every day but it's a few minutes EVERY DAY during which you repeat a DREADFULLY BORING activity. Both the game's ship and ground combat are pretty good and other mark types can be earned at a decent rate doing those. Not so Romulan marks, however.
It is a problem.
I've never done epohh tagging on Mol'Rihan. There's an easier way. do the dailies on Mol'Rihan. It's MUCH more fun to masacre Hirogen for your marks.
Romulan Marks are my second highest collection after Omega. For the longest time, before I was doing any ESTFs, they were my highest.
Before the daily bonus - Epohh Tagging. It takes a few days to get it rolling, but the payoff is good for very little effort.
Don't like the bunnies? OK - combine Taw Dewa Sector Patrol WITH the Radiation Report mission given by the Romulan in the Staging Area. This let you kill two birds with one stone. All of the systems with radiation satellites to be scanned are part of the patrol anyway, after you have done them all, you'll have a ton of radiation reports, and only need to do one more system to complete your patrol. You get marks for the patrol, marks for the Radiation Satellites mission if I recall correctly, and if you hand in 300 radiation samples, more marks.
Likewise on the ground. Stack them up - most of the ground missions on New Romulus take less than 10 minutes, but only reward a few marks. BUT - usually there are radiation areas in each of the ground areas, scan them too - it doesn't take long to get up to 300 radiation reports to turn in. Also, you can get 5 more marks for doing the 1 zone Foreman Kylor wants to to help in with the daily Beginning of a New Future.
Absolutely despise the ground? OK - with the new daily, do one of anything. For 5 minutes of taking water samples, dispersing bugs, and tagging Nanovs, you get 65 marks in the Atlai. Less time than a queued mission in most cases. Or run Azure Nebula, you're going to get the daily bonus with anything.
I know everyone likes to pew pew all the time, but I personally find Romulan Marks the easiest, and while the tagging of Epohhs is laughable, the rest of the New Romulus zone feels more "Starfleet" than alot of the game's content.
Give them all a try , admittedly there is no "5 minute ISE" for Romulan marks, but there are plenty of easy ways to get them, especially if you tag Epohhs, scan radiation, and do one ground mission a day - the long term payout is decent.
I have been saying this for some time now. The usual response I would always get is to do New Romulus missions. Well I don't want to do New Romulus ground missions where are the Elite STFs in space?!?!
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Why doesn't anyone talk about Defend Rh'Ihho Station? I'll compare the rewards to Azure Nebula:
Azure - for ~16 minutes play, you get 24 marks if you perfect it
Rh'Ihho - for ~10 mins, you get 28 if you mess up (I think 35 if you ace it)
[These totals exclude the daily reward of 55 marks]
It may not be as rewarding as the Tau Dewa patrol, and in spite of how many marks you can get from Epohh grinding, I feel the rewards aren't enough for the time invested to make it feasible (with the exception of holding on to them till a mark event comes along).
Maybe no one talks about Rh'Ihho because it's a ground map . Say what you will, but it's the only one where you get to fight Elachi soldiers + tactics
Romulan Marks are hard, but easier now witht he daily benefit of 55.
Again zz. NO. Romulan Marks are maybe the easiest mark types to get. People seem to dont have any clue on how or where to get em.. lol. I repeat, there are literally dozens of more ways to gather romulan marks than any other reputation type. Now, if you only know 1 place or 1 way to get em.. well, thats another story..
Rom marks are the easiest to get because of epohhs...
Yes, but not only that. Eppoh is the fastest way, but there are dozens of more ways besides that.
If you like New Romulus, you dont need anything else. In about 1 hour i ended with more than 200 romulan marks back in the day (plus the research doff assigments) mixing new romulus with radiation report, tau dewa patrol, sometimes eppoh stuff but ironically, i never focused on eppoh research lol. I ended with 2 evolved eppohs and i never sold em.. i know 200-250 romulan marks in 1 hour is not too much, but i never needed anymore. I never was in a hurry.
Now this is the same story, people dont like to stick around New Romulus because there is only a little fight in there and it is more focused on to enjoy the ambient?? well, i dont like the dyson ground battlezone, or some STFs (actually right now, none of em). So??, it is not supossed to like everything..
Elachi Alert was fanrastic but they took it away because it poned...totally tore up all of the other romulan content combined
It didnt look good for 1 mission to totally wipe out all that poor content they made for new romuls
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Saphire.. Science ground......Ko'el Romulan space Tac
Leva........Tactical ground.....Koj Romulan space Eng
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Why doesn't anyone talk about Defend Rh'Ihho Station? I'll compare the rewards to Azure Nebula:
Azure - for ~16 minutes play, you get 24 marks if you perfect it
Rh'Ihho - for ~10 mins, you get 28 if you mess up (I think 35 if you ace it)
[These totals exclude the daily reward of 55 marks]
It may not be as rewarding as the Tau Dewa patrol, and in spite of how many marks you can get from Epohh grinding, I feel the rewards aren't enough for the time invested to make it feasible (with the exception of holding on to them till a mark event comes along).
Maybe no one talks about Rh'Ihho because it's a ground map . Say what you will, but it's the only one where you get to fight Elachi soldiers + tactics
Agreed. That ground STF is one of the few very doable missions for any player new and vet with decent payout for the little time it takes.
We also desperately need a Space version equivalent of the CE/Borg STF events for higher end payout of Rom marks.
Romulan Marks from the various regional assignments and red alerts could use a 50% boost but honestly with Epohhs it's fairly easy to be rolling in marks.
Azure Nebula could use a flat 15 mark boost too, IMO.
I remain empathetic to the concerns of my community, but do me a favor and lay off the god damn name calling and petty remarks. It will get you nowhere.
I must admit, respect points to Trendy for laying down the law like that.
Personally, I hate doing any mission on New Romulus itself. The whole map lags me to hell and I find iit annoying so I refuse to do epohh tagging. Same goes for Dyson Battlezone. I do it sometimes, with gritting teeth but I try to ignore it and even got to T5 without doing it more than once. I dislike group/teamed ground combat and prefer to solo but, that's just my taste. I think the issue is that compared individually, it is much easier to get certain reputation marks in PVE queued content than others which makes it feel like the availability is varied.
Now, for myself? I am not going to complain. With the daily bonus, I can at least get ahead a little more than the way I was doing it by relying only on the very little amounts I could scrounge up. But I would like possibly just one more PVE event that also has an Elite version for a few extra. But even if they don't come out with one, I will make due.. but I won't do it on the ground.
Epohhs require some start-up time, yes. But once they get flowing, they flow like water.
Yeah ... I dunno about this poster ... I mean ... You get 2 Epohh Tags without really trying (hint: you can get more by "teaming" with another player apparently) So 2 days and you have enough to do the research mission ...
My advice is spend the 1 to 2 Million EC and get at least 1 Purple Biologist, they can be very useful for many other missions as well ... With 1 or 2 Purple/Blue Biologists, you can get 2 or 3 Epohh Research" cards on a Crit ... So another 2 to 3 days ... In the mean time, you are also continuing to Tag Epohh's each day right? To keep your stock of Tags up, right?
Then 3 days to "raise" the Epohh to Elder, less if you Crit. with, you guessed it, those Purple/Blue Biologists you bought ...
In the mean time, you've still been collecting Epohh Tags right? So all up you can have 400 Marks in around 5 days, even on a "first run" ... And as mentioned previously, once you get into a routine (and if you have enough EC for 2 or 3 Purple/Blue Biologists) you can have an almost continuous stream of 1200+ Romulan Marks a week, all for about 10 mins work a day (if that!).
Yeah ... I dunno about this poster ... I mean ... You get 2 Epohh Tags without really trying (hint: you can get more by "teaming" with another player apparently) So 2 days and you have enough to do the research mission ...
My advice is spend the 1 to 2 Million EC and get at least 1 Purple Biologist, they can be very useful for many other missions as well ... With 1 or 2 Purple/Blue Biologists, you can get 2 or 3 Epohh Research" cards on a Crit ... So another 2 to 3 days ... In the mean time, you are also continuing to Tag Epohh's each day right? To keep your stock of Tags up, right?
Then 3 days to "raise" the Epohh to Elder, less if you Crit. with, you guessed it, those Purple/Blue Biologists you bought ...
In the mean time, you've still been collecting Epohh Tags right? So all up you can have 400 Marks in around 5 days, even on a "first run" ... And as mentioned previously, once you get into a routine (and if you have enough EC for 2 or 3 Purple/Blue Biologists) you can have an almost continuous stream of 1200+ Romulan Marks a week, all for about 10 mins work a day (if that!).
I don't think any other Rep is THAT easy ...
Post-season 9, Omega space STFs get you 300-something for about half an hour of play. No running around, no begging for teammates, no spending money on special doffs, just playing by making Borg wish they were never born.
I didn't join this game to work, I have college for that. I would be perfectly happy to just play Elachi Alert a couple times a day, especially since I only actually need Romulan TRIBBLE on one toon (and even then just the beam and console), and once they bring it back for a weekend event this month you won't see me on New Romulus for a while.
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Nakura marks are pretty hard to get a hold of too. There's never anyone doing the STFs for them.
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.
You get plenty of Nukara marks from the CE. I can easily get 60 + the 55 daily.
With Mine Trap's queue numbers being dismal, and with more queued PvE content showing up while still being restricted to 3 things to queue up for at a time, yes... we are in need of better ways to get Romulan Marks.
I'd suggest getting rid of the queue limits, or at least expanding the limit.
Because as it is, people will just pick 3 of the most populated missions to do since it means getting the pop-up faster.
This leaves things like Mine Trap to languish, while more people do either the Undine content for marks, or stick to 'safe' missions like Fleet Alert or Starbase Fleet Defense for fleet marks.
What's the point of Cryptic developing more PvE queued content when we're all restricted to choosing 3 at a time? Obviously there are going to be 'false choices' as a result.
sufice to say that raising epohh takes about 2 minutes a day and once you get on a roll will get you 400 marks in about a week.
i still raise epohh now even though i have completed t5 on all my characters but i turn all the marks in every now and then for dilithium.
you get 4000 dilithium from every 400 romulan marks you turn in or 6000 if you wait for a dilithium weekend, and it is surprising how many marks you can accrue between dilithium weekends.
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and if that journey takes a little longer,
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Oh trust me, I'm familiar with your work . I was just a little intrigued by the fact that you automatically assume everyone knows who you are. A passing thought, don't pay special attention to it.
Well, anytime I see a thread talking about either epohhs directly or about needing Romulan marks, or even just Romulan rep, I try and make a post in it. Not really to be a jerk about it, but more for posterity's sake. And sometimes a person who might be asking about all that may honestly not know, in which case, I can help them out.
Yeah ... I dunno about this poster ... I mean ... You get 2 Epohh Tags without really trying (hint: you can get more by "teaming" with another player apparently) So 2 days and you have enough to do the research mission ...
My advice is spend the 1 to 2 Million EC and get at least 1 Purple Biologist, they can be very useful for many other missions as well ... With 1 or 2 Purple/Blue Biologists, you can get 2 or 3 Epohh Research" cards on a Crit ... So another 2 to 3 days ... In the mean time, you are also continuing to Tag Epohh's each day right? To keep your stock of Tags up, right?
Then 3 days to "raise" the Epohh to Elder, less if you Crit. with, you guessed it, those Purple/Blue Biologists you bought ...
In the mean time, you've still been collecting Epohh Tags right? So all up you can have 400 Marks in around 5 days, even on a "first run" ... And as mentioned previously, once you get into a routine (and if you have enough EC for 2 or 3 Purple/Blue Biologists) you can have an almost continuous stream of 1200+ Romulan Marks a week, all for about 10 mins work a day (if that!).
I don't think any other Rep is THAT easy ...
A couple things to fix in your post.
You actually do not want to use a Biologist, as that actually hurts your chances of critting. Normal success rate overrides critical success, so having a Biologist will lower your crit chances.
Your best options for critting actually lie in either using Paradan DOFFs (which you can buy on the exchange or get through DOFFing) or by getting the El-Aurian DOFFs from the Hromi Cluster chain of DOFF missions. Do make sure you get a science DOFF though, as that is the minimum requirement.
1,200 Romulan marks is unrealistic IMO. At minimum, if all the RNG gods smile upon a person and you get 4 active epohh tags a day, you will get an epohh pup on the 3rd day, and turn it in for marks by the 6th day. But that's essentially a 'perfect' bout of luck as well. I've generally always thought of it as 'never presume you will ever crit the research mission', just less stressful that way. At best for an average, you 'might' get about 400 a week once you get a cycle going.
Also, critting the epohh raising will not shorten the time it takes to raise an epohh. It's 3 days from pup to elder, that cannot be made shorter. Critting a normal epohh from New Romulus for Romulan marks is only important if you are a pet collector. HOWEVER it is more important to crit Winter epohhs because that does indeed give you more marks (same thing goes for Risian birds)
I remain empathetic to the concerns of my community, but do me a favor and lay off the god damn name calling and petty remarks. It will get you nowhere.
I must admit, respect points to Trendy for laying down the law like that.
i still raise epohh now even though i have completed t5 on all my characters but i turn all the marks in every now and then for dilithium.
Another use for spare Rommy marks is that new Hourly conversion that gives a Romulan Rep item box plus dilithium. The conversion rate actually works out better than the 50->500, and you have a chance of getting Mk XII Romulan Plasma ship weapons, which is handy if (like me) you just PvE and thus can get away with using Mk XI plasma weapons off the Exchange... but wouldn't mind having the best stuff.
The one that gets me that's entirely stupidly hard is the atmospheric attack. It's like someone made the mobs there all have 100% hit rating, and didn't take into account that all shuttles are limited to 1-2 boffs for skills. You practically have to fenagle together something special from gear from other ships and consoles that are typically bad for starships just to do damage and to stay alive. And since most players don't have any idea what I'm talking about they go in there and die like crazy ending up making it a 45 minute disaster for no marks. Who designed that area anyways?!?
I completely agree with you guys on many points, the romulans need an update on getting marks especially on ground missions, and that one space one I just mentioned, and the ground area on Defera can use a huge upgrade on how many marks you get and what you have to do to get them. Those borg down there are actually harder to kill than the STF borg which is not balanced and the terribly tiny amount of points you get from doing those is nowhere near Dyson level either.
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If you just want to level up a reputation without wanting more than a console from it, it's easy for all of them. People already posted how. The rep revamp also made the reps fairly cheap. If you use a sponsor token, you only need 625 marks for the complete rep. That's less than a week to get those marks if you play ISE once each day.
True, but it's a dreadfully banal activity.
Many of us like STO because it's Star Trek. We want to be flying around in space ships shooting stuff, not running around on the ground chasing small furry animals.
Sure it only takes a few minutes every day but it's a few minutes EVERY DAY during which you repeat a DREADFULLY BORING activity. Both the game's ship and ground combat are pretty good and other mark types can be earned at a decent rate doing those. Not so Romulan marks, however.
It is a problem.
I'm guessing it's not as easy to find a group to max out the tags everyday, but still you should be able to get enough every other day. And 400 for a couple minutes work is pretty good return.
I went tagging crazy and my main toon has over 15000 Rom Marks left after buying everything!
Another thing that just opened up with the daily Rep bonus, is the fact that the ground instances on New Romulus now count for it, which makes the reward for doing them 65 Marks (instead of the previous rather laughable 10) if you're only doing one Rep-related mission a day. It at least adds some variety.
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Before the daily bonus - Epohh Tagging. It takes a few days to get it rolling, but the payoff is good for very little effort.
Don't like the bunnies? OK - combine Taw Dewa Sector Patrol WITH the Radiation Report mission given by the Romulan in the Staging Area. This let you kill two birds with one stone. All of the systems with radiation satellites to be scanned are part of the patrol anyway, after you have done them all, you'll have a ton of radiation reports, and only need to do one more system to complete your patrol. You get marks for the patrol, marks for the Radiation Satellites mission if I recall correctly, and if you hand in 300 radiation samples, more marks.
Likewise on the ground. Stack them up - most of the ground missions on New Romulus take less than 10 minutes, but only reward a few marks. BUT - usually there are radiation areas in each of the ground areas, scan them too - it doesn't take long to get up to 300 radiation reports to turn in. Also, you can get 5 more marks for doing the 1 zone Foreman Kylor wants to to help in with the daily Beginning of a New Future.
Absolutely despise the ground? OK - with the new daily, do one of anything. For 5 minutes of taking water samples, dispersing bugs, and tagging Nanovs, you get 65 marks in the Atlai. Less time than a queued mission in most cases. Or run Azure Nebula, you're going to get the daily bonus with anything.
I know everyone likes to pew pew all the time, but I personally find Romulan Marks the easiest, and while the tagging of Epohhs is laughable, the rest of the New Romulus zone feels more "Starfleet" than alot of the game's content.
Give them all a try
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Azure - for ~16 minutes play, you get 24 marks if you perfect it
Rh'Ihho - for ~10 mins, you get 28 if you mess up (I think 35 if you ace it)
[These totals exclude the daily reward of 55 marks]
It may not be as rewarding as the Tau Dewa patrol, and in spite of how many marks you can get from Epohh grinding, I feel the rewards aren't enough for the time invested to make it feasible (with the exception of holding on to them till a mark event comes along).
Maybe no one talks about Rh'Ihho because it's a ground map
Again zz. NO. Romulan Marks are maybe the easiest mark types to get. People seem to dont have any clue on how or where to get em.. lol. I repeat, there are literally dozens of more ways to gather romulan marks than any other reputation type. Now, if you only know 1 place or 1 way to get em.. well, thats another story..
Yes, but not only that. Eppoh is the fastest way, but there are dozens of more ways besides that.
If you like New Romulus, you dont need anything else. In about 1 hour i ended with more than 200 romulan marks back in the day (plus the research doff assigments) mixing new romulus with radiation report, tau dewa patrol, sometimes eppoh stuff but ironically, i never focused on eppoh research lol. I ended with 2 evolved eppohs and i never sold em.. i know 200-250 romulan marks in 1 hour is not too much, but i never needed anymore. I never was in a hurry.
Now this is the same story, people dont like to stick around New Romulus because there is only a little fight in there and it is more focused on to enjoy the ambient?? well, i dont like the dyson ground battlezone, or some STFs (actually right now, none of em). So??, it is not supossed to like everything..
Elachi Alert was fanrastic but they took it away because it poned...totally tore up all of the other romulan content combined
It didnt look good for 1 mission to totally wipe out all that poor content they made for new romuls
Saphire.. Science ground......Ko'el Romulan space Tac
Leva........Tactical ground.....Koj Romulan space Eng
JJ-Verse will never be Canon or considered Lore...It will always be JJ-Verse
Agreed. That ground STF is one of the few very doable missions for any player new and vet with decent payout for the little time it takes.
We also desperately need a Space version equivalent of the CE/Borg STF events for higher end payout of Rom marks.
Azure Nebula could use a flat 15 mark boost too, IMO.
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Not sure if you are joking or serious. Not trying to be insulting or anything with that comment of course.
But...yeah, it is a true statement. *points at epohh guide I wrote*
Now, for myself? I am not going to complain. With the daily bonus, I can at least get ahead a little more than the way I was doing it by relying only on the very little amounts I could scrounge up. But I would like possibly just one more PVE event that also has an Elite version for a few extra. But even if they don't come out with one, I will make due.. but I won't do it on the ground.
How long does it take to get any of the little rabbit things! Well over a week of smacking my head against the monitor glass!
You need to get 4 Eppoh tags, which is 2 per 24hr period.
That gives you 1 Romulan Research and you need 5 of them before you get any Eppohs to start raising.
Thats 9 days, count em, 9 days before you get any Rom rabbits to raise.
i think i'll go stare at a wet wall and watch it dry. :mad:
Epohhs require some start-up time, yes. But once they get flowing, they flow like water.
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Yeah ... I dunno about this poster ... I mean ... You get 2 Epohh Tags without really trying (hint: you can get more by "teaming" with another player apparently) So 2 days and you have enough to do the research mission ...
My advice is spend the 1 to 2 Million EC and get at least 1 Purple Biologist, they can be very useful for many other missions as well ... With 1 or 2 Purple/Blue Biologists, you can get 2 or 3 Epohh Research" cards on a Crit ... So another 2 to 3 days ... In the mean time, you are also continuing to Tag Epohh's each day right? To keep your stock of Tags up, right?
Then 3 days to "raise" the Epohh to Elder, less if you Crit. with, you guessed it, those Purple/Blue Biologists you bought ...
In the mean time, you've still been collecting Epohh Tags right? So all up you can have 400 Marks in around 5 days, even on a "first run" ... And as mentioned previously, once you get into a routine (and if you have enough EC for 2 or 3 Purple/Blue Biologists) you can have an almost continuous stream of 1200+ Romulan Marks a week, all for about 10 mins work a day (if that!).
I don't think any other Rep is THAT easy ...
Post-season 9, Omega space STFs get you 300-something for about half an hour of play. No running around, no begging for teammates, no spending money on special doffs, just playing by making Borg wish they were never born.
I didn't join this game to work, I have college for that. I would be perfectly happy to just play Elachi Alert a couple times a day, especially since I only actually need Romulan TRIBBLE on one toon (and even then just the beam and console), and once they bring it back for a weekend event this month you won't see me on New Romulus for a while.
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You get plenty of Nukara marks from the CE. I can easily get 60 + the 55 daily.
I'd suggest getting rid of the queue limits, or at least expanding the limit.
Because as it is, people will just pick 3 of the most populated missions to do since it means getting the pop-up faster.
This leaves things like Mine Trap to languish, while more people do either the Undine content for marks, or stick to 'safe' missions like Fleet Alert or Starbase Fleet Defense for fleet marks.
What's the point of Cryptic developing more PvE queued content when we're all restricted to choosing 3 at a time? Obviously there are going to be 'false choices' as a result.
you can find a guide to raising epohh here -
http://sto-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?t=469481
sufice to say that raising epohh takes about 2 minutes a day and once you get on a roll will get you 400 marks in about a week.
i still raise epohh now even though i have completed t5 on all my characters but i turn all the marks in every now and then for dilithium.
you get 4000 dilithium from every 400 romulan marks you turn in or 6000 if you wait for a dilithium weekend, and it is surprising how many marks you can accrue between dilithium weekends.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
Well, anytime I see a thread talking about either epohhs directly or about needing Romulan marks, or even just Romulan rep, I try and make a post in it. Not really to be a jerk about it, but more for posterity's sake. And sometimes a person who might be asking about all that may honestly not know, in which case, I can help them out.
A couple things to fix in your post.
You actually do not want to use a Biologist, as that actually hurts your chances of critting. Normal success rate overrides critical success, so having a Biologist will lower your crit chances.
Your best options for critting actually lie in either using Paradan DOFFs (which you can buy on the exchange or get through DOFFing) or by getting the El-Aurian DOFFs from the Hromi Cluster chain of DOFF missions. Do make sure you get a science DOFF though, as that is the minimum requirement.
1,200 Romulan marks is unrealistic IMO. At minimum, if all the RNG gods smile upon a person and you get 4 active epohh tags a day, you will get an epohh pup on the 3rd day, and turn it in for marks by the 6th day. But that's essentially a 'perfect' bout of luck as well. I've generally always thought of it as 'never presume you will ever crit the research mission', just less stressful that way. At best for an average, you 'might' get about 400 a week once you get a cycle going.
Also, critting the epohh raising will not shorten the time it takes to raise an epohh. It's 3 days from pup to elder, that cannot be made shorter. Critting a normal epohh from New Romulus for Romulan marks is only important if you are a pet collector. HOWEVER it is more important to crit Winter epohhs because that does indeed give you more marks (same thing goes for Risian birds)
Another use for spare Rommy marks is that new Hourly conversion that gives a Romulan Rep item box plus dilithium. The conversion rate actually works out better than the 50->500, and you have a chance of getting Mk XII Romulan Plasma ship weapons, which is handy if (like me) you just PvE and thus can get away with using Mk XI plasma weapons off the Exchange... but wouldn't mind having the best stuff.
I completely agree with you guys on many points, the romulans need an update on getting marks especially on ground missions, and that one space one I just mentioned, and the ground area on Defera can use a huge upgrade on how many marks you get and what you have to do to get them. Those borg down there are actually harder to kill than the STF borg which is not balanced and the terribly tiny amount of points you get from doing those is nowhere near Dyson level either.
They both need upgrades.