Reputation Rewards

nyxadrill

Good day fellow forumites

I have a question for any passing dev's (Or Trendy with a baconite response) and for the general population.

The reputation rewards

I do love the new format of setting off a reputation project and getting a reward. Some of my characters have got some useful beam arrays and beam banks from the Undine and Romulan reputations. Enough to encourage me to experiment with different builds

The Omega reputation projects, however, have only ever rewarded me with rifles or pistols. Is this by design or has anyone ever got anything else out of the reward packs?

Don't get me wrong I'm not complaining. Far from it as anything that's dropped is worth EC and vended if not required.

Its just that I have a small arsenal developing in my inventory from Omega Rep rewards that could be used for a major assault on Borg kind :P

bendalek

I'd have to agree, and concur, that the drops don't seem quite "random" enough ...

Personally, I'm a little over the reward boxes, as about 85% of the drops are just vendor trash, which seems a little pointless ...

They could do 1 of 2 things to improve the issue enormously ...

1) Give you a Rep Store 'Token" to purchase an item of your choosing from the available options ... maybe you wanted a DBB instead of a BA or a Split Beam instead of a Pulsewave (and Nukara giving EV suits, when I already have the Solanae Sentinel EV suit? pfft)

2) Make the items "Bound to Account" not "Bind on Pickup" ... I know this one would be very unlikely, but there have been many occasions when I've received a drop that would be perfect for an Alt, alas bound to character means it's once again vendor trash ... Just seems like such a waste!

decronia

It's by design. Everything you get randomly is what you can buy from the rep stores for dil, though they added the MK XI gear which they removed from the stores and blue quality gear.

I think they should have added all the MK X and XI gear to the random chance, even the stuff we had to use marks and dil for like the ship sets, ground sets etc.

I agree bendalek with account bound, but I would add a restriction that the character needs to be at the right rep level to equip them. Without this restriction you could equip an alt with rep gear without ever having to level it.

ltminns

Yeah, I have gotten enough ground weapons to arm my own militia. Up at the higher Tiers you may get space weapons from Nakura (Tetryon), Romulan (Romulan Plasma), and Dyson (Protonic Polaron). I have noted that the Romulan ones are pretty good Very Rare; Nakura is also Very Rare stuff too, but the space weapons from Dyson seem to be more Rare. Then their you get those silly consoles as well.

Omega will never give you space weapons - they don't exist except for the Rep projects; look at their Store - ground weapons, Doffs, and consumables only.

I have gotten a one or two Borg Neural Processors, or Isomorphic Injections from the boxes as well.

You are right about making the non-rep stuff Bind to Account instead. I have a newer VA Romulan just fitting out that could use the Romulan Plasma more that other characters on the account that are also heading up through the rep system.

nyxadrill

ltminns wrote: »

Omega will never give you space weapons - they don't exist except for the Rep projects; look at their Store - ground weapons, Doffs, and consumables only.

It never even crossed my mind to check the actual store lol When we had the original system, before the new reps, you used to be able to buy borg anti-proton space weapons. I know they are underpowered compared to Fleet or even Dil store versions but I'd find those a lot more useful than having an inventory that would make a Ferengi weapons dealer blush lol

ltminns wrote: »

I have gotten a one or two Borg Neural Processors, or Isomorphic Injections from the boxes as well.

you're right I've had those too. Few and far between though.

ltminns wrote: »

You are right about making the non-rep stuff Bind to Account instead. I have a newer VA Romulan just fitting out that could use the Romulan Plasma more that other characters on the account that are also heading up through the rep system.

Yep, I'd agree with this too.

captaind3

decronia wrote: »

It's by design. Everything you get randomly is what you can buy from the rep stores for dil, though they added the MK XI gear which they removed from the stores and blue quality gear.

I think they should have added all the MK X and XI gear to the random chance, even the stuff we had to use marks and dil for like the ship sets, ground sets etc.

I agree bendalek with account bound, but I would add a restriction that the character needs to be at the right rep level to equip them. Without this restriction you could equip an alt with rep gear without ever having to level it.

That actually ticks me off though.

With the Undine Rep, when I get a weapon it's MkXII

When I go into the Romulan Rep Store it's MkXII. When I open a reward pack, I'm getting Mk XI weapons that I can't buy. They were supposed to have removed the less than MkXII gear from all the stores, I don't want them in the reward packs I'm not going to use them. Why would I replace Mk XII with Mk XI.