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How can my alt do Dyson Sphere rep?

realisticaltyrealisticalty Member Posts: 851 Arc User
edited August 2014 in The Academy
He hasn't done much of the content, and flew out to the Gateway.

Got there, and was told that in order to do the "Circles Within Circles" (Dyson Sphere introduction mission) I had to either do or skip the Sphere of Influence from my mission journal.

I saw it there in progress, so dropped it. Now its grayed out when I click on the epsiode list so I can't do anything further with it.

So the mission to introduce me to the Dyson Sphere still won't let me pass and I have no options.

Please tell me there is another way to do Dyson rep without going through hours and hours and hours of content?
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  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Is your alt level 50?

    You apparently had the mission prior and now dropped it. Thing is those Feature Episodes were temporarily available at lower levels (I think 10 or 11).

    If you're not level 50 (which is the current requirement for the mission), you won't be able to start/skip it.


    And just btw. all the Dyson sphere content (and all the reputations except events) is level 50 anyway. So even if you had not dropped the mission and played it, you couldn't get to play in the sphere.
    TOIVA, Toi Vaxx, Toia Vix, Toveg, T'vritha, To Vrax: Bring in the Allegiance class.
    Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
    Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.

    Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
  • bendalekbendalek Member Posts: 1,781 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Are you in a Fleet? IF so you can visit your "Fleet" Spire, then open up the 'Traffic Control" and click on "Allied Sphere Space".

    That will take you to the 'Public' Sphere, from there you'll need to fly forward a little bit until you reach either the battle zone spawn area or keep going until you reach the Joint Command "Arch"
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  • jarodroto123jarodroto123 Member Posts: 1,337 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    toiva wrote: »
    Is your alt level 50?

    You apparently had the mission prior and now dropped it. Thing is those Feature Episodes were temporarily available at lower levels (I think 10 or 11).

    If you're not level 50 (which is the current requirement for the mission), you won't be able to start/skip it.


    And just btw. all the Dyson sphere content (and all the reputations except events) is level 50 anyway. So even if you had not dropped the mission and played it, you couldn't get to play in the sphere.

    Actually, if you got your lower level characters through the missions when Influence was an FE, you could level them in the sphere
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  • baddmoonrizinbaddmoonrizin Member Posts: 11,441 Community Moderator
    edited August 2014
    Thing is, unless you're Level 50, none of the Reputation Tracks are available anyway to run Projects, regardless of whether you're able to earn the appropriate Marks to complete said Projects.
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  • scottstatenscottstaten Member Posts: 92 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    I'm going to assume your ALT is level 50 an somewhere in an earlier part of the Episodes than the sphere stuff.

    The trick is, the episodes are sequential, you need to do, or skip, each episode IN ORDER until you get to Sphere of influence, hten you can do or skip it as you prefer.

    Once that is done, you can enter the sphere.
  • realisticaltyrealisticalty Member Posts: 851 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Yes, my alt is level 50. I've been using him for Doffing and grinding Dili until now, just decided to outfit him, equip him, and start grinding rep in preparation for the expansion.

    I only did a few early (fed) missions, and I was just surprised I couldn't use the gateway. That idea of going through the fleet spire and flying out to the battlezone is a good idea. Transwarp would be so much more convenient. (I wish I could remember how it was added to the transwap list, was it a mission, or will just flying there and having "been" there do the trick?)

    So a new player levelling to 50 needs to do (or skip through) piles of content before he/she can start on Dyson rep? Somehow that doesn't seem right.

    (I had started the sphere during FE but just ran out of time and never got to finish it...) I naturally assumed I needed to drop it to "skip" it, in hindsight I should/could have completed it but the message implied all I had to do was "skip" it.

    Oh well...maybe I'll skip through it all and go back when I feel I want to spend the time....
  • tenkaritenkari Member Posts: 2,906 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    um, if you only played a couple missions... your going to have to go through your mission journal and skip EVERYTHING you havent done from the last mission you did, till the dyson stuff. there are a few missions you cant skip, but those are generally the "Introduction" missions. so aside from spending time going from one sector to another, it shouldnt take long.
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  • tenkaritenkari Member Posts: 2,906 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    westmetals wrote: »
    Realistic... you do not have to have access to (or be in) the Sphere to do the Dyson and/or Undine reps. See my earlier post (you can get the marks via the PVE queue).

    still need access to the sphere to get the T5 reward though.
  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    Yes, my alt is level 50. I've been using him for Doffing and grinding Dili until now, just decided to outfit him, equip him, and start grinding rep in preparation for the expansion.

    I only did a few early (fed) missions, and I was just surprised I couldn't use the gateway. That idea of going through the fleet spire and flying out to the battlezone is a good idea. Transwarp would be so much more convenient. (I wish I could remember how it was added to the transwap list, was it a mission, or will just flying there and having "been" there do the trick?)

    So a new player levelling to 50 needs to do (or skip through) piles of content before he/she can start on Dyson rep? Somehow that doesn't seem right.

    (I had started the sphere during FE but just ran out of time and never got to finish it...) I naturally assumed I needed to drop it to "skip" it, in hindsight I should/could have completed it but the message implied all I had to do was "skip" it.

    Oh well...maybe I'll skip through it all and go back when I feel I want to spend the time....

    Skipping through it all does only take a minute or so. It seems you don't know about the 'skip' button you have to click in order to skip a mission. It's located under all missions in the Episodes tab from the journal (default 'J').

    (As already said, there are a couple 'introduction' missions that require you to get somewhere and they're done. Those tend to be unskippable - the button is greyed.)
    TOIVA, Toi Vaxx, Toia Vix, Toveg, T'vritha, To Vrax: Bring in the Allegiance class.
    Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
    Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.

    Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
  • realisticaltyrealisticalty Member Posts: 851 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    toiva wrote: »
    Skipping through it all does only take a minute or so. It seems you don't know about the 'skip' button you have to click in order to skip a mission. It's located under all missions in the Episodes tab from the journal (default 'J').

    (As already said, there are a couple 'introduction' missions that require you to get somewhere and they're done. Those tend to be unskippable - the button is greyed.)

    I do indeed know about the skip button. I have been known to use it on occasion. A new player may not, and that's one reason I asked, not just for me, but for the new player who comes across that message.

    I'm just deciding whether I want to skip through it all or maybe do it anyway. I was just originally s'prised I got that message, is all, I hadn't realized how close the content was tied to the battlezones (or at least the Dyson Sphere) because I'd done all the content on my main first awhile back.

    I tend to be a flower sniffer in content, this time I might just go ber-zerger.
  • bendalekbendalek Member Posts: 1,781 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    I think the option for Transwap to "Allied Sphere Space" is a Fleet Project Unlock, or unlocks automatically with a certain upgrade to one of the Fleet Holdings (probably the Fleet's Spire, It's been a while)

    It's the easiest way I know of really ... I had a similar problem with an Alt, that hadn't done all the "story" missions, but was at higher tiers of the Rep, and kept running into the 'error of being ineligible to enter the Sphere Gateway.

    Which is kinda' annoying, though probably logical ... You shouldn't "technically" be doing the Dyson stuff, until AFTER completing the Romulan Reputation, but who could be bothered waiting for that?

    Maybe Cryptic, in their infinite wisdom, needs to have a closer look at the Rep system, and make it flow better, and have the reps, "tie in" to each other?
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  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    I do indeed know about the skip button. I have been known to use it on occasion. A new player may not, and that's one reason I asked, not just for me, but for the new player who comes across that message.

    I'm just deciding whether I want to skip through it all or maybe do it anyway. I was just originally s'prised I got that message, is all, I hadn't realized how close the content was tied to the battlezones (or at least the Dyson Sphere) because I'd done all the content on my main first awhile back.

    I tend to be a flower sniffer in content, this time I might just go ber-zerger.

    It's not like skipping missions erases them from existence. You can skip them all now to get to one mission you happen to currently need completing and later play them when you have time.


    For your 4th, 5th, 6th, ... or 11th character, you'll be glad you can skip missions and only play those that reward the Subspace Field Modulator or perhaps some of the item sets.


    Oh, and the 'Traswarp to Allied Sphere space' unlock is definitely not related to fleet transwarps. I've got it and have been having for a long tme. Either it's unlocked by playing one of the later feature episodes or maybe by getting Tier 1 in Dyson Rep (like transwarp to Tau Dewa on New Romulus Tier 1 rep or Defera on Omega Tier 1).
    TOIVA, Toi Vaxx, Toia Vix, Toveg, T'vritha, To Vrax: Bring in the Allegiance class.
    Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
    Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.

    Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
  • kamenriderzero1kamenriderzero1 Member Posts: 906 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    It's tier 1 rep reward, but it's not much more to jump to your fleet spire and just select to travel to sphere allied space from the traffic control menu.

    Most of my alts go that way to avoid being forced into the introductory with Sub commander K-hole... Serioulys dude, I'm 4 pay grades above you, stop bossing me around.
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  • bendalekbendalek Member Posts: 1,781 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    It's tier 1 rep reward, but it's not much more to jump to your fleet spire and just select to travel to sphere allied space from the traffic control menu.

    My bad ... I thought it might be like the Omega battle Group unlock ...

    I use the Sponsorship Tokens, and always get mt Alts to T5 on all Reps "just in case" even if they never use any of the gear, So i must have unlocked it when I got to T1 (which only takes 2 days with the Token. ...
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  • toivatoiva Member Posts: 3,276 Arc User
    edited August 2014
    bendalek wrote: »
    My bad ... I thought it might be like the Omega battle Group unlock ...

    I use the Sponsorship Tokens, and always get mt Alts to T5 on all Reps "just in case" even if they never use any of the gear, So i must have unlocked it when I got to T1 (which only takes 2 days with the Token. ...

    1 day with the token. Tier 1 is 5k XP. The daily is 2500 XP times 2 for token.
    TOIVA, Toi Vaxx, Toia Vix, Toveg, T'vritha, To Vrax: Bring in the Allegiance class.
    Toi'Va, Ti'vath, Toivia, Ty'Vris, Tia Vex, Toi'Virth: Add Tier 6 KDF Carrier and Raider.
    Tae'Va, T'Vaya, To'Var, Tevra, T'Vira, To'Vrak: Give us Asylums for Romulans.

    Don't make ARC mandatory! Keep it optional only!
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