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Yet Another Rep. It will never End!
darin010
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Delta Rep....Really again... another one..I have played this game for a while and I have done all the Reps to the point I am warn out on them. I don't know about any one else and I would not assume I speak for everyone nor even all the members of my own fleet. But it shows to me the Dev's some how know how fast we will rip thought Delta and have already set up some mindless grinds for us to do to keep us busy. As in Grind Craft as I like to call it.
This game can not be made up of a week or less (depending on play) of content then a few months of grind's for things that will be useless before the next major update in a year or so. I have said in many threds that we don't need new Reps we need Star Trek Content. As much money and effort that they put into these Reps we could have had some good missions or new exploration platforms or some type of random generated STF's would be a nice change. We all go to the same few STF's for this mark or that mark only to get burnt out.
I ask all of you to tell me what you think about this. I would also like some ideas for things other then Reps that we would all like to see in the game. Thank you for taking time to read this.
Darin.
This game can not be made up of a week or less (depending on play) of content then a few months of grind's for things that will be useless before the next major update in a year or so. I have said in many threds that we don't need new Reps we need Star Trek Content. As much money and effort that they put into these Reps we could have had some good missions or new exploration platforms or some type of random generated STF's would be a nice change. We all go to the same few STF's for this mark or that mark only to get burnt out.
I ask all of you to tell me what you think about this. I would also like some ideas for things other then Reps that we would all like to see in the game. Thank you for taking time to read this.
Darin.
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I don't mind new reps, but it's the same thing as before and they're just so boring to do. Fill sliders and wait. Rinse and repeat. *yawn* I was hoping Cryptic would do something more creative this time around.
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The timegates and the grinding, crafting, reputation and all those shenanigans you try to cope with is corperate lamers trying to suck you dry - it's not how it has to be or even should be.
You parading it around like it's some natural law you have to accept the decline of quality in products you pay for, well to hell with that
And let's be honest with ourselves here - if there wasn't a rep grind, some of us (present company possibly excluded) would tear through the new content in a matter of days, then once again start complaining that there's nothing to do.
Have to sit there and manually put in hypo sprays across characters for months on end filled me up with hate to this day.
I don't want developers to control when I log in and those blocked time gates only serve to fill me with more spite
It may take a while longer than those choosing to "grind" it out, but personally I'm happy to just play some new content, and enjoy a few new rep rewards as they come in.
In fact I rather enjoy the rep, it rewards me with a few new items for regular playing of the game, no money required.
I really don't see the need to hurry to reach the end of the reputation tracks asap.
Another new rep just like before i know a song this puts me in the mind of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2fbpCUmrTE
Next rep just like the rest
Im Cryptic /PWE i am
Cryptic/ PWE i am i am
We created a delta rep though
Weve copy pasta this several times before
and every one was a rep grind
we wont do anything but that
But we aint got no imagination were Cryptic
Cryptic / PWE i am i am
Cryptic / PWE i am
We must explore the galaxy to unlock more slots for our rep skills.
Whatever would make you think that Cryptic would NOT just slap on another rep grind? It's not like they're great thinkers or anything. Just pump out more of the same and hope the players don't leave.
Seriously, what does Cryptic have against pistols?
No, that's the point of internet TRIBBLE.
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As for me, I don't mind the Reps. As long they have story progression/ cutscenes. So in all, I only done the Dyson and Romulan Reps. As the others don't have story progression.
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And like the ones before them, they will be completely optional.
Well, one option I have always preferred are mini games that are actually fun little games. For example, one of the final fantasy games had a neat collectible card game built in where you collected cards as vendor trash loot, but could also use them in the CCG, and could even customize the rules of the game (like drawing or hand size) and the more you played with a custom rule the more it spread around the world. Or fable and fable 2 which had neat bar games including my favorite where you would try to flick a penny across an obstacle course made from beer bottles and shot glasses on your tabletop, if you got it in fewer flicks than the bet you won money. ********* has emote contests that unlock costumes and Sudoku and other actually fun minigames with spiffy loot rewards. A really old mmo (mud with an ultima 4-era sprite interface) called dark ages (no relation to dark ages of camelot) had pong, space invaders and Tetris reskinned to look like they fit in its fantasy setting, and again you gambled on the outcome potentially winning non-trivial amounts of cash.
The sto anomaly minigame really sucks by comparison.
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Have it where you have a daily and a monthly that is account wide and after such and such gets completed then your maxed in the given rep. That is one big reason they have poor player retention other than the you bought everything/no longer need any input from you attitude lol. Otherwise you got ppl who have grinded stuff to death and no longer ever want to revisit rep content when it had to be done so many times over and over. Plus the gear from this rep doesn't really appeal to me nor anything in the dev blogs its like cryptic wasted a whole year of development time on nothing.
The whole daily thing would be easy you get random tasks to do for each day in certain rep areas of the game and you only have to do it once so you can be playing the game for fun and not for grind. That though is the root of the problem with this game and how its been going is that its play to grind and not play for fun. Plus I hope they have done something different that make it feel like you are just dropped inside a sandbox in the delta quadrant and then someone empties the box and you land back in the alpha quadrant. Some of us trek fans may actually want some immersion
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http://forum.arcgames.com/startrekonline/discussion/1145998/star-trek-battles-channel-got-canon/p1
Not the same at all. The movie ticket still physically exists and you buy the film on DVD. A lap dance, a pair of panties and a serious case of Hep C. A clown, Face paint and a crippling fear of clowns for the rest of your days. All forms of entertainment that have real products that remain with you for the rest of your days.
But video game items? One flick of a switch and all that can go away forever. They mean nothing and have no real value. It's just a random bit of data they dangle in front of you that lasts as long as the server remains online. Pull the plug, that's it. Game over. Thanks for wasting years of your life. Have a nice day.
Not that there is anything wrong with that. That's why MMOs exist. They are designed to be carrot-on-sticks that require you to devote time and energy to them. If you know that the game is fleeting and the rewards mean nothing in the long run, you generally have a better experience, instead of being THAT guy who takes MMO gaming too seriously and ends up popping a blood vessel in his brain after one innocent kid forgets to guard the flag and the enemy teams scores 1-0.
/shrug
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WoW also has rep as well, which is just as grindy just to get top level rep and access to racial mounts. We actually get more out of STO rep than we do with WoW rep.
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maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
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I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.