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another rep designed to force players into queues.. sad

vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,949 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
from what i am seeing on tribble you cannot get terran rep marks unless you do those queues, just like the iconian rep. HELLO CRYPTIC!!! not all of us want to be shoehorned like that! give us missions we can do without a damn queue or team, just like the reps prior to Iconian.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,725 Community Moderator
    Um... actually there is a second option for Terran Marks. The upcoming Badlands Battlezone.
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  • salazarrazesalazarraze Member Posts: 3,794 Arc User
    rattler2 wrote: »
    Um... actually there is a second option for Terran Marks. The upcoming Badlands Battlezone.
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  • vetteguy904vetteguy904 Member Posts: 3,949 Arc User
    apparently not live on tribble then
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  • salazarrazesalazarraze Member Posts: 3,794 Arc User
    vetteguy904 wrote: »
    apparently not live on tribble then
    The battlezone is definitely coming. This was already confirmed in the blogs.

    http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/9576243
    When you see "TRIBBLE" in my posts, it's because I manually typed "TRIBBLE" and censored myself.
  • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    vetteguy904 wrote: »
    apparently not live on tribble then

    And when the Iconian Ques were in testing on tribble, the Kobali Ground Zone didn't award Iconian Marks and Data Cores. Not everything is on Tribble.

    Moral of the story, look into things before creating a thread to complain about issues that don't exist. There has never been a single reputation system that forced qued events as the sole method of gaining marks. Not sure why you thought they would start now.
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  • kjwashingtonkjwashington Member Posts: 2,529 Arc User
    vetteguy904 wrote: »
    apparently not live on tribble then

    Just because it isn't on tribble yet, doesn't mean it isn't happening. Most likely they'll add the rest of the stuff to test this Thursday, with the season release being next Thursday.
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  • delerouxdeleroux Member Posts: 478 Arc User
    I actually prefer queues, anyway, more often than not. Battlezones are okay every now and then, but queues tend to be more efficient.
  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,518 Arc User
    rattler2 wrote: »
    Um... actually there is a second option for Terran Marks. The upcoming Badlands Battlezone.

    and to add, the terrans are probably a lot less annoying than undine or iconians.​​
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  • claudiusdkclaudiusdk Member Posts: 561 Arc User
    edited October 2015
    Terran rep is gonna have a battlezone.
    Also, I farmed my Iconian rep in the Kobali Prime adventure zone, by repeating the two last missions(which you can activate from Act 3 in the replay console on Kobali Prime, gives a bunch of marks and one elite mark each daily) in that zone.
    Never did a queued mission.
    Sure, it was a bit slow, but I wasn't in a hurry, and it gave enough to fill a daily rep project plus extra.
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  • theraven2378theraven2378 Member Posts: 6,017 Arc User
    questerius wrote: »
    rattler2 wrote: »
    Um... actually there is a second option for Terran Marks. The upcoming Badlands Battlezone.

    and to add, the terrans are probably a lot less annoying than undine or iconians.​​

    Unless it's typhoons and their torp spread of doom
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    • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,518 Arc User
      theraven2378 wrote: »
      questerius wrote: »
      rattler2 wrote: »
      Um... actually there is a second option for Terran Marks. The upcoming Badlands Battlezone.

      and to add, the terrans are probably a lot less annoying than undine or iconians.

      Unless it's typhoons and their torp spread of doom

      Still a lot less annoying than goo and viral probes.​​
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    • seaofsorrowsseaofsorrows Member Posts: 10,919 Arc User
      deleroux wrote: »
      I actually prefer queues, anyway, more often than not. Battlezones are okay every now and then, but queues tend to be more efficient.

      I like that there are options. Personally, I love the battle zones myself.

      It's nice that there is an option for both of our preferences.
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    • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
      rattler2 wrote: »
      Um... actually there is a second option for Terran Marks. The upcoming Badlands Battlezone.

      Yeah, when they first mentioned new queues and a new Battlezone. It was pretty obvious where people are going to go. It's ashame Cryptic just doesn't get that people are tired of queues. Outside of the CEE, the queues been dead even after a week New Dawn went live.
    • kamiyama317kamiyama317 Member Posts: 1,295 Arc User
      edited October 2015
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    • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
      I agree on not having much to get marks from. They seem to get less and less on options. The Battle zone is OK, if they do it right. Kobali was good as it gave you different missions and a story to show progress. The Iconian was a long boring drag. Since it only had the 1-2 missions to get marks from and for the solo players. That was your only option. The Romulan you had all those ground missions, plus space ones. Dyson you had the regular sphere then the big battle zone. So you can see how they are reducing your options to collect marks. Even the Omega and Nukura had options so your not doing the same TRIBBLE each time.

      I'm not fully sure IF I will do this new Rep.
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    • gradiigradii Member Posts: 2,824 Arc User
      vetteguy904 wrote: »
      from what i am seeing on tribble you cannot get terran rep marks unless you do those queues, just like the iconian rep. HELLO CRYPTIC!!! not all of us want to be shoehorned like that! give us missions we can do without a damn queue or team, just like the reps prior to Iconian.

      Ever heard of Kobali Prime?
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    • hyplhypl Member Posts: 3,719 Arc User
      To put it simply, the likes of Season 10, the war that never was, can't be repeated. A reputation track must come with more options than three queues and the last stretch of a previous battle zone. Every reputation track must be accompanied by an adventure map or battle zone which provides players with enough varied options to increase their reputation outside of teamed instances. More patrols need to be added, space and ground. It also wouldn't hurt for featured episodes that are tied to a specific reputation to award marks.

      We need more options. More immersive things to do. More activities to keep players engaged within the game so that they feel like adequate progress is being made towards specific goals.
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    • sheldonlcoopersheldonlcooper Member Posts: 4,042 Arc User
      The iconian is the most difficult. The others all have plenty of choices. I keep like 4000 of each mark type on hand on each character out of compulsion. If it wasn't for the parrots of Risa this would have been a real slog. Once the new rep starts it will be even worse as the 3 queues get abandoned. There may be some replay to Brotherhood, but for a new player coming along I sure wouldn't want to play it and the last missions on Kobali that many times. One solution is to add Iconian to Borg disconnected.

      But it doesn't sound like Mirror Rep will be a problem at all.
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    • ltminnsltminns Member Posts: 12,572 Arc User
      Since it has been pointed out that the Badlands Battle Zone will also award 'Elite Marks' you are now free to edit the Thread Subject Title.
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    • kavasekavase Member Posts: 771 Arc User
      azrael605 wrote: »
      No Rep in this game has ever "forced" me to do anything. Been playing since before the rep system existed.

      This.

      And rep is overrated! Fight the power. Don't let them 'force' you to give in!

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    • chiyoumikuchiyoumiku Member Posts: 1,028 Arc User
      No one's forcing you to do anything. If you want the items participate. If not, then that's your choice.
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    • captinwh0captinwh0 Member Posts: 783 Arc User
      claudiusdk wrote: »
      Terran rep is gonna have a battlezone.
      Also, I farmed my Iconian rep in the Kobali Prime adventure zone, by repeating the two last missions(which you can activate from Act 3 in the replay console on Kobali Prime, gives a bunch of marks and one elite mark each daily) in that zone.
      Never did a queued mission.
      Sure, it was a bit slow, but I wasn't in a hurry, and it gave enough to fill a daily rep project plus extra.

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    • architect13architect13 Member Posts: 1,076 Arc User
      Also, what are the chances that the little frosty epohhs will award marks of your choice? Say it with me . . . "Dont you want an Epohh friend?"
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    • nikephorusnikephorus Member Posts: 2,744 Arc User
      Yes "forcing" players to play content is really terrible.
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    • azurianstarazurianstar Member Posts: 6,985 Arc User
      architect13 wrote: »
      Also, what are the chances that the little frosty epohhs will award marks of your choice? Say it with me . . . "Dont you want an Epohh friend?"

      They want you to, that's why they gave you more speed boost this reputation. :tongue:

      And we all know they're keeping the flag grabbing!

    • peterconnorfirstpeterconnorfirst Member Posts: 6,225 Arc User
      If any Devs happens to read this, thank you very much for every means to “force” me into queues. I never visited the Kobali battle zone for ico marks. Brotherhood of the Sword is one of the very best ground maps you ever designed. My friends and I will enjoy it for moths to come even though we don’t need the marks. You managed an awesome mix of team play and dps requirements to conclude it. It’s fun in pugs and premades alike and the rewards are perfectly fitting the effort.

      I look forward to be forced into the new 2 pve maps as well if they are even remotely as good.

      No interest in battlezones at all here.
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    • farmallmfarmallm Member Posts: 4,630 Arc User
      Yes they are not forcing you to do the Reps. However if you want to do them. They are forcing you to do certain stuff to do them. As in this case less options to get the Rep done or to build up marks. Where in the past they had more options to work with. Iconian was the worse case. Either the single mission, or Ques.

      If this new one don't have a good range of options in the battlezone. I'm passing on it.
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    • pwlaughingtrendypwlaughingtrendy Member Posts: 2,966 Arc User
      Battlezone
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