Section 31/House Pegh reputation

pweistheworst

I would love to see a new reputation tree added to STO that is themed around Section 31 and House Pegh.

I'm basically suggesting a "black ops" reputation where all the reputation gear is built around covert operations (enhanced stealth/cloak attacks for both ground and space, and enhanced information gathering/debuffs against enemies).

Visually, the rep gear (both ground and space) should reflect the black ops nature of the reputation tree ... so the FED Section 31 space gear would make your ship look dark (almost blacked out) with dark blue deflector, dark blue engines and engine trails while the House Pegh gear would make your ship look black with dark red deflector, engines and engine trails.

Heck, if the devs are looking for ways to create more specialization trees and specialization BOffs they could create a "black ops" specialization that does what I wished the Intel specialization tree did (beyond the Intel flanking bonus) ... enhance your stealth and debuff abilities against enemies so that enemies "melt" even faster under your attacks.

Just an idea ... I mainly came up with it because I wished there was a ship visual in the game that allowed me to turn my FED cruiser's hull mostly black with dark blue deflector and engines.

dragonsbrethren

Actually, we already have this for House Pegh: The Terran Task Force Reputation. Check the information tab for the reputation. I wish this was made clearer in-game, outside of some flavor text that almost no one reads. Visibility is a real issue with the newer reputations--you never even see an NPC using this (or Iconian Resistance, or Delta Alliance, or TDF, or Dyson...) gear.

turbomagnus

dragonsbrethren wrote: »

Actually, we already have this for House Pegh: The Terran Task Force Reputation. Check the information tab for the reputation. I wish this was made clearer in-game, outside of some flavor text that almost no one reads.

And considering that S31 is supposed to be an 'officially non-existant' organization, it's hard for me to see an S31 Rep.

Visibility is a real issue with the newer reputations--you never even see an NPC using this (or Iconian Resistance, or Delta Alliance, or TDF, or Dyson...) gear.

Worse yet, they're literally cut-and-paste, as was proven when the TDI Rep T4 still had the information for Terran Task Force instead... or that the Badlands Battlezone is oh-so-similar to the Undine Space Battlezone. Not that it matters since they're mainly there just to try and make people to play Queued Events to get the Marks for them...

dragonsbrethren

I actually thought the Badlands Battlezone was a pretty creative attempt to mix up proven territory control mechanics. I think it feels samey because it's just difficult to do much besides different types of interactions with that kind of gameplay in space. The best Battlezone is still the Voth one, having actual terrain to navigate just makes things so much more interesting.

But yeah, it's hard to feel like you're "building reputation" with factions that don't have any real in-game presence. Even simple things like swapping the MACOs in Assault on Terok Nor over to the Terran Task Force armor, or putting some troops in the Iconian War missions into Iconian Resistance armor could've helped "sell" those organizations so much.

garaks31

support

captkelly31

Reputation, or faction?