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The New Reputation System is a Fraud
sensorghost
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Seriously.. You stole all my borg salvage, locked it in a box I cant open till I've spent millions in EC trying to reach T3 for Omega? Freaking BS, that is such an insult. The Reputation missions are going to end up costing me weeks and weeks of casual play to regain where I was. With no dilithium drops, no random loot drops, no bonus drops in the missions, you have effectively cramped everyones play. Congratz.
You can not continue on this path of adding ever more bells and whistles, changing the game economy and style of play in every new season, and expect the player base to enjoy the game as they once did.
I absolutely hate the new reputation system, and even more so how it was implemented. We the players just get screwed over again and again. Tiered unlock systems are a scam, forcing players to buy zen and play in ways they dont want to.
You can not continue on this path of adding ever more bells and whistles, changing the game economy and style of play in every new season, and expect the player base to enjoy the game as they once did.
I absolutely hate the new reputation system, and even more so how it was implemented. We the players just get screwed over again and again. Tiered unlock systems are a scam, forcing players to buy zen and play in ways they dont want to.
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Dont understand how the rep system forces us to buy zen? i thought the dilithium reqs were removed, they were tiny to begin with on tribble if i remeber regardless,...
besides, its not 'FORCING', you dont even have to look at the reputation system, if you want new fangled abilities/passive bonuses you can, if you dont.. then you dont
Dont think PWE/Cryptic is holdling a phaser to our heads
You need Dilithium to buy the weapons. I heard that there are no space weapons in the store
That is the definition of a Fraud
As for Zen/Dil connection.. If you can only grind Dil from content you hate to do, you only other recourse is to buy it with Zen.
If you want to compete in end game content, which is surely the point, then you have to spend in order to take full part at a level those you're playing with deserve. Enforced spending is perhaps a little excessive, but it's certainly not enticing spending as any good development would.
Phasers don't really exist :P
They are the little rich kids you see spitting on homeless veterans and telling them to get jobs. They are the vulture real-estate agents who sweep in on foreclosed homes. They are the stock traders who sow chaos and misery for a few extra pennies they will never notice.
I have been a game-modder for over 15 years and during that time I have noticed a clear trend in the gaming industry toward rampant greed, scape-goating, and demonization (Mega Upload anyone?) It happened in publishing, it happened to films, it happened to music, and now it has happened in video games:
The industry is pioneered by artists, becomes profitable, and is then usurped by the most mindless, soulless beast on Earth: the bean counter. And its not just in creative endeavors linked to commerce either. Every surface has an add plastered on it. Neil degrass Tyson notes in his book, Death by Black Hole, that a major financial company once called him to inquire how they might project their logo on the moon.
All art has been replaced by advertising; all culture with commerce. The direction this game is going in is indicative of the same sickness that permeates human civilization today: Pathological and self-destructive greed.
We are seriously now at the point where we need to be able to BUY a crafting storage tab to hold all this junk being thrown at us (Particles (10), samples(24), rocks(4), neural borg stuff(3), flower (1), cortexes (1), dilithium chunks(2)).
Maybe a few more I have missed for sure as not sure what high level Reman stuff needs.
Still waiting to be able to use forum titles
Trivial krap I need for my Starbase, or Embasy, or the next stupid thing they throw at us as something new and shiny to distract us form the fact they are robbing us of our ability achieve in a smooth and expected fashion.
Well said indeed!
Zeus
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
The Khasi of Kalabar: They will die the death of a thousand cuts!
Princess Jelhi: Oh! But that's horrible!
The Khasi of Kalabar: Not at all my little desert flower, the British are used to cuts!
Thanks for total BS, Cryptic.
In the many unread pages of the T&C there is likely a clause about having the right to change their game however they see fit, hence no fraud?
Edit: (I was meaning to quote the OP but forgot, whoops ^^')
That being said this new rep system that I need to grind in an effort to be effective or the most effective I can be is not cool. I am normaly excited to play Trek and I ussually play for too long each night, but last night without the loot drops and running around buying commodities for the rep system just turned me off. Hate to say it but if cusomer opinions matter, look up my agreeable post history and realize that even the non-complainers have concerns.
Good luck and live long and posper.
In defense of season 7 I have yet to try any of the romulan zones, just the romulan/reman fleet actions.
Last thing I would say is I prefer content above the U.I. systems like fleet starbases, doff system, rep system.....
Not sure how its going to cost millions of ec :rolleyes:
I think this is far better than before, you unlock new weapons and great stuff that normally requires you to do a load of stupid stuff to get
They effectively force you into the rep system by taking all the items you already earned and locking them into the omega box. Now you are required to re-earn access to what you should already have access to! You already spent the time and effort to earn the items to begin with!
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
It's a conspiracy!! Quick everyone, wrap aluminium foil around your heads to stop them from getting in to your brain!!
FYI, if you want to escape the corporate slavery world you imply then you should go out and live in the woods under a piece of bark.
I think you're possibly mis-ascribing political motivations to profit driven ones.
Cryptic's current and former staff has always included a surprising number of socialists, as is often the case in gaming. (Socialists and libertarians are both over-represented in the tech sector.)
John Layman is pretty open about his politics. You can find the blog of Jesse Heinig, where he discusses economics and he's certain NOT Austrian or Chicago school and he helped design the dilithium economy. I won't get into what their politics are here since this is a gaming forum.
Wanting all the money they can get (and I sincerely think they spend every penny back on the game that they can) doesn't preclude having different political stances and I think you'd actually see a few devs complain that their tax bracket isn't taxed highly enough.
I'd suggest looking more at how efficiently the money that is reinvested on the game is spent (and that's a fair argument where Cryptic could improve) and how ethically and painfully the money they gather is collected (again, fair argument). The political argument is offbase, I think, and more to the point, off-topic for the forums.
I don't know if you notice but I'm a fairly wide swing voter when it comes to how Cryptic does things.
Regardless of which side you support in this topic, this is one of the most thought out and carefully considered posts I've encountered. Highly impressed and appreciative of your input.
It still requires you to do loads of stupid stuff.
For example, the special Console you can get at tier 2 romulan rep. Requires 15,000 dilithium and 500!! Romulan Marks.
Thats at Tier 2! I guarantee you wont be able to get a single "endgame" item without doing "loads of stupid stuff".
I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking having to do Azure Nebula Rescue 25 times just to get enough marks for this one item is excessive. Then you have to do 16 STFs to get the dilithium for it. Damn thats a lot of work for one console that frankly isnt very good.
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer's gone, and all the flowers are dying
'Tis you, 'tis you must go and I must bide.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shill
"A shill, plant, or stooge is a person who publicly helps a person or organization without disclosing that he has a close relationship with that person or organization. Shill typically refers to someone who purposely gives onlookers the impression that he is an enthusiastic independent customer of a seller (or marketer of ideas) for whom he is secretly working. The person or group who hires the shill is using crowd psychology, to encourage other onlookers or audience members to purchase the goods or services (or accept the ideas being marketed). Shills are often employed by professional marketing campaigns."
I point this out cause i have multiple characters and my last one is lvl 44, with borg tech and one Phaser beam array MK X, and i can not build reputation until lvl 50, I was happy to get the borg gear before the change over. I wish i had heads up the it was changing and i would have used my salvage and data chips, i have alot built up for new gear on my other characters.
Maybe you should just unlock reputation teir 5 for current lvl 50 players. i been lvl 50 on them for better part of a 3 months to a year now. I think i have said my piece now.