Not everyday you see an MMO employee admit they stealth play the game (like we all know many of them do)
I just hope the whole team regularly does, sadly in a lot of games there is a huge disconnect because the devs dont seem to actually know what the heck they are even making. (the SOE teams come to mind here >_>)
Remember (or maybe you didn't know ), I have been a player and community member long before joining the team STO is a passion of mine in and out of the workplace.
The Devs play often. Their fleet holdings are doing well, too! All on personal accounts, no dev trickery. We play anonymously though, so we can actually play while we are in-game :P
Actually, that's one of the things I like and respect about you and the others, BranFlakes; you're players first, the Development Team second a lot of the time.
Must make the urge to complain to yourselves hard to resist sometimes, though...
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid." -- Q, TNG: "Q-Who?"
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
2 Fed admirals (and a third fed admiral that I accidentally deleted), 4 Klingon BG's, 1 Romulan and 1 Reman Admiral. However, I have additional characters that need leveling-1 Romulan and 1 Orion. Your definition of too many could differ from mine so I think it's all relative based on factors such as playing style, available playing time, fleet involvement, etc.
I wont say exactly how many I have but, I know I have way too many. I will say I'm around the 30 toons range.
I realize that its way too many to have as I have noticed over half of my toons do not get any play time after having the reputation maxed out. I recently went through my toons and out of all of them I have 3 that aren't maxed.
I perhaps have spent way too much time on this game.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
"Working as intended"... 1 year later they "fix" it.
I have 16 Vice Admirals..some Fed and some kdf....and thats about all you can try to run with the current Rep systems and get them completed semi easily...when those get better...a more alt friendly STO may be at hand...least i hope so
"If everyone used Macs, we'd be working on how to get to Alpha Centauri rather than how to get to Mars."
And 2 of those have all 3 Reps done, But not doing anymore Rep on any of the others.
Amen to that! I think I'm going to do finish all of rep trees on my Kling feresan and that's it. Beyond that, i can't deal with doing more rep because I'm so sick of the grinding. I have tier 3 in omega and nukara rep done on my Romulan sci and tier 4 done in omega and romulan on my Klingon sci.
3 level 50 Fed (one in each class).
1 KDF (tac)
1 Romulan Fed alligned (Tac)
How many is too many? I dunno, until you get bored making them I guess. IMO however, it seems a waste to make a bunch of characters exactly the same. I prefer trying different races and classes.
EDIT: Hey 3 posts since June '12. I'm on a roll! :P
I have 27 toons...most are just to hold all the TRIBBLE I collect and...neeed...but to answer the question. I have 6 level 50 toons.
4 VA's
2LtGens
Do not really need anymore level 50's, but I play the lower toons for fun not for really any leveling, but if they end up at level 50 I will just put them on event/FM grind duty. 6 level 50 toons takes about 30-60 mins to get any one thing done, the more you add the more time it takes...ie: the current Crystal Enity event or a FMs/STF cycle.
neeed more Dilth and FMs...must...grind :P
Betty
"Sips her PWE Koolaide and looks at alllll the goodies in the Z store"
Badname Betty (PvP...PvE...STF...Trophy Hunter...Latnium Collector...Federation)
Commander Morgana (PvP...PvE...STF...KDF)
1000 day vet and LTS
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] STO Join date: 7 Feb 2010
I don't have any problem with many level #50's. The problem I have is with all the Admirals flying/running around. There are more Admirals in STO than there are Captains, Commanders or anything else. :P
When the level cap was #40, that worked perfectly. Everyone reached the level of Captain and that's where it should have stayed.
I know.. THIS was my biggest beef with STO when I started playing. Not everyone wants to be a starfleet admiral ... but thats how STO made the ranking system. Wish the leveling was slower and not tied up to rank like that. Max rank should be captain and .. the fleet owners can have the rank admiral if they want.. or ehumm.. gold payers.. or lifers..
.. maybe VA rank could be related to the doff system? Completing this (all ranks are reached in every department) you get title Admiral.. if you want it.
And to answer your question after reading through all posts..
I got 4 VA characters.
1 FED sci level 50 .. , she got all Rep done.
1 FED eng level 50 .., no rep yet.
1 KDF eng level 50, .., working on her rep but she is broke
1 KDF tac level 50, .., no rep yet.
I want to make more characters.. but this rep system is killing me. I don't think i will be able to do it on all or even future characters. I am one of those that can't play all the time. Although I am currently playing a few hours a day.. which I really don't have time to.
I pray that soon the devs will be kind and let the rep system be account bound.. the prices for the stuff high anyway.. they won't loose on it, IMO.
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Remember (or maybe you didn't know
The Devs play often. Their fleet holdings are doing well, too! All on personal accounts, no dev trickery. We play anonymously though, so we can actually play while we are in-game :P
Cheers,
Brandon =/\=
Must make the urge to complain to yourselves hard to resist sometimes, though...
^Words that every player should keep in mind, especially whenever there's a problem with the game...
I realize that its way too many to have as I have noticed over half of my toons do not get any play time after having the reputation maxed out. I recently went through my toons and out of all of them I have 3 that aren't maxed.
I perhaps have spent way too much time on this game.
"Working as intended"... 1 year later they "fix" it.
If i recall perfectly I have around 20 toons some which are close to 50 other with are not...
Valdus | Charn | Costello | Typhus | Thyran
3 lvl 50 Klinks
3 lvl 50 Rom
So 12 total
And 2 of those have all 3 Reps done, But not doing anymore Rep on any of the others.
Amen to that! I think I'm going to do finish all of rep trees on my Kling feresan and that's it. Beyond that, i can't deal with doing more rep because I'm so sick of the grinding. I have tier 3 in omega and nukara rep done on my Romulan sci and tier 4 done in omega and romulan on my Klingon sci.
1 KDF (tac)
1 Romulan Fed alligned (Tac)
How many is too many? I dunno, until you get bored making them I guess. IMO however, it seems a waste to make a bunch of characters exactly the same. I prefer trying different races and classes.
EDIT: Hey 3 posts since June '12. I'm on a roll! :P
4 VA's
2LtGens
Do not really need anymore level 50's, but I play the lower toons for fun not for really any leveling, but if they end up at level 50 I will just put them on event/FM grind duty. 6 level 50 toons takes about 30-60 mins to get any one thing done, the more you add the more time it takes...ie: the current Crystal Enity event or a FMs/STF cycle.
neeed more Dilth and FMs...must...grind :P
Betty
Badname Betty (PvP...PvE...STF...Trophy Hunter...Latnium Collector...Federation)
Commander Morgana (PvP...PvE...STF...KDF)
1000 day vet and LTS
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] STO Join date: 7 Feb 2010
I know.. THIS was my biggest beef with STO when I started playing. Not everyone wants to be a starfleet admiral ... but thats how STO made the ranking system. Wish the leveling was slower and not tied up to rank like that. Max rank should be captain and .. the fleet owners can have the rank admiral if they want.. or ehumm.. gold payers.. or lifers..
I got 4 VA characters.
1 FED sci level 50 .. , she got all Rep done.
1 FED eng level 50 .., no rep yet.
1 KDF eng level 50, .., working on her rep but she is broke
1 KDF tac level 50, .., no rep yet.
I want to make more characters.. but this rep system is killing me. I don't think i will be able to do it on all or even future characters. I am one of those that can't play all the time. Although I am currently playing a few hours a day.. which I really don't have time to.
I pray that soon the devs will be kind and let the rep system be account bound.. the prices for the stuff high anyway.. they won't loose on it, IMO.