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Undine reputation 40 day grind coming?
robbie222222
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Is the centerpiece of season 9 a new reputation grind? One new episode in the Dyson sphere and an Undine grind. Is that it? Maybe a pair of 14 day space grinds and a 40 day Risa grind? Or is that now season 9.5? ( Season 9 Dev Blog #6 "You will recieve a reward of dilithium and UNDINE MARKS...." ) And is season 10 a new 40 day reputation grind? And is season 10.5 a 40 day Winter Wonderland grind? And is season 1001 a 40 day grind?
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don't see why they are "optional" now. you can change the passives on the fly, they will part of different builds. So you should do the rep anyway so you have access to those passive skills.
reps have always been optional, never had to be done, just they have been advised to do them because they are part of end game content.
anyway how is it a Nerf when the skills are buffed, so what u can only have 4 active skills, plus 4 clicked abilities. People have been screaming about power creep, so they fix the power creep, now people scream about not having a power creep?
Your new here, aren't you?
This is it, nothing else, anyone who thinks otherwise is in denial about how cryptic (or at least the higher ups) work
Welcome To The Sto Forums!!!!!
Yeah imagine that, all we get is new content via grind, not the nifty lengthy mission content some other MMO's create, but than again those MMO's usually charge money for that lengthy mission content, and kill it with RNG grinds.
Praetor of the -RTS- Romulan Tal Shiar fleet!
Fleet Admiral Space Orphidian Possiblities Wizard
I am new maybe, I'm easily contented or maybe others expect too much, who knows.
Yeppers.
But in April is first contact day, plus a summer risa event .
S8 could be considered a disappointment if you look at it as what was released that particular day. But over the months they added other stuff.
S9 will be no different.
there will be one, maybe 2, but they have said there will be no full series anymore.
Well...that is stupid... O.o
If you play what you want to play, when you want to play it, and don't worry about finishing the reputation as quickly as possible, you might actually find yourself having fun.
their reasoning is that the missions are usually only done once and never or rarely completed again, so "there is little point working on something only done once"
While i disagree with the decision, they do have a bit of a point.
What they are doing is not addressing the power creep at All..........................
We older players will still have all of the things that make us powerful.... those things are not even being touched
Its the new players being shafted not the established players I will still have 125 power in 3 subsystems and my 150 million worth of Doffs................and more
The power creep is not being fixed.......its being expanded.........Establised players are becoming royality..................new players are the pheasents
Saphire.. Science ground......Ko'el Romulan space Tac
Leva........Tactical ground.....Koj Romulan space Eng
JJ-Verse will never be Canon or considered Lore...It will always be JJ-Verse
I always considered myself more of an ostrich.
Well...
New ESD?
New kits?
New tailor options?
Rewamp borg and undine stroyarc?
Undine space battlezone?
Two new stfs?
It is still full month to season 9, maybe there will be more, fleet holding possibly, new lock box, maybe even something unsuspected like new sector block, mk iv weapons, but doubtful about that.
Yeah, that was my thought about that as well, but still this is the best way to tell the story. The videos from the dyson "quest line" are boring.
That *is* all the content, yes.
There will be system changes and new shiners but all the content is what I listed.
they have explicitly stated that it is all that is going to be in season 9.
I hope they finish the earth space dock referb in time, I would hate to be there when the painters and decorators are still working I cant bare all the noise they make and all those smelly chemicals they use.
When I think about everything we've been through together,
maybe it's not the destination that matters, maybe it's the journey,
and if that journey takes a little longer,
so we can do something we all believe in,
I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with.
normally you and I are on the same page, and I agree with you to a point. yes, every game has a little grind in them, except other games try to blanket the grind a little by having more content then just straight grind fests.. like story arcs and playable pvp, and tons of story based missions (with no grind).
sto (cryptic) just blatently blankets its entire game with grind.. you want doffs? grind. you want rep ? grind. you want to play new content? grind. you want a new ship, or trait, or weapon? grind. endgame, all it is is a mindless grind.. oh waite, we want to create a new event.. grind.. there is no end to it..
pretty much this is sto in a nutshell.. grind grind grind grind. now your ready for endgame content.. fly around in circles, push space bar, occasionally f. oh waite, new content.. grind grind grind.. ok, back to the top, but waite, now they are nerfing the stuff I grinded for last season cause they didn't think ahead..
or even better, hey, buy this ship for 25 dollars, it unlocks both the lower tier, and the upper tier. (a few months later) now you have to buy the lower teir ship as well. ( a few more months later) well. now we want you to buy the fleet version.. jeesus, I think I have "purchased" the same ship like 4 or 5 times now since it was originally released.. I cant waite to see if we have to re purchase all of our ships again if there is a t6 set of ships released.. lol...
LOL Too True
I thought WoW's forums had angry elitist snobs, but I never could have imagined the level STO forums has.
I remember way back in the good old days when cryptic would say "kdf mission content coming in the 90 day patch" and never say anything about it again.
I used to be an optimist and think that cryptic wasn't talking about it to surprise us. And after years and years of disappointment cryptic turned me into a brutal cynic.
Gear cap and power creep are related, but not the same thing.
You currently have 8 space and 8 ground passives, and will be losing 4 of those. So no, you won't have everything, that bar has been lowered by 50% - actually 60% when you consider that you would have had 10 each after the Undine rep.
Mark expenditures are being reduced (the removal of store unlocks saves the equivalent of more than a set piece) and mark awards are being increased through the daily bonuses, which means the hurdles to reach the gear cap are reduced.
The removal of mk X and XI newbie bait wastes of marks also lowers the tier hurdles to reach the gear unocks.
The limitations on everything also create an interesting "build order" metagame where players may skip an entire rep if its passives, actives, and gear won't be used in their builds, or stop certain reputations at tier 2 or 4 if they only want certain powers. And in both cases, they suffer no penalty for doing so.
All of these things reduce the grind and the benchmark for those new players to measure up to established players. It's not addressing the disparity rolled up in ships or doffs that are no longer easily available, but it is sweeping through one whole class of gear and power progression.
So, how, exactly, are new players being shafted?
STO forum rage gives rise to a lot of amusing malapropisms, but this one makes me smile, because pheasants are birds and I like birds.