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xiaoping88
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So, out of curiosity: are there any cutscenes when you reach a new tier, like with the Voth Rep? Or even missions like with the Romulan Rep? 
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Same here.
The lack of even a simple little mission is rather telling.
While I appreciate the focus this season has been on game systems, and I'm not unhappy about most of that, the lack of a mission sadly confirms the air of laziness this season has about it.
I don't like the trend very much.
New Romulus had missions. In S8 (which had more meat on its bones then S9 overall), there were cutscenes - people complained back then for the lack of missions.
Now there is nothing? No story at all? It's a bit disappointing, yeah.
The FE was epic. But "A Step Between Stars" was neat, too. The Undine thing feels a bit shallow without further development. Despite the entire storyline was build up from the very beginning of STO.
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Yes.
And yet:
Compare the Breen FE series to the last FE.
The game developed. Story content in Reputations was one of the things I consider good.
So... it's a shame that they are gone in the Undine Rep.
If all future episodes are as good as the Sphere Trillogy, if we only got 2 episodes a season from here on out, I wouldn't even be mad.
With the breen FE series, it was several episode long. This one is pretty much alone. Sure you have sphere of influence, but 1 FE per season is a lot less than a whole storyline in the meantime.
Also, I didn't have to grind the same FE 4 time to have all the uniques goodies with the breen. At most, twice.
4time per character, when you have 5 characters, it start to add up.
Also, they have better way to tell stories, doesn't mean they are better. I honestly miss using my crew in FEs, I play STO mostly because I'm a captain. Not a guy following Tuvok/Shon/whatever and shoot things.
Fair points.
My argument was pointed towards the loss of story content in the Rep system, though.
The overall quality of the FE improved quite a bit, and imho the addition of story content (let it be missions or cutscenes) added some depth and motivation to the Rep grind.
I'm however okay with that not always being the case however.
i think crytic should remain consistant with reps and while this may be wishful thinking, i would love it if they went back and added the custcenes later, and also added some to the borg and tholian ones.
the cutscene parts for the voth one was about a defector who had become disillusioned with doctrine stating that "all your stuff belong to us". He wanted to tell his part and join your crew, but that unspectacularly went nowhere fast after it complete. however it did provide details on why the voth were interested in the solanae sphere.
why should the TFO, Tholian or 8472 reps need a cutscene/mini mission for?
I would much prefer the devs working on another large content in missions and exploring out the delta quadrant then waste their time adding small rep missions.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
So ... , maybe he's a player who came on board @ LoR and was told that older Reps don't have cutscenes ?
Could happen .
The Rommy Rep was a step forward in many directions -- ease of use (bunny scanning) , unlocking cutscenes and missions -- it had all the elements to make the Rep system look like an actual part of the game , instead of a tacked on *something* to keep us occupied .
Every Rep before or since has the same old thing : do something to get gear to do that same thing only better .
And this is where STO fails , as getting the Rep gear should unlock something ... -- it should be a gateway to harder content that gives meaning to your grind .
In STO we just grind the Reps for the sake of grinding -- with the newest "feature" : grind for "optional" passives that you will never-ever slot . WooHoo ... .
5 mediocre missions once or twice a year or one top notch high quality mission every 2-3 months?
That'd be the ideal. I'd take anytime that over stupid long grindy reps.
Ya Epic indeed until the very end when they went on a terrible rail system to guide you in they must think the player base is completely stupid for ending the mission like that no skill involved. The cut-scene was nice, but the space battlezone is terrible not much reward for doing very tedious and boring stuff. So ya a rep cut-scene would have been nice. The best thing to come out of this season so far was the revamped borg missions and even then they took one away they took content away. On my last point I will add next time they do a featured episode how about you cut out some of the grinding and make the mission re playable if we choose to replay it don't make us do it 4 times per toon just to get all the rewards because then guess what happens we all get so sick of the same **** we take a big break until the next season again.