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So what can we do with the marks we earn after reaching tier 5 in any reputation besides turn them in for dilithium?
Introducing the Veterans Reputation.
This Reputation will be available only to player characters that have reached level 60.
This will be a bit of a different kind of reputation, using a mix of any reputation marks and BNP's, Ancient Power cells, etc.
There will be two categories to participate in; Experience and Specialization with two types of projects to run, one based on reputation marks, the other would use reputation mats such as BNP, etc.
There will be two project slots in total to run projects on as well as one production slot.
Upon completion of both Tier 5 Experience and Specialization categories the project slots will be converted into additional production slots.
Players can use any marks or mats in any combination for the appropriate projects.
There could also be requirements for other inputs such as EC, Doffs or latinum, etc, but not dilithium.
Projects will take 20 hours to run but will have a dilithium finish now option.
The starting amount of dilithium charged to finish now should be much less than currently used for R&D projects, maybe 4800 or less.
The Rewards:
The Experience Category will reward a permanent 10% bonus to XP earned in everything in the game per tier up to 50% at tier 5.
After Tier 5 you can make XP tokens that reward a temporary XP bonus over a set amount of time, i.e. +50% for 3 hours.
These Token projects could have a finish now dilithium attached to them.
Only one token may be used at a time.
These tokens will be account bound.
The Specialization Category will reward a permanent 10% reduction to the amount of XP needed to earn a Specialization Point per tier to a maximum of 50% reduction.
After Tier 5 you can make a token that upon use would reduce the active Specialization Point being earned by 50% of the total point not just where you have progressed to, i.e. a requirement of 160,000 xp that you had earned 12,000 into would now need another 68,000 xp.
These Token projects could have a finish now dilithium attached to them.
Only one token may be used at a time.
These tokens would be account bound but could only be used by characters that had reached level 60.
The Experience Category would benefit your main and especially your alts as you could even make XP tokens for level 1 characters if you wanted to.
The Specialization Category is more aimed at your main as any alts would have to be 60 to benefit from the tokens and you could therefore be levelling this reputation with your alts from that point.
I leave the amounts of marks and mats as well as the amount earned per project to Cryptic to allow it to make sense for them.
One note, any XP bonus weekend or whatever would over-ride this XP rep bonus for the duration of the event.
Hopefully this could allow players that have finished a reputation and purchased all the gear they ever could want from it to continue playing that particular set of content if they like and not feel as if the marks earned are useless.
The most obvious quality of life improvement from this reputation would be for the levelling of ones characters and reaching specializations that seem out of reach as it stands at the moment.
Introducing the Veterans Reputation.
This Reputation will be available only to player characters that have reached level 60.
This will be a bit of a different kind of reputation, using a mix of any reputation marks and BNP's, Ancient Power cells, etc.
There will be two categories to participate in; Experience and Specialization with two types of projects to run, one based on reputation marks, the other would use reputation mats such as BNP, etc.
There will be two project slots in total to run projects on as well as one production slot.
Upon completion of both Tier 5 Experience and Specialization categories the project slots will be converted into additional production slots.
Players can use any marks or mats in any combination for the appropriate projects.
There could also be requirements for other inputs such as EC, Doffs or latinum, etc, but not dilithium.
Projects will take 20 hours to run but will have a dilithium finish now option.
The starting amount of dilithium charged to finish now should be much less than currently used for R&D projects, maybe 4800 or less.
The Rewards:
The Experience Category will reward a permanent 10% bonus to XP earned in everything in the game per tier up to 50% at tier 5.
After Tier 5 you can make XP tokens that reward a temporary XP bonus over a set amount of time, i.e. +50% for 3 hours.
These Token projects could have a finish now dilithium attached to them.
Only one token may be used at a time.
These tokens will be account bound.
The Specialization Category will reward a permanent 10% reduction to the amount of XP needed to earn a Specialization Point per tier to a maximum of 50% reduction.
After Tier 5 you can make a token that upon use would reduce the active Specialization Point being earned by 50% of the total point not just where you have progressed to, i.e. a requirement of 160,000 xp that you had earned 12,000 into would now need another 68,000 xp.
These Token projects could have a finish now dilithium attached to them.
Only one token may be used at a time.
These tokens would be account bound but could only be used by characters that had reached level 60.
The Experience Category would benefit your main and especially your alts as you could even make XP tokens for level 1 characters if you wanted to.
The Specialization Category is more aimed at your main as any alts would have to be 60 to benefit from the tokens and you could therefore be levelling this reputation with your alts from that point.
I leave the amounts of marks and mats as well as the amount earned per project to Cryptic to allow it to make sense for them.
One note, any XP bonus weekend or whatever would over-ride this XP rep bonus for the duration of the event.
Hopefully this could allow players that have finished a reputation and purchased all the gear they ever could want from it to continue playing that particular set of content if they like and not feel as if the marks earned are useless.
The most obvious quality of life improvement from this reputation would be for the levelling of ones characters and reaching specializations that seem out of reach as it stands at the moment.
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I am not defending that, but this is how it's supposed to work.
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I tend to agree whit you here. Cryptic cannot indefinitely keep adding specializations to the game. you can very easily get to many of them at once. I think 6 major and 6 minor specializations is the sweet spot. you can then have 2 different specializations per class that combine well whit them. it wouldn't be weird if both of the current specializations turn out to be most suitable/like to tactical and newer ones will be more suitable for/like science or engineering.
as long as you earn points slowly cryptic has time to work on them and phase them into the game slowly. constantly giving us new thing to strife for. if they made the process of earning point really fast they would have to add a new specialization each month and they wouldn't be able to do that anymore next summer. right now the can keep adding specializations for at least the next to years....
sure i like to get them fast but I do understand why that doesn't happen.
First of all it's not even a crafting system! It's just a dumb game system that's nothing more than a glorified slots machine.
second the "special items" you hope will be the saving the saving grace are messed up to.
wel go buy cryptic , become chariman and turn it it into asian grind fest as you want.
Temporal Reputation ... Krenim might be coming...
something related to the Foundry?
something to do with PvP ?
Specialization progress is linked to the skill point bar, so there is an automatic association with levelling, and levelling used to be a quick thing in STO.
Anyway. I think some people understand that it's supposed to take long, but don't like it anyway.
I suggest that specializaitons should get the same things reputation got. A "once-per-day" bonus package and a sponsorship kind of system to benefit alts.
what you are saying here is fair this game is getting less alt friendly whit each patch since DR...
First of all it's not even a crafting system! It's just a dumb game system that's nothing more than a glorified slots machine.
second the "special items" you hope will be the saving the saving grace are messed up to.