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The Hellish Tedium of Turning In Marks
mhirtesc
Member Posts: 581 Arc User
Over time, those rep marks do build up. The problem is that you are forced to sit there forever as you have to turn them in at 50 marks at a time, waiting for the timegate to count down each time before loading another 50 marks and waiting some more. At the rate of at least one minute per 200 marks, that gets reallllllly boring after a while.
Why can't there be a sliding scale that allows a person to turn in ALL of their marks at once (or at least more than 50 at a time, in units of 50) so that a person can dump their marks and open a different window to handle other game affairs like crafting while they wait.
Hell, even if the timegate of 15 seconds per 50 marks is kept in it would still be acceptable. Just stop forcing us to manually load in 50 marks at a time over and over and over! That TRIBBLE is so damn annoying!
Why can't there be a sliding scale that allows a person to turn in ALL of their marks at once (or at least more than 50 at a time, in units of 50) so that a person can dump their marks and open a different window to handle other game affairs like crafting while they wait.
Hell, even if the timegate of 15 seconds per 50 marks is kept in it would still be acceptable. Just stop forcing us to manually load in 50 marks at a time over and over and over! That TRIBBLE is so damn annoying!
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An alternative idea, one I have had for a while: one generic reputation mark.
Convert all of the various marks into the generic mark, and keep the "higher tier" rep currencies as they are.
If we can't get rid of them faster, at least allow us to use them across reputations.
There is an alternative that actually pays out more - the 15 marks/hour project for 340 dilithium.
By running all six turn-in projects, I get 2040 dilithium/hour. For the past week (as I've been playing each toon for CCA), I've constantly had all my toons with maxed out daily dilithium.
Bear in mind that would require the time investment of grinding all 6 rep types each day. Not everyone plays STO while sitting on a chemical toilet.
Assuming you started to do this today, and confined yourself to advanced queues on multiple toons, sure.
Now, if you happened to have plenty of rep marks left over from the past couple of years on multiple toons, then this becomes a pretty easy thing to do. Especially when you get a choice of marks with CCA.
They need a "Dilithium Ore Store", where we can purchase Dilithium Ore like commodities, with Marks being the currency charged.
They did it to convert old R&D materials to new R&D materials, they should do it with these dang marks.
I'm packing between 20-30 thousand omega, romulan and nukara marks.
At the moment nothing left to spend them on and converting them into dilithium with 50 at the time, each time with the 15 sec wait is a royal pain in the rear.
And the 1 hour projects aren't better. Sure, they're only 15 marks, but you can only do 1 per hour per rep. Considering the complaint in this thread is that we have so many rep marks that we don't know what to do with them, suggesting a way to save rep marks is kinda missing the entire point.
More casual players have moslty a few hundred marks, maybe a thousand or two for some players, To them the 15 and 50 missions work perfectly well.
I'm one of them, so I'd rather Cryptic fix bugs or add other features than cater to the hardcore farmers.
It's not "farming". It's playing the game.
Cryptic wants their metrics so bad? Then they need to encourage people to play more by making the rewards feel like less of a penance to turn in.
So you run a few STFs and earn a couple of hundred marks, then you spend 1 extra minute to turn them in.
If you have time to run 20 STFs a day, you can spend an extra couple of minutes turning in marks.
Like I said, more casual players don't have this problem.
And a great many more do.
ok so you have to put in some ec and exp as well as the marks but the bonus is you get items in return that can be used or recycled to recoup some and often more then the ec you have given and we all have tons of exp and very little to spend it on anyway.
if you can run the same mission on multiple mark types and can do it at least 2, 3 or more times a day you can often reach your 8k refine limit with very little extra work and often with this alone.
even better if you have multiple characters with marks to turn in.
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.
I just have this nagging/cynical feeling that if a change happens it will be the short changing of the playerbase, i.e a nerf to the value of the marks which we currently enjoy.
Cynical i know but faith/trust has been broken since Delta Rising
I like that idea.
RIP KDF and PvP 2014-07-17 Season 9.5 - Death by Dev
lol.... I keep 2000 Omega Marks at ALL times.... because Im not doing any of those ever again....Yeah Purple X gear!!!! Oh now there is XI and you cant mix XI and X. Got Purple XI, YEAH!!!! Oh Now there us purple XII... oh and we added a rep system. So now you have to earn a bazillion levels of marks to grind it. I am done with those regardless of what they add.
I would love to see them allow a conversion turn in like rep projects... where its just a slider that gives u 10 dil for every mark you turn in... that way i could turn them all in at once...
Its not like i can convert all that dill at once ... there is still the 8k a day cap...
Out of curiosity, how did you build up such a pile? Where you trying to save up several months' worth for dil events before that got nerfed?
Hopefully this is either already on their radar to get changed, or one of them passes by this thread and they realize how much we would appreciate such an update.
*fingers crossed*
I have about 50,000 Omega marks.
I assume he built up such a huge pile the exact same way I did - months of playing Borg STFs. I wasn't hoarding my marks for turn-in events. Frankly I wouldn't bother doing those 50 mark turn-ins even if they paid out triple what they do now.
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The dil weekends were the only reason I ever converted marks at all, and even then, only because not doing so would've made the marks less valuable. Clicking on some stupid conversion project a bazillion times is not my idea of fun.
Those 1-hour projects I do, but only to get free rep store weapons. They're not exactly useful for actually converting marks (you'd have to be online all day to convert the reward of one Elite run with it) and they're even more tedious than the regular conversion projects since they have 3 sliders. Why can't rep projects have a one-click "fill all" button?
There needs to be a 1,000 mark conversion project. Just copypaste the 50-mark one and type in 1,000 marks and 10,000 ore. It can't be too much work. I don't care if they extend the cooldown either, it could go on for days and still be better than clicking those stupid sliders every 15 seconds, wondering which one wears out first, your mouse buttons or your fingers.
That seems very unlikely, if only because the 8k refinement cap serves as a much better gate to the production of dilithium, and turning in 500 marks a minute is still a much faster way to get dilithium than running content that generates it directly.