Hi everybody,
recently I did a mistake in taking a reputation object, probably the devs will not help me with this
(but still I hope that, if one see this tread, he will help) but my mistake made me think about several
objects that are available on the reputations.
Let's take for instance the iconian reputation.
What's the purpose of offering to a tactical character a research/fabrication kit module?
What about offering a singularity core to a not romulan republic character, what's the purpose of it?
These objects are unusable by some characters and I think they should not be offered in the reputations.
There are several other cases similar to the ones that I just explained.
These object are, in my opinion, misleading for the players and could bring newbies or inattentive players
to waste their resources.
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Maybe I didn't explained myself or I don't understand your message.
I am not saying not to offer an fabrication module to an engineers, or a research module to a scientist character.
Everybody should get what they deserve.
But offering a tactical module to a sci or a fabrication module to a tact or a research module to an eng, make no sense.
None of the previous example will ever work.
For the non-romulan character instead they should not offer the singularity core since these characters will never be able
to use them. Viceversa, romulan should be able to get singularity core and warp core (since they could in theory get
a warp core ship from the affiliated faction).
RNG-demigod doesn't care what species you are, what Faction you are, if you are a TAC, ENG, or SCI.
All it cares about is you doing a certain amount of damage and hitting a certain point. Once that point is hit, it goes to work and spits out a string of numbers that equates to a specific item, and it drops.
I've seen sequential Crit hits (space) above 30k and when the ship dies.. I get a shield battery. I've watched my pets take out a target and all I do is keep my pets alive, not firing a shot, and when the ship dies, a VR Covariant Shield drops.
So.. getting all the useless vendor TRIBBLE; singularities on my non-rom toons, ENG/SCI kits or modules on my TAC's, just equates to extra EC in the bank..
RNG is just that.. Random; and not partial to the player...
tyvm
As for my particular train of thought in regards to what I think) the OP was talking about.
I am quite sure that it would be possible for the developers to code the game so that equipment lists will show only the equipment specific to/usable by your character. However, I don't think that people accidentally buying stuff they can't use is a common enough occurence to justify the time and expense it would take to do so. Go to any vendor in any location in the game and it shows you everything they have for sale, not just the stuff you can use. It is left up to you, the buyer, to not buy something you can't use. Why should the rep store be any different.
While I do feel your pain at having used up a boat load of rep points accidentally buying something you couldn't use, mistakes can and do happen and it is not the developers responsibility to reprogram the game to try and make sure people can't make mistakes. People are much, much better at managing to make mistakes than even the smartest programmer is at trying to anticipate and prevent them from doing so.
DIscliamer: This next part is not, not, not personally directed at anybody at all and is not even meant to imply anything about anyone at all. It is a direct quote that perfectly fits my previous paragraph and I am not going to change the wording of a direct quote on the off chance that someone might get offended.
"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
As for those of us that play Romulans, while we might get neglected in other ways, we sometimes to have the best of both worlds. If I am going to be flying my T6 Scimitar class ship, I will need a singularity core, with it's associated Romulan unique "powers", however I also like flying my Bug ship, and my Voth ship, and my Krenim ship, all of which means I need a warp core. The poor Feds and Klingons will never know the fun that can be had playing with various singularity powers.
I can see why the OP would want this but there are so many other things which need a QoL pass in this game, I can only imagine this being done some day in the far future.
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Now shaddup about the queues, it's a BUG
The necromancers are at work again
Ontopic - The issue has been solved. You also need to read before purchasing stuff. Always DOUBLE READ.