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Disappointed with temporal reward for maxed reputation

darthmeow504darthmeow504 Member Posts: 2,302 Arc User
in Star Trek Online General Discussion
When I completed that task, I expected everything I earned from the Reputation system to be Mk13 UR, but it doesn't seem to apply to the items in reward boxes from hourly projects. Am I the only one who thought it would work that way?​​
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  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,656 Arc User
    No, I'm happy with a free upgrade that saves huge amounts of tech upgrades and dil for rep project gear. I'm not going to whine about it not applying to other parts of the game. Thanks Cryptic!
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  • orion0029orion0029 Member Posts: 1,122 Bug Hunter
    I'm also very happy with the UR13 upgrade, makes getting high end gear for my multiple characters easier/cheaper to upgrade.

    Thanks Cryptic! ;)

    P.S. However... I will admit to feeling a bit of buyer's remorse for the gear I have purchased on my previous characters over the years. Most of which is still VR. Ah well. :/
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  • orion0029orion0029 Member Posts: 1,122 Bug Hunter
    Thing is the gear from those boxes isn't considered "reputation project gear" it's actually "reputation store gear".

    I get your point, it is a bit of a tease, but the reputation store gear isn't really that great anyway lol.
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  • rattler2rattler2 Member, Star Trek Online Moderator Posts: 58,558 Community Moderator
    The wording indicates things like the MACO Battle Rifle, Nukara Mines, Neutronic Torpedo, Iconian Resistance Shield...

    Basically the set piece items that normaly come at MK XII Very Rare.

    So instead of a Mk XII purple Enhanced Bio-Molecular Photon Torpedo, it will be a Mk XIII Ultra Rare.
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  • salazarrazesalazarraze Member Posts: 3,794 Arc User
    The original writing was very clear.
    Reputations: Persevere in gaining Reputations and you’ll gain bonus Energy Credits, Dilithium vouchers for use in Reputation Stores, and bonus Marks so that you can purchase the special gear offered by Reputations. When you reach rank 5 in all nine current reputations – Task Force Omega, Temporal Defense Initiative, Nukara Strikeforce, New Romulus, Dyson Joint Command, 8472 Counter-Command, Delta Alliance, Iconian Resistance, and Terran Task Force – your Reputation projects will be updated so that any project that awards special gear will now replace Mk XII very rare gear with Mk XIII ultra-rare gear instead!

    Now I don't know about you, but some piece of trash Terran beam with [Acc] [CrtH] [Dmg] modifiers is not special in my eyes. However, the Terran rep project beam that increases damage as your enemy's health decreases and is part of a set SCREAMS special to me.
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  • wendysue53wendysue53 Member Posts: 1,569 Arc User
    The gear upgraded boxes issue wasn't my problem. 'I' thought the Temporal Defense Armor would be usable as an EV. Never occurred to me they wouldn't set that one up that way until I had the stupid thing.

    Yeah. I know. 'Read the text'. Did afterwards. Felt stupid. -.-
  • wendysue53wendysue53 Member Posts: 1,569 Arc User
    edited September 2016
    Would be nice to get 1 Unique item upon Rep Teir 5 max, though. But what? Tribble-guns that shoot little tribbles at things? Pew! Pew! Pew!
  • freightstopperfreightstopper Member Posts: 232 Arc User
    wendysue53 wrote: »
    The gear upgraded boxes issue wasn't my problem. 'I' thought the Temporal Defense Armor would be usable as an EV. Never occurred to me they wouldn't set that one up that way until I had the stupid thing.

    Yeah. I know. 'Read the text'. Did afterwards. Felt stupid. -.-

    If they had done that all the people who bought the Hirogen lobi armour expecting that to work as an environmental suit like it was claimed it did in voyager would scream about it.
    wendysue53 wrote: »
    Would be nice to get 1 Unique item upon Rep Teir 5 max, though. But what? Tribble-guns that shoot little tribbles at things? Pew! Pew! Pew!

    Spock's flight boots would be nice, much prefer that to a jump-pack.
  • scrooge69scrooge69 Member Posts: 1,108 Arc User
    lol im super happy
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,005 Arc User
    freightstopper wrote: »
    wendysue53 wrote: »
    The gear upgraded boxes issue wasn't my problem. 'I' thought the Temporal Defense Armor would be usable as an EV. Never occurred to me they wouldn't set that one up that way until I had the stupid thing.

    Yeah. I know. 'Read the text'. Did afterwards. Felt stupid. -.-

    If they had done that all the people who bought the Hirogen lobi armour expecting that to work as an environmental suit like it was claimed it did in voyager would scream about it.

    Frankly, they should. Seriously, STOs current way of handling EV suits makes no sense. They're mandatory for something like four or five story missions and not all of them involve combat, so what EV suit you have is completely irrelevant and it could simply be a click icon for non story maps like the mines. So for those few occasions you need to have a form of EV suit that replaces your expensive armour which, if it's a rep armour, is already a fully encased EV/space suit. All rep armours should function as EV suits, activating the "EV mode" would just require you to wear the helmet, i.e. an overlay with the helmet on would be displayed for the time being until you "disable" the suit and it would return the visuals to your customized one.​​
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  • horizons2052horizons2052 Member Posts: 184 Arc User
    I am very unhappy that getting the upgraded item breaks the ground costumes. I have a toon, my AoY toon, who has now 7 ground sets, only 3 of them actually work, one of them is missing pieces, the rest are broken completely. And Cryptic does not seem to be in any kind of hurry to fix it. But I worked for those, hours, days, weeks of stacking up the reputation marks and elite marks, and did not receive them. Cryptic should be ashamed.
  • itpalgitpalg Member Posts: 340 Arc User
    horizons2052 wrote: »
    I am very unhappy that getting the upgraded item breaks the ground costumes. I have a toon, my AoY toon, who has now 7 ground sets, only 3 of them actually work, one of them is missing pieces, the rest are broken completely. And Cryptic does not seem to be in any kind of hurry to fix it. But I worked for those, hours, days, weeks of stacking up the reputation marks and elite marks, and did not receive them. Cryptic should be ashamed.

    Are you saying mk14 ur rep doesn't have proper visuals?

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  • snoggymack22snoggymack22 Member Posts: 7,084 Arc User
    coldnapalm wrote: »
    Why would you think that?!? That isn't what they said.

    It was a little unclear at first. I thought it read similar to what the OP thought. Then I experienced it firsthand and saw it was what it was. I am quite happy with what it is, so I'm good. But the wording, I dunno, I thought the same thing for a bit.

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  • thelunarboythelunarboy Member Posts: 412 Arc User
    I'm about 6 days away from clearing Rep V and have a question to which I am assuming the answer is going to be disappointing:

    Do you get the Wells era Cardassian contact as a boff at the end? As it's not a "francise tied" character giving the info like Leeta in the Terran rep, I've kind of been hoping its been working in a similar manner to the Dyson rep and that we get futuregirl on our crew.
  • raj011raj011 Member Posts: 987 Arc User
    What did you do with the items you unlocked when doing the reputation projects? I know some sell there items for e.c and not enough space in the bank.
  • thelunarboythelunarboy Member Posts: 412 Arc User
    raj011 wrote: »
    What did you do with the items you unlocked when doing the reputation projects? I know some sell there items for e.c and not enough space in the bank.

    I'm flogging all mine off because my AOY is a Kelvin themed character... but when i sponsor another character... I'll store up the best purple mk xii's saved along the way and sell the rest.
  • markhawkmanmarkhawkman Member Posts: 35,236 Arc User
    The ground gear is useful for equipping boffs.
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  • saber1973asaber1973a Member Posts: 1,225 Arc User
    I personally sell most gear that i got through daily projects.
    But sometimes i got really nice drops here, that i save
    (purple double beams, other purple gear)...
  • jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
    Most rep gear drops from those boxes I get when grinding the rep system are vendor trashed. It offsets the EC cost to start those daily rep projects. If the weapon is a type that I like and has good mods, then I would hold on to them / use them.

    Every now and then it is a nice welcome to receive an Elite Mark from the boxes.
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