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Levelling a new captain, and the Romulan reputation
sophlogimo
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As you all may have noticed, the dev team has moved the missions that originally were unlocked from the Romulan reputation tiers to the storyline a while ago.
Because I deem it fun, I make new captains from time to time, so I get a pretty good view on how the levelling process works out. Unfortunately, when it comes to those missions and their interlocking with the Romulan reputation, it doesn't, even with sponsorship tokens, really work all too well. At least not for the final mission.
As it stands, you do the missions in order, but the cutscene after clearing the underground facility of the Tholians only becomes available once you have completed the Romulan reputation - which will take quite some time after that on a new account without sponsorship, and is even too slow compared to story progression with a sponsorship token.
I would strongly suggest to solve this by having the cutscene show up in any case, so as to explain the following episode Sphere Of Influence.
Because I deem it fun, I make new captains from time to time, so I get a pretty good view on how the levelling process works out. Unfortunately, when it comes to those missions and their interlocking with the Romulan reputation, it doesn't, even with sponsorship tokens, really work all too well. At least not for the final mission.
As it stands, you do the missions in order, but the cutscene after clearing the underground facility of the Tholians only becomes available once you have completed the Romulan reputation - which will take quite some time after that on a new account without sponsorship, and is even too slow compared to story progression with a sponsorship token.
I would strongly suggest to solve this by having the cutscene show up in any case, so as to explain the following episode Sphere Of Influence.
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It is an improvement that the mission journal now directs people to playing those instances (otherwise people often never knew they existed). However, the problem is and always has been that important cutscenes are locked behind your rep progress. It's always been a problem that you were directed to play the ruins at Tier 4, but wouldn't get the all important cutscene unless you were at Tier 5. Now it's basically that way for all of them. People will play them when directed to by the mission journal, but not get the cutscene, then go back and have to do it all AGAIN as they unlock the rep tiers.
It made a sort of sense at the time. The rep system was new, and they didn't yet know how they were going to integrate reps into the story. Now it's just a clunky artifact that serves to confuse new players.