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Instantly fill your Rep to T5 with ZEN!!! (bad idea)
gilleylen
Member Posts: 67 Arc User
I am going to discuss why this is BAD and why this COULD be good. First of all, this is VERY BAD because new players who play this game want to get the best stuff straight out of the box, $30 for a full reputation? oh and $70 for a cool T6 ship? how about those cool bridges for my new ship $20, well after about 4 months they will get bored, their is very little to actually do, it doesn't take 40 hours to get material to make those items in the Reputation, spend a little money for ZEN and you can drop 30,000 dilithium in a few seconds get the entire set, this is "milking" the community which will turn it into a money battle where someone who gets killed by a better player who grinded everything out, understand things better will have an advantage. Why not go ahead a add new features to life time membership like "buy a life time membership and get all your characters slotted at max level constantly (my friend would spend 100 ZEN to max his character per level cause he doesn't have the time for as he calls 'stupid missions') this literally rips everything that progress has been made into just TFO battles, why work on story, a overall arc, unique rewards or anything if all it comes down to is buying out (which if you missed things you wanted but didn't know was out this is great for in case you missed it, like i missed Fenris Ranger's outfit, i would buy it where others got it for free)
now to the why it COULD be good, while those Ships do cost time, patience, frustration (anyone who worked with 3d knows that TRIBBLE is hard) working on balancing traits, working on weapon types, all the employees pulling long hours, meeting with angry fans who are outraged over everything getting so lazy with so many buyouts. the game has lost the entire aspect that made it interesting.. BUT, if this is used correctly, if this can removed the idea of lock boxes from the mainstream, if the entire structure is based around building those characters quick means more ships are in the ZEN store, more items are in the ZEN store, more bridges to buy, more clothes, more services, more options like (transporter effects) or fixed some outfits, If this fixed all the graphical issues (which upgraded with 'Year of Klingon' just look like a HD 4K version of a 1930's monster film shot for 4" TV format) if the money made goes into restructuring the entire game into a sequel (again not saying that it should be replaced but how Star Wars Battlefront changed in mid-game into a completely new format) replacing some old avatars with a new system, replacing old out dated avatars with better anatomically correct (years of playing games on my PC, i notice the slider system is exactly the same as SecondLife which was used in 2003 and still today but with the many new face lifts it got looks better but still bad, then in 2008 a game called Twinity came out and used a better system, updated avatars and it was 60% better just cause of that 1 thing)
so if this is the way it is heading who would support this or who would actually hate that all their progress and things they worked thousands of hours for can now just be bought for $300+
now to the why it COULD be good, while those Ships do cost time, patience, frustration (anyone who worked with 3d knows that TRIBBLE is hard) working on balancing traits, working on weapon types, all the employees pulling long hours, meeting with angry fans who are outraged over everything getting so lazy with so many buyouts. the game has lost the entire aspect that made it interesting.. BUT, if this is used correctly, if this can removed the idea of lock boxes from the mainstream, if the entire structure is based around building those characters quick means more ships are in the ZEN store, more items are in the ZEN store, more bridges to buy, more clothes, more services, more options like (transporter effects) or fixed some outfits, If this fixed all the graphical issues (which upgraded with 'Year of Klingon' just look like a HD 4K version of a 1930's monster film shot for 4" TV format) if the money made goes into restructuring the entire game into a sequel (again not saying that it should be replaced but how Star Wars Battlefront changed in mid-game into a completely new format) replacing some old avatars with a new system, replacing old out dated avatars with better anatomically correct (years of playing games on my PC, i notice the slider system is exactly the same as SecondLife which was used in 2003 and still today but with the many new face lifts it got looks better but still bad, then in 2008 a game called Twinity came out and used a better system, updated avatars and it was 60% better just cause of that 1 thing)
so if this is the way it is heading who would support this or who would actually hate that all their progress and things they worked thousands of hours for can now just be bought for $300+
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And as Som said... PvP is kinda dead in STO.
Besides... by the time you actually unlock reps, you've leveled to about 50 and should, in theory, have a basic understanding of how endgame plays.
And some reps might get touched with this more than others. *cough*Competitive*cough*
One thing I don't like is that you can't see the price unless you already have enough zen to complete the purchase. Not an issue if the rep is at zero anyway, but if you've already put some time into leveling it part way there's no way for you to see the current buyout price before purchasing the zen.
Thankfully some of the older PvE maps are actually good and so many other ways to get marks for our reps have been introduced. In my opinion a rep buy out is as useless as the finish it now with dil crafting button but why criticize that the option is available.
And lol yep. The price is out of the question. But I would see it from a different angle and face the embarrassment of realizing how much worth it actually is for Cryptic that we log and play some poo every day.
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l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
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I mean, those who don't want it can just ignore it... just like in any other MMO to date that isn't Pay to Play...
For those who want to spend to have less thigns to play with, well, to each their own, i take that not everyone is strong in patience as the next person...
Share things that money should buy, share how things could be better and more..
money should (ideally) buy a bigger dev team lol. but since that's not likely to happen, i would say i'm not sure. I mean this game isn't competitive, so there is no real pay to win to worry about. I honestly can't think of anything atm. i'm blanking
It's really just convenience and a way to jumpstart to newer content from the get go, which isn't a bad idea at all...
Afterall, the days where you can play all day on a MMO like WoW are getting quite behind and people want faster progress and something to relax with...
I can only say what I would do, and I would enjoy things the way it convenes me, and as of now it is the old fashioned way and use the Zen for other purchases... more in the Dilithium side...
Besides, if it's an easy buck they can have more money and make better stuff, art department and mission designs wise i see the improvements overtime...