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Can I Please Buy Emblems

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
Now to see how many actually read before they flame!

The idea is that I have oh so many Badges and Medals and nothing of need to spend them on! To date I have:

Badge of Exploration
1=1198
2=517
3=315
4=450
5=1269

Medal of _____
Achievement=108
Bravery=570
Distinction=1220
Excellence=3752

Mark of ____
Valor=118
Exploration=224
Honor=78

I was wondering if we could at a cost of 20:1 buy the next up Item to eventually buy Emblems. I know there was talk about buying down using emblems to get Marks but I really don't need anything lower then Emblems. Maybe with a revamp they will finally get to one currency or maybe this will be a solution.

So 20 Badges of Exp 1 for 1 BoE 2, 20 BoE 5 for 1 Mark of Exploration. Maybe 2 Marks of Eploration can buy 1 Mark of either Honor or Valor while 20 Marks can buy 1 Emblem.

Just a thought but anyone want to discuss?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Well I do recall Dan said recently about looking into consolidating currency.

    It would be a great thing to "trade-up". After all who is going to buy Tier 1,2,3,4,or 5 gear when they are decked out in MkX or XI Purples?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Azurian wrote: »
    Well I do recall Dan said recently about looking into consolidating currency.

    It would be a great thing to "trade-up". After all who is going to buy Tier 1,2,3,4,or 5 gear when they are decked out in MkX or XI Purples?

    Seriously. At the very least all Exploration Marks should all be consolidated into a single group. It shouldn't matter where you explore as to what kind you get. That just makes it annoying.

    :cool:
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Azurian wrote: »
    Well I do recall Dan said recently about looking into consolidating currency.

    It would be a great thing to "trade-up". After all who is going to buy Tier 1,2,3,4,or 5 gear when they are decked out in MkX or XI Purples?
    Blackavaar wrote: »
    Seriously. At the very least all Exploration Marks should all be consolidated into a single group. It shouldn't matter where you explore as to what kind you get. That just makes it annoying.

    :cool:

    I always thought it was weird that I only got rewarded when I did three and only three explorations rather than giving some out for each one... I mean does Starfleet work on a quota system?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Varrangian wrote: »
    I always thought it was weird that I only got rewarded when I did three and only three explorations rather than giving some out for each one... I mean does Starfleet work on a quota system?

    Did you kill your 3 Klingons today? No?! Well no Badges for you then!
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited February 2011
    Tragamite wrote: »
    Did you kill your 3 Klingons today? No?! Well no Badges for you then!

    It actually makes more sense as a Klingon... I mean I'm prepared to bring 3 scalps to show I've done my duty when I hit play on Zhang or my other KDFers... It is better when they are tribble scalps :D
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Varrangian wrote: »
    It actually makes more sense as a Klingon... I mean I'm prepared to bring 3 scalps to show I've done my duty when I hit play on Zhang or my other KDFers... It is better when they are tribble scalps :D

    yeah I really wasn't being serious with it
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    I support this idea. I have a TRIBBLE ton of useless Badges and Medals I'd love to be able to trade in for emblems.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    I fully support a universal reward currency as well as an exchange rate for lower tier reward to emblems.

    Heck, I'd support having more expensive versions of the current rewards (the items you can buy with your badges and whatnot) that are Bind on Equip, so I could sell/give them away.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    I have another idea of how badges and marks could be used.

    there is a poker table in the 10/4, it would be cool if we could invite friends for poker and use our badges and marks to buy marks to play with..

    marks won after a poker game could then be exchanged to EC's..

    well, it was only a thought of mine, maby its been vented before.. And sorry if got off topic..
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Blackavaar wrote: »
    Seriously. At the very least all Exploration Marks should all be consolidated into a single group. It shouldn't matter where you explore as to what kind you get. That just makes it annoying.

    :cool:

    +1 I have a pile of Tier 1 that will never get used. I understand the tiers for data samples because it is used for crafting tiered items. But the levels of exploration marks are just plain annoying.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    bringram wrote: »
    +1 I have a pile of Tier 1 that will never get used. I understand the tiers for data samples because it is used for crafting tiered items. But the levels of exploration marks are just plain annoying.

    Exchange for items, merch to vendor. Thanks for the EC.

    It never has been hard to figure the stuff out, exploration marks were per rank, once you leave it, IF you still get them exchange for EC (Via vendors).

    Never did see where the confusion part came in......
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    maina wrote: »
    Exchange for items, merch to vendor. Thanks for the EC.

    It never has been hard to figure the stuff out, exploration marks were per rank, once you leave it, IF you still get them exchange for EC (Via vendors).

    Never did see where the confusion part came in......

    If the items could be purchased with EC you would have a valid point. But Shalah does not sell the same items for EC that Ophlim does for badges. So say I have a Covariant Shield Array MK II and I want a MK IV. I have a pile of tier 1, but I need a pile of tier 2. So now my tier 1 badges are useless and I have to grind tier 2. But say there were no levels or I could trade in two tier 1 badges to get 1 tier 2 badge. Then I'd still be able to use my tier 1 badges. The only other option would be to go to the exchange. But I do not see that as a viable option because the prices on the exchange are so inflated it essentially makes the tier 1 badges even more worthless.
    Having said that the whole issue is mute for me because I'm now using all crafted gear.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    bringram wrote: »
    If the items could be purchased with EC you would have a valid point. But Shalah does not sell the same items for EC that Ophlim does for badges. So say I have a Covariant Shield Array MK II and I want a MK IV. I have a pile of tier 1, but I need a pile of tier 2. So now my tier 1 badges are useless and I have to grind tier 2. But say there were no levels or I could trade in two tier 1 badges to get 1 tier 2 badge. Then I'd still be able to use my tier 1 badges. The only other option would be to go to the exchange. But I do not see that as a viable option because the prices on the exchange are so inflated it essentially makes the tier 1 badges even more worthless.
    Having said that the whole issue is mute for me because I'm now using all crafted gear.

    You can buy them for EC, (earned by merching lower marks From exchange). Or buying mats you need for crafting. I don't disagree with exchanging, x2 of a low tier for next tier. My point was confusion.

    People need to stop maxing a low level, that's just going to outgrow stuff, and deal more with long range plans.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Season 4 (tentative release date late June) is supposed to consolidate currencies. Personally, I'd like to see the following:

    Energy Credits = basic goods
    Merits/Honor = bridge officer abilities, renaming, respecs
    Gold-pressed latinum = vanity items
    Emblems = high-level goods, earned via daily missions, exploration, PvP, STFs (where all Marks, Badges, and Medals converted to emblems)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    All those different marks and badges are gonna dissapear and there will be 1 or 2 types of "emblems" probably a PvE and a PvP version.
    Only the qeustion is when.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    maina wrote: »
    You can buy them for EC, (earned by merching lower marks From exchange). Or buying mats you need for crafting. I don't disagree with exchanging, x2 of a low tier for next tier. My point was confusion.

    People need to stop maxing a low level, that's just going to outgrow stuff, and deal more with long range plans.

    You mean exchange tier 1 badges for items, sell to vendor, buy tier 2 badges with EC on the exchange? Never thought to try that.
    There are reasons to have best equipment at each tier. Not everybody wants to be VA in week or two.
    BTW your sig is awesome.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    I guess there was some logic in the tiered reward system to start out with; even if it was only to force you to do some actual content at each rank in order to get the gear appropriate to that rank. But up and down exchange of all the various merit currencies is badly needed, whether the consolidate them or not. Any of them should be tradeable through an appropriate vendor for any of the others, at rates that make some sort of sense. Even at the same tier, things like PvP and PvE emblems should also be exchangeable 1:1, for those times when you have 25 of one and 25 of another, but you need a piece of gear that costs 50 in either form.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Tragamite, there's something you should know about emblems: not only can you grind them, you can exchange marks of valor/exploration/honor for them, at a rate of 1 mark for 1 emblem :D there is a person on ESD/Qo'nos that does this, and there is also someone in Battle Group Omega (Fed and Klingon) who can do the same thing :)

    which means that 118 + 224 + 78 marks (total) = 420 emblems that you can exchange for :D lucky you :p

    EDIT: i was proven wrong on this statement, so pay no attention to it anymore
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Trek17 wrote:
    Tragamite, there's something you should know about emblems: not only can you grind them, you can exchange marks of valor/exploration/honor for them, at a rate of 1 mark for 1 emblem :D there is a person on ESD/Qo'nos that does this, and there is also someone in Battle Group Omega (Fed and Klingon) who can do the same thing :) which means that 118 + 224 + 78 marks (total) = 420 emblems that you can exchange for :D lucky you :p
    This is incorrect. The exchange at BGO is only one way Emblems -> Marks of Valor / Exploration / Honor. Which is pretty useless, since you're exchanging Emblems which can get you Mk XI purple items for Marks that can only be redeemed for Mk X purple gear; and it's not even at a multiplied rate, just 1:1.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Heezdedjim wrote:
    This is incorrect. The exchange at BGO is only one way Emblems -> Marks of Valor / Exploration / Honor. Which is pretty useless, since you're exchanging Emblems which can get you Mk XI purple items for Marks that can only be redeemed for Mk X purple gear; and it's not even at a multiplied rate, just 1:1.
    sorry, that was my mistake :O i did that kind of thing earlier in the game, and i forgot exactly how it worked... but anyway, i made that mistake and i apologize
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Trek17 wrote:
    sorry, that was my mistake :O i did that kind of thing earlier in the game, and i forgot exactly how it worked... but anyway, i made that mistake and i apologize
    It ought to work the way you said; and I sure wish it did, lol.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Heezdedjim wrote:
    This is incorrect. The exchange at BGO is only one way Emblems -> Marks of Valor / Exploration / Honor. Which is pretty useless, since you're exchanging Emblems which can get you Mk XI purple items for Marks that can only be redeemed for Mk X purple gear; and it's not even at a multiplied rate, just 1:1.

    I am actually aware of this and although it seems cheesy to turn in emblems for marks but it is reasonable price. But buying up would cost more then trading down.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Having one central badge or mark that remains the same over the course of leveling a character would probably help encourage more players to spend more time in exploration areas (besides the sample farmers).

    Added to the above, it would also allow and encourage a player to save up those badges or marks towards those high-end ships that are available for purchase with in-game currency. :)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Pyryck wrote:
    Having one central badge or mark that remains the same over the course of leveling a character would probably help encourage more players to spend more time in exploration areas (besides the sample farmers). Added to the above, it would also allow and encourage a player to save up those badges or marks towards those high-end ships that are available for purchase with in-game currency. :)
    I guess the only "problem" would be that with a single merit reward currency, it would seem weird to have people at VA all going on a Delta Volanis Rampage to farm emblems. Since the current emblems are already given out in such stingy increments at VA, there would have to be some adjustment to give like 1 emblem for a lieutenant explore mission and 30 for something like Aiding the Deferi at VA. Then prices on all the items at different tiers would have to be rescaled to account for the new multiples at each tier (and Mk XI purple gear would cost more like 300 emblems for what now goes for 30; and ships would be around 5,000).
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited March 2011
    Azurian wrote: »
    Well I do recall Dan said recently about looking into consolidating currency.

    It would be a great thing to "trade-up". After all who is going to buy Tier 1,2,3,4,or 5 gear when they are decked out in MkX or XI Purples?

    I do hope so, I can already tell trying to grind for emblems is going to be annoying.
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