Questions about Reputations!

[Tiberius Lacedaemon]

Hey everyone. I've been playing STO on and off since 1923, and I've recently come back. I've got 3 50s (All of them different faction, ie. 1 fed, 1 klingon, 1 romulan(love this one :D), and I am just...sincerely confused.

See, I love this game, no doubt about it. It's really fun, and I like the fact you can actually level pretty quickly and get decent gear through the Episodes. Hell, I haven't had to buy anything in the store at all (other than the same weapons that I use, but higher).

Here's the problem. Once I hit 50 with the characters, I got burned out, I stopped playing because of the reputation system. I mean, let's face it, it's annoying. But at the same time, there are like 7 now.

There's the Task Force Omega, Nukara Strikeforce, New Romulus(Not sure if different for other factions, I don't remember), Dyson Joint Command, 8472 Counter-Command, Delta Alliance and finally, Iconian Resistance.

Now uhh, here's my question.

We're in the Iconian part now, is there honestly any point in getting any of the other reputations other than Iconian? I mean, I have gotten only as far as Tier 1 on TFO, but that's it. I'm also aware you get 4 "slots" for Space as well as Ground Reputation, so having all of them is kinda useless unless I was going for... say... the -best- ones overall.

Anyways, would be great to know so I can get it started once I reach 60.

Thanks!

[Jimmy McGill]

Originally posted by Tyberius Lacedaemon:

I've been playing STO on and off since 1923

U wot m8

[Freakium]

Originally posted by Sinnaj63:

U wot m8

He must have a temporal data receiver.

Anyways, Some of the traits you get from the reputations are quite nice. Hover your mouse over them all and see which ones you like. You also get a ground or space power once you finish a reputation that can be quite useful. If you don't like a reputation, you could still at least level it up for the dilithium bonus you receive for finishing it. The "daily" and "hourly" assignments also give you a reputation box that you can open for random loot.

I understand it is easy to burn out on the reputations. It take ~40 days to finish a reputation. However, those characters that do can then create a sponsorship token that they can give to other characters on the same account to double they're reputation experience. Note that the tokens can only be traded in your account bank.

[Tiberius Lacedaemon]

Thanks very much for the info, my friend.

In truth, 40 days to finish -one- reputation? Damn. Damn, damn, damn. This game requires an insane amount of grinding. Not just for reps, but for marks, dlithium and etc. I just don't have the time for things like this anymore. Truthfully, I don't give a damn about the reputations. But it pretty much blocks you out from getting gear.

Without reputation, you can pretty much farm Dilithium(127.5k), and Fleet Marks (140k at least) to get the "Elite" Super Rare or whatever weapons and a few other things except Consoles from the Level 20 Fleet Vendors. So, even if I did do that, my only option (without reputation) would most likely be buying these things from the exchange but I'd wager I require a shizzlesteak load of credits.

Damn. I mean, I don't really care about the gear that much, to be honest. I don't know much about endgame other than dungeons, PvP(which seems to be dead). I don't know if there is any raids, so the game to me...is just.... the ships, I guess. Hell, I don't know.

Anyways I'm talking too much.

Thanks again for the help.

[Szeron]

Honestly, there are multiple reputation-quality sets available from endgame missions now if you really don't want to do reputations.

That said, reptuations are easy to progress if you just treat them as background projects that you let cook while you do other things.

Also, yes, most of the reputations are still useful to have, if not for the sets that benefit a variety of playstyles, then for the passive traits you unlock that can really give you a leg up.

[atomicgirl]

Originally posted by Tyberius Lacedaemon:

In truth, 40 days to finish -one- reputation? Damn. Damn, damn, damn. This game requires an insane amount of grinding.

It's an "insane amount of grinding" to take 10 minutes every day for 40 days to complete a reputation? Really? Exactly how much time and effort should it take for anyone to complete a reputation? Two weeks of just logging in without doing anything at all?

[Tiberius Lacedaemon]

Oh. I thought we were going to be civilized, but allow me to reply to your ignorant, pathetic self, yes?

See, in order to start the "projects" that give you "reputation" you need certain items, yes? Right. Among these items, we have what we call "Marks". Yes? You following me? Great. In order to actually "begin" these projects, you need to provide a certain amount of marks. Yes? Got it? We good? You still with me? Perfect.

I do not have those marks. Farming a certain amount of marks for that particular 20hr as well as 1hr project take quite a bit, especially if I wanted to level more than one reputation at the same time. 10 minutes a day? Sure, thing, allow me to log in and magically spawn myself some marks and begin my projects, that'd even take less than 10 minutes!

Hence why I said, I do -not- have the time that I -USED TO-. Are we understood on this point? Is it possible at all that I could have somehow missed a point? All you have to do is ask, and I shall provide it for you.

Jesus. Is there really a reason to be like this? I mean, damn, I know there are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ out there but that was sincerely pointless. In the future, avoid posting on threads if this is the type of behaviour you're going to show.

Thanks very much, have a great rest of the night.

[meekeN]

this game is a POS anymore.... do not bother

[From Hell]

With the daily reward and the normal mission reward, most PVEs/STFs give you already 90 marks and more on the first play. That is enough marks for 3 daily projects. If playing 10-15 minutes every 3 days and a handful of minutes on the other days is too much work, simply avoid any MMO's.

Some reps are even easier than that. You don't even have to play a single mission for the Romulan rep. Just play that stupid epoh game on New Romulus...

[AbsynthMinded]

The main reason for reputation is the ground gear and unlocking traits for your character. The Rep Space gear is vastly inferior to Fleet level space gear, and in the case of older reputations are incomplete, ie no singularity or warp cores. Many of the reputation items are only really useful vs. the enemy associated to that reputation.

[Tiberius Lacedaemon]

You seem to forget these PvE Queues do -NOT- take 10-15 minutes. I don't see what is so hard about this to actually understand. Space or Ground queues, they do not take 10-15 minutes.

My point is... After you've finished everything, all you got left is reputation farming. Once you got enough marks for a few days in total, it burns you out because all you're doing is waiting. So, techincally, my point is... I don't want to waste my time on a game, however long it may be, just to log in, do the reputations and do a queue or two, then log off as there's nothing else to do. Imagine if I have all 3 factions over 50. I'm doing the same thing with all of those 3 characters. It gets annoying, especially how Cryptic leases the WORST servers in the world and PvE queues lag like there's no tomorrow.

I've played many MMOs, and I am well familiar with grinding, but this is kinda ridiculous. However, I still love the game, it's not a reason to get me to stop playing, it just means I get burned out easy, hence why I asked if there's a reputation I should do over others, but that was answered.