Update 1.7- Reputations

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Thanks Sean! You beat me to it. :laugh: :) Looks like an interesting system, I guess most players are near or at the end of their legacy leveling so devs had to come up with something for them to do with their time. My question is, what missions are those with lots of level 50s going to do to level the various reputations? There are only so many dailies available..... :(

I'm slowly getting burned out doing dailies as is...:/

Roll more alts! :silly: I have found that following the different storylines makes a lot of difference even when you have to do the same missions over and over again. You learn which ones you really hate doing and can skip those if you so choose. :)

There's apparently only going to be 4 species reps open to begin with and it looks like they are introducing new missions for people to do to increase their reputations with each of these. Unfortunately, it looks like most if not all are new dailies... :(

The other item they mentioned is repair costs are probably going up! ARRGHHHH! NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!! They state that gear enhancements were inadvertently ignored when repair costs were calculated. Not good news at all as I've always thought repair costs were prohibitively high. Even on some of my lower level alts, if I die once it's often more than 1k credits to repair. That and the ridiculous prices they charge for training for each ability upgrade and it's increasingly difficult to keep much of anything in your account. I've taken to skipping some upgrades just to get by from day to day. :angry:

As somebody who pops into SWTOR as a preferred player everything I read basically just tells me I shouldnt bother. Now I am not against spending money if I get to keep what I spend it on, hence why I dont subscribe but am certainly not averse to spending money on the game if I feel its worth it. TOR now though is looking less and less worth it.

The repair costs I have seen people talking about are always between the range of 10-35k and as a preferred with a cap of 350k and having higher bills anyway for not being a subbie I would imagine for me it would be sky high. Am I wrong in that assumption?

No you are not wrong, Lesley.

...and I desperately love Star Wars, but despair over what both SoE did with Galaxies and direction BW has taken with a more than somewhat inferior FTP system.

SWTOR is a breathtakingly beautiful game that has been spectacularly mismanaged.

~J

Oh well thanks for the replies, guess its back to shooting zombies in the secret world for me then (or farming fleet marks/dilithium/rep in STO)

LesleyA, I don't know how to answer your question. It all depends on how much you've upgraded your gear along the way. I haven't agreed with the majority (if not most) of the restrictions they've placed on F2P players as I believe it does absolutely nothing good for the game and just succeeds in pushing people away. And I agree with Lorenius completely in that SWTOR is indeed "a beautiful game that has been spectacularly mismanaged" from the beginning. I still subscribe because I can and wouldn't be able to function under all the restrictions. I don't know how much more they can drag the game down but according to the devs, F2P was a spectacular success for the company, if you can believe everything they write.... :(