You are; you need to pay attention to the projects. Fell into the exact same thing and lost 5 BNP for 1k dilithium (which I really didn't need). It was an eye-opener of a lesson.

From now on, I'm taking my time reading the fine print on the projects before choosing Select. Just be mindful.

Right, but then they could skip the MK xi.

The MK XI set is now for people who have 2 pc of mk xi leftover and need one more to fill out their set, and that's it. Which is fine.

Dumbest.System.Ever.

I'm bored, I think I'll go watch static stars in sector space.

Agreed, the big mistake here is the much delayed rewards. Even if the only thing I want is dilithium I'm basically doing missions for dilithium I won't be able to claim until the end of january. (at least not converting marks into dilithium) Which is just nonsense. There's no reason to do any ESTFS other than for the bare minimum needed to unlock the next tiers.

When people start hitting tier 3 it's going to get ugly in pug STFs. Most of us are going to open our crate and just not do ESTF's until we run out of marks unless the loot makes them worthwhile.

The wrong project thing, and permanent passives is just bad design.

I'm not going to claim that I'm in love with everything having to do with the Rep system, but I don't fully agree with the complaint about 40 hour projects.

If that was in-game time, I'd be really upset. But it's real-time. Less than 2 days. It's not a heck of a lot different from the starbase projects in that respect. Sure it could be shorter, but anybody paying attention to what the devs were saying about it knew that they were time-gating it just like they time-gate the starbases. They don't want people with a ton of money and in-game resources throwing stuff at it and completing it in a month.

It's meant to be a long-term kind of thing that hooks people into coming back, not a "gotta grind it now" thing.

Hopefully Cryptic will listen to the feedback and scale the time back a little (among other things). But I don't expect those projects to take less than a day to complete and I doubt Cryptic will even go that far.

That said, I get the frustration from STF'rs who don't want to grind STF's all over again to get the gear. The grind may turn out to be less for new players in the long run, but you guys are stuck with it and I feel for you.

Nope, they're not - had a Fleetmate who after 600 runs (he stopped counting at that point) got no Omega or MACO proto tech drops. It was truly sad.

again could have up the drop rate but that would have been to easy and me wonders if thes ppl who went 5 so called months with not a thing if they where only able to to put a hour of stfs a day a week a month so on makes you think

Doesn't it take 2 days for starbase projects? Or something similar? IMO, personal rep missions should be much shorter than starbase missions, doesn't make sense that they are the same length, they should be at least half the length of starbase projects IMO.

i say geting rep should not be on a time limit you should get rep for geting them rocks killing them bugs or doing any mission that has to do with NR or stf now im not saying it should let us get to T5 in a week but should not take months as i said ones this rep system makes World of War-craft rep system look one less grindy and thats saying something in its self right there and also takes less time to get max

Time Gating crap is freaking stupid, if i want to spend my free time grinding marks and items to advance faster then someone else, that's my time spent how i want to spend it, others may chose to spend there time in a different way. The completion times need to go, you acquire the needed items it should complete in 30 seconds. This system was very poorly thought out and seems to be thrown together in a hurry.