Some people claim that this change will have a butterfly effect that will destroy fleets by causing SB/embassy progression to grind to a halt..... Thus causing large numbers of players to give up in disgust.

*chuckle snort* Yeah right.

Is it necessarily beneficial? No. Is it a player requested feature? No. It's something the Devs added because they think it will help game balance. Considering the number of players who seem to think the compactor is the number 1 source for purple doffs..... yeah it probably WAS too cheap before.

I believe idea good but they forgot small fleets working base project and new will not let really play from dailys and like to play game but it takes so long to dailys now does not let players really enjoy the game many small fleets are forcing them to bigger fleets but fleets are not taking 30 toons so we need to revamp idea for solo toons of thirty or less on a account need to really look at cost and time for them.

if i contiue the game which i to like we need better grinding and better slot that a commotities with 50 on holo deck very poor and even the 100 sloting being poor dev if i got to buy it in 1000's for bacic supplies still need better than 10 clicks to do

it is a fragment but if you recall many fleets only want active players and large fleet are currently near tier 4 and will be able to do both while going to tier 5 small fleet like mine are just trying to get a project off with in a day or two now adding would kill small fleets and solo toons like me and i finally got all toons together and dev were promiing small fleets and by looks of it should been assimulated for there lies.

It is broke. It's the defacto gear standard because it's too good. People use 3x Borg + MACO/HG shields because nothing else really compares. You can't prop everything else up because of power creep. Healing in general is already too strong, and this helps remedy that.

why does the Reputation System need a Timer anyway?

i'm a single player, it is not like i would require the game to tell me when or how much to play.
either i have the stuff to fill the next project or i don't in which case i will take the time that i want to spend and play, or go at it the next day.

i don't see a reason to add any kind of timer to these projects other than to stretch out the system artificially.

Anyway, i have 11 Characters, if you make me wait too long through artificial delays (for whatever type of content!) i will just jump to the next character and keep playing with that one (and yes most of my 11 Chars do the STFs).

I'm here to play, not to wait.
And that is true for people who can spend 12 hours a day playing STO and for people who can spend 3 hours every 3 days.

The timer is there to simply slow you down. Because if you finished everything too quickly, you might notice there is not much else to do - aka lack of meaningful content.

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This post speaks like a clap of Thunder
At 5:17 pm
Wow

Not true, not true at all.

It already got nerfed to compare to the other Sets stats wise.
The Heals are not that good, and they fire randomly, usually at the worst time to do so.
The Shields are just to flimsy for anything... and the Tractor Beam is not very usefull for STFs so it's the logical choice to use a higher cap Shield.


But the real reason so many People use the Borg Set is because it is EASY TO GET. 15 EDC + 1 Mission for the console and it's DONE.
The Maco and Omega, even the Aegis Sets are HARD to get,
either because it takes lots of Time (leveling up an obsolete and outdated Crafting System because of one set) or is a Randomly dropping Item.




Add to that, that none of the Sets that have shown up recently are any kind of must have Items. They dont LOOK that awesome and the Stats are rather *meh* even the abilities are on huge Cooldowns which makes them just as good as any other C-Store console.

IMHO by now you could take a XII Purple Shield / Deflector / Engine combination that suits your skills and build and be better off than with any of the Sets this game has produced recently.
BUT that would require knowing the math behind all of the skilltree and what you are going for and searching for the right Items... and not many people really care about that kind of stuff (who would really understand, even after the skilltree noobification) what a Deflector exactly does...
and all that in a game that is so ridiculously easy that it doesn't seem to matter anyway how you are skilled or what items you have.
At worst you have to shoot the NPC 2 seconds longer.


Anyway, i don't like the Borg Set anymore since they nerfed it the first time, i'm just too lazy to get rid of it on 11 Chars.
I think 3 or 4 use something else by now, but matter of the fact is that it is a viable endgame set, even with the flimsy Shield, and that everything else is either to specific, or just too hard to get to *just swap it out*.

The Shield is usually just the first thing to get thrown out, and the rest follows when you have the complete MACO XII set or whatever.


And not to forget, those Borg Engines are the FASTEST for Sector Space travel so they are even with other Sets still a must have for many players.

And thats the next thing, it is annoying to swap out the engines every time you enter Sector Space... but you still reach your destination faster if you do it anyway.
Warp 10 and Warp 20 are a bit of a difference...
add more Warp speeds to other Sets, and mostly make the MACO set 1 faster than the Borg Set and half the user base will go for it.

but i notice that anyway...