Feedback talk:User/That Sounds Risky/Reputation Vouching

Account-wide vs character-title

The reputation titles in EotN are (currently) designed as character-based, which should mean that they depend on things that that particular toon has done. Your suggestion allows other characters to farm for them. Wouldn't it be simpler to just request that these titles become account-wide?

(I happen to think either choice is imbalancing unless this accompanies changes to the title-based skills from EotN — otherwise it's too easy for newer toons to end up with rank 10 Pain Inverter as soon as they unlock the skill.) — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 21:40, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

I'm not quite sure I understand what you mean by imbalancing and newer characters since you're still putting the effort forth on a character. There can still be systems in place:

• The transfer wouldn't have to be at a 1:1 ratio.
• The transferee must be level 20.
• Scaling cost based on how much reputation is being transferred.

The suggestion is more about seeing that excess reputation not being wasted than anything. Sounds Risky | 21:58, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Reputation isn't wasted; there's just no value to it after rank 10 (like drinking after r2 Drunkard or IDing golds after Wisdom is maxed).

I don't see it as reasonable that a character-based title can be maxed by effort made on a different toon, regardless of the ratios. In particular, as long as the EotN title skills include the most powerful PvE skills in the game, it's imbalancing to make it any easier for players to max reputation.

Put another way, if I can transfer reputation, why shouldn't I also be able to transfer credit for completing missions? For finishing storybooks? Or any of the other character-based accomplishments?

Kurzick/Luxon/Imperial faction is different, because all of that accumulates to the account; it's not per character, so there's no issue about transferring. — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 22:12, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

You would continue to identify gold items for modifiers or simply to vendor it. You would continue to drink your virtual booze because you get some kind of enjoyment out of it. You have the option of doing or not doing those after you hit whatever cap they have. That's simply not the case with the reputation tracks and you're going to more than likely go over the cap with a few of them simply by doing the hard mode missions/vanquishes/whatever.

Ultimately I just want something to be done with the excess points. It can be the vouching, or they can let you buy junk with them, or they can even program the tracks properly to not accumulate points over the cap. Sounds Risky | 23:55, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Ah, okay. I do see that your suggestion seems a good method of addressing the rep-points that you believe to be wasted. (However, I do not support the solution because I don't agree that this is a problem.) — Tennessee Ernie Ford (TEF) 01:20, 19 July 2011 (UTC)