[quote]They took that away because you could farm rep with a faction to easy. Use marks to buy mats, then sell mats for marks and rep. It's a loop, not cost effective but a loop.[/quote] I addressed that in my post... [quote] * Why couldn't you just remove the (reputation/glimmer) gains and leave the option to trade materials for marks? At an exchange rate of 5 to 1, would being able to swap one type of Mark for another really have been so bad? * * You provided so many great new ways to aquire extra materials, than took away the only other feature they could be used for. *[/quote]