that's the thing though.....the only POSSIBLE "exploit", if you can even call it that, would be the faction rep...but using marks to do it would be prohibitively expensive, and lossy, and inefficient, and doing it the old-fashioned way wouldn't work any differently from how it's worked from day one.... honestly, i think it's really just to force us to play the game a certain way. i'm not a fan of this strategy...