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Jacked Out

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Just a thought but i'm sick of doing my critical missions twice for the rewards. Wouldnt it be better if as you completed the critical missions set your given...you recieve the end reward token. It makes sense to actually reward the organisation by making it easier to achieve they're reward, instead of making them do the same mission twice.

Currently i dont do critical missions purely because i refuse to spend time doing them twice for a reward.



Vindicator

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I think they did that for one of the Chapter Three missions when they were trying out the award system. It might probably be an inventory space saver, because when you're doing the Archives you know you need space for another token (and usually already have it with the mission token), but when you're doing it for the first time it might come as a surprise.



Jacked Out

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Yea it will deffinatly save space as you wont actually need to have all the start up tokens...each mission is released as it comes so you'll only ever get one token (at the end of that mission set) and if you have got a full invent (as i normally do in archives) it goes straight to your e-mail as overflow. (:



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The problem with this though is that it doesn't make the awards 'special'. If this was to be implemented everyone would have the award by the end of the chapter. And no one wants to be the same, do they? I just think it would defeat the object of having the rewards in the first place.


Jacked Out

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Psudo. wrote:
The problem with this though is that it doesn't make the awards 'special'. If this was to be implemented everyone would have the award by the end of the chapter. And no one wants to be the same, do they? I just think it would defeat the object of having the rewards in the first place.

No, if you receive award tokens for completing each subchapter, you still have to do the other org's subchapters once this chapter is finished in order to get the effect award.  For the org awards, you have to finish 4 chapters, which is almost a year.  The only way you could get the award as soon as the chapter is over is to do all of the org missions during each subchapter, which would mean a lot of grinding in a two weak period- and the whole doing missions for your enemy thing.


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Psudo. wrote:
The problem with this though is that it doesn't make the awards 'special'. If this was to be implemented everyone would have the award by the end of the chapter. And no one wants to be the same, do they? I just think it would defeat the object of having the rewards in the first place.


Not really, it still would take 4 chapters to get the clothing reward and if you wanted the effect, youd still need to do the other orgs Archives to get them.

The only reason I have done the Crits recently is to solo the Decelerator in one of the missions




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This has been brought up before, and I've always supported the idea.  Do your crits and you get rewarded for it.  You then have two choices:

1.)  Save up your own orgs completion tokens until you've gone through all 4 chapters and cash them in for the associated org reward.  This would mean if you wanted to get the current chapter's effect reward, you'd need to grind through that particular chapter's missions for your org again anyway.

2.)  At the end of a chapter, use the completion tokens you've earned for your org as a head start of sorts towards getting that chapter's effect reward.  This would mean if at the end of the 4 chapters you'd have to grind through that particular chapter's missions for your org again anyway.

As you can see, in the end what you're doing is rewarding those who spend the time doing their crits as they become available (and making sure they have enough rep to get all of their crits as they are released).  If someone wants to save up all of their completion tokens until 4 chapters have passed, then so be it.  If they want to trade some or all of them for the current chapter's reward, then they have to redo them later anyway.  If someone is going for all of the clothing rewards and effect rewards then this isn't going to cut down on their grinding time by a lot.  If someone is just interested in their own orgs clothing reward then *gasp* this is just another way to reward loyalty to their chosen org, which is something that should be encouraged.




Systemic Anomaly

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I take your point, but, even as it is, it doesn't take that long to complete an arc. I started doing chapter 8 on Thursday and already I have only one mission left. I don't think making content easier by making it shorter is what we should be asking for.

Getting an award for doing the current criticals would provide a further incentive to do them, but I don't think making the archive rewards easier to obtain is the answer. Like it has been suggested in another thread, criticals should give more reputation as an incentive.


Jacked Out

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The point is to make them "Rewards" and give them out as people do them for they're org. It doesnt take any less time to do it then it does currently... unless you do your crits + archives. Having the reward come from the critical mission arc at the end doesnt get rid of the tokens from achivists, they will still be there to allow you to replay missions etc and ofcourse get multiple rewards. Its just a bonus for being high enough in that organisation to get chapter rewards as they come...
 
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