What purpose do tip missions serve?

[ranster44]

 Yet another newbie question.

[Troo]

ah, good question..

 

https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Tip

 

Edited July 18, 2020 by Troo

[TheOtherTed]

Back in the day, tip missions were the only way to change your alignment.  10 tip missions would lead to an alignment mission, which would let you shift along the aligment spectrum, as follows:

Hero --> Vigilante --> Villain --> Rogue --> Hero

 

Nowadays, however, you can go talk to Null the Gull in Pocket D and change your aligmnent instantly.

 

 

Edited July 18, 2020 by TheOtherTed
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[nightroarer]

One purpose, for me anyway, is to add variety to the missions my characters run. The more content, the better. 🙂

[Nafsmar]

I agree with Nightroarer. I have confirmed my alignment about 8 times with my main using the tip missions. A quick tip about tip missions is when u open one it will occur in the zone u r in. There are Very few exceptions ( at least on in the 50 range is in IP) but the rest I do in Atlas Park. 

[merrypessimist]

These days pretty much the only point is to unlock the redside signature story arc series (lastri kumanis  et al.) which only open up from a 30-35 red tip mission.  Plus the Morty Kal redside task force, which is a 20-25 tip, IIRC.  They're supposed to be the guaranteed first tip drops in those level ranges, as I recall.

[Coyotedancer]

Ten tip missions of the same type (hero, villain, rogue, etc) gets you an Alignment mission. Finishing that gets you a tidy sum of reward merits.

[Sakura Tenshi]

I feel Tip Missions these days are "updated/more engaging Radio Missions". also if you do enough you can get a spiffy 40 reward merits. (I mean, it is running 11 missions, many of which can be pretty long, so it's about as long as some launch TFs)

[Myrmidon]

I would love to see Tip/Morality system moved over to Ouroboros for flashback purposes so that we can continue to experience all of them when soloing post-50.

[Coyotedancer]

I *think* one of the base items lets you "craft" the various tip missions... 'Darned if I can remember what it's called, though. (The Arcane version looks like a cauldron sitting on a stone platform with four Oranbegan-style spikes at the corners)

[Saeletra]

I think the tech version is just called a "Mission Computer" I was just placing one the other day.

 

[Frostbiter]

There's a series of badges for changing alignments and doing tips as well. 

 

Are those special Villian tips the ones with the fancy covers on them?

[MTeague]

Tip missions also often have other NPC heros / villains in them, which count toward Hero Slayer / Villain Disruptor badges, if I'm not mistaken.

Either way, they're better written and more engaging (to me anyway) than "The Boomtown Security Chief asked for you by name. You should consider that a compliment. Go see what he wants."

[DoctorDitko]

Even just the more innovative use of standard maps is refreshing. Tip mishes are s nice change of pace!

[ImpousVileTerror]

I do hope the Homecoming Team consider fleshing out Tips even further!  There's a lot of potential to be had there, and they don't need to mess with established lore to do it either (which, as I understand it, is still a thorny issue for some players who don't want to see anyone but Sean Fish continue the writing.  *shrugs*).

[Zombie Hustler]

It would be kind of cool if you could give a tip mission to another player in some way. I'm not really sure what the point would be, but the idea kind of appeals to me to Share a Tip.

[MTeague]

16 hours ago, ImpousVileTerror said:

I do hope the Homecoming Team consider fleshing out Tips even further!  There's a lot of potential to be had there, and they don't need to mess with established lore to do it either (which, as I understand it, is still a thorny issue for some players who don't want to see anyone but Sean Fish continue the writing.  *shrugs*).

Agreed.  Particularly redside, I like the way the tip mechanics are used to put in some missions as if they were your own choices, your own decisions, your own plans.  It's a nice break from some missions that come across only as if you are at best a mercenary for hire, and at worst a lackey to be ordered about.  Yes, redside gets better later, and yes, it makes sense you have to EARN your "street cred" at the lower levels, but the tip missions are some of the earliest content that feels like you're acting on your own agency.

[Zep]

On 7/17/2020 at 7:14 PM, nightroarer said:

One purpose, for me anyway, is to add variety to the missions my characters run. The more content, the better. 🙂

This and get a merit from time to time

[Shred Monkey]

I find tip missions are more challenging then any other repeatable content.  Most of them use harder enemy groups, such as Arachnos, Longbow, and Carnies.  I've even seen a CoT mission where clearly the enemies were buffed somehow because the took way longer to defeat than normal.  As such, running 54x8 (or 54x4 depending what toon I'm on) tip missions is my standard "well, i'm not doing anything else, so I'll do this until something else comes up," option.  I like that I don't have to be in a level appropriate zone to do them, so it's a way to do endgame content while hanging in Atlas Park.

 

They're also a source of solo-merits.  40 merits for every morality mission.  If you set difficulty to easy you can speed run 11 missions pretty quickly, but probably not as quick as some other merit sources. 

 

But yes, to your question, null the gull took their original purpose out of the game.  

 

 

[nightroarer]

I experimented to see if taking a tip mission while in Echo Galaxy would set the mission there, but it set the mission in King's Row instead. Being able to run missions in Galaxy again would be fantastic. Well, as long as you have a SG base with the facilities and resources that Galaxy no longer has.

 

As is, I did level a new character to 8 by street sweeping in Galaxy (set up my own RP missions to do so) just for fun. Yeah, I'm a dork.

[KC4800]

I still do tip missions, quite frequently. Sometimes you only have time for one mission. And you don't want to start a lengthy arc with a new contact. And you're bored with Radio/Newspaper missions.