Suggestion: Daily Strike Foes

[Andreah]

Similarly to the Weekly Strike Targets for TFs/SFs, add a new feature to get people to run different radio/newspaper groups.

 

Each day, a Hero and Villain zone is picked in rotation, and of the available enemy groups in each, one is chosen at random. 

 

For that day only, enemies defeated in those missions would be yield half again more xp and half again more inf, and mission completion rewards would be doubled, and one reward merit granted as well to everyone on the team.

 

Alternatively, the foes could also be buffed for that day only.

 

There would be no limit on how many of these missions could be run during the 24-hour period.

[Doc_Scorpion]

2 hours ago, Andreah said:

There would be no limit on how many of these missions could be run during the 24-hour period.

Hard no.  Ya wanna farm, go to AE.  (Plus we just got rid of the ability to create waterfalls of inf a few months back - and the game is better for it.  We don't need the inflation that re-introducing that waterfall would create.)

[Andreah]

Most of these would end up being in lower level zones and being run at lower levels.

 

One could even eliminate the easier groups from the list, e.g., Council and CoT, and even not include PI and Grandville. Now, despite there being unlimited runs and increased rewards, the impact on total inf generation would be controlled, and possibly even lower. But there'd be more groups running lower level zones and groups other than Council.

[Doc_Scorpion]

7 hours ago, Andreah said:

Most of these would end up being in lower level zones and being run at lower levels.

The first part of this statement is meaningless, it's only "true" because there are more "lower level" zones compared to only one or two "max level" zones.  The second part is a completely groundless assumption.

And no part of your response addresses the problem - excess inf flowing into the economy is not healthy for the economy.

[nihilii]

9 hours ago, Doc_Scorpion said:

The second part is a completely groundless assumption.

You can't run newspaper in a low level zone if you outleveled the zone... as far as I know? So, (say) a Daily Strike in Port Oakes and Kings Row would force you to run at level 5-15 or so.

[Andreah]

39 minutes ago, nihilii said:

You can't run newspaper in a low level zone if you outleveled the zone... as far as I know? So, (say) a Daily Strike in Port Oakes and Kings Row would force you to run at level 5-15 or so.

You can run a newspaper in a lower level zone. Unlock Lord Schweinzer in Port Oakes and you can run any newspaper, auto-exemped down to the proper level.

 

Edit: my brain crossed its wires: Lord Schweinzer let's you run any Mayhem red-side after he is unlocked. One can still run newspapers by finding someone who is in that level band who can use the newspaper contact, and having them lead the team. If there were bonus rewards for missions in those bands, I think these would be run more often, and there would be more opportunities to get on those teams. 

 

There is not a similar means Blue-side, but one could be added, perhaps an unlockable PPD senior detective. And if not, this would give reason for people's alts to choose to run these when they are in those level bands. 

 

There's already a certain, small number, of radio teams that run and do bank missions. It stands to reason that if those missions occasionally get better rewards, more people would run them.

Edited March 27, 2021 by Andreah

[Andreah]

9 hours ago, Doc_Scorpion said:

The first part of this statement is meaningless, it's only "true" because there are more "lower level" zones compared to only one or two "max level" zones.  The second part is a completely groundless assumption.

And no part of your response addresses the problem - excess inf flowing into the economy is not healthy for the economy.

 

It's not meaningless -- it's the clearly obvious reason it's true. The second part is also obviously true. They are auto-exemped down to the level they are given at. They cannot be run at a higher level. They can be run by higher levels, but only by exemping down.

 

Time people spend running radio missions in, say, King's Row, or Sharkhead, is time they are not farming inf steamrolling +4/x8 council missions or pocket-D farms. And if people who would not be playing at all, or perhaps only idling are also playing these, surely that's a good thing. And granting reward merits, even in small amounts, is anti-inflationary. If I were convinced the extra Inf being injected in by an idea like this were a serious issue, I'd reduce the Inf bonus, increase the XP bonus, and grant bonus merits for each bank mission  completed in the course of doing a cycle of radios/newspapers in those zones.

 

I'm getting these sense your original "hard no" meant you decided to be closed to this idea, no matter the arguments that could be made in favor of it.

[Doc_Scorpion]

 

1 hour ago, Andreah said:

I'm getting these sense your original "hard no" meant you decided to be closed to this idea, no matter the arguments that could be made in favor of it.

If you had made any arguments in favor of it, that would be reasonable statement.  You haven't.

Given the vast amount of radio missions already being run (especially a high levels), what purpose is served by making them even more attractive to farm?

[Alchemystic]

@Doc_Scorpion this would hardly be the most efficient way to farm, simmer down.