Additional access to Radio Content - Police Scanner Task Forces in All Zones that are level unlocked

[UltraAlt]

What if radio missions stayed the same way that they are but - in addition - a contact in the police stations in each zone could turn a team into:

1) a task force with set level max of the zone

(possibly have minimum level requirement to join as well so that it has minimum and maximum levels like any other task force. The task force level being that of the lead or the max level if the team leader exceeds the max level for the zone.)

2) only able to take radio missions from the scanner -or- calls go to that contact and they respond the same way the police scanner does

3) the taskforce would continue until a safeguard is completed - or -, maybe easier to deal with, until the last player quits the task force?

 

This would, of course, change a character's level for street fighting purposes the way any other task force would.

It would sort of be like the Ouroboros flashbacks but without merits.

 

 

Edited December 4 by UltraAlt
finer tuning

[Ukase]

I see no reason why not. But I don't see any reason why. You want to lock a player into a set of missions that offer no reward, aside from a badge (if they go to the proper /loc) and maybe a temp power if they complete a certain side mission. And most of us can just go to Agent Hassell and get that without the buy-in of 3-5 routine missions. 


 

[UltraAlt]

 

10 hours ago, Ukase said:

 And most of us can just go to Agent Hassell and get that without the buy-in of 3-5 routine missions. 

 

I fully understand that some players only run level 50's. You consider that to be "most of us". They may very well be true at this point.

The Community tries to push as many players to level up to 50 as quickly as possible.

Personally, I think that is a bad idea and removes a sense of accomplishment for leveling up through playing the game, but we each play our own way.

 

And it is obvious to me that some players that really only want to play end-game content would not be interested in this idea.

They only reason that they would want to pander to lower level content would be for the merits. And then they really don't want to play, they just want to speed through the content as quickly as possible for the merits.

 

10 hours ago, Ukase said:

You want to lock a player into a set of missions that offer no reward, aside from a badge (if they go to the proper /loc) and maybe a temp power if they complete a certain side mission.

 

Yes.

And there is a reward, you even say what two of the rewards are. You still get normal drops from scanner missions.

Maybe we should spice it up and add progress toward being a hero for successfully defeating the bank robbers in the safeguard mission?

Or maybe badges for each zone's scanner task force?

 

I don't see how anyone is "locked in" when anyone can leave a team or task force whenever they like. You aren't "locked in" any more than you would be for a normal task force and there is no penalty if leave a scanner tasks force before doing a safeguard - other than not running the safeguard which would mean they would not get the temp power or the exploration badge if they need it.

 

[Ukase]

2 hours ago, UltraAlt said:

 

I fully understand that some players only run level 50's. You consider that to be "most of us".

 I play just about the full spectrum of this game to one degree or another. I might PL a given character to 50, but more often than not, I level them organically. I stop and smell the figurative roses. 

 

 

2 hours ago, UltraAlt said:

Maybe we should spice it up and add progress toward being a hero for successfully defeating the bank robbers in the safeguard mission?

I think a heroic alignment point would be an excellent idea - but only if they don't drop from Agent Hassell, if that makes any sense. Not sure if they can make the distinction, though. 

As for your commentary about the community pushing players to 50...I disagree, but that's kind of a distraction from your suggestion for me to reply in full to that. 
 

Edited December 5 by Ukase

[UltraAlt]

8 hours ago, Ukase said:

I play just about the full spectrum of this game to one degree or another. I might PL a given character to 50, but more often than not, I level them organically. I stop and smell the figurative roses. 

 

Yet you did say:

 

21 hours ago, Ukase said:

And most of us can just go to Agent Hassell and get that without the buy-in of 3-5 routine missions. 

Which requires unlocking that content by

"Defeat 25 "signature villains", initially encompassing Safeguard Mission villains, but later expanded to many different groups." - https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Villain_Disruptor_Badge

 

Though  you can technically do this at level 10 by being to teams that run the safeguard missions.

I'm assuming level 50's can do this by running 25 safeguards at level 50 and regardless of the number of defeats of the same "signature villain" leading to that total.

 

I have a feeling that the number of players that do this are actually few in number - especially based on this post:

 

 

 

9 hours ago, Ukase said:

I think a heroic alignment point would be an excellent idea - but only if they don't drop from Agent Hassell, if that makes any sense. Not sure if they can make the distinction, though. 

 

If it is a scanner taskforce, I don't see any reason that the reward would be related to another contact that has nothing to do with the scanner task force.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Rudra]

11 minutes ago, UltraAlt said:

regardless of the number of defeats of the same "signature villain" leading to that total.

Nope. Takes 25 different signature villains. There are a lot of options for getting them though.

[UltraAlt]

2 minutes ago, Rudra said:

Nope. Takes 25 different signature villains. There are a lot of options for getting them though.

 

So you couldn't complete this by simply running level 50 scanner missions in Peregrine Island then - is that correct?

[tidge]

4 hours ago, UltraAlt said:

 

So you couldn't complete this by simply running level 50 scanner missions in Peregrine Island then - is that correct?

 

There are minimally 2 villains in the Level 50 PI Safeguard mission. One is robbing the bank, the other is in a jail cell.

 

Blue siders can (now) get 1 villain from the first Who Will Die? arc from Theoden, which is much more convenient, although running it 25 times in a row might be tiresome... but it is a low level arc.

[Rudra]

7 hours ago, UltraAlt said:

 

So you couldn't complete this by simply running level 50 scanner missions in Peregrine Island then - is that correct?

Correct. I'm not aware of signature villains being in radio missions, but I also don't typically do those. In order to get their 25, they would need to be doing tip missions, TFs, and story arcs. With TFs and story arcs having a good chance of getting them their 25. (Edit: Well, and safeguard missions, but I don't count those as radio/scanner missions. And they aren't going to be seeing enough villain variety doing just level 50 safeguards.)

 

Edited December 5 by Rudra

[UltraAlt]

16 hours ago, Rudra said:

(Edit: Well, and safeguard missions, but I don't count those as radio/scanner missions. And they aren't going to be seeing enough villain variety doing just level 50 safeguards.)

 

Well those were actually the ones that I was trying to talk about. The lead bank robbers in safeguards. 

I understood that the other parts of the scanner system didn't involve signature villains.