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FT Diomedes
Gallente Factio Paucorum
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Posted - 2009.08.23 16:36:00 -
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Choice between 141000 ISK and 10 RSS Scan Probes. Seriously? I know Minmatar is "hard mode," but this is just ****ing stupid.
...this doesn't even seem to be a regular case of rats fleeing the sinking ship. Seems more like the rats are on fire, the ship is on fire, and the sea is full of drunk Russians. - Jacob Etienne |
Tortugan
F9X
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Posted - 2009.08.23 20:16:00 -
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If you want to change something, give us some background info, and a proposal for a reasonable fix. As someone who has no experience with the Epic Arcs, I have no idea how much or how little work is involved, and how that reward compares to other races. Also, are there more potential awards for the Minmatar arc, or just those two?
:D
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WheatGrass
Gallente Silent but Friendly
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Posted - 2009.08.23 21:07:00 -
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You could try assaulting the agent when walking-in-stations arrives.
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Herschel Yamamoto
Agent-Orange
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Posted - 2009.08.23 21:08:00 -
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Originally by: Tortugan If you want to change something, give us some background info, and a proposal for a reasonable fix. As someone who has no experience with the Epic Arcs, I have no idea how much or how little work is involved, and how that reward compares to other races. Also, are there more potential awards for the Minmatar arc, or just those two?
For reference, a good L4 mission can easily be over a million of agent reward alone, not counting bounties, time reward, loot, or salvage. I haven't tried the new epics yet, but 141k would be an embarrassing reward for a L3 mission, never mind a L4 arc.
Assuming OP hasn't tarded out somewhere along the line, and that this is actually the reward, fully supported.
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Larkonis TrassIer
Neo Spartans Laconian Syndicate
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Posted - 2009.08.23 21:16:00 -
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Did you have fun though? Were you challenged? Surely that's more important than any material reward. Please resize your signature to the maximum allowed of 400 x 120 pixels with a maximum file size of 24000 bytes. Navigator |
Ankhesentapemkah
Citation Registration Commission
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Posted - 2009.08.23 21:37:00 -
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It's not just the Minmatar arc, the Gallente and Amarr ones are equally crappy.
There is no faction standing gain either, and at the end of the arcs there is some crappy implant or module that is worse than the stuff already available on the market. (a 2% armor hitpoints and 2% armor repair bonus for the gallente implant, or a cov-ops cloaking device, for example).
The missions themselves are sorely disappointing too, and the branching once again doesn't really have much of an impact. ---
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Herschel Yamamoto
Agent-Orange
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Posted - 2009.08.23 22:43:00 -
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Edited by: Herschel Yamamoto on 23/08/2009 22:43:13 So I looked up the rewards for the various epic arcs. Caldari gets a Hyasyoda Mobile Laboratory, with 4 ME, 4 PE, 6 invent for 600 CPU, 110k PG. Given that a regular ML is 90M, this one I expect to sell for at least 150 even after it stabilizes. Between now and then, a lot more. The other rewards amount to basically a pile of junk that no player bar Entity could ever find interesting. Drone link augmenters? Prototype cloaks? 141 freaking thousand isk? These aren't epic rewards, these are epic fail.
I can think of no reason for this sort of reward structure - there's not enough beer in Iceland to make this seem like a good idea. Either the player base has collectively missed something, CCP is genuinely trying to screw over non-Caldari missioners, or whoever designed these missions is a Blizzard spy. This kind of stupid doesn't happen naturally.
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ElanMorin6
GoonSwarm
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Posted - 2009.08.24 07:06:00 -
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I think highsec missions need to be beaten severely with the nerf-bat but this (if accurate) seems obscene even to me.
Of course, it seems all new missions suffer from lackluster rewards upon introduction (L5 in particular had this issue). How about instead of introducing new missions with the lowest possible reward by default and letting the rewards slowly work their way up, you find an intern or two to play-test any new PvE content and provide feedback as to what level the rewards should be initially seeded at. Or you could even just ask the mission designers where to start off the rewards.
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Slave 2739FKZ
Minmatar
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Posted - 2009.08.24 12:39:00 -
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Originally by: Larkonis TrassIer Did you have fun though? Were you challenged? Surely that's more important than any material reward.
This. Seriouslly epic arcs are not designed for farming but to have 'fun pve content'.
People woirries too much over pixel money ffs. WIS is an expansion which allows EVE players to wear leather and walk around stations.
Dust514 is a console shooter/rts which will tie into EVE and affect sov. |
De'Veldrin
Minmatar Special Projects Executive
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Posted - 2009.08.24 14:37:00 -
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Originally by: Herschel Yamamoto This kind of stupid doesn't happen naturally.
and I just found my new sig line. Thanks Hersch. --Vel
Originally by: Herschel Yamamoto This kind of stupid doesn't happen naturally.
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Zed Jackelope
Insert Obscure Latin Name
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Posted - 2009.08.24 16:22:00 -
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Originally by: Larkonis TrassIer Did you have fun though? Were you challenged? Surely that's more important than any material reward.
^^^
Originally by: Awesome Possum Ban in place for using inappropriate language and evading the profanity filter.
When Will I be able to post again? 09/03/09
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Uronksur Suth
Sankkasen Mining Conglomerate
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Posted - 2009.08.24 20:06:00 -
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Originally by: Larkonis TrassIer Did you have fun though? Were you challenged? Surely that's more important than any material reward.
I lol'ed
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