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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.10.29 08:23:00 -
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[the agent falls silent, his throat being crushed by the garrotte]
So Uh GǪ who else wishes this mission would either go away or be converted to a mining mission?
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.10.29 09:20:00 -
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You forgot 3) doing missions for standings.
And now you have the answer to your question.
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.10.29 21:58:00 -
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Mr Epeen wrote:I thought that MfW only happened with courier and research missions for which it is perfectly suited. To be honest, there should be more like it for the non-combat, standings grinders.
There aren't enough storyline missions to be able to give missions suited to that capsuleer's play style. Thus someone running L3 courier missions will end up with a 10-part courier/trade/combat mission sequence, an ore delivery mission, and so forth.
Mr Epeen wrote:In any case, I feel you are really digging deep for something to complain about in starting this thread.
You try raising the standings of a new character to 7+ with a chosen faction when all you get is MfWP. Since you get a much smaller standings gain from this mission compared to others, it really puts a dampener on progress 
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.10.30 01:24:00 -
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Tippia wrote:Why not just decouple missions from the standings grind?
Having a certain amount of "make work" to do means fewer people will have the standings, which means having the standings becomes a valuable trade advantage. Always assume players have far more money than you can imagine: any attempt to restrict entry into some venue (in this case, high standings) through resource consumption will just lead players to discover ways to multiply the resources they have. If it can be bought with ISK, assume an infinite supply of ISK.
Standings for tags could work since the tags are a first-order proxy for hours of NPC grinding.
At some point, making it easier to get standings reduces the value of those standings. I guess the L4 MfWP is a way for CCP to tell players, "no, you can't have your extremely profitable L4 missions and have your standings gains too!" Standings for tags would bypass this regulator function of the mission reward scaling system.
So for standings, go back to L3 courier missions in blockade runners :)
See, solved my own problem by sleeping on it for a day.
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Mara Rinn
Cosmic Goo Convertor
Cosmic Consortium
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Posted - 2013.10.31 00:26:00 -
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Sergei Turov wrote:This mission is terrible because of the ****** standing increase. Such a waste of a storyline opportunity.
Not only that, but why would the agent not simply buy the ore from the sell orders in station? At the very least the reward is high enough that the agent could have sold the implant and bought a dozen loads of Kernite.
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