Miriel Arkonis
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Posted - 2004.02.05 19:52:00 -
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Serious. There's 5 levels of agents 1-5. 3 is in the middile. there are 3 ranks of combat ships, which means 2 is in the middile. That would be cruiser
500k Teir-2 Battleship != cruiser. Short of the fabled 1M battleships, it's ranking right up there on "2nd baddest bounty in the game"
It was explained to me, whence I asked this question back like a year ago:
1.) Noob missions. Noob ship can do it
2.) Lowbie missions. More skilled frigate
3.) Average Player, frigate/cruiser
4.) Advanced Player or Group , cruiser/battleships
5.) Groups/Corp requirement
That spawn is pretty close to some of the crazy spawns out in 0.0 land, and with a +4 implant, worth considerably more than anything you're likely to get out in 0.0, and for almost no risk.
So what happens when level 4 agents DO come out? You have to nerf these missions from the level 3's first of all, and thereby removing pay and missions from 3's, and people scream "NERF! NERF!"
Or, you make level 4's harder, thereby raising the bar, removing any sorta middle ground agent level, forcing a complete rebalancing of the whoel system, and making missions the primary form of rat harvesting.
Think about it for a second.
A good analysis except for one thing, you forgot that mission difficulty varies within each level. There are easy missions, moderate missions and hard missions. The Zor mission is the "hard" mission for the level 3 agents. Are you saying that there should only be "medium" missions? Lower agents should ONLY give frigate missions, lvl 3 + 4 agents should ONLY give cruiser missions and lvl 5 agents ONLY give battleship missions?
I think there needs to be a variety of missons in each level.
Lvl 1 agents should give a few easy frigate missions, a lot of medium frigate missions a few hard (mutliple) frigate missions and rarely a cruiser (single) mission.
Lvl2 agents give a few medium frigate missions, a lot of hard frigate missions, some easy cruiser missions and rarely a medium cruiser (multi escort or 2 cruisers) mission.
Lvl3 agents should give a few hard frigate missions, a lot of easy cruiser missions, some hard cruiser missions and rarely a easy (single) battleship misson.
Lvl4 agents should give a few easy cruiser missons, a lot of hard cruiser missions, some easy battleship missions and rarely a medium (multi escort or 2 battleships) battleship missions.
Lvl 5 agents should give a few hard cruiser missions, a lot of easy battleship missions, some medium battleship missons and rarely a hard (multiple with escorts) battleship misson.
This is pretty much how it is now except that Zor has a heavy escort that would qualify him as a medium mission rather than easy.
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