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Main: Almighty Pixel
Level: 4 Joined: Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:22 pm Posts: 346 |
As over the days I've received complaints that this mission is almost impossible to complete cause the mission required items are so rare, its more annoyance than fun to do this mission to proceed down the engineer mission chain in Lyceum. The mission in question is called: "From the beginning... Blueprints.".
Description Quote: As you enter $stationstart, you are greeted by a solid man with a black beard. You don't know why you notice it, but he's bald. "$playername! I thought I'd introduce myself, I'm $startvendor. Hmm, you don't have a nickname yet, do you? You'll earn one soon enough, as long as you start tinkering. Come up with one good invention and you're set for life here. "Now, on that note, I'm working on my next big project, I can't release too many details on it... but it's big. As you know, every project starts with blueprints, then prototypes until you have it all wrapped up. I need to do mine in kind of the reverse order... so I need the schematics to other projects so I can make my prototype! $startvendor notices your puzzled look. "I know exactly what you're thinking. 'How can I invent something new using someone else's plans?' Guess I have to leak some details on my project, but whatever you do, don't tell 'Warpjumper'. He'd jump all over this in an instant! I'm making an Omniprint Schematic Library! It's a blueprint that has the blueprints to all other blueprints and to top it off it comes in three shades of blue! "So, you think you can help me?" says $startvendor grinning. The current requirements to complete this mission are: 1 of each Arson Drone Blueprint, Atoms and Bits Blueprint, Incineration Blueprint and Jade Thorax Blueprint. The current change I suggested would be to change it to require 5 Lyceum Mention Blueprints, but some other developers feel this is too higher content for such a mission. What are your thoughts? You can thank SunDog60 for bringing this to my attention. Here's SunDog60's suggestion: SunDog60 wrote: Rime Drone, Blue Alpha Drone, Vulcanite Drone, Arson Drone, Goblin Defense |
Sat Apr 02, 2016 7:23 am |
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Rank: Soldier Main: LemonPrime Level: 8087 Joined: Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:14 pm Posts: 5747 |
Yea I'm with Sun. Or some random crap assortment of ai base drones.
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 8:50 am |
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Rank: Main: Dark Steel Level: 9138 Joined: Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:35 am Posts: 2068 Location: Netherlands |
What's the reward? If it's mediocre I don't see why you'd want to keep it an annoyance by collecting drones from various places. In that case I'm voting for mention BPs.
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 9:14 am |
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Rank: Soldier Main: LemonPrime Level: 8087 Joined: Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:14 pm Posts: 5747 |
heylo wrote: What's the reward? If it's mediocre I don't see why you'd want to keep it an annoyance by collecting drones from various places. In that case I'm voting for mention BPs. It's designed for noob engis to start their BFD chain iirc. I doubt they have mention bps. _________________ Lemon/Meo |
Sat Apr 02, 2016 9:33 am |
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Main: Septagons Titan
Level: 2312 Joined: Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:37 pm Posts: 653 Location: Floof |
If this honorary mention blueprint is too high leveled for the intended players, you could always just slash the number of blueprints required for the current mission by half. Requiring only an Arson Drone Blueprint and an Incineration Blueprint doesn't seem like it would be so bad.
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:01 am |
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Rank: Councilor Main: Xonok6 Level: 602 Joined: Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:31 am Posts: 861 |
It would be about as bad, since Arson Drone blueprint is by far the hardest of those to get.
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 11:31 am |
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Rank: Soldier Main: LemonPrime Level: 8087 Joined: Wed Sep 29, 2010 10:14 pm Posts: 5747 |
Xonok2 wrote: It would be about as bad, since Arson Drone blueprint is by far the hardest of those to get. Having mission chains for low level gear gated by the RNG of farming low level DGs seems counterintuitive. If the goal is to get players to kill a DG boss or two, maybe have the mission go off killing a DG boss instead of requiring three out of 10842051250123850 random bps that could drop. _________________ Lemon/Meo |
Sat Apr 02, 2016 12:22 pm |
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Main: Septagons Titan
Level: 2312 Joined: Wed Jul 27, 2011 3:37 pm Posts: 653 Location: Floof |
Xonok2 wrote: It would be about as bad, since Arson Drone blueprint is by far the hardest of those to get. Huh. Maybe instead of requiring blueprints at all, the mission could require a few drones that are somewhat common, cheap and readily available for sale? Of course that could run into problems too, people could overinflate the prices and make it just as difficult for a person to get as these blueprints. Wouldn't it be more interesting to have the player go, say blow up a few different types of AI drones and collect a mission scrap item from each? If there's one thing the game has too many of, its fetch quests that are entirely dependent on RNG. |
Sat Apr 02, 2016 12:42 pm |
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Rank: Officer Main: SunDog60 Level: 6541 Joined: Sun Dec 25, 2011 2:15 pm Posts: 613 Location: Canada |
Septagon wrote: Xonok2 wrote: It would be about as bad, since Arson Drone blueprint is by far the hardest of those to get. Huh. Maybe instead of requiring blueprints at all, the mission could require a few drones that are somewhat common, cheap and readily available for sale? Of course that could run into problems too, people could overinflate the prices and make it just as difficult for a person to get as these blueprints. Wouldn't it be more interesting to have the player go, say blow up a few different types of AI drones and collect a mission scrap item from each? If there's one thing the game has too many of, its fetch quests that are entirely dependent on RNG. This was mentioned at the bottom of Pixel's post, a list of drones is there that could be an alternative. _________________ T21 Skills and Dailies Guide - Personal Wiki Contributions - Monthly Wiki Contributions |
Sat Apr 02, 2016 1:41 pm |
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Rank: Councilor Main: Xonok6 Level: 602 Joined: Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:31 am Posts: 861 |
Is Goblin Defense farmable? Afaik you can get it with missions and maybe from Doc Goblin.
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 2:43 pm |
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Rank: Officer Main: SunDog60 Level: 6541 Joined: Sun Dec 25, 2011 2:15 pm Posts: 613 Location: Canada |
Should be a drop from Protoplasmica, probably Doc Goblin. It can always be made more common or replaced by another drone.
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 2:57 pm |
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Main: Almighty Pixel
Level: 4 Joined: Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:22 pm Posts: 346 |
Ok so its looking like SunDog60's suggestion is the best idea atm?
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Sat Apr 02, 2016 4:34 pm |
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Rank: Main: Ununoctium Level: 5960 Joined: Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:27 pm Posts: 1773 |
APRIL FOOLS!!
damn u guis were a bit late this year _________________ Space for rent! |
Sat Apr 02, 2016 6:08 pm |
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Main: Almighty Pixel
Level: 4 Joined: Tue Sep 29, 2015 10:22 pm Posts: 346 |
The Salty One wrote: APRIL FOOLS!! damn u guis were a bit late this year Could of said the patch is coming out, but felt that was too harsh of a April fools joke so I didn't do anything. ELITE wrote: If the goal is to get players to kill a DG boss or two, maybe have the mission go off killing a DG boss. This is a great idea will pass this along, I feel for this mission that blueprints of some sort is required. I'll conclude that SunDog60's is fine to go ahead with. Thank you for posting on this topic! |
Sat Apr 02, 2016 10:49 pm |
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Rank: Operator Main: reaper pride Level: 5779 Joined: Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:51 pm Posts: 817 Location: Scotland, UK |
Should have changed all the ai bases into a pic of jeff for april fools.
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Sun Apr 03, 2016 4:40 am |
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