I finished a Task Force and felt let down, disappointed. I miss the appearance of the reward pop up window. For me the pop up window signified the completion of the Task Force and gave me a sense of control by choosing a reward of my choice. And, socially it was fun to flaunt the miracle recovery drop or the pace of the Turtle!
I am also an avid fan of Wentworths which is threatened by the merit system. Or is it
(lol) Fortunately, the designers have a merit price for recipes that is unusually high. For example at 200 merits you would have to do 8 ITF just to get one out of a six set enhancement (can anyone say time sink?). And, at the same time they have taken away the random drops that supply Wentworths which in turn keep prices low. Wentworths is now unbalanced and a sellers market!
Summing it up, the designers have taken away the sense of accomplishment at the end of Task forces and made it harder to obtain recipe sets for your main build, never mind the second one!
My solution is to balance out the reward system and Wentworths. Wentworths is pure economics or supply and demand. If you bring back the popup window at the end of a Task force to include random recipe drops, merit rewards, rare salvage, and enhancements you give a player a sense of completion and control. The players will then able to share the chosen reward with his/her teammates and go on their merry way. If random recipe drops are selected they should be based on the old criteria with one exception as follows: Tie the random drop to demand at Wentworths. This can be done simply by capturing the market demand at the daily reboot shutdown. Then on reboot automatically assign a multiplier based upon the captured demand to make it more likely that the high demand recipes will drop. Finally, cut all merit prices in half. Lets get real guys, you want people to play. You want the revenue stream from current players to continue so give the players what they want!
The end result of my suggested changes will be easier access to recipes for both builds per toon. And, Wentworths will still be fun for those of us enjoying the market. Yes the 70,000,000 million sells will disappear as the market adjusts to the new availabilities but there will still be unmet demand to met allowing for savvy players to gain influence!
No matter what you do, please, please contact the nearest universitys economic department. Get a grad student in economics to evaluate the supply and demand features of the game. They will do this for free as an internship if presented properly too.
