Private Eyes

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

Unless the devs changed the merit formula and I didn't hear about it, this clearly demonstrates the intention is for raids to be worth the most, trials next, task forces next, and story arcs last. See: Merit Rewards.

So perhaps the devs made a computational error, which is possible, but would not change their intent**. Or maybe the error is with the person making up out of whole cloth the relative rankings of the rewards without actual hard data which is reasonably extrapolatable to the average player population, which is what the rewards are based around, and not, say, the average of the people in your household.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

I'm currently trying to think of a more elegant solution, actually. It isn't quite that simple. For example, an ally with nothing but radiation emission debuffs would not buff the player, but could debuff the critters in a comparable way that made them both easier to kill and offensively ineffective. But if they only debuff and don't do credible amounts of damage, confuse-like code won't account for them either.

The only ideas I have that might work correctly would require code, and that means they would likely take a while to implement, assuming you could get resources allocated to implement them.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville

If the patch is counting non-supporting critters, its broken and should be fixed or rolled back. That's my opinion on the patch, period.

However, having said that, these sorts of "see how easy it is" posts are pretty worthless. That would address the issue in the same sense as trying to fix a hole in the geometry by putting a sign in the game pointing at the spot that says "hole in the geometry."

For a suggestion that is free, you're charging too much.