Would this be considered an exploit/farm?
By
Groundswell,
Posted on: 2009-05-07 22:00 in Mission Architect
uhm... I think you are going overboard on this one. No one will farm this with the mish of glowies in the middle of an arc anyway. One minute glowies is way to much overkill. There are a ton of objective farms out there with glowies and all kinds of stuff still so I'd say you are more then safe with yours.
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Don't worry about the high number of glowies if they are important to your story. And for the love of Pete, DON'T put them on a 60 second timer.
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Okay I'm working on an arc, and the second or third mission could potentially be veiwed as a Farm...
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No. And yeah, what everyone else said, dont put the glowies on a 1 min timer. 15-20 seconds is plenty. And make sure that 20 min is adequate for your AV battle. May need to increase that time a bit.
Basically, make sure your mission is BALANCED for risk/reward/time and you'll be fine.
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Originally Posted by eltonio
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Don't add annoyance to your arc to deter farming, especially badge farming. Nobody's going to farm your arc anyway.
The great majority of farmers use their own arcs for farming, and farm tickets/xp/inf, not badges. What few badge farmers there are, are even more likely to use their own custom-tailored arcs.
Nobody is going to play the arc after that mission anyway. 20 minute timer with an AV and a mountain of potential glowies to deal with? Yeah not so much.
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60 secs is a lot, but I like the idea of being able to use clues to find the right glowie. It lets a player using his or her head save some time.
Okay I'm working on an arc, and the second or third mission could potentially be veiwed as a Farm... but I'm trying to discourage its use as such; allow me to ellaborate.
Basically the mission will have between 20-40 glowies depending on the final map choice, so it could be used to farm glowie badges.
To combat the desire to glowie farm this, in addition to being in the middle of an arc... I will have the following rules in place.
Only one to two of these glowies are going to be actual objectives (the clue to the objective will make it pretty clear which one it is).
Each glowie will have an interact time of 1 minute, making it tedius to farm.
The Mission has a time limit of 20 min or less... making it impossible to click all the glowies before the mission ends.
There is an AV to fight in that time limit as well.
Is that enough to make up for the high ammount of glowies?