Except for the fact that they would have to do a lot of datamining to determine how many merits each arc would grant.
Unless they came up with an arbitrary figure. Such as, all Dev's Choice arcs grant 3 merits, or somesuch.
I can't say I'd e particularly excited about something like this, but I can think of no reason not to do it.
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They'd have to base the number on the arc length. Otherwise, eventually, we will have a 1 mission dev choice arc, which would be farmed to death for merits.
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They'd have to base the number on the arc length. Otherwise, eventually, we will have a 1 mission dev choice arc, which would be farmed to death for merits.
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Well, I'm sure that the Dev's wouldn't choose an MA arc like that.
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They'd have to base the number on the arc length. Otherwise, eventually, we will have a 1 mission dev choice arc, which would be farmed to death for merits.
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Well, I'm sure that the Dev's wouldn't choose an MA arc like that.
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Why not, if it's an exceptional mission?
They'd likely have some criteria if they did so. Say, a base of 1 merit per mission. 1 extra for "Long" or "Very long" arcs, another for having 1-3 AVs or some such. Or, do what they've shown they do with "official" missions and set them individually.
What would you think of adding merits for completing a dev's choice story arc. It would be in keeping with the idea of a toon being able to level from 1-50 completely within the mission architect and end up in roughly the same place moneywise as a non AE character.
Running normal content, most characters will get enough merits for several rare rolls by the time they reach level 50, counting merits from story arcs and maybe the odd tf here and there.
Running normal AE missions, you can use your tickets to buy rare recipe rolls.
Running devs choice missions doesn't give tickets, and as of right now, doesn't give merits either, so there's no way to get rare recipe rolls from them.
Adding merit rewards for completing a devs choice story arc (at the same merit per average minute or hour of completion rate as normal story arcs) makes sense.