Lower ticket caps for smaller maps?
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Another_Fan,
Posted on: 2009-06-13 18:09 in Mission Architect
How many tickets did you have total ?
There is always the 9999 ticket carrying cap.
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Have they set a lower ticket cap for smaller maps? When did this happen?
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There is a lower ticket cap for smaller maps. Whether it is intentional or not is unknown, because no redname has commented on it. Arcanaville did some testing on it, as have others. If you want to see a really painfully low cap, try one of the police station maps. I got a "one or more tickets were not awarded" message after receiving about 40 tickets from defeats. I /bugged it in-game. When you run across it, do the same and include the map name (/whereami will give you the information they need to isolate problem maps, if this is indeed a problem).
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Have they set a lower ticket cap for smaller maps? When did this happen?
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There is a lower ticket cap for smaller maps. Whether it is intentional or not is unknown, because no redname has commented on it. Arcanaville did some testing on it, as have others. If you want to see a really painfully low cap, try one of the police station maps. I got a "one or more tickets were not awarded" message after receiving about 40 tickets from defeats. I /bugged it in-game. When you run across it, do the same and include the map name (/whereami will give you the information they need to isolate problem maps, if this is indeed a problem).
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Technically, its not based on the map itself but the number of spawns the map generates. And its intentional, although its value is subject to balance tweaking. Very roughly, the ticket limit I've tested so far is around 40 tickets per spawn, plus or minus (for a solo player). I don't know how ranks and other factors affect that number, but my testing suggested that the number of critters that spawn per spawn point are *not* one of the factors (its easier to hit the limit on unyielding than on invincible, for example).
Hitting the cap after just 40 tickets - before the mission bonus - would be a bit unusual. Can you tell the the precise circumstances of that mission: the precise map and other parameters?
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Hitting the cap after just 40 tickets - before the mission bonus - would be a bit unusual. Can you tell the the precise circumstances of that mission: the precise map and other parameters?
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From my bug report:
"On map Virtue Zone/Mission: 911_PPD_Precint_01, I earned 15 tickets, and when I defeated a boss that granted 38 tickets I received a message that one or more tickets had not been awarded because I had reached the maximum number allowed"
So, I had earned 15 on the map. I got the 38 pop-up and the message that something hadn't been awarded immediately thereafter, so the precise number was 53 (I often brainfog when I'm posting). I believe the boss group was the second I fought (there aren't that many spawn points on the map). The map is used as the first mission in arc 101546, which is where I encountered this behavior.
Of course, after I got the "one or more tickets have not been awarded" message, I still got more tickets to drop from mobs, then got a ticket bonus on complete that was again accompanied by a message that one or more tickets had not been awarded.
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I also got a message similar to this on the Pawn Shop map. It's the first map on the "MacGuffin Delivery Service" Arc. Played solo with something like three bosses on diff 3
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One or more architect tickets were not awarded because you have reached the ticket cap for this map.
You have received 163 architect tickets for completing the mission.
It was on a bank map, so a small map, on challenge level 4, so a lot of enemies, with three bosses. The RNG was kind, and gave me tickets for all three bosses.
Have they set a lower ticket cap for smaller maps? When did this happen?
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