No enhancement drops

Just as the title says I have suffered from a no enhancement drops bug. Two different play sessions for between two and four hours each with not a single enhancement drop. It may be important to note I was in a team that was a level or two below me on both days. We ran at least 10 missions over those two days with a mix of contact and radio missions.

I did a /bug on it and even a /petition. The customer support folks asked me to post my issue here for the dev team to see so here I am.

And FYI I am not complaining I am reporting.

I have had the same issue! Though I actually have had some enhancement drops. SOs and the training IOs. After I submitted my /petition I got a Lady Grey...whoopty F$%^& Do..I was using a brute.... This has been going on for about 5 days now. Minimal drops of LOW rarity HEP ME. I dont have billions of inf to buy stuff!

P.S. I am both complaining and reporting. I was told the same as Pyscho Dad after sending my petition.

I sent in a petition for game play last night and was referred to this forum. I did the Lord Recluse Strike Force with two of my level 50 characters. All players wer 50. I got plenty of enhancement drops on both characters, but what happened to the recipe and salvage drops? That was the fun in doing the task forces, the drops and the infamy. Now they have it where you get merit rewards when you complete the SF? What is that going to do? I had 3 reward rolls between the two characters and WOOHOO I got crap. When do you get the purple ultra rare IO recipes? At least 2 to 3 team members got a purple while everyone else got an orange. No wonder they are so high on the black market. If you are going to keep the reward merits how about making a vender designed specifically for TF/SF and you would have to be in a TF/SF to get the reward roll. If not get rid of the reward system all together.

Purples are supposed to be rare, infact about 1 in 5000 kills, so if two of three members of your team got one I would say it was a pretty good run!

Now I might be off-base but the merits are nice, instead of being forced with a random roll at the end of a TF/SF you can save them up for a recipe of your choice, OR for a small cost of 20 merits you can have a reward roll. With some task forces such as Syn or SS and even Cit, with the amount of merits you earn you can get two rolls. (statesman is just shy by 2 merits. Please note that SF's are a bit shorter then TF's sooo the merits are not as high, but by the same thought you can run more SF's so it all evens out.

As for the Enhancement peice, this is pulled from the wiki. BUT in a nut shell you will not get any enhancements for being examplared.

"an exemplared character will not get any enhancements or normal infamy/influence rewards from defeating enemies, although she may still get enhancements as mission rewards. Recipe, salvage, and inspiration drops remain based on the enemies' true levels. "

My apologies, What I meant to say was before the merit system launched that 2 to 3 people out of 8 got a purple after the SF/TF completion.

When the SF/TF ended you had the choice of rare enhancements, recipes, salvage, etc. Now you just get 2 choices Merit or Enhancement. I understand that purple are super rare but ask yourself this, why are they so expensive now on the black than before the merit system went on line? I mean be realistic, 250,000,000 infamy for one recipe! Give me a break! I understand that the population drop caused a big portion of the shortage, but there is no way to earn that much infamy by playing the game. I have been on this game since 2004, and I am still a badge shy of that accomplishment. The system needs a revamp.

And for the record, Strike Forces and Task Forces are the same thing, one for the Villian side and the other the Hero side if they are short change SF's that is a whole different issue.

The reason why purples are currently very, very expensive on the market....hmmmmmm....because there were very few players playing content, the farmers were all in AE. With the change to difficulty, more purples will hit the market and the prices will drop.

Man, I don't EVEN want to start talking about AE!!! {COUGH..Killedthegame..COUGH}

My question is this: Whatever happened to base salvage items? AS in, the stuff you used a workbench to make other things? I've been running missions on my now-40 Tanker for a week, and haven't seen one single piece drop. (I have, however, got the Invention salvage drops and recipes as normal.) Was this something that got turned off while I was away from the game? Or is there a setting that I didn't have activated? I'm confused... (not hard to do, really, but still...)

I kinda read the thread and went... what's the big deal?. I'm not meaning to be rude or elitist about it...

It's that from my point of view... I've gone 2 or 3 weeks with my level 50 characters without a single non-AV enhancement dropping. I ran through the Praetorian arc with a 46... then 47... then 48 blaster... and didn't get a single enhancement drop from any of the non-elite bosses.

If there is a problem... it's certainly been going on longer than I16 has been around.

You might want to check the market before you mass convert old base salvage. There are some who are into collecting obsolete game items and will pay big inf for them.

Also if you get into a mindless rhythm converting, beware, at some point you will reach the Brainstorm->Invention Salvage section and if you're running on autopilot you will start converting brainstorms, which you can have a lot of, into salvage. The problem comes when you realize your storage racks can no longer hold 1000+ pieces but now can only 30.