A small {but significant} change to SSK

I'll try to be concise. Super-sidekicking, as opposed to the original method, is nothing short of a godsend. However, I believe it might be improved if the active level wasn't set to the mission holder, but rather the mission itself.

The immediate benefit would be that running teammates' missions would no longer put you at risk of outleveling the missions you yourself already have listed, inadvertently punishing you for success by turning your listed missions green or gray, especially if you decide to run with others for a dozen levels or so.

However, the biggest benefit might be that doing so would make it that much easier {SCR nonwithstanding} to basically kill contact obsolescence. If the exemplar level was dictated by the mission, then with the current SSK mechanics, there would be no downside to accepting missions from a contact you have outleveled a long time ago since although most content can't scale up to fit your level, you can always scale down to fit it.

Just a though, anyway. Opinions?

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I love it.

That's a possibility, although one can always set the difficulty to -1 for those troublesome cases or, failing that, simply drop the mission.

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I thought about this a lot, and I have to say, I see two huge problems with it. For one, it prevents us from outlevelling our missions, which is actually a GOOD thing for some of the harder ones. For another, it makes Ouroboros completely and utterly POINTLESS. At this point, I think it'd be better to just ask for Ouro to feature ALL missions from ALL contacts and auto-EX us to their level if we've outlevelled them. It accomplishes the goal without messing with a system which is actually working pretty well currently.

I'm not a big fan of level-scaling for missions, to be honest. SSK is cool, but I'd rather not take it beyond that.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

Hmm, I might have underestimated the difficulty of some missions for some powersets. I'd suggest teaming to overcome the difficulty, but I'm hardly fond of the idea of forcing playstyles on people. One way of dealing with it might be adding a -2 difficulty option, but that might be abusable to a point.


As for Ouroboros, it allows for repeatable running of any given arc. That, plus the level restrictions and the number of steps that would need to be taken to implement a way to list all missions available {though I would be anything but opposed} sounds much higher.

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If this was implemented, perhaps in the same patch we could add the ability to fight mobs at -2 or -3? It's clear the player base deliberately out-levels difficult content, so why not let us set it manually?

What about letting people drop an unlimited number of misisons, but granting no completion experience for dropped missions and reducing story arc merits in proportion to the number of dropped missions?

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Hell no. I miss the ability to easily clear a lowbie's mission (whether it was for badges or for some other reason) and this would eliminate the last holdovers of that system.

I am totally in favor of this system. I hate outlevelling and the fact I still have contacts in my list that will not talk to me anymore.

Ouroborous is just not the same.

Outlevelling on purpois..! Sorry... I think those EB's and AV's in those missions are designed for you to get help in form of a team. In this caase you are able to look longer for a team to help you. You have time enough as you never really outlevel it anyway.

Outlevelling on purpois is standing directly against all requests from players that at some point this game starts to become too easy. I think some challenge should stay. And fighting an EB or AV should always be a challenge. That includes SeaWitch.

The only thing that could be necessary for this to work perfectly would be a longer mission list. Three is a bit short. Let us have at least 5 or preferably 10.

I'd really like this. With the new levelling speeds, I rarely actually take long enough to level up to complete an entire arc before the mid twenties or so heroside if I team much at all. As it is, this basically means I just have to ignore story contacts to avoid doing four missions at -3 for arcs.

There might be a point there. On the whole, the only complaint is that there are missions that cannot be dropped but are too difficult to solo for some builds until they're far outleveled. Doesn't that indicate a problem with the missions rather than the system? Thus, investigating those missions and scaling the offending part down to manageable levels would solve that problem. On the matter of retaining the challenge for those who feel they can tackle them as they are now, well, anyone who can solo +4 EB/AVs is a better man than I.

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I hate to necrothread, especially my own, but I didn't receive any answers - if the difficulty of unbeatable-and-unskippable missions were to be addressed {devs, I'm looking at you}, would there be a problem with the original suggestion?

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