QLI: Document Merit Awards with Mission Tittles

This is a Quality Of Life Suggestion...

So yes, I can go to outside sources to try to figure in advance how many merits a TF, Oro Arc, or contact mission thread gives.

But as QLI, why not have this information provided with the basic mission information content, such as wehn you click on a contact and it says, "it takes 6 people between levels 40-45 to do this TF, and when you completed you get 32 Merits"

It just makes it easy on us, who may be looking at an Oro arc to gain merits to supplement what we have to get a specific recipe we want, it also assurs us to be correct and up to date, where outside sources may not do this as well, etc.

As I said, its a QLI, if you don't care for this information is or not provided to you as a courtesy, you do not need to comment for this QLI is inconsequential to you.

Stormy

What the hell is QLI?

Also, I don't really see why "number of merits awarded" is very useful information. If you're playing through the game, it doesn't matter. If you're trying to farm merit rewards, number of merits per arc isn't what you care about anyway. You want to know number of merits per minute.

The way the merit system is designed, the merits-per-minute is approximately constant for each type of content (story arcs and task forces have different target MPMs, but theoretically all story arcs have approximately the same MPM). In practice, there are differences, of course. But if you're farming merits, you don't look at "what gives me the most merits at once?", but rather "what can I do the fastest?"

For example, when I was working on my Ouroboros badges, I found that the story arc I could finish the fastest was The Strange Case of Benjamin A. Decker (11m 27s):

If I were going to try and farm merits from story arcs, I would be running that one over and over.

Of course, Task Forces have a higher target MPM than story arcs, so if I were going to start merit farming, I'd try and find which TF I can do the fastest.

A word of advice:

Rather than spending 250 merits to get a single recipe, use random rolls.

At 12.5 rolls per recipe bought the odds are very much in your favour than one of those 30 level 50s can use a particular roll. Even if you only can use a quarter of the ones rolled, thats still going to be getting Pool C's at three times the rate of direct buying.

Direct buying is best used sparingly as:
a) random rolls makes you inf faster.
b) if fitting out a lot of characters gets you more recipes you can use per merit spent.


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In reply to the orginal post, I think that the proposed addition is simply waste of dev time.
There have been three major chnages in the merit rewards which would have required going through and text editing the reward for every single TF and arc.
Thats a lot of text editing to check for any changes.

Documenting the merits per arc is something most efficiently done by players in things like the wiki.

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In additon the 60% 'penalty' is an outdated number (as well as worng concept). The basic min/merit for claculations is currently set at 3.7 (per synapse).

Issue 16 boosted Story arc rewards (including flashbacks) significantly (IIRC 50% and the reason for the edit delay is I'm trying to source that), which puts the multiplier at 0.6 instead of 0.4.

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Can't find the CoH forum list, it must have been in the I16 test subsections which are now gone.

This wiki difference shows the I16 changes which show an on average 50% boost in the merits per story arc.

There are variations of course, Dark Watchers arc tripled (6 to 18), Serpent Drummers dropped from 9 to 10

So no official cite I am afraid, but that should be enough for folks to accept that arc rewards were significantly buffed as recently as I16.

I don't care what the OP means by QLI, I want to know what tittles are.

Honestly? Why the heck not?

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