Radio missions causing stupidity

I have not many problems running PUG's maybe cos there are usually 1 or 2 people I know in there, but the few time's I've tried to run TF's I've had nightmares.

First was the Ice tank that insisted the empaths sole job was to heal her. First time I've ever failed the ITF.

Then there was the PUG New Posi where after the first mission one of the players just said 'Thanks for the team' and logged before we could even type 'WTF?'

Arcs certainly seem weird to some players.

I run PUGs all the time and I use a mixture of radio missions and arcs, the other night as I was in Steel and level 17 so I decided to run the Midnighter arc.

After spending some time assembling a team, I managed to get a fairly nice balance and after waiting what seemed like an age for some players to get to the mission from Atlas we were ready to go.

Whilst waiting I looked at some of the players info, hmm mixture of vets and newbies, should be ok I thought…

Well I soon realised that our tank (despite his vet badges) was one of those just stood there waiting for someone to do something and despite having scrappers and blasters, my defender ends up drawing all the agro as no one else will do anything. I politely explained that perhaps my fender shouldn’t “tank” and talked about agro, but no dice.

Somehow I manage to survive through most of the missions, one or two defeats excepted and erm I’m sorry Lady Jane. Anyway I go on to craft the lost cure and despite constant communication with the team it’s clear no-one has a clue what’s going on, so I end up doing the final part almost solo.

I then suggested that perhaps we should go to Faultline and do the Jim Temblor arc, as Fusionette will no doubt need some assistance (again), no laughs…it seems the none of the team have heard of Fusionette? I explain to the team that the arc is good and has AV’s etc. The team seems keen, however after 10 minutes of waiting, half of the team hasn’t arrived as they have no idea how to get to faultline (these were not all new players), they seem keen to get on a train, I explain that there is no train line to Faultline, and that either get the train to Skyway, use Pocket D, base TP or mission TP if you have it. After 5 more minutes 3 players quit in a row, no doubt because (despite my polite instructions and offer to use my base) they can’t find Faultline.

Luckily I recruit a couple more players and we begin, in the first mission we find Fusionette and the player leading her out doesn’t seem to get the idea and after lots of prompting, seeming starts to move towards the exit, however ends up going completely the wrong way running into the last remaining mob on the map, faceplants and then suddenly quits without a word.

Work is less effort sometimes

2 simple fixes and story arches wouldn't be annyoing at all, and far superior IMO to paper missions.

1. Keep the zoning to an absolote minium. Only zone if it makes since to do so. (IE, you need to speak to a contact in a different zone). Outside of that, keep them all in zone.

2. Give us the phone number right off the bat. Screw this trust thing. I get telemarketer calling me on my cell phone... phone numbers are not usually a big private trust earning deal, and if you trust me enough to put peoples lives in my hands by god you should trust me enough to give me your cell phone number...

You do that, and I'd never touch paper missions again. Frankly, i don't DO paper missions red side at all usually, cause the missions are all pretty much in the same zone, and you get the cell phone eairly. (though, IMO, you should just be giving it at the start like in the RWZ)

But hero side, where the contacts love to send me all over the map for each mission? Screw that. I'll run papers. (or i guess, scanners..) Hope the dev's do the new missions for the new zone more like CoV and a lot less like CoH.

...backwardses? o.0

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Originally Posted by tanstaafl I've heard complaints about how to do mayhems since I started playing. ... I dont really get the angst some players have when mayhems fail. Often you still grab the badge, you miss out on a temp power of variable worth (wow a jet pack). Seen a lot of teams disband 'cause we failed bank, or teamwiped along the way, when if that happened in a normal paper mission, it would be hositpal & reenter no drama. ...

I don't care if a Mayhem fails. Don't even really care that much about the badges, as I tend to forget about them once I hit the 20's anyway.

What annoys me is when a PUG leader, who acts like they know what they're doing, selects at Mayhem, and then any one of a number of the following happen.
1- The mission difficulty is still set insanely high.
2- When the team wipes in the first 2 or 3 mobs, the team gets stuck in jail due to massive amounts of Longbow and PPD eagerly waiting to fill their police brutality quota on us.
3- The leader doesn't clearly establish how they want to do the Mayhem, chaos ensues. See number 2.
4- The leader does say how they want to run the mission, but some Stalker or another player runs straight to the bank anyway. See number 2.

The whole thing then ends up being an annoying waste of time and an exercise in futility.

good luck D.B.B.

I "grew up" in mid-I6, before I had most of that available to me. I still loved it. Hell, I loved how "the Hollows teaches us to run!".

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