Story Mode/Reward Mode for TFs/SFs (and similar team-only content)
By
JonScott,
Posted on: 2010-12-05 09:56 in Suggestions and Ideas
/Unsigned. All this would do is drive people to do the minimum requirements to get the biggest reward.
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How so? If you do the TF/SF in Story Mode, you don't get the big reward. If you want the big reward, you have to do it in Reward Mode and meet the minimum team size, just like you do now.|
Originally Posted by Sharker_Quint
/Unsigned. All this would do is drive people to do the minimum requirements to get the biggest reward.
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Edit--Just to clarify:
1 - Story Mode would use the .6 story arc multiplier for calculating Reward Merits (http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Merit_Rewards), and would also use a lower median completion time, since players wouldn't have to spend the time to put together or pad an appropriately-sized team.
2 - Task Forces are not repeatable in Story Mode. I know I said in my original post that it wouldn't matter, but thinking about what you said, making Story Mode unrepeatable actually seems like a good idea, just so people can't milk them for rewards.
3 - Task Forces completed in Story Mode do not reward any of the special Task Force badges. You want the badges, you have to put the team together and do the TF/SF in Reward Mode.
This one was inspired by what the ArenaNet devs are doing with dungeons in Guild Wars 2 (you can read about it at http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dungeons if you're interested).
When you accept a TF/SF, youre given the option of doing it in Story Mode or Reward Mode.
Reward Mode is exactly what we have now--minimum team requirement, challenge scaled for the minimum team size, big reward at the end.
Story Mode is for all the folks who want to enjoy the story content of TFs/SFs but dont really care about the rewards and hate the hassle of padding a team. The minimum team requirement is removed, and the content difficulty and rewards are scaled down to the level of a standard story arc.
A couple notes:
Unlike with GW2 dungeons, Story Mode does not unlock Reward Mode (or vice versa). You get the choice of doing one or the other right from the start.
Not sure about repeatability. Reward Mode should definitely be repeatable, just like it is now. I don't think it would really matter one way or another for Story Mode.