Mothership Raid Vanguard Merit Drop Rate Query
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Camper,
Posted on: 2011-03-07 15:39 in Player Questions
on ship raids you are guarenteed merits as long as you or your team does some dmg to targets before they are dead
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Totally not the question being asked. She got merits. She got 40. I got 400. Why did I get so many more? Why did she get so few?
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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
on ship raids you are guarenteed merits as long as you or your team does some dmg to targets before they are dead
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"SARS, Bird Flue, 9/11, Anthrax in the Mail, Mad Cow Disease. Pope John Paul didn't die, he preboarded." - Christopher Titus "5th Annual End of the World Tour"
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Does she have the Member of Vanguard Badge. Without that badge, you aren't supposed to get any Vanguard merits at all, though there is the occasional bugged drop and you'll still get 10 merits when someone on the team plants a bomb.
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Originally Posted by Roughtrade
Totally not the question being asked. She got merits. She got 40. I got 400. Why did I get so many more? Why did she get so few?
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Originally Posted by StarGeek
Does she have the Member of Vanguard Badge. Without that badge, you aren't supposed to get any Vanguard merits at all, though there is the occasional bugged drop and you'll still get 10 merits when someone on the team plants a bomb.
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That I do not know. She has been rushing to get levels so she can join some of the higher level task forces. I will have to ask but it totally could explain what happened. I will ask her tomorrow night when we get together for our weekly Tip Mission run.
"SARS, Bird Flue, 9/11, Anthrax in the Mail, Mad Cow Disease. Pope John Paul didn't die, he preboarded." - Christopher Titus "5th Annual End of the World Tour"
There's a current bug or feature or whatever that allows people to get 10 merits when their team plants a bomb even if they don't have the Member of Vanguard badge. That probably explains the 40 merits.
So here's the Sitch :
Logged on Sunday afternoon to find a Mothership Raid just gearing up. So many folks in fact that we started a second raid in RWZ2. I'm on my tank, my friend is on his scrapper and his wife is on her defender. We run with a full team of eight taking down the shield generators. About the time we get the shields down another friend logs in on his tank and joins. The raid itself is smallish, most folks being in RWZ1. So we have some shuffling of members around in RWZ2 so that no one is alone but mostly we had three full teams plus stragglers. Basically, we had a good team, aliens got beat down, we won. So here's the thing; my tank got over 400 Vanguard Merits, so did the other tank who joined us late. My scrapper friend got over 300 but he also ended up maxed out so who knows if he would have got more. His wife got 42 Vanguard Merits.
42.
I just don't get it. She was very disappointed and I don't know what to tell her. I will admit she plays because her husband plays and may not be the most efficient defender out there but was it just a really unlucky day for the random number generator and her? Do defenders get penalized in raids because they are not doing damage? I thought the drops in something like that were shared out with the whole group, not based in individual performance.
"SARS, Bird Flue, 9/11, Anthrax in the Mail, Mad Cow Disease. Pope John Paul didn't die, he preboarded." - Christopher Titus "5th Annual End of the World Tour"