Re-evaluate merit rewards based on completion time in the past year.
By
Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2011-03-10 13:26 in Suggestions and Ideas
Alternatively figure out some alternative way of awarding merits that makes both speed running and "kill most" TFs rewarding.
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That is too hard! This at least lies within their current philosophy more :P|
Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
Alternatively figure out some alternative way of awarding merits that makes both speed running and "kill most" TFs rewarding.
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Edit: Ideally, I would like that Adeon.
You realize that you're most likely asking for lowering merits -- at least on 50 TFs (with 50+1s and the alpha slot) and anything that's the WTF as people farm it for the incarnate bits/badges, right?
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Yes.
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Originally Posted by Rhysem
You realize that you're most likely asking for lowering merits -- at least on 50 TFs (with 50+1s and the alpha slot) and anything that's the WTF as people farm it for the incarnate bits/badges, right?
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What do you think the WST is for? Oh sure, it could just be "Happy reward time for running more tf's!"
Or, it could be a way to get a lot of data on how fast/easy we run these.
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I'm not so sure that's universally true. For some TFs, I think the average completion times might actually go up.|
Originally Posted by Rhysem
You realize that you're most likely asking for lowering merits -- at least on 50 TFs (with 50+1s and the alpha slot) and anything that's the WTF as people farm it for the incarnate bits/badges, right?
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Case in point, the ITF. That was one TF that had a lot of speed runs, since a good team can do it in well under an hour, and a great team can do it in like 20 minutes. Recently though, people have been doing shard runs where they kill nearly everything, so it's been taking a lot longer (most shard runs take an hour or more even with a good team)
Why?
Does it really matter that much now? The reward merit values are fairly static when benchmarked against other TFs/SFs so if they go up or down as a whole it doesn't make a big difference.
Also the fact that Reward Merits are taking a back seat to non-tradeable rewards means that precious dev time would be used to do what? Alter Merit Rewards by 1 or 2 merits?
With i20, Shards will drop on non-50 activities and will that mean you will ask for the devs to re-visit this whole issue again in two months?
Disregard all prior data. That is mostly irrelevant in a game that changes such as this.