Make Radio/Paper Missions Global

Please allow us to access our appropriate level Missions in any public map and give us a "not now" button for safeguard/mayhem missions.
It made sense to force us to travel to our level range maps when they first came out but now (after tip missions) not so much.

Gonna have to say no on this. Some of those Radio/Paper missions spawn ambushes and you know darn well there will be idiots that think it's funny to spawn level 50 ambushes in Atlas Park and other low level zones.

And before anyone suggests it another "No" on getting rid of the ambushes from those missions.

But yes to the "Not now" button.

I've never bothered to write down the names of the missions but on several occasions I've selected a radio/paper mission when my character was in a relatively isolated spot and there are with no hostiles nearby and I took a moment to organize my stuff, or pausing to chat with someone when a mob of the NPC's that I'm supposed to be facing in the radio/paper mission run up and attack me. No other players have run past me, the mob comes right for me.


Edit: Oh and I also know the ambushes are from those missions because I have a couple of characters who are cops and the only missions they do are Radio missions. After the initial City Hall Origin contact all the have are Detectives, and the unavoidable AE, University, etc. contacts that unlock automatically at certain levels.

I've had a couple of Radio missions spawn ambushes. However, I've only seen this on teams, and only when facing Arachnos...

I think they spawn on an extremely low RNG, but I've gotten them on Hellions, COT, Tsoo, Arachnos, and Freakshow. Don't have a lot of high level characters and the ones I do have I don't play much so I can't remember if I got them on those characters.

Tips manage it just fine, I see no reason why Radios can't too. Keep Mercy, Atlas and Galaxy free as they are now, no problems.
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The only good thing about those ambushes were when they crossed to lower lvl maps!
Dangit.

Yeah ambushes do happen from papers and tips but its a bit rare. One of the many many missions where you get to beat up flamebeaux spawns freakshow ambushes.

/Signed

I've had 50 lvl ambushes from reg. missions in lower level zones, incl. the Chronos Titan (not to mention other GMs that appear during events, etc.) - the world didn't end

Forbin, it's possible that cases of ambushes could be handled by those missions not coming up on radios/papers when the character is using them in zones outside the natural level range.

I always thought that, at least, level 50s should be able to use the radio/paper in any zone.

Heh... to me, that might have been end game content enough (that and endless/repeatable Portal Corp missions).

I still want to see paper missions available in all zones, or at least zones you're over the minimal level of. Ambushes in low-level zones have occurred since time began and we survived just fine. I'd sooner have the major convenience of being able to get paper and scanner missions in all zones over the minor inconvenience of occasionally facing high-level ambushes. It's not like debt is all that big of a deal these days.

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I say yes to this. contacts say the same, but the ability to do these any level would be nice for badge hunting on villain side

I was under the impression that the suggestion was to pick Scanner/Paper missions from everywhere that were OUR level, not to enable people to redo old Paper/Scanner missions. If there is need for that, stuff those in Ouro.

I'm personally mostly interested in convenience. The other day I finished my tenth Hero Tip in Founders' Falls. I now needed to kill stuff to get a Morality mission, so my instinct was to tune into the Scanner. Only because this was a level 41 character, I couldn't. I had to trapse all the way to the station to get to Talos Island to get to the Ferry to get to Peregrine Island, because the game wouldn't let me get level 40+ missions in Founders' Falls. Even though I had just come out of a level 41 mission in Founders' Falls.

I understand why this is, or think I do - each zone has its own Scanner/Paper contact with a different set of missions - but if Tips work from anywhere, I see no reason why Papers and Scanners shouldn't.

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