Questions about Architect Tickets

Venture is leading you down the path to madness.

There is no reward for finishing a mission (except bonus tickets equal to the tickets earned in the mission - up to a total cap that depends on the map but is in the neighborhood of 1000-1500 tickets).

If you want lots of rewards, pack as many guys to kill as you can into the map.

Or you can do one of the many already existing missions full of lots of dudes to kill.

I'll be nice. All foes have four drop possibilities: Nothing at all (most common), Small number of tickets (common, but not as common as nothing), medium number of tickets (uncommon, but not terribly so), large number of tickets (fairly rare). (Although for some reason, since I21, they appear to be rolling for the drop possibilities *twice* per defeat.)

How many tickets "small", "medium", and "large" corresponds to is based on rank. For minions it's something like 2, 4, and 6. Larger (obviously) for lt's, bosses, and AVs. *But* if the critters have any sort of XP penalty associated with them, that penalty is multiplied by the number of tickets to get the actual number rewarded. For example, high level Family are only worth 40% XP, so say you defeat a Family boss and would have gotten 20 tickets. You'll actually only get 20 * 0.4 = 6 tickets.

Likewise, an XP bonus will increase the number of tickets, although the only XP bonus that works in MA is the relative level difference one. So say you're beating +1 foes, and one would drop 6 tickets. A +1 foe awards 1.2 times whatever their base XP is, so you'd get 6 * 1.2 = 7.2, or 7 tickets.

So the only *setting* you can change that makes *individual* foes give more tickets is their level. Of course, more foes means more rolls to see if you get tickets, so upping the number of characters you're equal to helps. Furthermore (as already mentioned) all maps have a ticket cap; in general the larger the map is, the larger the ticket cap. Also mentioned, since higher rank foes give more tickets, lots of boss details or ambushes cranked up to "hard" (so the spawn size is larger with higher ranking foes) will also tend to award larger numbers of tickets. Since the mission complete reward is equal to the number of tickets you got from defeated foes in the mission, more tickets earned in mission will make that reward go up as well.

One last thing: each successive mission in an arc boosts the "end of mission" reward by a cumulative 5%. But the ticket cap for the map still trumps everything; once you've hit it, you don't get any more tickets until you move on to the next mission in the arc.

EDIT: And in case Venture's joke is totally lost on you, if you followed his advice, you'd be filling your missions with foes that quickly drain your endurance to nothing (Sappers and things with electrical attacks), make it impossible for you to hit anything (things with Darkness powers), and impossible to move (things with Caltrops). So basically, you wouldn't get any tickets because you'd be barely able to move, with no endurance and unable to hit anything even when you do get lucky and get a "tick" of endurance back. That state of affairs wouldn't last very long, though, since you'll likely faceplant soon after.

Get used to it - ask us questions, get answers! Welcome to the game.

My friends and I have noticed that the person to create the team (not necessarily the current team leader) tends to get more ticket drops than everyone else. Probably a new bug. It's best to alternate between story arcs by having you invite your wife to a team, and on every other arc, she invites you to a team. We've used this method to even out the drops with fairly consistent success.