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Discussion: Issue 21: Convergence - October 19, 2011 Patch Notes for Build 2120.201110150045.1

Agent White

By Agent White,
Posted on: 2011-10-19 09:25 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion

 

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Just to be safe, I ran a test on my shield/ss tank who has never changed her alignment (hero) and who, in the past, used to be my alignment merit grinder. She actually hasn't done any of the SSA's so far, these days I only bring her out for hami raids (which never happen anymore on protector) and when a group really needs a solid tank.

So I ran the second SSA with her in talos and I was given the alignment merit option, so it does not look like a general 'reset' of the confirmation flag has been done - or if it was, they missed that character. I am going to re-try on my fire/shield scrapper, who is my other alignment merit grinder and see what she gets.

If that is the case, then while I am annoyed that they had to lock out my pre-20 characters from the good rewards, as I liked to run SSA 1.0 as part of my normal level up routine, I can live with waiting until L20 and doing it after I run my first hero/villain morality mission. The real problem I saw here was resetting my characters who had already confirmed their alignment.

Will update this post with the results from my fire/shield scrapper.

EDIT: My fire/SD scrapper also got the alignment merit reward. The only test left is to take a character who has never confirmed thier alignment and determine how many morality missions you have to do to get the alignment reward in the SSA arc - will leave that for someone else or a later time, GTG visit a haunted house:-)

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Originally Posted by Ukaserex View Post
From my experience in game, if you have not run the SSA within a week and have confirmed your alignment status via a morality mission (in my case, a hero) you can earn 1 hero merit by completing 1 SSA arc.
Correct. Weekly reward.

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After waiting 8 days, I ran part 1 got my hero merit, then ran part 2 and it's not an option. The language used "a shared" reward table is misleading to me. I thought it meant that each arc would have the same reward table - not that we're not intended to run more than 1 arc per week.

I've sent a pm to the red names and am waiting on some clear rulings. After reading some of these declarations by some of you - - who may or may not have clue what you're talking about, I'm just going to ignore all of the SSAs until I get some official ruling.
The weekly reward choice is a weekly reward choice (all four choices can be chosen once per week). The table is "shared" across all like content (two episodes of WWD so far - we haven't been told yet if all SSAs share a reward choice, or if each individual SSA will have its own weekly table; e.g. WWD is one SSA, SSA2 may or may not share a cooldown with WWD).

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I don't understand, why they are making A-merits harder to earn? I have gotten no more than 3. And I don't even know how i got them. If anything, they should make them easier to understand and get. Seems like a big ***K you to players with this. Needless to say, I'll be enjoying my vacation in SW-OR, while the devs, forum mods and GMs straighten themselves and the game City of Freedom to Get Screwed out.

 

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Originally Posted by Ukaserex View Post
After waiting 8 days, I ran part 1 got my hero merit, then ran part 2 and it's not an option. The language used "a shared" reward table is misleading to me. I thought it meant that each arc would have the same reward table - not that we're not intended to run more than 1 arc per week.

I've sent a pm to the red names and am waiting on some clear rulings. After reading some of these declarations by some of you - - who may or may not have clue what you're talking about, I'm just going to ignore all of the SSAs until I get some official ruling.
We already have one:

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Originally Posted by Positron View Post
To clarify the rewards on the SSA's.

There is a "First Time Played" reward, that is independent of the 1-week cooldown. Thus when you first play an SSA, it will seem like you can get two rewards. In the following weeks it will only be one.

All SSA's share the same week-long cooldown, so when you have SSA 1.1 and SSA 1.2 and SSA 1.3, you can only get one week-long cooldown reward, not one for each.

The above is the reason for the "First Time Played" reward. A player who starts playing SSAs in the middle or the end of the arc isn't gated by the week-long cooldowns. They can play each SSA and get the good reward table every time. Only after they have done the "First Time" will they be gated further by the week-long cooldown.