New content is great, but...

I'd love to see a little work done each issue on some back filling.

First of all - can we get some new Tip missions? I like the Tip missions, they're tightly crafted, tell a story in a single mission, and have some fun twists. But I do five a day on my main scrapper, and have them all memorized.

This might be put out as a challenge to the AE writers out there, come up with single-mission arcs to be submitted as tip missions. It would still need some polishing by a dev, since AE doesn't have all the bells and whistles current content has like a real "talk with this person", but would be fun in itself as well as may be help.

Second - clearly, over the years, the devs have changed the ways they tell stories in missions. Not just with the new tech, but there used to be a big focus on time sinks. Some of the old arcs have GREAT stories, but they're trapped in the old boring style. How about, every issue, update a couple old arcs? I'm not asking for a full redrafting, just a little blue pencil work. "OK, we've got them hunting 200 foes here. Let's make it 10. These three missions are all the same thing, let's cut it back to one. Huge map, defeat all - shrink the map and make it just the boss room to be cleared."

I'm not asking for a Issue 24: BackFill where all the old content gets touched and we get 10 new tip missions at each range for each alignment. Just a little here and there.

Definitely agree on about the Tips. I am a big fan of tip missions and would like to see them add more to the 50 set.

However I am less sure about updating old content. It sounds great in principle but history suggests I am not always happy with the results when it happens. As long as they don't close off old content (like they did with Atlas Park/Galaxy) I would rather they just develop new content.

YES to more tips. They're so much fun.

New Tip missions to the level 50 set would be great! You are going to be running those a lot after all

Overall I feel the quality of the Morality system missions is very high, they are very enjoyable!

More tips would be good yes, but 'updating' existing arcs is fraught with danger.

You only need to look at the current train wreck that used to be Maria Jenkins excellent arc to see what can go very, very wrong.

A hero's hero used to be my favourite arc, and it was 'updated' in a fashion that made it boring and extremely dull to play.

I see what the OP is saying with updating arcs but it needs to be done with more thought and indeed care than we've seen so far......

I like the old content. There are just few changes that I would do.
1) Find other way to introduce player to PvP - I hate that first mission of new contact is speak with PvP zone representative.
2) Don't send me across town for mission while I don't have phone number yet. It is bad enough when you solo, but in team you are making 7 more people waiting for me while I run to contact, to get new mission that could be in any zone. That is one of the reasons that teams mostly stick to radios, tips or new contacts.

Defeat all missions are fine by me. If there weren't any defeat all missions, some of my alts would never level solo (when solo I tend to skip to objective).

Also I like the idea that people would use AE to create TIP missions, and the best mission could be promoted into regular TIP missions.

I adore the Tip missions. More variety would be awesome.

Also, no objection here to some new newspaper/radio missions.

Sadly, it seems with the exception of the SSA, there is very little other new questing content being added for the most part. I'd love to see a quest or two added for all level brackets, here and there on a regular basis. Not much, just an occasional nod that the players like me who love leveling and alting still exist.

I am aware of First Ward. However.... the near constant ambushes and heavy use of psi-damage/end drain turned me off of running that area after I took one at-level squishy alt through.

Not all of us are crazy about raiding, so the iTrials are simply not even an option.

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I would like to see the old arcs all cleaned up first simply by
1. making all missions spawn in the same zone as the contact
2. eliminate all street sweeping missions (defeat 10 CoT in KR, etc)

leave us with just the door missions and avoid the running - they might not be great, but the experience would be vastly better at what should be very little dev effort per arc

If they do a rolling zone upgrade for the game, starting with Atlas and Mercy, then the old arcs will be replaced with newer more dynamic ones.

the thing is you can street sweep all you want without missions

if people are choosing to do missions it basically means they want to do door missions

I hate the choice of "do you want to do A or B, you said B okay do A"

Street sweeping missions are so incredibly bad.

And it's not so much that they're easy or hard, as it is that it's incredibly frustrating to talk to someone who says "oh yeah, you'll find the lost in kings row" only to find out that there are very few specific spots in an area on the zone where they show up, and they share spawn locations with other groups so you might fly right by ALL of their spawns and never see one... And ask yourself "WHAT in the WORLD is this guy THINKING? There are no lost here!"

I've thought that some of the various old missions we do could use some tweaks without much major adjustment.

For instance, when you do one of the Crey Arcs you have been framed as having gone bad, and you're ambushed by Malta. Since we now have both Longbow and the Paragon Police Deptartment, why not change those Malta into one of the above groups?

There's another one-off mission given by the Revenant Hero Contact where you find out that Crey has made a Paragon Protector based on you. Back when that arc was written, the doppleganger tech did not exist so it was just an energy/energy PP. Why not let it be a REAL double now?

I have generally enjoyed Angus McQueen's stories, but he could use some new tweaking as well... and why doesn't his model get updated as having had the Lost cure?