Suggestion: Make Grey Mobs Give Inf/Exp

Now, this seems a little silly. Why would you reward people for fighting mobs that are completely unable to fight back?

But I'm not talking about giving the same as even greens. I'm talking as little as 1 exp and inf per kill.

Why?

Because when I am playing my purpled/incarnated 50 and I stop to defeat a purse-snatching Hellion in AP, it would make me feel happy to get even the 1 inf. A reward for doing small things, even when I could be defeating demi-gods.

Wouldn't you feel awesome getting that 1 inf for the in-game equivalent of rescuing a kitten from a tree? Sure, it's not much, but 1 is more than nothing.

Yeah, no. I know it seems like it can't be exploited if it's just 1 inf, but I'm sure someone would find a way.

Even assuming it couldn't be exploited, I'd still say no. Heroism is its own reward. Superman doesn't stop muggings because he gets a dime every time he does it (which he doesn't, by the way), he stops muggings because he's a nice dude and despite his nigh-godlike abilities (depending on the writer), he's not above helping an average person. Victims already thank you when you save them, if you're really a hero that ought to be more than enough.

Then you'd have level 50+3 Incarnates going around and using Judgement all over the lowbie zones for some quick 1infs.

IIRC, you already get a small reward for taking out purse snatchers.

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

This can be Exploited and people won't do any real content any more and just do Sweep cleaning all day.

No thx I will pass on this, we been fine since this game came out, no reason to change how things are set up now.

If you want Influence Hunt DA Mobs for your Incarnates or whatever mobs you may face at your lvl range.

I am laughing out loud at the idea of 1 inf kills being exploitable. Do the math, and realize that 1 inf is not something possible to exploit. Let me put it simply: even if your T4 Ion Judgement recharged in one second and hit max targets continually, you still would be getting less than 40 inf a second. Ir would be physically impossible giving max targets limits to make this as rewarding as killing even a single even level minion every few minutes.

I literally would donate every single enhancement, recipe, and scrap of influence to a person that could come up with a legitimate way to exploit 1 inf drops. And I'm not exactly poor.

Anyway, I think people are viewing influence as money. But influence is simply a reward for doing something in game, not gold. Sure, we use it the same way, but this wouldn't be a way of forcing people to farm hellions. Instead, it would just show that even the lowest of the low are still worth something. Therefore, current gray mobs are "worth nothing", and less superhero-ey.

And yes, I'd support a badge or other token for doing small-time good deeds.

Often the npc you save gives you a bit of influence. Once in a blue moon I will run through atlas and "collect" an entourage of people wanting to thank me(mind, its more for the amusement of having 20 civilians desperate to say thanks before they can despawn than any influence they may or may not give).

I believe the amount is even zone dependant. If I remember correctly, places like founders falls civilians give more influence because it is a richer part of paragon.

Mind you it is about 7.5 years since I paid attention to anything the civilians give me, so that might be incorrect.

I would rather they give an random inspiration drop than influence anyway.

im pretty much never heroside but when i am i usually always ignore them partially cause im always saying im an undercover villain and partially cause i dont care cause of no reward

but for this, to me 1 inf IS essentially no reward, you would have to kill 36,500(43,000 if you are including the leprechaun pet) baddies to get the same reward as i get for a single +4 boss in DA

now if we were talking badges i would "save" poeple all day long for that even though it has no monetary value, just bragging rights to say i have it lol

Like I said, in my mind influence from mobs isn't a gold drop, just the game saying "hey, thanks." Of course, I can see while other people don't feel that way, but maybe because I make about 1% of my money from defeats I have a slightly different reaction.

But because everyone's reaction, I want to say again that I would be fine with inspiration drops or badges. The idea is more for the feeling than the actual benefit.

I am for the random insp drop...because you see when I am travelling around on my main toon; regardless of where...if i happen to stop and see someone getting mugged...i go help them.

I am not against the OP's suggestion...and find it hilarious that people think it would be exploitable at 1 inf lol. Seriously?? you somehow think someone is going to make millions off this?? LOL Sometimes I think people on here object just to object lol. There are MUCH easier ways to earn inf/rewards at zero risk in this game.... and at a MUCH MUCH MUCH faster rate.

Just a lil math for you:
Assuming you could kill 1 lvl 1 npc every second (good luck with that..not like there are hundreds of them gathered in one spot respawning every minute)... but even if you could .. it would take you 277 hours to make 1 million inf... yep a lil over 11.5 days of 24 hour a day lvl 1 hunting lol.

60(seconds)*60(minutes)=3600 (# of kills per hour)

1000000(inf)/3600(max kills per hour)=277.77777777777777777777777777778(hours)

277.77777777777777777777777777778(hours)/24=11.574074074074074074074074074074 (days of non stop 1inf farming)



Or you could just go run one AE mission set to -1x8 and make 5 times that with salvage rolls in.. 10 mins.

Yeah... the 1 inf is TOTALLY exploitable LOL!

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Haven't read the thread yet, but I would have sworn Enhancement converters drop from grey cons, even the ones far below your level.

If not, then it must have been a bug when my lvl 43 DP blaster was putting out another fire (thank you, Cryo Rounds ) and I had to take down some Hellions, I got 2 during one building fire.

I didn't check to see it they dropped from the fire or from the hellions but I defeated a lot more hellions than fires for 2 to have dropped.

I wouldn't mind converters dropping from greys if they don't already.