Terwilliger

You've fallen for one of the classic blunders. The most famous of which "Never start a flame war in Asia," but only slightly well known is this: "Never go in against a Scilian when banination is on the line."

I think we can conclude that Carson is Juliet's maiden name now.

Frank Lapidus: too awesome to die.

Mine had a fiery aura is indeterminate effect. Also Speed Boost, so I'm not inclined to complain.

I learned that the end drain from eight Lightning Fields is not a thing you can just laugh off.

I had fun times. Never thought I'd be saying that about packs of Yanglebert Slaptiback (it's the plural of "Statesman;" I looked it up), but I did.

I'm pretty sure you can walk right on by them without incident. I never would, 'cause how much fun would that be; it's just an option.

On a related note, this weekend's Steam deal is Batman: Arkham Asylum for 25 bucks. There's also a pack with B: AA and the first Just Cause for a bit over $22, for those of you that like getting more for less.

I've been having the same problem with Nerva Archipelago.

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That's ... a remarkably elegant solution, generally speaking.

Still, we don't need new brokers. Just make the Recipe drop an option when completing a Mayhem or Safeguard - when you go back and talk to teh broker / detective. Get a contact or a recipe drop, IOW.

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Then there's no incentive to complete story arcs at all. I don't like the "IO instead of contact" thing a bit. I don't feel the least bit comfortable calling it a bad idea, mind you; just one I don't particularly like.

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Changing the Arc completion bonus so everyone gets it is not a solution...if the B drops were originally tied to single-player, non-repeatable content for a reason in the first place.

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If the B drops need changing too, then change them too. But the arc-only delivery needs changing regardless.

Like a contact in PI/Grandville, with a 50 requirement, that offers a story-arclike series of missions against your choice of a selection of 2-3 groups (so you don't spend a week/month/year straight taking on CoT due to RNG hatred.) Said contact may have a timer to prevent receiving multiple arcs in a set period of time, or require you to do some work for an officer/broker before each series, or both.

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2 ) Story arch's are non repeatable. PVP zones you can live in and continually get the drops.

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The goal is to find a way to continually get the drops.

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This is the crux: If B drops are designed to be limited to under 100 per character (hence attaching them to unrepeatable content), then no method of making them unlimited content works: they would need to be nerfed.

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Then they needed to be nerfed in the first place. Finite access is just an additional problem that in no was addresses the first.

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Hence why my version of this suggestion - and I think that means, the ORIGINAL version, because I honestly do believe I posted the idea first - was to have that reward cost as much as a brand-new DO or SO purchase (levelled appropriately to teh arc in question), when you claimed it.

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There's no equivalent mechanism to make up for people that teamed for other people's tasks that'll make it by 9. Which makes it a touch non-fair. I say we give everyone the same amount of nothing to start with and tweak the recipe drop pools to include some of the outleveled recipes, at least for the first few months.

That, and Unspecified Repeatable Content That Awards Story Arc Recipes should give everyone a chance to get the stuff they want.

I have a crazy idea that I have no idea as to the logistics of implementing.

How 'bout for a month or three, after Issue 9 hits; you tweak the recipe drop tables to add some outleveled IO recipes? Just as a short-term opportunity to make said recipes available to those that see utility for them beyond just their level.

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As for ideas I'm against:

* Story Arc Pool drops for completing Mayhem/Safeguard missions
A large team could easily minimize the number of "filler" missions needed in order to unlock large string of Mayhem/Safeguard missions. Additionally, Safegards take at most ~5 minutes to complete. This would greatly encourage MM/SFG teams over running Story Arcs. I would be against this unless the chance of a Story Arc drop was reduced to make it happy, but uncommon occurance, on finishing the mission for the mission holder.

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How about if it keyed off of also completing a set number of mayhem/safeguard side missions, or only in certain mayhem/safeguard locations, or both?