The 20 hour "Fame" timers:

Small request about the way it's handled, as I'm a returning player and was very excited to think that I would be able to take my villain to rogue status and start having access to Paragon City tonight on one of my characters: make the Fame counter start the moment the mission is completed and not the moment I exit the mission. I logged out immediately upon completing an alignment mission last night, ready to finish the path to becoming a rogue today, only to find that one counter only started because I just exited the mission when I logged in.

Talk about a buzz kill.

the problem is, if they did that, some players would simply start missions to start the timer, then not actually complete the mission.

Starting the timer at the start of the mission on the condition of mission completing is not an option either. Doing so would require creating an additional database entry everytime a tip-mission is started, then keeping track of that entry to the point of the mission completion. This would also require additional database work to handle whether or not players exit a tip mission, whether or not they invite team-mates to the tip mission, as well as whether or not players do not complete the mission and come back to it at a later time.

Tying the timer to the completion of the mission assures that the players will actually complete the mission, and allows the developers to leverage the reward calculation systems already in the game, rather than having to create brand new systems.

Also: if this is what you consider a buzz kill, you really need to learn what a buzz kill is. I suggest listening to Nightwish's Ghost Love Score and then have somebody switch the track to anything by the Black Eyed Peas / Fergi.

That is a Buzz Kill.

Er... they said nothing about that. It's not about starting the timer at the start the mission at all.

It's for those people who finish the mission and just quit instead of exitting.

Whatever makes the "Mission Complete" text appear and exit button pop up could start the timer, rather than exiting the mission starting the timer like it does now. That's hardly new tech.

I think that's an excellent idea. I've sometimes logged out on completing a mission to avoid loading the outside world, if I'm in a hurry.

Not that I'm against it, but seeing as how you know...instead of completeing the mission and logging out, why not just exit the mission?

I mean, yes, it's a QoL change, but if it even took a few hours, I'd rather they work on something else, than something people can just hit the exit button on, and be done with.

While it's unfortunate the game forces us to exit a mission in order to start the fame timer I would actually hate to see the Devs waste one second of development time to make this work any differently. At best this was a one time annoyance that the OP experienced. This is not a game-breaking bug that needs to be fixed or even a legitimate "QoL" issue that has no obvious workaround. This is a "lesson learned" that will not likely be repeated now that the OP knows how the game works. Sure it would have been nice if he didn't have to waste some time learning from that, but now that he has it's a moot point for the Devs to "fix" it.

I have never once logged out of the game like this PRECISELY because it's uncertain to me exactly how the game would handle this scenario. I would never expect the game to react to something like this as assumed. Sure it'd be nice if the game held my hand a did everything the way I wanted but I'm willing to accept there are things it'll never be "smart" enough to handle perfectly. This being one of them. *shrugs*

Converting tips to morality missions is a bad idea, since you can - and some do - keep doing Tip missions and just ignore the Morality mission. Or you can do tips for other alignments and get them both to 10.

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