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Mission Multiplier
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Xianax
Wraithlords
#1 - 2017-06-09 22:32:47 UTC  |  Edited by: Xianax
Some people in my alliance were running a mission fleet and they asked if I would join. I wanted to say yes but I made up some BS reason why not to. The real reason is that I can run level 4's solo pretty fast and adding a sub 800 DPS BS to the mix won't increase my speed by enough to warrent a 50% loss in bounties and mission rewards.

I think there should be a mission multiplier where when you accept the mission the rewards increase by a % based on the number of players in fleet upon completion AND the amount of enemy ships in the mission increases by a % based on size of fleet upon acceptance of the mission.

I feel like this would give more incentive to play as a group rather than soloing through missions. I know Diablo 3 had to implement something like this in order for group play to be worth it. They gave a gold find and EXP buff based on number of party which drastically increased the number of players playing together.
Daichi Yamato
Jabbersnarks and Wonderglass
#2 - 2017-06-10 04:00:51 UTC
I believe ccp already want to do something like this. Its gonna take years though.

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grgjegb gergerg
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#3 - 2017-06-10 04:14:08 UTC
It would be nice, but if EVE players CAN game a system, they WILL game a system.

Then the new meta is whatever uses that mechanic to multiply rewards the most. :P
Xianax
Wraithlords
#4 - 2017-06-10 08:30:57 UTC
grgjegb gergerg wrote:
It would be nice, but if EVE players CAN game a system, they WILL game a system.

Then the new meta is whatever uses that mechanic to multiply rewards the most. :P


That's why I said what I did. The mission rewards are increased by X% based on number of people in fleet upon acceptance and at turn in and the enemies get increased by X% based on how many people are in fleet upon acceptance of mission.

This way you can't just accept a mission with less people and then add a bunch of people in at the end to increase rewards because the game will recognize that you have less people in your fleet and adjust accordingly.
Do Little
Bluenose Trading
#5 - 2017-06-10 09:28:16 UTC
If mission rewards scale, so must mission difficulty - if you bring a bigger fleet, so do the NPCs. This would automatically scale both bounties and loot.

The Blood Raider shipyard already does this to some extent - CCP still has a lot of work to do before the new AI is ready for missions but I don't think it will take years.
Axure Abbacus
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2017-06-10 14:59:56 UTC
They could also use the same scaling matrix they developed for the incursions with revisions from lessons learned from the Incursion fleets. It would create a bell curve for rewards and difficulty based on the level of mission.

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Shallanna Yassavi
qwertz corp
#7 - 2017-06-10 21:27:22 UTC
It sounds like the incursion LP rewards system. That system wants you to bring a very particular number of players to a site: too few, and you're missing out on DPS and LP. Too many, and you're just missing out on LP.

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