Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Merit Reward Tweaks On the Way


Okay kiddies, a new patch arrived on the test server last night. And according to the patch notes...

Merit Rewards

  • All tasks have had their Merit times and rewards re-evaluated. Most tasks received an increase to merits reward.
  • Failing a mission that is the final (or only) mission of a story arc, task force, strike force or trial may result in reduced rewards. Failing tasks that have 2 or less missions will award 0 merits. Failing tasks that have 3-4 missions will award 50% merits. Failing a task that has 5 or more missions will result in normal merits.
Now keep in mind these are subject to change, but I figured why not compile the changes in a post as people on the forums test them out.

Hero's


Taskforces
    • Taskforce Name: Twilight Son Taskforce (Smoke and Mirrors)
      Contact: Twilight Son
      Merits Awarded: 3 (-1)

    • Taskforce Name: Katie Hannon Task Force
      Contact: Katie Hannon
      Merits Awarded: 9 Merits (+2)

    • Taskforce Name: Imperious Task Forece
      Contact: Imperious
      Merits Awarded: 28 (+3)
  • Trials

  • Story Arc's
  • 1-15
    • Arc name: Officer Wincott vs. The Trolls
      Contact: Officer Wincott
      Merits Awarded: 2 (+0)
  • 16-19
  • 20-24
    • Arc Name: Hear and Now
      Contact: Long Jack
      Merits Awarded: 10 merits (+5)
  • 25-29
  • 30-34
    • Arc name: Library of Souls
      Contact: Allison King
      Merits Awarded: 10 (-1)

    • Arc name: Unity Plague
      Contact: Jenny Firkins
      Merits Awarded: 10 merits (-2)

    • Arc name: Hatred's Hungry Heart
      Contact : Kelly Nemmers
      Merits Awarded 5 (+1)
  • 35-39
  • 40-45
    • Arc name: Division: Line
      Contact: Angus McQueen
      Merits Awarded: 21 (+3)
  • 46-50
    • Arc name: To Save A Thousand Worlds
      Contact: Unai Kemen
      Merits Awarded: 32 merits (+16)

    • Arc name: Future Threat
      Contact: Daedalus
      Merits Awarded: 7 (+4)

    • Arc name: Stolen Power
      Contact: Daedalus
      Merits Awarded: 2 (-1)

    • Arc name: Origin of Power
      Contact: Percy Winkley
      Merits Awarded: 3 (+1)

    • Arc name: Hero's Hero
      Contact: Maria Jenkins
      Merits Awarded: 24 Merits (+5)

    • Arc name: Black Shroud Dimension (Badge Mission)
      Contact: Maria Jenkins
      Merits Awarded: 1 Merit (+0)
  • Villains

  • Strikeforces
    • Strikeforce Name: Mender Silos SF
      Contact :Mender Silos
      Merits Awarded: 6 (+1)
  • Trial
    • Trial Name: Second Respec Trial
      Contact: Trepsarciel
      Merits Awarded: 15 (+0)
  • Story Arc's
  • 1-15
    • Arc name: The Vahzilok Conference
      Contact: Dmitri Krylov
      Merits Awarded: 5 (+1)

    • Arc name: Spy Hunt (aka After The Wall Fell)
      Contact: Dmitri Krylov
      Merits Awarded: 10 (+5)
  • 16-19
    • Arc name: Choose Your Own Adventure
      Contact : Fortunata Hamilton
      Merits Awarded 1 (-6)

    • Arc name: Master of Destruction
      Contact: Operative Wellman
      Merits Awarded: 5 (+3)
  • 20-24
  • 25-29
  • 30-34
    • Arc name: Silver Tongued Devil
      Contact: Hardcase
      Merits Awarded: 3 Merits(+0)

    • Arc name: Miss Fortune's Wheel
      Contact: Slot Machine
      Merits Awarded: 2 Merits (+1)

    • Arc name: High Roller's Last Gamble
      Contact: Slot Machine
      Merits Awarded: 4 Merits (+1)

    • Arc name: Psimon Sez
      Contact: Psimon Omega
      Merits Awarded: 5 Merits (-2)
  • 35-39
  • 40-45
    • Arc name: Breaking Knives
      Contact: Arbiter Daos
      Merits Awarded 4 (-5)

    • Arc name: Absolute Vengeance
      Contact: Arbiter Daos
      Merits Awarded: 2 Merits(-1) (done in 15 minutes)

    • Arc name: Kuhr'Rekt Diplomacy
      Contact: Kuhr'Rekt
      Merits Awarded: 3 (+1)
  • 46 to 50
    • Arc name: Video Killed the Radio
      Contact : Television
      Merits Awarded 2 (Change is +1)

    • Arc name: Von Grun's Redemption
      Contact: Vernon von Grun
      Merits Awarded 7 (-5)

    • Arc name: Video Games Made Me Do It
      Contact: Television
      Merits Awarded: 1 merit

    • Arc name: Oroborous Initiation
      Contact: The Pilgrim
      Merits Awarded: 3 Merits (+1)

    • Arc name: Escaped
      Contact: Operative Grillo
      Merits Awarded: 2 merits (+1)

    • Arc name: The Code Merlin
      Contact: Tavish Bell
      Merits Awarded: 4 (+2)

    • Arc name: Snake Fist
      Contact : Operative Grillo
      Merits Awarded 6 (+1)

    • Arc name: Light and Darkness
      Contact: Abyss
      Merits Awarded: 2 (+0)

    • Arc name: Vindication
      Contact: Abyss
      Merits Awarded: 3 (+0)

    • Arc name: The Conference of Evil
      Contact: Viridian
      Merits Awarded: 8 Merits (+1)
  • RWZ
    • Arc name: Dreams of Peace and Acts of War
      Contact: Serpent Drummer
      Merits Awarded: 10 (+5)

    • Arc name: Welcome to Vanguard
      Contact: Levantera
      Merits Awarded: 5 (+2)

    • Arc name: The Horror or War
      Contact Dark Watcher
      Merits Awarded 8 (+2)
    So There ya go... Quite a few interesting bits there, and a majority buff to the numbers really ("To Save a Thousand Worlds" up to 32 Merits!!!)...
  • Be cool to see how this pans out in the end.

    10 comments:

    1. I like that Posi was upped quite a bit. I was sure they would have knocked a few merits off of it.

      A heroes Hero will be good one to run solo. (It can be done)

      To save a thousand worlds I think could have gone up a bit more. That is in all honestly an hour or two longer than the Posi run.

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    2. Well, considering how dead the market is... I'm willing to take whatever buffs I can get. Daddy needs a Numina.

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    3. True, but give it some time and the market will be up and running again. When it does we'll either have some nice cash from merit drops OR it will be flooded and the prices will drop. Either way right now it is going to take some work to get what we needs.

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    4. I dunno about that, merits have fundamentally changed the market... It may not bounce back as much as you think. I believe the devs underestimated how many people would opt for security rather than gamble.

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    5. Will we get retro'ed on things we have done previously?

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    6. Since you have done Positron, more times than a cheap hooker.....you should be able to afford 4 sets of Numinas.

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    7. Hey, in this economy...cheap hookers are where it's at.

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    8. I seriously doubt they'd retro anything... they never do. And Posi isn't really as bad as everyone says... 2 and a half to 3 hours, No AV... That's a saturday afternoon.
      And Pos isn't into cheap hookers... He digs Scyntech's manly backrubs.

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