How can we make grinding 20 ISO rewards even worse?

Clintman
Clintman Posts: 757 Critical Contributor
edited January 2014 in MPQ General Discussion
Dev1: Bamboo Shoots under the fingernails?
Dev2: Nah, can't be done virtually.

Dev1: Hmm, let's see, we have balanced PVP to the point where no one likes it, that means it is working... so that is good.
Dev2: *evil laugh*

Dev1: We could introduce a new tournament type where all the fights, even the beginning level ones spike up in level to be 230, so that every long drawn out fight that gives 20 iso is even more soul crushing.
Dev2: Whoah! Even I am not that evil.....

Dev1: *evil laugh*
Dev2: *evil laugh*

FADE TO SMOKING HIDDEN VOLCANO LAIR: evil laughs can be heard echoing from miles away...

Comments

  • Yeggy
    Yeggy Posts: 81
    Oh man, this cracked me up. Kudos to you. Have this bag of intrawebz. Better go back to making movies now, before you die, getting quite old now.

    Sorry for going off-topic and posting something that does not contribute but I am not sure what the topic is about.
  • Really....
    you play pve missions for the fight rewards because I find that unbeliveable, you play the mission for the points it tells you, the reward is a bonus you get on top of that, rarely is there a good reward from repeatable pve missions so you can't really complain about the iso 20 when your repeating missions to the point they are level 230 fights, 2nd replay yes, but not after clearing out the majority of the rewards already.
  • bongo king wrote:
    Really....
    you play pve missions for the fight rewards because I find that unbeliveable, you play the mission for the points it tells you, the reward is a bonus you get on top of that, rarely is there a good reward from repeatable pve missions so you can't really complain about the iso 20 when your repeating missions to the point they are level 230 fights, 2nd replay yes, but not after clearing out the majority of the rewards already.


    Again with coherent organized sentences that people besides you can understand?
  • Clintman
    Clintman Posts: 757 Critical Contributor
    Once you complete all of the PVE missions on the Thick as Thieves they get harder in difficulty the more you do them. I have been leading my group in the #1 spot for the last 2 subs, When Scotland Yard opened up, even the first Scotland Yard I mission is all level 230, and all 9 missions have to be done 2x, which is a mighty slog.

    When I wrote this, I just finished replaying a mission with these 230 goons who cascade wiped my team out the first time I played them, and when I revived everyone and finally beat them (using boosts of course) I got my 20 ISO reward.
  • Clint wrote:
    Once you complete all of the PVE missions on the Thick as Thieves they get harder in difficulty the more you do them. I have been leading my group in the #1 spot for the last 2 subs, When Scotland Yard opened up, even the first Scotland Yard I mission is all level 230, and all 9 missions have to be done 2x, which is a mighty slog.

    When I wrote this, I just finished replaying a mission with these 230 goons who cascade wiped my team out the first time I played them, and when I revived everyone and finally beat them (using boosts of course) I got my 20 ISO reward.

    yeah i agree 20 iso rewards are rediculous.

    im going back through the prologue trying to get all rewards and the constant 20 iso makes it so tedious.

    considering that progressively it takes more and more iso8 to level characters, the rewards don't scale accordingly.
  • Clintman
    Clintman Posts: 757 Critical Contributor
    I know it has been said before, but forcing us to use boosts on the PVE content that used to give us lots of ISO is disappointing. At this point I have every cover (minus a couple of the 4* covers) in the game and just need ISO to level up my toons, but in order to beat full 230 teams you have to boost to save your sanity.
  • let's make them able to lower the levels by skipping 5 times...
  • Thanos
    Thanos Posts: 722 Critical Contributor
    I find it very annoying when i play a 240 level several times and can only get one of the four rewards. All that work and iso spend on boosts to only get 20 iso. My iso is going backwards not forward.
  • notreck wrote:
    let's make them able to lower the levels by skipping 5 times...
    Ok, guys, I have a good one: let's do all that, but not tell them any of it.

    Also, keep an eye on that progress counter towards actually being able to score anything in the PvE event no one's playing because they can't beat the mission I mooks. I have the Patch bugfix and **Wolverine nerf ready to go live the instant Daredevil unlocks.

    And, Bob, don't forget to sub in Loki to the enemy team for the final 250pt mission that requires Bag-Man. Wouldn't want people using Trickery there.
  • It's hard to have team diversity when you can't earn enough ISO to level up your 3 star covers to a respectable level ...


    It's a pretty flawed system that I'm earning the same amount of ISO that a guy who just started last week is making. His needs for ISO are far different than a person with 25 covers, half of which are the 3 star variety.
  • But... but....

    when I make topics to troll the devs, everyone kicks me.....

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  • The difference is that it's ALL you do.


    Got to have some sugar along with that salt.
  • Well, ALL the devs do is to piss us off, and still expect us to pay them for it.