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Group Misssions!!
There was an unexpected update last night, and a1k0n and El Guapo hopped in to introduce us to group missions.
Disinformation, El Guapo, and I were in a group, and dis and I really enjoyed being teleported from 12 to 5 to 11 to 17 and back again. The missions started out being insanely hard: "Kill 7 Guardians, 6 Assaults, 8 Defenders, and 5 Sentries." If you died, 7 or 8 bots were added to the list. The bonus to such a mission was 300/250/250. Talk about not worth it! :P
El Guapo quickly toned down the missions and upped the bonuses, and we had quite the time coordinating the destruction of bots from different sectors.
How to get a group mission:
/group create
/group invite "friends"
Go to your home sector and take the combat mission. It will broadcast info to the entire group. If someone dies, the bot count is upped, so cover each others' backs and spread out to more than one sector.
Known issues:
• You cannot invite people to a group once a mission has been taken.
• Anyone can accept a mission (potential exploit: member taking a mission that locks the group; it'd be mildly annoying as everyone would just have to create a new group).
Disinformation, El Guapo, and I were in a group, and dis and I really enjoyed being teleported from 12 to 5 to 11 to 17 and back again. The missions started out being insanely hard: "Kill 7 Guardians, 6 Assaults, 8 Defenders, and 5 Sentries." If you died, 7 or 8 bots were added to the list. The bonus to such a mission was 300/250/250. Talk about not worth it! :P
El Guapo quickly toned down the missions and upped the bonuses, and we had quite the time coordinating the destruction of bots from different sectors.
How to get a group mission:
/group create
/group invite "friends"
Go to your home sector and take the combat mission. It will broadcast info to the entire group. If someone dies, the bot count is upped, so cover each others' backs and spread out to more than one sector.
Known issues:
• You cannot invite people to a group once a mission has been taken.
• Anyone can accept a mission (potential exploit: member taking a mission that locks the group; it'd be mildly annoying as everyone would just have to create a new group).
Oooooo! Awesome!
cool
/me is even gladder for his day off tomorrow.
Woohooo!!! Great job getting group missions up and running.
Camps, ya a /group kick "player" would be a useful feature in the future.
Camps, ya a /group kick "player" would be a useful feature in the future.
What's the maximum group size, and does it affect the experience payout or the number of bots to kill?
max group size is 8 members. It's just an arbitrary number we chose because more than that and you wouldn't be able to see everyone listed in the grouplist.
Right now the payout for the group missions are not very good.
Right now the payout for the group missions are not very good.
is it better than we'd get for botting individually?
time
Tried my first group mission today, it was a lot of fun! I can't tell if you level faster or not doing group missions, but working together as a team made the time seem to go a lot faster. It's cool how you can always see where your group members are on radar, and have their health displayed provided they are in the same sector.