Poll: LEAST favorite mission type

[Quaix]

Update: Closed poll early because of changes to the meteor defense mission. My goal was to see which missions were disliked and why, and suggest changes to fix them. Goal accomplished.

Also see the Most favorite mission poll.

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Poll will run for ten days.

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[postmanmanman]

Defend supplies from a meteor shower. It ****ing sucks. It feels like it was designed to be tackled by a party of several people, but it shows up in single-player mode, too. It's also boring as hell since it lasts FOREVER... those 100 meteors take their good, sweet time raining down.

[Bluddy]

Agreed. This mission type needs heavy redesign.

It's hard to lose because you have to lose each create. Instead, there should be 3-5 statues or something that visibly deteriorates.
Also, if you're playing single player, everything should fit on one screen or slightly more than one screen.
Finally, the tempo of the meteors should change, and there shouldn't be nearly as many. In fact, it should probably be time-based rather than number based.

[mrhanman]

I think the Defend Against Meteor Attack missions are pretty fun, for the first few minutes.  I agree that slapping 100 of them around is too many for one player to handle without getting frustrated or bored.  Maybe the number of Meteors should scale with the number of players present in the mission?

[crayo]

Personally, I think the meteor missions are fun. Yeah, they're slow and last too long so I don't do them often, but I would hate to see drastic changes made to them.

I hate the anachronism missions. I always end up searching for the last one or two for what seems like forever, contorting myself to avoid all the attacks from the "legitimate" inhabitants. I tend to avoid these completely, so after a little while they're all that's left on my map . I kind of wish there was a "force refresh/recycle missions" guardian power.

[mrhanman]

I kind of wish there was a "force refresh/recycle missions" guardian power.

That sounds like a pretty good idea, actually.  You should go suggest it on Mantis.

[crayo]

I kind of wish there was a "force refresh/recycle missions" guardian power.

That sounds like a pretty good idea, actually.  You should go suggest it on Mantis.

I took a look in Mantis and I think there's one in there that sounds pretty similar: 0007122: Changing all missions at once

http://www.arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=7122

[mrhanman]

Well, since mana is less of an issue, you could always cast Nightfall and Sunrise a few times.

[LintMan]

I picked JtP - I won't do these anymore.  I generally try to avoid the Fix Anacronisms because I frequently have to spend a lot of time trying to track down that last one, and now with the large self-damage factor, they've become a lot harder.  I would like Meteor missions OK if they weren't so slow. 

Well, since mana is less of an issue, you could always cast Nightfall and Sunrise a few times.

I'm curious - what does that do?

[Penumbra]

We all have different opinions on what is fun and what isn't. I think of JtP and the (previous) anachronism missions as my absolute favorite.

Mission choice is like pizza toppings. No way everyone will agree. If missions keep being changed for the people who won't play them, the people who liked them before will lose out.

Everyone should vote up this issue on mantis. It is about a server configurable list of each mission type. They could be toggled on and off, changing what types are available for seeding in the world. There could be all sorts of limitations added in, if needed for balance, but I think it's the only way.

Missions could be added on a trial basis even. The devs could add it in with a default to "off" and those who want to try it out can. There could be different versions of missions that are mutually exclusive. This will certainly stop people from being "ticked off" when they get a mission type they hate, and the perfect response to those who do complain and think the whole game is ruined because of one mission type.

Those missions people don't like tend to stack up. 1/3 of all missions are going to be the ones not liked, since they will stay around the longest.

Space Rangers 2 had a whole bunch of distinct game types in it, Text Adventures, RTS, arcade, etc. It let you turn off aspects of the game you didn't want to deal with. It worked quite nicely.

[Wingflier]

Fix anachronism or whatever.

It's bad enough to have to go from room to room killing random monsters as a mission type, it's even worse when you're not allowed to kill certain types.

[khadgar]

I'd say supply depot, but I like the concept too much! the execution is lacking. My least favorite is lava escape, because it's way too hard on the higher platforming difficulties, (i play on the highest).

Just a note, I think I'd need lightning rocket + greater teleport to even stand a chance, with the speed that lava rises at! Seriously, you have about 2 seconds from mission start to get moving before you are overtaken by lava, and you have to move at a rate faster than constant jumping to survive. lolwat

[Quaix]

That's the part I don't get either. Lava fills up the screen in like three seconds. I like the highest platform difficulty because I'm used to Terraria, which doesn't even have random platforms, and isn't as forgiving to fall damage.

I want an option to remove all background ladders, but leave the rise of lava at default.

[Terraziel]

I'd say supply depot, but I like the concept too much! the execution is lacking. My least favorite is lava escape, because it's way too hard on the higher platforming difficulties, (i play on the highest).

Just a note, I think I'd need lightning rocket + greater teleport to even stand a chance, with the speed that lava rises at! Seriously, you have about 2 seconds from mission start to get moving before you are overtaken by lava, and you have to move at a rate faster than constant jumping to survive. lolwat

I play on the highest difficulty as well, my trick is to not bother with the heatsuit, just use teleport and jump enchants and run like hell, if you think you are going to lose quickly equip the heatsuit.

[pallenda]

I have played for 7 hours fooling around not know what I did. And then 6 more hours today actually progressing a bit and got to tier2.

By far the area that has stolen the most upgrade orbs is the Fix Anachronisms mission. I think this mission type should properly be moved to tier 3 or later.