Originally Posted by drogyn1701

If I understand it correctly, those grinders, by the very fact that they are speed-playing, will be decreasing the quality of the reward. Yes, they'll get it quicker, but it will be less.

If the rewards end up being good enough, they will be an incentive for people to take their time playing Foundry missions so they get the max possible reward, rather than the quickest possible. I imagine there will be subsets of players that take both approaches no matter what happens.

I think there's going to be flaws with every system, but so far I would say that what's being described for NW is going to be better than the Foundry wrapper we have now. Not perfect, mind you, but a step in the right direction.

Originally Posted by drogyn1701

If I understand it correctly, those grinders, by the very fact that they are speed-playing, will be decreasing the quality of the reward. Yes, they'll get it quicker, but it will be less.

Originally Posted by markhawkman

But yeah being able to AFK to up mission rewards is lame.

Originally Posted by kirksplat

Mapolis tell us, regarding the NW Foundry rewards system:

He adds:



Round-up source

So my question is this: How will grinders affect the mission's rewards?

Ex: My "Return to Terra Nova" takes about an hour to play, when reading everything. But it takes about 10 minutes if I just hit F and run from place to place.

If 50% of my players are grinding it as fast as possible, and 50% are reading it, then the average playtime would be like 25 minutes, right?

The folks who take the time to really play get rewards that are diminished by the folks who don't take the time to play. Meanwhile the grinders who spent 10 minutes pressing F get rewarded with a 25 minute reward.

And, we don't have a percentage of idlers to offset the effect of the grinders. Isn't this a problem with the system?

The grinders get rewarded, and the careful players get punished.

Originally Posted by kirksplat

Well as Mapolis says, there would have to be a ton of folks afking to see the reward increase. With this system a grinder and an afker get the exact same reward, based on the average play-time.