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Thread: Duty Mission? No Thnx... I don't have all day
droid327 wrote:
Orim wrote:
The thing is it's kinda cool to finish stuff instead of just ending it.
well yes but, aside from a sense of completion, theres really no reason to, and they werent really designed to do that either.
The only reason destroy duties even have endings is so a) you dont end up spawning 20npcs in a wave that may linger around and nuke anyone else who happens to pass by, if the spawn count just went up forever,and b) if the spawn count stopped at 10 or whatever, so you cant just keep milking spawn after spawn for huge XP
If it was like that I would do duty missions all the time
I love the Tier 4 duties for loot grinding. I'm glad they're long. Keeps me up there long enough to get a whole bunch of loot, but not so long that I forget to eat or something.
Really, the destroy duties can be completed in a bit over an hour if you're fast. I don't think that's unreasonable.
Rhu wrote:
droid327 wrote:
The only reason destroy duties even have endings is so a) you dont end up spawning 20npcs in a wave that may linger around and nuke anyone else who happens to pass by, if the spawn count just went up forever
This doesn't seem to be a problem/consideration with the tier 5 Ghrag gunboats, which could easily do more damage than 20 tier 4 npcs. Not buying this one...
I dont think anyone really ever gets past the1 GB spawn, let alone the 2. And 1 or 2 GBs are a lot easier to avoid once they aggy you than20T4 Ties.Even then,its only in Kash space. Destroy duties are in Dath, Yavin, Dant and Endor, IIRC, if not elsewhere, where some lower tier Pilot missions take you. You know how much some grinding pilots get pissed when their escort takes them through a spawn of T4 Jillion Bolts, imagine how pissed they'd be if their T2 freighter tried to sail straight through a cloud of T4 aggros from someone else's destroy duty.
b) if the spawn count stopped at 10 or whatever, so you cant just keep milking spawn after spawn for huge XP
...or this one. You can call the evil raiders a simple oversight, but can you say the same for every ship-spawning POI in the Kashyyyk system? Between the unlisted Ghrag, the Gotal, the Chiss, and the various cruiser spawns... You could grind there forever. Could that be an oversight?
Okay, okay. Right. Rushed product. Led to grind mania on the ground. Why not oversights causing grind mania in space, too.
No way you could ever grind on static spawns with the rate you can grind on destroy duties. Spawns in Kash may respawn quickly, but they wont spawn 8 new targets directly at your position as soon as you kill the previous wave. You have to take into account total average time spent per kill, which is a lot less for destroy duties, especially up at the higher end of the duty, doubly especially when you're in a PvE monster like a fully souped up Heavy X that can 2-shot a T4 Tie-Int.
If I could just do the last wave of a CP duty over and over, within an hour I'd be capped on faction and have a full inventory of quality loot,after deleting all the T1-6 stuff to make room for better and more valuable components.
droid327 wrote:
No way you could ever grind on static spawns with the rate you can grind on destroy duties. Spawns in Kash may respawn quickly, but they wont spawn 8 new targets directly at your position as soon as you kill the previous wave.
Right and wrong, here. The thing about kashyyyk spawns is that they spawn continuously. No, you won't get 8 spawns after you kill the previous 7, but... Take, for example, me at the Chiss poacher WP a couple days ago.
Orim wrote:
My eyes burned too from staring at the screen for god knows how long.
Fatty182 wrote:
70 ships a minute? wow, that's a ship every 0.857 seconds.... Wish I could kill T1's even that fast....
Sorry. I realized that I posted the wrong figure a while ago. 70 ships in 10 minutes. Or 7 ships a minute.
Treena_Daal wrote:
I wish they were longer. It's not like you are obligated to finish them, but there are times (Tier 4 Black Sun duty mission, anyone?) when the only time you want to stop the mission is if your ship has been blown to bits. As far as I'm concerned, the spawns should just keep comming until you die or you choose to stop it.
QFE
Rhu wrote:
Fatty182 wrote:
70 ships a minute? wow, that's a ship every 0.857 seconds.... Wish I could kill T1's even that fast....
Sorry. I realized that I posted the wrong figure a while ago. 70 ships in 10 minutes. Or 7 ships a minute.
Gizmarke wrote:
Orim wrote:
My eyes burned too from staring at the screen for god knows how long.
Blinking helps.
Have a snack or bottle of water nearby too, and some upbeat music.
Wrist will get tired, but after a couple days of more of it you'll be fine.
Escort missions are more annoying than destroy missions. At least in a destroy mission I can gauge how far along I am. I have no CLUE how close I am to completing an escort mission. And they're as dull as you can get.
Okay, fine. Escort missions in a Y-Wing would be worse.