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th3gr4ndnagu5
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The idea is simple: once you reach max level you unlock a new daily to replay one of the previous episodes that you have completed. It could be called "Performance Review" and take place in the holodeck area at Starfleet Academy(and any of the many doors at the Klingon Academy which they could call a "holochamber"). The "storyline" of the daily would be to review your performance on a previous mission and see if you can improve.
IMO the kind of "meat" that the storyline episode missions offer is what is missing from the current dailies. You have lots of little short missions that are basically the same thing every day, but this would give you something to do to earn some dillithium with a little more depth. And if you played a different one each day it would add quite a bit of variety to the current dailies.
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IMO the kind of "meat" that the storyline episode missions offer is what is missing from the current dailies. You have lots of little short missions that are basically the same thing every day, but this would give you something to do to earn some dillithium with a little more depth. And if you played a different one each day it would add quite a bit of variety to the current dailies.
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Daily replay in my Starbase's HD for 10 Fleet Marks.
Have the missions scaled up to VA.
Additionally, in a similar vein, a "Training Simulation" series could be given on the Fleet Starbases, utilizing the holodeck room (At least I think it was a holodeck room) I found. It could be a series of simple combat exercises in various landscapes (alien world, spacewalk, inside the starbase, aboard ship, etc.), utilizing some different combat formulas (rescue the hostages, breach and overcome, capture the target, last man standing) against any of the current enemy faction NPCs that STO has to offer, with the daily reward being fleet marks -or- dilithium, your choice, similar to the "level apprpriate item -or- dilithium" option given for current dilithium reward missions.
The fleet holodeck could also be used for space-based "training sims" as well, for the same kind of reward.
Missions would be offered on a random basis, so each day, you get a different random training simulation, with the randomizers being:
Space or Ground
Species
Objective
Location / Environment
These missions would be offered by the OOW.
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There are some missions I simply dont enjoy, so I'd prefer it not to be random. If you are worried about some kind of exploit like you mentioned, then they could simply not allow you to get credit for the same mission more than once a week.
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Hopefully this is something that can be considered as a way to increase the amount of player interest in the story missions as well, the grind missions we have as of late get boring rather quickly...
Though this probably won't happen due to the disparity between KDF and Fed missions though
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Which would just mean cycling more incredibly fast patrol missions.
When I said "episodes" in the OP, I was talking about...episodes. If that is unclear, those are the storyline missions you play while leveling like "stranded in space" or any of the many featured episodes. Patrols are not "episodes".
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And if you replay a mission durring that hour you get extra rewards.
I kind of like that: do it at SFA for dilithium *OR* do it at your starbase for fleet marks.
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I wouldnt be surprised, mate.
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Exactly why Cryptic will probably never consider it. :rolleyes:
I would slightly improve the idea though : Replay 3 different cryptic episodes, to avoid farming issues. This daily could reward 1400 dil since it would take from 30 to 60 minutes to complete. Since they reward console-clicking with the foundry missions, there is no reason not to use this idea.
God, lvl 60 CW. 17k.
Um, no. You get 1440 dil for completing 3 star cluster missions, which takes only 15-20 mins. Requiring people to play 3 episodes to get that same amount of dil but take a lot longer would be ridiculous. You should get 1440 for only doing 1 episode.
Some episodes takes only 5 or 6 minutes to complete... I know one I used to farm for the shiny reward and it took me roughly 6 minutes to run.
God, lvl 60 CW. 17k.
This idea seems easy enough to implement, not exploitable by any means.
And would make people play the Content that is there more often.
Would i replay because of a daily?
hmmmh... i hate the old missions, so probably not.
AND i have lots of ALTs that have skipped most of the missions and leveled up by doffing etc.
and if you SKIP it doesn't go into replay but first play mode next time you play that mission.
Skipping really should put a mission out of the available tab and activate the Replay button.
Agreed, although I don't think we'd need to make them Holodeck simulations. It would just serve as a means to make it more worthwhile to replay the story missions for some folks.
It's been posited by some posters that if people were truly interested in story missions, there wouldn't be so many playing the Nagus dailies. I for one am greatful for the Nagus dailies because they are more than just "quickie clickie" missions; they are on par with dev-created patrols and exploration missions. Perhaps a little better because you add a little extra flavor to them.
However, what is missed by those comments is that the Foundry daily includes a wrapper that gives you 1440 dilithium, just like the exploration daily does and other daily missions do. Now that dilithium is so important to crafting, Fleet projects, and such, people are looking for ways to make dilithium quickly. That means they *have* to play this type of content if they want to advance in *any* of those areas.
Adding dilithium to the main storyline missions would increase their replay potential greatly. It would give those of us who primarily like to play immersive storyline missions the ability to play the part of the game we enjoy most, while still being able to participate in the other parts of the game in a reasonable fashion. It would expand and enhance our gameplay experience.
I am greatful that Cryptic has made the mission scale to level. A number of my newer characters have leveled to VA largely through the Duty Officer system. However, all of the missions are still available to them and I can play through the stories whenever I choose. Given a choice, I'd rather do that than the same relative handful of dailies on every character. Adding dilithium to missions would be beneficial, both to the players and STO.
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