08-30-2016, 10:57 PM
Remember back in the day when there weren't nearly as many challenges to do and there were enough people just randomly joining to help out that you could get most of them done in a reasonable time frame? With the exception of top-tier challenges of course since not as many players had the DPS to get into them...or you got a load of people who shouldn't have been there but got carried to that point and sunk the challenge >.> Anyway, I digress.
These days, it can be next to impossible to finish a simple challenge. There are too many different challenges and not enough people doing them to get a full group in a reasonable time frame. Being able to start without a full group is a huge start to fixing this issue, but what about when you've been sitting at 2/6 or 3/6 for hours and there's just no way you can carry it? And what about the times where you need a full group, but you've finally gone afk because, hey, it's been a few hours, I can get a coffee, right? Only to come back and find that the challenge must have failed while you were gone, possibly because you and the other 4 guys who have been waiting weren't contributing clicks or abilities.
I want to get some suggestions together about how we can fix this. I know we can always try to get people from our guilds together, but if you're the top of your guild that doesn't always work. It also doesn't really work if you're the bottom of the guild since it sucks the fun out of challenges if they're not challenging. My personal suggestion would be to provide a daily bonus for re-doing completed challenges but only on your highest 2 completed tiers of any given challenge. So, for example, if you've just got your Gold I Rats duo under your belt, you could get a daily bonus for GI Rats Duo and SV Rats Duo. This bonus could be anything really, just something to liven up the challenges and help reduce queue times. I read a suggestion recently about adding a meat resource to the game that could be exchanged for pet food that might fit the bill for something like this if we wanted it to be fresh and exciting.
These days, it can be next to impossible to finish a simple challenge. There are too many different challenges and not enough people doing them to get a full group in a reasonable time frame. Being able to start without a full group is a huge start to fixing this issue, but what about when you've been sitting at 2/6 or 3/6 for hours and there's just no way you can carry it? And what about the times where you need a full group, but you've finally gone afk because, hey, it's been a few hours, I can get a coffee, right? Only to come back and find that the challenge must have failed while you were gone, possibly because you and the other 4 guys who have been waiting weren't contributing clicks or abilities.
I want to get some suggestions together about how we can fix this. I know we can always try to get people from our guilds together, but if you're the top of your guild that doesn't always work. It also doesn't really work if you're the bottom of the guild since it sucks the fun out of challenges if they're not challenging. My personal suggestion would be to provide a daily bonus for re-doing completed challenges but only on your highest 2 completed tiers of any given challenge. So, for example, if you've just got your Gold I Rats duo under your belt, you could get a daily bonus for GI Rats Duo and SV Rats Duo. This bonus could be anything really, just something to liven up the challenges and help reduce queue times. I read a suggestion recently about adding a meat resource to the game that could be exchanged for pet food that might fit the bill for something like this if we wanted it to be fresh and exciting.