There is a basis for it.
http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...6&postcount=12
Means stated that they were going to "change the pvp daily so it can be repeated up to 3 times for the applicable reward". I also took that to mean that you would be able to talk to John Smith and get all 3 dailies, once per day.
Maybe they changed their mind and decided to make it just the BS daily that is repeatable but not sure that would truly make any sense. What would make more sense is that an incorrect terminology was used to refer to the John Smith dailies. I mean tbh, they aren't exactly the PvP dailies since you can get those from the NPC on OA HIll (Clanside) and also get PvP dailies from the Agency Handler. I also don't think they are the battlestation dailies either.. but that may be the term that the writer of the patch notes uses to refer to all dailies that you get from the NPC formerly referred to by many as the "Battlestation Daily guy" prior to the addition of his other daily mission options.
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Interstingly, that response was directed at the BS and the BS not running since the new PVP (non BS) missions were introduced. If they allow toons to do all 3 mission types daily - fine with me - but if they allow BS to be done for x3 reward, I would not be in favor of that.
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Because it would be another targetted fix for the BS. AO needs to rework the BS to make it more enjoyable - stop with the bandaid fixes.
I also laugh at the PVPers who complained about the PVM crowd just 4 capping, doing one round and running away,etc and now complain because it runs less often. Didnt everyone see that coming?
Folks can do the BS as much as they like - but daily xp reward shouldn't be repeated - by the same mission - x3/day. Would folks be ok with the "target towers" mission being able to be done x3/day? - i doubt it. Just my opinon.
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My reaction ... where is this information from? I can't find the release notes.
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http://forums.anarchy-online.com/sho...d.php?t=595700
Its in the Test Live forum
The BS PvP Daily Mission can be repeated three times in the incoming update - The first two times it is completed it will offer only the VP reward; the third time the player will receive both VP and an XP reward.
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well that ends the guessing... I was wrong on my conclusion then. I don't get why you get only VP the first 2 times though and the XP the last.. I"m guessing you guys have your reasons though sounds like I still won't be choosing this option since no tokens/XP until go round #3.
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Thanks for clearing up -
Just curious - why not just increase the VPs (scaled) for every BS done then? One reason I liked the other two "pvp" missions is that I can do them on my schedule and don't have to wait for a round of BS (which many nights didn't happen for me).
Having to wait to have 3 missions done for XP doesnt' seem very good - that means three rounds have to occur - which will be difficult during many periods of the day.
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Not really sure what this change is expected to accomplish. I might be missing something, but based on the Q&A point, I thought it was to to fix the lack of BS running due to not many people doing BS anymore for the daily.
One of the reasons why people don't do the BS daily(other than the fact that a fair proportion are PvMers like me who don't particularly care for PvP) is that no one wants to wait in BS queue for ages just for it to start, only to have it bug out most of the time. That is just for one round. Now, you want to make people repeat that process another 2 times to finally get that XP reward??
I'm not sure if FC have got their finger on the pulse of what motivates people to do this daily mission. If they're PvM'ers like me, I'm in it mainly for the xp daily reward, the VP reward is nice but secondary, hence why I don't care if someone 4-caps and just gets the round over as quick as possible. Now you're making people do it 3 times just to get the xp reward, I don't think it'll exactly encourage PvMers to help populate the BS, which is what I thought was the point of this change.
Have a question though. Are these BS dailies now on a separate timer to the non-pvp pvp missions(otherwise known as John Smith dailies)? If it is, then that makes a "bit" more sense, that you're hoping that PvMers will do the non-pvp mission AND also if they want a bit of extra xp for the day, they can then repeat the BS daily 3 times to get an extra daily reward at the end. If that's the reasoning behind it, as much as I like daily mission xp rewards, I probably still won't do the extra 3 BS dailies because its just too long and painful to get it started and then spend the next 10-15 minutes getting steamrolled by pvp twinks.
I'd rather more time be spent into fixing the queue system that results in bugged BS rounds.
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If (like most people that only PvM) the BS mission is pulled only for the Exp/SK then I'll guess that with the amount of time it will take in the new situation, BS will run even less...
I'm usually against bandaid fixes, but... if BS participation is such a problem, why not give a mini XP reward for EVERY match, and double for a win? Might get more people to queue up.
I hope I won't have to run three times to Bor mission guy, otherwise it's crappy... not really a good fix to improve population on BS
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make BS terminals outside again. Sucks to have it all inside in such a small room. Also, seeing twinks or people waiting for a BS outside, while running with an alt, used to bring some people to the BS
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So, I'm thinking that will mean the BS will run even less, but I guess its good for anyone farming VP. Hurray for illegal notum smuggling!
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