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Me and 4 pages of other folks. Have any alternate suggestions on how to spend my time ? I'm all ears.

But the obvious answer to the question is, it says "Choose a reward from the ***four*** listed above. There's only three listed above..

@ Rissa:

Perhaps this will help

1. As per previous posts, and the announcement (link in adv stats' tab) the value ratio of Elyps is 100 to 1 ... so 400 from the Kitin invasion is equal to 4 Elyps. I do the 7 missions in about 40 minutes that nets me 126 Elyps ... or 12,600 from old kitin invasion which, using your 20-30 minutes (chose 25) = 787.5 minutes worth of invasion.

2. The dapper / fame rewards are what they are in the missions ... these are not new missions. Walk into any tribe camp or find wandering NPC and these are the missions you get. The DM system randomly chooses 7 missions from the 11,000 missions in game. For example, the Outlands Supplier in Cuzans Camp... pays big in fame w/ delivery missions, butt small dapper rewards. The guy near him has only craft missions ... he pays out 3 million if ya do all his missions

3. Without the bonuses, I got 12, with full bonus I got 18 ... it shows right on my screen that I am getting a 20% bonus. I get a bonus on each mission .... if I complete 7 , I get 7 x 17 ... if i do 5, I get 5 x 18. If I'm getting extra somehow, I didn't notice. By my reading, the bonus is set by the preference choices not how many missions you do... if you restrict the options in any way, your bonus is cut down ... have all options open, you get full bonus.

4. I agree on the giant window pop up that obscures the entire screen. It does get in the way and often takes a few tries to close.

5. As for the nation points ... to my eyes that was not only unfair but far, far, to generous. The person with 100 fame gets 4 x the person with 50-50-50-50 fame ? In short, it was a gift for the factioned that no one else can get ... if you're in the faction you love it. But frankly, at best this was a gift ... to my eyes, far too much reward for far too little effort, tho not officially designated as such ... I saw it as an exploit. Those kind of rewards were extremely unbalances compared to any other path in game.

Most of these issues I addressed in previous post

@ Gidget:

1. Just to give you a bit of optimism ... I have found every NPC in every mission with little trouble. Granted if you ever worked tribe fame chasing "Spirit of Sally Field" title, you probably have them all flagged on map. If not, it's going to be a bit more of a challenge. Otherwise a) BM map will find most locations that they frequent b) silenda will have a few more. I have a tribe macro that I have adopted from days of doing tribe fame. It's basically the same as the ole Boss macro. I select all the missions in one region .... replace the NPC names from last bunch with the new ones, then check the usual spots while spamming the macro if I don't find right away.

2. As for occupations .... Here's my approach. Day 1 collect 24 MC mats, improve them, practice 6 times ... I now have 6 x 24 mats, quit and take a new OCC. Day 2 rinse and repeat with WC, quit and take a new occ. Day 3 rinse and repeat with Florist, quit and take a new occ. So basically... Im doing 1 occupation a day between the 20 minute puzzle pieces ... and I get 144 things to hand in every day. Then I take a break for a while ... Of course, this means that for quite some time every time you land in FH, Ykr and Zora, ya stop by and grab waters, flowers and ambers.

3. There are a few missions that can not be completed .... i.e. "Kill Kidniak" or can't be reasonably completed (by 1 or 2 players) ... i.e kill super herbie. I have been reporting these as encountered for about 2 years. They are "quite rare".



I was able to ease into this because have been doing tribe missions since spring. So I can understand that it is a bit trying at first. But OTOH ... life before NH was fine ... It seems it made us all a bit fat and lazy. Like having a no show political job.... "All I had to do is walk out to the mailbox and grab the check and show up once a week ... now they expect me to show up every day ... that's ridiculous !


Personally, I am finding this a lot more rewarding ... areas I always avoided before because of unfamiliarity (Upper Bog), Bounty Beaches, Western EI) I am now comfy in because having to go there gave me an opportunity to find safe zones, recognize migration patterns that I am now able to enjoy more of the game than I did before ...

But hey, I'm more of a "It's the journey not the destination" kinda guy.


As to what you can buy with the Elyps ..... assumes 250 toon.

- DP Wipe (100 Elyps) ... Would not use under any circumstances ... Id use MakDuh / Jena option or dig 5 nodes.  That's 80% if Daily Mission Effort

- Stack of Wundahmat (780 Elyps) ... way, way, way, way overpriced.

- Stack of Cats  (320) .... Useless.   The existence of 200 and 250 cats on this makes no sense.   They are free.

- Stack of Crystals (120) - Seemes extremely cheap compared to the others.

- Register Animal in your name (100) - Seems fair

- Random Naming of Animal (50) - I don't get it

- Name your animal (4773).... 2000 seems fair, current price will set a goal for those wanting to be the 1st on the block.  Price will go dow over time ... ws 4774 so down 1 for me so far !

Probably should have some guidelines here ... character limitations, things we don't want to see ... Since Mek's are Atys' "Donkeys / Jackasses ... prolly don't wanna see names like "My Fat Ass".

As to the mission types ... the only concern I have here is the "impossible Missions Force" ones.... Yes, certainly going out into Loria and looking for a Kidniak is truly impossble".   OTOH, I don't see folks doing these missions in team.   So going out to kill a couple of Super Herbies (Bolobi, Shallah, Ploderos), while possible .... with tons of eggs, potions, etc., ... it is equivalent to Tom Cruise and the Impossible Missions Force.  As for the occupations part ... certainly, every occupation can easily enough be completed by a solo player.  The "kill 4 Ploderos in Kitin Lair" is however equivalent to the super herbie assignment ... folks will just keep abandoning the mission till they get something more practical.