Well they are missions, and you can only do a mission once. like once and never again.
cuz thier missions.
Stupid Cradle Logic.

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Btw, I believe this thread should be moved to suggestions.

I do think that Missions clearly caused the CE price spike. Also, people who miss the Arcade days can't just 'get together and play the arcade' - CE costs more because farming only the best-paying missions is the only way to stay ahead if you're playing on CE. (With some exceptions if you farm the right T3s in the arcade.)

Missions and the cost of CE do not cause new players to behave noobishly or to beg - those players are simply whiny brats and they've always been on every multiplayer game. Learn to ignore them.

I think the lack of arcade activity has as much to do with the Hall of Heroes vendors as anything else. With almost all the recipes available, there's no need to visit Basil over and over, which was a big motivator for exploring the clockworks.

Anyway, while I understand the sentiment, things aren't going to go backwards. What we need is -not- to 'get rid of missions' (which just ain't gonna happen). What we need is an incentive to reach the clockwork terminals, the towns, and the sealed core. New UVs that can only be crafted from machines located at Terminals maybe. Materials hunting would be obvious except that that boat has already sailed - the missions already drop materials, brinks already sells materials for spark tokens, and the recipes are already written for a lot of equipment. Of course it can be worked around, it'd just be a lot to work around. Maybe give Basil something other than recipes to sell - costume items perhaps.

Those are just examples, but the point is, make the Arcade attractive again by making the arcade have a purpose instead of getting rid of the arcade's competition for player attention.

Even if we were back in the arcade, people would go back to farming Firestorm Citadel an the Royal Jelly Palace.

So whadda ya get? The same problem, but not as extreme.

Prices will lower, the arcade would get more activity, but aside from that, people are still gonna farm those two areas.

Awwrrrr~~~

The Slowpoke looks just like ye, Shiney. <3

Shiney is a nice name because I paired yer name Light-your-fire together. :3c

How about when you get one or two ranks past the rank of the mission, but at Vanguard it counts for all rank missions, you can only replay boss missions once a day and other combat missions twice a day? Dialogues can be redone as often as you want.

Now have some Cash.

Here it is:

Missions are re-do-able an infinite number of times, but on every time after the first, you get ZERO DROPS.

None, Nada. Zip. Zero. Zilch. No crowns, no heat, no mats. To counterbalance this, the missions will be completely FREE.

You can still be invited to missions from your friends, and you'll still be able to start them yourself. When you load in, you'll still see everything the exact same way. You'll still deal the same amount of damage. And you'll still be able to collect hearts and vitapods. However, there are a few key differences.

I. When SOLOING:
• No crowns or heat will drop.
• No mats will drop.
• Reviving is free.
• Elevators are free.

II. When NOT SOLOING:
• Crowns and heat will appear, but you simply will not receive them. Even if you run over them, they'll go to everyone else but you. Unless, of course, they've done it before too.
• You are not included in the behind-the-scenes dice-rolling to randomly select who gets material drops. (a.k.a. you get no mats)
• Elevators are free.
• Reviving is NOT FREE.

And a final note that will fix some more of the remaining arcade-death problems and such:
YOU CANNOT BRING KNIGHTS WHO HAVE NOT YET UNLOCKED THE MISSION WITH YOU.

This is how it is in the clockworks, there was no reason to change it for missions.