It's a mistake anyone can make.

You aren't going to get the last badge anytime soon, at 45000 points. Keep throwing your 5* equipment, and in four months maybe you will get it!

Me? Hahaha, of course, I would spend money on a virtual free to play MMO. Right. Do you know me? No, keep walking and don't hit anything on your path.

You are making my day, keep it up.

I know that I am having such a good time right now, but I feel bad for the people who spends money to this game right now.

And you seem to care so much you keep replying to me. : )

So, you know all P2Ps? My, you are certainly a person who knows a lot of people.

Thanks for caring so much about me to keep replying. : )

Yeah why don't you do that? You'll have a lot more in common.

Calm down. Have some irish cream with chocolate chips. It has whiskey in it.

Also, I think I'm actually going to bother with the Prestige now. Except, I won't ever do the equipment turn-in. It's just not worth the cost.

People who do every prestige mission aren't doing it for some unspecified reward--they're doing it so that they can have a lot of prestige. Perhaps you're new to video/computer games, but generally people like to have high scores.

Is it peer pressure? What's wrong with doing prestige missions? Please don't be hypocrites, if you're going to do them then do them lol. We don't need more of these guys playing SK!!

(it's the wallstreet protesters showing that even tho we hate Apple & other big shot companies & will continue to protest & do anti marches to bring them down & out of business, we'll continue/we'll be using their merchandise;ipod, iphone etc while complaining!)

That's right, I'm on my ipad reading the daily herald as i'm holding up signs of how apple should go out of business & that i get my job back.

have fun with your new beggar magnet

Prestige Points currently are nothing more than a CE, crown, material, mineral sink. Excluding the normal missions, the daily missions are just inefficient way to use up your energy while giving you less crowns. The giving materials, minerals, or gear is a way to covert valuable resources to worthless Prestige points.

The Prestige Badges are merely a "sucker" badge, or as Rangerwill puts it a "beggar magnet". If OOO really intended a badge for one to show how experienced one is at the game, you would get points for every run you did. If they wanted a badge to show how good one is in the game, it'd be based on stats for # of win/fail per level or number of deaths/revives, etc.

So the last badge is 45,000 prestige points, lets do some calculations. If I recall correctly, you get 300 points for a 5* item? 45,000 / 300 = 150. So that's 150 5* items needed. 5* items are worth 4,000ce on the supply depot I believe. 150 x 4,000ce = 600,000ce for 45,000 prestige points!

Lets take a look at the daily missions, I believe the average mission gives you 90 prestige points? 45,000 / 90 = 500 but there's two levels so you have to pay 20ce to get 90 points. 500 x 20ce = 10,000ce. So if you did daily missions after 500 days using 10,000ce you'd get the last badge. Also the time playing those levels? Lets say about half an hour to finish two levels.....500 x 0.5hrs = 250hrs.

Summary: 45,000 prestige points = 600,000ce or 10,000ce + 500 days + 250hrs play time.

Yeah of course the regular missions gave you more points, and you do get some crowns, minerals, materials and such along the way. Yes you could be using your daily ME instead of CE, but for rough calculations I think you see what this illustrates, and I think many would agree the amount of rewards doing those levels is not as good as farming FSC the whole time.

I don't think it's worth it, I may reconsider once OOO actually releases the "great bonus" you get for having more prestige. But until then, I'm not going to follow the carrot they're dangling in front of us.

You think it's worth it? Please backup how so if you do.

It's something to do. Daily. KoA twice a day is boring.

There's a goal. Logical profitability has nothing to do with it.

@Sypsy

Okay, if profitability is put aside and you're argument is the daily missions are there to break up tedium.....having 4 or 5 different rotating daily scenarios doesn't get boring?

Why not have the normal missions repeatable allowing people to repeatedly get prestige points from them? I'm sure with a little re-writing of the mission text they could make all the regular missions seem repeatable. For example "Yet another Knight has fallen and is turning into a Trojan, go see if you can save him!" or "The gremlins have rebuilt their super weapon to take out haven, go stop them again!", etc etc.

This would vastly break up the tedium but they don't do it. Why not? Somehow I figure they don't want you repeating the more profitable missions and get prestige for it too. They could solve that too by making the reoccurring regular mission random each day, but they don't. Why not? Could it be that they only want us doing those 4 or 5 rotating daily scenarios only? Why do you think that is?

Giving up that 5* item or donating some cargo that's worth 4000+ crowns was put in because it's fun, right?

@Derpules

Some things are more worth it than others. It's not a black or white kind of thing, you can't make an argument saying either everything is worth it or nothing is worth it, that's a false dichotomy.

If you're comparing Lockdown with the prestige system, I would say there's much more benefits to lockdown than prestige right now.... unlockable recipes, materials, and such. And clearly people seem to think Lockdown is more "worth it" than the bomberman game.

IIRC, at one point the prestige missions were repeatable, kinda like the normal missions. I just don't think you got more prestige. Not sure why they made it so you could only do them once though.

Anyway, that aside, I think you're overthinking things.
Your argument that it could get boring after a few months of doing the same missions over and over is valid, but I'll take that over doing KoA daily. At least these missions rotate levels and are not predictable like the other missions or boss runs. If I do get bored of it in the future, I'll deal with it then. No need to plan ahead or anything.

Then, you can ask "Well why don't you do a normal clockwork run?"
Well personally, I only play ld, interact w/ ppl in haven and do a few runs here and there if I need to heat something. I like the prestige missions because they are bite size levels that are different from boss runs AND do not take up 1 whole hour to do. I can spare the 10 - 30 minutes (depending on whether I want to take it slowly or do a speed run) doing the prestige missions and then go do something else. Add the fact that you get a little number that ticks up as a goal as an incentive, and I'm not complaining.

These are solely my reasons, and I'm not going to impose them on you. There's no argument for me as to why YOU should be doing them.

If you don't see a reason to do them, then fair enough. The opportunity cost of your mist is too high to be spending it on low profitability levels. I just think it's unfair if you assume others who do not follow your logic are somehow playing the game wrong.

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Oh, and they put in that 5* weapon thing because they want people who REALLY want the prestige to buy a weapon for 3.5K ce and then deposit it for prestige points. This will let them float to the top of the ranks more quickly than others over time. Obviously. For some people, this is okay.

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And I play ld for enjoyment. Rewards? Psh.

You do realize that the next ranking after 15k is 25k right? Afterwards it is a long grind to 50,000 for the final ranking (Vanguard symbol).

I know this because I'm around 17k

Don't give up on prestige yet, they said this would be the first prestige reward.

@Blitzwing: "You got me there....I didn't think of the elevator pass. However I doubt they'd have a pass for roughly 500 days for the daily missions nor does the pass help with the give a 5* item or material missions."

That's all I wanted to reply to just to show how little of a life I have. I have an elevator pass until July 16... 2013. So for me, any prestige mission is an opportunity to gain money and because I have a heat amp for a long while, I could probably just grind FSC to give away 4 and 5 star weapons without buying CE with $$$ and without buying the weapons from the supply depot. As far as statistics are concerned, I'm an idiotic outlier who decided to buy $150 of explorer packs in December (which would cost $750 right now).

As for the rest of your post, I do actually agree with you. The 45,000 prestige points for just a badge is a little ridiculous in my opinion.