CDV15: Quest Changes, Part 3

[Tim]

The final new quest type was inspired by you guys. Particularly one clan from an Age or so back. I'll let you guys figure out which one.

Support Quests are a new kind of Player quests that are available only to clan leaders and subleader. In Support Quests, clans can request support in a specific city in the form of Ji. Requested Ji will be limited to 50, 100, 150, 200, or 250 Ji. Once a Support quest is accepted, Ji earned by the player in the target area is saved in the quest's data instead of applying to the clan it normally would until the quest is either submitted or expires. If the quest is submitted, the Ji will go to the requesting clan. If the quest is completed by another player or the offer expires, the Ji will go to the players current clan if they are in one or will just be lost.

In order to avoid players exploiting these quests, there are a couple other unique restrictions that will be applied. First, members of the offering clan cannot accept the Support quest. In fact, any Ji earned while in the offering clan will NOT go towards the quest. Second, a player can only accept 2 Support quests at a time. This will prevent players using support quests to get around clan alt limits. Or at least limit it. Finally, you can only accept one Support quest in an area at a time. That way I don't have to deal with the confusion of who the Ji goes to.

Hopefully, this will give players more options if they don't really want to be loyal to just one clan and earn some coin along the way. Or offer more direct support for allies.

Thoughts?

[King Richard]

I LIKE it. Felic would be proud.

What do you think about having a set limit for the reward too? Like 5g for every 50 wins or something? I think that's another thing that can be exploited, especially later in the game when there's potentially thousands of gold in the clan banks. I personally would not like to see quests for 50 support ji with a reward of 3k gold, if you know what I mean.

[Tim]

That's probably a good point. 5g for 50 Ji sounds reasonable, as that's seems like it's already on the high end, but not ridiculous.

[Seitaarin]

This sounds awesome. Wandering mercs now viable. Sounds exploitable at the same time, alt clans could stack ji for mains. Minimum $$$ per ji is another issue, not just maximum. Having an alt clan that feeds 100% ji for 1c instead of 50% ji in support makes for dodginess just as offering ridiculous sums for gold xfer purposes.

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[Tim]

Another good point on the minimum offers. I almost just made it a flat rate of 2.5g for 50 Ji, but I'd like for there to be SOME room for negotiation...

How about a range of 50s to 5g per 50 Ji requested? At the end of the game 50s is nothing, but early on 5g is a ridiculous amount.

I've been wanting to add this since the age Felic and co tried the merc clan route, but as you can see there's lot of ways this could be exploited. No way I've come up with (without SEVERELY limiting it) is 100% exploit proof, but I'm hoping to at least minimize it. With a player only able to accept 2 Support quests at a time, it'll make it harder for them to make ALL their earned Ji go to the main clan (unless they get lucky with duel targets in the city they are after). There's a minor tweak to Clan Support coming too that may or may not help the problem. May encourage more exploitation, but it's something that needs to happen.