Jobs

[Terrell [BT]]

Thinking ahead to when the game is ready for live I have a few suggestions w/r/t how the job terminals should work.

1. Persistent jobs. Gating or crashing to either Desktop or Megan currently clears out your jobs from your mission log. Please make jobs survive logouts. Having to wait at the terminal to get a full load of jobs, then losing all your jobs when you go through a gate on your way to do your jobs can be frustrating.

2. Consistent refreshes. Sometimes the terminal refreshes with more than 10 jobs, other times it may have only 2 or 3. 3 jobs showing up, with more than 1 or 2 people waiting for jobs can become frustrating. If this game reaches "live" status and is somewhat popular, having only 1 or 2 people at any given job terminal may not be commonplace.

3. Fairly frequent refreshes. Have the terminal refresh all jobs 1 time per minute, with at least 10 jobs per level & type per refresh (so if you have 2 levels of each type of jobs, that means a total refresh of 60 jobs, 20 C, 20 E, and 20 T). Eventually when the game is ready for live, if we get a following anywhere near what was around during live, there will be terminal camping. One part of fixing this is to have enough jobs to go around in a few refreshes.

4. At least 2 levels of jobs per job terminal and have all job terminals operating in game. This is the other part of making jobbing not be frustrating as it will spread out players of similiar levels more. One should be able to job comparable to doing trade runs, w/r/t going to the terminal, getting your jobs and leaving the terminal so someone else can get their load of jobs.

5. Faction for all jobs, regardless of whether they're Explore, Combat, or Trade upon completion of the job. Currently only Explore jobs give faction upon completion. Also the amount of faction given for the jobs under L150 is pretty small. Level 50 explore jobs only give +5 faction, L150 give +25. Yet the starting factions are worse than live. When you started a char in Live the playable factions were all at least 0, while RD was -5000. This can also be improved by rewarding faction for all non-skill missions offered by NPCs.

6. Job levels at 30, 50, 75, 100, 135, & 150. Give 10 faction for L30 jobs, 15 for 50, 20 for 75, 25 for 100, and 35 for 150.

7. Prasad Station is the only location with L150 jobs, how about 2 more stations where they're available.