A small idea regarding jobs.

[johndramey]

So I apologize if this has been talked about in the past, but I have been thinking. As it is we have a lot of delivery or escort missions, but aside from the pick up missions we don't ever actually receive the package or person. This is ok if we are getting the job from the connector personally, but usually I use the phone to get all my jobs. This can make it a little... strange. For instance, escort missions. How does the VIP get to my location? If he travels by himself then he really doesn't need my help getting to his destination. Delivery missions could feasible make a certain amount of sense because we could be data couriers in that regard.

So, why not make the knight have to go pick up the VIP? I know it would take more time, soIaye up the price a little bit? A 10-20% price increase would make it ok. If possible make the VIP always start in the connector's territory.

As a side benefit, you guys could implement a new kind of mission, an extraction mission. Have it be the other way around, from someone else's territory back into the connector's territory. Maybe even have the heat for that mission applied when accepting the contract, thus making it a more dangerous mission in general. Again, you could up the pay in order to balance the added danger.

Just an idea I had. Again, sorry if this has been talked about in the past.

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Decided to clean up the OP and put my general ideas/thoughts up here to keep everything organized. Feel free to criticize/comment/post your own thoughts!

#1 Escort jobs Why not make the knight have to go pick up the VIP? Possibly increase pay 10-20% to offset the extra movement required. If possible make the VIP always start in the connector's territory.

#2 Data Courier jobs Maybe change the wording when delivering data from "I have a message for you" to "I have your data" or something similar?

#3 Info pop-ups for first-time contracts Possibly include a little blurb when accepting each specific job? Something similar to how MnB does it, a pop up when starting the contract. This pop up would only occur the first time a particular kind of job is accepted, and would act as a mini tutorial and a vehicle for giving the player a little lore.

#4 Hacking jobs Something akin to surveillence in ST, have a job requiring the Knight to go to a specific data node and gather some kind of information (paydata? Security data? ) and bring it back to the source. Maybe pay similar to an assassination/capture mission?

[Deleted]

I always wondered how the escort missions were supposed to work, so these suggestions sound like a good idea.

I also like the extraction mission, it sounds pretty cool and like it wouldn't take too much effort to implement into the missions that are already in NBZ (though I may be very wrong about that )

[xdesperado]

I always took the view that for escorts my CK got over the comm, the conector knew my location and had me pick up the client someplace between there and the destination.
Actually the same could be said for any escort. I mean is there a bunch of suits that just managed to somehow get to the Purp' N'Dro club who are just lounging around for some CK to show up and escort them to wherever they are going?

[grävling]

The way johndramey describes it, is sort of the way it is planned to work. But it is waiting on the code that makes safehouses become places where you can stash things, because, it seems, you cannot stash people in a location until that code is done. And there is nothing to apologise about -- things like this help Cory and Fallen decide how to prioritise 'all the stuff left to do'.

[johndramey]

Ah, glad to hear that it is something that is on the roadmap. Silly question, but is there a place to check out said roadmap? It would be nice if I could check it before I post some silly idea on the forums.

Also, would it be ok if I just stick my ideas for jobs here? Seems like we could have a lot of fun redesigning some of the jobs in order to make them a little more diverse.

Also, if there is a way to change the wording for the data courier missions from "I have a message for you" to "I have your data" or something similar? As it is, having "message" in the sentence evokes paper and other physical forms of media.

[grävling]

Mar 10, 2013 7:53:19 GMT -5 johndramey said:

Ah, glad to hear that it is something that is on the roadmap. Silly question, but is there a place to check out said roadmap? It would be nice if I could check it before I post some silly idea on the forums.

Also, would it be ok if I just stick my ideas for jobs here? Seems like we could have a lot of fun redesigning some of the jobs in order to make them a little more diverse.

Also, if there is a way to change the wording for the data courier missions from "I have a package for you" to "I have your data" or something similar? As it is, having "package" in the sentence seems a little weird.

No, unfortunately the roadmap is not publicly available.
I think that wishlists is a better place for your small ideas about jobs, because I think it got created because ideas posted here were sometimes getting lost.

[johndramey]

Can do then. If there were some way to move this thread I would, but I guess I can just start up a new one over there or tack on all my thoughts into someone else's thread.

[grävling]

Using my godlike moderators super power, I have moved the thread.

[johndramey]

Thank you kindly oh benevolent one.

*edit* So to continue with some general ideas regarding the jobs. Is there any way the brothers could maybe include a little blurb on each specific job? Something similar to how MnB does it, as a pop up when starting the contract. This pop up would only occur the first time a particular kind of job is accepted, and would act as a mini tutorial and a vehicle for giving the player a little lore.

e.g.
The Knight accepts his first data courier job and a dialog pops up with some basic information, such as.
After accepting the contract a prompt telling me to jack into the phone appears. "What the hell," I say to myself and do what it says. A second later a window with "Transfer complete" pops up. "Just let the contact download that file and you get your money, Knight" says the connector and breaks connection.

Obviously that writing could be... prettied up a lot. But I think you get the gist of what I'm saying. Just one pop up a game, it would be skip-able without too much problems for the vets and would let the newbies Feel a little more in touch with the game world.

[johndramey]

Another small idea.....

We have jobs and we have the hacking system, if possible is there someway to incorporate them? Maybe have a job to get some paydata or other data from a specific node, something like surveillance in ST. Maybe have the pay around the escort/assassination mission level and have the hacking missions start to pop up at a similar time. That would give some non-combat centered characters higher level jobs they could do.

I'll admit this could be in the game already and I simply don't know it, I've never really touched the hacking before... well before this morning haha.

[Cory Trese]

Great thread. We have a 90% complete job update that includes "Hack this Matrix" and "Steal this File" type jobs in it. Integrated Matrix hacking and jobs.

There are so many good ideas in this thread. Can't wait to get started on them!