Bonus Skill points

[slayernz]

I was killing Xeno's as you do on a typical Saturday afternoon and thought to myself ... wouldn't it be cool to be rewarded for a particular playing style. Say you favored melee and preferred smashing Xeno's around with your fists or blades. OR, maybe you really enjoy picking great choke-holds and taking out Xeno's with ranged weapons as they come streaming in. Maybe you liked to play "Ninja" in your 1 ton battle armor, and strive to avoid getting within 1square of any ugly Xeno. Shouldn't that count for something?

So here is what I came up with. Bonus Skill points based on your play in the mission:

Kill 10 or more enemies (Xeno/Narv/FDF) with ranged weapons, get 1 bonus Ranged point*.
Kill 10 or more enemies (Xeno/Narv/FDF) with melee weapons, get 1 bonus Warrior point*.
Surviving 10+ attacks in a mission, get 1 bonus Evasion point.


*I think that it would only be fair to get 1 bonus Ranged or Warrior point per mission, so you can't kill 10 Xeno's with ranged weapons, THEN kill 10 Xeno's with melee weapons and get 2 bonus skill points. Instead, it should be whichever bonus you got first (in the example, you should get +1 RANGED point).

These bonus points will give you:
* Incentive to hang around and do some kills instead of just rushing to the finish line
* Incentive to play to your particular playing style - have melee specialists or ranged specialists, etc
* The ability to build up a squad faster by effectively getting up to 3 XP per mission (with two pre-allocated to particular skills)


Now the magic number "10" is arbitrary ... so it could be 10 is the right number for up to Normal difficulty, then it gets 11+ at Hard, 13+ at Crazy, 15+ at Brutal

[johndramey]

I think it's actually a decently good idea, and could be expanded on a bit. 10 is maybe a little low, I think it should be bumped to 15 for each individual Templar. Also, being able to get both Evasion and Ranged/Warrior might be a little too much, why not only give one of the three.

What I'd really love to see is some kind of citation system where each templar is given awards for completing missions. Of course we could have the simple ones like 5/10/15/x missions completed, but then we could have more interesting awards like purple hearts/kills/pacifist awards/support. Getting awards could give some other kind of bonus, be it just extra honor or XP. Hell, we could even lock some gear to certain awards, effectively giving players a ranking system that would allow them access to better gear as the progress.

Of course, all of this is contingent on the system being able to handle it.

[Yurak]

I think the idea of honours/medals is cool. I think class and mission should be factors in what bonuses you could get, eg a Neptune should be high ranged total and Captain/Berserker should be higher melee. Career & mission stats would be interesting. For example, 200 (career) xenos kills, a 20% crit bonus vs xenos.

[Deleted]

Maybe if balancing is an issue for this then the prizes could be purely cosmetic, like a fancy looking medal or something. Or you could base the system on the awards in ST... just throwing more ideas around, but perhaps you could have multiple branches, and once you start going down the melee branch, for example, you unlock melee weapons but can't gain any ranged awards (or a mix of this?)

[Cyrus]

Jul 28, 2013 19:07:25 GMT -5 johndramey said:

... interesting awards like purple hearts/kills/pacifist awards/support. ...

Somehow I don't see the Templars giving out awards for pacifism...

Other than that I like that ideas.