Ok, so I pulled a bait and switch on ya... Sue me... At least I have your attention now...

So anyway, I was chatting with Pony the other day and he had the start of a pretty good idea. We kicked it back and forth for a bit and here you go. Major credit for this goes to him.

This is a legion cooperative effort that involves basically every major facet of the game for a really great (but undetermined) reward at the end.

• Stage One: Rare one time NPC hunt. This would be a MATCHED enemy so all levels can participate equally. Cloak would scale at 4x Rank so you would have to use some scan to find it. I'm thinking Rogue Experimenter spawn chance with strong matched stats. Reward: Unlock Stage Two
  
  
  
• Stage Two: 5 concurrent, task-required Missions. Energy requirement scales according to rank ranges. For example, Ranks 1-50=25 energy per click, Ranks 51-100=50 energy per click, etc.
  
  • Mission 1: Energy + 1 Silver Badge, 150 clicks to complete. Reward 1 silver “puzzle piece.” 5 Reps
  • Mission 2: Energy + 1 Red Badge + 1 Yellow Badge, 100 clicks to complete. Reward 1 orange “puzzle piece.” 5 Reps
  • Mission 3: Energy + 1 Blue Badge, 100 clicks to complete. Reward 1 blue “puzzle piece.” 5 Reps
  • Mission 4: Energy + 1 Dark Badge, 200 clicks to complete. Reward 1 dark “puzzle piece.” 5 Reps
  • Mission 5: Energy + 1 Green Badge, 25 clicks to complete. Reward 1 green “puzzle piece.” 3 Reps
  
  
  As an alternative on Mission 4, a new, matched uncommon NPC could be created which drops the item for use instead of the relatively common Dark Badge.
  
  
  
• Stage Three: The “puzzle pieces” would be artifacts used on the legion base. For silver, orange, blue and dark pieces, 150 would be required to unlock the accompanying reward. Green would be 90. This way you need to have at least 30 people from the legion involved for each mission task. Also, you would have to have legion loyalty to do the missions AND use the artifacts. This would help minimize “merc-ing” your puzzle pieces.
  
  
  
• Final Reward: This is the part where we kinda got stumped. Naturally, with all the effort involved, the final rewards would have to be pretty nice. Some new 0 space Base mod, a new Base ability, ship abilities semi-related to the theme of the missions. Ship abilities would scale for individual players based on how much they participated in each specific mission. For 5 puzzle pieces you would get 100% of the bonus, 4 = 80%, 3 = 60%, etc. 33% increments for the green mission of course. A drawback I can see is members joining the legion after the missions are completed would be locked out of getting the bonuses. Need some input on a way around that. I'm also thinking that some mechanism should be in place that limits the bonus when you leave the legion you earn it in. Upon returning to that particular legion, the full earned bonus would be reinstated.

Discuss....

Stage 2: I would like the missions to be repeatable then the sub 200 guys can just go rampant for the orange pieces and the larger NPC hunters could go get the dark pieces.
To avoid just a few people getting this whole thing done, have a limit on the % of pieces you can donate.
At any point you can contribute up to 10% of all pieces donated.

Stage 3: Needing at least 30 people in the legion means small legions have no way of finishing this. Yes you could call this a bonus for being in a large legion but we shouldn't have things you can only do in large legions.

The stage/progression aspect is nice. As long as one member cannot 'carry' the entire legion through it all...

The stage/progression aspect is nice. As long as one member cannot 'carry' the entire legion through it all...

The missions are not repeatable for that exact reason. Why take the "easy" route? It helps prevent members from being pigeon holed into one specific game feature. The idea is to encourage teamwork to achieve a group goal and to encourage players to experience all facets of the game rather than just being a "PvP guy" or whatnot. If you don't participate in all the features, you don't get all the bonuses. Setting participation at minimum 30 means that NPCers can choose not to do the PvP missions (as an example) and the legion can still complete it while at the same time, 30 members isn't that much to ask for "small" legions. It's only 50-60% of capacity.

[*]Mission 5: Energy + 1 Green Badge, 25 clicks to complete. Reward 1 green “puzzle piece.” 3 Reps[/list]

The stage/progression aspect is nice. As long as one member cannot 'carry' the entire legion through it all...

30 people getting 75 green badges mean this would be practically impossible to complete for most legions

You realize of course this is by design a system that is not supposed to be completed in a week right? It's made intentionally difficult AND time consuming specifically to keep people working together toward a long term goal.

over 2 years is way to long for an in game goal and this would just promote green badge farming

[*]Final Reward: This is the part where we kinda got stumped. Naturally, with all the effort involved, the final rewards would have to be pretty nice. Some new 0 space Base mod, a new Base ability, ship abilities semi-related to the theme of the missions. Ship abilities would scale for individual players based on how much they participated in each specific mission. For 5 puzzle pieces you would get 100% of the bonus, 4 = 80%, 3 = 60%, etc. 33% increments for the green mission of course. A drawback I can see is members joining the legion after the missions are completed would be locked out of getting the bonuses. Need some input on a way around that. I'm also thinking that some mechanism should be in place that limits the bonus when you leave the legion you earn it in. Upon returning to that particular legion, the full earned bonus would be reinstated.[/list]