airmich said:
Has it worked recently for you? I had PM'd Mike about this issue after it didn't work for me with my first bonus of dropping the AOR rate. He manually entered the reduction and I believe he then corrected the error.
I'm working towards my 4th incentive there now - none of the 3 claimed previously have worked for me. As for the 4th ...
It'll be a while before I even try to claim it at a CR level of a mere 335 to spend per 24 hours:
Level 4: Gonna Sleep For A Week
50,000 Combat Readiness Spent
Incentive: Drop top 3 insurgencies by 40 points (500)
Given that it's taking me a couple days each level to regen enough CR to level up, I've only had 1 insurgency on the go (active) at a time for quite a few levels now. I'll be lucky if more than one is even open to drop. Simply, in order to open up insurgencies, you've got to go up levels ... and it's to the point now where, at these levels, if you want to succeed in the missions - you simply have to fully clear the insurgency first - not leaving a lot of room to have multiple "open & active" insurgencies to even get reduced once you meet the pre-reqs for claiming. At this level, you simply have to open up the HVM before you can proceed ... if you want any chance at getting "big" returns for your CR that allow you to obtain the 9000-10000 CE required to level up.
The regular missions up here are costing ~ 50-60 per kick, but return ~ 450-500 each. Even if each mission WAS actually successful (& the actual success rate seems much lower up here) it would take a minimum of 18 successful missions to level up ... or 3 days worth of CR. But, if you do that ... you have no opportunity to fight insurgency, to train equipment or otherwise work towards different medal incentives. You have to clear the insurgency -- then you'll get HVM missions where you put out ~140 CR, and if successful can see a gain ~ 1900 credit (still over 1 days worth of CR).
You'll see what I mean ... :blotto:
Also, it's taking over a days worth of CRs to fight an insurgency --- reducing it (or three of them) by 40 points with the next medal doesn't seem like much at all when the other 60% you have to reduce them all costs you ~13/14/15/16CR a click for a 1-4% reduction. Again, days worth of CR to get just one of those 3 from that 60% down to zero - fighting no missions while you do that. So, in essence, you aren't levelling up & therefore aren't getting your CR refilled ... you are simply waiting to regen enough CR to "click" that "fight the insurgency" button over and over ... until it's killed ... then you wait to regen enough CR to then continue on with missions. There's a whole lot of "biding ones time" up here.
I also like the idea to add proficiency levels to the mission equipment requirements... It could add another dimension to the game and if it's done carefully, wouldn't create a headache.
