Unfortunately for the story mission authors as well as the grinder mission authors, their work (for the most part) went ignored while the AFK players reaped in thousands of fleet marks. Much to the Foundry authors' chagrin, the playerbase took to the Foundry mission wrapper like sharks over chum, but they didn't undertake story-based or even multiple mob grinder-fests - they chose to not play the game at all.Ī few less-than-honorable authors began creating missions that allowed players to obtain the new rewards but also allowed those players to simply enter into a zone and sit for a while and enjoy the nice view while NPCs did all the work for them. Initially, Foundry authors found themselves giddy with excitement finally, the general player population had been given a reason to play their missions! Unfortunately, in the immortal words of Where Are They Now, and then, tragedy struck.
What had previously been set up as a three-mission daily was also altered into a single-mission repeatable quest. Several months ago and at the behest of many of the Foundry mission authors, the powers that be over at Cryptic Studios implemented a reward of 50 fleet marks to the Investigate Officer Reports wrapper.
