Quest "A noob, served medium rare!" needs an update

[blokkemblokkem]

This quest is negated almost entirely by the fact that no one communicates in game. There needs to be an easier way to finish it considering how old the content is.

Are there any plans to just make this quest less reliant on other players? That entire requirement really goes against some of the themes in this idle game.

[Dean340 [OTG]]

i feel your pain. can't get anyone to help me with this one.

[blokkemblokkem]

Originally posted by Dean340 OTG:

i feel your pain. can't get anyone to help me with this one.

Even with what I said above, I am willing to assist. I know the point of the quest is based on connecting with other people. My main gripe is that the nature of the game and player independence forces a person to have to use non-game mechanisms to coordinate cooperation.

If you need an assist to get the quest done, let me know when and what world.

[MKCyborg]

God, I'm having a similar experience with third "peak gaming" quest. The 1,000 monster ratings part was fine, but the player interaction part (get two items by getting a player whose character name starts with an S or P say "1 star, game sucks!") is taking WEEKS. These players just have to type ONE SIMPLE PHRASE and yet every player I've tried to ask to help with that in-game just ignores my requests. I don't know if there's something wrong going on over on my end, but it's INFURIATING.

[blokkemblokkem]

Originally posted by MKCyborg_TTV:

God, I'm having a similar experience with third "peak gaming" quest. The 1,000 monster ratings part was fine, but the player interaction part (get two items by getting a player whose character name starts with an S or P say "1 star, game sucks!") is taking WEEKS. These players just have to type ONE SIMPLE PHRASE and yet every player I've tried to ask to help with that in-game just ignores my requests. I don't know if there's something wrong going on over on my end, but it's INFURIATING.

That's definitely another one that needs rework in my opinion. At a minimum, the S or P name requirement should be removed. I'd jump in the game and we could help each other finish this on all of our characters, except I wasn't fortunate enough to have accidentally named a character with an S or a P. It's really quite dumb. If this were an MMO with 250,000 players online and a free roaming open world with easy chat functionality, it'd be no problem, but it's not.

[Zonk]

Use https://discord.com/invite/idleon to get someone withing minutes.

Every communication is handled via Discord, the BS ingame chat is getting 99% ignored by everyone.

Also reddit would be a more reliable source so find people to help you out.

https://idleon.info/wiki/Main_Page
right hand side main box, all necessary links to discord, reddit and such

[blokkemblokkem]

Originally posted by Zonk:

Use https://discord.com/invite/idleon to get someone withing minutes.

Every communication is handled via Discord, the BS ingame chat is getting 99% ignored by everyone.

Also reddit would be a more reliable source so find people to help you out.

https://idleon.info/wiki/Main_Page
right hand side main box, all necessary links to discord, reddit and such

All valid, but also reinforces the point I am making. For an idle game, social media should not be a component necessary to get complete content. Now, we can disagree on that and that is entirely okay, I just think having to use discord and reddit to get things done is absolutely out of character for the other 99.9% of the game's content. For an "MMO", I would like to see increased chat functionality so the game can be played organically using the tools within the application or, if that is not an option, the quests requiring external collaboration removed (like we saw with the introduction of the Dootophone for King Doot summoning).

Requiring players to access social media for the sole purpose of accomplishing out-of-theme in-game quests adds nothing beneficial to the Idleon gaming experience.

[VegetaCZ]

I agree with this suggestion, but unfortunately, Lava likes sadistic quests and a quest rebalance in such manner might be a wishful thought.