Currency available through Campaign?

I've been pondering the idea of giving people more incentive to do certain campaign activities by giving them a chance to drop ancient currency. Like maybe having SCNMs and Breaking shells,Plucking feathers, Fiat Lux, etc have a chance to drop a group of singles or maybe even a hundred.

I know you can already get singles at a slow rate from Union, but I think this would serve a good incentive to have people accomplish stuff as a group.

Campaign was one of the best ideas Square came up with in FFXI, even Rift stole the basic idea. Sad they don't seem to have any plans to boost that up again, I loved being able to work with everyone else but not have to group up with them.

I almost expected Ancient Currency to be available through more means when SE released WoG. It was the currency for the time, why wouldn't there be more ways to acquire it by pulling a Marty McFly?

I would be happy to see an adjustment made for this.

Allow skill up's in campaign and it would be flooded with people again

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Originally Posted by Riggs

Allow skill up's in campaign and it would be flooded with people again

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This! Also for serious - anything they could do to make campaign viable again should be done... I want people to play with - this would be a great way for me to get some exps in my 60s

The boost they gave us for post 76 was a nice touch, but not enough. Dont' get me wrong, I like that I can lock in my medal now with just a couple campaign battles and a few ops now, but seriously...spending a few hours just to get only 10-15k xp when you can do that in less than half the time in abyssea--the only incentive to do it now is just grossly overpowered by newer content.

New item acquisition is a start, and really needs to be considered--but eventually, that will dry up and become irrelevant again once people get the things they want.

Most of the incentives need to be more perpetual--undo the fortification nerf, make skillups possible full time (even on mobs--we can do it in Besieged, why not campaign?), and grant more xp for our efforts. Last, but certainly not least--MAKE THE MOBS SHOW UP ON TIME FOR THE FIGHT. This has been beaten to death before, but seriously--if they are DEFENDING a fort, why the **** aren't they AT THE FREAKING FORT WHEN A BATTLE STARTS? Waiting around 30-40 minutes for a 15 minute fight and only 2k xp just isn't worth the time and aggravation.

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Originally Posted by Shadotter

I've been pondering the idea of giving people more incentive to do certain campaign activities by giving them a chance to drop ancient currency. Like maybe having SCNMs and Breaking shells,Plucking feathers, Fiat Lux, etc have a chance to drop a group of singles or maybe even a hundred.

I know you can already get singles at a slow rate from Union, but I think this would serve a good incentive to have people accomplish stuff as a group.

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Adding onto this idea, in addition to adding it to SCNMs they should make it buyable with allied notes. I also agree that making it so you can skill up via campaign again would bring back some players.

I was actually pondering suggesting that as well but felt this was a controversial enough suggestion as is :P

Adding currency to Union in the first place was a bit of a Placebo. I don't think it had any great effect on the amount in circulation. With the increases in currency coming out of Dynamis soon they'd need to make it a MASSIVE increase in Campaign or related activities to tempt people back for currency alone. They need to make Campaign an attractive option again through other means really.

The idea of raising the skill up cap in Campaign (to at least 300 or so) is a great one, and long overdue.

They need to lessen the requirements for fiat lux, splitting heirs, plucking feathers, and the bastok one whatever its called. The way things are now it's unlikely they will ever be unlocked again.

also inb4 Kyrstal comes in here and says people would do campaign if it wasn't for abyssea leeching.