Exploratory Mission Changes

[Watachy]

I don't know why, but it seems to be the most plausible explanation to me.

Agreed. We're making a stock of spoils with my FC to spend'em on the new items.
And if that's not something good, well, we had fun.. i guess

[Roth_Trailfinder]

I suspect it will be a new kind of spoil and the existing one will not be usable anymore. But that's just a guess.

[Phafi]

I'm assuming we wouldn't have been told anything if they were adding a new spoil, but they specifically mentioned exchange rates.

[aesteval]

I'm also wondering if there was something missing / was a typo / was a mistranslation of some sort. Warning in advance to spend seems unusually. I'd expect a warning not to spend in advance if anything. Would be good to see more details or some sort of clarification. I suppose it could be reasonable that new spoils are being added and the best items will only be available for the new spoils while the old spoils lose value. That might actually make sense for the warning we saw.

[Phafi]

Like, let's assume they made materia 30 spoils, pegasus 50 spoils and then enabled us to purchase random i210 or i235 gear for 5 and 10 spoils respectively. I still don't think many people would participate in the diadem. However, if it was arranged so that a party of eight could nearly guarantee one materia each with the possibility of more per hour run, then I think it may see a bit more action, being the most effective way to gather materia Vs.

edit: especially if the spiritbond range gets altered so we can spiritbond the easily craftable i220 gear to convert that into more materia.

[Derio]

Well the whole system is getting overhauled. So there might be actual missions to obtain seals instead of just hunting dinosaurs.

[Nalien]

Well the whole system is getting overhauled. So there might be actual missions to obtain seals instead of just hunting dinosaurs.

I don't think it is... I think we're just getting an new area to explore with Exploratory Missions, rather than an overhaul...

It's like with Deep Dungeons; Palace of the Dead is what it is, but they've mentioned taking our feedback into account for Deep Dungeons 2. Diadem is essentially Exploratory Missions 1, they're not overhauling it with whatever is planned for 3.5, they're just adding Exploratory Missions 2, which will hopefully be better and more objective/exploration based.

I'll happily be wrong about that though... I really don't want them to give Diadem the Frontlines treatment... Such a waste of resources to create content just to replace it... Based on what I remember though, they've said things like "We'll be adding the next Exploratory Mission", which I really can't read as "We're overhauling the current Exploratory Mission". Could always be a lost in translation kinda thing though, or me just recalling entirely different statements... Hopefully that...

[Phafi]

that's 3.5, right now we're getting "minor" adjustments.

[Emper]

I would also like clarification on why we should spend our spoils. Can you at least tell us if they're being made entirely obsolete?

I still have a couple of spoil stacks in retainer. (I thought they might be used in the anima quest before it came out, so I hoarded some.)

[Phafi]

They don't want us to be able to instantly buy Hunting Hawk for 250 spoils :^)

edit: which is a totally fair price for that thing anyway.