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There is certainly a demand for puzzle missions but currently players have to rely on workaround in order to get it to work (i.e. tinyurl to block the next step until the hint is found).

These workaround don't always work (personal experience) and don't give as much options as possible.

So I would like to suggest that specialized tools are provided by PMOG to make such puzzle missions. Examples are:

* Roadblocks: Allow the player to place a roadblock between their lightposts that the mission runner must work around. Perhaps the roadblock will open a page in pmog with instructions (written by the mission author) to the player.
* Crossroads: These allow the mission author to split or merge the mission paths at this point. This would allow alternate endings or dead-ends
* Finish Lines: A special type of lightpost that will give a reward to anyone who finds it. This would allow the mission author to provide rewards to runners without having to rely on crates which may be found by random people and cannot be refilled easily.

It seems there are enough people that think mission having such an impact on associations is a bad idea (at least the current implementation of it). Generally the issue as I see it, is that PMOG is supposed to create the "character" of the user depending by how he uses the net and PMOG but with the associations so fluid, that does not work in the expected way

Perhaps this can be changed so that either missions do not affect associations that much or that associations can be somehow "locked" at the player's will.

The ways that have been proposed until now to alleviate this are:

* Make association unchangeable unless the players makes an explicit choice to reset his association. This could, for example, turn him into a shoat for a 3 days (until enough actions to determine associations are gathered) or perhaps simply start the 3 day counter (as is happening now)

* Make associations change only when the cumulative uses of items and missions from the start of the players character "life" have been changed. Thus someone who put many mines for most of his PMOG life, would need to start placing a lot more crates to turn into a benefactor.
In order to allow this to happen, allow the items in the shoppe to be open to everyone but at a discount to associated classes.

* Make associations lock if the user selects an appropriate option. This would allow people to take missions without having the association change every other day.

* Badge for 3/6/9 4-Star Missions achieved (after 7 days mission
inactivity I guess, since the rating is always changeable)

* Badgee for 2/4/6 5-Star Missions (ridiculously difficult atm)

* Badge for 10/20/30 4-star and above forum posts

* Alternatively, just provide one badge for each of these
conditions (so as not to fill the place with them)

* Provide badge(s) for a number of mission reviews.

This idea is so as to give an incentive for people to put more effort into their missions and so that those that do, get rewarded for it.

Currently each mission run gives the player 10Dp. I would like to see it changed so that each mission run gives the creator 3Dp per star rating the runner gives. This way people who just throw a few random pages together and hope for random clicks, will not be getting a lot out of it while high quality missions can get up to 15Dp per run.

Alternatively, reward people who make consistent quality
missions by increasing their rewards:

Lets say that everyone starts with 10dp gain per run on his
missions. After 3 missions created, you could change the DP gained per
run to be relevant to the average rating of all that person's missions
until now. For example:

o Average rating 2-stars:5Dp per run

o Average rating 3-stars:10Dp per run

o Average rating 4-stars:15Dp per run

Of course, it might be even better if you allow your algorithms
to work with decimals, in the background, for a bigger scale, but
that's not so important.
Alternatively, take only the average of the last 5 missions so
that someone who starts off with bad missions can eventually try and
make his average better (by making his newer ones of more quality)
without having to nuke his profile and start all over.