De-incentivizing "Doing Badly"

[(NSW)Q.Mulative]

Okay so I'm hunting down Meso N7 relics, and it looks like at a 14% chance, Uranus->Ur is my best bet.  However, in order to get the right reward table for the chance at the Meso N7s, I have to let at least one of the conduits get destroyed.

It's a little immersion-breaking that the tenno have to purposely sabotage their own mission to get the items they want.  Perhaps in a future update, the player could forgo a random B-table prize in order to choose an A-table prize?  That way, saving all the conduits would be better than letting one or more go.

[KnossosTNC]

Eh. Still get my Mesos from Io, Jupiter. Still faster with Equinox, even with the 12.5% chance of getting useless amount of Endo.

Edited November 12, 2019 by KnossosTNC

[kapn655321]

It's also a little immersion breaking to look up the drop tables and game them.

...but.. The point does stand. Tanking a mission to get a better result is certainly an odd endeavor.

Question is, what's your second best chance of getting it?
That might make more sense.

[(NSW)Q.Mulative]

I've come to terms with the fact that games like this tend to live and die by their communities/wikis.  Once I'm in the game, though, I'm mentally in there, and not checking any other screens.

[trst]

This is just the result of two different factors colliding: min-maxing and reward scaling.

You don't need to sack a conduit to get the extra reward but you're specifically farming for a mid-rotation reward. And the structure is the way it is to incentivize farming C rotations and doing the mission well to hit said rotations sooner.

Plus we're mixing gameplay and lore which very rarely works in any game.