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Newcomer / Intro Community Goals
- Thread starter Tricky UK
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There aren't any active at the moment. Check this thread: http://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=113495 for an up-to-date list.
To answer your question though:
A community goal is like a Giant Overall mission that you would sign up for at a station (you would click it on the bulletin board just like a normal mission) - These goals have requirments that can only be fully completed if MANY players do it (relatively speaking)
Now, Each community goal has a set level of Tier rewards as well. So basically, if there is a Community goal that says to help out the war effort by killing Members of X faction inside a warzone, and turn the combat bonds in. Well, you will get the money from the combat bonds you accrue, and, for each credit worth of combat bonds, your "contribution" to the overall goal fills up.
Now, with many players doing this, the overall goal will eventually keep rising and progressing through the Tiers of the community goal - Each Tier that the goal hits will add better and better bonuses, and what bonus money/items/discounts you recieve are determined by your placement in the tier compared to other players( top 100% [Minimum for contributing ANYTHING], Top 70%, Top40%, Top 15%, Top 5%etc....)
Sounds a bit confusing, so good example:
Lugh: Community Goal - Kill Federation Pilots in a Warzone and turn in Combat Bonds
Tier 1 - Top 100% of players - Reward: 20,000 Credits
Top 70% of Players - Reward - 50,000 Credits
Top 40% of players - Reward - 100,000 Credits
So, If I turn in 75,000 in combat bonds I earned from a warzone, I will get 75k on the spot in cash for the bonds themselves, and as long as I turned in the bonds AT the station where the Community Goal is held, AND I accepted the mission for the community goal BEFORE I turned in the bonds, then I will also show a contribution of 75k towards the community goal as well.
Depending on how many other players turned in bonds and the amounts, then my 75k total will determine where I rate compared to the other players. For arguments sake, lets say that the 75k I just turned in put me in the Top 40% bracket. Now, lets also say that the community goal ended this very second. I would have a total of 75k cash for turning in the bonds, and I would also get the Top 40% reward of 100,000 Credits as well.
The final part is the Tiers: as each player turns in the combat bonds, and the total for the community goal so far is increased, eventually (if enough are turned in) the tier for the community will increase, along with the rewards.
In the Lugh Community Goal, There were 9 Tiers where the rewards for the Top %'s of players increased from Tier one (similar to the rewards I listed up there) All the way to Tier 9, Which looked like:
top 100% - 1,000,000
Top 70% - 7,500,000
Top 40% - 15,000,000
Top 15% - 17,500,000
Top 5% - 20,000,000
So I earned about 8-9 million in combat bonds from the warzones, Plus I earned the 15,000,000 for being in the top 40% bracket when the goal was completed.
Edit:
Lastly, there are many different types of community goals, all with this same or similar structure. They have goals for exploration (instead of combat bonds, its Scanning # of systems or # of astronomical bodies, or Certain types of rare planets etc)
- They had a goal nearby but related to Lugh that was focused on trading (deliver weapons to Station X...),
-They even had one for Piracy!!! (go to this convoy, declare yourself for Faction X, Target the Type 9 Npc, and retrieve by any means necessary the contents of his cargo)
- This piracy goal was also partially a smuggling goal because you then had to take this stolen illegal cargo and sneak it into a station for an Awesome profit.
So, they can be very profitable. You might read in the forums how some people think its a waste of time because they make more money on their normal trade route. Well, I've generally found that these people are ones that are already established with the bigger trade vessels, they have a lucrative trade route already etc. I had just bought a vulture, had average of D - C modules, and 2 mil cash in my pocket when that goal started.
After all said and done, I walked away with a Vulture that had just about all A modules, a brand new clipper with mostly A modules, and still have 15 mil cash. So you tell me if it was worth it
A community goal is like a Giant Overall mission that you would sign up for at a station (you would click it on the bulletin board just like a normal mission) - These goals have requirments that can only be fully completed if MANY players do it (relatively speaking)
Now, Each community goal has a set level of Tier rewards as well. So basically, if there is a Community goal that says to help out the war effort by killing Members of X faction inside a warzone, and turn the combat bonds in. Well, you will get the money from the combat bonds you accrue, and, for each credit worth of combat bonds, your "contribution" to the overall goal fills up.
Now, with many players doing this, the overall goal will eventually keep rising and progressing through the Tiers of the community goal - Each Tier that the goal hits will add better and better bonuses, and what bonus money/items/discounts you recieve are determined by your placement in the tier compared to other players( top 100% [Minimum for contributing ANYTHING], Top 70%, Top40%, Top 15%, Top 5%etc....)
Sounds a bit confusing, so good example:
Lugh: Community Goal - Kill Federation Pilots in a Warzone and turn in Combat Bonds
Tier 1 - Top 100% of players - Reward: 20,000 Credits
Top 70% of Players - Reward - 50,000 Credits
Top 40% of players - Reward - 100,000 Credits
So, If I turn in 75,000 in combat bonds I earned from a warzone, I will get 75k on the spot in cash for the bonds themselves, and as long as I turned in the bonds AT the station where the Community Goal is held, AND I accepted the mission for the community goal BEFORE I turned in the bonds, then I will also show a contribution of 75k towards the community goal as well.
Depending on how many other players turned in bonds and the amounts, then my 75k total will determine where I rate compared to the other players. For arguments sake, lets say that the 75k I just turned in put me in the Top 40% bracket. Now, lets also say that the community goal ended this very second. I would have a total of 75k cash for turning in the bonds, and I would also get the Top 40% reward of 100,000 Credits as well.
The final part is the Tiers: as each player turns in the combat bonds, and the total for the community goal so far is increased, eventually (if enough are turned in) the tier for the community will increase, along with the rewards.
In the Lugh Community Goal, There were 9 Tiers where the rewards for the Top %'s of players increased from Tier one (similar to the rewards I listed up there) All the way to Tier 9, Which looked like:
top 100% - 1,000,000
Top 70% - 7,500,000
Top 40% - 15,000,000
Top 15% - 17,500,000
Top 5% - 20,000,000
So I earned about 8-9 million in combat bonds from the warzones, Plus I earned the 15,000,000 for being in the top 40% bracket when the goal was completed.
Edit:
Lastly, there are many different types of community goals, all with this same or similar structure. They have goals for exploration (instead of combat bonds, its Scanning # of systems or # of astronomical bodies, or Certain types of rare planets etc)
- They had a goal nearby but related to Lugh that was focused on trading (deliver weapons to Station X...),
-They even had one for Piracy!!! (go to this convoy, declare yourself for Faction X, Target the Type 9 Npc, and retrieve by any means necessary the contents of his cargo)
- This piracy goal was also partially a smuggling goal because you then had to take this stolen illegal cargo and sneak it into a station for an Awesome profit.
So, they can be very profitable. You might read in the forums how some people think its a waste of time because they make more money on their normal trade route. Well, I've generally found that these people are ones that are already established with the bigger trade vessels, they have a lucrative trade route already etc. I had just bought a vulture, had average of D - C modules, and 2 mil cash in my pocket when that goal started.
After all said and done, I walked away with a Vulture that had just about all A modules, a brand new clipper with mostly A modules, and still have 15 mil cash. So you tell me if it was worth it
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That's very cool, I've been playing for weeks but didn't know what Community Goals were. I thought they were players teaming (in the real world) to do stuff together (in-game); I didn't realise they were an in-game item with in-game benefits. By the time I get to Lugh (I'm a long way off) it'll probably be all over. Will make an effort to find and take part in the next one.
Oh well good, glad we could help
- Just make sure to remember that this is a "community" goal - so if you decide to do it while in Open, you run a much higher chance of PvP - which isnt a bad thing...just saying be prepared for it. And of course, the other most important thing...have fun, no matter which mode you play in 