Sellbot Field Offices: What can be improved?

I made this post on mmocentral over a year ago, but I still feel the same about these changes. (long post copy+paste incoming)

I don't have a lot of experience with field offices, but I'll try going off of memory and what the internet says. From what I can tell, field offices were implemented to give a unique reward without needing to do a boss battle. Cheap SOS cards that they can use in a pinch. The cogs inside are fewer, but not necessarily weaker? I think I remember seeing minglers and hollys in there at some point. It just seems kinda imbalanced; the risk to reward ratio is inherently flawed. Rather than give a direct buff to the "reward" at the end, we can make field offices more viable if we consider who would benefit the most from the offices, and tailor it towards those toons.

Based on all this, I would make these changes: * Have field offices exclusively appear in the playgrounds TTC, DD, and DG. * TTC field offices give 0 star sos, DD offices give 1 star, and DG give 2 star. * The cogs inside are scaled to the playground they're in. (I'd say the boss level in TTC field offices should be lvl 4, lvl 6 in DD, and lvl 8 in DG.) I believe the gag exp multiplier is already 2x in field offices? I think this is fair. * They should count as a 2 story sellbot building (I think I remember there being a weird water balloon round before the cog fights?) Not only does this help count towards lower leveled toons' tasks, but it should also help them not completely overrun a street

I'm not sure exactly how the lawbot field offices would differ from the sellbot ones, but if it were up to me I'd make it like this: * Lawbot field offices are limited to the playgrounds MML, Brrrgh, and DDL. * There are 4 stages: minigame round, cog fight, minigame, cog fight. * These count as 4 story lawbot buildings. (People in the Brrrgh can get all the help they can, honestly. Polar place is not exactly "fresh out of MML" friendly, and LOM ofc) * The reward for law field offices would be a single cog summon. Tier 1 cogs for MML, tier 2 for Brrgh, and tier 3 for DDL. CJ rewards would then be limited to only building and invasion summons. * Tier 1 includes Bottom Feeders to Double Talkers * Tier 2 includes Ambulance Chasers to Spin Doctors * Tier 3 includes Legal Eagles and Big Wigs. * (But the reward for lawbot field office would include summons for ALL types of cogs, not just lawbots)

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