Rambling about patrol (Destiny)

by marmot 1333 , Friday, February 19, 2016, 03:22 (3474 days ago) @ cheapLEY

I'm a fan of the director.

Lately there have been a lot of good ideas for patrol on this forum.

I think public events could improve a lot. The simplest idea is just have them happen more often. If not more often, at least at more predictable times. I played Defiance for a short time and all the public events happened on a set timetable, so big crowds of players would show up before the thing crashed down and kicked off. It was cool.

Another idea is adding more complex but zone-specific quests that combine elements of the current patrol activities and public events. Basically quest chains like: go here and survey, destroy the walker in the public event, take an item it drops to a different area, kill a miniboss, place the item. These steps all basically already exist as patrol activities, but having them linked would add to a sense of purpose.

I've always been a fan of encountering random players, and I hope to see that played up even more in Des2ny. If there were more to do in the public spaces, having random players swoop in would be even more awesome!