Let "rich" users do Sarah Quests - for no sP
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If the amount of sP on your account is above the 1.5m threshold for doing Sarah's quests, instead of being blocked from doing them at all, you should be able to complete them, but get no sP reward. Not only would this solve the issue of her quests for the Quest-A-Thon, making an equal playing field for everyone, it would also be a long-term sP and item sink for people that want to get the achievements and QP from her quests, without having to resort to work-arounds that go against the spirit of the restriction.
Implementation ideas
I'm not sure how the questing code is architected, so I'm not sure how simple this would be to implement. So here are a few ideas I have about how this could be accomplished. Hopefully one of them is simple enough to make this idea actually feasible. 🙃
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Have different messaging and rewards for Sarah based on the amount of sP on your account. None of the other quests have different rewards or blurbs for different users, so I'm guessing this is the most difficult option to implement. However, if this is possible, it could ensure that there's sufficient warning that you won't get sP from her.
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Have her blurb give a warning to everyone about the sP limit, and when one of her quests is completed, add a conditional to check the user's sP, and if it's above the threshold, simply don't reward any sP.
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Have her give no sP by default, BUT, give a buff when you have < 1.5m sP, which allows you to receive sP from her quests. This seems in paradigm with how the Morty Cards work, so hopefully that means it would be easy to implement! The check for adding/removing the buff should be triggered on her quest page, so that it doesn't have to be checked every time sP enters or leaves someone's account.
This would be a lovely way to go about it!
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Support! Especially with quest-a-thon's in mind.
Support! Do all the quests! ALL OF THEM
Probably not a popular opinion, but I think restricting Sarah's quests at all is unnecessary. Just let everyone do them. It's never going to be one of the higher payout quests, and that's totally cool, but with the achievements and the introduction of quest points and quest a thons, the sp limit should just be ditched.
I would be fine with this too! In the grand scheme of things they really don't pay out that much sP, so it would hardly throw the economy into chaos.
i would like this, too. it's annoying/tedious trying to balance your sp between sagi and sarah during quest-a-thon, and feels "cheaty" by doing the forum group thing. if nothing else, it would be nice for your suggestion to be implemented during quest-a-thon. you could make the argument that the achievement should be more trouble, but quest-a-thon at least doesn't feel like it should be restricted like that. (and this is coming from someone who literally spent all their sp in order to do all the quests last time because i didn't realize we could use the forum group bank :/)
Good idea :3 I don’t mind using the workaround for quest a thon if it’s allowed, but I haven’t got an answer yet about whether we’ll be able to stash our sP or if I should spend it all before QAT
This sounds like a better idea than trusting someone to hold your SP or putting it into a Forum Group. I know Sarah is meant to help newer users, but there could also be something about how you can still help her to help them by getting items for her with no SP reward.
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full support for this, especially if staff still don't want to just remove the cap entirely despite reasons mentioned prior in the thread
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Please, PLEASE implement this.
I think something like this would be a good idea. I probably wouldn't do Sarah's quests very often still outside of the Quest-a-thons, but it would be nice to have a solution other than using the exploits that are sometimes allowed and sometimes not.
Side note that I also don't really feel like there needs to be a distinction between Sarah's and Saggi's quests anymore. I know they're meant for helping newer players, but none of the other quests are really that expensive either, and earning sP is pretty easy here compared to some other pet sites. I do kind of feel like we should just have all of the quests be available to everyone.
Total support for this or just removing limits altogether :)
I support this 100% although I am more inclined to just getting rid of the limit in the first place.
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Also throwing my two cents in getting rid of the limit and just making her a normal quest giver. It doesn't even take that many quests to reach the limit.
Speaking as someone who has never had the ability to do a Sarah's quest here.. What is the purpose of limiting users who can do quests? I never had a problem with it (aside from an achievement I'll never get) - I just considered it one of the "rules" of the game..
If the sP limit for Sarah is removed than the minimum for Saggi should be removed too. I had been under the impression that someone can do either Sarah OR Saggi quests. If "rich" users get the ability to do Sarah's than its only fair that "poor" users have the ability to attempt Saggi quests.
If Sarah is meant primarily for new users to earn some sP, then why not make her tied to account age instead of cash on account? I also think it'd be cool to revamp the style of her quests to be more similar to Major Drills to get new users doing different tasks to get a feel for each different land for a small cash reward (still tied to newer accounts).