As we wait for the next roadmap, and hopefully the arrival soon of The Coin™ in Freelancer.
When the Outstanding Service Coin is added to Freelancer, it might be better to make it a permanent pickup in the basement of the Safehouse.
It would make the Coin a meaningful addition, rewarding the player, and reminding them beneficially of their Freelancer career with 47 iconic tool always at their disposal.
As a treat to them and to the Freelancer mode.
Because the Coin has to be added one day. The empty slot in the tool crates is a sour part of Freelancer.
So:
- The Coin is too iconic to be “just” a tool among others.
- After all this time just adding to the loot table would be a disappointment to the players, and a lost opportunity to IOI. One with a build up that long matured, and ripped for the taking.
- A coin pickup would be a good mid-end game reward. Maybe with a new mid-end game challenge to unlock it. It would be meaningful, yet not broken.
- It would be in accord with its name “Outstanding Service Coin”, it should out stand. And reward the service done.
- It might be a good ratio of reasonable production time to positive game addition.
I just wish that when Coin arrives, it’s not a whisper, a majestic flight that crash lands.
Roadmaps addition should celebrate Freelancer a bit.
As to how, I have two possibilities in mind (possible spawn points in yellow):
- Either via a single new cosmetic for the Mission Control. It’s how other pickup and interactions appears. And it’s in front of the usual stop of the weapon wall.
(it could allow for a John Wickesque decoration dressing with coins boxes galore, I believe it’s accurate to the game public and aesthetics wishes.)
- Or near the reward crate, for ease of access, and via the same mechanic that make challenge trophies appears.
To unlock it, if it’s not an addition as is, maybe a challenge asking to complete a full campaign without spending a single Merces, or gaining X amount of Merces after it’s added, or reaching a certain threshold of them.
I’m not that good at that. But I am curious as to what could be proposed.