Mints' purpose?

[WizardHawk]

Originally Posted by DutchAmerica

I already posted this thought somewhere else but will post it here to.

But what if to get a promotion to a different cog, you have to get the pieces for that suit? You could still do CFO as the level that you are to get merits/such but you would not be able to 'wear' the suit until you had the parts for it.

So like to go from a loan shark to a Robber Baron, you'd have to get tasks to get 12 pieces of the Robber Baron suit.

I'd rather get an average of 3 parts per run (15 per suit total) then have to get 12 every 5 runs but then I'd rather not have to get any of them.

[BunBun]

I just went and grabbed this from the release notes:

January 27, 2005 [sv1.0.15.6.test]
Some adjustments have been made to Sellbot HQ for mid-level Toons:
Cog disguise parts will no longer get knocked off in battle with the V.P.

The only thing I read in the release notes in regard to the CFO is that we will not be needing full parts or merits for testing purposes only. Didn't see anything permanent about the CFO. But, I think we'll be able to get both parts and merits at the same time, we just haven't been able to test that theory yet.

[BigWayne]

Yes it does not say anything specific about parts for the CFO. I am guessing that what they are doing, based on what changes they made for sellbot, is that you don't lose parts, but the merits are much harder because they changed the math. I do not think they ever intended the merits to be as easy as they were in the sell factory.

Even when this gets released on open, I would not be surprised to see the loss of parts and merit math go through some changes because I am getting the feeling this part of the game will not get adequately tested before they release cash HQ to open. I think their highest priorities are technical ones like game crashes, holes in walls, and anything where you get stuck and gameplay issues come later.