Commissions

Alpha-2 commissions board user interface at the Miraleth node.^[1]

This is a commission board. Every mode has many different commission boards depending on what service buildings are installed there; and commissions are basically these teeny tiny little single objective quests that are like appetizers or quick little digestible things to help you get out into the world and start progressing both your character and your node contribution.^[1] – Skott B

Alpha-2 Artisan commissions board user interface in the Lionhold starting area.^[2]

Alpha-2 commissions board user interface at the Miraleth node.^[3]

Commissions (previously called Tasks) are simple types of system-generated quests with singular objectives that enable characters and nodes to gain XP.^[4]^[1]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]

Commissions are posted on commission boards in nodes, which refresh approximately every 30 minutes (subject to change based on Alpha-2 testing). Everybody in the node can see and access the commissions relevant to their level and node reputation.^[11]^[4]^[12]^[13]^[1]

Everyone sees the same commissions relevant to their level range. Some commissions you see are more rare than others and will require sufficient reputation within the node in order to accept.^[11] – Steven Sharif

Commissions fall into categories based on node type, buildings constructed, social organizations, religions, and node policies.^[14]

Node commissions have dedicated commission slots that are categorized by such things as; node type, buildings constructed, social org, religion and policy.^[14] – Steven Sharif

Commissions are assigned rarities, which scale the rewards for their completion. More developed nodes will offer rarer commissions that are available to players with sufficient node reputation.^[11]^[4]^[1]

The rewards basically grow quite a lot depending on the rarity of the commission that gets dealt; and these get dealt for everybody... You can improve your chances of getting rare commissions for your node depending on how you develop your node.^[1] – Skott B

Commissions respond to (and can influence) different conditions in the world, such as weather, time of day, story arcs, and events. Commissions (along with other Node systems) attempt to lead players into areas where relevant content can be found.^[12]^[13]

Every 30 minutes or so the board will refresh. The server will query a bunch of different information about the world; and this is from ranging from story arcs that are active, story arcs that have been completed, weather, time of day- a whole bunch of different range of factors. The board will attempt to deliver commissions that are relevant to these areas and they will try to lead you into areas where more content can be found.^[13] – Tyler Carroll

Player characters may only have 20 active commissions at one time (subject to change based on Alpha-2 testing). This does not include other quest types, such as side quests, or story arc quests.^[15]

The types of commissions available in a node will be representative of the identity of that node, such as its social organizations, religious organizations, and node policies.^[16]

Q: Will commissions include tasks or quests that are reflective of the node type that they are issued in, or the nodes affiliation with a specific social organizations?

A: Yes. The answer is yes. Nodes will reflect the theming that the node has and that theming can be influenced by things such as the identity of the node from a node type perspective, what social organizations, what religious organizations, even what policies the node has chosen to enact. Those will all be represented in the types of commissions that the node has to pull from; and so in that way you are solidifying the identity of that node; and again the dynamic state of the world that gets represented.^[16] – Steven Sharif

Commissions can be completed without returning to the commissions board.^[15]^[17]

Commissions are similar to mayoral commissions but they are system-generated rather than initiated by Mayors.^[7]

Mayoral commissions are specifically chosen by the mayor, which is similar to the regular commission system, but that system is more system generated.^[7] – Chris Justo

List of commissions

Quest	Rarity	Location	Quest giver	Level	Currency
A Gryphon Survey	Common	Lionhold,Riverlands	Commissions board	5
An Unsightly Feast	Common	Lionhold	Commissions board	4
Axes for Allies	Common	Riverlands,Lionhold	Artisan commissions board	6
Bark and Barrels	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	5
Blood and Stone	Common	Riverlands,Lionhold	Artisan commissions board	8
Boughbreaker	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	4
Boxed In	Common	Riverlands,Lionhold	Commissions board	4
Breach Bark And Bite	Common	Miraleth		3
Bunches and Bouquets	Common	Riverlands,Lionhold	Artisan commissions board	4
Ceaseless Cackles	Common	Lionhold	Commissions board	2
Chip Off the Old Block	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	1
Dace to the Top	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	1
Fangs in the Night	Common	Lionhold	Commissions board	2
Gila Chub Club	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	21
Gnasher Smasher	Common	Lionhold	Commissions board	2
Heavy Lode	Common	Riverlands,Lionhold	Artisan commissions board	10
In Warhelm's Shadow	Common	Lionhold	Commissions board	4
In the Arms of the Arborists	Common	Riverlands,Lionhold	Artisan commissions board	5
Lumbermill Lost	Common	Lionhold	Commissions board	4
Make Ted Dead	Common	Riverlands,Lionhold	Commissions board	4
On the line	Common	Riverlands,Lionhold	Artisan commissions board	5
Palm Collector	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	1
Pave the Way for Agave	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	21
Peddler of petals	Common	Riverlands,Lionhold	Artisan commissions board	6
Ponder Spire Pond	Common	Riverlands,Miraleth		3
Poppies for the People	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	1
Proven mettle	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	5
Pupfish Pursuit	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	11
Recover Stolen Supplies	Rare	Riverlands,Miraleth		12
Reeling in the Riverlands	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	5
Rest Well, Furry Friend	Common	Riverlands,Miraleth		7
Riverlands' Bounty	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	10
Rubblemaking	Common	Riverlands,Miraleth		20
Scatter the Horde	Uncommon	Riverlands,Miraleth		10	15⧫
Slate Stacks	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	10
Snuff the Ritual Fires	Uncommon	Miraleth		5
Stony Roads	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	6
Strike the Earth	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	3
Takin' it for Granite	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	5
Tenacious Timber	Common	Riverlands	Artisan commissions board	1
The Lay of the Land	Common	Lionhold	Commissions board	2
The Oakenbane Overlook	Common	Riverlands,Miraleth		8
They Darken Our Skies	Common	Lionhold	Commissions board	2

Mayoral commissions

Alpha-2 Mayoral commissions board outside City hall in the Miraleth node.^[18]

Mayoral commissions serve as a strategic decision base for the mayor. What issues am I facing? What issues do I believe I will face? How is this aligning with my strategy? And then how will my citizens help me help participate in accomplishing these goals so that I'm best set strategically for what I intend to do with those commissions?^[19] – Steven Sharif

Alpha-2 Mayoral commissions UI panel.^[20]

These are much like regular commissions that I think we've shown off in the past. The difference here is the Mayor is picking which ones are going to be available to players and when enough players complete them, the node gets a reward.^[21] – Chris Justo

Mayoral commissions are simple types of quests with singular objectives that are able to be initiated by mayors.^[21]^[22]^[23]^[24]

Mayoral commissions cost gold from the treasury for the mayor to initiate.^[22]^[23]

There are a limited number of commission slots available to be set by the mayor at any one time.^[21]^[7]^[23]
- The list of commissions available to the Mayor resets daily. Completed commissions will go on cooldown and won't be able to be selected again until the cooldown period has ended.^[25]
- More mayoral commissions will become available as the node progresses; and the commissions that are available will change based on how the node is built.^[21]

Access to commissions is based on node type, location, building choices, and predominant node race.^[22]^[23]
- There will be a cap to the number of commissions that can be accepted by a single player.^[7]

Completing mayoral commissions will reward the node with node commodities, node-to-node reputation, mandates, and temporary buffs to buildings or zones.^[21]^[22]^[23]
- Players will receive experience, node reputation, node currency, and other miscellaneous rewards.^[22]^[23]^[24]

Important commissions, such as War Preparations, will require large numbers of dedicated players to successfully complete.^[26]
- It has not yet been confirmed by the developers if these will be restricted to node citizens.^[27]

My inclination is that for certain types of node actions that grant the mayor certain node powers that we will expect only citizen participation at a certain threshold, but it's something that obviously we're going to be testing in A2.^[27] – Steven Sharif

Mayoral commissions can be conducted by both citizens and non-citizens, but only citizen contribution will generate mandates for the node.^[7]^[23]

Mayoral commissions are selected by the Mayor, whereas regular commissions are system-generated.^[6]^[7]

Q: Is participation always going to be greater for larger nodes by default, or can a small node with close to 100 participation still greatly benefit from them?

A: That's gonna come down to what commissions the mayor is initiating. Level three nodes aren't going to be initiating mayoral commissions that require thousands of players to participate, because they don't have access to those; where Metropolises that have a huge citizenship base will get access to those kinds of commissions. So the rewards will be proportionate to the node level and the expected amount of citizens.^[28] – Chris Justo

List of mayoral commissions

Quest	Level	Duration	XP reward	Currency reward
A Bitter Cure	18
A Grip of Scales	18
A Howl in the Wild	10
A Long Way Down	18
A Manageable Threat	18
A Pillar of Pain	18
A Place for Homes	18
A Vile Den	18
Amidst the Groves	15
Among Strange Trees	18
Among The Dunes	18
Among the Spires	18
Ashen Gatherings	15
Attack the Pack	8
Bad to the Bone	19
Bandit Beach	14
Bandit Bounty	18
Bear Culling	20
Bear Hunting	20
Bloomeria Infestations	14
Bonepickers	18
Bounty of the Season	15
Building Foundations	10	1d 0h 0m 0s	300	5
Canyon Vermin	18
Chitin Titans	18
Claw and Beak	11
Claw and Fang	10
Clear the Road North	19
Clear the Road South	9
Clear the Way	18
Clear the road north	19
Clear the road south	9
Clearing the Forest	20
Clearing the Way for Investigation	7
Clearing the way for investigation	7
Collusion?	18
Compassion for Our Ancestors	1
Craggy Killers	18
Croaked	10
Cull the Kirin	7
Cull the Wolves	14
Danger in Lake Joeva	15
Dangerous Wildlife	16
Deadly Rituals	18
Defector Crackdown	15
Destroy the Animated Armor	10
Destroy the Undead	9
Dust and Bones	15
Encroaching Critters	18
Encroaching Dead	17
Enemy Mine	10
Foraging Ahead	10	1d 0h 0m 0s	300	5
Forgotten Workers	18
Fungal Recall	10
Further Afield	18
Goblin Gatherings	1	1d 0h 0m 0s	300	5
Goblin Hunt	9
Goblins in Daragal	11
Goblins in Deragal	11
Grem Hunt in the Eliz Foothills	15
Grems Underfoot	8
Grim and Bear it	13
Growing Threat in the Citadel	18
Gut the Goblins	12
Halt the Howling	14
Haughty on the Highway	10
Hauls of Stone	15
Hauntology	17
Heartsong Goblin Threat	7
Help us help you!	10
Hop To It	10
Hunt bears around Miraleth	9
Hunt the Grems	8
Hunt the Howlers	7
In the Way	18
Isle of Pain	18
It's a Dog Eat Dog World	20
It's a dog eat dog world	20
Keeping Us Safe	18
Keeping an Eye On the Neighbors	15
Kill Ashen Haunts	17
Kill Haunts	17
Kill Minotaurs	10
Kill Slavers	18
Little Green Men	9
Living Jewels	18
Living Reagents	18
Loaded to Bear	9
Lumbering Fools	18
Marauding Minotaurs	14
March of the Minos	10
Minotaur Threats	18
Mitigating Migrations	18
Natural Foes	18
Nevermore	12
No Bones About It	11
Otter Devastation	7
Otter Hunting	7
Ottrocity	10
Oversized Threats	18
Protect our Caravans	15
Protecting the Commonfolk	17
Prudence and Preparation	1	1d 0h 0m 0s	300	59▲
Rest in Pieces	20
Rise from the Grave	14
River Menace	18
Ruin Raiders	18
Scouting Miraleth	15
Scouting Winstead	15
Shattering Shardlings	18
Sidrah's Scarabs	18
Slippery Stones and Silvery Scales	10
Snakeskins	18
Stakes in the Ground	10
Stinging Sands	18
Stop the Spread	18
Strange Goods	18
Strategic Denial	15
Studying Undeath	15	1d 0h 0m 0s	300	58▲
Suddenly Sawdust	15
Sweep the Sands	18
The Dead Walk in Daragal	14
The Murder of Crows	17
The Price of Progress	10	1d 0h 0m 0s	300	55▲
The dead walk in Daragal	14
The dead walk in Deragal	14
Too Many Spiders and Gryphons Eat Spiders	17
Torren Remnants	18
Tribal Trouble	10
Unbearable	10
Undead Rising	13
Unnatural Mysteries	18
Unruly Beasts	17
Valley of Pain	18
Vile Apothecaries	18
War Preparations	15	1d 0h 0m 0s	800	152▲5⧫
War Preparations I	15
War Preparations II	15
War Preparations III	15
War Preparations IV	15
War Preparations V	15
Warm Sands, Cold Blood	18
Washed Up	18
Wasted Water	18
Water from Stone	18
Wolves in Joeva	18
Wolves of Joeva	18
Worms and Wet	15
Wreckage Wanderers	18