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 * Milk Maiden gives +3 Warded (Lv19, Lv34, Lv44).
 * Mobster gives +1 Regenerating (Lv21, Lv49), +0.5 Durability (Lv21, Lv49), +3 Support (Lv4, Lv36, Lv39), +2 Opportunity (Lv12, Lv30), +2 Speed (Lv2, Lv28), and +2 Warded (Lv32, Lv46).
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 * Reactive on the player gives pets Tactician equal to its level.
 * Warded on the player gives pets an equal amount of Warded.
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 * Recharge shaves off one fifth (20%) of the base cooldown time at 25 Recharge, one fourth (25%) at 33, one third (33%) at 50, two fifths (40%) at 90, and one half (50%) if you're crazy enough to go all the way to 150. It does softcap every effective 50, but even 50 points of it means all your actives are usable one and a half times as often as they would be otherwise, and that can make a huge difference in the effectiveness of many actives.
 * Regen is affected by Healing and HealGain.
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	** Mid Boss (perhaps better titled as Mini Boss, but so it goes) starts at rank 65. Relative to if they were a player, Mid Bosses have 80% as much health, do 75% as much damage, and any statuses they output are at 75% of the normal magnitude.		** Mid Boss (perhaps better titled as Mini Boss, but so it goes) starts at rank 65. Relative to if they were a player, Mid Bosses have 80% as much health, do 75% as much damage, and any statuses they output are at 75% of the normal magnitude.
	** Boss starts at rank 100. These have the same scaling as players (so 100% across the board). A player can have one pet of this rank out at a time; children and roo pets are considered Boss-rank pets, while the Oregonian dedication clone is peculiar in that it takes up the Boss slot but is considered Minion rank for stats, likely due to the fact that players can be optimized far further than any pet can.		** Boss starts at rank 100. These have the same scaling as players (so 100% across the board). A player can have one pet of this rank out at a time; children and roo pets are considered Boss-rank pets, while the Oregonian dedication clone is peculiar in that it takes up the Boss slot but is considered Minion rank for stats, likely due to the fact that players can be optimized far further than any pet can.
	** Hard Boss starts at rank 160. Relative to if they were a player, Hard Bosses have 500% as much health, do ~~160~~% as much damage, and any statuses they output are at 200% of the normal magnitude (at least that's what the wiki source on this says; I've seen it be 240% with Prime backups). These are ''nasty'' foes, especially with additional rank scaling behind them, because the last named rank is...		** Hard Boss starts at rank 160. Relative to if they were a player, Hard Bosses have 500% as much health, do 180% as much damage, and any statuses they output are at 200% of the normal magnitude (at least that's what the wiki source on this says; I've seen it be 240% with Prime backups). These are ''nasty'' foes, especially with additional rank scaling behind them, because the last named rank is...
	** Final Boss starts at rank 200. Relative to if they were a player, Final Bosses have 1500% as much health, do ~~200~~% as much damage, and any statuses they output are at 400% of the normal magnitude (though I've seen Primes have 480% before). These are never encountered randomly in any zone; this is always the domain of Primes and the game's various actual boss fights, sometimes dubbed superbosses or raid bosses. However, the fact that they cannot be encountered randomly means they are unaffected by the difficulty setting.		** Final Boss starts at rank 200. Relative to if they were a player, Final Bosses have 1500% as much health, do 250% as much damage, and any statuses they output are at 400% of the normal magnitude (though I've seen Primes have 480% before). These are never encountered randomly in any zone; this is always the domain of Primes and the game's various actual boss fights, sometimes dubbed superbosses or raid bosses. However, the fact that they cannot be encountered randomly means they are unaffected by the difficulty setting.
	* Third, each difficulty level above Standard (DN+0) gives them a certain amount of free combat skills on top of the ones they get from what enemy they are and any templates they have. Each difficulty level gives them 1 Damage, 2/3 Tactician, 2/3 Flurry, 1/2 Accuracy, 1/2 Fast Loading, 1/3 Healing, 1/3 Durability, and 1/4 Avoidance, all rounding down except for Tactician and Flurry which round up. This compounds with the health and damage increases from level and rank increase to create the full impact of stepping the difficulty up one level.		* Third, each difficulty level above Standard (DN+0) gives them a certain amount of free combat skills on top of the ones they get from what enemy they are and any templates they have. Each difficulty level gives them 1 Damage, 2/3 Tactician, 2/3 Flurry, 1/2 Accuracy, 1/2 Fast Loading, 1/3 Healing, 1/3 Durability, and 1/4 Avoidance, all rounding down except for Tactician and Flurry which round up. This compounds with the health and damage increases from level and rank increase to create the full impact of stepping the difficulty up one level.

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 * Recharge shaves off one fifth (20%) of the base cooldown time at 25 Recharge, one fourth (25%) at 33, one third (33%) at 50, two fifths (40%) at 90, and one half (50%) if you're crazy enough to go all the way to 150. It does softcap every effective 50, but even 50 points of it means all your actives are usable one and a half times as often as they would be otherwise, and that can make a huge difference in the effectiveness of many actives.
 * Regen is affected by Healing and HealGain.
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	* Supports, the combination of healer and buffer (as it's rare to need twelve different heals in this game, so healers usually want to run something else for when they don't need to be healing, and seeing as two useful healing tools in Regen and HPBuffer are technically buffs, it makes sense to pair the two into one larger role), have only a modest force rating, the vast majority of it defensive in nature, but a fantastic force multiplier, especially on the defensive force side of the axis. On top of artificially extending allies' health pools by way of passive and active healing and granting ablative health pools that take damage so the recipient doesn't have to, supports can just straight-up improve the raw stats of their allies, often their entire party at once (or close to it). Their offensive/defensive axis can swing to some extent based on what stats they choose to improve -- a support packing increases to DamageBuff and Haste is a completely different beast from one packing Defense and MaxHP -- so it's a bit more unpredictable as to which type of force multiplier any given support is favoring. Still, their healer side gives them a defensive base to start from, so that part can at last be relied on to some extent.		* Supports, the combination of healer and buffer (as it's rare to need twelve different heals in this game, so healers usually want to run something else for when they don't need to be healing, and seeing as two useful healing tools in Regen and HPBuffer are technically buffs, it makes sense to pair the two into one larger role), have only a modest force rating, the vast majority of it defensive in nature, but a fantastic force multiplier, especially on the defensive force side of the axis. On top of artificially extending allies' health pools by way of passive and active healing and granting ablative health pools that take damage so the recipient doesn't have to, supports can just straight-up improve the raw stats of their allies, often their entire party at once (or close to it). Their offensive/defensive axis can swing to some extent based on what stats they choose to improve -- a support packing increases to DamageBuff and Haste is a completely different beast from one packing Defense and MaxHP -- so it's a bit more unpredictable as to which type of force multiplier any given support is favoring. Still, their healer side gives them a defensive base to start from, so that part can at last be relied on to some extent.
	* Debuffers are the last of the four main roles, and in the pure form of their role fall into a similar force rating and force multiplier to Supports (though some hybrid a little with DPS, as Tactician improves Damage Over Time effects in addition to debuffs). Strictly speaking, they don't improve the party's force rating so much as cripple the enemy party's, but the contribution to the general ratio between the two makes it largely a moot distinction. They have a few complications to deal with that Supports don't -- the inability to pre-debuff, deflection messing with the magnitudes of their debuffs (though thankfully at only half the listed deflection percent and ''after'' the flat reductions against high rank enemies), the aforementioned flat reduction against high rank enemies making it hard for small debuffs to stick on those enemies, the fact that enemies generally are less permanent than allies so debuffs need to be reapplied with each new fight, and so on -- so they're less common than Supports... but if used right, they're still ''incredibly'' important, as they can do things that supports can't on account of being strangled by hardcaps on stats, or even tag-team with a support to create a larger swing across mirrored statuses (for instance, Accuracy/DefenseDebuff, Defense/AccuracyDebuff, or DamageResist/DamageBuffDebuff) than either would be able to do alone. A support and a debuffer combining their force multipliers can be ''hideously'' effective. They're admittedly even more unpredictable on the offensive/defensive axis than supports are due to not having a healer core to fall back on, so which side of that axis they fall on depends largely on which side of the axis they choose to cripple in their enemies, with a debuffer crippling enemy defenses favoring the offensive axis and vice versa.		* Debuffers are the last of the four main roles, and in the pure form of their role fall into a similar force rating and force multiplier to Supports (though some hybrid a little with DPS, as Tactician improves Damage Over Time effects in addition to debuffs). Strictly speaking, they don't improve the party's force rating so much as cripple the enemy party's, but the contribution to the general ratio between the two makes it largely a moot distinction. They have a few complications to deal with that Supports don't -- the inability to pre-debuff, deflection messing with the magnitudes of their debuffs (though thankfully at only half the listed deflection percent and ''after'' the flat reductions against high rank enemies), the aforementioned flat reduction against high rank enemies making it hard for small debuffs to stick on those enemies, the fact that enemies generally are less permanent than allies so debuffs need to be reapplied with each new fight, and so on -- so they're less common than Supports... but if used right, they're still ''incredibly'' important, as they can do things that supports can't on account of being strangled by hardcaps on stats, or even tag-team with a support to create a larger swing across mirrored statuses (for instance, Accuracy/DefenseDebuff, Defense/AccuracyDebuff, or DamageResist/DamageBuffDebuff) than either would be able to do alone. A support and a debuffer combining their force multipliers can be ''hideously'' effective. They're admittedly even more unpredictable on the offensive/defensive axis than supports are due to not having a healer core to fall back on, so which side of that axis they fall on depends largely on which side of the axis they choose to cripple in their enemies, with a debuffer crippling enemy defenses favoring the offensive axis and vice versa.

			All this ties back into the priorities mentioned for level grinding: survivability, followed closely by clear speed. If you look at how most people try and form parties for things, first they'll look for a tank and a healer, the two roles they can trust to have a heavy defensive leaning and a high force multiplier. That covers making sure the rest of the party survives whatever they're fighting. After that, they start looking for DPSes in order to complete fights faster. They ''could'' do just fine with pure defensive force, but even if they'd have no trouble surviving, each fight would take forever, and nobody likes that. Looking for DPSes adds the offensive force and raw force rating that the party is missing, and gives the healer (often a support, so has some buffs as well) something meaningful to apply any offensive multipliers they have to. Buffers and debuffers are rarely ''specifically'' asked for because, unlike the other roles, they can be all over the offense/defense axis depending on which buffs or debuffs they have, and thus can't be reliably chosen for fulfilling either requirement. They're still very nice to have, but they're not marked as requirements due to this, and without a good offensive and defensive base force rating to work with (provided by the DPS and the tank, respectively), they're not helping as much as they could be.

			I hope this makes any sense and at least provides some insight into party composition.

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	* Tanks have a decent force rating, though it's mostly on the defensive force side of the axis, and a decent force multiplier (also largely defensive!) to go with it. They're typically incredibly durable, laughing at hits that would seriously hurt the other roles, and tend to artificially extend the durability of their allies by pulling damage to themselves in at least one of three ways: taking a larger piece of the enemy aggression roulette for themselves (in an attempt at getting enemies to focus attacks on the tank), ''forcing'' enemies to focus attacks on the tank for a little while via taunts (and penalizing the damage dealt to anyone not the taunter), or just straight up stealing a certain percent of incoming damage from allies and taking that chunk instead of the ally doing so. These methods tend to be referred to as Aggro, Taunt, and Cover. All of these mean that less damage is going to targets that aren't quite as capable of taking the damage as the tank, thus artificially extending the rest of the tank's party's ability to survive damage.		* Tanks have a decent force rating, though it's mostly on the defensive force side of the axis, and a decent force multiplier (also largely defensive!) to go with it. They're typically incredibly durable, laughing at hits that would seriously hurt the other roles, and tend to artificially extend the durability of their allies by pulling damage to themselves in at least one of three ways: taking a larger piece of the enemy aggression roulette for themselves (in an attempt at getting enemies to focus attacks on the tank), ''forcing'' enemies to focus attacks on the tank for a little while via taunts (and penalizing the damage dealt to anyone not the taunter), or just straight up stealing a certain percent of incoming damage from allies and taking that chunk instead of the ally doing so. These methods tend to be referred to as Aggro, Taunt, and Cover. All of these mean that less damage is going to targets that aren't quite as capable of taking the damage as the tank, thus artificially extending the rest of the tank's party's ability to survive damage.
	** Aggro Tanks tend to have slightly more offensive force (and to an extent, a higher base force rating as well) than the other two types at the expense of a lower defensive force multiplier because while the roulette is unreliable compared to the other two methods, it still can cripple the enemy's offensive force to an extent by way of Front Row shrinking enemy area-of-effect sizes while the Aggro Tank has the largest slice of the roulette, and the fact that aggro is based to a good extent on ''damage output'' also means that the Aggro Tank tends to pack more damaging attacks than its counterparts.		** Aggro Tanks tend to have slightly more offensive force (and to an extent, a higher base force rating as well) than the other two types at the expense of a lower defensive force multiplier because while the roulette is unreliable compared to the other two methods, it still can cripple the enemy's offensive force to an extent by way of Front Row shrinking enemy area-of-effect sizes while the Aggro Tank has the largest slice of the roulette, and the fact that aggro is based to a good extent on ''damage output'' also means that the Aggro Tank tends to pack more damaging attacks than its counterparts.
			* Supports, the combination of healer and buffer (as it's rare to need twelve different heals in this game, so healers usually want to run something else for when they don't need to be healing, and seeing as two useful healing tools in Regen and HPBuffer are technically buffs, it makes sense to pair the two into one larger role), have only a modest force rating, the vast majority of it defensive in nature, but a fantastic force multiplier, especially on the defensive force side of the axis. On top of artificially extending allies' health pools by way of passive and active healing and granting ablative health pools that take damage so the recipient doesn't have to, supports can just straight-up improve the raw stats of their allies, often their entire party at once (or close to it). Their offensive/defensive axis can swing to some extent based on what stats they choose to improve -- a support packing increases to DamageBuff and Haste is a completely different beast from one packing Defense and MaxHP -- so it's a bit more unpredictable as to which type of force multiplier any given support is favoring. Still, their healer side gives them a defensive base to start from, so that part can at last be relied on to some extent.
			* Debuffers are the last of the four main roles, and in the pure form of their role fall into a similar force rating and force multiplier to Supports (though some hybrid a little with DPS, as Tactician improves Damage Over Time effects in addition to debuffs). Strictly speaking, they don't improve the party's force rating so much as cripple the enemy party's, but the contribution to the general ratio between the two makes it largely a moot distinction. They have a few complications to deal with that Supports don't -- the inability to pre-debuff, deflection messing with the magnitudes of their debuffs (though thankfully at only half the listed deflection percent and ''after'' the flat reductions against high rank enemies), the aforementioned flat reduction against high rank enemies making it hard for small debuffs to stick on those enemies, the fact that enemies generally are less permanent than allies so debuffs need to be reapplied with each new fight, and so on -- so they're less common than Supports... but if used right, they're still ''incredibly'' important, as they can do things that supports can't on account of being strangled by hardcaps on stats, or even tag-team with a support to create a larger swing across mirrored statuses (for instance, Accuracy/DefenseDebuff, Defense/AccuracyDebuff, or DamageResist/DamageBuffDebuff) than either would be able to do alone. A support and a debuffer combining their force multipliers can be ''hideously'' effective. They're admittedly even more unpredictable on the offensive/defensive axis than supports are due to not having a healer core to fall back on, so which side of that axis they fall on depends largely on which side of the axis they choose to cripple in their enemies, with a debuffer crippling enemy defenses favoring the offensive axis and vice versa.

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	A "force rating" is a flat value that encompasses a character's (or party's!) general ability to deal and receive damage, the two most basic tenets of the combat system, and the ones that have to be taken into account because you win or lose a fight based on which side has all its members reduced to 0 HP first. A "force multiplier", on the other hand, is a multiplier that encompasses a character's ability to tilt the overall force rating comparison between their party and the enemy party more in their party's favor by way of non-damaging methods to increase the amount of damage their party deals or reducing the amount of damage their party takes, artificially extending their offensive and defensive capabilities.		A "force rating" is a flat value that encompasses a character's (or party's!) general ability to deal and receive damage, the two most basic tenets of the combat system, and the ones that have to be taken into account because you win or lose a fight based on which side has all its members reduced to 0 HP first. A "force multiplier", on the other hand, is a multiplier that encompasses a character's ability to tilt the overall force rating comparison between their party and the enemy party more in their party's favor by way of non-damaging methods to increase the amount of damage their party deals or reducing the amount of damage their party takes, artificially extending their offensive and defensive capabilities.

	Then comes the axis of "offensive force" and "defensive force". Perhaps fairly intuitively, offensive force pertains to a character or party's ability to deal damage or to increase that ability in some capacity, while defensive force pertains to a character or party's ability to safely take damage without being defeated, or, again, to increase that ability in some capacity. It sounds simple enough, but the methods of doing these things can vary wildly. To break the values and axis down by role...		Then comes the axis of "offensive force" and "defensive force". Perhaps fairly intuitively, offensive force pertains to a character or party's ability to deal damage or to increase that ability in some capacity, while defensive force pertains to a character or party's ability to safely take damage without being defeated ("survivability", if you will), or, again, to increase that ability in some capacity. It sounds simple enough, but the methods of doing these things can vary wildly. To break the values and axis down by role...

	* DPSes (damage-dealers; perhaps DPR would be more appropriate as the game times combat by rounds rather than seconds but the generic term is DPSes in the role-playing game community) have a high force rating, perhaps the highest of the four main roles, but the lowest force multiplier. They are heavily on the offensive force side of the axis, as the point of their role is to pour out a constant stream of damage in order to do the grunt work of bringing the enemy party's HP to 0. They rarely have much to contribute to empowering the rest of the party, hence why their force multiplier is so low. Still, their high base force rating and offensive focus makes them an excellent recipient for the benefits of offensive force multipliers.		* DPSes (damage-dealers; perhaps DPR would be more appropriate as the game times combat by rounds rather than seconds but the generic term is DPSes in the role-playing game community) have a high force rating, perhaps the highest of the four main roles, but the lowest force multiplier. They are heavily on the offensive force side of the axis, as the point of their role is to pour out a constant stream of damage in order to do the grunt work of bringing the enemy party's HP to 0. They rarely have much to contribute to empowering the rest of the party, hence why their force multiplier is so low. Still, their high base force rating and offensive focus makes them an excellent recipient for the benefits of offensive force multipliers.
			** There's a DPS variant that might be best called the Soloist that takes the high force rating and low force multiplier to the extreme. Their offensive/defensive force axis is much more balanced toward the center than a normal DPS, as they have to be capable of surviving on their own without outside help, but this entirely selfish focus means they generally have little to nothing to offer in the way of force multipliers to help anyone else with. At best, they might have a few debuffs and the occasional splash from a self-buff. Still, incredibly high force rating, basically no force multiplier is an entirely valid strategy when there's nobody around to multiply you anyway.
			* Tanks have a decent force rating, though it's mostly on the defensive force side of the axis, and a decent force multiplier (also largely defensive!) to go with it. They're typically incredibly durable, laughing at hits that would seriously hurt the other roles, and tend to artificially extend the durability of their allies by pulling damage to themselves in at least one of three ways: taking a larger piece of the enemy aggression roulette for themselves (in an attempt at getting enemies to focus attacks on the tank), ''forcing'' enemies to focus attacks on the tank for a little while via taunts (and penalizing the damage dealt to anyone not the taunter), or just straight up stealing a certain percent of incoming damage from allies and taking that chunk instead of the ally doing so. These methods tend to be referred to as Aggro, Taunt, and Cover. All of these mean that less damage is going to targets that aren't quite as capable of taking the damage as the tank, thus artificially extending the rest of the tank's party's ability to survive damage.
			** Aggro Tanks tend to have slightly more offensive force (and to an extent, a higher base force rating as well) than the other two types at the expense of a lower defensive force multiplier because while the roulette is unreliable compared to the other two methods, it still can cripple the enemy's offensive force to an extent by way of Front Row shrinking enemy area-of-effect sizes while the Aggro Tank has the largest slice of the roulette, and the fact that aggro is based to a good extent on ''damage output'' also means that the Aggro Tank tends to pack more damaging attacks than its counterparts.

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 *** Area reward percent also governs daily mission progress, so remember to keep that area reward percent high if you're aiming to get the maximum of 20 tokens from a daily mission!
 ** There's a token shop item that's +50% EXP for a week for 100 tokens. Since you get 110 tokens from your first remort and it only goes up from there, if you can manage to refine your remorting process so that you can get back to Lv60 in a week (or even something like ten days without it), you can just use the tokens from starting the next remort to pay for the boost for that one, and so on down the road.
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	*** For what it's worth, one of the two reductions can be mitigated or bypassed to some extent. KO'd players in a party still get their share of EXP when an opponent is defeated, so it's possible for the aforementioned altruistic DPS-oriented soloist to drag around a couple of ''unconscious'' people and still have them get EXP while also largely ignoring their impact on processing time as unconscious people are in most cases not valid targets for powers and in all cases can't take actions while unconscious.		*** For what it's worth, one of the two reductions can be mitigated or bypassed to some extent. KO'd players in a party still get their share of EXP when an opponent is defeated, so it's possible for the aforementioned altruistic DPS-oriented soloist to drag around a couple of ''unconscious'' people and still have them get EXP while also largely ignoring their impact on processing time as unconscious people are in most cases not valid targets for powers and in all cases can't take actions while unconscious.
	* EXP multipliers are your friends. Each different source stacks multiplicatively with each other source, and there's at least a good six or so out there (the XPBonus status, the Experience Enhancer from the "list items" shop, token items, number of enemies, level gap, area reward percent as displayed in +haz), so pile them on!		* EXP multipliers are your friends. Each different source stacks multiplicatively with each other source, and there's at least a good six or so out there (the XPBonus status, the Experience Enhancer from the "list items" shop, token items, number of enemies, level gap, area reward percent as displayed in +haz), so pile them on!
	** The Experience Enhancer works by taking a certain percent of your mako battery each hour while in combat and giving that same percent as a bonus to your combat EXP. It will eat any mako batteries you have if you have spares on you and it happens to reach an hour tick while not having enough left in your current battery meter to pay for the next one, but more importantly, it's really useful for people who ''don't'' have mako batteries lying around because of the often-overlooked fact that when you level up, you get a full refresh of your natural mako battery (the one that shows up on the right hand side of the web app), and any energy you had left over in that battery when you level is converted to Patrol Points at 1 PP per 10% battery remaining. This means that you get about three to four hours of "free" Experience Enhancer use per level (well, assuming you have nothing else you'd want to use mako battery energy on), ~~which~~ if you can earn more EXP in ~~that period~~ of ~~time~~ than you would from one 10 PP social action, is more efficient EXP-wise than simply ~~allowing~~ the battery to convert to PP upon leveling~~. This is especially true in the early levels, many of which don't require four hours of grinding individually~~.		** The Experience Enhancer works by taking a certain percent of your mako battery each hour while in combat and giving that same percent as a bonus to your combat EXP. It will eat any mako batteries you have if you have spares on you and it happens to reach an hour tick while not having enough left in your current battery meter to pay for the next one, but more importantly, it's really useful for people who ''don't'' have mako batteries lying around because of the often-overlooked fact that when you level up, you get a full refresh of your natural mako battery (the one that shows up on the right hand side of the web app), and any energy you had left over in that battery when you level is converted to Patrol Points at 1 PP per 10% battery remaining. This means that you get about three to four hours of "free" Experience Enhancer use per level (well, assuming you have nothing else you'd want to use mako battery energy on), and the matching ratio of mako battery percent consumed per hour to percent increase in EXP earned from combat means that each full mako battery meter of energy is worth an extra hour's worth of combat EXP. As such, if you can earn more EXP in an hour of combat than you would earn from one 10 PP social action, it is more efficient EXP-wise to use the Experience Enhancer than to simply allow the battery to convert to PP upon leveling.
	** Area reward percent governs most things to do with payout for fighting in an area. It goes down when enemies are defeated, goes up if the area is left alone for a while, and can be forcibly restored through the "nanite restore" command for (500*area max level)mg of builder nanites per 10%, topping out at 130%. Since "most things" also includes EXP, it pays to keep this high if you plan on staying in one spot to gather EXP. You can check the area reward percent for your current area with +haz, or the percents for all the areas in your level range (along with other information) at the terminals on the second floor of the Zephyr and RSX headquarters buildings.		** Area reward percent governs most things to do with payout for fighting in an area. It goes down when enemies are defeated, goes up if the area is left alone for a while, and can be forcibly restored through the "nanite restore" command for (500*area max level)mg of builder nanites per 10%, topping out at 130%. Since "most things" also includes EXP, it pays to keep this high if you plan on staying in one spot to gather EXP. You can check the area reward percent for your current area with +haz, or the percents for all the areas in your level range (along with other information) at the terminals on the second floor of the Zephyr and RSX headquarters buildings.
	*** Area reward percent also governs daily mission progress, so remember to keep that area reward percent high if you're aiming to get the maximum of 20 tokens from a daily mission!		*** Area reward percent also governs daily mission progress, so remember to keep that area reward percent high if you're aiming to get the maximum of 20 tokens from a daily mission!