So, does completing bonus objectives have any impact on the rewards?
Does it give you more money? Better research? Browder: We haven’t decided on money yet. We’re a little skittish about it. I don’t know which way it’s going to go, but we’ve talked about the money rewards [being] based on the mission. The research stuff is based on the bonus objectives. We could decide to go the other way. One of the things we’ve been worried about is better players just getting better: “I just completed the second objective, so now I have a bunch of extra money. I can easily complete more secondary objectives.” We want you to be stretching for those things, not to make it easier for yourself. Certainly the resource stuff, which can unlock some very powerful technology, is based on secondary objectives. Our philosophy is a little contradictory at this point. We’re working on it, though. TGR: There’s smaller gameplay changes like larger groups, chain building – how widespread are they? Browder: We put most of those changes in there to make the game more modern. There’s s
