Challenges as a solo skater
This weeks challenges are just "**bleep** you for playing alone " it seems? I have no intentions of partying up or doing OTL, so i guess ill just have to deal with not doing most of the challenges be...
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That's certainly an option! Separation to two tracks (multiplayer/singleplayer) with equal awards would be a possible fix. If the awards were different, we're probably back to the main point OP was making: that they won't get the multiplayer awards.
My concern with equal awards is if the multiplayer ones take longer due to the time it takes to party up and complete things together. There isn't a reason for multiplayer at all. I too keep the multiplayer ones for last typically, and it certainly is more of a hurdle like you said!
Quite the puzzle indeed. Maybe a solution for everyone would be if the singleplayer track were scaled in difficulty to have more challenges which take longer?
If the estimated time to completion were more similar, that could be a possible answer. Meaning, if you want to do multiplayer, it's fewer challenges, but the extra time it takes to complete things with 2-4 players equates to the estimated completion time of the single-player track with more challenges.
Thank you EA_cuervo for passing it along; it's certainly interesting!
As far as rewards go, if they're separated, I have no problem with people playing multiplayer getting higher rewards. As long as solo players aren't locked out of getting any free cosmetics or anything like that, I see absolutely no reason why those willing to go out of their way to complete the harder or more time-consuming objectives shouldn't get better rewards for it. Rather than make solo play more difficult, make multiplayer play more rewarding.
Making multiplayer more rewarding without adding cosmetics is the exact issue I'm pointing out, and why I'm recommending single-player be handicapped if you want the same reward.
I have no problem with people playing multiplayer getting higher rewards.
You say this, but for those with level 10 on everything and all boxes unlocked, Rip Chips mean nothing past access to Grom or the Stadium, so the reward can't be extra Rip Chips. Tix are certainly more useful as it unlocks the pages in seasonal Skate Pass rewards, but again, those challenges update once a week. I'm sitting on 25k Tix waiting for the last bonus page to unlock, so an extra 50 Tix isn't a real reward for pursuing the OTLs.
If it can't be cosmetic in nature, and the Rip Chips/Tix are of practically no benefit, how is a higher reward possible?
My point is that encouragement of multiplayer focus is important to build the community, and that separating them into two tracks would allow for equal access to cosmetics like you're after, while simultaneously giving a purpose to multiplayer.