Current system:
doing lower level missions than your current level grants lesser rewards

pros:
encourages players to play higher level missions

cons:
creates an endless cycle of rendering old content useless

Creates an unnecessary demand for new missions since the choices to earn money will be very limited to the newest high level ones, and players will get bored much more quickly.

punishes players for leveling


Optimal system:
Mission rewards do not reduce with level
unlock additional missions varying in difficulty as you level up, with similar reward amounts.
hard missions award more gralats, but this does not mean people wont run easier ones because they are less likely to fail. There will be hard missions at both high and low levels


Pros:
All missions will be worth running, over time creating a myriad of missions to play and choose from.

Players can form large groups to tackle very difficult missions for excellent rewards, or run easier ones for easy gralats


Creates an incentive to level up to unlock new content

Cons:
New players can't participate in high level missions and squads might add level requirements to join.

If the exp system becomes too grindy then players might have to repeatably play the same missions to unlock new ones. This should be avoided by making leveling accomplished at a reasonable pace.

tl;dr

I'd much rather be able to play 30 different missions as I please than the 3 newest ones and see 27 old missions all gone to waste because they offer no incentive to play.  

I know the staff are at the whim of stefan and stefan probably views the current mission system as the most profitable, but PLEASE staff, look at the "optimal" mission design skill posted on this thread. please do your best to convince stefan to adopt it, because zone is going to go down hill if this type of system is not adopted.  

I would prefer this other system also. Stephan is boss, but I think money making is the hardest in zone of all three servers at the moment and if the only way to make reasonable amounts of gralats is playing missions on low levels then the amount of gralats a player can make is a limited number and that's kinda forcing gralat packs. :/
Also, since you gain more XP killing mission baddies and such that aren't required to complete the mission, more players will be skipping the killing part and just focusing on the sole objective, which is not helpful in letting players experience the real deal.  

You make iZone a grinding a game, I'm leaving. It's not worth my time, your time, and anyone else's time. Don't make this game like Order and Chaos where you have to grind to just level up.  

Posted by Gamelova

You make iZone a grinding a game, I'm leaving. It's not worth my time, your time, and anyone else's time. Don't make this game like Order and Chaos where you have to grind to just level up.

LOL you think Order and Chaos is grindy? That game isn't grindy at all. At least you have quests and move around.

Try The World of Magic... just by level 20 it takes all day killing the same monster to level up once, I heard weeks in the 30's... I don't even want to know about the level 40's...

I said not to make iZone grindy. Also, just because it takes a while to level doesn't necessarily make a game grindy. If you're doing fun activities to level it's ok if it takes a while, it adds a sense of accomplishment. But having to do the same boring thing hundreds of times to progress isn't fun.