…and all I got for it was 800 credits. Is that normal? When I get to Onyx level with my commendations I earn 5,000(?) credits.
And no, I have not hit the credit cap today, I’ve only played for about an hour and I’ve earned about 20,000 credits for the day.
I’m sure commendations give different amount of credits. I’ve noticed the amount of credits decrease after you receive gold in a commendation.
I hoped this helped. :]
You don’t get any cR for maxing out a commendation.
The highest you get for getting onyx is 2000, when you hit max there is no credit reward.
Seriously? So what in the hell was the point in me trying to spend all that time maxing my commendations out? If it takes more and more time to reach each tier, why are players not rewarded for maxing their commendations out? This makes absolutely zero sense to me!!!
> Seriously? So what in the hell was the point in me trying to spend all that time maxing my commendations out? If it takes more and more time to reach each tier, why are players not rewarded for maxing their commendations out? This makes absolutely zero sense to me!!!
Agreed, many things about Reach do not make sense… =’)
*Onyx Max should be worth TONS! And it’s worth 0cR.
I just try to get the commendation to Onyx after that I don’t really care about it.
> Seriously? So what in the hell was the point in me trying to spend all that time maxing my commendations out? If it takes more and more time to reach each tier, why are players not rewarded for maxing their commendations out? This makes absolutely zero sense to me!!!
At the same time, you can and will still earn credits for the same commendation even After you have maxed it out. Such as “Going Loud.”
Stated it many times, they need to make MORE, More Everthing:
*Armor
*Ranks (Actually this should be infinite, just to piss off those who are credit -Yoink!-$)
*Commendation
*Commendation Progress
Not too mention they Really need to improve the ban situation as a friend of mine and I were talking about last night.
People stat farm in GB all the time and it drives me crazy.
What’s hilarious is when they Try to force the game to go on as Long As Possible, and then they end up loosing. I simply say to them, well that’s what you get and deserve for improper play 
I have said more times than I want to count…If All you care about is Kills, then play Kill Only Variants! Leave those who want to play the Objective, Alone!
> > Seriously? So what in the hell was the point in me trying to spend all that time maxing my commendations out? If it takes more and more time to reach each tier, why are players not rewarded for maxing their commendations out? This makes absolutely zero sense to me!!!
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> At the same time, you can and will still earn credits for the same commendation even After you have maxed it out. Such as “Going Loud.”
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> Stated it many times, they need to make MORE, More Everthing:
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> *Armor
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> *Ranks (Actually this should be infinite, just to piss off those who are credit -Yoink!-$)
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> *Commendation
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> *Commendation Progress
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> Not too mention they Really need to improve the ban situation as a friend of mine and I were talking about last night.
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> People stat farm in GB all the time and it drives me crazy.
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> What’s hilarious is when they Try to force the game to go on as Long As Possible, and then they end up loosing. I simply say to them, well that’s what you get and deserve for improper play
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> I have said more times than I want to count…If All you care about is Kills, then play Kill Only Variants! Leave those who want to play the Objective, Alone!
I said to increase the commendation max in another thread, to something like after onyx, platinum, then diamond. For people who do nothing but spam TL in ONI then make the max something they will try for like: 1 million kills. For some people they are more than half way there. However increasing the max rank and adding more to the armory will just promote more idling.
Maybe if for objective game types, if one team completely ignores the objective and focuses on killing, maybe if the game server could detect that they are not following the game objective they could be penalized or banned for 10 min or an hour. Some type of detection perhaps. In grifball, assault, territories, invasion slayer with objective hills, if there could be a game monitor to keep those from ignoring the objective from continuing. Like King of the hill you kill people who are invading the hill, but there are always people who just don’t bother. If the game monitor could track them and ban them for not following the guide lines of that particular game type.
One more thing, for team games like btb or slayer, I think there should be no suicide penalty. If a game of team slayer is going on and somebody is trolling by killing themselves over and over to get the team as low points as possible, if the -1 penalty for killing yourself was gone… yeah.
> Seriously? So what in the hell was the point in me trying to spend all that time maxing my commendations out? If it takes more and more time to reach each tier, why are players not rewarded for maxing their commendations out? This makes absolutely zero sense to me!!!
Bungie was on its high horse about being super stingy with cR. They didn’t want people to be able to farm or boost for cR, so they created a long and arduous leveling system that gave out cR largely for participation. So while they disincentivized farming, they created the idling problem that was so rampant in the early days of Reach. Meanwhile, the core boosting community remained as strong as ever.
For those of You saying you do not get a credit payout for maxing out an Onyx commendation i think you are wrong. I doing custom challenges with the target locator on ONI the other day in one game a saw the Onyx commedndation come up for Super Soldier which is only 2000 credits. 2 pulls of the trigger later i noticed a similar commendation come up for Cannon Fodder which i knew i already had at Onyx but it had little flames on it. When i saved and Quit the game low and behold i had a total payout of 4100 credits ( 4000 being under commendations) but in the medal screen it only showed the commendation for Super Soldier ( Sprees) Thats 2000CR for Super Soldier Onyx, 100Cr for game complete and i can only presume 2000CR for maxing out Cannon Fodder. Anybody want to check next time they are maxing out a commendation. I will and repost if it happens again.
There was chatter a few months back and we figured,
Campaign has 16 x 4000 = 64,000
Firefight has 15 x 4500 = 67,000
Matchmaking has 14 x 4100 = 57,400
Total:188,400
There maybe a small fluctuation in the campaign ones, i cant remember what the max on the gold to onyx was. I do remember that once you maxed out an onyx commendation, you did not earn more cR on it. Something changed and percentages went exponential and you were able to still earn cR on that maxed out commendation. So, you dont get a bonus, per say getting to onyx, you get to keep earning on them.
I use the commendations to try and improve my gameplay with different strategies. It is a shame that the credit reward actually goes down as the commendation gets higher as these require a lot of work put into them as things progress.
It would be cool if they could be implemented in either the Waypoint award/medal system or the level system (why is it just game achievements?).
My two cents.
Correction, it is not 2000 to get to onyx as the max credit bonus. Today I reached onyx longshot and got 3000. Also I am coming close to maxing my first campaign commendation. It means alot to me because I don’t farm the campaign. I’m only 700 grunts, or 600 specialist class enemies away from max cannon fodder or spec ops.
> Seriously? So what in the hell was the point in me trying to spend all that time maxing my commendations out? If it takes more and more time to reach each tier, why are players not rewarded for maxing their commendations out? This makes absolutely zero sense to me!!!
To say: “Hey look mommy I DID IT!” LOL! When I first saw this I thought you were saying that you had finally just gotten one to max out. I’m like um congrats but that’s not really an achievement sorry bud LOL!