Missions
Missions are jobs that can be done repeatedly to gain experience and money mostly without fighting npcs. They are similar to Agatean family missions or Coffee Nostra jobs, except that you get to choose what you want to do and you can do them pretty much continuously.
Jobs are available in Ankh-Morpork[1], Sto Lat[2], Ohulan Cutash[3], Genua[4], Bes Pelargic and the terrains, with reports of more things to be added all across the Disc in the future.[5]
XP reduction
Some types of jobs have a reduced experience reward if you repeat them too freqently (although you still get the same amount of money). Specifically, if it's been less than an hour since the last time you got full xp from the job, the xp is halved for each time you've done the job in the last hour.
For example, the Errand Boy job normally gives 6400 xp. But let's say you do it several times within an hour. The first time you do it, you get full xp--6400. The second time--twelve minutes after the first time--you only get 3200 xp. The third time--twenty minutes after the first time--you get 1600 xp. The fourth time--fifty-five minutes after the first time--you get only 800 xp. And then, the fifth time, slightly over an hour after the first time (but, notably, much less than an hour after the previous time), you get full xp once again.
This is true for jobs from the Ankh-Morpork Job Market (with each type of job there being counted separately), the jobs that Theodor Hackett assigns, finding items for Miss Pennie Laced, the pottery jobs with Ozzie Guntram, and the Ohulan Cutash general shop jobs.
There is also a cap on the overall mission xp rate. If you are doing many missions in a short period of time, the xp you get may be truncated by anywhere from a few dozen to several thousand xp.
Jobs offered
- The Ankh-Morpork Job Market has a variety of jobs suitable for various skill levels.
- Dead letter office jobs involve delivering letters from the main Ankh-Morpork post office.
- Sam Slager, owner of the Long Hogmeat sausage shop, west of the Shades in Ankh-Morpork, hires help making sausages from various animals.[6]
- McSweeney Restaurants offer jobs in the fast food industry.
- Escorting caravans on their way between the Onion Gate in Ankh-Morpork and the Tyrant's Gate in Ephebe.[7]
- Agatean family missions after you join an Agatean family.
- Takeaway jobs are available in takeaway restaurants of Bes Pelargic to deliver meals around the city.
- The SS Unsinkable sailing mission requires a crew to deliver cargo on an instanced voyage from Ephebe to Ankh-Morpork.
- Escorting caravans on their way between the Tyrant's Gate in Ephebe and the Onion Gate in Ankh-Morpork.
- The Genua job office offers repair jobs around Genua, which give xp and money.
- The Genua harbour master in the north side of the Genuan docks offers one kind of job; to deliver packages to various npcs around Genua.
- Coffee Nostra jobs after you join a family.
- McSweeney Restaurants offer jobs in the fast food industry.
- Miss Pennie Laced, in Ohulan Cutash, offers one kind of job: finding and returning a lost item for her.
- Ohulan Cutash general shop jobs involve selling two batches of identical items to local npcs.
- Theodor Hackett, in Sto Lat, offers one kind of job: bringing him photos of places in Ankh-Morpork.
- Ozzie Guntram's Glaze in Sto Lat offers pottery-making jobs.