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key: mechanic/rpg-grind--dispatch-missions
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title: Dispatch missions
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  A prepared squad performs a task without direct control; the player chooses
  composition, investment and duration.
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  - Delegation and automation
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    title: 'Final Fantasy XIV: Retainer Ventures introduced in 2.2'
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  - id: source-fc1e96448c00cb53
    title: Shop Titans
    url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/1258080/'
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  preview:
    updatedAt: '2026-10-22'
    title: Dispatch missions
    description: >-
      A prepared squad performs a task without direct control; the player
      chooses composition, investment and duration.
    image:
      src: images/mechanics/rpg-shop-titans-06.webp
      width: 1440
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      game: Shop Titans
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        Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Official game guide or
        publisher-distributed screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT
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      caption: The selected team and expedition duration
      alt: The selected team and expedition duration
      markers:
        - x: 34
          'y': 45
          label: Choose the team before dispatch
        - x: 30
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          label: The expedition will take 1 hour 36 minutes
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      - 'Show duration, requirements and possible rewards before dispatch.'
    examples:
      - title: Shop Titans
        url: 'https://store.steampowered.com/app/1258080/'
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  Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on
  2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules
  and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are
  preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the
  specifically described released-game observations; design variants and
  scenarios are hypothetical.
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---
# Dispatch missions

id: rpg-grind--dispatch-missions
type: mechanic
key: mechanic/rpg-grind--dispatch-missions
lang: en
status: active
url: https://gamemechanics.pro/en/knowledge/mechanic/rpg-grind--dispatch-missions/

A prepared squad performs a task without direct control; the player chooses composition, investment and duration.

## At a glance

![The selected team and expedition duration](https://gamemechanics.pro/images/mechanics/rpg-shop-titans-06.webp)

[Shop Titans](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1258080/) · Game imagery © its respective rights holders. Official game guide or publisher-distributed screenshot; all rights reserved. Excluded from MIT and CC BY 4.0.

1. Choose the team before dispatch
2. The expedition will take 1 hour 36 minutes

- Show duration, requirements and possible rewards before dispatch.

- [Shop Titans](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1258080/)

## How it works

A prepared squad performs a task without direct control; the player chooses composition, investment and duration.

## Variants

### Variants

<a id="dispatch-missions-options"></a>

- Match the squad to mission requirements. <a id="dispatch-missions-option-1"></a>
- Choose a short or long expedition. <a id="dispatch-missions-option-2"></a>
- Improve equipment to unlock new outcomes. <a id="dispatch-missions-option-3"></a>

## Design example

Two scouts seek maps while the hero explores a dungeon.

## Context and limits

A systematic RPG grind reference: 110 mechanics and 330 variants in 18 sections. Four layers answer different questions: what the player repeats, what develops, how rewards arrive and what constrains the loop. It covers single-player RPGs, ARPGs, MMORPGs and adjacent management and accumulation systems. Every mechanic has an explanation, variants and a hypothetical example; coverage, combinations and verified game observations follow the catalog.

## Connected materials


## Sources and provenance

Original editorial RPG grind taxonomy authored for gamemechanics.pro on 2026-10-20 and expanded to cover activities, progression goals, reward rules and constraints. All original thirty family/branch/variant identities are preserved. Official developer and publisher sources support only the specifically described released-game observations; design variants and scenarios are hypothetical.

- [Final Fantasy XIV: Retainer Ventures introduced in 2.2](https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodestone/topics/detail/69e2c959d2e9285fd541e7f5f70fb8139b3464da) (id: source-80989372d8e20d2f)
- [Shop Titans](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1258080/) (id: source-fc1e96448c00cb53)

CC-BY-4.0 · gamemechanics.pro contributors